Saturday, March 22, 2014

Sidekick Showcase [67] - Scene Stealer


Sidekick Showcase, previously known as Sidekick Saturday, is a weekly bookish meme, hosted here by Jaclyn at JC's Book Haven. There are many secondary characters that are as great as the primaries. In some cases, the sidekicks actually steal the show and you like them better than the heroine or hero. Maybe they didn't have enough page time for how great they were. Anyone can play along! I will post my Sidekicks on Saturday, then whichever day during the week that you would like to post yours, you can put your link in on my page. Just do the following:

• Choose a sidekick *or someone other than the hero or heroine* that you would like to put in the spotlight that fits in the week's topic
• Share a picture (if you can) and information about the character
• Give the title and author of a book the character can be found in
• Please don't include too many spoilers when describing why the character is such a great sidekick
• The day of your post, put your link in below and grab the code for your post so you can see the others that post their's throughout the week as well

Sidekick Showcase March - Oscars and St. Patty's Day Topics: best dressed, biggest drama queen, red head, lucky, Irish, Saintly, ect.

So sorry that I have not been on! Please excuse my absence!
Things have been pretty hectic and I had to take a break for a bit due to a bunch going on at home.

My choice is Tasselhoff Burrfoot
Dragonlance Series - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman


Tasselhoff Burrfoot picture created by Jaclyn Canada
There are many authors of the Dragonlance books, but Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman wrote the majority of the ones that Tas appears in

Tasselhoff, better known as Tas, is a kender in the Dragonlance world. Tas is very child-like, curious, and has a Kleptomania problem. Kender have a tendency to 'find' things in their possession that aren't theirs and adamantly argue that they are NOT thieves. Throughout the whole series, Tas is my absolute favorite. Tas is fearless and ready to handle any situation that arises, although he does fear for those that he cares about. He is fiercely loyal. He is extremely funny, always looking on the bright side, and collects maps. When he draws his own maps, he has a tendency to create places that aren't really there instead of being accurate.


Quotes:



“How do you know they're magic and not some mechanical device of the dwarves?" Tanis asked, sensing that Tas was hiding something.
Tas gulped. He had been hoping Tanis wouldn't ask him that question.
"Uh," Tas stammered, "I---I guess I did sort of happened to, uh, mention them to Raistlin one night when you were all busy doing something else. He told me they might be magic. To find out, he said one of those weird spells of his and they--uh--began to glow. That meant they were enchanted. He asked me what they did and I demonstrated and he said they were 'glasses of true seeing.' The dwarven magic-users of old made them to read books written in other languages and--" Tas stopped.
"And?" Tanis pursued.
"And--uh--magic spellbooks." Tas's voice was a whisper.
"And what else did Raistlin say?"
"That if I touched his spellbooks or even looked at them sideways, he'd turn me into a cricket and s-swallow m-me whole," Tasselhoff stammered. He looked up at Tanis with his wide eyed. "I believed him, too."
Tanis shook his head. Trust Raistlin to come up with a threat awful enough to quench the curiosity of a kender.”



“The energetic kender had already grabbed hold of the dwarf's boot and heaved, propelling Flint head first right into the hard-muscled body of the young bronze dragon. Hands flailing wildly, Flint caught hold of the harness on the dragon's neck and hung on for dear life, revolving slowly in the air like a sack on a hook.

"What are you doing?" Tas asked in disgust, gazing up at Flint. "This is no time to play! Here, let me help--"

"Stop it! Let go!" roared Flint, kicking at Tasselhoff's hands. "Get back! Get back, I say!"

"Get up yourself then," Tas said, hurt, backing up.

Puffing and red-faced, the dwarf dropped to the ground. "I'll get on in my own good time!" he said, glaring at the kender. "Without help from you!"

...The dwarf cast a glance back at the big bronze dragon and folded his arms across his chest stubbornly. "I've got to give this some thought--"

"Oh, come on, Flint!" Tas begged. "You're only stalling. I want to fly! Please, Flint, hurry!" The kender brightened. "I could go by myself..."



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11 comments:

  1. Tas sounds like a fun character (with a pretty cool name to boot)! Loyal characters are always automatically my favorites ;) I haven't heard of this series before (at least.. I don't think so? LOL I say that and then I find out it's on my mile long TBR xD), but it sounds interesting! I love books with dragons :)
    Hope all is well with you:)
    Have a wonderful weekend!

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  2. I haven't read this series, but I think my husband has. But she does sound like a great pick for sidekick show stealer

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  3. I haven't been on the blog this week either. BUSY!! I have so much about the Dragonlance series. I know I would love it!

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  4. I love the name! There are a lot of fellow bloggers that haven't read this series. I have over 200 books from the series written by a bunch of different authors in the DragonLance world. I love them all though because they're filled with elves, kender, dwarves, dragons, and the like :D Have a fantastic weekend!!

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  5. Oh that is awesome that your husband may have read it! Thank you so much for stopping by :D Have a great weekend!

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  6. Right! Things have been crazy lately. This series is so much fun. There are a ton of books written in the same world so even if you're reading about different characters, the essential world remains the same and characters can pop up in other books. I bet you would enjoy it :D I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

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  7. Happy to have you back. Breaks can be refreshing sometimes. This is a new series to me. I will check it out.

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  8. I haven't heard of this series before, but your choice seems like a fun one!

    I hope you'll find more time for blogging and fun, it's hard to do it all, right? I haven't been posting my Sidekick posts in weeks - I have no idea what part of the theme to choose, nor which character to use :(

    I hope you've had a great weekend!

    Lexxie @ (un)Conventional Bookviews

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  9. I haven't read this series, Jaclyn, but it sounds great. Tasselhoff Burrfoot seems like a really great character. I love the kleptomania tendencies. *ha* And your drawing is lovely, as usual.


    I'm glad you're back and I hope things are okay now and have settled down. I've been thinking of you and was wondering if things were alright. Anyway, glad you're back. :)

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  10. Tas sounds awesome. There are so many fantasy series I haven't hear of. This one sounds full of awesome characters if Tas is anything to go by. I love the klepto angle. The drawing is awesome!

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  11. I've not read that series. This character sounds awesome. :) Thank you!

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