#charles deveaux

[judasisgayriot]

(i saw the ending when they turned the page.) out here the bird don’t sing out here the field don’t grow out here the bell don’t ring out here the good girls die

[marchdadness]

I will post the finalized bracket tomorrow, followed shortly by the round 1 polls, but first, I am re-running one of the preliminary polls in hopes of getting more than 3 votes...

these are dads from heroes! vote for your favorite, or the one you think is the best, or the hottest, or whatever! the winner will be entered into a poll tournament with 63 other fictional dads.

please comment if your fav is not included!

[heroes-trash]

i'm adding Paulette Hawkins (D.L.'s mother) [who also hated Niki, which seemed really odd at the time, but does make me Hmmm very much thinking about Ali Larter now] to this list... she only had one scene on the show, but she made another appearance in the comics, employed by the Company. she had the same power that Ando would later get - ability amplification - and was, in the first and last story she appeared in, summoned to help ("help") with bagging&tagging a guy who could make plants grow really fast. she killed him by touching him - he grew a small forest, and then turned into a tree himself.

but i don't want to talk about that, i want to talk about what happened right after.

a human extremist group among the Company workers killed her.

that's right.

they reported her in as a casuality of the fight with plant guy, and for all intents and purposes, seemed to get away with that. that extremist group had a bit more of a plot, but nothing huge iirc, and bottom line... yeah. an extremist group (nevermind that they didn't discriminate by color of skin...in the text) killed D.L.'s mother / Micah's grandmother / Niki's mother-in-law. and... it's never brought up on the show. she's never brought up on the show again.

just another dead black character.

and do not FUCKING get me started on black characters on Heroes Reborn.

in short: fucking FUCK Ali Larter. and by that I mean don’t even touch her with a ten-foot-pole, jfc.

[historyherstory]

Chapter 20 Notes

Hey Look! I updated! It's a miracle!

This is a pretty big chapter as far as character development goes, but I also understand the tangible answers it gives are ultimately pretty minimal 😂 (I'd apologize for that but it's deliberate and also, I enjoy the way that readers and Lieutenants alike are still in the dark, so still trying to piece together everything.)

Some thoughts: Yes! Ellie's 18th birthday was the day before D-Day. Way to ring in the next year of your life.

Deveaux is essentially the French variant of Eleanor's true surname, Dahl. Her nationality isn't mentioned but you can probably either figure it out, or get quite close, with a little research (or recognizing some other famous folk with the last name).

The real fun of this chapter was doing (utterly pointless) research on what type of personal documentation/papers someone would have in the 1930's and 40's. Passports were a thing (and Ellie would have had one) but as mentioned in a prior chapter - that's long since burnt, but that would have been the easiest "proof" of her story. Other papers of the era would have included Identification Cards (in Nazi occupied France). Ellie's is obviously falsified, but she doesn't pretend otherwise (it's also teased at in her prior conversation with Nix, where he asks about her passport).

Being caught in Germany (or German occupied lands) as a citizen of certain countries did pose some risk. I can't find the article or the name (I came across this story some years ago, regretfully) but there was an instance of an American passported man being detained for that alone (and he was sent to an internment camp, although I believe he survived the war). I'll try to find it later..it was an interesting read (admittedly it sounded not particularly common but that may have been less because of inclination and more because of how few Americans were in German/occupied lands along with the politics of it since America did not declare war on anyone until after Pearl Harbor).

Other than that: The SOE is Special Operations Executive, the British intelligence agency. Their interactions with foreign agents is varied but they did assist in some components with Charles de Gaulle and his Free French, along with other french resistance cells. It's interesting to read more about how that worked (Charles de Gaulle abroad honestly is an absolute journey of a story if you're ever interested in learning more, highly recommend.)

[kwebtv]

Richard Arnold Roundtree (July 9, 1942 – October 24, 2023) Film and television actor and model, who was best known for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft as well the eponymous television series (1973–1974). He was also known for his features in several TV series, including Roots, Generations, and Desperate Housewives.

In the 1986-1987 season he starred in the short lived series Outlaws.

During the 1990's Roundtree kept featuring in TV series: on September 19, 1991, he appeared in the episode "Ashes to Ashes", from the second season of Beverly Hills, 90210. Around 1997 he played a leading role as Phil Thomas in the Fox ensemble drama, 413 Hope St; in 1999, he portrayed Booker T. Washington in the 1999 television movie Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years.

In 2004, Roundtree guest-starred in several episodes of the first season of Desperate Housewives as an amoral private detective.

