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Letti
08-03-2007, 11:31 AM
How do you imagine her as a young girl?
Was she pretty and beautiful? Was she ever good-hearted? Was she in love?
When and why did she choose the "bad side"? Was it a decision in her life or did it just happen?

I am listening to you.

Daghain
08-03-2007, 01:52 PM
The comic series addresses this, and I kind of agree with how they did it. They imaged her as a not-so-pretty girl who had a bad streak from the beginning. I could totally see that.

Wuducynn
08-03-2007, 03:31 PM
The comic series addresses this, and I kind of agree with how they did it. They imaged her as a not-so-pretty girl who had a bad streak from the beginning. I could totally see that.

Yep. Thats how I see her too.

MonteGss
08-03-2007, 08:32 PM
I agree that she was a little b*tch as a girl. I do NOT like:

how her "evilness" is due in part to some small speck of a mirror. LAME.

Letti
08-03-2007, 11:20 PM
For my part I can imagine that there were days when she had a lovely heart. *shrug*

Darkthoughts
08-08-2007, 12:57 PM
Thats because you seek to see the good in everyone Letti :wub:

I'm of the opinion that we all start life as neutral beings, neither good nor bad. We learn of the two through our experiences of our formative years and come to make judgements and act according, thereafter, to our own perceptions of right and wrong.

In other words, I'd say Rhea had some bad experiences that shaped her into the bitter person she became - and that unlike those who triumph despite adversity, she lacked the support/care/etc to see the world and the people in it from another perspective.

Letti
08-13-2007, 10:05 AM
(Thanks DT but I only wish it were true.)
Let's feel sorry for her. ;)


To tell you the truth usually I hated her but sometimes I really felt sorry.

Malficeus
01-31-2008, 07:56 PM
Thats because you seek to see the good in everyone Letti :wub:

I'm of the opinion that we all start life as neutral beings, neither good nor bad. We learn of the two through our experiences of our formative years and come to make judgements and act according, thereafter, to our own perceptions of right and wrong.

In other words, I'd say Rhea had some bad experiences that shaped her into the bitter person she became - and that unlike those who triumph despite adversity, she lacked the support/care/etc to see the world and the people in it from another perspective.

that sounds like something from John Locke

LadyHitchhiker
02-01-2008, 08:28 AM
I picture her a lot like the witch off of The Sword in The Stone..

"I HATE SUNSHINE... I HAAAATE SUNSHINE!!!!"

alinda
02-01-2008, 08:31 AM
I picture her looking a bit like me!! Browahahahaha!:evil:

LadyHitchhiker
02-01-2008, 08:33 AM
I like that idea too :D You can play her in the movie... ;)

Darkthoughts
02-02-2008, 07:36 AM
Thats because you seek to see the good in everyone Letti :wub:

I'm of the opinion that we all start life as neutral beings, neither good nor bad. We learn of the two through our experiences of our formative years and come to make judgements and act according, thereafter, to our own perceptions of right and wrong.

In other words, I'd say Rhea had some bad experiences that shaped her into the bitter person she became - and that unlike those who triumph despite adversity, she lacked the support/care/etc to see the world and the people in it from another perspective.

that sounds like something from John Locke
I absolutely take that as a compliment, I love Locke ;) :thumbsup:

Woofer
02-02-2008, 12:51 PM
I agree that she was a little b*tch as a girl. I do NOT like:

how her "evilness" is due in part to some small speck of a mirror. LAME.

I also agree. I swear that I went to school with girls who were like I picture her to have been: petty, mean, vindictive, and bitterly resentful of others. I've also worked with the women they grew into. :pullhair: :shoot:

And I really agree with the spoiler; same for Eldred Jonas. Cheap!

ATG
02-02-2008, 02:25 PM
She implied she knew her way around a man.
I'd like to think she was a super sexy vixen.
http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/miami-ink/kat_corner/gallery/kat_new2_540.jpg

Zalia
06-24-2008, 05:12 AM
I picture her a lot like the witch off of The Sword in The Stone..

