#Trevanion

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“He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.”

Melina Marchetta, "Finnikin of the Rock"

[provincara]

Rereading the Lumatere Chronicles and damn so many of the couples in this series had horrible first impressions like???? Finnikin was so pissed when Isaboe joined him and Topher and then even more pissed when he realized she was just as smart as him, Trevanion yelled at Beatriss for being incompetent and then she slapped him in the face when HE was incompetent, Froi called Quintana a whore when he was like 5 feet from her room, pretty sure Perri and Tesadora tried to kill each other at some point?? even more minor couples like August and Abian ("pity the man who shares her bed" sir that would be YOU) and Harker and Jorja ("he hated me for the first five years of our marriage!") And don't even get me started on Lucian and Phaedra

But then they all kind of juxtapose beautifully with Grijio and Florenza's meet-cute at the end of the series, like after all of the horrific things that happened to these people there's some hope for goodness in the future ya know? like finally a good start

[provincara]

ok so basically i think this is how this went down:

Trevanion: wow this kid is really special to us and we've given him so much knowledge and power in serious matters, i need to make sure he knows the responsibility that comes with it and is able to make good decisions but also remind him that we're proud of what he's accomplished "You're a weapon, Froi. The best we've ever created"

Froi: that's right, all i am is a base human who has now become a killing machine because i'm not worthy of becoming something better and more dignified

why would he say this.

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I never minded Evanjalin in the beginning of the series. It was only in Quintana of Charyn that I came to dislike her (mainly because of how she treated the Charynite refugees and Lady Abian). There’s also a line in the first book about how Isaboe was able to heal her cat when she was little, but that no one knew that she hurt it first. So I think she always had this mean/ruthless streak in her.

And about the “Finn gets sent to the mines” plan that she put into action, Finnikin is furious with her about it when he reunites with her about escaping, and so is Trevanion. So she does suffer some consequences for it, even if Finnikin and Trevanion forgive her eventually.

Agreed about Trevanion and Beatriss. Their story is so heartbreaking and it’s one of my favorite parts of the series. I love how it’s so realistic and shows us that sometimes there’s too much trauma to move forward together and that sometimes all you can do is go your separate way or wait. And that sometimes a happy ending can take years to happen.

I forgot how much I wanted to murder Evanjalin in the beginning of that series.

“I am gonna get you sent as a condemned slave to the mines with no warning in hopes this will further my restoration plan” is…ummmm.

The thing is, on reread I know and get her deep trauma and drive and need for vengeance and justice. But it still does not sit well with me, and never will. I both get why Finnikin gets over it and yet can never fully get over it myself.

The thing is, Finnikin x Evanjalin/Isaboe is very much the gender-reversed trope of sunshine girl x deeply fucked up hardened dude. And unlike fucked up x fucked up set up (see Warner x Juliette in Shatter Me, Dred x Jael in Dred Queen or even Froi x Quintana in this very series, not to mention 10x other stories) which is my favorite ship set up ever, the problem with sunshine x fucked up always becomes "well, I see what the fucked up one gets out of it, but how about the sunshine one?" In a lot of stories this gets circumvented by the fact that the mess is actually providing physical protection (the usual this is a dangerous environment/someone wants sunshine one dead/etc set up.) But Marchetta does not make it this easy here - Finnikin can fight just fine and he does not need protection from Isaboe (who cannot offer it anyway.) In fact, all the danger he faces is BECAUSE of Isaboe. The author thrusts it in your face and dares you to understand how trauma and desperation and cause can make people ugly and desperate and do all sorts of awful things. When I first read the trilogy, I ended up liking both Isaboe and Isaboe x Finnikin but it took me a very long time to get there and this is such an interesting thing. She is a person who will always put her cause above any person (even at the very end, if it came to cause v Finnikin, we know what she’d pick) and it’s a rare set up.

PS AAAAAAA Trevanion!!!! Our first glimpse of present day Trevanion.

Trevanion, Daddy of Finnikin and Daddy in every sense of that term.

