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Imp y Celyn

2014-06-19T22:42:18Z

Lemingas1:

{{Character Data
|title=
|photo=20140619132733!Buddymine.jpg| Imp Y Celyn by [[user:darkplush|Kit Cox]]
|name= Imp y Celyn (Buddy)
|age= Born 1969 UC. 18 in ''Soul Music''
|race= Human, not elvish at all

|occupation= Musician
|appearance=

|residence= Llamedos and Ankh-Morpork

|death= unproven
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status= Single

|books={{SM}}
|cameos=
}}

The lead guitarist and singer of [[The Band With Rocks In]]. He hails from [[Llamedos]] where his family are [[Druid|druids]]. After a terrible falling out with his father he decides to give his life to music. Like most, he ends up in [[Ankh-Morpork]] where he meets [[Glod Glodsson]] and [[Lias Bluestone]] and starts The Band with them (for a short while they are also joined by The [[Librarian]].) Here he also takes the stage name of Buddy. In the [[Roundworld]] language closest to Llamedosian, ''Imp y Celyn'' means "bud of the holly"; you'd never get anywhere in the music business with a name like that. Glod has a suspicion that Imp is "elvish" (Elvis).The band tours the countryside and plays a huge free concert before dying in a horrible crash, or maybe not.

== Annotations ==

[[Llamedos]] is known for its dripping evergreen woods. Imp y Celyn hailed from a shack of mud and wood. Much like the [[Roundworld]] Johnny B. Goode; who never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play the guitar just like ringin a bell.

Also, his name translated into English ("bud of the holly") is a clear reference to {{wp|Buddy_Holly|Buddy Holly}}, legendary rock and roll pioneer who also enjoyed success only briefly before dying in an airplane crash.

A signed copy of {{SM}} seen by one contributor was signed "Not fade away, Terry Pratchett". ''Not Fade Away'' is the title of one Buddy Holly's songs.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Celyn,Imp y]]
[[Category:Leading characters|Celyn,Imp y]]
[[Category:Discworld culture]]
[[de:Imp Y Celin]]

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2014-06-19T22:41:54Z

Lemingas1:

Nutt

2014-06-19T18:27:28Z

Lemingas1:

{{Character Data
|title= Mister Nutt
|photo=
|name= Nutt
|age= Unknown
|race= [[Orcs|Orc]]

|occupation= [[Candle Dribbler]]
|appearance= Thin, grey-skinned. Has black retractable claws and an oddly round head. Clean but badly-dressed. Appears to be able to change what size he is at will

|residence= [[Unseen University]]

|death= Once, but not for long.
|relatives= Presumed dead.
|

|books= {{UA}}
|
}}

'''Nutt''' is an [[Orcs|Orc]]. He was found and freed by [[Mightily Oats]] from the village in which he was chained to an anvil in a forge for seven years. To Nutt this was when he was born and helped into the light. In the forge, he picked up some smithing. He was presumably brought by Oats to Lady [[Margolotta]], who taught him that he must be becoming and attain worth. This caused him to develop a complex and during the events of {{UA}} he regularly asked the question "Do I have worth?" He spent much of his time in Lady Margolotta's library where he read quickly and voraciously, to the amazement of Miss [[Healstether]], Lady Margolotta's librarian. He has a tendency to liken situations to those described in philosophical texts, and seems to generally assume that everyone else is as well-read as he is.

He was sent by Lady Margolotta to [[Unseen University]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]] where he worked in the [[The Vats|candle vats]] as a dribbler, a job that he said he enjoyed, as well as later coaching football for the Unseen Academicals football team after impressing [[Ponder Stibbons]] with his knowledge and skills (or possibly because Ponder Stibbons was just happy to delegate one of his thirteen jobs). Nutt befriended [[Trevor Likely]] (who nicknamed him Gobbo, short for Goblin) and [[Glenda Sugarbean]], and as of the end of Unseen Academicals he is romantically involved with Glenda.

Nutt did not know that he was an orc for most of Unseen Academicals and believed that he was a goblin, having shut the information behind a metaphorical door in his head. He eventually opened that door with the help of Glenda and Trev, by psychoanalyzing himself under hypnosis, and thoughout the book is followed by the [[Sisters of Perpetual Velocity]], whom it transpires have been sent by Lady Margolotta to stop him killing or injuring anyone. On discovering that he was an orc he fled, planning to return to [[Uberwald]]. Glenda, Trevor, and [[Juliet Stollop]] chased after him by coach and caught up with him in [[Sto Lat]], where they convinced him to return to Unseen University; he grows more comfortable with his race and in particular his strength (for example when he breaks into the Palace, Vetinari asks if he tore the gates bodily from their hinges; he is told that Nutt ''lifted'' them bodily from their hinges and stacked them neatly in the courtyard.)

Nutt takes over as Unseen Academicals' goalkeeper during the Ankh-Morpork United match after the Librarian is poisoned. He is a successful goalkeeper, although the game is really won by Trev Likely's impressive tin-can skills, after some quick thinking by Glenda.

