#about laurence

[chiropteracupola]

you can turn anyone into little creechures :)

[emily-e-draws]

bedtime stories (a mathematics textbook)

[captainjonnitkessler]

Granby: Laurence you have to help me, Izkierka is trying to marry me off to the Empress

Hammond: Laurence you have to help me, this dragon is trying to adopt me and she will NOT take no for an answer

Laurence, to whom the plot has been happening for seven straight books and is honestly just glad to not be the only one anymore: Yeah sometimes stuff like that happens, I find it's best to just accept it

[avocado-hater]

If I had a nickle for everytime I've seen Timmy C marrying Florence P even tho he is in love with someone else I'd have two nickles which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[slimyshield]

bro. you're telling me that laurence had full on amnesia. like "weeks have passed and I still can't remember anything" amnesia. "the doctor thinks that if I haven't remembered anything by now I never will" amnesia. and the sight of his beloved dragon of eight years did not jog his memory, nor being told of various huge events in his life, including literal treason, which years after the fact still weighed heavily on him. none of that helped. I repeat: not even temeraire, the one living being above all others whose company he preferred. not seeing granby, who he knew almost as long as he knew temeraire, or berkeley or harcourt, or even emily roland, who looks a good deal like her mother, the woman laurence was lowkey dating for years. no, you're telling me that what jogged his memory at long last was seeing tharkay, who he had not known before temeraire; and he called him by his first name even as he remembered everything. and then he called in a favor to thee Napoleon Bonaparte, a favor earned when laurence committed treason, a favor that laurence practically vowed never to cash in on, in order to save tharkay's life even though he had also just realized tharkay was a spy, which laurence was super pissed about. and then later tharkay invited laurence and temeraire to live on his estate with him. as though this is all happening in a fucking romance novel instead of a nine-book series about the napoleonic wars. and I'm supposed to be normal about it??? I'm supposed to think that laurence and roland wound up together when tharkay is right there??? I Could Not Believe Mine Own Eyes reading the last two pages of league of dragons. oh my god

[lem0nicle]

humphrey my beloved

[istadris]

Laurence's most famous actions take place during his years as an Aerial Corps captain/admiral, and he will go down in history as Captain Will Laurence Of Temeraire, but his naval past remains the biggest part of his career as a soldier and he will never forget his roots.

And neither will his friends from the Corps.

In fact, they will NOT let him forget. Even years into his service in the Corps, even if he has taken to aviator life like a fish to water, even if everyone has a deep respect for him as a dragon captain (and still thinks of him as a competent aviator after The Events), even if he would look weird in blue Navy uniform to anyone who has known him since 1805, deep down in everyone's mind, he's still basically the Token Naval Guy.

Someone has a question about ships or sea? Immediately asks Laurence.

A Navy captain makes the news? "Was it one of your former buddies, Laurence?" "For the last time, I don't know every single captain sailing in England"

Jokes about seamen? Laurence braces himself because half of the time he's included in the joke, even if the punchline is making fun of how he is Not Like The Other Navymen

A couple of years after the war, Emily and Demane unexpectedly drop by in a rush and Laurence panics for a moment, before it turns out they want to settle if a weird fact they heard about sailing life is true, and of all their social circle, the only man who can answer the question AND be honest is Will Laurence.

And yet if someone outside the Corps calls Laurence a sailor, every single aviator will scoff at you and sneer that excuse you, that's Captain Laurence, respectable aviator of the Aerial Corps, that you're talking about, Sir.

[saildraws]

hide & seek

[choiraugur]

i havent drawn laurence in a hot minute

[heraldofcrow]

Marika burying her Omen children underground like she was trying to bury and erase any form of warning regarding death and the future. Every cruel course of action she took was poetically motivated by the fear of Death in the same way Gwyn feared the Dark in the Souls series, as he took every chance to try and seal it away. Miyazaki’s overarching villains or morally corrupt gods are almost always driven by fear.

It’s my favorite thing about them.

[guillottiine]

Judgment Day

[chiropteracupola]

A very fine captain, and a finer friend.

[emily-e-draws]

temeraire!!!

a sneak peek from my latest batch of sketches up on patreon :-)

[soft-likethesunset]

they hated him for his cunty hair and unabashed whimsy.

[loadingbones]

Can I request a doodle of Ludwig and Laurence kissing, if you're still taking doodle requests?

Or hand holding it is entirely up to you thank you so much, your art is wonderful and so inspiring!

Just know I was jumping for joy when I saw this one 🫰🏻♥️ and thank u!! I’m so happy you like my art!! 😭

Headcanon of the day: they get caught kissing at least once a week

[borealing]

Yonderland 3x04 Boo

Cake Bake Lady Edith the woman of my dreams