#Madeleine Bellefleur

[kaitcreates]

Gabriel

Madeleine

[beclynn-herondale]

Matilda Djerf as Céline Montclaire

Camille Rowe as Rosemary Herondale

Katie McGrath as Maryse Lightwood

Emily Blunt as Amatis Graymark

Jessica Chastain as Jocelyn Fairchild

Maia Mitchell as Eliza Rosewain

Vanessa Kirby as Madeleine Bellefleur

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[khaleesiofalicante]

hi Dani it was my birthday today. turned 17. but i can't seem to just muster up any enthusiasm. i used to be so excited about my birthday but today I was just not. i even cried today. this is gonna sound weird but i didn't even know why I was crying. i don't know what triggered it but I just started crying and then I was trying to hide it from my parents and my nose turns red when I cry so I was trying to run it so that the redness is gone 😂 this is so strange and i just wish something exciting happened and I could also be happy about my birthday like other people. it was so mundane. i didn't even get a cake. then I went and read the last chapter of lbaf 5. i have an unhealthy obsession with that chapter because i just love other magnus. dark magnus has been something i really wished you'd write because I love your style of writing my favourite tsc characters. so I read it again for the 100th time and loved it again and can't wait for other magnus content.

Happy happy birthday to you!

I myself like mundane birthdays, but I get what you mean. Som birthdays are more special than others, but we must cherish every one of them.

Also, someone once told me crying on your birthday is tradition because we did come into this world crying after all 🤭

I put away my laptop (doing this new thing where I close my laptop and put it away by 10.30) but I opened it back up just for you. I hope it makes you feel a little special today.

A little birthday treat:

“Hermes, perhaps this is a concern for later,” Rafael interjected carefully.

“Back off, Rafael. Hermes is right to be worried,” Max, the other one, growled in response. “Hermes, what do we do?”

“I only meant we have bigger problems to handle right now,” Rafael replied in frustration, shooting a glare at the blue warlock. “It’s just bapak, Max. We can handle him.”

Hermes, who had been sending warlock signals left and right, paused mid-motion and stared at Rafael. “You really don’t get it, do you?”

“I refuse to believe that my father is capable of the evil you’re describing,” Rafael insisted, giving Max a fierce look. “He’s a good man, Hermes. You know he is.”

Hermes’s gaze hardened. “Do you realize what the biggest threat to your Clave is right now?” He didn’t wait for an answer, watching as Rafael blinked at the shift in topic. “It’s not Lucifer. It’s not the Prince of Darkness. It’s not the Resurrected. It’s a random woman in Paris who’s ready to weaponize the Council just to get what she wants.”

Rafael clenched his jaw. “I can handle Madeleine.”

“Can you?” Hermes scoffed. “Madeleine Bellefleur is a good person gone bad. People like her, Consul—they’ve got nothing to lose.”

The warlock moved closer and Rafael saw it then. The fear in his eyes. He doesn’t think he’s ever seen Hermes scared before. 

“Magnus is good, Rafael. He is as good as a person can get and he’s fought beside us as long as I can remember,” Hermes told him quietly. “I do not wish to find out what it's like to fight against him. It will be the end of us all.”

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[malec-ao3feed]

Love Beckons All Fallen

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/ECm4qXI by khaleesiofalicante As winter solstice approaches, so does the possibility of the prophecy being fulfilled. Despite being scattered all over the world, the Next Generation of LBAF find themselves thrust into the middle of the chaos. Will Lance destroy Idris? Will Kincaid kill him first? Will Arthur save them both? Will Cami choose the Clave over her family? Will Iris find the White Warlock? Will Joan make peace with Kincaid? Will Atlas figure out the secret behind Lance’s blood? Will Alec, Magnus, Rafael and Max make it through to the end without destroying their family and each other? Let’s find out. This fic updates every Tuesday and Friday. Words: 55182, Chapters: 3/23, Language: English Series: Part 6 of LBAF Fandoms: The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare, The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare, The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: Multi Characters: Max Lightwood-Bane, David Beauchamp, Rafael Lightwood-Bane, Anjali Rosales, Lexi Herondale, Olivia Carstairs, Selena Fairchild, Gabriel Guzman, Georgia Lovelace, Roman Penhallow, Alec Lightwood, Magnus Bane, Simon Lovelace, Isabelle Lightwood, Clary Fairchild, Jace Herondale, Lance Lightwood-Bane, Arthur Lightwood-Bane, Camila Lightwood-Bane, Arjun Lightwood-Bane, Joan Herondale, Iris Fairchild, Atlas Lovelace, Abigail Lovelace, Theia Blackthorn, Harry Anh, Malik Shah, Hermes Cain, Madeleine Bellefluer, Regine Bellefleur, Antoine Bellefleur, Other Max (iykyk) Relationships: Max Lightwood-Bane/David Beauchamp, Rafael Lightwood-Bane/Anjali Rosales, Lexi Herondale/Olivia Carstairs, Selena Fairchild/Gabriel Guzmán, Georgia Lovelace/Roman Penhallow, Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood, Jace Herondale/Clary Fairchild, Simon Lewis/Isabelle Lightwood Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Heavy Angst, Angst and Romance, Angst and Feels, Betrayal, Heartbreak, Prophecy, Time Travel, Blood and Violence, Sexual Content, Sibling Love, Idiots in Love, Forbidden Love, The author spent more time doing the tags than writing the fic, The author is not to be trusted, The author is gay but enjoys making gay people suffer, POV Multiple, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, No beta we die like Joseph Goldheart read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/ECm4qXI

[ladyhindsight]

Here we go.

On page 4, Clary gives Simon this as the reason for her trip to Idris, which is ridiculous because what does that got to do with anything? My notes read: “OR maybe he’ll trust you because you are Jocelyn’s daughter??”

