Equally, he is known to be an angry person. Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch, Thud! Rated: T - English - Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,701 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: Jul 8, 2021 - Vetinari, Sam Vimes, Death, Susan Sto Helit - Complete. Vous tes ici : Accueil 1 / Nouvelles et conventions chez SB Distribution 2 / Non classifi(e) 3 / sam vimes knurd. The assassin must actually be one. The Guild proved to be a better regulator of crime than the Watch. While not otherwise well-traveled, in the days of Guards! BBC America's The Watch is gearing up for action.. You see that clich so often in fiction. It had been her childhood home, and in Thud! Something deep inside Havelock clicked into place and he sighed. The character is based off the character of the same name in Terry Pratchett's hit Discworld novels. Guards!. Guards! Ironically, the one title Vimes holds with genuine pride (as of Snuff), aside from Commander, is "King" .. as in, "King of the River", an honorarium awarded in recognition of his role in saving the riverboat Wonderful Fanny from piracy and flood. A few days ago Sam Vimes was a copper - an important copper, true - chief of police - but still, at his core, a policeman. Both are effectively 'good' characters, who nevertheless both secretly fear the darkness inside themselves, and constantly strive to control the darker sides of their nature. Lady Sybil is a remarkably patient woman; she spent nearly the entirety of The Fifth Elephant attempting to inform her increasingly distracted husband that she was pregnant with their child. The book features a City Watch commander named Capt. From Terry Pratchett's Men At Arms: The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. [11] The conflict within Vimes is between his virtuous nature ("the Watchman") and what he calls "the Beast". Vimes often has to go to report to Lord Vetinari, although most of the time he keeps a poker-face and answers very simply to avoid Vetinari's probing questions. It is mentioned in Men at Arms that Vimes has been in the Watch for 25 years, making him 41 at the time of that novel. Vimes was sixteen when he joined the Watch. Since his son's birth, Vimes discovered a new cause in life: "arriving at home every day at six o' clock sharp to read Where's My Cow? This may be because he is somehow vital to the running of the city, as Lord Vetinari is, or it may be because no sensible Assassin will volunteer for the task anyway. Today, Sam Vimes is also a man on the run. He fears he may be a bad person because he knows what he thinks rather than just what he says and does. Vimes is a firm believer in the institution of law. Later in the series, the expensive, good quality boots his wife persists in buying for him restrict this ability. It has also been noted that, in personality and mental setup, Vimes bears some similarity to Granny Weatherwax. born out of a one-paragraph short which had potential. He is also fiercely anti-authority, possibly a facet of his character which he inherited from Old Stoneface. Guards! Despite having competent subordinates, including Captains Carrot and Angua and Sergeant Detritus, Vimes finds it difficult to delegate, and is frustrated by the fact that the growth of the Watch has left him with less and less time for actual boots-on-the-pavement policing. The Annotated Pratchett File notes that Suffer-Not-Injustice Vimes is closely modelled on Oliver Cromwell, and that the name of his supporters, the Ironheads, is a portmanteau of Roundheads and Ironsides, Cromwell's faction and regiment, respectively. Vimes also began a romantic relationship with Lady Sybil Ramkin, one of the wealthiest women in the city. At one point in the story, the captain ruminates: he refused to have a vampire.). Vimes is, much to his own horror, becoming a politician. As of Snuff, even his smoking has been barred from the house (likely for Young Sam's sake), and he sates his cravings with non-alcoholic mixers whipped up by Willikins. The goal of this vs. is simple. Continuing to call him by any of these titles after he's explained his preferences is an excellent way to get in His Grace His Excellency's bad graces. He has married Lady Sybil and certainly loves her. He has lived through the successive regimes of Homicidal Lord Winder and Mad Lord Snapcase, two patricians whose sobriquets more than adequately describe their tenures, as well as several wars, and the legalization of the Guilds under Vetinari, which more or less broke his spirit. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes' 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness. Terry Pratchett noted the following about Vimes on Usenet: "Vimes is fundamentally a person. He also marries Sybil and kicks his drinking habit. His son Samuel "Young Sam" Vimes II was born at the end of Night Watch. He had the smallest tuft of brown hair. His years of practical experience give him a foundation of hard-headed realism on which he bases much of his more idealistic beliefs. He also sacks, and may even prosecute, officers who abuse prisoners or participate in crimes. Around this time, Colon claims that Vimes never advanced further because he was "Brung Low by a Woman" (if so, then her name is Ankh Morporkia), although Vimes himself attributes it to his irreverent habit of speaking his mind to authority figures. and Snuff. Vimes' firm grasp of basic human nature, and of the Ankh-Morpork psyche in particular, led to him spending some years as a drunk, and Fred Colon postulates that this was because Vimes' body didn't produce any "natural alcohol", and he estimates that Vimes was about "two drinks below par". During his first appearance in Guards! He went to the local school, where he was taught by Dame Slightly for 9 months and became blackboard monitor. Lady Sybil Vimes (full title: Her Grace, The Duchess of Ankh, Lady Sybil Deidre Olgivanna Vimes (ne Ramkin)), is Vimes's wife, whom