"I HATE SUNSHINE... I HAAAATE SUNSHINE!!!!"

ME TOO!!

But, as a young girl I could see her being good at one point but not so pretty and maybe even shy. And after years of teasing and let downs she just gives up on believing anyone could like her and just turns bad.

jayson
06-24-2008, 05:15 AM
I agree that she was a little b*tch as a girl. I do NOT like:

how her "evilness" is due in part to some small speck of a mirror. LAME.

I also agree. I swear that I went to school with girls who were like I picture her to have been: petty, mean, vindictive, and bitterly resentful of others. I've also worked with the women they grew into. :pullhair: :shoot:

And I really agree with the spoiler; same for Eldred Jonas. Cheap!

I agree wholeheartedly with Monte & Woofer on these spoiler points. I thought it was quite a cheat.

razz
06-24-2008, 09:25 AM
i thnk of her as a thinner version of The deadite in the basement from Evil Dead 2

Tiffany
06-24-2008, 12:08 PM
I picture her a lot like the witch off of The Sword in The Stone..

"I HATE SUNSHINE... I HAAAATE SUNSHINE!!!!"

YES.

Only not as funny.

Brainslinger
06-26-2008, 03:24 AM
I agree that she was a little b*tch as a girl. I do NOT like:

how her "evilness" is due in part to some small speck of a mirror. LAME.

Actually in the case of Rhea, they stated that she was wicked before hand. In her case the splinter from the glass didn't make her evil, but gave her the ability to see the spirit world. So yes, by giving power to a wicked girl it increased her wickedness, but it wasn't the moral turning point that it appeared to be with Jonas. Which I agree was a bad move as it took away his responsibility.

LadyHitchhiker
06-29-2008, 05:23 AM
I picture her a lot like the witch off of The Sword in The Stone..

"I HATE SUNSHINE... I HAAAATE SUNSHINE!!!!"

ME TOO!!

But, as a young girl I could see her being good at one point but not so pretty and maybe even shy. And after years of teasing and let downs she just gives up on believing anyone could like her and just turns bad.

Like me... except I didn't go bad all the way yet...

Wuducynn
07-04-2008, 07:56 AM
She implied she knew her way around a man.
I'd like to think she was a super sexy vixen.
http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/miami-ink/kat_corner/gallery/kat_new2_540.jpg

HAHAHAHAH now THIS is a first! Rhea as sexy at one point!

mia/susannah
07-04-2008, 08:53 AM
I always pictured Rhea as being evil from childhood. I think she may have been pretty at one point. But always evil

Letti
07-05-2008, 01:45 AM
I think she started to become evil around the age of 14 or 15 or even later.

fernandito
07-05-2008, 05:20 AM
It was much younger than that, according to the first arc of the DT comics.

zemegauser
11-15-2008, 07:12 PM
http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/wicked%20witch.jpg

Only a bit older than the picture.

Letti
11-15-2008, 11:02 PM
http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/wicked%20witch.jpg

Only a bit older than the picture.

Cry your pardon sai but for me it's much funnier than scary.

Lady_Macbeth
11-15-2008, 11:27 PM
I sorta picture her as the type of little girl who would pull the heads off kittens just for sh!ts and giggles. Evil to the core.

Woofer
11-16-2008, 07:07 AM
Hope this link works. IMDB is weird.

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIyNTgyMTA2OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDAxMDM2MQ@@._ V1._SX321_SY400_.jpg

LadyHitchhiker
11-16-2008, 07:07 AM
http://cristi.podomatic.com/mymedia/thumb/1006850/460%3E_673394.jpg
Young Rhea

http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/1500000/Madame-Mim-Witch-Dragon-disney-villains-1571361-200-200.jpg
Old Rhea.

Louis Cyphre
11-16-2008, 10:44 PM
Thats about as accurate as i can get i'm afraid...

