#I haven't read northanger abbey so I cannot say how I am like or unlike henry tilney
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Trying to think which of Austen's romantic leads is the most like me and, um:
Edward Ferrars was not recommended to their good opinion by any peculiar graces of person or address. He was not handsome, and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing. He was too diffident to do justice to himself; but when his natural shyness was overcome, his behaviour gave every indication of an open, affectionate heart. His understanding was good, and his education had given it solid improvement. But he was neither fitted by abilities nor disposition to answer the wishes of his mother and sister, who longed to see him distinguished—as—they hardly knew what
... yeah.
#autistic enough and enough of a parent to my own siblings to be darcy but not rich enough#keen enough on The Ocean to be wentworth but not... successful or good looking enough#judgemental enough and likely enough to be best friends with my crush's dad#*and* as fixated on helping people to See The Error Of Their Ways as a means to ultimately help them#(albeit in a way that can be very annoying)#to be mr. knightley... but not dashing or a landowner or someone who would not be skeeved by dating someone I knew as a baby#I'm quite a lot like edmund with regards him being like Someone Needs To Look After Fanny when she was 10 and he was 16#however I would not have then married her when she grew up lol#I am the same age as col. brandon (yikes) and can also be very serious and sensitive in a way that is sometimes boring to young people#but I am not like... I could never be played by alan rickman. I am not that man#I haven't read northanger abbey so I cannot say how I am like or unlike henry tilney#but... edward. yeah. cringe fail king
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