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winksandnods✖ PLAYER:
Name & DW Journal:
Lynn -- sepiaepiphany
Birthdate & Age:
June 16th, 1988 -- 24
Characters played in Zodion:
n/a
✖ CHARACTER:
Name:
Anthony Blunt
Canon:
Cambridge Spies
PB/Image:
Samuel West, http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9got7yAjL1ro4vw0o1_500.png
Info links:
No proper summary of the series exists. So, I fashioned one myself:
"This is the story of the most notorious double agents in the history of spying.
Four very British traitors."
So begins the first installment of Cambridge Spies.
We are introduced first to Anthony Blunt and Guy Burgess, two members of the Apostles at Trinity College in Cambridge. The Apostles are an influential secret society within the school, whose members have reputations of being rather left-leaning. "All the top men," Donald Maclean, an Apostle hopeful and anti-Facist, says, "are in the Apostles." While Guy is merely a student, Anthony is a Fellow of Trinty, a graduate student. While still studying, he also teaches, which means he eats with the academic staff at High Table come meal times.
Anthony and Guy are also, by the time the films begin, already working as Soviet agents for Moscow. Guy describes their job as "talent-spotting."
Guy and Anthony have taken notice of Donald Maclean and Kim Philby. As Guy tries to convince Donald to go against the wishes of his dying father (a Cabinet minister), Anthony invites Kim to join him at High Table.
While dining, conversation turns to the left-wing views of Philby. Blunt defends Kim when his views are dismissed, asking if the school will continue to ignore Hitler if he progresses. Before the conversation can continue, the waiters strike, protesting their lack of pay while the college is out of session for three months. When the workers show no signs of returning, Kim rises from the table, fetches his own supper, and begins to eat after a toast. "To the revolution!" Anthony, though he does not leave the table, raises his glass and drinks.
After the strike, Guy is caught having sex with one of the waiters and taken to the dean's office. Kim brings Anthony word that the waiter was bribed into giving up his fellows (who suffered a beating at the hands of several students) and to having sex with Guy for the purpose of being caught. Anthony tells Kim that Guy is not to know that it was a set-up. When Guy returns, free from punishment, Anthony and Guy recruit Kim, telling him where to find instructions-- instructions for joining their ranks as Soviet agents.
The Russian handler, Otto, expresses some wariness toward Kim's recruitment, worried that his spirit and dedication is too loud to be sincere. Anthony puts forth his opinion that Kim can be trusted.
As the decision hovers in the air, Julian Bell (another Apostle) arrives with news-- Donald Maclean's father has died. Anthony and Guy realize that this is the moment, the turning point at which Donald will either join them or fall away from the cause. Anthony makes it clear to Guy that it must be Kim who brings Donald in, as Moscow will not turn away Kim if he can bring them Donald.
Donald and Kim are accepted by Moscow, and the four begin their long career together. Kim's first assignment takes him out of England, to Vienna. When he returns, Communist bride (Litzi Friedman) in tow, Anthony and Guy have found a house for the four of them to occupy. Anthony points out to Kim that his wife is well known as being a Communist, and if they are to hide themselves, she is a danger to all they want to achieve.
When Kim returns to the house, he has left Litzi.
Otto tells Anthony that he and the others "must become everything you hate." To be useful to Moscow, they must bury their past, hide their Communist leanings, and carve themselves places in the very establishment they seek to topple.
The first "demonstration" of their "break" from Communism comes when the four attend a nightclub together. Julian is there, collecting money to help the Spanish, who are fighting their Facist leader, Franco. England has declared it illegal for British men to go and fight for Spain, and all four Cambridge men make sure it is known they are not giving money to the cause because they no longer believe in fighting Facism.
Kim and Guy join an Anglo-Germanic "alliance," little more than a pro-Hitler movement in England. One of the members is His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales. He tells Guy and Kim to send Anthony to the royal family.
Julian leaves for Spain, determined to do something to help the cause, but not before quietly berating Guy for giving up his ideals.
With Guy's connections, having joined MI5 as well as working for the BBC, he and Anthony secure Donald a place in the Foreign Office. Anthony is called away, into the hall, where Kim waits with news that Julian was killed, news that must be told to Guy.
