Drowning My Sorrows: Difference between revisions

* Averted and played straight in ''[[Star Wars|Starfighters]] [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|of]] [[X Wing Series|Adumar]]'' - Wedge heads to a bar mostly for privacy while he thinks through some questions of honor vs. the chain of command (he doesn't get very drunk, either). However, at the bar, he runs across {{spoiler|Admiral Rogriss}}, who decided the answer to his problem ([[Not So Different|basically the same as Wedge's]]) was to get stone drunk.

** Played straight in an earlier book of the series, when Ton Phanan, the [[Combat Medic]] of the squadron who is allergic to bacta and thus gradually becoming [[Emergency Transformation|more and more cybernetic]], drinks and tells his wingmate that he needs less and less to get drunk, because every year, less meat, more machine. He feels that his extensive cybernetics are an outward sign that his future [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|has been destroyed]], and he has no one.

* When ''[[The Little Prince]]'' visits a planet with no one but a tippler on it, he inquires why the man is drinking constantly:

{{quote|'''Tippler:''' So that I may forget.