Then on page 8 Clary tells the following to Jace who is trying to persuade Clary to not go:

Which is entirely logical, but pray tell, why on earth does Clary say anything like “looking so much like” Jocelyn to Simon when Madeleine has already told Ragnor to expect Jocelyn’s daughter? (who does look a lot like her, yes)

Why must the reasons for the trip be explained twice with different reasoning, and why am I already confused?

The first clause stands perfectly well on its own without any additional explaining, i.e. hand-holding. As if the meaning is evident from the glance that was shot and the words following said glance.

Clary and Jace’s siblinghood has been incredibly over-pronounced, especially in the previous book. No other siblings constantly remind the readers that they are, indeed, siblings. Almost like the writing would reeaally like the readers to believe that they are related to each other...

No comma, still the same subject. We were doing so great till the page 9.

How to Make Your Characters More Sympathetic: Being Grateful for Minor Tangential Things While Otherwise Being Ungrateful About a Lot of Other, Often More Significant Things - A Guide for Better Characterization

Clary going to Idris and Luke not liking it is no reason for him to withhold his care nor hold it hostage. This is a nonissue.

Again, participle phrases signal concurrency, that two or more things are happening at the same time. Clary can’t tear through the paper and seize something soft at the same time.

→ “Clary tore though it. Her hand seized on something soft...”

Orange arrows are pointing towards two clauses that are separated with a comma from the main clause. Comma, however, in these cases comes after “or” only if is followed by an independent clause, which neither of these are.

The pink arrow, just no.

“You look beautiful, Clary.” “It suits you wonderfully, Clary.” “It truly draws out your best features, Clary.” Literally any other answer than this dark moody-broody bullshit that has got nothing to do with Clary and how she looks in the cloak. Luke bought Clary the coat/cloak because he saw it and he thought of her. Yet now, as Luke has said this, it seems like it only actually reminded him of Jocelyn and Clary acts as a proxy to her. Or that Clary’s similarity to her mother makes Luke treat Clary as a reminder of Jocelyn.

About Clary wanting Simon to go back to normal: On page two it is said that

“They’d only called off their attempt at a romantic relationship last week, and she still felt confused whenever she saw him.”

First of all, it was more Simon’s attempt rather than both of theirs. Secondly, Simon’s “normal” was always being in love with Clary. Clary is still confused about their relationship. Simon should be allowed to deal with his feelings too, in addition to those of dying and turning into a vampire, especially without Clary just wanting things easier for herself.

Though Clary wanting normality and familiarity back in her life is understandable, it is also a bit egocentric and leaves Simon’s feelings out of it.

→ “...when he heard several familiar voices nearby.”

→ “He didn’t have to elaborate on what he meant. Jace’s face told Simon that he remembered.” (END)

What else could they possibly be remembering? It is a basic assumption that by the third book the reader has read previous parts of the story and is able to recall such a major event without these recaps shoved in.

No, if you like to support men’s healthy emotional life.

Maybe you could if Jace ever shared his plans with them instead of keeping them to himself and assuming without even trying. Maybe if he then discussed it, planned it, talked it out, he could at least say he tried to keep Clary’s abilities secret.

Jace’s faith in Clary is also outstanding. She apparently has no potential even with training. Also, are you talking about the same Clary who is shoving herself into every fight and battle without any training still? Yeah, why on earth would she want to be a fighter.

Additionally, while Jace and Simon are planning and deciding everything for Clary behind her back, has either of them even thought to ask her what she might want for herself? Or is she too ignorant to decide whether she wants official training?

Oh, shut up, Simon. Everyone knows that for once Jace meddling into Clary’s business is not about that. I also don’t think Clary is aware that she is in desperate need of help, Jace just decided that on his own.

The brown part highlights a sentence that has no main verb (to perform an action). 

→ “Simon hesitated. Before he could respond, a noise split the silence between them—a high, shrieking cry, terrible in its desperation and worse...”

Also who said the last line?  → ““What was that?” Jace said, whirling around.”

Abominable comma. The cries and the clangs are both performing the same action.

→ “The single shriek was joined by other cries and a harsh clang that...”

Before me is chaos.

→ “A white mist blanketed the garden. There was a heavy smell in the air—the sharp tang of ozone and something sweet and unpleasant under it.”

I’d either scrap the sentence underlined with yellow (because it pauses the action) or tie it together with the previous sentence. For instance:

→ “He glimpsed Isabelle, her hair snapping around her in black ropes as she swung her whip that made a deadly fork of golden lightning through the shadows.”

Besides emphasis, em dashes in the middle of a sentence can be used to give additional information that is not essential to understand the rest of the sentence. It is a break in a sentence that already stands and is understood on its own. Yet here the sentence without Simon’s additional information would be:

“She was fending off the advance of something lumbering and huge, but it was full daylight; that was impossible.” Which doesn’t make sense at all. In addition to punctuation, some things need switching around:

→ “She was fending off the advance of something lumbering and huge—a demon, Simon thought. But that was impossible; it was full daylight.” or

→ “She was fending off the advance of something lumbering and huge. A demon, Simon thought, but that was impossible; it was full daylight.”

→ “It swung a thick wooden plank (it carried in one hand) at Isabelle almost blindly.”

→ “...back and forth inside it. Simon felt as if he were...”

→ “Isabelle has vanished. He saw Alec, his arm bleeding...” (no semicolon because the clauses aren’t closely related.)

→ “...a blade in each hand. He leaped into the air..”

→ “...with a vicious scissoring movement. The Forsaken’s head tumbled...”

Most of the action taking place in this scene is filtered through Simon. Simon sees this, Simon feels that etc. Since we already do know that Simon is the observer:

→ “The Shadowhunters were calling to one another out of the mist...”

