#andrea cavalcanti

[ash--00]

Une Double identité vraiment-✨

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Help they're so cute together 😭

Such a shame they didn't really have screen time together, I would have loved to see the relationship between their characters.

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A word on Benedetto’s father figures

Because I’ve been thinking about it all week. Have some parallels and contrasts, my friends:

Villefort:

Starts off Benedetto’s story extremely strongly by literally burying him alive within minutes of his birth. No one has ever failed their son harder.

Might have been onto something when he said crime spread around him and from him like a disease. Seriously, look at this family! It’s so dysfunctional in so many ways!!! If you’re a nature-over-nurture person, it’s not that far-fetched to suppose Benedetto got the Criminal Gene™ from him.

Literally changed his name to hide his compromising origins (as much as humanly possible in the spheres he frequents).

Burnt Edmond’s denunciation letter. Guess who else likes to burn things?

Is brought down by the literal unearthing of his biggest secret, which in turn concludes Benedetto’s arc.

Bertuccio:

Is, literally, the one who gave Benedetto life, and the emissary of Providence™ who shows up to bestow blessings upon him at semi-regular intervals.

Unfortunately, those gifts are always cursed. Surprise salvation from the grave in the garden? Only happens because Bertuccio tried to murder the kid’s father first, and results in what is functionally a kidnapping. Surprise adoption? Results in Benedetto being raised by a literal criminal, who is #shocked when his protege starts hanging out with ill-intentioned older boys and disciplines him with what we can reasonably assume from the unreliable narration is the good old belt. Surprise life-changing information about his origins that Bertuccio held onto all these years? Only revealed to cement Benedetto’s status as Monte-Cristo’s puppet.

Crumbled the second Benedetto questioned his ascendance, therefore drawing a clear link between authority and paternity and reinforcing the kid’s desire to defy both.

“Major Cavalcanti”:

Is just Some Guy™.

And yet, they have so much in common: both are impostors trapped in Monte-Cristo’s web, both are passionate about scamming rich people. There’s a quasi-instantaneous recognition between the two and, because they share the same goal, they develop a strangely wholesome understanding…? It’s forced coexistence as much as it is respect, but it’s not deprived of a weird sort of warmth, and Monte-Cristo himself comments on how much it looks like actual familial love. The contrast with Caderousse could not be harsher.

In virtue of his fake wealth and fake fatherhood, the Major becomes the Ultimate Authority™ ‘Andrea’ name-drops every time he wants to advance in society.

Caderousse:

Outwardly, he adopts all the attributes of a good father. He taught Benedetto most of his tricks! He feeds him! He talks of all the hardships they’ve been through together, like a family would!

But, of course, what he’s really doing is blackmailing Benedetto. Caderousse wants money, and it’s taken him a while to actually get his hands dirty, but he’s finally graduating to murder! And his silly young friend should help him if he doesn’t want his blood spilled on Place de Grève.

Anyway Benedetto stabs that guy real bad. I thought it was hilarious of him.

Danglars:

As Andrea’s future father-in-law, Danglars is his ticket towards the life of luxury without effort he has always wanted.

Of course, Danglars is using Andrea for the same reason Caderousse uses Benedetto: for money. Both of them lie about what they own, ergo about who they are, to get their hands on what they think the other has. This is especially interesting when put in perspective with the brutal honesty Danglars employs when talking to Eugénie, who he treats like a son and almost business partner rather than like a daughter (Transmasc Eugénie Truthers, rise up!).

… But of course, he still wants people to think of he and Andrea as family to strengthen his own nobility: if his son (in-law) is a prince, a title Danglars repeats ad nauseam, doesn’t that make him a king?

All things considered, despite losing their freedom (temporarily in Danglars’ case), money and status, both of them get a relatively happy ending compared to most of the cast.

Monte-Cristo:

BUCKLE UP THIS IS THE MOST INTERESTING.

Twice Benedetto raises the possibility of Monte-Cristo being his biological father, a perfectly logical conclusion in light of what he has done for him; in turn, Monte-Cristo recognises Benedetto as one of God’s punishers, a title he otherwise only attributes to himself.

Both of them went through a symbolic rebirth after being buried alive.

Both of them were wrongly accused of being evil incarnate, but eventually graduated to Full-On Criminals. Talk about self-fulfilling prophecies.

Escape Artists™

Both had to completely reinvent themselves, down to their names and origins, to achieve their ambitions.

