#duality of Blorbo Couple

[philtstone]

i'd like to know what's transpiring in the jamieclaire Trench™

hmmMmmMMmM well as it always happens someone brought it up in conversation & all my carefully locked away rage emerged. yet again. despite my claims that im normal about it now. and then as it also always happens that concurrently reminded me abt all the elements i loved etc

so maybe im returning to the prompts in my inbox

specifically a ... how you say ... modern au ... except that i am now stuck with figuring out how claire and jamie would reasonably propose murder as a solution to political strife in a modern context lmfao

ill figure it out eventually

[shebeafancyflapjack]

If you're still doing the ask game, can you do Robin as you said he's your blorbo?

He is! Thank you anon!

Favorite thing about them: HE JUST SO CUTE! I'm a sucker for characters who appear one way but then completely take you off guard. Robin looks like your typical grunting simple caveman but then reveals himself to be the kindest, wisest, most mentally tortured character in the show. Add to that he's basically a human pupper. My previous blorbos (Thirteen, Arthur Morgan, Spike) have all had "Kitty!" vibes but Robin is pure Pupper.

Least favorting thing about them: That he didn't get to move on. :( The show was really playing into how desperately he wanted to go by the end. I was even certain that as soon as he felt "Christmassy" he would get to leave but it didn't happen. Let him rest! Also the incest...Just ew.

Favourite line: "She no porcupine!" / "I want my lawyer." / "Before you was moonah, before house was moonah, everything come, everything go, but always there, moonah." / "I miss a lot of people. But more come along."

Brotp: Canon is him and Julian. Chess husbands are so real, but queerplatonic imo. Fanon is him and Alison, he is her good boy.

OTP: I'm like the only person who actually thinks him and Mary were cute? Gremlin couple ftw. But really Robin/Mary/Annie is my favourite polyship and the only one I've actually written fic for so far.

Notp: Pretty much everyone except Mary, Annie, Julian and possibly Thomas.

Random headcanon: His whole going mad thing from the book is still an ongoing problem. He has more coping mechanisms now but still has bad 'spells', some of the ghosts help him through it but others have become so used to him just "being strange" they just ignore him and wait for it to pass like in Not Again.

Unpopular opinion: I think he was a good dad. For the time. For a man who had thirty kids and most of them probably with his sister. The way he talks about the importance of "raising children together, in peace and love" and watches over his animal friends when they have babies, how sweet he was putting Kitty to sleep, he seems to love just being around kids. I dunno if that's unpopular, it just always seems to be Pat or Cap who get talked about when it comes to dads and my boy was over here fathering future generations, as well as putting the work in to raise said kids - but he often gets passed off as too immature or uncaring, like forgetting the whole duality of his character and how he's never as simple as he appears to be. Like sure he probably picked those babies up by their ankles and carried them on his shoulders, but he never dropped them!

Song I associate with them: Starman by Bowie. My Tears Ricochet by Taylor Swift is so him/Sophie/Humphrey.

Favorite picture of them:

Just look at him, hims just the cutest little thing!

[rye-kin]

Ok so. Musical is a bit of a mess to put it lightly. I am aware of that in the same way that I am aware that Russel Crowe as Javert is a bit of a mess. However I am a known enjoyer of things that are a bit of a mess.

Anyways. Part of where like recordings of the soundtrack fall flat is that the Broadway version that is our most accessible recording and most often preformed version makes Jekyll just. The wettest rat of a man, as in even when he's being a bitch, he's being played up as like. A dishrag. It's worst in Confrontation (the Complete Works version with Anthony Warlow is the one that trended on TikTok for a reason and that is because Jekyll doesn't sound like a sad cat reaction image) but even when he's going "Fuck these guys I'll just do it myself," he sounds like he'd be stopped by a stiff breeze. My humble opinion is that. This man is not in fact *that* level of pathetic. Like he's pathetic, just not. That pathetic. He's a man who lives on the bleeding edge of science and you don't do that if you are that level of made of tissue paper. The Complete Works is tonally a bit more unhinged but totals out to like two hours WITHOUT any of the spoken segments and a couple of the songs that are like! Good from the broadway version just don't hit quite right there! Honestly you could make a playlist slamming together songs from both versions and come away with something much more. Maybe not accurate per say, but probably more entertaining.

That is all that will be remotely coherent. This is the point where I explain a musical that I am sorry in advance if you've seen because Long Tangent. Closing out my proper J&H Musical Thoughts here, you are welcome to just Ignore the rest of this thing.

I am in fact "guy who watches musicals once, goes 'huh, neat,' and then starts grabbing songs for their home-grown blorbos" so I happen to have a collection of musical soundtracks (except Hamilton. I've self imposed a Hamilton ban because that's all there would be otherwise) to pull from just on hand ready to go. And I came to. Well, easily one of the conclusions ever because I was weighing between songs from J&H and Finding Neverland for a playlist. That is that, for Some reason, the latter half of Finding Neverland is like. The tonal opposite of J&H but starts coming close to the duality of man themes in similar ways.

