Three words about a character (Giles) meme gakked from Arundhathi

[janedavitt]

As a variant on the 'describe me in one word' meme, arundhathi came up with 'describe a character in three' and kicked the ball off with Connor.

I like this notion so I'm snaffling Giles really fast ;-)

So tell me, pretty please; if you had three words to describe Giles, what would they be?