>> Also, I never really understood, because aren't Vimes and Vetinari basically the same age?
POSSIBLY.
They are in Night Watch (Vetinari could be ten years older, maybe, if Young Vimes is very young and Vetinari's on the graduate course? But even that's stretching it) but there are various things in other books that seem to strongly imply otherwise, but then again maybe not, because internal consistency ahahaha.
But even if they are, it'd be worth it for Vetinari to have a successor-in-waiting for a peaceful transition in case of Sudden Inhumation etc.
(A lot of the fic has decided that Young Sam is the only hope. Maybe, but I don't think canon's giving us much of that yet, and that's a long time to hope Vetinari survives until he grows up.)
(I think Pratchett may have actually thought he could get Vimes and/or Moist to agree to it, but realized he was mistaken...)
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POSSIBLY.
They are in Night Watch (Vetinari could be ten years older, maybe, if Young Vimes is very young and Vetinari's on the graduate course? But even that's stretching it) but there are various things in other books that seem to strongly imply otherwise, but then again maybe not, because internal consistency ahahaha.
But even if they are, it'd be worth it for Vetinari to have a successor-in-waiting for a peaceful transition in case of Sudden Inhumation etc.
(A lot of the fic has decided that Young Sam is the only hope. Maybe, but I don't think canon's giving us much of that yet, and that's a long time to hope Vetinari survives until he grows up.)
(I think Pratchett may have actually thought he could get Vimes and/or Moist to agree to it, but realized he was mistaken...)