he married at the end of Men at Arms. In his expanding international and diplomatic role, Vimes appreciates the fact that police officers from Sto Lat to Genua have been trained to salute him, and remain in unofficial contact across the Disc. They estimated that Vimes was about two drinks below par. He is capable of accepting specific individuals. The new policemen trained in the Ankh-Morpork City Watch and then hired elsewhere, though they haven't seen Vimes in person much, are called Sammies (perhaps a nod to the "bobbies," so-called because of Sir Robert Peel). He now finds himself in the awkward position of continuing to despise the ruling classes of the city, while actually being a member of them. [3] It has been suggested that Sam's father was a watchman in Jingo and he is a descendant of Suffer-Not-Injustice "Old Stoneface" Vimes, the Watch Commander who instigated the rebellion against, and subsequently beheaded, Lorenzo the Kind, the last king of the city, a sadistic torturer described as "very fond of children." The rain's getting heavier now, drumming on the cobbles and coach roofs. In the latter case, you have to consider that a dwarf stirs deliberately his anger, and the Dark Guards attempt later to assassinate not only Vimes, but also his wife and his fourteen-months-old son, using flamethrowers. Samuel "Young Sam" Vimes II) is Sam and Sybil Vimes' son and only child; he was born at the end of the events in Night Watch, is about fourteen months old by the time of Thud!, and at the age of six years by the time of the events of Snuff. He still keeps an unopened bottle of 'Bearhugger's Whisky' in his bottom desk drawer as a 'permanent test'. As other noblemen might ride horses, wear laces, ruffles, and plumes, Sam Vimes walks the city on endless patrols and wears his old battered Watch armor and leather shirt and jerkin, with the standard sword and truncheon. Vimes compromises by wearing the Watch Commander dress uniform. Guards! Vimes' involvement in preventing a pointless war with Klatch in the novel Jingo led to his being once more rewarded with an unwanted title, in this case, Duke of Ankh. Vimes is depicted in the novels as somewhere between an Inspector Morse -type 'old-school' British policeman, and a film noir-esque grizzled detective. Although widely differing characters, Vimes and Vetinari can be called similar in that they both have very cynical worldviews, but fairly idealistic aims. Samuel Vimes from Discworld is more relatable since I quit drinking . At the age of 16, he enlisted in the Night Watch, because his mate, Iffy Scurrick, had joined the year before and told him that there was "free food and a uniform and you could pick up the extra dollar here and there". His son's welfare is one of the few things Vimes is willing to cross even his wife about, such that he insisted that they hire a nursemaid, Purity, to attend to Young Sam over Sybil's objections. There is absolutely nothing that takes precedence over this; Vimes believes that if he misses it even once for a good reason, the next time he might miss it for a bad one, and eventually this attitude might spill over into the rest of his life. Terry Pratchett commented that the Vimes character made setting a story in Ankh-Morpork very difficult as it is almost impossible to create a story involving any sort of crime or politics without it rapidly becoming a Watch book. Guards! His participation as a young copper in handing people to the Unmentionables has surely left him also with a deep feeling of guilt and shame, after witnessing the results in their headquarters. Lady Sybil Ramkin, Vimes's wife, thinks that he can sort out anything. By the start of Guards! Early in his career, while he is still a nearly-impoverished Watchman, Vimes reflects that he can only afford ten-dollar boots with thin soles which don't keep out the damp and wear out in a season or two. This horrifying state of mind caused Vimes to try to balance it out through drinking, but he would get the dosage wrong and end up drunk. In Thud!, after an attempted assassination of his family, Vimes becomes very angry at the 'deep-down dwarves,' a problem only made worse by the presence of a dark entity of pure vengeance within his mind. [citation needed]. Vimes now allows the butler to lay out his clothes, but that is about all. He describes this as The Samuel Vimes 'Boots' Theory Of Socio-Economic Injustice. Fred Colon sometimes calls him by his first name when he's worried. He seems curmudgeonly at . 177. Samuel Knurd De Chantal is on Facebook. He does not tolerate the "Mister" from outsiders. He accepts that a publican may offer a free pint or a meal to an officer just because having an officer on the premises at rush hour makes things go more smoothly is just a way of doing business, but draws the line at an officer taking money to look the other way. Whatever happened to him exactly, she raised the young Sam on her own. She also supports The Sunshine Sanctuary For Sick, Abused Or Abandoned Swamp Dragons, which is run by her friend Rosie Devant-Molei. Feb/2023: Call of duty figur - Detaillierter Produkttest TOP Call of duty figur Beste Angebote Smtliche Preis-Leistungs-Sieger Dire. Marital Status: Single. "[1] This, along with the Discworld habit of pushing any theory as hard as it goes, appears to have culminated in Vimes' psyche creating its own 'internal policeman' to "Guard the Guardsmen", (cf. Most of the nobles and government officials that he sees at such social occasions, he considers stupid or obnoxious. Both of those factors, and a near-Death experience that forced him to miss his 6:00pm story-time with his son, culminate in him snapping and temporarily losing over to "the Beast", going insane/berserk and single-handedly storming the deep-downers responsible, all the while roaring out the lines to Where's My Cow? On rare occasions, Sam Vimes has been described as completely happy, even if it's only for a brief period; such occasions include alone time with his wife, the birth of his son, and whenever a case has reached a satisfactory conclusion. