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Outlander (2014-present) - S01E12 « Lallybroch »

Welcome home, laird Broch Tuarach.

[sassenach77yle]

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#83daysofoutlander☆

I snuggled deeper into the comfort of the goose-down bed and turned toward sleep again, hearing with half an ear the baby’s whining, interspersed with hiccuping sobs, and Jamie’s deep, tuneless humming, the sound as comforting as the thought of beehives in the sun.

“Eh, wee Kitty, ciamar a tha thu? Much, mo naoidheachan, much.”

The sound of them went up and down the passage, and I dropped further toward sleep, but kept half-wakeful on purpose to hear them. One day perhaps he would hold his own child so, small round head cradled in the big hands, small solid body cupped and held firm against his shoulder. And thus he would sing to his own daughter, a tuneless song, a warm, soft chant in the dark. The constant small ache in my heart was submerged in a flood of tenderness. I had conceived once; I could do so again. Faith had given me the gift of that knowledge, Jamie the courage and means to use it. My hands rested lightly on my breasts, cupping the deep swell of them, knowing beyond doubt that one day they would nourish the child of my heart. I drifted into sleep with the sound of Jamie’s singing in my ears. Sometime later I drifted near the surface again, and opened my eyes to the light-filled room.

The moon had risen, full and beaming, and all the objects in the room were plainly visible, in that flat, two-dimensional way of things seen without shadow.

The baby had quieted, but I could hear Jamie’s voice in the hall, still speaking, but much more quietly, hardly more than a murmur. And the tone of it had changed; it wasn’t the rhythmic, half-nonsense way one talks to babies, but the broken, halting speech of a man seeking the way through the wilderness of his own heart.

Curious, I slipped out of bed and crept quietly to the door. I could see them there at the end of the hall.

Jamie sat leaning back against the side of the window seat, wearing only his shirt. His bare legs were raised, forming a back against which small Katherine Mary rested as she sat facing him in his lap, her own chubby legs kicking restlessly over his stomach.

The baby’s face was blank and light as the moon’s, her eyes dark pools absorbing his words. He traced the curve of her cheek with one finger, again and again, whispering with heartbreaking gentleness.

He spoke in Gaelic, and so low that I could not have told what he said, even had I known the words. But the whispering voice was thick, and the moonlight from the casement behind him showed the tracks of the tears that slid unregarded down his own cheeks. It was not a scene that bore intrusion. I came back to the still-warm bed, holding in my mind the picture of the laird of Lallybroch, half-naked in the moonlight, pouring out his heart to an unknown future, holding in his lap the promise of his blood.[...]

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“He and his niece seem to have got on well together.”

The picture of them came back to me, Jamie talking in earnest, low tones to the child, tears slipping down his face. Jenny nodded, watching my face.

“Aye. I thought perhaps they’d comfort each other a bit. He doesna sleep well these days?” Her voice held a question. “No,” I answered softly. “He has a lot on his mind.” “Well he might,” she said, glancing at the bed behind me. Ian was gone already, risen at dawn to see to the stock in the barn. The horses that could be spared from the farming—and some that couldn’t—needed shoeing, needed harness, in preparation for their journey to rebellion.

“You can talk to a babe, ye ken,” she said suddenly, breaking into my thought.

“Really talk, I mean. Ye can tell them anything, no matter how foolish it would sound did ye say it to a soul could understand ye.” “Oh. You heard him, then?” I asked.

She nodded, eyes on the curve of Katherine’s cheek, where the tiny dark lashes lay against the fair skin, eyes closed in ecstasy. “Aye. Ye shouldna worrit yourself,” she added, smiling gently at me. “It isna that he feels he canna talk to you; he knows he can. But it’s different to talk to a babe that way. It’s a person; ye ken that you’re not alone. But they dinna ken your words, and ye don’t worry a bit what they’ll think of ye, or what they may feel they must do. You can pour out your heart to them wi’out choosing your words, or keeping anything back at all—and that’s a comfort to the soul.” She spoke matter-of-factly, as though this were something that everyone knew. I wondered whether she spoke that way often to her child. The generous wide mouth, so like her brother’s, lifted slightly at one side. “It’s the way ye talk to them before they’re born,” she said softly. “You’ll know?”

I placed my hands gently over my belly, one atop the other, remembering.

“Yes, I know.”

