#Lucrezia de Dormentaire
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Me and the bad bitch I pulled by getting exploded
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When Huey tells Victor in Vol. 14 that his second-worst memory is "being unable to save my wife's life back in my hometown," and Victor musters a "...Hey.", that's him reliving watching Lucrezia's ship explode and conducting a frantic, futile search for Lucrezia afterword. 100% that. Even if Narita hadn't planned that part of 1711 yet.
Of all the things for Victor to have in common with Huey outside of their alchemic/scholarly mindsets, Narita chooses the most emotionally charged option via "long-dead lady loves" ...who remain the dead women in Victor & Huey's interrogation room because Victor has a job to do and Huey's not about to tell Victor that Lucrezia is, in fact, not at all dead.
Every. Single. Interrogation. Huey cordially indulges Victor while sitting pretty on the knowledge that he sent Lucrezia some sweet immortality elixir back in the day. (So did Fermet and Elmer, but who's counting?)
(Can you imagine Huey idly telling Victor as much in 2003 and Victor having to briefly contemplate the idea that Lucrezia is alive thanks to Huey? Victor's brain fries on the spot, already overheated with outrage that Huey's not only known but been in contact with Lucrezia.)
Huey could—if permitted to prove his claims—utter a few names, locations, and other details that might lead Victor towards a reunion with his 21X-years-deceased lady love within the month.
He doesn't do that since revealing he's connected to the Dormentaires would be a Stupid Thing to do. Sure, jeopardize 1935, why don't you.
He doesn't do it because I imagine that Lucrezia, at any point post-1711, would have reminded Huey to keep her a secret from Victor (should H & V meet again). Perhaps she'd even make that a petty stipulation in some deal.
He doesn't because watching an emotional man express complicated emotions over a long-dead, tricksome lover might be some sort of health hazard. Watching Mr. Emotions express raw anticipation of reuniting with his tangible, alive, never dead loved one might even be self-harm. Eh, but who says Huey still has a self to harm? Being immune to situations like this is his specialty.
(He doesn't because, hey, Victor already has the alive dame. Huey does not.)
Telling Victor about his desire to reunite with Monica is...not happening. Never mind any jabs Victor could make about Huey being loveless and unloveable; imagine what a waste of time it would be to trigger Victor thinking of Lucrezia and getting sentimental. Well, more than the "save my wife...hometown" line did.
Victor is sentimental about her. This is the man who signs off his reports to Lucrezia with "Yours alone" (LN17, Interlude II & III) while knowing he isn't "hers alone." In that second Interlude, he admits, "If I get the chance, I’d like to board that boat, too," but immediately quells Lucrezia's imagined fears by adding, "Don’t worry, I won’t leave for America on my own."
He probably wouldn't have, given his incentive to remain on Lucrezia's (much smaller!) continent. His love for Lucrezia gently tethers him and his scholar-adventurer's spirit. This is the man who came to Lotto Valentino "hoping to find was something out of some heroic drama, an evil secret society," and personally expose their dastardly deeds" (Interlude I). Szilard had mocked him. "What’s wrong with that, though?" Victor writes. "Alchemists can dream, can’t they?"
They can also go around picking anti-slavery fights with aristocrats, aka Victor's hobby. They can dream of exploring America, a land far from the immediate reach of said aristocrats, and conduct pioneering research, especially if they fancy themselves "a scholar by nature (with) a thirst for knowledge," like Victor still does in 1935-A, Ch. 2.
Victor's sense of justice presumably drove Victor into the employment of the federal government, whenever that first happened, but we've less information on when and why Victor became as patriotic as he acts. I think Victor has a longstanding need to be somebody with a cause, whether that's the dashing hero who liberates a town from an evil society, the activist who confronts pro-slavery aristocrats, the noble scholar who pursues and generates knowledge...
...or, in this case, an agent of a governing body who has sworn to support and defend (the Constitution) of the United States against all foreign and domestic (Huey) terrorists. Lucrezia will die of old age someday. Szilard is hunting us immortals down; so much for guaranteed eternity. This young nation is fragile—but what might it evolve into, in this land beyond the Old World's stuffy reach? If Victor perhaps becomes the Patriot for a sense of greater purpose, he may develop some genuine loyalty as he watches young America evolve over the decades, from rebelling against his former countrymen in the Revolution to choosing the path of emancipation.
(And perhaps he envies all the inventors and scientists who America keeps spitting out or inviting in from overseas. Patriot life nowadays is relegated to deskwork; Huey is busy tinkering with all sorts of contraptions and keeping busy with alchemy while Victor is reaming out some newbies in an office for the sake of a short-lived ego boost. This Victor has lived through wars and atrocities that the Victor who was ill one day into Lotto Valentino could never foresee.)
If Lucrezia still has (copies of) those reports, maybe she'll have remembered that Victor mentioned Niki in them and therefore decide to include Niki as part of the surprise, without any forewarning of Niki's inclusion. "Remember Niki? You mentioned her in your reports from Lotto Valentino, but that was so long ago." Niki was with her when they had that close shave with Victor and Jessica, which ~~along with some B! fics~~ means I have to entertain the possibility of a double surprise.) I mean, what if Victor had spotted them? It's not impossible.
If Victor sees Niki outright, that 'damnably ill' sickness he felt in Lotto Valentino may very well resurge.
He absolutely will remember Niki because he was impressed by the strength she had for a young person who endured what she did. "I think it was so painful that she had to maintain that distance to be able to speak of it at all," he writes to Lucrezia (LN17, Interlude I). He attempts a joke about Niki being no match for Lucrezia, but it's just a feeble coping method for writing about Niki's "revolting" account.
There's little doubt that Victor and Lucrezia will slip back into their romantic groove once the dust is settled, but I do...think perhaps this older, changed Victor ought to acknowledge the dust first. I'm not sure I want him to revert to 1711!Victor and react the same way he did when he learned that Lucrezia faked her death, nor react like Carla did, since Carla was similarly young. The timeframes aren't comparable.
(I'm vaguely reminded of Archangelo confronting Renee over the downright evil (his words) activities she's carrying out at Nebula. It's not the same level of badness, at all, but the "what are you thinking" approach has something to it.)
I am somewhat interested in a scenario where Victor learns about the homunculi experiments and Huey's "Monica" motive, because I can imagine Victor getting drunk and saying "wow, I handled the loss of my love infinitely better than Huey / At least I didn't create sentient beings and put them through stressful experiments all in the name of reuniting with a dead loved one / Holy shit what the fuck."
#Baccano!#Baccano#Victor Talbot#Huey Laforet#Lucrezia de Dormentaire#Niki#Niki (Baccano!)#Rev's Musings#Post: Text#April 20th 2023#Author: Rev#Imagine 500 years from now V: 'oh yeah well at least I didn't have an evil mad scientist phase after I thought my love died a natural death'
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Hello there Lucrezia de Dormentaire fans.
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here's my melvi post for you. he actually literally does not regret the events surrounding ra's lance and the ship explosion torment nexus at a baseline. he'd probably do something like that again if it meant he got what he wanted. the only part of it that unsettles him and makes him completely hate thinking about that time is the fact that during all of it, he was completely acting on fermet's whims and orders.
#ALL my homies hate fermet and i do blame him for melvi's actions#however#i do genuinely believe being raised by the people he was raised by (fermet. avaro sr. lucrezia de dormentaire)#melvi would probably not be much better of a person than that post-1935#muse: melvi dormentaire
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Livia Murders Snow AU so she can have a Lucrezia de Dormentaire (B!) era.
For some context, read the Personality section of the linked wiki
Spoilers for B! Vol. 17 if anyone cares (this warning is honestly just for Bel)
also know Lucrezia faked her death because she wanted to see her lovers’ reaction to that (well, her female bodyguard isn’t canonically her lover but the fandom knows…) also note that Lucrezia’s loser boyfriend stowed away on a ship to try to avenge her, found out from someone else she was alive, sailed to America (without seeing her), he became immortal and she got shipped the immortality elixir (by someone else), it’s been nearly 3 centuries and he doesn’t know she’s also immortal. She takes strolls near him waiting to see his reaction to her being alive
#literary queueicism#truly making posts just for me#abyssal stuff#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#tbosas#livia cardew#shitpost#meme
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BACCANO GAUNTLET ROUND 2 MASTERPOST
Lana v. Frank
Fred v. Leeza Laforet
Sham v. Pamela
Rachel v. Isaac Dian
Dallas Genoard v. Charon Walken
Huey Laforet v. Chané Laforet
Czeslaw Meyer v. Nader Schasschule
Gretto Avaro v. Esperanza C. Boroñal
Donatello v. Sylvie Lumiere
The President of the Daily Days v. Roy Maddock
Berga Gandor v. Carlotta
Chaini v. Claire Stanfield
Christopher Shaldred v. Eve Genoard
Angelo v. Victor Talbot
Kate Gandor v. Miria Harvent
Feldt Nibiru v. Laz Smith
Melvi Dormentaire v. Ennis
Donny v. Charkie
Carnea Kaufman v. Ronny Schiatto
Niki v. Edith
Mark Wilmens v. Maria Barcelito
Molsa Martillo v. Rail
Graham Specter v. Firo Prochainezo
Lebreau Fermet Viralesque v. Nice Holystone
Misery v. Adele
Lucrezia de Dormentaire v. Nile
Jacuzzi Splot v. Luck Gandor
Aging v. Lua Klein v. Fil
Carol v. Nicola Casetti
Paula Wilmens v. Denkuro Togo
Begg Garrott v. Claudia Walken
Ricardo Russo v. Tick Jefferson
Maiza Avaro v. Monica Campanella
Elmer C. Albatross v. Juliano
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this might be lucrezia de dormentaire from baccano
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it's pri(demon)th time to draw my most beloved rarepair of evil women
#baccano#baccano!#lucrezia de dormentaire#renee parmedes branviller#need a tag for them. now#lucirenee#luci nails 💓💢 nice and trimmed#gave her little wrinkes let a woman in her mid 30s have wrinkles. a good look
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Lucrezia de Dormentaire, 2022.
