{A/N: It's that time again! Time to play Guess That Character! This time it's with 60 prompts that I actually picked out myself from random books on my shelves. If you want to know the books, check out my livejournal (hotbabysitter). They're around there somewhere.}
1. progress
His steps were slow, agonizingly so, but they were God's thunder when they fell.
2. so white
It is too easy to call that his land. How can one matter cover so much?
3. strong
He is only physically so. Mentally he is a cub still.
4. intervals
He likes the storm more than the eye. No time to think, see.
5. lizard
They call him cold-blooded, but technically that isn't true. Otherwise he'd be long dead.
6. cutting
Closer, closer, now he feels closer.
7. looked
He feels more than he sees - Necessity become trademark.
8. lot to learn
There is so, so much, so much, his heart breaks free and thud.
9. playing
Oh, is that what you call it?
10. violently purple
Being royal is bloody death. He wonders what makes them try. It can't be thirst.
11. hidden
There is so much of him outlookers ignore, never aware, ever aware.
12. middle
Even he doesn't really know, surprise.
13. wandered
Each day he finds something new – a windowpane, a side alley, a city.
14. (color of) my miseries
Bloody as the day he was born, he kneels in a rainbow and smiles while he weeps.
15. monstrousness
Symbolism, so much. So many ways.
16. forward
He cannot face one way without wishing for the other, forever dizzy.
17. cross
Sometimes he believes he himself is the Christ – he has sacrificed himself enough for the mother. How is the father any different?
18. inspiring
Every, everywhere, they're everywhere, so many, hording themselves in his body and he is now a soul collector. Smiling.
19. runes
Uneducated, she asks if they make magic. He smiles.
20. boat
He loves them instantly and fights being icelocked. He just wanted a ride.
21. infused
In his every core is patriotism. Why is pride so painful?
22. survivors
This is the one thing he has few of; at least relatively.
23. hasten
Speed is pointless – that doesn't mean he had none, it's just startling when he uses it.
24. marrow
Big bones should mean a healthy immune system, right? Right? Answer me!
25. blistering
So cold it burns, his burrow and cower and wait, ever waiting (only he knows for what).
26. tense
Coiled like a tiger, he's a leopard in the night
27. quieted
He has learned to talk quietly, not to be underheard, but to make them shut up and listen.
28. the oak tree
It is, oddly enough, not his favorite place.
29. weapon
He doesn't need one; he is one. This is also obvious.
30. red hot
His flag sometimes scorches in its ferocity, its unashamed bold flavor.
31. have ever
Far, so much far, words go useless now. Go now.
32. contrary
Beliefs are like books. Judge and be judged for your judging.
33. marry
He's not scared of her, but of her madness, the parts of her that resemble him and come to him like the magnet to the satellite.
34. my revenge
Complications always arise, but he is ready.
35. expulsion
Ever exhaustion, he should care deeply, so much deeply, but he just can't. He can bring himself.
36. infinite
He actually is not this, he is reminded by the south. The north lets him be fooled.
37. messenger
He thinks of them as assassin's wings (it's not paranoia if they're ever out to get you)
38. ashamed
Keep it to Ourselves, he thinks, We have to.
39. Destroyer
Closest friends and deepest enemies together, they understand one another but dance eternal.
40. slay thee
He is old-fashioned in his manners only because they still work so very well.
41. advisable
He just wants everyone to be ever happy, can't they see?
42. swords drawn
He never wishes it had not come to this, he is hopeless, he never even knew it.
43. defend your kingdom
People are so tiny they even outnumber his cells, so much he almost thinks twice over.
44. habit
He knows no other way but conquer and submit, vici, never compromise.
45. difficulty
Is he really that terrifying?
46. do nothing
So much of the time he has no choices, choices are for the weak.
47. No? Oh, yes
It's to the point where he doesn't even ask the question.
48. ground instead
He prays for, he prays for, he prays for it, never ever, why ever, stop, stop please – crunch.
49. taps
He still does not know how he was so stupid as to think metal contained water. Too late trademark.
50. missionary
They are his minor and his majors.
51. worse off
He is the bottom of the phrase, so much, useless.
52. greasy
They say communism was killed by McDonald's, Pepsi, and Tetris. It was not his finest hour.
53. her fury
He has seen it all, endured it all, will forever on on
54. corner
His people dig the holes, he doesn't even try.
55. two questions
Age has rotted them away like so much snow in a furnace
56. jargon
There's a reason his is one of the hardest to ever learn.
57. scorn
He'd honestly rather have pity, any day.
58. old croaker
He depends so little on others he sometimes forgets they even exist.
59. not high
His mind works exactly as predicted. It's his body that brings the twist.
60. lamentation
A constant song of mourning is his mind, the lyrics screaming for blood. He obliges.