#charny

So ted doesn't deserve charlotte and jenny right?

The solution?

Charlotte and jenny lez it out together

I have a whole backstory if anyone wants it btw

Unpopular Opinion, but Ellie is underrated in the fandom, especially compared to Henry and Charles, and deserves more love q-q

Jenny and ted were already friends, and Ted's dad decided to send him to abstinence camp. He told Jenny's dad, who decided to do the same. There, they met charlotte.

Thus begging the weirdest love triangle ever seen in hf.

They don't get chars contact, so they don't talk to her after camp. Jenny and Ted have that whole thing and jenny dies. Charlotte finds out through the news and goes to visit her grave every week. When she does, she's wearing her old virginity rocks t shirt.

All members of the triangle got to have an affair with one another. And all of them are now dead.

Yaaaay

(Also boy jerry and girl jeri DEFINETLY found out abt jenny and charlotte and started religious guilting them. It made charlotte scared to be bi. It made jenny want to be gay all the more just to fuck with them.

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FINALLY BACK TO DRAWING MY ASK BLOG >:000000 sorry it took so long, I’ve been feeling super demotivated lately qwq *sobs*

When he was getting really REALLY tired for being shipped (mostly with Charles and Ellie) and just wanted to stay single forever because romance is oversaturated af in the media.

That’s when he found out he was aroace OwOb*

Source: introduction to Book of Chivalry, by Kaeuper

In his book, Charny shows some interesting differences between his view of religion and spirituality and that of the clergy.

The first one, and in my eyes the most easily excusable, is refusing to see the clergy as a complete authority. He disagrees with them often: for instance, in the matter of tournaments:

Clerics had for centuries denounced this mock warfare as unchristian. They had even denied burial in sanctified ground to knights killed in the rough sport.

It is interesting that in these disagreements Charny does not seem to actually blame religion, but rather the clergy. Indeed, he was a pietous man, first recorded owner of the shroud of Turin, keeping correspondance with the Vatican, and insisting on having priests praying for him and his family. All of these hardly seem like a disguise or like a guy who goes to church on sundays and thats it. Rather,

He is certain that there can be no contradiction between a worthy knightly vocation and religion. This point is worth emphasizing, for piety and chivalry do not occupate separate spaces in his consciousness. For Charny, piety and chivalry form inseparable, almost interchangeable qualities in men of war.

It may seem strange that something that (generally) took one to warring and violence and killing and so on would be interchangeable with something that (generally) took one to a life of seclusion and contemplation, but one must remember here that medieval christian people were not nutter fans of Simone Weil like myself. Rather, for them, life had a clear, true reward, which was heaven, and one acted in such a way that they would be deserving of that reward. The goal was the same, but they disagreed on methods: Charny was convinced that one of the ways into heaven was displays of prowess, glory in combat, honour and so on.

In particular, it is interesting to see that he had his own view of christian duality.

The religious contrast of body and soul is paralleled by the knightly contrast of worldly possesions or worldly comfort and of all-important honour.

While they are indeed parallel, it is worth noting that the lines are very distant.

Likewise, he appropriated the concept of righteous suffering and martyrdom. Besides being probably an actual spiritual belief of his, it is clearly something very useful to write in a book to teach knights: they would undoubtedly have horrible nights, be wounded, be sick, hit by arrows and spears, or even killed in battle. By Charny's time, french knights were often complaining and fleeing such situations for understandable reasons, but this insistence on piety and religion, so understood, would make them better and more enduring.

When writing this I first wrote "make them better at killing" because I cant stress enough how much I dislike this guy and what he stands for, but I was too hasty. There are layers, like in ogres, so Im gonna write on that a bit. The first layer, which is obvious to everyone but myself when I see red, is that this does not necessarily only apply to killing. This endurance is necessary in many actions and quests, and a knight who really really prefers thei bed and their clean dry clothes would be miserable, inneffective, and might defect. They would definitely not reach the Grail, for example.

A second layer, however, is that a knight with this mindset is still a mercenary, just for a higher salary. A knight who acts this way for heaven or whatever is still being bought. This mindset, in particular, is fully against some of the themes I want to explore with chivalry stories, namely, Doctor Who's "without hope, without witness, without reward", or Ten's regeneration. However, they are not so distant. Some bridges might be drawn via the use of Weil's religion, on the one hand, and the abstract notion of duty for duty's sake (especially if the duty is not to the king, but to some higher thing that its supposed to represent). A knight agonizing with this mindset is much more interesting than one that thinks they're gonna be in Valhalla in like five minutes. Bonus if combined with the mindset of "well, I chose this willingly" or Leguin's quote about anarchism.

END OF THE DIGRESSION.

One last point of divergence between Charny and the clergy is in the matter of chastity. He is against casual sex, but he does think having a lady to impress helps in prowess. It must be carried discretely, though.

Despite this, in the making-a-knight ceremony he kept the placing of a white belt representing virginity. However this seems to be purely tradition at this point.

In this disagreement, the romance writers sided once again with the clergy. In the vulgate/lancelog-grail cycle, Perceval is praised for his virginity, and is told that without it he would have