He is actually probably my favorite character in this series (except Froi.) I find his character (and Lady Beatriss) such a heartbreaking deconstruction of a perfect warrior, perfect knight, perfect commander with a perfect oath and a perfect chivalric love story with a perfect lady. And then it's all destroyed in the most horrifying, brutal, prolonged, thorough way. And he's left alive and then what...

Out of all the happy endings in this series, I honestly find his and Beatriss' the most heartbreakingly hard won. They have some of the worst trauma but also unlike a lot of the other characters, they are not young and also they remember many years of peace and happiness and "before" so it's harder to adjust because of that as well.

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The mercenary 'Mechwarrior and the ComStar nun - Scene 14-4

The Black Riders inception

Her eyes drift to a large flag—white, with an orange disk and on it the black profile of a lobster tail helmet, scrolls listing Jolly Roger 3023, Sacred Mountain 3023, Ghost Shark 3024.

ALINA Your unit’s flag? I saw it flying over the castle. Is that… a samurai helmet?

VIKTOR The Black Riders’ standard. And you’re not the first to ask. The Drac garrison commander thought the same.

(He gestures toward it, warming up.) It’s a cuirassier helmet from the Thirty Years War time. My Trevanion ancestors in the English Civil War probably also wore one. Or maybe if they had worn one of those helmets instead of fancy hats with plumes they would still be alive. It was Schlosser idea. To name us the Schwarze Reiters, after the cuirassiers of the time and their blackened armor. You have seen our ‘Mechs, they are painted in the same way, with the edges polished. The reiters were known for their ferocity in combat and in pillaging. Black as a Reiter heart was the saying. That’s German humor, you should know. And no before you say it, we don’t go around pillaging, raping and burning.

(beat) Remember, burning always comes last. (laughter)

ALINA (chuckles) I believe you. Now. I was thinking about that general name, Boromir, he’s a character from Tolkien I think, and the Black Riders were the evil guys in that book. I thought you had taken it from there,

VIKTOR (exasperated) Not again! Schlosser! This is all your fault!

(frustrated, gesturing vaguely) Yes, there’s a mercenary regiment that has named itself the Uruk Hai after those evil creatures, the trolls.

(dismissive wave) But I haven’t read the Lord of the Five Rings or whatever was the name of the book. I will read it after I finish War and Peace

KATYA That means never. He ain’t started it yet. Never will.

VIKTOR Some day… Every scroll’s a campaign we survived. Jolly Roger was Bolat’s end. Sacred Mountain was Müller’s. Ghost Shark? That’s still under official secrecy and why we’re here—fresh off a Combine contract, now garrisoning Kirchbach.

ALINA (tilting her head) Why is the disk orange? That’s not a heraldic color.

VIKTOR (pleased) And you say you are not true nobility… Very observant. Honestly, we didn’t bother much with the crest—or the name. We didn’t think we’d last long. If I’d known we’d grow from a lance to a full battalion in three years, I’d have chosen something… catchier.

KATYA (teasing) What about Viktor’s Vampires?

(Viktor shoots her a sour look. Snickers ripple around the room.)

VIKTOR …And I couldn’t use the Starkov name. Starkov Sturmoviks would’ve made sense…

KATYA (snickering) More like Starkov Strippers!

(Laughter erupts. Viktor sighs in long-suffering exasperation.)

VIKTOR Shut up Katya!... because my family name back at Mira was associated with textiles, I told you they changed the name: "Starkov Silks, clothiers to the galaxy". It’s hard to have a reputation as a tough fearsome mercenary unit when the first result prospective employers find when checking your name in a business almanac is a firm famed for its luxury lingerie.

KATYA Your family sells silk panties? Can I get a discount?