Anthony visits the royal family, talking idly about family politics with the queen. He reports to Otto that she had three gins (doubles). Before six.
When Kim returns from work in Spain, he is broken by the experience and demands that they stop burying the past, working to hide themselves within British society and start to fight. The four are in agreement.
Just when they settle on this idea, the pact between Hitler and Stalin is announced, and Kim and Tony must tell Guy and Donald, who do not handle the news well. England is at war with Germany and, by alliance, with Russia. Traitors at war time can be executed, and all three are aware of the fate that now may greet them if they are found out.
After being stationed in Paris just before the Nazi invasion, Donald returns with Melinda, an American woman whom he has married.
Anthony, now working for MI5, is summoned for vetting. He worries that someone has found a trace, some kind of his Communist past. He tells Kim alone of his fears, and Kim offers him what comforting words he can, assuring him that if they were sure, they'd have offered no warning. Just before the vetting, Kim catches Tony in the hall and warns him that his hands will be watched for signs of shaking. Tony remembers this and keeps himself steady while struggling to light a cigarette with a bad lighter.
He is asked about his Communist leanings in school, and he does not deny them. He also admits that his art criticism (a subject dear to his heart) is perhaps "the last to stop leaning."
Anthony returns home from his vetting to a party Guy is hosting. He reminds Guy that it is, in fact, his birthday. He opens a present from the queen, which contains a note revealing that he was questioned by MI5 because the royal family wishes to hire him for some job.
When Anthony meets with the royal family again, it is with the king. The king speaks easily to him, chatting. He requests that Anthony catalogue the pictures in the royal collection and says that if it takes up too much of his time, he can arrange for Anthony's "hush hush work" to cease getting in the way.
Kim returns to the house shortly after with news he has learned from MI5-- Hitler plans to invade Russia, which means Russia will declare war on Germany and make England allies with Russia. Only Anthony seems less than overjoyed at this news, strained from years of spying that have begun to take their toll on him. When Donald tells him later that he has told Melinda he works for Moscow and she has left him, Anthony snaps, breaking glasses, before he regains composure and tells Donald not to tell anyone else.
Anthony meets with their Russian handler, Henri, to discuss getting out of work for MI5, explaining that he is well-placed if he accepts the job with the royal family and is able to chat with them, as part of the family. Anthony is told that another agent, a man named Carincross, has gone quiet. If he can convince him to go back to work for Moscow, then Moscow will look favorably on Anthony's request to leave MI5.
While looking to go to Carincross, Anthony notices a tail on him and sets Kim alone to follow him and find out who is tailing him. It is the Soviets, doubtful of information the group of friends have been giving over.
Anthony goes to Carincross and threatens him with exposure (meaning he would be executed by the British government) if he does not resume work for Moscow.
On D-Day, which should have been a celebration, Kim brings troubling word-- a Soviet man from their Embassy in Washington is defecting, willing to give the Americans and British the name of a mole inside MI5. A mole who matches the description of Donald Maclean. Kim is hesitant to tell Moscow, but Anthony reminds him that if one of the four of them falls, they will all fall in turn. To protect one is to protect the whole.
The king calls Anthony for a particular assignment. The king's brother, the Duke of Windsor, wrote to a German relative, very pro-Hitler. The letters are still in Germany and, for the sake of the name of the royal family, they are to be discreetly retrieved. If Anthony can manage this, the king promises, it will be the last "hush hush" assignment he ever has. Anthony accepts and leaves for Germany.
Though blocked by the American forces occupying the castle in which the letters are kept, Anthony convinces the woman in charge to ask her commanding officer. While she is away, he sends his men to the attic, explaining that "noble families are the same the world over-- the secrets are kept at the top of the house." Anthony talks to the annoyed woman while his men remove the letters behind her back. In exchange, Anthony is made "Surveyour of the King's Paintints."
Anthony returns home with news that he has made copies of the letters, effective insurance against any threat of accusations of treason. The royal family will not want the letters made public and, therefore, will not prosecute any of the spies as long as they have the letters. Only Kim is not happy with this turn of events. While the others celebrate, he accuses Anthony of backing out, losing his nerve, and betraying him. His final words to Anthony, before the close of the third episode, are:
"You bloody, bloody fool."