→ “Suddenly the mist cleared. Magnus was standing wild-eyed by the wall...”

→ “...blue lightning sparking between them. Against the wall...”

Ave Atque Vale, Madeleine. You served your relevant-for-only-one-thing purpose as best you could.

I’m sensing a trend regarding em dashes in this chapter.

[ahundredandonebooks]

TSC READING UPDATE

City of Ashes Log #6

chapters finished: 20/20 (epilogue included)

Chapter 17:

Magnus can make a car fly?!?!?

Imogen, it was obvious valentine wasn’t going to take the deal

Luke and magnus’s friendship needs more attention

Ooooh, clary killed a demon

Ok, so why didn’t someone offer to help Magnus???? I know clary was taken but Magnus is an important part of the plan

I actually love Maryse. She’s so intimidating

Alec’s like: “well, so about that. Jace is already free”

Chapter 18:

I agree w/ clary. The worst part of rollercoasters is the stomach dropping feeling

Maia, Simon can’t be dead unless staked or exposed to sun.... right???

Jace with a fearless rune scares me

Sorry Luke. Teens are a pain in the ass

Clary, I love you and Simon but technically you wouldn’t be able to tell if he was dead. you’re not parabati (*wink wink*)

You go Clary!!! Spit at his feet.

Damn!!! Throwing a dagger so hard it decapitated a demon AND saved like?!? Jace, you are on fire today.

Valentine, quoting the Bible isn’t going to make clary more sympathetic to your “cause”

yeah, it’s jace not jonathan. I hate when people call him that

So wait??? what did imogen say to jace?

Alec?!?!?! what is it with you and near death experiences

Chapter 19:

I love how clary constantly defends Luke

See, Alec IS alive

Poor Magnus! He’s exhausted

Alec’s lines to Magnus always make me want to cry! He’s always so genuine

Yes jace, you’re not like valentine. Now kill agramon

I never even thought about how much getting your throat slit would hurt

Jace giving Simon his blood!!! Do I sense a bromance?!?!

Clary burned a ship w/ a rune

Simon is a freaking Daylighter!!!

Maryse is Jace’s mom. End of story

“You were wrong that I never sang it to you,” she said. “It’s just that you never heard me.” Stop trying time make me cry

Epilogue:

Wait? Clary and Simon are still dating? I thought they broke up after the seelie court??

Oooh never mind. They just broke up

Simon and Maia?? That’s kinda cute

Jocelyn and Luke are super cute! Even though I just want them to be together so Luke is happy

I’m still kinda mad that Jocelyn lied about the shadow world but whatever

Maryse cuts jace’s hair? That’s cute!

Clary, you’re upset that jace wants to JUST be your brother?!?!?!? Were you going to tell him otherwise???

So the gray haired lady is Madeleine Bellefleur... is she a shadowhunter??? I’m confused.

[lectophile]

Rest In Peace: Shadowhunter Chronicles

SPOILER ALERT: This is a farewell to all of the characters that passed throughout Cassandra Clare’s Shadowhunter Chronicles. This is being completed as I move through the series.

Ragnor Fell - A downworlder in a world ruled by shadowhunters that put him down, yet still helped a shadowhunter woman escape her possessive and abusive husband.

Max Lightwood - A child growing to become a skilled warrior and learned individual with an insatiable curiosity for adventure and literature, may you continue to be brave, just as you did in your last moments.

Madeleine Bellefleur - A woman that did not follow the pack, and saw a charming man for what he really was—dangerous, calculated, and selfish. A woman who put aside her hurt feelings to help an old friend in danger.

Stephen Herondale - A young man that fell for the charms of the selfish and calculated, forced to leave the love of his life for another woman in the hopes to earn the affections of a man that sent him to his death.

Céline Herondale - A young woman whose sole purpose was to marry a man and provide a child of pure shadowhunter blood, never given the opportunity to seek out life and to find a purpose for herself.

Michael Wayland and his young son - Two young lives turned to ashes by a man who only saw pawns in a larger game.

[idumean-archive]

consider this a permanent starter call for; 

                    VIA INFINITO ( final fantasy x )

ALTERNATE UNIVERSE, Final Fantasy X/X2. Jonathan is the son of High Summoner Fairchild, who gave her life summoning the Final Aeon to banish Sin & bring the Calm. Born in Bevelle after a wedding between the Summoner & Maester Valentine in a union that they knew would bring the people hope, Jonathan & his little sister were left in the care of the Yevonite priests when Jocelyn departed to finish her pilgrimage.

When he was four years old, an attack close to home decimated one of the temples, driving his mother to take up her staff again & resume the pilgrimage she had temporarily put on hold. By the end of the year, she had achieved her goal; Sin was defeated, the Calm had arrived... & brother & sister were left without their mother & the father who had given himself over to perform the final summoning.

Madeleine Bellefleur, one of his mother's friends, came to the city & took him & his sister away to Kilika so that they might live a quiet life. The Fairchild Calm was much needed, but fleeting. By the time he was eight, Jonathan decided to dedicate his life to becoming a summoner just as his mother had before him.��He became full-fledged summoner on his eighteenth birthday when his prayers to the Fayth were answered & he was able to summon Ifrit, the Aeon of the Kilika temple. He travels with his sister as his primary guardian. 

[ragnor-lives]

Who the hell is Madeleine Bellefleur?

[affcgato-archived]

via infinito // fandom verse

Final Fantasy X. Jonathan is the son of High Summoner Fairchild, who gave her life summoning the Final Aeon to banish Sin & bring the Calm. Born in Bevelle after a wedding between the Summoner & Maester Valentine in a union that they knew would bring the people hope, Jonathan & his little sister were left in the care of the Yevonite priests when Jocelyn departed to finish her pilgrimage.

tag: → jonathan morgenstern // via infinito (v. — ffx)

When he was four years old, an attack close to home decimated one of the temples, driving his mother to take up her staff again & resume the pilgrimage she had temporarily put on hold. By the end of the year, she had achieved her goal; Sin was defeated, the Calm had arrived… & brother & sister were left without their mother & the father who had given himself over to perform the final summoning.

