Twoflower
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| Characters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series |
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| Character details | |
| Full name: | Twoflower |
| Description: | A naive tourist wearing glasses and a wide grin |
| Associations: | Agatean Empire |
| Location: | All over the Discworld, including falling off it; Agatean Empire |
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| First seen: | The Colour of Magic |
| Also in: | The Light Fantastic Interesting Times |
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| Notes: | Owner of The Luggage. Has two daughters, Pretty Butterfly and Lotus Blossom(first mentioned in Interesting Times). |
Twoflower is a fictional character featured in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
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[edit] Character background
He is a native of the Agatean Empire, on the Counterweight Continent, where he works at an insurance (inn-sewer-ants) company and is the first tourist ever on the Discworld. He is described as having "four eyes", i.e. wearing glasses. Some illustrations -- most notably Josh Kirby's cover for The Colour of Magic -- depict him as actually having four eyes; however, such interpretations are not readily supported by the text.
His adventures begin in The Colour of Magic, when he decides to visit the city of Ankh-Morpork, where he meets the inept wizard Rincewind whom he hires as a guide. Throughout the first two novels, he is followed by The Luggage, a box which moves on hundreds of little legs, carrying his belongings.
Twoflower is the optimistic-but-naive tourist (probably alluding to stereotypical American or Japanese tourists). He often runs into danger, being certain that nothing bad will happen to him, as far as he is not involved. He also believes in the goodness of human nature and that all problems can be resolved, if all parties show a good will and cooperate. Rincewind, of course, remains immovably convinced that Twoflower's IQ is comparable to that of a pigeon. Rincewind described him by saying that if absolute chaos were lightning, Twoflower would be the sort to stand on top of a hill during a lightning storm wearing wet copper armour and shouting "All gods are bastards!"
At the end of the novel Interesting Times he was promoted to the rank of Grand Vizier of the Empire, under Emperor Cohen. It is not known if he still holds the position following Cohen's disappearance (as told in The Last Hero).
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Twoflower also appears in the computer game NetHack as the leader of the Quest for the tourist class.