Canon Point:
after episode 3
Gender & Sex:
Male
Age:
38
Birthdate/Sign:
Sept 28, canon
Tattoo:
Windsor-knot sized, at the base of the neck on his back
Suitability:
N/A
Power:
Zodion-granted air healing
Personality:
Anthony Blunt is a reserved man. He has a genuine heart, but it is buried under many, many layers. His conviction is strong, perhaps the strongest of the four Cambridge Spies, but he lacks the loud displays seen in Kim Philby and Guy Burgess. He is a quiet, steady man, determined and single-minded but discreet.
Where Burgess is the actor, draped in colourful costumes and known at once wherever he goes, Blunt is the man behind the stage, making sure everything is in order. People know his name, but he does not have the reputation that Guy has made for himself. He supplies Guy his script, such as when he tells Guy that Donald's father is very ill and that Donald may need some encouragement to break away from the man's beliefs. Guy is the open display of emotion, Anthony the quiet bastion of strength.
Anthony keeps his life, as one lover puts it, "in compartments." He isolates aspects of his life-- his job, his work with Russia, his painting, sex, and so on-- and can choose not to be affected by any one compartment at any time. He is a man of control, in both deeds and action.
Yet he is a man deeply moved by his friends. He believes in the cause he is fighting for, but his friends are at least as dear to him. While Kim rages about the Hitler-Stalin Pact, furious that the Communists would ally with the Facists, Anthony refocuses Kim's thoughts. They, together, must keep the four strong. They must be the pillars and support the other two. He is ready with explanations for Moscow's actions, but it his friends he worries about most. While he is direct with bad news that must be told to his friends, such as Julian's death, he also goes out of his way to protect them, especially Guy. He and Kim often agree that there are things Guy does not need to know, as it would hurt Guy to know the truth.
Anthony has few qualms about manipulating people. When Donald's father dies, he is the first to say that it is the perfect moment to recruit them. He feels guilt over things, such as his affair with Julian-- with whom Guy was in love. However, that guilt does not stop him from taking Julian to bed. He is also unafraid to threaten people, such as Carincross. He makes it clear that he will see Carincross outed as a spy, a death sentence easily, if Carincross does not return to work for Moscow.
It takes much to make Blunt angry. When he becomes angry, however, the result is a sudden burst of temper (he sweeps two glasses off a table hard enough to shatter them against the nearby wall when Donald reveals he told Melinda what he did) followed by calm (he tells Donald that the others are not to know).
Anthony is very trusting when he allows someone in. He tells Otto he would take Kim's word about whether he was devoted to Russia or not, not long after having properly met Kim. He also allows Jack (Guy's lover, whom Anthony also has an affair with) to go through his bag, which is filled with documents from MI5. However, he does not trust easily. He is immediately suspicious of James Jesus Angleton, an American CIA agent meant to shadow Kim and learn from MI5. He seems to have an intuition for who can be trusted and who cannot.
Blunt also is very unparticular in his choice of partners. He genuinely cares for Julian (though not to the extent Guy obviously does) and for Jack, but other partners are as casual as a fling could be. After only a few words, he agrees to sex with an off-duty guard at the palace. His casual approach to such a thing hints that it is hardly the first time he's had sex with a stranger.
He is an art lover, having published criticism on art as well as being a painter himself. He has a very critical eye and is not shy about sharing his opinions on particular pieces-- if asked for that opinion.
✖ SAMPLES:
"Zodion" First-Person Network Entry:
Hedonism. [The pause might have been thoughtful... or it was for effect.] That is precisely the word for this place. It is a hedonist’s greatest desire. Aristippus would approve -- so would a great many of my friends, both past and present.
It’s strange, isn’t it? It is, I believe, intrinsic in human nature, to seek out pleasure over pain. However, so many schools of thought -- philosophical, religious, and even political -- encourage us to suffer. They argue, as one of my professors so eloquently put it once, that it builds character. That a man -- or woman -- does not know who they are and what they are capable of until they have suffered greatly.
