#and tharkay

[wombywoo]

Tenzing Tharkay, from the Temeraire series 🦅

[kingoftheu]

William Laurence truly has one of the funniest character arcs of all time. He does a complete 360 over the course of the series. Totally turned around yet somehow exactly where he started. He completely changed his worldview while being absolutely steadfast about it. He undergoes impressive character development while his character does not change at all. He is so damn stubborn about his preconceived notions of honor that he is willing to abandon his preconceived notions of dragons, gender, and race. He transcends the regency society he lives in not by breaking the confines of rigid values but by expanding those confines to include everyone.

[sarcasticbeanie]

Draws a little bit of tenzing tharkay for my mental health

[walkthebass]

I'm sorry, I'm still not over Tenzing "The 'journey' tempts me" Tharkay's complete and utter lack of subtlety. Mr. "Oh, I just thought this lot of previously hostile feral dragons from 1300 miles away might be useful." Mr. "The entire city is collapsing into chaos and flame; just stopping by to rescue you from certain death with a smooth one-liner." Mr. "Nothing interesting on, thought I might lock myself on a boat with you for eight months and go to Australia." To say nothing of the whole "move in with me" debacle. Yeah, completely normal behavior. Just ask Laurence on a date. You're embarrassing yourself.

[darkandstormyranger]

i love hans's way of like dismissively giving gifts to henry (eg his clothes, his bow [if you beat him], the key to the ratthaus etc)

like i bet henry could give some offhand comment about how he needs to have pebbles's saddle fixed and the next morning he'd find her equipped with top-quality gear, each piece worth more than all of his belongings combined and hans would just be like "yeah i found this old useless stuff just lying around, i was going to throw it away or smth. anyway"

[wyrmwright]

yay tharkay!

[heathcliffgirl1847]

spent one of my finite number of evenings on earth making this (tharkay and laurence are in the front seat, the backseat is granby, hammond, and ferris. also ferris in the last frame is my favourite in the entire video)

[argetcross]

Temeraire, Tharkay, and Laurence in the Alps

[goddamnshinyrock]

a spy and a traitor (war heroes) share a drink and a laugh

[crownomancer]

Laurence has so many ride or die bitches around him. I love that you’ve got Granby who is probably just Like That™️ but then you’ve also got Tharkay who wants so badly to NOT associate with England if he can help it and by the sheer force of Laurence’s unshakeable sense of honor becomes the reluctant ride or die.

[andro-beaurepaire]

Kisses, then and now <3 (2025 aka the year I decide to make peace with my messy dirty please-clean-your-fucking-scanner sketches)

[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

[elexuscal]

Ingredients of a Temeraire book

pick any 11 out of 16

Supply logistics

Someone tries to separate Laurence and Temeraire

Cross-cultural confusion

Napoleon deploys mad cap new strategy utilizing dragons

In-depth descriptions of meals

The Admiralty Commits A War Crime

Inter-species misunderstanding

3+ month long journey by ship

Alternate history worldbuilding

Iskierka Causes Problems (TM)

Laurence overcomplicates something due to propriety

horrifyingly frank description of violence

In depth description of fine clothes/jewels by Temeraire

egg hatching at inopportune times

Temeraire Radicalized Laurence

Tharkay Deus Ex Machina

[camelcasebestcase]

Oh my God they were shipmates...

[wildtornado-o]

A wild Tharkay falls out of my pocket and I run off

[emily-e-draws]

thinking fond thoughts about Tenzing Tharkay