Harry To Butters: Listen, You Just Saved Me From Having “Disemboweled By Ancient Sailor With A Snake

Love Letter to Donald Morgan

This is the character in the Dresden Files that I love beyond reason. Not my favorite, or the best, but the one that I love reading and wish we could have more of.

1) I always love the lawful extreme character (Morgan, Javert, etc.) While these characters are almost always antagonists, the way they hold themselves to these rigid ideals they hold is pretty awesome. And the extreme makes the times we do see them in conflict with their rigid ideals is so fascinating.

2) We know that we’re getting a bias view of Morgan from Harry, and he’s lived through a ton of horrifying scenarios that have shaped his approach to being a warden. At least one of these involves, not just throwing down with a Naagloshii, but being so tactically adept that he manages to TRICK IT INTO BEING NUKED while evading it to escape. There’s a reason he’s a well-respected warden. He’s a badass.

3) Even while hating Dresden and thinking he’ll eventually turn evil in book 1: Morgan immediately rescues him when Dresden is shown to not be the killer and admits officially and publicly the white council (including him) was wrong about Dresden. He’ll hand you a shovel so you can dig your own grave, but he will also go 100% to bat for you if he knows you’re in the clear.

4) Consistency. Wizards, in his opinion, have a lot of power and must be held accountable for their control. When that power’s been abused, that control is suspect and should be tested. Doesn’t mater if you’re 30+ yo antagonistic obnoxious man or an attractive ~20yo (I think) woman actively helping him. He doesn’t believe in playing softball. And while I don’t agree with his philosophy, I respect the hell out of how subtly he implements it and stands by it.

Morgan, at 17: I wanna be a Warden!

Morgan, at 120: I wanna sleep for more than 30 minutes at a time!

You know...

Anastasia: Hey Morgan, how are you feeling?

Morgan: Alright, I've got this headache though. It comes and goes.

Harry: *enters the room*

Morgan: Oh look, there it is.

Morgan: Whenever mortals tell me to respect my elders, all I can think is ‘Im older than Canada.’

Donald "It's just a flesh wound" Morgan, ignoring 12 stab wounds:

(He's basically an angry potato anyway so I feel this is fitting)

Morgan in Storm Front:

the point of this hellsite is not to get followers, it’s to make friends you would never have met otherwise and torture them with cursed memes and crack headcanons

So in Death Masks Michael says that they prefer to fight the denarians two to one or three to one. That only Shiro dueled them by himself because he was just that good. 

Fast forward to Skin Game and we only have one active Knight of the Cross. For quite some years. Against 15+ active Denarians. He’s alive and surviving. 

Sanya doesn’t get enough credit for his job. 

(This was a Sanya appreciation post)