Madeleine Bellefleur, one of his mother’s friends, came to the city & took him & his sister away to Kilika so that they might live a quiet life. The Fairchild Calm was much needed, but fleeting. By the time he was eight, Jonathan decided to dedicate his life to becoming a summoner just as his mother had before him. He became full-fledged summoner on his eighteenth birthday when his prayers to the Fayth were answered & he was able to summon Ifrit, the Aeon of the Kilika temple.

[kaitcreates]

The Shadohunter Chronicles Character Showdown

First Round, Second Round, Third Round, Fourth Round, Fifth Round, Semi-Finals, Finals

Rosemary Herondale vs Arthur Blackthorn, (Feb 23)

Celine Montclaire vs Diego Rocio-Rosales, (Feb 24)

Maureen Brown vs Anna Lightwood, (Feb 25)

Christopher Lightwood vs Ragnor Fell, (Feb 26)

Julian Blackthorn vs Livvy Blackthorn, (Feb 27)

Bridget Daly vs Jon Cartwright, (Feb 28)

Nate Grey vs Sona Carstairs, (Feb 29)

Gabriel Lightwood vs Madeleine Bellefleur, (Mar 1)

Paige Ashdown vs Rupert Blackthorn, (Mar 2)

Valentine Morgenstern vs Kraig, (Mar 3)

Andrew Blackthorn vs Irene, (Mar 4)

Axel Mortmain vs Thais Pedroso, (Mar 5)

Kit Herondale vs Ke Yi Tian, (Mar 6)

The Dark Sisters vs Filomina di Angelo, (Mar 7)

Lucie Herondale vs Simon Lovelace-Lewis, (Mar 8)

Shiyun Jung vs Cameron Ashdown, (Mar 9)

Elias Carstairs vs Tavvy Blackthorn, (Mar 10)

Luke Greymark vs Will Herondale, (Mar 11)

Ash Morgenstern vs Matthew Fairchild, (Mar 12)

Sophie Collins vs Jaime Rocio-Rosales, (Mar 13)

Catarina Loss vs Tessa Grey, (Mar 14)

Jessamine Lovelace vs Woolsey Scott, (Mar 15)

Diana Wrayburn vs Magnus Lightwood-Bane, (Mar 16)

James Herondale vs Jesse Blackthorn, (Mar 17)

Sebastian Morgesnstern vs Ty Blackthorn, (Mar 18)

Julie Beavul vs Tatiana Lightwood, (Mar 19)

Meliorn vs Helen Blackthorn, (Mar 20)

Alexander Lightwood vs Arawn, (Mar 21)

Jace Lightwood-Herondale vs Michael Wayland, (Mar 22)

Raphael Santiago vs Kieran Kingson, (Mar 23)

Marisol Garza vs Hypatia Vex, (Mar 24)

Dru Blackthorn vs Ari Bridgstock, (Mar 25)

Eugenia Lightwood vs Bat Velasquez, (Mar 26)

Eliza Rosewain vs Rafael Lightwood-Bane, (Mar 27)

Anush Joshi vs Seelie Queen, (Mar 28)

Church vs Cecily Herondale, (Mar 29)

Annabel Blackthorn vs Robert Lightwood, (Mar 30)

Beatriz Mendoza vs Malcolm Fade, (Mar 31)

Jocelyn Fairchild vs Max Lightwood-Bane, (Apr 1)

Imogen Whitlaw vs Jem Carstairs, (Apr 2)

Mother Hawthorn vs Chairman Meow, (Apr 3)

Manuel Casales-Villalobos vs Barbra Lightwood, (Apr 4)

Cordelia Carstairs vs Benedict Lightwood, (Apr 5)

Divya Joshi vs Lily Chen, (Apr 6)

Patrick Penhallow vs Alastair Carstairs, (Apr 7)

Isabelle Lightwood vs Mark Blackthorn, (Apr 8)

Amatis Greymark vs George Lovelace, (Apr 9)

Maryse Lightwood vs Elliott, (Apr 10)

Alexei de Quincey vs Elyas the Demon, (Apr 11)

Hodge Starkweather vs Henry Branwell, (Apr 12)

Camille Belcourt vs Auraline, (Apr 13)

Aline Penhallow vs Roland Loss, (Apr 14)

Johny Rook vs Stephen Herondale, (Apr 15)

Rayan Maduabuchi vs Alec Lightwood-Bane, (Apr 16)

Esme Hardcastle vs Jordan Kyle, (Apr 17)

Grace Blackthorn vs Evelyn Highsmith, (Apr 18)

Jia Penhallow vs Charles Fairchild, (Apr 19)

Horace Dearborn vs Max Lightwood, (Apr 20)

Emma Carstairs vs Mina Carstairs, (Apr 21)

Charlotte Fairchild vs Aloysius Starkweather, (Apr 22)

Janus Herondale vs Zachary Carstairs, (Apr 23)

Gwyn ap Nudd vs Clary Fairchild, (Apr 24)

Maia Roberts vs Gideon Lightwood, (Apr 25)

Thomas Lightwood vs Cristina Mendoza-Rosales, (Apr 26)

[beclynn-herondale]

Chapter 5 is out. I literally feel like I have been so inactive and slow and I am sorry. I've been unmotivated and busy with life. Work demotivates me and takes all my energy. But I had the energy to post this chapter.

