#henry Montague

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Jamshid e-Pramukh/Muntadhir al Qahtani - The Daevabad Trilogy by S. A. Chakraborty

Henry Montague (Monty)/Percy Newton - The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

Tyrannus Basilton (“Baz”) Grimm-Pitch/Simon Snow - Carry On Series by Rainbow Rowell

Jace Boucher/Aaron Slaughter - House of Slaughter by James Tynion IV

[happygirl2oo2]

Always remember the three G's of the Montague siblings:

[background fanart credit to @brittlestarry, idea inspired by this]

[constantly-chaotic-and-confused]

Ah yes the three scandalous afflictions: gay, woman and anxious.

[oh-my-wolfstar]

So I just read a gentleman’s guide device and virtue by McKenzie, and it was amazing, hilarious and full of adventure, but throughout the whole thing I got a very Wolfstar vibe from the main couple. Like, a privileged boy from an abusive aristocratic family, who is impulsive, selfish, stubborn, arrogant, but lovable same. He has a strange relationship with a sibling and discovers that he is not his family . He is also desperately in love with his best friend he seems to keep mucking things up with. Said Best Friend is a boy who is physically different from everyone else also has a secret condition. He is faced with bias and comes from a less privileged standing and forces our main character to see the privileges he takes for granted. (we also also have a short main character in love with his taller best friend. )I don’t know, Did anyone else pick up on this? Am I crazy? (it is entirely possible that I read too much fanfiction)

[brbarou]

i do not need reasons to exist. i do not need to justify the space i take up in this world.

[starlightsugar]

Realizing that all the characters I relate to the most (Vaggie, Blitzø, Henry Montague) are all self loathing pieces of shit who think they’re not worthy of the person they love

[hayleythesugarbowl]

fictional men that have my whole heart ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪

kenji kishimoto 

nikolai lantsov

remus lupin 

jacks 

barney stinson

kazzle dazzle 

winston pratt 

chandler bing

carswell thorne 

thomas barrow 

joey tribbiani

grayson hawthorne 

michael townsend 

henry montague 

jacques snicket 

tim bradford  

fitwilliam darcy

credence barebone

colonel brandon

trystan maverine

nash hawthorne

aiden from alexa and katie

feel free to add to this list ‼️ or, you know, question my taste

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 2, Wave 1, Poll 12

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave and prior here.

James ‘Bucky’ Barnes-Marvel

Qualifications:

Missing his arm and commonly headcanoned as gay

Propaganda:

He's Bucket Barnes

Henry ‘Monty’ Montague-The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

Qualifications:

Canonically bisexual, and, from the end of the first book, deaf in one ear. (More precisely, he only has one ear, there's no other one to be deaf in since it got basically blown off by cannon fire, but regardless he only has functional hearing on one side.)

Propaganda:

Canonically bi, and deaf/hard-of-hearing since near the end of the first book; if I remember correctly, gets more disabled as the series goes on. If you don't know him and you think one of your faves is the ultimate bi disaster, think again. My god is he a loser. And a jerk, at the start. But despite all that, or perhaps through all that, he can be genuinely meaningful representation. Starts out as a miserable nobleman trying to survive his father's homophobic abuse, ends up unattached from his rich parents and living his best queer, disabled life with his boyfriend in freedom.

[thataestheticpersons-blog]

I hyperfixiate too much on fictional queer idiots

[1whump-dump1]

So... I finished reading The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue about a week ago and HOLY SHIT. If you want whump in a book then this is for you!

I mean:

And then...

And...

AND THIS ISN'T ALL OF IT. THERE'S SO MUCH MORE ON THE BOOK 🥰🥰😭😭😭

[sillygoofyqueer]

I lurve a Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue and nobody could ever ever make me feel otherwise. It's just so perfect and beautiful and IT'S SUCH A SLOWBURN. I like how Monty isn't framed as a good, perfect protagonist. He's a dick, especially at the start. He's a scoundrel who's oblivious to the world around him and yes, he focuses on his problems more than anyone else's - at the start. BUT. As the story goes on, Lee makes this sort of gorgeous, unforced character development where Monty sees his issues, and starts trying to fix it! And other people see this as well - mainly Felicity, who thought he would forever be a dick (Percy always saw the potential for Monty, even when no one else did). AND IT GETS BETTER, because at the end of the book, although there is a clear, significant change in Monty's character - he still retains that little bit of arrogance. AND you know what, good for him!! This man has been through so much shit and can still laugh and joke about these things. He still has these moments where he worries over himself over others. The only exception is Percy. The moment he finds out this thing about Percy, he does everything in his power to think of a way to stop it - even if he doesn't ask Percy himself what he wants, he is still trying so so hard to keep Percy by his side (in his own unique way). Monty is a brilliant protagonist, and I will scream that from the rooftops until the end of time.