She pressed a thumb against the baby’s cheek, breaking the suction, and with a deft movement, shifted the small body to bring the full breast within reach. “I’ve thought that perhaps that’s why women are so often sad, once the child’s born,” she said meditatively, as though thinking aloud. “Ye think of them while ye talk, and you have a knowledge of them as they are inside ye, the way you think they are. And then they’re born, and they’re different—not the way ye thought of them inside, at all. And ye love them, o’ course, and get to know them the way they are … but still, there’s the thought of the child ye once talked to in your heart, and that child is gone. So I think it’s the grievin’ for the child unborn that ye feel, even as ye hold the born one in your arms.” She dipped her head and kissed her daughter’s downy skull. “Yes,” I said. “Before … it’s all possibility. It might be a son, or a daughter. A plain child, a bonny one. And then it’s born, and all the things it might have been are gone, because now it is.” She rocked gently back and forth, and the small clutching hand that seized the folds of green silk over her breast began to loose its grip. “And a daughter is born, and the son that she might have been is dead,” she said quietly. “And the bonny lad at your breast has killed the wee lassie ye thought ye carried. And ye weep for what you didn’t know, that’s gone for good, until you know the child you have, and then at last it’s as though they could never have been other than they are, and ye feel naught but joy in them. But ’til then, ye weep easy.” “And men …” I said, thinking of Jamie, whispering secrets to the unhearing ears of the child. “Aye. They hold their bairns, and they feel all the things that might be, and the things that will never be. But it isna so easy for a man to weep for the things he doesna ken.”

35 MOONLIGHT~DRAGONFLY IN AMBER

... tha obair agad. 'se an obair sin, a chaileag, gum fàs u làidir agas sona. Na diochuimhnich......

...have a role to play. Yer role, wee lass, is to grow. strong and happy. Ne'er forget...

... gu bheil do theaghlach timcheall ort, fad na tide, fiù 's nach bith sinn ri fhaicinn. Do sheanar 's do sheanmhair, mo bhràthair Uilleam, mi fhéin, Sorcha. Tha sinn san fhiodh, sa chloich agas ann an gach fuaim's fàileadh an àite seo..

... yer family is all around ye, all the time, even when ye canna see us. Yer grandsire and grandmother, Uncle Willie, me, Aunt Claire. We're in the wood and the stone, and the sounds and smells of this place...

[brian-in-finance]

Inside Unfinished Business • Part 1

🧵Outlander_Starz: Outlander is back and so is "Inside Outlander," your scoop on the behind-the-scenes magic that brings this magical series to life! ✨ Let's dive into the emotional premiere, "Unfinished Business," shall we?"

Returning to Lallybroch and the location of Midhope Castle where Outlander films wasn't just magical for the fans but for the cast as well. Sam Heughan says this was his favourite location from this second half of the season.

Going back to Lallybroch was a really big moment, for Jamie but also for Outlander. It's where we started. I have a lot of memories working there. One of my first days shooting in Season 1 was at Midhope at Lallybroch... so it was quite a special moment.

Actually, I'd never been in the actual castle because it's derelict. We were using the doorway. So, I actually got to go in this time and have a look inside, which was very special. — SAM HEUGHAN, JAMIE FRASER

🧵Outlander_Starz: Showrunner and Executive Producer Matthew B. Roberts said, "Bringing one of our main characters back into the show... Scotland... she's such a beauty.

You miss her when you're not there. I love when we can play Scotland for Scotland at any point. And that iconic driveway going up to Lallybroch, it always makes your heart beat a little faster."

🧵Outlander_Starz: Set Decorator Stuart Bryce, who has been on Outlander since the beginning, was nostalgic at recreating this set across decades: "New touches, like Mike Gunn's murals, were a great addition, but essentially we didn't have to change too much. We kept it as true as we could to the original Lallybroch.

The tapestries in the dining room had been in storage, and there were a few pieces missing, so finding the original plans and having to recreate them was a challenge."

🧵Outlander_Starz: For Production Designer Mike Gunn, now that we're seeing Lallybroch in 1739 as well as the 1770s and 1980s, it was important to instantly recognize Roger was in a different time. He came up with the idea that behind the incredible tapestries from Season 1, there were murals created in the time of Brian Fraser, hidden after Culloden, then discovered by Bree and Roger in the 80s.

Read more about how Mike used these murals to plant Easter Eggs about Jamie and the story of Outlander itself!

