Uncle Tiberius is an ongoing problem and will never be anything else ... he's timeless ;-)
seriously though, I found that I had trouble with him since his portrayal wasn't consistent - on the one hand he was a dyed-in-the-wool Protestant hardliner, on the other uber-Catholic. I first did that deliberately so it wouldn't be nailing him down on any particular religion, but then found it too jarring. So I've been changing some bits and now he's less religiously radical (though still very moralistic) and more political - I've made him an out-of-date Jacobite. I imagine he's in his 80s and marched with Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745 and still keeps toasting the King over the Water 60 years later.
It's a bit silly and entirely influenced by Tom Jones, but at least it's a little more consistent. As a die-hard Jacobite he's also a Catholic with (perhaps) connections to France so that's what his threats about convents aim at - French convents. It makes just a bit more sense, because I'm not even sure there were any real convents in England around 1800.
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Date: 2012-11-20 11:52 am (UTC)seriously though, I found that I had trouble with him since his portrayal wasn't consistent - on the one hand he was a dyed-in-the-wool Protestant hardliner, on the other uber-Catholic. I first did that deliberately so it wouldn't be nailing him down on any particular religion, but then found it too jarring. So I've been changing some bits and now he's less religiously radical (though still very moralistic) and more political - I've made him an out-of-date Jacobite. I imagine he's in his 80s and marched with Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745 and still keeps toasting the King over the Water 60 years later.
It's a bit silly and entirely influenced by Tom Jones, but at least it's a little more consistent. As a die-hard Jacobite he's also a Catholic with (perhaps) connections to France so that's what his threats about convents aim at - French convents. It makes just a bit more sense, because I'm not even sure there were any real convents in England around 1800.