Then again, there are the individuals who take pleasure in main, who rejoice in suffering. Where do they fall, I wonder, in either school of thought?
"Zodionlogs" Third-Person Prose Entry:
Shit. Fuck. Damn it. Christ.
Anthony Blunt’s mind was a blur of swearing as he stalked along the streets. He told himself he couldn't panic. At this point, panic would only lead to getting himself into deeper trouble than he was already in. If such a thing was even possible.
Where was Guy? Kim? Donald? How had he come here? Why weren't they with him?
He tried to approach things logically. He most certainly was not in the custody of any government he had ever heard of. He was, in general, at liberty to walk about. This place was remote, yes, but he was not under lock and key. He was not facing interrogation or execution, at the very least. His friends? Well. He steadied himself, tried to let his mind process everything while keeping his thoughts devoid of emotion. If he was not being questioned, they were surely still safe. For now.
What would happen to them without him there? Would Guy be able to keep himself together? Could Kim support the other two until he returned? How much damage could Donald do without his constant supervision?
Christ.
It didn't matter, really, that there was nothing he could do about the situation. He was utterly powerless, and he knew it. However, he still worried. The Soviets, the Germans, the English, the Americans. Any of them could find him or one of the others while they were separated. When they were vulnerable. They had not come so far, done so much, and gotten so close only to have it fall apart now because of... of these "Twelve," whoever they were.
"Shit," he muttered aloud to himself. He breathed out, closed his eyes, and stood silently for a few moments. The pain in his back was still there, but he attributed it to waking up on stone. He had to admit, giving himself a moment to think about it, these fanatics were good. He hadn’t even noticed anyone shadowing him. He wasn’t an easy man to kidnap, he’d like to think. Well, whatever they wanted with this place and worship, he could play along. Didn’t mean he had to make it easy -- they really hadn’t done their homework if they thought he was stupid enough to pick up what was obviously a tracking device -- but he knew how to keep his head down and study the situation. He couldn’t act rashly. He needed to blend in. When he looked about again, his gaze rested on a very welcome sight. A bar. He scoffed under his breath. "Don't mind if I do, actually."
Name & DW Journal:
Lynn -- sepiaepiphany
Birthdate & Age:
June 16th, 1988 -- 24
Characters played in Zodion:
n/a
✖ CHARACTER:
Name:
Anthony Blunt
Canon:
Cambridge Spies
PB/Image:
Samuel West, http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9got7yAjL1ro4vw0o1_500.png
Info links:
No proper summary of the series exists. So, I fashioned one myself:
"This is the story of the most notorious double agents in the history of spying.
Four very British traitors."
So begins the first installment of Cambridge Spies.
We are introduced first to Anthony Blunt and Guy Burgess, two members of the Apostles at Trinity College in Cambridge. The Apostles are an influential secret society within the school, whose members have reputations of being rather left-leaning. "All the top men," Donald Maclean, an Apostle hopeful and anti-Facist, says, "are in the Apostles." While Guy is merely a student, Anthony is a Fellow of Trinty, a graduate student. While still studying, he also teaches, which means he eats with the academic staff at High Table come meal times.
Anthony and Guy are also, by the time the films begin, already working as Soviet agents for Moscow. Guy describes their job as "talent-spotting."
Guy and Anthony have taken notice of Donald Maclean and Kim Philby. As Guy tries to convince Donald to go against the wishes of his dying father (a Cabinet minister), Anthony invites Kim to join him at High Table.
While dining, conversation turns to the left-wing views of Philby. Blunt defends Kim when his views are dismissed, asking if the school will continue to ignore Hitler if he progresses. Before the conversation can continue, the waiters strike, protesting their lack of pay while the college is out of session for three months. When the workers show no signs of returning, Kim rises from the table, fetches his own supper, and begins to eat after a toast. "To the revolution!" Anthony, though he does not leave the table, raises his glass and drinks.
After the strike, Guy is caught having sex with one of the waiters and taken to the dean's office. Kim brings Anthony word that the waiter was bribed into giving up his fellows (who suffered a beating at the hands of several students) and to having sex with Guy for the purpose of being caught. Anthony tells Kim that Guy is not to know that it was a set-up. When Guy returns, free from punishment, Anthony and Guy recruit Kim, telling him where to find instructions-- instructions for joining their ranks as Soviet agents.