I developed this backstory that the murals depicted the Jacobite rising and fight for Scottish independence. By the time the 1770s came and the Jacobites had lost Culloden, that's when the tapestries were hidden... In the 1980s, the tapestries were taken off. That was the starting point.

Then I decided to weave in the story of Outlander...

The unicorn, which I decided to depict in all of the four images, was Jamie. And of course, Claire is going to come into that journey. The central mural above the fireplace with the unicorn and horse, that's the two of them in love. But the unicorn is depicted as having his struggles throughout. He's depicted fighting a mythical beast that you could say is Black Jack. — MIKE GUNN, PRODUCTION DESIGNER

🧵Outlander_Starz: Fans will be delighted to see Jamie and Claire staying in the Laird's bedroom again with the iconic blue wallpaper. Set Decorator Stuart Bryce says of this room: "There is something about that blue that makes people's skin look amazing and enhanced those early romantic scenes of Jamie and Claire.

When we came to put the room back together, though it was exactly the way it should have been, by some mystery, the room was bigger...something spooky happened there!"

Inside Unfinished Business • 1 of 2

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Remember… you miss her when you're not there. I love when we can play Scotland for Scotland at any point. And that iconic driveway going up to Lallybroch, it always makes your heart beat a little faster. — Matthew B Roberts

[gotham-ruaidh]

you can feel the beat within [a 7x02 story]

Her tears had stopped some time ago. Her breaths had calmed, no longer gasping for air, her back softly rising and falling as his fingertips skimmed her spine.

Again he kissed her forehead. Watched the breeze swirl the curtains across the room, the black night an endless void beyond. Shifted her in his arms, sheltering her.

Her hands tightened at his elbows. Knees hooked behind his.

He felt her swallow against his shoulder.

“What happened, when you watched me go?”

He sighed. “I suppose I’ve never told you.”

“You don’t need to,” she whispered. “I understand if you don’t want to talk about it.”

His hand splayed over the small of her back. Pressing her deeper against him.

“You were in my arms. And then you were just…gone. In a blink. I had thought it would be slow, like salt dissolving in water. But no. It was as if you had never existed.”

Her thumb traced two parallel scars on his back. “I was so scared it would pull me apart. Me and the baby.”

“I ken it was the right thing.” She heard the tears in his eyes. “I meant to die, and I meant to save my family. But…God, Claire. You were gone, and all I had was your arisaid, and it smelled of you.”

He inhaled deeply at her hairline. Gasping.

“I was ready for my body to die on that battlefield. Because my heart was already dead.”

She pulled back from his shoulder. Rose up on an elbow to look at him. Cradled his face in her hands.

“Your heart beats within me. It beats in our daughter, and our grandchildren. They are worth it. All of it.”

“I…” his voice broke, pulse elevated, eyes bright with tears. “I ken that. But…”

“You don’t hate me for it, Jamie?”

His brows furrowed. “Hate you? How?”

She pulled away, drawing into herself. Sat up, wrapping her hands around her shoulders. Wishing she hadn’t discarded her shift, damp with sweat and tears, sometime before.

“All of the losses you’ve had…that we’ve had, Jamie.” She couldn’t look at him. “It’s because of me.”

“What? Sassenach, I dinna understand.”

“You lost your parents and brother before I knew you. But everything after that – your home. Your soul, after Wentworth. Our Faith. Angus and Rupert and all the men we knew in the Rising. You lost your birthright as laird. You went to prison. William. Your printshop. Murtagh. You’ve lost all of it because of me. Because you married me. Because I told you what would happen to the Highland culture. Because I came back, and because I know how this war will end. Because I know what’s wrong with Mandy.”

Now she dared to look up at him – torn, beautiful, so beautiful in the candlelight that her heart almost burst.

“How can you not hate me for that, Jamie?”

He reached out, tentatively, and rested a big, warm hand on her knee.

“We had a conversation like this in Paris. We forgave each other. But how long have you felt this way now?”

She rested her hand – her right hand – on top of his. Silver ring softly glowing in the candlelight.

“Too long.”

He smiled sadly. “We are a pair, mo chridhe. For I have long feared you’d think the same of me. Hate me for it.”

She pursed her lips, not understanding. He shifted to sit in front of her, interlocking their fingers.

