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

[ashkitty]

(Okay, I know this is MONTHS AND MONTHS late, but I'm now hunting for fic and noticed and just wanted to make the teensy, teensy comment that Cooper does use the word, and so does Bran. It's right after the encounter with Caradog Pritchard--my copy of TGK has it on page 34:

'You will find out,' Bran said, 'that people like him are a bit afraid of me, deep down. It is because I am albino, you see. The white hair, and funny eyes, and not much pigment in the skin-a bit of a freak, you might say.'

I remember because at the time I'd only ever heard the word used for horses. ;) But that's a bit of subvertng the Evil Albino thing right there, really--clearly he isn't, but knows about it well enough.

Anyway, sorry for poking in late. ;)

[sistermagpie]

No apologies needed--thanks! I really did wonder whether the word was ever used in the text. It probably is good that Bran uses the word, actually, because really that's all he is. It's not really a magical thing so I can see him wanting to just say yeah, I have a condition from birth that makes me lack pigment.