[affocream-nation-lives]

Im about seven chapters into The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virture and this is my summery so far using an old vine

Monty: Percy, I had a dream we fucked.

Percy: Darling, its just a dream.

Monty: Ha, gay, I would’nt fuck you.

Percy: You would’nt?

Monty: I mean, unless you want to.

[mochi-princess-04]

Henry&Alex🫱🏽‍🫲🏾Monty&percy

YOU CANT TELL ME THOSE FOUR WOULDNT BE THE BEST OF BUDS! Two short disaster bisexuals with the absolute need to fuck shit up and cause havoc in their wake, and then their lovely demure partners that literally have to keep them on a short leash to prevent them from getting arrested… I need a crossover or something lmaoo

[starlightsugar]

Love him. He only has one ear and he loves his husband and he is such a girlfailure

[falafel14]

Further Reading for Wesper fans

So after rewatching Netflix Shadow & Bone and rereading the Six of Crows duology I now find myself rereading ‘The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice & Virtue’ by Mackenzie Lee and fan casting Jack Wolfe as Monty and Kit Young as Percy. They fit the physical descriptions of the characters really well and it’s fun to imagine the switch of Jack playing the extrovert and Kit the introvert. And if Wesper fans want another queer romance in a historical/fantasy setting this book (and indeed the full Montague sibling trilogy) is a great read.   

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 1, Wave 5, Poll 6

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave and prior here.

Art of Ling Chan by @ace-artemis-fanartist

Ling Chan-The Diviners

Qualifications:

Canonically, she is an asexual lesbian who is partially paralyzed in her legs. She uses crutches for her mobility aids. For her queerness, discovering that part of herself is a major part of her journey, first realizing slowly that she loves women, and then realizing the challenges of being ace in a queer relationship at a time when asexuality isn't widely understood.

Ling contracted "infantile paralysis" (polio) as a child, being that she was born in 1920s New York City before a vaccine was available. As such, she uses crutches and leg braces in order to walk. She is explicitly an asexual lesbian who struggles to balance both of these when neither is well-understood in her time, on top of being Chinese during the period of exclusion.

Propaganda:

She's a very cool, physically disabled ace lesbian who loves science and magic and learns the joys of friendship. She's a dreamwalker who communicates with (and sometimes fights) ghosts, and when another person with a similar power reaches out to her on that basis, and he tries to befriend her moreso than most anyone had before, they become close companions and her world expands. Also, queer solidarity--he's gay and that helps her realize she is too, since she'd had limited exposure to the idea of queerness before that.

My absolute baby. A grumpy gal who can only walk when in dreams. She falls in love with a girl who she thinks is a dreamwalker like her but turns out to be a vengeful ghost. She struggles to be with her chorus girl girlfriend because she's sexual but Ling isn't. Canon dialogue > "Which actor would you like to be with?" "Mae West." "No, romantically." "Yes." An icon with good taste Mae West is hot

Henry ‘Monty’ Montague-The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

Qualifications:

Canonically bisexual, and, from the end of the first book, deaf in one ear. (More precisely, he only has one ear, there's no other one to be deaf in since it got basically blown off by cannon fire, but regardless he only has functional hearing on one side.)

Propaganda:

Canonically bi, and deaf/hard-of-hearing since near the end of the first book; if I remember correctly, gets more disabled as the series goes on. If you don't know him and you think one of your faves is the ultimate bi disaster, think again. My god is he a loser. And a jerk, at the start. But despite all that, or perhaps through all that, he can be genuinely meaningful representation. Starts out as a miserable nobleman trying to survive his father's homophobic abuse, ends up unattached from his rich parents and living his best queer, disabled life with his boyfriend in freedom.