An interview with Kraus the Thirsty Bandit, from V&V
Hi fam. VIOLENCE & VIGILANCE is available for preorder in Ebook at this moment. Physical versions are on the way.
DB Rook, fellow author and blogger, has invited one of V&V's characters for an interview. I decided it should be none other than Irdessa the Undying, a crowd favorite at the world famous battle arena Keswal.
Please go check out Irdessa's interview on DB Rook's site. Here's a link:
https://dbrookbooks.com/ripped-from-the-page-david-t-list/
While you're there check out the other characters he's interviewed. Would you believe Irdessa is in the company of the Woman of the Sword herself - Lidae - written by Anna Smith Spark AKA the Queen of Grimdark?!
Thank you Daryl for this opportunity, and for giving Irdessa the chance to introduce herself.
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However, this has left Kraus helplessly jealous. He thinks it should have been him. Not because he has anything to say worth hearing, but because he's tasked with protecting Irdessa, and she's on the run. He's convinced that his own personal interview will set this right. Makes no sense to me, but half of his actions don't. Between you and me, I don't feel safe disappointing him. That said, I've interviewed him here, just to appease him.
I want to apologize in advance. If you collect every swear word on this blog for the past eleven years, it won't surpass what Kraus managed in this one interview.
You've been warned.
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| image ripped from V&V's cover, illustrated by Felix Ortiz |
Character's name (and title if appropriate):
Kraus but call me what you want.
Written by:
Figure it out, you're on his damn page.
Links to your creator:
He would have a Linktree, the smug prick.
Books you appear in (links welcome):
Violence & Vigilance. Hopefully not the sequel.
In no more than 5 words explain your ambitions:
Drink, fight, laugh... fight... And drink!
Favourite place and why?
In the shade. It's too fucking hot outside.
Favourite weapon and why?
Whatever best suits the occasion. I've always thought I had a creative nature when it comes to hurting folks.
Favourite moment and why?
One time I worked for a man named Ivargan doing protection. We'd walk alongside carts in the wastelands and make sure folks didn't try to hit them for their haul. There was a guy who joined up called Spoon. I don't know why. He needed one in his mouth. Talked all the damn time. If you ignored him he'd start nudging you. I almost killed him more than once.
Well one day we're guarding a convoy travelling through the Ariheim pass. Bandits around there rely on bows, and they're good shots so we perched high up at what we thought was a clever hiding spot. Below us a handful of oxen were squeezing a wagon train through a creek bed. Like usual, Spoon had been going on and on and on about something, fuck knows what. Finally he goes, "Want to see a trick?" and for some reason it got my attention. So I told him, "Only if it kills you."
Well some distant bandit must have heard my plea and ran with it because an arrow popped old Spoon right in the back of his head. He got all surprised and went to talk some more, probably about that godsdamned trick he promised, but the arrow was poking out between his teeth. It had his tongue flattened. Some nameless bandit managed to finally shut him up! I couldn't stop laughing. Even when Spoon fell over gagging on his own blood and I caught my own arrow I laughed. They finally shut Spoon up for good, thank the fuckin’ gods. Easily my favorite moment.
Most significant enemy and why?
Hmm. I'd like to think I get along with most everyone.
Tell me about your childhood:
I remember waking up beside the ocean. Not much before that.
Where would you be now if you had made better choices?
I guess I'd be wrapped in silver and gold, sitting in the north seating in Keswal with the rich, gorging myself on something exotic. Is that what you want me to say? As if you're so fuckin’ perfect.
Anything you'd like to say to your maker?
You've out done yourself. This is a fun place, full of suffering. You must be quite entertained.
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Thanks for reading, and Kraus looks forward to embarrassing himself even more thoroughly on August 4th. Don't miss it.
Preorder VIOLENCE & VIGILANCE now.
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