The Bureaucrat's Guide to Heroism: Audio Book
Rightoldwrongun for Pinwick
Pinwick — Male, tailor, mid-forties
Role: Featured — recurring across future books
Pinwick is the tailor — meticulous, quietly proud of his craft, and possessed of the particular dignity of a man who takes his work extremely seriously and expects others to do the same. He is proper without being pompous, precise without being cold. He clearly adores his son and is doing his level best to raise him correctly, which is an ongoing project.
What Pinwick keeps very quiet is that beneath the careful stitching and measured speech is a former fencing champion — a past he neither advertises nor entirely abandons. When the situation demands it, that capability surfaces with an elegance that surprises everyone except Pinwick himself.
Voice: Measured, precise, and warmly proper. Received Pronunciation with the quiet confidence of a craftsman who knows exactly what he's worth. Think Hugh Bonneville's particular brand of dignified understatement.
- precise
- Dignified
- male adult
- Received Pronunciation
- warm
- Hugh Bonneville
- english (posh)
"I must say, the Guild's emergency clothing options leave much to be desired, don't they? Not sized for actual humans, I've always said. More like approximations of humans designed by someone who's only had them described vaguely."
"Named after the legendary Master Chutney of Fraway, Greatest tailor of the Third Age. Revolutionised the double-inseam technique. My lifelong inspiration."
"School fencing champion three years running, I was known for my masterful use of the Nofromerian grip, huzah! Though I'm afraid it wasn't terribly effective against those… what did you call them? Constructs? The point just skitters off their surfaces. Still, between Marta's hammer and my ability to keep them distracted, we managed to defeat a few."