Whitey Appleseed
01-04-2009, 06:53 PM
How do you imagine her as a young girl?
Tough call...probably abused by her father, a child done wrong, maybe a plaything for the rich and famous of one of the other cities of Mid-World.

Was she pretty and beautiful?
Yeah, drop dead gorgeous, she could make a dead man come, as the song goes.

Was she ever good-hearted?
She did love her snake, Ermot, so she was capable of one of the saving graces.

Was she in love?
Other than with Ermot, you mean. Hard to imagine, but anything's possible.

When and why did she choose the "bad side"? Was it a decision in her life or did it just happen? Still reading, but I'm hoping to come across the word, "bewildered". Cordelia at one point kinda wakes up, as if in a trance. That old baddy, the Crimson King, I bet. I think she watched too much television, too many Friends re-runs, and she just snapped, went over to the dark side, began enjoying it, really tuning in, and tuning out any sort of predestination in store for her...or maybe not...maybe her destiny was to be the witch of Coos...Frost, by the way, has a great poem called just that, "the witch of Coos"...the bones...something about a finger bone...would make a great one act play for the high school set.

Letti
01-06-2009, 11:53 PM
When and why did she choose the "bad side"? I think she watched too much television, too many Friends re-runs.

:wtf:

Whitey Appleseed
01-08-2009, 05:06 AM
Finished the read and no "bewildered" for Rhea, but there was something about her handling men like those (coffin hunters, I think) before, kinda like Detta...so, yeah, she had her charms even as a blooming witch.

Letti
01-09-2009, 12:13 AM
That's sure.
I would be interested in her age. Was it mentioned in W&G? How old could she be?

lead dealer
01-09-2009, 01:00 AM
I had pictured her sort of as a silent film star in her later years. After she had gone insane and lost toutch with reality. Vainly attempting to look attractive in her dilusional eyes. A true face of decay and madness, hair dingy grey, spindley and everywhere. Body frail and hunched over. long spindley fingers.......
Yet still wearing her same jewelrey and clothes that she wore in former, happier times........

Could she have loved? Possiably, who knows, maybe that is how she became corrupted with the dark arts?

Sounds like the makeings of another book onto itself.........

"I kill with my heart"



still can not spell, stupid work computer.......

Whitey Appleseed
01-10-2009, 05:54 AM
In Chapter VII, Taking the Ball, section 11, Rhea's opinion of men is illustrated, the coffin hunters lined up across from her..."They were men, that was all, just more men, and she had been beating such all her life. Oh, they thought they ruled the roost, all right--nobody in Mid-World accused anyone of forgetting the face of his mother--but they were poor things, at bottom, moved to tears by a sad song, utterly undone by the sight of a bare breast, and all the more capable of being manipulated simply because they were so sure they were strong and tough and wise."

Jonas calls her "old mother". Hoot. Women are timeless, aren't they, of no age but their own? I've revised my opinion that she was done wrong as a child. I think she knew how to manipulate people from a young age.

Ste Letto
09-21-2009, 02:13 PM
As a young girl I see her as plain, dowdy, awkward and shy. When puberty came the men did not. She was bookish, and found magic in those books. Magic made her strong. Magic gave her power and self esteem. Thus she pursued magic that could manipulate others. Somewhere along the way she moved from self serving to downright evil. Once there there was no going back.

Letti
09-23-2009, 12:46 PM
As a young girl I see her as plain, dowdy, awkward and shy. When puberty came the men did not. She was bookish, and found magic in those books. Magic made her strong. Magic gave her power and self esteem. Thus she pursued magic that could manipulate others. Somewhere along the way she moved from self serving to downright evil. Once there there was no going back.

There is always going back. But of course I get what you mean.
It's interesting how most of us imagine her as a shy young girl. So do I. I think she must have been in love and got failed. People this evil and selfish usually have a failed love in their history.

