#Happy Frary Afterlife

[frary-us]

"'... You are beautiful, you are great And I am a jealous madwoman Who will never heal. I am a child Who from her being small, Small looks at you on the height of your path. I am distressed to think Of losing even one of your words. Your mouth is full Of sails and honey."(Translation)

Reign 2013-17/04-16

Mary and Francis

Happy Valentine's Day♡♡

'... Sei bello, sei grande

E io una gelosa forsennata

Che mai guarirà.

Io sono una bambina

Che dal suo essere piccina,

Piccina ti guarda nell'alto del tuo cammino.

Mi angoscio a pensare

Di perdere anche una tua sola parola.

La tua bocca è piena

Di vele e di miele...'

[saracensmatt]

“The one who truly lost the most by the death of Le Petit Roi was his grieving young wife. Her affection for Francis was deep and sincere. He had been her constant companion for more than a decade, and ever afterwards, though she was to be married twice more, she would always think fondly of Francis as the

     one              great               love               of             her            life                                              and               her               one            true           husband.”

 - In My End Is My Beginning: A Life of Mary Queen of Scots by James A. Mackay

[lyannstark]

Were we truly this young? -Yes.  It seems like so long ago. 

[queen-valois]

Top 10 Francis and Mary moments on Reign:

10. Proposal (S01E08 Fated)

After finally making it official at the end of the last episode, Francis and Mary have a pretty sweet moment in the episode 8 when Francis proposes to Mary and she says yes. She’s full of worry about England, but Francis reassures her they’ll have a lifetime to face things together once they’re married. He vows to pressure her, and listen to her, and argue with her, and love her until the day he dies, practically explaining what marriage is all about. By the end of the scene they’re engaged when he lifts her for a hug and they happily run toward the castle.

9. First kiss (S01E03 Kissed)

Even though Francis was reluctant at first, it took him only 3 episodes to express his adoration for  Mary which was executed perfectly at the end of the episode when Francis tells Mary to marry another because he is worried his father won’t make his promise worth and let them marry anytime soon. He knows Mary needs a strong alliance for her country, so he tells her to find it in Portugal with another where it’s for sure it will happen instead of waiting for his father premission, knowing that this could damage his own country. He seals everything with a passionate kiss, and Mary’s surprised face tells it all.

8. Francis and Mary get back together (S02E22 Burn)

After very unlucky season for Francis and Mary, and a very painful season for their fans, they finally reunite in the season finale. After everything that happened and tore them apart, they spent most of the season separated, with Mary even finding comfort in the arms of another man, Francis’ cousin Conde. But, after Conde commits a treason and stages a coup, Mary is forced to chose between the two man she loves and she choses Francis, while taking down Conde. Then she asks him to make a choice with her, a choice to commit their hearts to each others no matter what and Francis responds with a kiss.

7. Mary tells Francis she is pregnant and loses the baby (S02E04 The Lamb and the Slaughter)

Equally happy and devastating episode of season 2 starts with a very happy news: Mary is pregnant and Francis couldn’t be more happy as he lifts her and spins her in the air as a respond to this happy news and says he’s never been as happy in his entire life. But, at the end of the episode Mary has lost the baby and it’s even more devastating to watch her put this horrible news on the side so she could be there for Francis and her friend Lola on their’s son christening. And as that wasn’t sad enough, after Mary tells news to Francis and cries in his arms, he then arranges dozens of lanterns for Mary, saying yet another adorable story from their childhood when they would sneak out and wait for the fireflies that would never come, but for him it was the waiting with her that mattered. As she opens the window and sees all the fireflies he arranged, he tells her she is his light, no matter what. I’m not crying, you’re crying moment, indeed.

6. Francis dies saving Mary (S03E05 In a Clearing)

Probably the most painful thing after seeing Francis die and then come back to life in the episode before is seeing him die once again, but this time forever, just one episode later. After having all the beautiful moments throughout the whole episode, Francis dies saving Mary’s life and they get to say a final goodbye as Mary holds Francis in tears while he tells her how much beauty she’s brought him. The flashbacks of their most important moments together don’t make it any easier to watch either, and by the end of the episode we're all screaming into void with Mary.