VIKTOR Not anymore. After my father died in Tikonov, there was a servitor revolt and they burned down the factory. Should have kept those Davion dogs chained to the workbench…

(nervous laughter)

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Christine Trevanion

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I wonder whats your interpretation of 5075 or if they even exist in your world/canon idk

They do exist in my canon - they were very briefly mentioned by Trevanion in The Black Lord's Tragedy. At the time, I said they were Black Court because I was running the idea that Alagaddans had different goop colours inside them depending on their humour instead of them all having black, but if I revisited them, I'd have them as Red Court since they all had comedy masks. Also, being rebellious and angry would be very role-breaking for a Red Court Alagaddan.

I never really delved into them, whether they found their own way out or had help, if they tried to find the Black Lord but it was boxed up tight by the Foundation at the time. 035 knows they existed, it's collected what the Foundation knows about Alagadda from various researchers over the years, and wishes it could have heard their music. Unfortunately for it, the Porcelain Gang Bang made no recordings.

[schizografia]

Fin dall’infanzia m’ero imbevuto di un cosí fatto gusto per tali follie, che ora a me tornavano nel vaneggiamento del dolore. Ahimè, ben si poteva scoprire, lo sento, una traccia di incipiente follia nel fantastico fasto dei tendaggi, nelle solenni statue egizie, negli oggetti estrosi, nei mobili fantastici, nei dementi intrichi dei tappeti intessuti d’oro! M’ero fatto schiavo incatenato dell’oppio, e le mie travagliate opere, i miei ordini traevano colore dai miei sogni. Ma non indugerò a descrivere queste frenesie. Parlerò di un’unica camera, e di quella solo, esecrata per sempre, cui, in un momento di demenza, condussi dall’altare come mia sposa – la bionda, glauca d’occhi Lady Rowena Trevanion, di Tremaine, perché succedesse alla indimenticabile Ligeia.

Non v’è parte dell’architettura e della decorazione di quella stanza nuziale che non mi stia ora ben visibile davanti agli occhi. Che meditavano le anime altere della famiglia della sposa, che per sete d’oro permisero che una vergine, una figlia diletta varcasse la soglia di un luogo inorpellato a quel modo? L’ho detto, ricordo minutamente i particolari della stanza, sebbene altro, di grave importanza, giaccia in triste oblio. La stanza aveva sede in un’alta torre dell’abbazia fortezza; torre pentagonale e vasta. Occupava tutta la faccia meridionale del pentagono un’unica finestra – una lastra immensa e compatta di vetro veneziano – una lamina di color plumbeo, cosí che i raggi del sole o della luna attraversandola illuminavano di tetro lume gli oggetti dell’interno. Al di sopra della parte superiore di questa finestra enorme, si aggrovigliava l’intreccio di un rampicante annoso, che saliva su per le mura massicce della torre. Il soffitto, di buia quercia, si erigeva a stravagante altezza, ricurvo a volte minutamente lavorata con disegni eccentrici e grotteschi di invenzione tra gotica e druidica. Dal recesso piú recondito di questa malinconica volta pendeva, appeso ad un’unica catena di anelli d’oro, un incensiere dello stesso metallo, di disegno islamico, cosí ingegnosamente traforato che ne balenavano mutevoli fuochi, quasi mossi da serpentesca vitalità.

