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jane to laurence in tongues of serpents: i want you and temeraire to be QUIET. i want you to be MEEK AS MILK. if i hear a SINGLE THING about your behavior positive or negative you have FAILED. for the love of god keep your heads down
tharkay 2 chapters later: we have to consider the possibility that this is not within either of your abilities. have you considered giving up trying?
they keep saying the aerial corps is more casual and lax than the navy but I think they severely underestimate the iron discipline and restraint it takes not to constantly be
looking at the dragon
conversing with the dragon
offering scritchies to the dragon
telling every single person in the room about the dragon
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One time, I read a fanfic drabble somewhere on the internet (back when the series was still only 3-4, maybe 5 books out).
Basically it was genderbent au on Tharkay’s first introduction storming into the drawing room with an eagle in her arm (gawd what a dramatic entrance!) and then Laurence being stunned and took a moment to realize Tharkay was a woman!
Also another au where Laurence was the one genderbent. (Possibly same author but not sure. Can’t find it again 😭 ) And it was a scene where like aftermath of an aerial maneuver where she rips her corset loose bc it was in the way and delights the crew and gives Granby an apoplexy.
Yup yup even after all these years I still remember those teeny tiny ficlets bc hell yeah I wish there had been more.
In honour of pride: I head-canon that posthumously, Captain John Granby ends up becoming a gay/queer icon.
The inciting incident is Iskierka, who has been a long standing supporter of gay rights (she once demolished a police station during an early Pride demonstration) eventually comes out with the truth of Granby's orientation. Suddenly, Admiral Granby-- who'd been a bit of a historical footnote compared to many of his contemporaries-- is back i the limelight.
A few old portraits of him end up becoming incredibly famous, and Granby's legacy within the queer community ends up being the man's dedication to flamboyant, gem-encrusted outfits, which becomes a major influence on British gay fashion.
rapidly realizing that dragons being actual characters rather than just set dressing in a book and them having Feelings is the way to just immediately reduce me dust. To ash.
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William Laurence: Wait Tenzing is a spy? Since when?
William Laurence for nearly a decade: Oh my friend Tharkay who is so mysterious and cryptic and seems to have many things going on but I am polite so I shall never ask a single question because that will be rude, no I don't know why he's traveling the world I assume he's just a wanderer, and no I'm not going to ask about his various letters he seems to pull out of thin air that lead me to the solutions to my problems, that is for him to know and for me to never, ever, ask.
'My dear' - a small continuation in numbers and pictures.
As I mentioned in my first post on temeraire statistics, Laurence pet name for Temeraire is consistently 'my dear', (with one exception of 'dear heart' in ToJ). And now, that my temeraire statistics tool(TM) is at a point where I am reasonably satisfied, I wanted to take a short look back across all books to paint a more complete picture over the usage of this pet name across all books.
Since this got a bit longer again, let's start with the overall numbers.
HMD: 22
ToJ: 9 (+ 1)
BPW: 11
EoI: 12
VoE: 3
ToS: 31
CoG: 10
BoT: 5
LoD: 16
or as a picture:
A more detailed write-up (and some more pictures) is under the cut
Let's start from the bottom of the high score.
The book where Laurence least uses the sobriquet is 'Victory of Eagles' with just 3 mentions and all of them heartbreaking.
The very first declaration of 'my dear' takes place when Laurence finally reunites with Temeraire after the other has believed him dead and the second follows soon after, two chapters later.
And then Laurence despairs over his role in Napoleons invasion of Britain and he mostly ceases to use non-formal modes of address altogether. Only after having overcome most of his immediate guilt at the very end of the book, when he reads to Temeraire out of the Principia Mathematica on their transport to australia, does he use the pet name again.
The usage curve over all books makes it look like this (some very sad peaks):
The second least mentions are in 'Blood of Tyrants' with 5 mentions overall. All of them appear only after Laurence gets his memories back at the end of chapter 14.
Unfortunately the book denies us a scene with Laurence and Temeraire reuniting after this event (where I would expect at least one my dear to have been uttered), but we see Laurence using the pet name again starting when Temeraire takes his leave from Mei and they travel on to russia.
