Today’s mood board gives some shapes to our week theme of those Red Letters White Knights. Because there is always going to be a type of person you gravitate towards when you need someone. For instance, if you are a bold type, you might set your sights on Sly or Remmy. Both are more studied than reactive. They were watching you since the moment you walked in and read your energy. Sly fixes it with milkshakes and being a ninja. Remmy has the time to give advice to any and all, provided you don’t block the line of sight. Both are extremely wise. Sly is book smart and often called a dictionary vocabulary. Remmy is just a normal guy who sees more than he says.

But if you need a reaction type? Someone who would sing sinfully or explode on your behalf? That’s Woods and Frost. Woods may be after only one woman, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t understand the room. He plays for the atmosphere. He respectfully flirts if you do. Because he doesn’t wreck the mood, his charm just adds to it. Frost? Frost is that big burly Scottish dad you never had. He’s the kind that would take care of them for you and enjoy the “boxing exercise”.

To pair with yesterday, you can see the idea of the man that says those I hear you words.

Sly dresses in black, moves like the night, so calm nothing ruffles him but “I’m always here to listen without judgement, no matter what.” That’s yet another reason they call him bat man, beyond the obvious night shift.

Remmy’s was “I know you can do it all by yourself, but you don’t have to, because we’re all like family.” coming from under all that deceptive zoot suit misshaping. Like a big brother. The bar’s big brother, dragged in by Frost, welcomed and championed by Tweety, and frequent torture point for Malta, always finding some way to annoy him. That’s how you get accepted into a family that fast.

Woods? His is a little different. His goal is one woman his heart plays for. So when he says “I just want to care for you, whatever that means.” He means her. But that care? That shows up as stepping in to tend bar, or use flirtation to ease the mood. His best go to move is putting himself center of stage attention to draw half the crowd his way. If they were competitive, that might feel like a challenge, but they aren’t. Because the people on the dance floor? Gives all the wait staff catch up time instead of everyone demanding drinks at once. And that little bit of grey in his knighting? Oh yeah, it’s the way he sings. You’re sure the original didn’t feel like it had innuendo there, but something about the way he sang it felt like it’s there… maybe. Or maybe it’s the alcohol. Who doesn’t want a Billy Idol type singing songs like flirtations right?

And finally for today’s post, Frost. Is he as fatherly as portrayed? Maybe not. Frost would make you think of a Scottish clan in the 90s grunge era. Kilt and combat boots. So, he doesn’t see himself as a father figure like others do. Sometimes he accepts it, but doesn’t believe it of himself. Which hints at why he is “It’s better if your not in this darkness with me, but I’d be lonely without you lively lasses in my life.” It’s his personal truth, his code, even if not everyone agrees.