Ottomane, aurei candelabri di foggia orientale erano sparsi tutt’attorno, e vi era anche un talamo, un talamo nuziale di disegno indiano, basso, scolpito in solido ebano e protetto da un funereo baldacchino. Agli angoli della stanza si ergevano giganteschi sarcofaghi di granito nero, provenienti da una delle tombe regali di fronte a Luxor, chiusi dagli antichi coperchi fitti di arcaiche sculture. Ma ai tendaggi della sala, si affidava, ahimè, la fantasia suprema. Le vertiginose mura, di altezza gigantesca, sproporzionata, da cima a fondo erano ricoperte dalle ampie pieghe di una tappezzeria folta e massiccia, una stoffa che come tappeto ricopriva il suolo, rivestiva l’ottomana, e il letto d’ebano, e a quest’ultimo faceva da baldacchino, e a guisa di tenda con fastose volute parzialmente ricopriva le finestre. La stoffa era un ricchissimo tessuto d’oro. A intervalli irregolari lo chiazzavano arabeschi del diametro di un piede, lavorati in linee di un lucido nero. Ma codeste figure apparivano come arabeschi solo se contemplate da un unico punto di veduta. Con un procedimento ormai consueto e che risale all’antichità piú remota erano disegnate in modo tale da mutare aspetto. A chi sostava sulla soglia sembravano null’altro che mostruosità; ma, procedendo, le avrebbe viste trasformarsi; e, passo passo, il visitatore che avesse lentamente percorso la stanza, si sarebbe visto circondato da una interminabile successione di spettrali forme, care alla superstizione dei Normanni, e che riappaiono nella peccaminosa sonnolenza monacale. L’effetto fantastico era assai accresciuto da una impetuosa e ininterrotta corrente d’aria che, passando dietro ai tendaggi, dava al tutto una sinistra, conturbante agitazione.

Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia

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[provincara]

HOW could i forget the pronunciation tip scene 😭

as for his list: yes good start. would perabo have made it on their by this point? i can't remember when all his scenes were. and what about de lancey and tippideaux? again not sure on the timeline, also just not sure in general his feelings about them. i think there's a decent chance japhra is on there too

it's so interesting bc in this scene phaedra latched onto the fact that quintana came to her specifically and it focuses on their relationship, but it's really big for froi and phaedra's relationship as well. like we rarely (if ever???) got to see froi and phaedra interact before he left for charyn but she (and her kindness!!!) made such an impression on him that he chose to trust her

[dangermousie]

I forgot how much I wanted to murder Evanjalin in the beginning of that series.

“I am gonna get you sent as a condemned slave to the mines with no warning in hopes this will further my restoration plan” is…ummmm.

The thing is, on reread I know and get her deep trauma and drive and need for vengeance and justice. But it still does not sit well with me, and never will. I both get why Finnikin gets over it and yet can never fully get over it myself.

The thing is, Finnikin x Evanjalin/Isaboe is very much the gender-reversed trope of sunshine girl x deeply fucked up hardened dude. And unlike fucked up x fucked up set up (see Warner x Juliette in Shatter Me, Dred x Jael in Dred Queen or even Froi x Quintana in this very series, not to mention 10x other stories) which is my favorite ship set up ever, the problem with sunshine x fucked up always becomes "well, I see what the fucked up one gets out of it, but how about the sunshine one?" In a lot of stories this gets circumvented by the fact that the mess is actually providing physical protection (the usual this is a dangerous environment/someone wants sunshine one dead/etc set up.) But Marchetta does not make it this easy here - Finnikin can fight just fine and he does not need protection from Isaboe (who cannot offer it anyway.) In fact, all the danger he faces is BECAUSE of Isaboe. The author thrusts it in your face and dares you to understand how trauma and desperation and cause can make people ugly and desperate and do all sorts of awful things. When I first read the trilogy, I ended up liking both Isaboe and Isaboe x Finnikin but it took me a very long time to get there and this is such an interesting thing. She is a person who will always put her cause above any person (even at the very end, if it came to cause v Finnikin, we know what she’d pick) and it’s a rare set up.

PS AAAAAAA Trevanion!!!! Our first glimpse of present day Trevanion.

Trevanion, Daddy of Finnikin and Daddy in every sense of that term.

He is actually probably my favorite character in this series (except Froi.) I find his character (and Lady Beatriss) such a heartbreaking deconstruction of a perfect warrior, perfect knight, perfect commander with a perfect oath and a perfect chivalric love story with a perfect lady. And then it's all destroyed in the most horrifying, brutal, prolonged, thorough way. And he's left alive and then what...

Out of all the happy endings in this series, I honestly find his and Beatriss' the most heartbreakingly hard won. They have some of the worst trauma but also unlike a lot of the other characters, they are not young and also they remember many years of peace and happiness and "before" so it's harder to adjust because of that as well.

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