5. Stay with me dance (S03E03 Extreme Measures)

This is possibly the greatest musical moment of the show. Francis is dying and getting weaker and weaker by the moment, but he still has to keep appareances so that France wouldn’t look weak too. Mary is with him every step of the way, and when they get into a situation where they are to dance in front of everyone, with Francis’ condition getting worse, Mary takes the lead and they dance beautifully while instrumental version of Sam Smith’s Stay with me plays in the background. Mary saying the words just as the song reaches the Stay with me part to encourage Francis that he can do it just hits straight into the heart.

4. Mary chooses Francis and they marry (S01E13 The Consummation)

After fearing that their marriage could brought Francis’ death, Mary leaves with Bash and a love triangle between two brothers and a queen is born. And, after episodes of Mary being with Bash and falling for him too, she gets the information that she can in fact marry Francis without that being the reason for him dying, and it’s time for her to decide between the two brothers. She runs into Francis’ arms saying it’s always been him, and the result is one whole minute of just pure bliss when Francis and Mary marry and dance together in possibly the most beautiful scene of the show.

3. “Because I love you!” (S01E07 Left Behind)

In one of the strongest Reign episodes, stakes are high as king Henry is out of the country and the castle is overran by a man hungry for revenge. Catherine, Mary and Francis conduct a plan to get everyone out safely, but as plan goes south and Mary, her ladies and Cahtherine end up trapped in the castle with bad men, Francis comes to their rescue just in time. After that, Mary asks him why would he come back for her when it was a clear suicide, and he practially yells “because I love you” to her and makes all of our hearts stop, including Mary’s. After that they finally completely give into their emotions and make love for the first time.

2. Back to you scene (S01E01 Pilot)

Is there any scene on this show more iconic than the Back to you scene in the Pilot? I don’t think so. After Mary arrives at the French court after being away and not seeing Francis for years, the old feelings come rushing back to both Mary and Francis as their eyes lock while Mary is dancing with her ladies to iconic Back to you song by Twin Forks. As their childhood memories are shown as a parallel to leathers falling on them in the present, it is an intense moment as they look at each other with so many emotions. 

1. Francis and Mary reunite in the afterlife (S04E16 All it Cost Her...)

After breaking our hearts in season 3 by killing off Francis and making us believe that was the end to Francis and Mary’s love story, Reign gave us everything we didn’t even know we needed - Frary reunion in the afterlife. After the hard life Mary has had, she met her end by Elizabeth in the show’s finale, but the last scene wasn’t out heart breaking once again seeing Mary being executed. No, instead Reign healed all of our broken hearts with one last Frary scene. They are once again young and in France, their home. They finally have forever to be happy toghether and can be free as they are no longer rulers with their countries to think of, but simply just a boy and just a girl, as they dreamed to be even back in season 1.

Honorable mentions:

Mary arrives at the French court (S01E01 Pilot)

“But I’d save you” (S01E01 Pilot)

"Just a girl, and just a boy” (S01E05 A Chill in the Air)

Mary leaves with Bash to save Francis (S01E08 Fated)

Francis and Mary get crowned (S02E03 The Coronation)

Francis tells Mary he's dying (S03E01 Three Queens, Two Tigers)

Francis and Mary talk about their dream future (S03E04 The Price)

Mary tells Francis he is her home (S03E05 In a Clearing)

Francis and Mary in the lake (S03E05 In a Clearing)

Francis' letter to Mary (S03E15 Safe Passage)

[bellarkes-things]

Okay so everyone is making the top 10 otp's of the decade post so here it goes.

Clace

These 2 are the absolute love of my life ,I have loved them since the moment i started watching shadowhunters. (She remembers everything okay.)

2. Handon

I am so in love with these 2 right now, I mean they love each other so fucking much😭

3. Karamel

I am still holding out hope for these babies ,they have to be endgame .They are the love of each others life and nobody can change that.🖤

4. Bellarke

I know i know they're supposed to be in the top 3 but this slowburn i literally killing me ,I am living off of fanfics right now. Anyway ,they are soulmates and not platonic ones who deserve to have a PEACEFUL life together grow old and have lots of kids💕

5. Stelena

They were the 1st couple i ever shipped and i stand by it , Stefan is the best boyfriend a girl could possibly have . They were so soft as a couple😍

6. Nabrina

They are so beautiful together , Nick cares so much about sabrina , i cant wait to se sabrina go to hell and back (literally) to save nick next season.

