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Which Character from Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy are You?

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Which Character from Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy are You?

Find out if you are closest in spirit to Lord Sepulchrave, Dr. Prunesquallor, Cora&Clarice Groan, Lady Fuchsia or Steerpike himself

Question 1: What is your favorite color (of these)?
	Who cares?
	Purple
	Green
	Black
	Crimson

Question 2: Where do you live?
	In my high bedroom with its secret staircase
	In my chambers filled with tree roots
	In a stone house with a laboratory, in a castle courtyard
	It used to be the kitchennow Im on the run
	In my library amidst the firs

Question 3: Who do you hate the most?
	People who destroy my books
	People who get in my way
	People who invade my privacy and disrupt my illusions
	People who harm my friends
	People who steal whats rightfully mine

Question 4: Do you like your family?
	Passionately, on and off
	They are important in a historical sense
	Theyre tolerable, ha ha
	Theyve ruined my life
	Dont have one, dont want one

Question 5: What word best describes you?
	Melancholy
	Opaque
	Tempestuous
	Calculating
	Affable

Question 6: What clothes do you wear?
	Castoffs, whatever fits
	Scarlet gowns
	Identical purple dresses
	A green cloak
	Black jacket and pants, glasses

Question 7: How would you kill someone if you had to?
	Id have to think about it.
	Any way I coulddrowning, burning, stabbing with my swordstick
	Oily rags, matches and a good lock
	Poison them
	Jump on them, screaming and clawing

Question 9: What is in your heart?
	Curiosity and affection
	Revenge
	Lust for power
	Longing and sorrow
	Passions and desires

Question 10: What worries you?
	That someone might harm those I care for
	That I wont be able to topple a dynasty
	That my family may die out
	That my brother is more important than me
	That my sister-in-law gets all the glory (and nicer rooms)

Question 11: What do you do with your time?
	Mess with equations and equipment
	Read books and perform ancient, meaningless rituals
	Try to take over the world
	Charge around, looking for solitude and beauty
	Stare at my sibling and complain

Question 12: What is the most amazing thing youve ever seen?
	Shelves of ancient books and green trees brushing the windowpanes
	My own face
	A girl smiling--slowly, darkly
	My secret rooms, filled with sunlight, grotesque art and decrepit toys
	An endless sea of grey castle walls and towers and a field of stone beneath the stars

Question 13: How did (or might) you die?
	Get hit on the head and drown
	Throw yourself off a cliff
	Go crazy and get eaten by owls
	Rot away in prison
	Old age

Question 14: Do you crave romance?
	Yes, but Im trapped in a loveless relationship
	No, but Im willing to seduce someone
	Im in favor of anything that centers around me
	YES, but it must fit with my ideals
	No not really

Question 15: How reasonable are you?
	More intuitive than reasonable
	Quite reasonable at all times, but kind
	Pure reason, pure logic
	Not veryIm very emotional
	I need to be told what to think about things

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