The Russian handler, Otto, expresses some wariness toward Kim's recruitment, worried that his spirit and dedication is too loud to be sincere. Anthony puts forth his opinion that Kim can be trusted.
As the decision hovers in the air, Julian Bell (another Apostle) arrives with news-- Donald Maclean's father has died. Anthony and Guy realize that this is the moment, the turning point at which Donald will either join them or fall away from the cause. Anthony makes it clear to Guy that it must be Kim who brings Donald in, as Moscow will not turn away Kim if he can bring them Donald.
Donald and Kim are accepted by Moscow, and the four begin their long career together. Kim's first assignment takes him out of England, to Vienna. When he returns, Communist bride (Litzi Friedman) in tow, Anthony and Guy have found a house for the four of them to occupy. Anthony points out to Kim that his wife is well known as being a Communist, and if they are to hide themselves, she is a danger to all they want to achieve.
When Kim returns to the house, he has left Litzi.
Otto tells Anthony that he and the others "must become everything you hate." To be useful to Moscow, they must bury their past, hide their Communist leanings, and carve themselves places in the very establishment they seek to topple.
The first "demonstration" of their "break" from Communism comes when the four attend a nightclub together. Julian is there, collecting money to help the Spanish, who are fighting their Facist leader, Franco. England has declared it illegal for British men to go and fight for Spain, and all four Cambridge men make sure it is known they are not giving money to the cause because they no longer believe in fighting Facism.
Kim and Guy join an Anglo-Germanic "alliance," little more than a pro-Hitler movement in England. One of the members is His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales. He tells Guy and Kim to send Anthony to the royal family.
Julian leaves for Spain, determined to do something to help the cause, but not before quietly berating Guy for giving up his ideals.
With Guy's connections, having joined MI5 as well as working for the BBC, he and Anthony secure Donald a place in the Foreign Office. Anthony is called away, into the hall, where Kim waits with news that Julian was killed, news that must be told to Guy.
Anthony visits the royal family, talking idly about family politics with the queen. He reports to Otto that she had three gins (doubles). Before six.
When Kim returns from work in Spain, he is broken by the experience and demands that they stop burying the past, working to hide themselves within British society and start to fight. The four are in agreement.
Just when they settle on this idea, the pact between Hitler and Stalin is announced, and Kim and Tony must tell Guy and Donald, who do not handle the news well. England is at war with Germany and, by alliance, with Russia. Traitors at war time can be executed, and all three are aware of the fate that now may greet them if they are found out.
After being stationed in Paris just before the Nazi invasion, Donald returns with Melinda, an American woman whom he has married.
Anthony, now working for MI5, is summoned for vetting. He worries that someone has found a trace, some kind of his Communist past. He tells Kim alone of his fears, and Kim offers him what comforting words he can, assuring him that if they were sure, they'd have offered no warning. Just before the vetting, Kim catches Tony in the hall and warns him that his hands will be watched for signs of shaking. Tony remembers this and keeps himself steady while struggling to light a cigarette with a bad lighter.
He is asked about his Communist leanings in school, and he does not deny them. He also admits that his art criticism (a subject dear to his heart) is perhaps "the last to stop leaning."
Anthony returns home from his vetting to a party Guy is hosting. He reminds Guy that it is, in fact, his birthday. He opens a present from the queen, which contains a note revealing that he was questioned by MI5 because the royal family wishes to hire him for some job.
When Anthony meets with the royal family again, it is with the king. The king speaks easily to him, chatting. He requests that Anthony catalogue the pictures in the royal collection and says that if it takes up too much of his time, he can arrange for Anthony's "hush hush work" to cease getting in the way.
Kim returns to the house shortly after with news he has learned from MI5-- Hitler plans to invade Russia, which means Russia will declare war on Germany and make England allies with Russia. Only Anthony seems less than overjoyed at this news, strained from years of spying that have begun to take their toll on him. When Donald tells him later that he has told Melinda he works for Moscow and she has left him, Anthony snaps, breaking glasses, before he regains composure and tells Donald not to tell anyone else.