7. Olicity

The literal definition of softies I mean look at them🥺 ,felicity has always been in Ollie's corner and Ollie has always protected felicity , I cant believe i have tp say goodbye to them😭

8. Frary

Literal beautiful babies who deserved to have a beautiful life and grow old together. I dont know what is it with me shipping doomed couples😶.

9. Pepperony

I want my man back yall , he deseves to live a content love with his wife and his beautiful baby girl and adoptive kids (peter, nebula, harley) , its supposed to be a big happy family💔🖤

10. Haylijah

I hope they got their dance in the afterlife , I am just gonna say the final season of the original broke me ,they deserved to live an eternal life together.

As I said i have a disease of shipping doomed couple like 7 of these couples arent together yet ,or 1 one of them has dies or FORGOTTEN the other and it fucking sucks but i still love them with everything i have.

This is a long ass post btw.😬

[zutaralesbian]

Now that it's been over for years I almost find the way Reign managed to piss off every single shipping fanbase funny.

Mash? Dropped after S1 and barely ever had scenes together since.

Frary? Were never allowed to be happy and kept getting shoved into pointless love triangles. But at least they got their afterlife endgame.

Monde? We never even saw Conde again after S2 lmao

Greith? Dropped after S2

Lorcisse? They had Narcisse cheat on Lola with Catherine right after they got married and then Lola died.

Kennash? Completely destroyed in S2 after barely getting any scenes beforehand. (I'm still bitter about this one lmao)

Greer/Castleroy? I don't even remember but I know they weren't endgame.

Cleith? Again, don't even know lol.

[beautyofattolia]

I haven’t watched Reign since Francis died, but hell yes I’m watching the finale because guess what?! Frary is the ultimate endgame. After all the crap the writers put us through, we get what we needed. Frary together in the afterlife. Frary is truly forever. 

Death is just the beginning of our happy ending. 

[chay1x1s]

I just watched the Reign series finale and while I am not completely happy with it (I would have loved to see the fallout from Bothwell and Mary killing Darnley, and Mary marrying Bothwell and the repercussions from that cause historically it wasn’t supported) Season 5 was needed for so many reasons... And BASH WAS SUPPOSED TO COME BACK!!! But ultimately, despite wanting to see more, they did an okay job with wrapping it up.. I would have liked for Elizabeth and Mary to have had a conversation before Mary was killed but what can you do now, right?

I do just have to say one more thing......

FRARY!!!!!!

Mary was reunited with the love of her life in the afterlife after all she endured in her life without him. *Tears*

[anotheralix]

So this last season and the last episode of Reign was all a bit rushed and meh but, knowing that Mary was gonna have to die anyway, I'm so happy with that Frary ending. My babies reunited in the afterlife. I know she loved other men after He died but she never loved anyone the way she loved Francis. I do wish she had to to see her son again but you can't have everything

[frary-us]

“McCarthy also knew all along that Mary would reunite with Francis in the afterlife, so before Toby Regbo departed midway through Season 3, she asked him to film the scenes you saw in the series finale.

“I asked him to do it before he left, not knowing when we were going to use it,” McCarthy reveals. “And he very graciously agreed to do it. … We’d invested so much in that relationship, and those two have such extraordinary chemistry. I felt like that was where the show began, with their unexpected love story, and I knew that’s how I wanted it to end.”

[zutaralesbian]

Think about all of your ships that didn't end up together. You can make one of them endgame, but you have to give up one of your ships that actually was endgame. Which ship are you getting together and which ship endgame are you giving up for it?

The ship I would make endgame if I could: Barney/Robin from HIMYM. I was debating between them and Zutara but went with them because i'll forever be pissed that the writers spent the entire last season building up to their wedding only to rip them apart in the finale. Zutara is probably my #1 OTP, but they were never canon in the first place, so they didn't really hurt me in the same way. Plus I have a lot of good fanfic for them to satisfy me. I would have said Gallavich, but since Shameless is still going and both characters are alive, there's still a chance for them to be endgame, no matter how slim. But if they aren't, my answer will probably change to them. A endgame ship i'd sacrifice: Frary from Reign. I was happy that they got their happy afterlife endgame, but since Francis literally died before the end of the show, I didn't really expect it. And i'd already resigned myself to them not getting a happy ending from pretty much the beginning of the show.