#teofilatto

summary: Ordering around in battle, ordering around in bed—Brancaleone was born to do both. Until his men, and his man, show him things might be different.

pairing: Brancaleone da Norcia/Teofilatto dei Leonzi

words: ~ 4500

warnings: an illusion of d/s dynamics (when the top thinks he's a dom)

2 fanfiction 2 in totale per L'armata Brancaleone! (Totale complessivo: 2.)

Qui l'inizio di Long the Journey, Great the Goal è rivisto attraverso gli occhi di Teofilatto: 🤔 Che cos'avrà in testa questo bifolco? E perché continua a guardarmi? 👉👈

Creiamo una fandom per L'armata Brancaleone!

Life is difficult for a would-be wandering knight in Medieval Italy, Brancaleone da Norcia: lands and glory elude him, holy wars and fair maidens seem to court him, and his small army is the only steadfast point in a glittering, festering world—or is it?

Or: come read my totally unasked for, wildly OOC take on L’armata Brancaleone! Let's start a fandom!

You’d better see the movie first, though, just so you’re aware how awesome the source material is. (You can find a subtitled version here; it apparently has a quite preposterous international English title, For Love and Gold.) Directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Vittorio Gassman, Gian Maria Volonté and Catherine Spaak, it displays some of the finest examples of cinematic writing, acting, word- and world-building in the year of our Lord 1966—or earlier, or later.

Il potere ti dà alla testa? Niente di meglio di un'insubordinazione da parte dei tuoi uomini per riacquisire il senso della realtà.

Un altro mattoncino e la fandom de L'armata Brancaleone sale su (storta)! Stavolta un Brancaleone OOC e un Teofilatto OOC, scampati ai rischi ridicoli e mortali della parte conclusiva del film, fanno una tappa durante la Crociata dei Pezzenti e dimostrano che i valori cavallereschi comprendono anche la reciproca assistenza nei momenti di eccitazione irresistibile difficoltà spirituale.

Ho inserito un flashback relativo al rapporto fra Teofilatto e Matelda, rispettoso, secondo me, sia della sceneggiatura originale che della costruzione del personaggio femminile:

ovvero, quando i costumi parlano.

Two knights walk into a bar an ill-advised Crusade and make a beeline for the same bathroom stall overcome their mutual disagreements by means of a civil discussion.

Or, Brancaleone and Teofilatto bone at last, after the foreplay in Long The Journey, Great The Goal and The Last Dukes of Byzantium.

You know when you can’t seem to realise it’s time to stop? If you don’t, you’re welcome to watch me milking L’armata Brancaleone for more than it’s worth! Cue the usual warnings for OOC re: main characters, while I’m convinced Matelda is more or less the way I pictured her, and the dialogue between her and Teofilatto is translated directly from the script; in the movie, the white travel cloak she’s wearing slips off of her during her rescue, and a flaming red smock appears underneath:

The rest is all Brancaleone and Teofilatto getting it on. Nothing else.