Starting from the same year, Roundtree appeared in the television series The Closer as retired colonel D. B. Walter; in 2006, he starred in the science fiction drama series Heroes as Charles Deveaux, the terminally ill father of main character Simone Deveaux (Tawny Cypress). He then appeared as Eddie Sutton's father-in-law in several episodes of family drama series Lincoln Heights. In 2008 he also appeared in the TV series Knight Rider as the father of FBI agent Carrie Ravai (Sydney Tamiia Poitier). Starting from 2013, he co-starred as the father of lead character Mary Jane Paul (Gabrielle Union) in the drama series Being Mary Jane, aired on BET.

In 2019 Roundtree had a recurring role on Family Reunion. (Wikipedia)

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[adaav]

Charles telling  Peter that his heart and ability to love unconditionally are Peter’s biggest source of power vs Angela telling Peter that “unconditional love is not really love at all”. 

[incorrectprimatechquotes]

Victoria: If you bite it and you die, it’s poisonous. If it bites you and you die, it’s venomous.

Bob: What if it bites me and it dies?

Victoria: That means YOU’RE poisonous.

Maury: What if it bites itself and I die hmm?

Charles: …That’s voodoo.

Bob: What if it bites me and somebody else dies?

Kaito: That’s correlation not causation!

Linderman: What if we bite each other and neither of us die?

Angela: That’s kinky~

[drewsb12]

‘This is my song, these are my words, this is my story.’

Dedicated to @thefieryeclipse and everyone else who loves Peter and Heroes as much as us.

[primatechnosynthpop]

Even in the finale, there were a few small details I'd forgotten about... but overall, it really was just as good as I remember it.... some parts maybe a little rushed, and I get that it could feel anticlimactic to some people, but overall it really is just absolutely fucking impeccable

[clarkgriffon]

even though it was kind of a weird one-off backstory episode where they establish the whole government program for specials and the backstory of the company with angela, charles deveaux, linderman, and bob bishop, i will say the touch that they put in where angela steals socks whenever she feels lost to remind her of alice (her long lost sister), calling back to the pilot where angela gets arrested for shoplifting socks... it do make me tear up.

[judasisgayriot]

This world won’t be saved on strength. What it really needs is heart, and that’s Peter.

[marchdadness]

these are dads from heroes! vote for your favorite, or the one you think is the best, or the hottest, or whatever! the winner will be entered into a poll tournament with 63 other fictional dads.

this show is just. daddy issues all the way down. comment if your fav is not listed above somehow!

[heroes-trash]

spiritwolf!Charles

[pamwmsn]

Eliza Lucas Pinckney: South Carolina Botanist

Eliza Lucas was born in 1722 on the island of Antigua in the West Indies. She was sent to Europe for her education, but in 1739, returned and was put in charge of her father’s indigo plantation located “upon the Wappoo, a salt creek connecting the Ashley with the Stono, and only separated from the ocean by the long, sandy islands, James and Johns.”[1] Women in these days were normally given only domestic responsibilities, but Eliza’s father was compelled to stay in Antigua, and her mother was sickly.  Much of the information about Eliza and her exploits are preserved in her letters, some of which come from the correspondence between her and her father in which they went over plans and strategies about growing the indigo:  “the second great staple of South Carolina.” [2]

Eliza enjoyed gardening, even experimenting, and she was able to grow some indigo from seeds that her father sent from the West Indies after a few tries. Mr. Lucas sent a man named Cromwell to aid his daughter in processing the plant for its dye. The man tried to deceive her when he realized the worth of the crop, but Eliza cleverly hired her own help in a Mr. Deveaux and learned simply by watching the process. Her father gave her the seed crop from the first successful planting, and she turned it over to her new husband, Colonel Charles Pinckney. Subsequent plantings were done by Pinckney and his friends. Before this time, France was supplying England with indigo at a high price, but as it spread from the hands of the Pinckneys to the enterprising planters, “it was estimated that this [money] might be saved by encouraging the cultivation of the plant in Carolina.”[3] Indigo in Carolina undercut the French West India suppliers: “Indigo proved more really beneficial to Carolina than the mines of Mexico or Peru were to Spain. In the year 1754 the export of indigo from the province amounted to 216,924 pounds, and shortly before the American Revolution to 1,107,660 pounds.”[4] The demand for indigo was replaced by cotton, but Eliza Lucas Pinckney is remembered for boosting the Carolina economy so much that the family wealth remains as a result to this day.

[gamebird]

This was such a wonderful moment in the show.

Peter: I can fly. Charles: Really? Well, if you can fly then show me.

[si-national-portrait-gallery]

John Barnwell Deveaux, Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, 1809, Smithsonian: National Portrait Gallery

Size: Image: 5.6 × 5.6 cm (2 3/16 × 2 3/16") Medium: Engraving on paper

http://npg.si.edu/object/npg_S_NPG.74.39.15.8