Would you believe these bickering dorks eventually get married? - art by myxcenterxstage
Aka any scene in Hello, Dolly! between Horace and Dolly perfectly fit in with our dear producer Javert and diva Priscilla in Madeleineās Opera House!
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Hi there! How do you feel about duplicates (other Quasimodos)? Mine is on a sideblog so you don't have to see it and I won't reblog Quasi-specific things to there unless you're okay with it, but if you're uncomfortable with even that much I can unfollow. Thanks, & all the best :)
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āThank you, Sir,ā Fitzjames exclaimed and gave his guide a jovial pat on the shoulder. He swayed slightly as he nodded with a chuckle. Drunk as he was, he could appreciate a strangerās concern for his wellbeing.Ā āIāve to return to my ship,ā he explained,Ā āOr, well, I shall try.ā He laughed again.Ā āYou French have such windy streets, and they all look the same. Damn difficult to navigate, if you ask me.āĀ
James had, already once, lost his bearings on his way back from the pub. Perhaps he should not have insisted on going alone, but his vanity had bested him, and accepting guidance should have been an embarrassment. Now, perhaps, he regretted it slightly. The night was getting dark, and he was growing more tired by the moment.Ā
That knock on the door is one Aspasia has been expecting all evening. Oneās husband isnāt just murdered without some form of questioning following the incident, no matter how invasive it might seem. Secretly she is relieved, glad to be free of Jean-Claudeās brutish behavior, but she knows better than to show it. After all, isnāt the wife normally a suspect, innocent though she may be?Instructing the maid to let him in, Aspasia retires to the parlor, selecting the closest chair to the fireplace while she fidgets with a handkerchief between her fingers. She lets him catch her attention first, not wanting to appear even the least bit forward.Ā
āDo let me apologize, I am normally a much better hostess.ā
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@ferocioushonesty replied to yourĀ post:Ā My guilty pleasure is imagining what Fantine and...
ok but now you have to tell us your conclusionsā¦.
Okay, but just imagine their daughter having all of his physical traits. His dark hair and brown eyes but her motherās curls. Sheās petite like her mother, but very to-the-point like her father.Ā
Imagine Javert reading her bed time stories and Fantine joining in because although her reading has developed considerably, sheās still not very quick at it and so although she struggles being the one to read the bed time stories, she wants to join in with it.
Having Javert play hide and seek with the both of them and playfully putting her under arrest before tickling her until sheās laughed so much it simply becomes silent laughter as little arms reach for her motherās safety.Ā
character solidifying questions | @ferocioushonesty | no longer accepting
blackwell + parents!
1. How does your character think of their father? What do they hate and love about him? What influence - literal or imagined - did the father have?
Ā Ā Ā Ā First off, Blackwell doesnāt see anyone in his life as his father. Thereās Augustus, his motherās husband, who was probably the most present in his life, but wasnāt his father biologically and made it exceedingly clear he didnāt want to be his father socially. Thereās Eoin, his biological father, whom he never met. And thereās Cathair, the gardener on his motherās estate, who was probably the closest he had to an actual father figure, but⦠still not all that close, tbh.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Augustus was entitled and insecure, a son of old English nobility reduced to marrying the noveau riche for money. He kind of hated the childās existence. The child was a product of an extramarital affair; Augustus couldnāt look at him without seeing evidence of his wifeās infidelity and his own emasculation. He was all in favor of offloading the child elsewhere- they had three sons already, they didnāt need anyone elseās brat- but his wife Florence held the financial power in their relationship, and if she wanted the child raised as part of their family, Augustus had no way to refuse.He coped poorly, including projecting a lot of his rage and disgust onto the child.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Publicly, of course, the child was Augustus and Florenceās own. The family knew of Florenceās infidelity, as did certain of their staff, but that secret wasnāt supposed to spread. The child looked more like his mother than either of his alleged fathers, so he didnāt seem out of place among the family, but Augustus worried that something about the child would give him away, so he wasnāt often brought with when the family went out in public. This was a matter of uneasy compromise between Augustus and Florence.
Ā Ā Ā Ā When the child first started asserting his own gender, Augustus was⦠violently opposed. It took Florenceās interference to establish safety for the child, and even then Augustus only tolerated the child in the absolute worst sense of the wordĀ ātolerate.ā If he couldnāt do anything about the child, he figured grudgingly, he might as well keep someone elseās bastard son as someone elseās bastard daughter.
