Literary Astrology: the Uber-Scorpio
I recently finished reading Tap and Gown, and I'd like to cite one of its main characters, Jamie "Poe" Orcutt, as an UBER-Scorpio. We find out in this book exactly why he got called "Poe"--for his Halloween birthday. But in this book, he's especially Scorpionic. During the book, he's revealed as the mastermind behind a giant political figure's downfall, and he is apparently recruited for one of Those Scary Organizations We Don't Talk About. Also, we find out that at one point, he was quite insistent on having live chickens around during an initiation for the secret society he's in.
"Rebuffed, the Knight Poe proceeded to glower at his assembled brothers for a full five minutes."
Then there's an hour and a half of discussion in which he insists on the chickens, until a suitable, less messy yet still chaotic substitute is found.
Later on, Jamie's girlfriend Amy befriends Michelle, a chick who turns out to be a girl Jamie used to date. According to Jamie, it petered out naturally when he became occupied with the society and Michelle got an official boyfriend. Michelle, on the other hand, tells Amy that she'd been briefly dating two guys at once.
"I almost would have felt better if he'd gotten mad or something. But he never said a word. I hardly even saw him until the following year, and when I did, he acted like nothing had ever happened between us. I guess I should be grateful that he didn't hold a grudge or anything. He's way too good for that."
No, he wasn't. Had she met this man? Jamie was the High King of Grudges. If someone screwed him over, they were toast. Our campaign against Micah Price last semester (after he'd screwed over the Diggers, generally, and Jenny, specifically), or even Felicity's Dragon's Head wrath, was nothing compared with what Poe would have wrought in Rose and Grave."
Another uber-Scorp I read about lately was the heroine of Goddess of 5th Avenue, Billie Bartholemew. I'll let her tell you why:
"The astrology column of the New York Times claims that Scorpios are pretty hot numbers, super sexy, ready to go and all that. Not so. Actually, more Scorpios are born nuns and priests, and we have more sexual problems than any other sign. All this sounds like a great excuse to prospective suitors, anyway.
Most likely it was my Scorpio sun, moon, and rising sign that drove me to the edge of reason."
I should probably also cite the technically-a-Scorpio Mary of Saturn's Return to New York here, but I'm convinced she's really a Taurus with Scorpio rising and the author just fudged it a lot. (Let's just say it's obvious from where her planets are located that she can't be a Scorpio Sun!)