Tag list: @khaleesiofalicante @chibi-tsukiko @spotsandclawsthings @megs-readstoomuch @magnus-the-maqnificent @userpurple @my-archerboy @jazzkaurtheglorious @simply-ellas-stuff @bookfast-at-tiffanys @radisv @amchara @vickchan2 (let me know if you want to be added)

[khaleesiofalicante]

LBAF & Etymology etc

Happiest of Name Days to Vicky. Here is a little treat for you @fangirlingismygame because I love you so. 💙

There is a tradition started by Diego and Cristina in the Rosales family where the children are named after the letter A. Cami and Theia were almost named Athena and Aurora respectively. 

Gwen was named by Lance as such because Lancelot and Guinevere is one of the first love stories David taught Lance. 

Joan and Atlas don’t have a middle name. Cami and Arjun’s middle names are Rosales and Iris’ middle name is Jazmín.

Iris was named after the particular flower because it’s the flower Mallory left over Selena’s ‘grave’ when she buried her under the snow in LBAF IV. Gabriel picked it because it’s the flowers that helped them find and save Selena during that day. 

While Joan was named after a combination of Jonathan and Julian, she is also named after Joan of Arc - who is in fact considered a national and feminist hero in France. 

The name Madeleine derives from the biblical character Mary Magdalene. 

It's mentioned that Joseph and Madeleine are the 'It Couple' in the Clave. Their ship name used to be Belleheart (Bellefleur + Goldheart) meaning beautiful heart.

Régine’s middle name was going to be Davina, a female variant of the name David. Madeleine and Joseph kept it as secret to reveal it to David after she was born, but Madeleine ended up not naming her daughter that way. 

The name Silverstone (Lance and Arthur’s school) is based on a Formula 1 Grand Prix in the England. 

Harry’s surname Anh (Vietnamese) means intellectual and bright. 

Arthur names all the animals he cares for and brings home after characters from his school plays and favourite musicals. 

The Lightwood-Bane, because of Max and David’s mundane wedding and now mundane life, is one of the only names that is registered and documented accordingly to mundane law. It means mavid family can vote in mundane elections - among other things. 

Prince of Darkness is a name actually used to refer to Lucifer in Manichaeism (a former major religion during the the 3rd century). Prince of Darkness, in LBAF, was inspired by the Shakespearean quote in King Lear (Act 3 Scene 4) “The Prince of Darkness is a gentlemen” hinting that devil will disguise himself as a good man in order to deceive you.

The Crimson King, in several interpretations, refers to a malevolent and evil force - including in Stephen King’s Dark Tower Series. 

Both Iris and Hermes are names of two famous greek gods both known for being messengers.

Hermes last name Cain is similar to most warlock names - single syllable and has a dark/sad meaning. Cain refers to ‘first murderer’ from the bible after Cain and Abel. 

Everyone in the family pronounces Lance’s name with the British pronunciation (David was adamant about using it) while everyone in his school (including Harry) uses the American pronunciation. 

The only people (whom he knows) who don’t refer to Arthur as AJ are David and Kincaid.

Joan’s dog’s full name is Oliver Twist - named after a famous fictional character like all Herondale/Fairchild pets.

Other Max no longer goes by Lightwood-Bane and has a different surname in the Other Timeline (his present/our future).  

Arjun is named after an infamous archer in Indian mythology. 

Before Lance found about Kincaid’s destiny, Crimson King used to be one of his favourite bands - they’re a famous rock band from the 1960s and 70s. 

And finally, Lance and Arthur were the names I had picked out for my own children, but I gave it to Mavid because I love them so much and wanted my unborn, imaginary children to have two wonderful parents. 

[mhazgain]

Berger des Pyrénnées

Le berger d’Aydius

Pierre Loustaunau est né  et baptisé le 16 août 1754. Ses parents, âgés d’environ 35 ans, modestes paysans,  s’appelaient lors de leurs noces, neuf  ans plus tôt, Martin Latourette et Marie Bergès. S’ils sont  nommés  ensuite Loustaunau,  c’est sans doute  en raison  la maison qu’ils habitaient.  Pierre est le cinquième enfant, mais les trois aînés meurent jeunes, et sa sœur Madeleine, d’un an plus âgée, s’éteint elle-même alors qu’il  a 17 ans,  ce qui le laisse seul héritier. Ce n’est donc plus une condition de cadet qui peut le  pousser à l’émigration ;  mais sans doute y avait-t-il songé auparavant.

 Participa-t-il, entre ses quinze et ses vingt ans,   comme nous l’avons supposé à la suite de Yan Priat auteur “La main d’argent”, aux grands travaux de la mâture, qui dureront jusqu’en 1780 ? C’est possible, mais rien ne le prouve. Son départ pour Bordeaux puis  vers les Indes parait en revanche certain. L’historien Roger  Dupierris a montré  que  la communauté  d‘Aydius élisait alors chaque année des jurats et des employés communaux dont un “gardien des chèvres”  Mais  ce n’est pas à ce titre,  que  Loutaunau, sur ses vingt ans, pourra partir. En  1776, le gardien des chèvres est François Casnoube, dit Pacq. De plus, la transhumance n’est pas dans ses attributions.  Elle devait être l’affaire de chaque famille. Pour les riches maisons possédant vaches et brebis, c’était  un fils ou un oncle cadet  qui les conduisait vers  le piémont. Mais les familles n’ayant qu’une ou quelques chèvres (la vache du pauvre) devaient bien  être forcées de s’entendre et de trouver,   un gardien commun. Pierre Loustaunau fut certainement celui-là. Sinon, l’on ne voit pas  l’intérêt qu’il aurait pù avoir, par la suite à s’accuser d’un abus de confiance,.