Woofer
05-26-2010, 02:58 PM
Look at the little goat cart!

http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo194/TheCuteWoofer/Miscellaneous/129191141580975860.jpg

Charyou Tree
06-05-2010, 07:57 AM
http://www.minorlooneytunes.com/pictures/hazel004.jpg

That's exactly what I see.....lol!

Jean
06-07-2010, 02:10 AM
http://www.minorlooneytunes.com/pictures/hazel004.jpg

That's exactly what I see.....lol!
Yes. Unfortunately, I see the same.

Brice
06-07-2010, 04:43 AM
:lol:

Charyou Tree
06-07-2010, 08:09 PM
Unfortunate or not.....that's her.

Letti
06-07-2010, 09:06 PM
http://www.minorlooneytunes.com/pictures/hazel004.jpg

That's exactly what I see.....lol!

With such an innocent 'nay, it wasn't me sir' look on her face?!

Woofer
06-08-2010, 01:28 PM
Look at the little goat cart!

http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo194/TheCuteWoofer/Miscellaneous/129191141580975860.jpg

Incidentally, I love this picture and I think I would really like the lady who owns this cart (even if my first thought was RHEA!). :)

Roland of Gilead 33
02-04-2011, 01:48 PM
my god you know who WOULD have been PERFECT to play her? if she was still alive? "Bette Davis" ! she played it to perfection in "baby Jane'

i am curious who they are going to cast to play her though

candy
02-05-2011, 10:02 AM
you mean like this?

http://i615.photobucket.com/albums/tt234/manxgirl_2009/daviscrawford.jpg
ye thats how i always thought of her too

Bethany
02-05-2011, 10:28 AM
http://www.minorlooneytunes.com/pictures/hazel004.jpg

That's exactly what I see.....lol!

Her. Precisely.

Jean
02-05-2011, 11:36 AM
Russian lore character, called Баба Яга:

http://img0.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/b/2/24/483/24483932_f_13822246.jpg

http://bg-znanie.ru/articles/348679/x_49aa8311.jpg

http://dreamworlds.ru/uploads/posts/2008-04/1208294421_baba_yaga_smoking.jpg

Roland of Gilead 33
02-05-2011, 03:40 PM
pretty much. & i still think it's funny as hell how the actress who played the witch well the evil one anyways was a kindergarden teacher before she started to act. which is just funny cause i used to have nightmares after watching "The wizard of oz" as a kid.

Brainslinger
02-08-2011, 09:23 AM
Russian lore character, called Баба Яга:


Okay, I can't understand Russian characters but is that Baba Yaga (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baba_Yaga)? The child-eating witch with the metal teeth? (It's weird that the name just returned to me! Okay, maybe not. That first word 'Баба' looks a lot like 'baba'.) I remember the teacher in my primary school reading to us about her as a child... And I have vague memories that the tales were of Russian origin...

That's pretty much how I imagine Rhea too. The way King describes her, she seems very much a stereotypical hag. I was a tad disappointed when they deviated from that look somewhat in the Gunslinger Born comics. Breaking the stereo type isn't a bad thing but it seemed to me she was meantto be that way.

Jean
02-08-2011, 09:26 AM
yes, it's Baba Yaga! You know, Brain, sometimes I wonder if there's anything you don't know... http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gif

Brainslinger
02-08-2011, 09:43 AM
yes, it's Baba Yaga! You know, Brain, sometimes I wonder if there's anything you don't know... http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k291/mishemplushem/Facilitation/0134-bear.gif

Thank you for the compliment Jean. There's a lot I don't know though. (A good thing too!)

I remember Baba Yaga mainly from finding her scary but fascinating as a kid. (I think I was quite a macabre child.) I don't think I read or heard any stories all the way through. If I did I have forgotten most of it. I don't think I was more than 6 or 7 at the time. (And I didn't read much about witches as that was somewhat forbidden by my Christian parents.) I have a vague recollection of her chewing her way through things...