#Marsac

[take2intotheshower]

The Deserter.

(The Musketeers Season 1, Episode 4 - The Good Soldier)

[wingsofhcpe]

I love how so many of us in the musketeers fandom has sort of just decided that marsac and aramis were exes and accepted it as canon. Like, the vibes between them point so much to that, that many of us went "huh..." and just rolled with it.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Interior of the church in Marsac, Marche region of central France

French vintage postcard

[musketeermaiden]

[enigma-the-mysterious]

It always irks me how they just had to make Marsac assault Constance because otherwise the audience was getting too attached to him as he was incredibly fucked over by the system and dammit the man made some extremely valid points!!!

[dragongutsixofficial]

Thoughts on episode 4 s1:

I love Tréville and Richelieu's interactions. I need to see more of them together on screen

How does Tréville's coat hang on his shoulder like that ?????

During that confrontation scene the gang looked ready to throw him down the fucking stairs. He knew

Louis XIII is actually a pretty nice character so far !! I'm surprised oAo

The Duke of Savoy being surprised over Athos wanting to kill him while book!Athos never needed a reason to kill anyone

A bit disappointed that the King's sister wasn't the evil mastermind all along but the intrigue still slayed

Not enough Milady. but Richelieu was there so it's all good

Constance if your fate is anything like it is in the book you better learn to shoot and fight like a pro

Did Aramis put his own sword on Marsac's grave ? If so, I'll be checking if he still uses it in the next episode. "actually I need this, sorry bro"

[wingsofhcpe]

so uh

"Old friend" is a gayass thing to call someone

[zanephillips]

JULIEN DRION Spiral #2.01

[seance]

THE MUSKETEERS 10TH ANNIVERSARY REWATCH / fave episodes [2/?] ↳ SEASON 1, EPISODE 4 / the good soldier

[take2intotheshower]

The Traitor.

(The Musketeers Season 1, Episode 4 - The Good Soldier)

[enigma-the-mysterious]

And a wild J J Feild appears xD

Me, just chilling, watching BBC The Musketeers: JJ Feild?!

[wingsofhcpe]

[AI-less Whumptober 2023, Day 16: Chronic Pain]

After Marsac's death, Aramis spirals.

Character(s): Aramis/René d'Herblay, Athos/Comte de la Fère, Porthos du Vallon, d'Artagnan

Relationship(s): Aramis/René d'Herblay & Athos/Comte de la Fère & Porthos du Vallon & d'Artagnan

Rating: T

[postcard-from-the-past]

Château de Marsac, Marche region of central France

French vintage postcard

[musketeermaiden]

every day i wake up, and i long for more Aramis/Marsac, pre-canon fics

(this would be fixed if i just opened my Musketeer word document and started typing)

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

plus france abducted his chancellor because - still from the duke's pov - cluzet had sniffed out the plot + was advising the duke to ally with spain instead. yes cluzet was a spanish spy before that, but why is that treated like an unforgivable sin when the duchess being a french spy is considered brave and praiseworthy and worth the life of 20 musketeers? OBVIOUSLY cluzet was going to think it was better to side with the country that wasn't trying to kill his head of state??

and yeah the duke slaughtered the musketeers and it was dishonorable to attack them when they were unprepared but it's richelieu and treville offered up the musketeers regiment as a sacrifice. from the duke's perspective, a neighboring superpower with a vested interest in getting his half-french son on his throne was making an incursion into his territory to murder him. he wasn't taking any chances and frankly all the main characters of the show, even the good guys, are personally responsible for stuff that is WAY more morally reprehensible than taking an assassination squad by surprise. it's france's fault he thought they were assassins, so his retaliation is on them. his sentiment that france is "a nation of liars and cheats" is entirely justified from the info he has (the info he was purposely fed by france), and I'd argue he'd have even more reasons to hate and distrust them if he knew the whole truth. the whole episode is a shabby cover-up of a previous cover-up and we're supposed to be happy the duke gets duped into signing that treaty with a government that has done nothing but threaten his sovereignty and treat him like an idiot and a pawn.

and let's not forget that while the first "coup" was only a misdirection to protect the duchess, richelieu starts hinting at plotting a real one WITHIN SECONDS OF THE TREATY BEING SIGNED AT THE END. the duke is right all along the line. apart from generally being extremely unpleasant of a person I'd say he didn't deserve that bullshit and he should have gone with the spanish alliance. aramis and treville's reconciliation over being "soldiers who follow their orders no matter where they lead, even to death" is huhhhhhhhhhh. an interesting conclusion to this particular episode.

rewatching the savoy episode, huhhhhh.... the duke isn't the bad guy? he's rude and brash and arrogant and brutal, but from an objective standpoint he wasn't the villain of the situation. we all hate him because the savoy massacre was awful and we don't like to see aramis be sad, but france started it all when, from his pov, they tried to have him assassinated out of political convenience. it's not like he set out to kill people for fun.

[nudesnoises]

Laure Marsac in "Interview With A Vampire"