Anthony meets with their Russian handler, Henri, to discuss getting out of work for MI5, explaining that he is well-placed if he accepts the job with the royal family and is able to chat with them, as part of the family. Anthony is told that another agent, a man named Carincross, has gone quiet. If he can convince him to go back to work for Moscow, then Moscow will look favorably on Anthony's request to leave MI5.
While looking to go to Carincross, Anthony notices a tail on him and sets Kim alone to follow him and find out who is tailing him. It is the Soviets, doubtful of information the group of friends have been giving over.
Anthony goes to Carincross and threatens him with exposure (meaning he would be executed by the British government) if he does not resume work for Moscow.
On D-Day, which should have been a celebration, Kim brings troubling word-- a Soviet man from their Embassy in Washington is defecting, willing to give the Americans and British the name of a mole inside MI5. A mole who matches the description of Donald Maclean. Kim is hesitant to tell Moscow, but Anthony reminds him that if one of the four of them falls, they will all fall in turn. To protect one is to protect the whole.
The king calls Anthony for a particular assignment. The king's brother, the Duke of Windsor, wrote to a German relative, very pro-Hitler. The letters are still in Germany and, for the sake of the name of the royal family, they are to be discreetly retrieved. If Anthony can manage this, the king promises, it will be the last "hush hush" assignment he ever has. Anthony accepts and leaves for Germany.
Though blocked by the American forces occupying the castle in which the letters are kept, Anthony convinces the woman in charge to ask her commanding officer. While she is away, he sends his men to the attic, explaining that "noble families are the same the world over-- the secrets are kept at the top of the house." Anthony talks to the annoyed woman while his men remove the letters behind her back. In exchange, Anthony is made "Surveyour of the King's Paintints."
Anthony returns home with news that he has made copies of the letters, effective insurance against any threat of accusations of treason. The royal family will not want the letters made public and, therefore, will not prosecute any of the spies as long as they have the letters. Only Kim is not happy with this turn of events. While the others celebrate, he accuses Anthony of backing out, losing his nerve, and betraying him. His final words to Anthony, before the close of the third episode, are:
"You bloody, bloody fool."
Canon Point:
after episode 3
Gender & Sex:
Male
Age:
38
Birthdate/Sign:
Sept 28, canon
Tattoo:
Windsor-knot sized, at the base of the neck on his back
Suitability:
N/A
Power:
Zodion-granted air healing
Personality:
Anthony Blunt is a reserved man. He has a genuine heart, but it is buried under many, many layers. His conviction is strong, perhaps the strongest of the four Cambridge Spies, but he lacks the loud displays seen in Kim Philby and Guy Burgess. He is a quiet, steady man, determined and single-minded but discreet.
Where Burgess is the actor, draped in colourful costumes and known at once wherever he goes, Blunt is the man behind the stage, making sure everything is in order. People know his name, but he does not have the reputation that Guy has made for himself. He supplies Guy his script, such as when he tells Guy that Donald's father is very ill and that Donald may need some encouragement to break away from the man's beliefs. Guy is the open display of emotion, Anthony the quiet bastion of strength.
Anthony keeps his life, as one lover puts it, "in compartments." He isolates aspects of his life-- his job, his work with Russia, his painting, sex, and so on-- and can choose not to be affected by any one compartment at any time. He is a man of control, in both deeds and action.
Yet he is a man deeply moved by his friends. He believes in the cause he is fighting for, but his friends are at least as dear to him. While Kim rages about the Hitler-Stalin Pact, furious that the Communists would ally with the Facists, Anthony refocuses Kim's thoughts. They, together, must keep the four strong. They must be the pillars and support the other two. He is ready with explanations for Moscow's actions, but it his friends he worries about most. While he is direct with bad news that must be told to his friends, such as Julian's death, he also goes out of his way to protect them, especially Guy. He and Kim often agree that there are things Guy does not need to know, as it would hurt Guy to know the truth.
