It Depends on Which Character…

Wiwohka

Are we talking characters in a play, or movie perhaps? Does it count if it’s possibly a cartoon character? What if we are talking about our kids… you know, when they are ricocheting off the walls in boredom and we say how they are being such a character?

Giving me an open ended question like this is like handing a monkey a gun… my word bullets be flying all over the place!

Daily writing prompt
Are you a good judge of character?
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If you notice that I am being a bit flippant about the question, in truth, it’s because I’m avoiding having to answer the prompt! This one makes me very uncomfortable. My track record with folks is not one that has a great score… why… ughhhhhhhhhh… I don’t wanna dwell there much.

When I was a child, my sense of judging another’s character was not developed enough to protect me… and from that came the woman I became that can be the meanest Judge Jury and Hangman!

My original title for this prompt was going to say, “Too Good”, but before I got going with it, I realized that I’m just too tired to be that old me anymore. 

Now that we all know why I am choosing to take a silly turn with this daily question, let’s do this!

I feel that I am a great judge of characters, as I have 55 years of cartoon watching experience! I feel fairly confident in my assessment that the old sheepdog that worked with Wiley Coyote was Clint Eastwood with fur! 

I will say with a great amount of certainty that Pinky, from Pinky and the Brain, was a long lost cousin of a certain political figure that I shall refrain from mentioning.

Poor Scooby Doo had an untreated cookie addiction that eventually led to rehab, forcing shaggy and the rest of the gang to keep things going til the van could be retrofitted with a locking refrigerator. No matter what else happened in their cartoon world, they were his anchor! Good kids, the lot of em!

Through all the years of Sylvester and Tweetie, nobody ever thought to notice how bad Granny’s limp got. She was a great woman of character, always there to break up fights, bandage wounds, and administer drugs like a professional… all the while, nursing a hip that needed replacing. The cartoon industry were heartless taskmasters, if you ask me, making an old disabled woman tend to unruly wildlife. When she finally took time off for surgery, Hector showed up on her doorstep and watched over her til she was back on her feet. Finally the studio caved and drew in a cane for her to walk with, the show could not go on without her…

Because this is my blog and I can, I have decided to turn myself into a cartoon character to give you all a fun chance at being judges and deciding which one you like the most… let’s test all your skills at judging a character!

A.) 

B.)

While we are at it, why don’t we judge on the best cookie for todays Character Theme…

A. Hector the Bulldog

B. As close to a Tweetie as the AI could give me

C. Sylvester

D. Scooby

E. Ok, so don’t eat Granny… the cookie is at the end of her cane

Your Welcome!

50 thoughts on “It Depends on Which Character…”

  1. I just wanted to say I love your perspective. And I wish that other people were as honest as you are and is talented. But I also wanted to say on this holiday weekend that you should smile because I am most definitely older than you!!!

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  17. This is a terrific fresh perspective. Thanks for sharing. My experience is that if I make too hasty of ‘classification’ I will often be wrong. And if someone else passes out their judgement of someone new to me, I take their judgement with a grain of salt. I like to give everyone the benefit of a doubt. In both of these matters, my life experience is conclusive.

    But now that I can apply your cartoon theory to my experience, it will be much more comic!!!

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  31. If a prompt makes you feel uncomfortable, please don’t feel you have to answer it. When Tweety felt uncomfortable with Sly on the Sly, it did not just accept Sly’s predation willingly. Oh, heck no. To quote Tweety “I wove wittle puddy his coat is so warm. And if I don’t hurt him he’ll do me no harm.”

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