#behlul bey

[julyzaa]

After reading Aşk-ı-Memnu (and never watched a single adaptation not even the cringe telenovela pasion prohibida) i have ended up shipping Behlul and Nihal?

Like yes he is her cousin and a 23 year old man who grew up with 15 year old Nihal, but their relationship was normal and expected for their culture and time(there was also no grooming involvedit just occurred organically mind you). And him knowing he had something with her that he didn't have with his past lovers and felt unworthy of her because he was 'sullied' in her eyes (because of the whole having just ended his affair with her also 23 year old stepmom)is kinda sweet.

Like sure he had an affair with her stepmom who is his age while living at their house and being financially cared for by Adnan Bey and Behlul is literally a serial cheater and the only dude she knows and also ran away when he knew she had heard it all and fell down the stairs in shock, but i do not care for healthy and normal romances when i read about fictional characters.

Give me the fucked up shit that would make you call the cops and a psychiatrist irl when making a fictional romance yall

Anyways now i want some nihal/behlul fics to read

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Aşk-ı Memnu Characters Favorite Shakespeare Plays

Asked by @faintingheroine

Nihal: Hamlet and Cymbeline

Bihter: Troilus and Cressida

Firdevs: Anthony and Cleopatra

Peyker: The Merry Wives of Windsor and Measure for Measure

Nihat Bey: The Merchant of Venice

Mademoiselle de Courton: Richard II

Adnan Bey: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Behlul: Love’s Labours Lost and Taming of the Shrew

Bulent: Henry V

Beşir: The Tempest

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Aşk-ı Memnu for the fandom ask?

@darasuum

Blorbo: Nihal (because of her completa writing) and Besir (because he is the character who tooked the worst shit)

Scrunkly: Bulent, hands down

Scrimblo himbo: Katina and the Servants.

Sglup shitto: Besir can feel obscure because he doesn't speak too much, but i like to remind people of his important role in the story.

Horse plinko: Adnan Bey, so he can learn not to use the women on his life as scapegoats.

Eeby Deeby: May Behlul perish.

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Character ask: Nihal, Beşir and Firdevs. (Sorry this is a lot. You don’t have to answer all of them now).

Nihal

One aspect about her that i love: The introspective way she reads and judges the feelings of people around her.

One aspect i wish more people understood about her: That the dispute for the love of her father that exists in her head is also an important plot of forbidden love in the narrative, not just the affair between Bihter and Behlul.

One or more headcanons i have about her: Her instrospection, along with her perceptiveness about some topics while naive about others, makes her an interesting character to be headcanoned as neurodivergent.

One character i love seeing her interact with: Mademoiselle de Courton, Beşir and Bulent.

One character i wish she had interacted with more: Feridun, Peyker's baby. It would be nice to see her kind of adopting him as a second brother with whom she plays as another living doll.

One or more headcanons i have about her and one other character: When she grows up, feeling guilt over Beşir's death, she will get involved in the movement for slavery abolition by giving money to abolicionist organizations. This is more to placate her own guilt over benefiting from that sistem than charity or pity for enslaved people, tough.

Beşir

One aspect about him that i love: The fact that he is underestimated as a quiet child, wich gives him an advantage in help uncovering the affair between Bihter and Behlul.

One aspect i wish more people understood about him: I don't know if this is common in Turkey when discussing slavery, but i hope Beşir's character is not used as a way to justify slavery as "not so cruel after all" just because he doesn't explicitly revolts against the situation. He is a child, an orphan, wich puts him in a situation where he would be more harshly punished and with nowhere to go if he explicitly revolted against Adnan Bey.

So he represses this anger and unhapiness until the moment he knows he's dying of tuberculosis and has nothing more to loose when helping to expose the affair that will make Adnan Bey unhappy.

One or more headcanons i have about him: He was bought as a one year old baby separatedly from his birth mother, alternating between several nurses, one of wich also breast feded Nihal.

One character i love seeing him interact with: Nihal and Bulent.

One character i wish he had interacted with more: The other house servants.

One or more headcanons i have about him and one other character: Behlul, taking advantage of being older, was the only kid of the Adnan Bey household that secretly mistreeted him, wanting to remind the boy of his status as a house slave, and as such the only of the kids that Beşir hated and didn't enjoy playing with.

Firdevs

One aspect about her that i love: That she is an older woman character who instead of being stereotipically caring, kind, domestic and wise, is actually vain, extrovert, vengefull, willing to show sexual desire and a selfish person who only cares with her own pleasures.

One aspect i wish more people understood about her: That she is also a main female character in the novel, alongside Bihter and Nihal.

One or more headcanons i have about her: Before getting married, Firdevs was already sexually active, even getting pregnant and having an abortion.

One character i love seeing her interact with: Her banter with Behlul is very enjoyable to read.

One character i wish she had interacted with more: Mademoiselle de Courton. They are the the two oldest woman in the narrative and the contrast between their personalities would be interesting to explore.

