you know a fantasy character who would enthusiastically wear a pair of those weird toe-shoes?
Sam Vimes
Oh my god oh my god but imagine how excited he would be –
He runs home one day from work, practically skipping – Sybil looks up from the dragon she’s checking and says “You look happy dear. Which lord has died now?”
“Darling-” he replies, with the glint in his eye usually only found during rooftop chases, “Now even my little toes can tell what street I’m on”Oh & he’d start wearing them to work and maybe some of the younger recruits would mock him but Carrot would overhear them and then before you know it it’s compulsory for every watchman to own and wear a pair of toe shoes on patrol
And the city criminals find it absolutely hilarious until they suddenly realise that watchman in toe-shoes are a whole lot quieter when sneaking up behind you on a cold, dark night than watchman in sandals.
And maybe some of the more delusional Ankhian aristocrats would start wearing them because they think they’re ‘in’ and it would really annoy Vimes because why would you need toe-shoes when all you do is sit around all day anyway? And one day he makes the mistake of complaining about non-watchman wearing them to Vetinari and so Vetinari gets his own pair made entirely in black and then suddenly the whole city is wearing them
And then one evening as they nod off in armchairs in front of the fire Vimes complains about this accidental fad he started to Sybil and she replies “Well, you are very powerful, dear” and all she gets in response is Vimes’ voice, muttered and slightly disgruntled, saying “No one should be that powerful”
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT
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