Ruined engagement ceremony!!! This also draws parallels to Villefort and, interestingly, to Valentine and Franz.

THIS:

🇫🇷 « Ce calme, cette parfaite aisance firent comprendre à Andrea qu’il était pour le moment étreint par une main plus musculeuse que la sienne, et que l’étreinte n’en pouvait être facilement brisée. »

🇬🇧 « This calm, this perfect poise told Andrea that he was presently held by a hand far stronger than his, whose grip could not be escaped easily. »

Both Edmond and Benedetto know they are prisoners of people more powerful than they are, of the narrative, of a superior power that wields them like knives; both Monte-Cristo and Andrea accept their role as knives in the hope of eventually slicing through their ties. Whether or not they succeeded in the end is up to the reader’s interpretation.

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Petite illustration pour la fic "Les vingt ans d'André" co-écrite avec les super @sinvulkt et @ash--00 💙💙💙

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2024 TCoMC in create a cat NOW

Edmeow (Edmond) and The Meownt (The Count)

Kittyfort (Villefort) and Yowlnand (Fernand)

Purrcédès (Mercédès) and Scratchglars (Danglars)

Hissdée (Haydée) and Mewdré (André)

Design notes:

Edmond and The Count:

I wanted the Count to look similar to Edmond of course, but at first was really stuck since the Count is very black cat to me. I messed around with it for ages and just couldn't get it to work, so tried out a lighter design and loved it. In the book Edmond gets very pale post prison and I think it would be the same for his fur. The change in markings could be attributed to his disguise or stress (similar to how injury/stress/etc can make your hair colour change in humans, or activate skin conditions that change pigmentation.)

Villefort:

I just know he's a smug tuxedo cat.

André:

I tried a similar colour scheme to Villefort but he's so brown cat coded to me, so I kept his markings similar but changed his palette in order to hint at his heritage but still keep him looking like himself.

[pen-inks]

bro gunktatsew or whatever the name is is uhhhh uhhhmmm

Okay so why is andrea somehow significantly worse I didn't even know that was POSSIBLE...??? HE WAS ALREADY DEVIOUS AS HELL IN THE BOOK

like okay you curly hair bitch ur not even a REDHEAD so FUCK YOU

(I love how I say this as (canon, like, the book) andreakin)

It's just

Like

You're not apart of the Andrea club I'm sorry

Get out

Loser

Go kiss your mom

I still adore his design he's such an asshole but I adore... the design...

I actually loved the textures and the phsydecelislc ahh part and the spaceship crap because idk it was brain yummy

Guys are we pro or anti Benedetto leave your comment below and subscribe and hit that notification bell trussstt

LOOK AT THIS CUNNTTTTTT

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[rowan-e-ravenwood]

have you got any tcomc playlists? 👁️👁️

OH, ABSOLUTELY I DO

i posted them a while back but i can't be bothered to find the post, so if i do i'll delete it to keep from clogging up the tags...

as i've said before, it's been a hot minute since i've really participated in the fandom (i'd like to remedy that), so some of my views on the characters have changed a bit since i made these? so not all of the song choices are perfect imo anymore... but i am constantly tweaking these playlists so it's whatever.

oh also also, a couple of these are major WIPs, lol. ANYWAY.

putting them under a read-more cut so that nobody hates me for the length of the post, lmao

here's Edmond's:

here's Fernand:

here's Villefort:

here's Danglars (one of the ones i'm less happy with lol):

here's Caderousse (my favourite character heheh):

here's Mercédès:

here's Albert (idk this one's a WIP):

here's Benedetto (another of my favourites!!):

and finally, Valentine! (my beautiful darling sweetheart):

i also have playlists for a couple ships i like, so if you're interested in those, feel free to ask, but they're not quite as good lol

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Eugenie in the background: What are you guys even talking about?

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[ash--00]

[ponds-of-ink]

Re-reading a bit of the Spooky AU to pass the time and wow.

I forgot that I made Vampire Andrea roast the living daylights out of an intruder. The man doesn’t just bite people’s necks, he tears into any annoyance just so it doesn’t ruin his beauty sleep.. if he does still sleep.

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Happy birthday, Benedetto! 🎉

[azzzryel]

Petit clin d'œil à la fic sur laquelle on bosse avec @sinvulkt et @ash--00 x)

"Les vingt ans d'André" sur Ao3, si ça intéresse quelqu'un!

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