     L’embarquement à Bordeaux

 Le voici donc à Bordeaux, deux années de suite, en 1775 et 1776.  faisant  brouter  ses chèvres dans les campagnes proches , puis les menant dans les rue de la  ville en criant comme tant d’autres : “Leyt de crabe, qui en booù ?” .. Un marin rencontré sur les quais de la Gironde le tente de partir avec lui pour les Indes. Il vend   les chèvres dont il avait la garde pour  constituer son pécule  et s’embarque  le  17 novembre 1776 à bord du vaisseau “Le Sartines”, armé par Lafond de Labedat,  commandé par le capitaine le Coronat, en partance pour les Indes. Embarqué comme mousse, Loustaunau ne tarde pas à être embauché comme valet et secrétaire par un passager , le  Chevalier de Saint Lubin.. Qu’il sache écrire va de soi.  On connait  le fort taux  d’alphabétisation des garçons en Aspe. Son père avait  lui-même signé de sa main “Martin” sur le registre de baptême, et son parrain Gradiou était le  “régent” du village,.

   Après  de cinq mois de navigation autour de l’Afrique, le  Sartines  accoste le  11 avril 1777 au port  de Chaoul  près de Bombay  en territoire Mahratte. Les Mahrattes sont une confédération de tribus brahmaniques  peu favorables aux Anglais,  plutôt alliés    du Grand Mogol, empereur musulman  du Bassin du Gange, d’où le souci  du royaume de France de leur apporter des aides et des armes.   

 Depuis le  Traité de Paris en 1763, la France ne conserve plus aux Indes que les cinq comptoirs naguère récités par le écoliers  : Pondichéry, Chandernagor, Yanaon,  Mahé et  Karikal.  Mais elle  continue à mener contre les Anglais qui dominent le pays, une lutte d’influences. Et une nouvelle guerre franco-anglaise va éclater en 1778. 

 Le vaisseau Le Sartines,   arrive   aux Indes avec un chargement d’armes  et  le sieur  Pallebot de Saint-Lubin est  agent double (et trouble) mentionné parmi les “Aventuriers aux Indes “ de Maurice Besson .Ayant déjà séjourné aux Indes et a eu,  avant le départ, un entretien avec le ministre de Sartines. Sitôt débarqué; il    prend l’initiative d’une ambassade auprès des Mahrattes et  pour les impressionner, constitue une escorte d’apparat avec l’équipage du bateau, “turquerie” qui  amuse beaucoup  son secrétaire Loustaunau. Mais Saint-Lubin va  trop loin : il s’approprie aussi pour faire des présents à ses hôtes des biens que  l’armateur comptait revendre. Son délégué à bord, le subrécargue,  veut  intervenir. Les Mahrattes l’emprisonnent  comme un trublion.   Saint-Lubin, voyant les choses mal tourner, s’est enfui sans demander son reste ;  il connait bien le pays.    Voilà donc notre Loustaunau sans navire et sans emploi. 

    Heureusement pour lui,  un diplomate   français,   M de Montigny,  présents aux Indes, ayant eu vent de l’affaire,  le 30 juillet 1778 dans les parages.  Loustaunau se présente à lui, et lui fait un récit si plaisant de “la turquerie”  que Montigny, à son tour,   le prend à son service.  C’est donc à ses côtés que le berger d’Aydius fait une deuxième entrée à la cour de Poona, Son patron le présente au prince  Scindiah qui,  bientôt, prend lui-même le Béarnais à son service.

     Les souverains indiens sont souvent en guerre les uns contre les autres, Tous  ont  des armées, constituées de “partis”   souvent dirigés par  des aventuriers européens, exercés dans l’art de la guerre, Ainsi dans le camp de Scindiah, le  Portugais de Norogne, neveu d’un évêque, commande  800 hommes. Assistant à un défilé de ces troupes, avec leurs uniformes et leurs éléphants, Pierre Loustaunau sent naître en lui une vocation de guerrier. Montigny consent à lui donner une lettre de recommandation auprès de Norogne.

  Cela tombe bien. Les hostilités s’ouvrent entre Scindiah et  son rival, un  autre  Mahratte  le prince Ragoba, armé par les Anglais   Les soldats de Scindiah ont encerclé l’adversaire, mais ceux -cid  fortifiés sur une hauteur, résistent bien  avec leur artillerie.  Loustaunau remarque  une autre éminence voisine et  propose à Norogne d’y percher  ses  propres canons. Le Portugais prend mal cette remarque d’un  jeune civil ; mais elle est rapportée par un officier  mahratte,   au Prince..-”En somme,  dit  Scindiah, ce Français ne veut pas d’argent, mais seulement des canons? - Donnez-les lui, avec mes meilleurs canonniers.” - Loustaunau met en place les canons.  La bataille est gagnée et c’est pour lui le début d’une fulgurante carrière.

 Le général à la main d’argent

  Le Prince Scindia, qui,  lui offre une bourse d’or, un cheval, un sabre symbolique, et lui propose de commander une de ses armées. Loustaunau  hésite d’abord, mais Montigny,  à court d’argent,  quittant l’Inde. il finit par accepter;  il lève   un “parti ” de 2000 hommes, faisant  de la tribu des Rouillas, dont il a vu la bravoure,  sa garde d’honneur. Les  Anglais envoient contre les Mahrattes de Poona un corps de 5000 Cipayes.  Scindia, furieux,  veut faire attacher  à la bouche de canons, deux officiers   britanniques  prisonniers. mais Loustaunau le faire renoncer à cette mesure inhumaine. et  plus tard, ce geste, et quelques autres,  lui vaudront une certaine tolérance de la part des Anglais.