==Annotation==

On page 370 of {{UA}} Nutt claims, "I am an orc with a terrible urge to smoke a cigar". This ''could'' be seen as a parody of ''{{wp|World_Of_Warcraft|World Of Warcraft}}'' as certain Orcs can be seen with cigars in some screenshots, although this is stretching the realms of the likely to breaking point. Considering that Nutt had just finished psychoanalysing himself however, it is more likely a reference to the famous phrase 'sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,' generally attributed to Freud, although it does not appear in any of his works.

The "closed door" subplot in {{UA}} relies almost completely on psychoanalysis parodies. Nutt brings a chaise longue (fainting couch) down to the candle-making area where he works, and subsequently uses it as the location for his hypnosis. He requires Trev to spin his shiny can in front of Nutt's face, mimicking the popular music hall hypnosis trick. Nutt also lapses into an Uberwaldian accent during his self-hypnosis, and explains to Glenda and Trev that this accent relaxes the patient, again harkening back to Freud.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Nutt, Mr.]]
[[Category:Leading characters|Nutt, Mr.]]
[[de:Nutt]]

Nutt

2014-06-19T18:19:35Z

Lemingas1:

{{Character Data
|title= Mister Nutt
|photo=Nutt.jpg| Nutt by Paul Kidby
|name= Nutt
|age= Unknown
|race= [[Orcs|Orc]]

|occupation= [[Candle Dribbler]]
|appearance= Thin, grey-skinned. Has black retractable claws and an oddly round head. Clean but badly-dressed. Appears to be able to change what size he is at will

|residence= [[Unseen University]]

|death= Once, but not for long.
|relatives= Presumed dead.
|

|books= {{UA}}
|
}}

'''Nutt''' is an [[Orcs|Orc]]. He was found and freed by [[Mightily Oats]] from the village in which he was chained to an anvil in a forge for seven years. To Nutt this was when he was born and helped into the light. In the forge, he picked up some smithing. He was presumably brought by Oats to Lady [[Margolotta]], who taught him that he must be becoming and attain worth. This caused him to develop a complex and during the events of {{UA}} he regularly asked the question "Do I have worth?" He spent much of his time in Lady Margolotta's library where he read quickly and voraciously, to the amazement of Miss [[Healstether]], Lady Margolotta's librarian. He has a tendency to liken situations to those described in philosophical texts, and seems to generally assume that everyone else is as well-read as he is.

He was sent by Lady Margolotta to [[Unseen University]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]] where he worked in the [[The Vats|candle vats]] as a dribbler, a job that he said he enjoyed, as well as later coaching football for the Unseen Academicals football team after impressing [[Ponder Stibbons]] with his knowledge and skills (or possibly because Ponder Stibbons was just happy to delegate one of his thirteen jobs). Nutt befriended [[Trevor Likely]] (who nicknamed him Gobbo, short for Goblin) and [[Glenda Sugarbean]], and as of the end of Unseen Academicals he is romantically involved with Glenda.

Nutt did not know that he was an orc for most of Unseen Academicals and believed that he was a goblin, having shut the information behind a metaphorical door in his head. He eventually opened that door with the help of Glenda and Trev, by psychoanalyzing himself under hypnosis, and thoughout the book is followed by the [[Sisters of Perpetual Velocity]], whom it transpires have been sent by Lady Margolotta to stop him killing or injuring anyone. On discovering that he was an orc he fled, planning to return to [[Uberwald]]. Glenda, Trevor, and [[Juliet Stollop]] chased after him by coach and caught up with him in [[Sto Lat]], where they convinced him to return to Unseen University; he grows more comfortable with his race and in particular his strength (for example when he breaks into the Palace, Vetinari asks if he tore the gates bodily from their hinges; he is told that Nutt ''lifted'' them bodily from their hinges and stacked them neatly in the courtyard.)

Nutt takes over as Unseen Academicals' goalkeeper during the Ankh-Morpork United match after the Librarian is poisoned. He is a successful goalkeeper, although the game is really won by Trev Likely's impressive tin-can skills, after some quick thinking by Glenda.

==Annotation==

On page 370 of {{UA}} Nutt claims, "I am an orc with a terrible urge to smoke a cigar". This ''could'' be seen as a parody of ''{{wp|World_Of_Warcraft|World Of Warcraft}}'' as certain Orcs can be seen with cigars in some screenshots, although this is stretching the realms of the likely to breaking point. Considering that Nutt had just finished psychoanalysing himself however, it is more likely a reference to the famous phrase 'sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,' generally attributed to Freud, although it does not appear in any of his works.

The "closed door" subplot in {{UA}} relies almost completely on psychoanalysis parodies. Nutt brings a chaise longue (fainting couch) down to the candle-making area where he works, and subsequently uses it as the location for his hypnosis. He requires Trev to spin his shiny can in front of Nutt's face, mimicking the popular music hall hypnosis trick. Nutt also lapses into an Uberwaldian accent during his self-hypnosis, and explains to Glenda and Trev that this accent relaxes the patient, again harkening back to Freud.

[[Category:Discworld characters|Nutt, Mr.]]
[[Category:Leading characters|Nutt, Mr.]]
[[de:Nutt]]

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2014-06-19T18:15:37Z

Lemingas1:

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2014-06-19T13:27:35Z

Lemingas1: