Random late-night poll

[lotesse]

brought to you by my tendency to plunge back into obscure childhood fandoms when faced with schoolwork. I've been reading in The Dark is Rising, and I keep finding fic that labels Bran as an albino, either in narration or in dialogue. And it keeps hitting me as incorrect, somehow - though I've no idea why. So I'm putting it to you all.

Poll #2314

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Hey kids, would you call Bran Davies an albino?

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yes
5 (50.0%)

no
4 (40.0%)

maybe?
1 (10.0%)

something that I will expound upon in the comments
0 (0.0%)

And if he is/is not, how on earth does that intersect with the Evil Albino trend that's been running these last couple of years?

Comments

[starlady]

She's perceptive and compassionate, and Cooper gives her more moments of connection to the mythic than either of her brothers.

But to what extent are these stereotypically girlish traits? I don't know where the line is, which is why I ask.

It's one of the things I really like about the books - the way that the ordinary and the sacral bump shoulders and inform one another.

Definitely. I think it's clearest in The Dark Is Rising, but it's definitely in all the books.