  À la bataille  de Chassipachner, le 16 janvier 1780  une charge  de Loustaunau à la tête de ses Rouillas permet une nouvelle victoire Mahratte.  Le chef  aspois y a perdu  une partie de la main gauche  emportée par la mitraille.  Mais un orfèvre hindou réussit à ciseler pour lui  une prothèse et il sera désormais connu comme “le chef invincible à la main d’argent”. En outre Scindia lui offre,   à Agra ,  à   cent  kilomètres  de Dehli,  un véritable palais où il peut  loger ses troupes, cent cinquante chevaux et trente éléphants de combat.

    L’année 1782 est celle de  la dernière tentative française de conquête des Indes. avec  le Bailly de Suffren et   le marquis de Bussy,  tous deux âgés. Elle échoue. Le 14 novembre 1783,  le Traité de Versailles laisse définitivement l’Inde à l’Angleterre, la France ne conservant que ses  fameux cinq comptoirs . Cette période guerrière aura  attiré de nouveaux mercenaires français, dont  le fameux Le Borgne, qui se fera bientôt appeler de Boigne, plus tard rival de Loustaunau,  pour l’heure, son allié.

 En 1784, aidé des Anglaises le rajah de God à s’empare de la forteresse de  Gwalior; Loustaunau, avec ses Rouillas et   trois mille Mogols, la reprend  le 30 juillet. Blessé u à l’épaule, il est cette fois proclamé “Lion de l’État et tigre de la guerre”

 Marié et père de famille

Profitant de la paix revenue, il épouse une  jolie “créole” de 17 ans, fille d’un officier  et d’une  française  établie aux Indes, Marie -Suzanne Poulet,  e 16 mai 1785, elle lui donne, à Delhi, son premier enfant, une fille, prénommée Madeleine, La même année,  Gulam Kadir, sultan musulman de   Lahore,  (aujourd’hui au Pakistan) déclare la guerre aux Mahrattes.  Elle sera longue et parfois indécise. Loustaunau qui  est encore intervenu pour sauver des prisonniers menacés est maintenant  passé au service d’un autre chef  mahratte, Ranjit Singh, rajah des Jath. Dans un ultime épisode, Guam Kadir, dont les cruautés ont fit l’unanimité contre lui est vaincu et décapité le 18 juin 1788  à la bataille de Chapsana.  Loustaunau a pu mettre la main sur le trésor du sultan  et va le conserver.

 Fortune faite

  “Il a mangé la grenouille” écrit un mémorialiste.  . En fait, son comportement s’explique .Il y a  douze ans qu’il guerroie et il a le droit d’être fatigué, d’autant que ses rivaux, comme de Boigne, montent en gloire. Et    le 16 septembre, en son palais d’Accra, Marie Loustaunau  donne le jour à un deuxième bébé, un garçon, cette  fois,  prénommé Jean-Baptiste.  L’humanité dont il a plusieurs fois fait preuve vis à vis de ses adversaires lui assure un accueil courtois en zone anglaise. Il y restera six ans.  Des pièces d’un “procès  Loustaunau contre Fortier”, indiquent qu’il a vendu  son palais et s’adonne au commerce. Il aurait retrouvé à Chandernagor son protecteur de Montigny, mais celui-ci est destitué en 1790 par le Comité  révolutionnaire de la colonie. Notre Aspois se replie  à Calcutta, et prépare son voyage retour  vers la France, cependant que naît en 1792 son troisième enfant, une fille, Marie-Zoé. Il peut bientôt s’embarquer   avec sa femme, leurs trois  enfants, une servante nommée “jolie-fille”, et sa belle-mère, Élisabeth de Bellefleur, veuve Omar-Poulet.

 Châtelain en Bigorre

   La famille débarque à Marseille  début  1793, alors que Louis XVI est  décapité  Et Loustaunau  voit  ses roupies converties en 200.000 francs d’assignats en papier. Il lui reste heureusement  diamants et  pierres précieuses. Prudemment, il met pied à terre, à Tarbes,   rue de la Cité, (aujourd’hui  rue de la Victoire) et c’est là que la petite Marie-Françoise-Zoé est déclarée à  l’état-civil.  Loustaunau s’empresse de transformer ses assignats en bien  foncier, en achetant le ler février 1793 le château de Lacassagne  et ses 200 ha  au nord de la ville  au ci-devant  de Castelbajac,  qui, veut  payer ses dettes et  se faire oublier.

     C’est là , selon l’état-civil, que le 4 floréal an  IV (13 avril 1794)   “la citoyenne Jolie-Fille, noire indienne restante chez le citoyen Pierre Loustaunau est accouchée d’un enfant mâle auquel on a donné le prénom de Guillaume”. Peut-être ne faut-il pas chercher loin le “père inconnu” ?  Mais en l’absence de tout autre document, restons prudents.

  D’autres enfants, légitimes ceux-ci, vont bientôt grandir au château : Marianne, ou Marie-Anne, née le 4 floréal an IV (7 avril 1795), Jean Pierre né le 3 pluviôse an X (25 janvier 1802).

  En 1801, Loustaunau se rend à Paris pour inscrire son  aîné, Jean-Baptiste,  qui a  14 ans, au Lycée impérial. En1799 puis en 1801 il écrit à Bonaparte  pour lui proposer un plan détaillé de reconquête des Indes,  mais sans réponse.   Il ne reste   à Loustaunau que les affaires.