This is mostly weird because Finding Neverland is a musical that is, in theory, based off of REAL MAN playwright James Barrie. The Peter Pan guy. The show is like a Marginally more fantastical Hamilton type of approach where you can tell that this is Not How These Things Happened In Real Life but in a way where it's like "Let's use our imagination together to get through the worst of life, as a Group!!" until RIGHT before you go to intermission where you get "Circus of your Mind" and "Live by the Hook". Circus of your Mind is like okay sure just the rising action higher tensions version of things happening in this dude's imagination, things are bad now, sure. Why not. "Live by the Hook" is directly after that and is where fictional character Captain Hook appears to introduce himself to James Barrie as "the part of you you don't like to talk about at tea parties" and tell him he needs to write a properly scary villain. Hook cameos in the background of like Multiple scenes in the rest of the play as a shadow (limited by Hook sharing an actor with another character for "Oh look the more intense part of him he doesn't like is the same as the guy putting financial pressure on him ohhh we're Cool and Smart" reasons) to be like? Motivating I guess? This is mostly weird as all hell because, again, this is ostensibly about a real guy?? Baffling choice here, up there with the romance plot existing at all (dude was ???? dude was something but not. The cheater who ditched his wife for a dying woman THAT's pretty sure).

The rest of the plays aren't all that similar but if you want same energy opposite directions for like. "Façade Reprise 1," and "Confrontation" then "All of London is Here," for the former and "Live by the Hook," and "Stronger" for the latter are sure out there I guess? If you need songs for a playlist where those are just too negative ig.

If you haven't listened to Finding Neverland it's pretty good if you approach it as not biographical, although I saw it live off Broadway first and I cannot, for the life of me, find the song that took the place of All of London in that version which has been driving me BATTY for like four years now.

That's the rant, I am sorry for inflicting this on you lol, ur design for Hyde is the fun sorta menacing which? Vibes!

Wow… Gawdamn

Though I really see we’re your coming from, this is so real and stands on its own…

[potatowitch]

hello... since u said we can ask abt ur blorbos... can u tell us more about rian :D

yessss my GIRL. some Rian fun (and not so fun) facts, under the cut bc I rambled lmao

her first girlfriend's name was Clara. they had a mutual breakup where they were like "just. uh. not feelin it, yknow?" "yeah no me neither" but they actually were feelin it, it's just Rian was never gonna tell Clara she was a mage just in case, and Clara was never gonna tell Rian that she was actually in Lothering trying to hear info abt her mage sister in Kinloch. they'd have stayed together, probably forever, if they'd told each other the fuckin truth lmao. (Clara is also a Red Jenny, and uses a hand crossbow. her and Rian meet up again sometime after DA2, when they're both active members of the mage resistance, and they're very much Spiderman Meme at one another)

Rian got her face tattoos right after Malcolm died. He was like the pillar of her universe, and she felt lost and out of control, so she did something drastic, visible and irreversible to her appearance to try and get her sense of self back on solid ground. Leandra lost her shit, but if Malcolm was still alive he would've thought the tattoos were dope as hell (he and Rian were very, very similar)

Rian, Merrill and Isabela technically have an open relationship, but ever since the three of them became serious, nobody has really ventured outside of the throuple. Rian kissed Tallis, Isabela has fucked Anders and Fenris a couple times, Merrill pegged Maraas (the Tal Vashoth in the Hanged Man) once, but most of the time it's just the three of them. sleeping with other people is difficult and time consuming and complicated, and they really do like each other so much that they don't feel the need to

Rian is actually incredibly intelligent, it's just that she doesn't believe she is, and because of her ADHD, her snark, her sense of humour and general lack of common sense, other people tend to perceive her as kind of an idiot. but she's very open minded and curious - sometimes to her own detriment - and can very quickly grasp the mechanics of magic without a lot of help or instruction (unless it's Creation. she can't for the life of her figure that one out, but she has figured out how to heal with blood magic, so). Solas is actually very impressed with her when she comes to Skyhold and starts asking him a bunch of questions about magic and the Veil and ancient elvhen magic ... then he sees her sat on Bull's shoulders, missing her shoes, drunkenly shouting about how Cullen cried that one time she threw her boogers at him. y'know. duality of Hawke. world's smartest dumbass.

Malcolm actually trained her in using a polearm, so if she was ever in a position where she couldn't use magic, she at least had the option of using her staff as a melee weapon. She took that training to heart a little bit too much, and more often than not you'll find her right next to Fenris in the front lines of a battle. He doesn't mind the backup, at least up until she accidentally smacks him with her staff or sets him on fire. (I also incorporate her massive in-game constitution score bc of blood magic into writing her - she is a very sturdy mage)