This years redraw :)
#art#my art#digital painting#digital art#illustration#fan art#baccano!#baccano#procreate#lucrezia de dormentaire
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im sure niki’s had a normal past 300 years
#baccano#baccano!#lucrezia de dormentaire#niki (baccano)#the fact that niki went from being in renee's care for 200 years to lucrezia's for another 70... blink twice if you need help beloved#i was only noticed she was with renee until 1935 a few months ago??? idk how i missed that for so long#nate creates
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this might be lucrezia de dormentaire from baccano
committing social suicide by killing myself in front of people
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Recent Baccano! art dump:
1. Humer
2. Renee covered in blood (it’s not hers don’t worry)
3. Lesbians. They really do exist
4. Monimoni is 4 years old and she will bite you
5. Whatever the fuck this is
#baccano!#berylliant art#huey laforet#elmer c. albatross#monica campanella#lucrezia de dormentaire#Carla Alvarez santonia#Renee paramedes branvillier#lebreau fermet viralesque
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Minor Whitesmile spoilers hinted at for anyone who cares
I finished Whitesmile yesterday and came away with thoughts:
What has Niki done to deserve just the worst?
I love the spotlight Victor gets in this book
I don’t know what Elmer’s trying to hint at about Carla and Maiza, but Carla is 100% one of Lucrezia de Dormentaire’s lovers
Honestly, no shade to Lucrezia but I would probably go insane if I had any sort of relationship with her. I could not handle the stress
The fact that Victor is absolutely infatuated with her makes me question some things
Like Victor do you really hate dealing with the other immortals bullshit? Or are you secretly loving it?
His willingness to humor (what I assume is) numerous stunts from Lucrezia makes me think he may not be as bothered by Maiza, Nile, and Denkuro’s antics (Maiza = being a gangster and Nile and Denkuro = Entrance and Exit event)
Anyway, Victor’s love language is putting up with bullshit. It just makes sense
#I might reread vol. 4#I am starved for gandors#i think about baccano#too much#baccano#baccano!#carla alvarez santona#maiza avaro#victor talbot#elmer c. albatross#lucrezia de dormentaire#denkuro (Baccano)#nile (Baccano)#text
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Victor/Carla/Lucrezia if you like
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If Yen Press doesn’t interpret Lucrezia’s use of -chan as pet endearments (e.g. ’darling’, ‘sweetheart’, ‘dear’) then honestly what’s the point.
#Baccano!#Lucrezia de Dormentaire#LISTEN I was talking about this with Kaede just now#and she said 'oh that's a really good use of localization'#*exactly*#it fits Lucrezia's personality to a T and distinguishes her speech#which is very much in the spirit of Narita's style#he writes distinctive characters and usually gives them distinctive ways of talking#and when I read Lucrezia I think 'yeah - that sounds like her'#YP please I beg you#Let Lucrezia say darling#Let lucrezia say sweetheart
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Is it too late to request Lucrezia or Esperanza? (I was so happy to see more Baccano! art from you - thanks for doing this~)
It’s not too late so you get a dozen of hearts for being so sweet AND this absolute icon!!
#baccano#baccano!#lucrezia de dormentaire#make me choose#eh this looks kinda unfinifhed but I so need to run away now#...I'm still planning to do more of theese later this evening or tomorrow and I have 0 promts#so if in doupts - send it :)#agallimaufryofoddments
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