   Le 18 février 1801 il revend le domaine de Lacassagne, cette  fois en bonne monnaie, au préfet Bertrand Lannes, frère du maréchal.    Puis le 26 février 1802)  , dans l’étude de Me Desberts, notaire tarbais,  il achète, au nom de son épouse, à Daniel Guichard une part de “Ferreries d’Urdos”.  Il s’agit des Forges, dénommées par la suite Forges d’Abel,

 Le maître de forges

  L’ancien chevrier ne peut pas remettre les pieds  en Aspe  sans quelques précautions.  C’est à Pau qu’il  achète pour pied à terre  la maison voisine de l’actuel Hôtel de Ville. Puis il va indemniser les petits propriétaires d’Aydius qu’il avait  jadis dépouillés de leurs chèvres. Il se serait présenté à l’entrée du village  en homme de loi chargé d’une mission par un ancien berger  pour remettre aux victimes un sac d’or et c’est alors seulement que  dévoilant son  identité,  il  aurait lancé  “Adiù Aydius, nou-m bédéras plus jamey” (Adieu Aydius, tu ne me reverras plus). Aucun document n’atteste cet épisode.  M. Dupierris l’estimait pure légende.  Au contraire,  Lucien Labarrère pensait avoir recueilli un témoignage crédible de la part d’un habitant, M Loustau, descendant d’un Manauthon, adjoint au maire de l’époque,.   

    Voici donc Loustaunau Maître de Forges. À la place des traditionnelles forges catalanes,  il édifie le premier haut-fourneau des Pyrénées et embauche une cinquantaine d’ouvriers dont  des Basques et des Espagnols, et bâtit des logements pour eux. Utilisant comme combustible le bois des forêts d’Etsaut,   et comme minerai les “pierres noires” ferrugineuses de Peyranère, il va pendant trois ans produire  fonte et acier. 

        Cependant une série de malheurs vont s’abattre sur lui.  Le  1er juillet  1805 meurt à Tarbes sa  fille Marie-Françoise-Zoé. La maman, son épouse, la rejoint dans la tombe   le  21 septembre . 

 Dans le même temps, Loustaunau semble avoir perdu sa fortune, car les filles  de l’ancien châtelain seront plus tard déclarées “indigentes”. La rentabilité des Forges était doute décevante et un long  procès l’a opposé à l’Oloronais  Jacques Fourcade, son commis,   qu’il a  licencié pour  absence.    Le  1er novembre  1806 devant Me Pourilhon, notaire impérial à Sarrance,  il signe un  contrat  avec un associé, M.  Feytout qui, en fait,  percevra les deux-tiers des bénéfices.

   Seule bonne nouvelle  en début d’été 1808 : son fils aîné est nommé sous-lieutenant  et sera même  bientôt promu lieutenant,  au combat,  en Espagne. Mais cela, son père ne le saura pas,  car, ultime malheur, le  27 octobre 1808 un raid des guérilleros  espagnols  incendie et détruit les Forges.  On ne retrouve de lui que son cheval, et on le  croit mort. Il a seulement  disparu.

 Le prisonnier des Barbaresques

  La période qui suit, de 1808 à 1812, est   la plus obscure de toutes. Selon son récit,  Loustaunau,  errant à demi fou , est fait prisonnier par les Espagnols et conduit à Mahon, aux Baléares. Là,  la ci-devant Duchesse d’Orléans, qui voyage à bord d’un brick anglais, lui  donne quelque secours  qui   lui permettent de s’embarquer vers l’Égypte   Mais  son navire est capturé par des pirates, et le voilà  en Algérie; esclave des Barbaresques. Au bout de trois ans,  il s’évade vers Alexandrie puis gagne en Syrie Saint-Jean d’Acre   pensant  se joindre à une caravane vers l’Asie. Mais sa raison a vacillé, il  ne trouve point de caravane, il a dû  pour survivre  vendre sa  main d’argent ; il  erre, son moignon enveloppé d’un chiffon rouge,  prophétisant,  bible en main, et recueillant des aumônes.  Un résident européen le prend en pitié. et obtient pour lui un poste de surveillant des  jardins de Haiffa.

 L’ami de la Châtelaine du Liban

  Dernière chance de sa vie : l’aventurière anglaise  Lady  Hester Stanhope, prototype de  “la Châtelaine du Liban” est séduite par  ses  récits merveilleux. Elle envoie un jour, par l’intermédiaire d’un commerçant de  Marseille, 1.000 frs à  la famille Loustaunau restée à Tarbes. Bientôt Jean Baptiste Loustaunau, brillant capitaine sous l’Empire mais demi-solde sous la Restauration le rejoint. Il  débarque  le 3 janvier 1820 à Saïda où  arrivée est notée par le consul.    L’Anglaise aux 44 printemps s’éprend de ce beau soldat de 32 ans.  Mais, hélas,  le 18 août 1820, Jean-Baptiste Loutaunau meurt chez lady Stanhope. On ne saura jamais si c’est de maladie ou de poison.

 La fin  du héros et de sa lignée

  Désormais, les  traces de Pierre Loustaunau se font rares. En 1838, une correspondance de Lady Stanhope et du Dr Meryon indique que “le prophète vit confortablement dans sa nouvelle maison”. Mais elle-même expire de tuberculose l’année suivante   le 11 mars 1839.

En 1840, Ferdinand Perrier,  aide de camp de Soliman Pacha en Égypte, regagnant la France et passant par Saïda, décrit ce “vieillard extrêmement remarquable qui se tient à la porte de l’hospice français, à la physionomie toujours noble ,à la main gauche  mutilée  (…)” dont il recueille le récit;

C’est la dernière vision que l’on ait de Pierre Loustaunau.  Il avait 86 ans  On suppose qu’il est mort peu après.

      Quant à ses autres  enfants, Anne et Marianne Loustaunau, toutes deux institutrices  sont mortes célibataires. Jean-Pierre Loustaunau, né  le 25 janvier 1802, officier d’administration, est mort en Algérie à 55 ans. Il était marié, mais sans enfants Aucun des quatre enfants survivants n’aura  donc eu de descendance connue et légitime. Une incertitude demeure  sur  une concertiste de la deuxième moitié du XIXe  qui se  selon un journal   présentait comme “la petite fille du général des Indes”. On ignore tout d’elle.’ 

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