#sfth jacques

oopsie daisies (marianne and jacques, oopsie daisy bulge). idk if anyone else calls them that but they're my oopsie daisies and i love them so much. if oopsie daisies have 100 fans im one of them if oopsie daisies have 1 fan it's me if oopsie daisies have 0 fans im dead. they make me ill. handsome butch mayor and her pretty scientist husband.....they love their town and their kraken and ethically dubious transhumanism!!!!! and i am patting them both on the head and tucking them in. i am making this post so i can ramble about them but it felt weird to just do that so i made it a list. they're childhood friends to lovers, marianne definitely got all embarrassed giving jacques flowers after school, they prob graduated and were friends for a while and then decided "wait duh of course we're gonna get married" so they dated for a while and then marianne ran for mayor so they waited on the wedding until after she won and then they honeymooned the next town over bc they couldn't bear to stay away from le bulge for more than two weeks and they bicker and marianne brags about being the mayor and pretends to know what jacques is talking about when he's explaining his genetics work. and they're always working together bc jacques' tech is their main line of defense and she sits on his lap during briefings and all 12 of the other residents are a little annoyed when they enter a room both bc marianne is kind of bossy and needs total focus when she's addressing a room and bc jacques is just staring at her and zoning out and thinking about cell division the whole time. and jacques probably only sustained mild injuries from that gunshot wound so he's fine. he's fine and he definitely didn't die. because that would be silly and pointless. but marianne THINKS he's dead or dying so she harnesses her grief and rage to literally snap the neck of the king of england and tbh i think that's very sexy of her. what am i talking about again

pergephone (persephone and geoff, wild wet and worrisome). i love their dynamic so much, the pining is both silly and very earnest, and i have a bunch of headcanons about what happens when geoff leaves but feels like there's something missing....i like them very much. especially if persephone has some monstrous stuff going on, like huge sea beast or fanged and clawed siren. that's the shit.

it's important to note that by the time Jacques and Marianne appear in the beginning of the longform, recently returned from their honeymoon, they have already been very active in the town. their marriage is not the beginning of their impact on Le Bulge by any means. here are some accomplishments from almost certainly before they were married

marianne campaigned and was elected as mayor

jacques developed, tested, and implemented cybernetic/robotic body modifications for regular citizens, including bulletproof and tank-proof armor

they either captured and trained or inherited a previously-imprisoned kraken mime

marianne befriended and gained the trust and respect of said kraken to the point that it would sacrifice its life for her (i'm going to assume this was after she became the mayor, and that keeping the kraken is a part of her mayoral duties)

jacques has set up a working lab, gained the trust of the townsfolk, and has done enough experiments to have a standard routine and an ethics model

anyways. uhhh what was i talking about again

oh right. yeah so jacques gets back from university and sets up a lab and evidently some kind of manufacturing facility in town. i think that he would've heard a lot about weapons and armor development when learning about design and engineering at university in the post-WWII educational environment. and we know he's interested in chemistry and maybe biology too, so it makes sense that he'd have a bit of a hero complex around keeping his village SAFE. building things, using his degrees and expertise to combine the machine with the flesh and make the residents of Le Bulge immune to any attack. never granting himself those protections, though. maybe he was scared, maybe he didn't think he'd see combat, maybe the modifications would've hampered his ability to continue to experiment and develop tech.

meanwhile, marianne was volunteering with the mayor's office until she needed to earn money. maybe she gets a small-time job in local politics (maybe in the nearest bigger town), maybe she starts secretary or stenography work at a courthouse and moves into assisting and then running campaigns. regardless, over the next few years she finds out she's both very good at getting people's votes and very passionate about helping Le Bulge grow. she talks to jacques, her closest friend throughout this time, and he tells her to go for it, and he'll be by her side (well, behind her and a bit to the left). she runs, he helps, residents love the two young people who love their little town so much that they dedicate their lives to making it better, and marianne wins in a landslide. first political, then literal, but a win is a win.

she implements policy to get jacques' tech available to anyone. she musters a militia. she ensures the allyship of the kraken in the town hall's basement, and sits next to jacques at meetings. maybe six months or a year go by, and everyone knows they're together. they plan the wedding, invite the town, have a wonderful time, and put marianne's own secretary in charge of the village during their month-long honeymoon one town over (Le Bulge just out of sight but less than an hour's drive and always with a phone nearby just in case)

and we know the rest! anyways. tldr marianne and jacques LOVE their tiny french town so sososo much and love each other sososo much and i think they were at LEAST in their late 20s and probably early 30s before they were married. in this timeline jacques probably went to university around age 17 in approximately 1950 (young enough to not be drafted but old enough to be influenced by war ideology and fearmongering), which would put him at around 30 years old in 1963. (side note, wwii might partially explain the village's very small population......) since they grew up playing soccer together at a young age, i assume marianne is very close to the same age as jacques.

also after all that and finally thinking "let's finally get married! enjoy what we've built! let le bulge take care of us for a bit!". that's when everything comes crashing down. haha yeah 👍 andre beetroot voice

oopsie daisy bulge doodles...... marianne and jacques no one is doing it like you......

marianne gets to be a little butch, as a treat. also jacques survives his gunshot wound and they live happily ever after it's true i was the button on tom's shirt.

my word i am obsessed with shoot from the hip it's becoming a problem. they're making me hyperfixate on het ships

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