On the other end of the scale we have 'His Majestys' Dragon' with 22 my dears and 'Tongues of Serpents' with a whooping 31! scenes where Laurence calls Temeraire by his pet name.
I already wrote in more detail on pet names in HMD, so I was initially very surprised by this result, as I had expected HMD to win overall. Why? Well, His Majestys Dragon is the book which introduces and defines Laurence and Temeraires' relationship, and while their bond is being tested in the other books as well, I would argue that most challenges are already played out in smaller but similar scenarios in HMD: Dayes' attempt at the captaincy vs Yong Shins 'seduction' of Temeraire in Throne of Jade; Temeraire coming to grasps with Choiseuls' execution vs Laurence death sentence in Victory of Eagles; Laurence coming to love Temeraire across the book vs Laurence coming to love Temeraire over the course of his amnesia in Blood of Tyrants.
Given this, it would have made sense that the first book also featured the most explixit verbal assurances of their bond through dialogue.
But on second look Tongues of Serpents is the book where the pair get fully taken out of the war for the first time.
Laurence has time to reflect on what retirement and a life outside of the corps looks like and, maybe most importantly, considers that Temeraire is part of the retirement deal as well. I would argue that Laurence adjusts his outlook accordingly well and finds a peace in this situation that is much a better mirror for what we see of their life at the end of League of Dragons than the mere acceptance of giving up his ideas of marriage and life with Edith in HMD. The pavilion and Australia is also specifically mentioned in their last scene in League of Dragons as well and is reoccurring reference when Laurence thinks about life after the war. So in conclusion, maybe Tongues of Serpents is the most domestic of the books?
Here's how the two books compare across chapters:
Looks pretty equal to me over all actually. *Tongues of Serpents * gets a few higher counts overall and also shows 6 counts in Chapter 7 alone, the chapter where the hunt for the stolen egg begins and the search groups starts their descend into the australian outback.
On a side note, we also see one other characteristic statistics thing here in the chart that you get with per book comparisions: books generally do not have an equal number of chapters. If we wanted to be more accurate we might want to account for the chapter amount , or even over all word lenght, factor of each book. I am not adding it here, because this is non-serious fun only statistics - and I haven't implemented that nice feature in the tool yet and am too tired to do it manually for all 9 books.
Overall Laurence calls Temeraire 'my dear' a grand total of 119 times over all books. If the two are not separated in the course of action - such as kidnapped, stranded, fighting for their lives against mobs or assassins, dealing with amnesia, clandestinely duelling for their honour or garnering the approval and ire of their fellow dragon or human- then Laurence does not sway from calling Temeraire 'my dear' alongside 'Temeraire'.
He starts using the sobriquet in the third chapter of His Majesty's Dragon, right after Temeraire rejects Dayes as substitute captain, and keeps using it until the very last mention in the very last dialog at the end of the final book, if that isn't devotion in bookends.
Finally, I'll leave you with this overview over all datapoints across all books:
The way that the least instances are in VoE, where Laurence reaches rock bottom, while in ToS, where he starts to come to peace with his actions and live again, we have the most examples of endearments...
I'm curious to see how the physical affection translates indeed. I lost count of how many times Temeraire nuzzles Laurence or Laurence touches Temeraire's nose or cheek, but I'm betting there are a lot of them.
Funniest element of world building in the entire Temeraire saga : Longwings, or "the British Empire tried to obtain the perfect acid-spitter and accidentally bio-engineered a dragon breed powered by Respect Women Juice".
Longwings, or "yes thank to the improvement of our superior breeding techniques, we have figured out how to prevent our dragons from running away after hatching" and then you learn said improvement was just Queen Elizabeth the first throwing one of her handmaids at a newborn acid-spitting dragon and learning from the experience that they prefer ladies.
Longwings, or "there are Important and Dangerous Secrets one must learn to keep when joining the Corps, you are now Part of the Mysteries" and then you learn even British patriarchy has to fold against giant acid-spitting dragons and allow women in the army.
Longwings, or the most romantic bitches you will ever meet, longing and grieving tenderly for their marvelous and beautiful ladies long after they pass.
Longwings, or "the gene for feminism is apparently linked to the same chromosome as sick as fuck deadly acid-spitting in dragons"
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