#i don't like jo x laurie either or laurie x amy i think they're Fine but that's it xD

[petratherrock]

We're obsessed with only child, middle child, eldest child aesthetics so let's list them in terms of ✨The Ships ✨

1. Kaz Brekker and Inej Ghafa

Youngest child - only child

2. Anthony Lockwood and Lucy Carlyle

Youngest child - youngest child

3. Darlington - Galaxy Stern

Only child - only child

4. Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson

Only child - only child-ish

(i mean it took him abt a decade before having a younger sibling so does that count? Not sure.)

5. Jude Duarte and Cardan Greenbriar

Middle child - youngest child

6. Suren "Wren" - Oak Greenbriar

Eldest child (ish?) / Only child - youngest child

Does it count when you've been separated for ages but you did kinda spend a few years with the unsister and you still care abt them a lot? Idk either

7. Henry Tilney - Catherine Morland

Middle child - middle child

8. Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy

Middle child - eldest child

9. Harriet Smith and Robert Martin

Only child - eldest child

10. George Knightley - Emma Woodhouse

Eldest child - youngest child

11. Anne Elliot - Capt Frederick Wentworth

Middle child - middle child

Okay that's it for the books ships.

Interesting when you look at their dynamics from the perspective of which child they are in the family, and it also makes sense how they act

Also interesting that Miss Austen said, justice to the middle childs let them have their own stories!! Love it xD

After listing down the Austen ships I can't wait to do one with my fave dramas and shows because my brain immediately went to Edith Crawley, my favourite middle child

But ah well for me, anyway, the science of which child you are is probably as reliable as the meyers-briggs test which I'm not sure is that reliable but still fun to discuss and think abt anyway!

Edit : as the youngest child, I do acknowledge and claim these sillies

[petratherrock]

That strange funny feeling when as an adult I realize I don't hate Amy x Laurie or that I don't prefer Jo x Teddy either, because Jo was his first love from his innocent adolescence and Amy was someone he was attached to romantically in his adult life,

and I'm fine with both ships.

But

It's like, if you ask me if I've got any of my favorite ship in Little Women, I'd blank out and maybe say Beth x Life lol

I feel like Laurie meeting someone else and marrying them would've been nicer instead of all these 'he should've ended up with Jo' thing.

I don't think he should've ended up with Jo at all (i believe like Jo, they would be fine initially but they'd make each other miserable in the long term--and my further interpretation is that they'd still wanna be with each other but they can't figure out why they're not fulfilled by each other's attachments anymore--in the long term, but that's just my interpretation)

but that he should've met someone else outside of the family, and still, their child being friends with the March children would've been fine

So tldr, for me it's not Jo x Teddy, or Amy x Laurie, it shoulda been a secret third thing lol