One or more headcanons i have about her and one other character: When Bihter dyed, Firdevs still had some hopes that Adnan Bey would notice her and make her his wife, but eventually that hope crushed.

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For the character headcanon ask game: Adnan Bey and Bihter

Adnan Bey

One aspect about him that I love: His artistry in making wood portraits.

One aspect I wish more people understood about him: That he is the man that Nihal disputes with Bihter, and not Behlul.

One or more headcanons I have about him: He hides the wood portrait he made of Bihter under his pillow, and secretly he looks at it every night before sleeping.

One character I love seeing him interact with: At the beggining of the book his interactions with his children and Behlul seem wholesome.

One character I wish he had interacted with more: Nihat Bey, Peyker's husband. I feel they have some similarities in temperment.

One or more headcanons I have about him and one other character: He still keeps wishing for Nihal to get married, even tough she lets clear many times this will never happen.

Bihter

One aspect about her that I love: That at first she tried to act as a realistic woman of her time who thinks of marriage as first and foremost a business, but later grows insatisfied and questions this choice, discovering herself a romantic at heart who longs to understand what is love at its deepest.

One aspect I wish more people understood about her: That her affair with Behlul is an important plot, but not the most important plot of the novel, and not even the most important aspect of Bihter's character.

One or more headcanons I have about her: Besides playing the oud, she writes poetry and composes songs to confort herself, that she shares with no one.

One character I love seeing her interact with: Her interactions with Peyker seem the most calm and healthy in her social family circle.

One character I wish she had interacted with more: Her nephew Feridun.

One or more headcanons I have about her and one other character: Both Bihter and Peyker were breastfeed by a nurse, because Firdevs Hanim refused to do it, not wanting to make her breasts ugly.

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@faintingheroine

Troilus and Cressida is a play about the titular couple, who start as idealistic lovers that think happiness awaits them. But there is a problem: they are living the Trojan War. Cressida's father flees to the Greek's Side and sells Cressida into sexual servitude to them. She is them faced with the dilema of becoming the lover of Diomedes, or be let to be gang raped by the entire Greek Camp. She chooses the least awful option, and because of that, her former lover, Troilus, seeing her from a distance but not actually listening her conversation with Diomedes, gives her the eternal stigma of fikcle, inconstant woman.

I can see Bihter identifying with Cressida, the protagonist who starts merry and hopeful, but due to circunstances has the sad ending of becoming estigmatized as an "adulteress" and the idealism shattered.

Anthony and Cleopatra explores the desire for power and eternity of a queen who is aging and about to loose her kingdom. Shakespeare's Cleopatra is the quintessential dramatic diva, a character perfect for Firdevs to enjoy.

Merry Wives of Windsor is a (messy) comedy about two women who make pranks against a man who tries to seduce them (this perfectly sumarizes every conversation Peyker has with Behlul when he tries to flirt with her) and Measure for Measure is about the power play involving a novice who outwits a politician that tries to sleep with her (again, Peyker telling Behlul to go away).

Richard II is a history play about a young king who is detroned, emprisoned and killed. While his ruling is put into question, he still is simpathetically treated as a pious martir. For the proper and devout catholic Mademoiselle de Courton, this is a touching play (and also the closest that a Shakespeare play got of being free of sex jokes).

Nihat Bey is a materialistic man, for him everything takes straight to business, so a play like The Merchant of Venice that explores the rise of capitalism in the Renaissance is a fitting favorite.

A Midsummer Night's Dream has the Duke Theseus enjoying a great wedding to the Queen of the Amazons Hipolita, along with two other couples of athenian nobles. Is a fairy tale comedy showing the nobles reaching domestic bliss and pleasure, the dream of Adnan when he marries Bihter.

Love's Labours Lost has a group of man in romantic pursuit of women, with only one couple actually getting together, and great focus in word play based dialogue. And the Taming of the Shrew shows the fantasy of a man who controls a woman, "taming" her to submit to him.

Witty wordplay and focus on man in their pursuit of women, with no guarantee they will stay together or not, and a man being able to control a women, are subjects that definitly would catch Behlul's interest.

The Tempest is a fairy tale play that shows a former Duke, Prospero, getting revenge upon the man who tooked away his political power, while exploring the views of Prospero's two slaves: the air spirit Ariel and the sea monster Caliban. While more calm, Ariel still is clearly unhappy with his enslavement, and longs for his freedom. And Caliban is the one that more explicitly shows the anger with his captivity.

Besir would definitly identify with Ariel and Caliban's longing.

Aşk-ı Memnu Characters Favorite Shakespeare Plays

Asked by @faintingheroine

Nihal: Hamlet and Cymbeline

Bihter: Troilus and Cressida

Firdevs: Anthony and Cleopatra

Peyker: The Merry Wives of Windsor and Measure for Measure

Nihat Bey: The Merchant of Venice

Mademoiselle de Courton: Richard II

Adnan Bey: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Behlul: Love’s Labours Lost and Taming of the Shrew

Bulent: Henry V

Beşir: The Tempest