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. Thus he saw reality as it really was, stripped of the mental illusions that most people construct in their minds to get to sleep at night. ), and is buried in the city's Small Gods Cemetery. To himself, Samuel Vimes is a not very intelligent man with a sordid personal history that he'd rather forget. But he doesn't just fall in love and craving a drink suddenly disappears. In fact, when Vimes was temporarily relieved of command in Men at Arms, the fact that Vimes didn't pound the wall led Vetinari to realize that he 'may have gone too far'. He fears he may be a bad person because he knows what he thinks rather than just what he says and does. Vimes was transported back in time in the company of a criminal named Carcer, whom he was trying to apprehend. The best caption for Sam Vimes would probably be "Dirty Harry gone to seed".He is cynical, stubborn, rude and with an almost religious contempt for authority.He is also a closet idealist (albeit a disillusioned one) and a reluctant diplomat and nobleman.. Vimes' relationship with Vetinari is completely symbiotic - the conflict between them is what move the plots of the books as well as in . All that changed when Carrot Ironfoundersson came to the city. In some ways he found it a relief when, in Night Watch, he was transported back to the Ankh-Morpork of his youth, and became a sergeant-at-arms in the inefficient, paperwork-free and moderately corrupt Watch of that time. Vimes was educated at a dame school, where he was once blackboard monitor for a whole term, before he had to drop out and concentrate on learning about life out on the streets. The bust has roughly 110 mm in height, but of course you can scale it to your own preferences. Thme Speedfly pour shopify version 2.06.4. During his first appearance in Guards! ", Whenever he thwarts an Assassin in an attempt, he usually lets them go after taking their share of the payment for his inhumation (which he then donates to the 'Watch Widows and Orphans Fund', or to the 'Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick, Abused or Abandoned Dragons'), and subjecting them to a little humiliation. Vimes has also beaten off and "killed" part of a pack of werewolves in "the game"; a chase back to civilization that humans did not often win during a period when it was organised by Angua's brother Wolfgang. He hates the upper class because they look down on the rest of the society while exploiting it (e.g. His birth was difficult, and Vimes paid Doctor "Mossy" Lawn a large sum of money in gratitude for saving Sybil's and the baby's lives. ; ("IS THAT MY COW? Guards!, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Jingo, The Fifth Elephant, Night Watch, Thud! He also received a knighthood. Havelock goes to visit Sybil and Sam after the birth of their son and Vimes has some feelings. In his view, the law must apply to everyone, or it applies to noone. According to his wife, Sybil, Vimes is recognised by many as Lord Vetinari's right-hand man. When asked who guards him, he replies, 'I do that too.'. Guards!. In Feet of Clay, Corporal Nobby Nobbs refuses the position of King of Ankh-Morpork, primarily due to the fear of incurring Vimes's general wrath and hatred of royalty. Dormer's character, Sam Vimes, is the captain of the city's police force that's known as the titular Watch. studies His mother told the young Sam that Thomas was run down by a cart, but this is untrue. Deduction is not Vimes' favorite activity; he distrusts clues and loathes mysteries ("mysteries get you killed"), and he now has the Cable Street Particulars to deal with peculiar crimes, but sometimes Vimes still personally investigates a case. He remains in his soul a copper. He hates Assassins and Thieves because their crimes are legalized and he cannot arrest them, and their leaders are even city dignitaries now. Colon puts it, Vimes could get drunk in better style, Vimes could be baffled about a case with better vocabulary, and Vimes could deal with the paperwork. Family information Discussing Pratchett's legacy in The Guardian, Andrew Brown wrote that Vimes "may be the most fully realised decent man in modern literature,"[20] while the Hollywood Reporter has described him as "Inspector Morse-meets-Humphrey Bogart-esque". In every book in the series, the fee for his assassination has risen until he has been removed from the Guild register, meaning that contracts on his life are no longer accepted (this was initially literal, as no assassin wanted to take the contract). He insists on shaving himself as he dislikes other people putting a razor blade, (or indeed any sort of sharp edge) to his throat, and attempts to wear cheap boots with cardboard soles. As a result of his reputation, the word Sammies has become a nickname for watchmen trained in Ankh-Morpork. But the events of this novel mark the turning point for the Watch and Vimes's career. Some of which he's had a hand in perpetrating in the past," she said. Samuel Vimes. went on tour in 1998. When given bad news, he has a tendency to, on his way out, pound his fist against a certain spot of wall near the office door. Human Height: 5'10" Weight: 160 lbs. So far, Vimes hasn't been even injured by any Assassin. This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. His role as Duke of Ankh largely involves diplomacy (his visit to berwald in The Fifth Elephant for example), and his rough and ready upbringing has given him an obliquely effective approach to this field. Night Watch states that Vimes was sixteen years old when he joined the City Watch. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? A running gag in the series is his thwarting of several attempts on his life by the Assassins' Guild, due to his knowledge of their rigid code of conduct. 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