Ā Ā Ā Ā As soon as Florence died, Augustus found a way to get the child out of his sight. Florenceās will provided for the childās schooling at a well-renowned boysā school in England; what mattered to Augustus was that he would be gone. He sent the child away under another name, and gave him no reason to return.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Blackwell doesnāt see Augustus as having had a significant impact on him or his life, but really- Augustus taught Blackwell to expect no compassion and no understanding. He taught him spite and stubbornness and survival, and to seek security wherever and however he could find it. He taught him how quickly things could be taken away.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Eoin, as previously mentioned, was never part of the childās life. Everything the child knew about him was secondhand: that he was a local (read: Irish), that he was a tailor, that he was a drunkard, that he left town six months before the child was born, that there must have been something wrong with him and that that must be why the child walked with a limp from his very first steps. Even then, the child held doubt on most of what he heard.
Ā Ā Ā Ā And then there was Cathair, the gardener. Cathair taught the child the names of flowers and how to coax them into beauty. He taught him superstition and safety; he taught him which plants were safe to eat and how. He taught him Gaelige in stories and jokes and songs, even if the others would rip it back out of the childās mouth. Cathair was the one who pulled the child out of the half-frozen pond when he nearly drowned one March. Cathair was the only one to show him kindness for kindnessās own sake.
Ā Ā Ā Ā The child was attached to Cathair, of course. He tailed the gardener as he made his way through the grounds, listened to everything he said. They were far closer than Augustus and the child had ever been. Still, Cathair wasnāt exactly a substitute father. Close, but Cathair wasnāt available or reliable in the way a child requires. Which isnāt Cathairās fault- it was never his responsibility to adopt or even care about his terrible bossās creepy kid. The fact that he chose to show the kindness and care that he did, even if he couldnāt step in as an actual parental figure, did make a significant impact on Blackwell as a child, and on the person he would become.
2. Their mother? How do they think of her? What do they hate? Love? What influence - literal or imagined - did the mother have?Ā
    Florence was⦠very smart, and very driven, and very strong-willed. She was also petty and self-centered and often lacking in compassion.
Ā Ā Ā Ā She cherished her fourth child as a symbol of her autonomy. She felt trapped in a loveless marriage, living a life that wasnāt entirely within her control. Her affair with Eoin was a rebellion against those trapped feelings, a way to prove to herself that she could break the rules that bound her. Her decision to tell Augustus about the affair came from the same impulse to prove he had no control of her, as did her decision to keep the child.
Ā Ā Ā Ā She was the childās first and strongest supporter when he began to assert his own gender. That, for her, was another power play. She knew how Augustus hated the child; defending and supporting the child was more about her showing her defiance of Augustus than it was about any actual affection or care for the child.Ā
Ā Ā Ā Ā Of course, Blackwell was young when he knew his mother. A lot of the nuances of her motivations escaped him. He was always sharp, though, and he could read a situation well enough to know not to expect certain things from her: she wasnāt warm, she wasnāt particularly attentive, she wasnāt very interested in anything he had to say to her unless she could find a way to use it towards her own goals. But she was still the closest thing he had to a figure of safety. She defended him from Augustusās wrath. She allowed him to grow up as himself. Whatever her motivations, she was a vital supportive presence in Blackwellās early life.
Ā Ā Ā Ā And then again, she was also the first of many relationships in his life to use caretaking as an excuse for controlling behavior. The fourth child was forbidden from many of the freedoms that his older half-brothers were allowed to enjoy (including such things as being able to leave the manor grounds), with hisĀ ādelicate constitutionā always being cited as the reason. (āDelicate constitutionā can mean many things. Here, it is being used to mean youāre trans and disabled and we have no idea what to do with that.) To be fair, there may have been valid concerns about the childās health- but no one ever brought up his health except to use it to prevent him from doing something. The real reason he was kept so cloistered was a compromise with Augustus. Florence had to give some ground, and that ended up being that the childās existence was mainly hidden from the larger world.
Ā Ā Ā Ā Florence taught Blackwell the importance of having allies stronger than he was. He learned that it wasnāt important whether or not someone loved him- what mattered was whether or not they were willing to defend him. She also taught him that any perceived vulnerability could and would be used against him, even by those who nominally stood on his side.
Ā Ā Ā Ā And her death when he was 8 was what convinced him he wanted to be a doctor, but hoo boy thatās a whole nother post coming.