Anthony has few qualms about manipulating people. When Donald's father dies, he is the first to say that it is the perfect moment to recruit them. He feels guilt over things, such as his affair with Julian-- with whom Guy was in love. However, that guilt does not stop him from taking Julian to bed. He is also unafraid to threaten people, such as Carincross. He makes it clear that he will see Carincross outed as a spy, a death sentence easily, if Carincross does not return to work for Moscow.
It takes much to make Blunt angry. When he becomes angry, however, the result is a sudden burst of temper (he sweeps two glasses off a table hard enough to shatter them against the nearby wall when Donald reveals he told Melinda what he did) followed by calm (he tells Donald that the others are not to know).
Anthony is very trusting when he allows someone in. He tells Otto he would take Kim's word about whether he was devoted to Russia or not, not long after having properly met Kim. He also allows Jack (Guy's lover, whom Anthony also has an affair with) to go through his bag, which is filled with documents from MI5. However, he does not trust easily. He is immediately suspicious of James Jesus Angleton, an American CIA agent meant to shadow Kim and learn from MI5. He seems to have an intuition for who can be trusted and who cannot.
Blunt also is very unparticular in his choice of partners. He genuinely cares for Julian (though not to the extent Guy obviously does) and for Jack, but other partners are as casual as a fling could be. After only a few words, he agrees to sex with an off-duty guard at the palace. His casual approach to such a thing hints that it is hardly the first time he's had sex with a stranger.
He is an art lover, having published criticism on art as well as being a painter himself. He has a very critical eye and is not shy about sharing his opinions on particular pieces-- if asked for that opinion.
✖ SAMPLES:
"Zodion" First-Person Network Entry:
Hedonism. [The pause might have been thoughtful... or it was for effect.] That is precisely the word for this place. It is a hedonist’s greatest desire. Aristippus would approve -- so would a great many of my friends, both past and present.
It’s strange, isn’t it? It is, I believe, intrinsic in human nature, to seek out pleasure over pain. However, so many schools of thought -- philosophical, religious, and even political -- encourage us to suffer. They argue, as one of my professors so eloquently put it once, that it builds character. That a man -- or woman -- does not know who they are and what they are capable of until they have suffered greatly.
Then again, there are the individuals who take pleasure in main, who rejoice in suffering. Where do they fall, I wonder, in either school of thought?
"Zodionlogs" Third-Person Prose Entry:
Shit. Fuck. Damn it. Christ.
Anthony Blunt’s mind was a blur of swearing as he stalked along the streets. He told himself he couldn't panic. At this point, panic would only lead to getting himself into deeper trouble than he was already in. If such a thing was even possible.
Where was Guy? Kim? Donald? How had he come here? Why weren't they with him?
He tried to approach things logically. He most certainly was not in the custody of any government he had ever heard of. He was, in general, at liberty to walk about. This place was remote, yes, but he was not under lock and key. He was not facing interrogation or execution, at the very least. His friends? Well. He steadied himself, tried to let his mind process everything while keeping his thoughts devoid of emotion. If he was not being questioned, they were surely still safe. For now.
What would happen to them without him there? Would Guy be able to keep himself together? Could Kim support the other two until he returned? How much damage could Donald do without his constant supervision?
Christ.
It didn't matter, really, that there was nothing he could do about the situation. He was utterly powerless, and he knew it. However, he still worried. The Soviets, the Germans, the English, the Americans. Any of them could find him or one of the others while they were separated. When they were vulnerable. They had not come so far, done so much, and gotten so close only to have it fall apart now because of... of these "Twelve," whoever they were.
"Shit," he muttered aloud to himself. He breathed out, closed his eyes, and stood silently for a few moments. The pain in his back was still there, but he attributed it to waking up on stone. He had to admit, giving himself a moment to think about it, these fanatics were good. He hadn’t even noticed anyone shadowing him. He wasn’t an easy man to kidnap, he’d like to think. Well, whatever they wanted with this place and worship, he could play along. Didn’t mean he had to make it easy -- they really hadn’t done their homework if they thought he was stupid enough to pick up what was obviously a tracking device -- but he knew how to keep his head down and study the situation. He couldn’t act rashly. He needed to blend in. When he looked about again, his gaze rested on a very welcome sight. A bar. He scoffed under his breath. "Don't mind if I do, actually."
