'Associated Press Ken Doll.'
Maybe it could be a Hoaxbusters Chris Ken Doll(Chris Kendall)?
John Adams on the Politics of the End Times 'The family' is a funny old name, as is the Fellowship, referencing I guess the Fellowship of Ultima VII. The head of the fellowship (Batlin) is, according to the majority of fans and it's creator at least facially based on LRH.
There's probably something about nucleus in the word nuclear and fire / firey eye (ar), clings to the nucleus, fascism, the phoenix?
Would this face lie to you?
This one is British, or Illuminati if you prefer. British = bright'ish = illuminated, when seen IlluminatI(eye).
Headline means: (love of) BB > No Order, also PIPS implies that you, the reader, the apprentice of King Arthur in J. H. Brennan's work done it.
"Of all the wizards in fantasy and history perhaps none is more famous, more well-known, and more often name-dropped than Merlin. Whether you call him Merlin, Merlin the Magician, the Wizard Merlin, Myrddin, Merlyn, Merlin the Druid or even Merlin Emrys people, even people who've never read a single book about King Arthur, know of this famous wizard. So involved with the English language is Merlin that he is name-dropped by writers looking to add a pedigree to their own magical creations from numerous classic superheroes to J.K. Rowling herself.
In fact Rowling's Merlin name-dropping is a perfect example of the character's archetypal role as a great figure of magic and mystery. Not only do wizards and witches in the Potterverse use exclamations such as "Merlin's beard" as a mild oath, but also there is an Order of Merlin to which noteworthy magical types belong, including of course that august headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Rowling's use of Merlin is a prime example of how the character is at once fixed in the English speaking world's public consciousness while simultaneously being mutable and thus able to fill varying roles within a narrative providing, if not verisimilitude, certainly a magical pedigree. Rowling's example is, however, a most egregious one. According to her Potterverse Merlin spent his formative years at Hogwarts where he was sorted into Slytherin, but despite this he was a champion for muggle rights. His role as King Arthur's adviser is still a part of his character. Hogwarts was established circa 990 A.D. but King Arthur's reign was in the late 5th to early 6th centuries. Thus Merlin could not have attended Hogwarts during his formative years at all, but such is the power of using the character's name that it goes unnoticed. Except by me, obviously."
To be fair, no less a writer than JRR Towhatshisname clearly modeled our good friend Gandalf pretty closely upon old Maerlyn. ;) That said, I agree with the observation that its something that sometimes happens by design, sometimes by accident, and sometimes by sheer "dint" of the fact that the character who has become the archetype has transcended even the confines of their supposedly mythical origins, to become something almost real, though immortal in a way no true living breathing being can be..
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