“You lost your world when you first came to me. Your husband, who I ken was a good man. It tore you up inside, Claire. I made you choose between us when it should have been me against him.”

“Jamie – ”

“I couldnae give you a proper home until we built this one. We lost our daughter in Paris. We returned to Lallybroch, and it was a wonderful time, but we lost that too. We lost the chance to raise Bree together. We lost a life in Edinburgh, and then at Lallyboch because of Laoghaire. We came to the Ridge, but we lost it being a safe place for you.”

Her thumb traced the scars on the back of his fingers.

“I’ve wondered - how could you not hate me? For it’s because of me, all this has happened to you. To us.”

Somewhere outside, a dove cooed mournfully.

He brought the back of her hand to his lips for a kiss. “But I cannae hate my own heart. Can you?”

She looked at him for a long moment. “Of course not.”

He made a small sound, and in a rush gathered her to him. Squeezing so tight.

“I have loved you from the very beginning of it, Claire. Holding you like this, in my arms, when you wept at Leoch. It felt right, did it no?”

She rested her forehead against his. Kissed the salt at the corner of his eyes.

“You are my heart,” she whispered. “As I am yours. When yours hurts, mine hurts. When mine hurts, so does yours. Two hundred years can’t change that.”

A kiss.

His thumb traced her heart.

“Look…”

Jamie pulled away, smiling. Softly spun her around to rest against the steady strength of his chest.

She settled against him. Looking out the window. Smiling at the shower of tiny kisses against the shell of her ear.

His heart a low, steady thump against her back.

Her heart singing.

Watching dawn – the gift of another day together – touch the Ridge.

[thetruthwilloutsworld]

Instagram midhope.castle

Fantastic evening to be taking a tour of "Lallybroch" with the Laird.

Posted 22 April 2024

[mia1989]

Outlander: Unfinished Business Review

I honest to God don't even remember the last time I was on this site, but given that there's new episodes of Outlander, and I have thoughts, I thought I'd start doing reviews again. And be forewarned, I am a book reader, so this may contain upcoming spoilers (I will tag it as such).

Pros:

I may be in the minority, but I actually really like the new Jenny. I absolutely adored Laura's version, but I actually appreciate that Kristin Atherton is sticking closer to book Jenny than Laura Donnelly did. Jenny still has a certain toughness about her, but I feel like Kristin is giving her a softer edge as well, which makes sense because as people age, many do become softer.

Jamie and Claire being back at Lallybroch felt just like coming home from an audience perspective. The scene in the Laird's room where they were reminiscing were so heartwarming.

Seeing all of Jenny and Ian's brood was a welcome surprise, I wasn't expecting to see so many Murray's.

All of the scenes with older Ian absolutely broke my heart, but I really loved them. He is going to be so missed, which is a testament to how well Steven Cree plays him because he is one of my favourite characters.

Laoghaire's "happy" ending. She has never been a favourite character of mine, but she's been put through a lot of shit over the years, so I am glad to see she was able to find someone to love,

Although I knew it was coming, seeing Brian Fraser again made me so happy. I liked his interactions with Roger, just wish Brianna could have been there as well.

The ending with Geilis was an amazing cliffhanger. I cannot wait to see her, Buck, Roger and Dougal next week. This storyline is unhinged in a hilarious way.

Cons:

Roger's voiceover. I don't usually mind voiceovers, but this one just felt out of place to me.

I wish we could have had more scenes with Jenny and Claire this go around. I just really love their relationship and how complicated it is. I'm really hoping the show will follow the book and bring Jenny to Fraser's Ridge eventually.

Jamie and Claire's lack of goodbye. I just felt like they didn't really get a proper goodbye this goaround, especially given what is coming and the separation once again.

All in all I'd give this episode an 8.5/10. It was well done and had a lot of nods to the book, which I really appreciate. I have high hopes for the rest of this season and can't wait to see what's to come, even knowing that it will break me.

[renee-writer]

Natural Remedies Chapter 4

AO3

This isn’t how she expected her life to go. She imagined she would be building a life with Frank and their children.

 

Never expected him to get sick just months after their wedding and a week after she discovered she was pregnant. Her pregnancy was a mixture of hope and fear. Prayers for a healthy baby mixed with those for her husband to go into remission.

 

He died just a week after their daughter was born. Julia Frances, after her grandma and daddy.

 

During his battle, she got interested in a more natural way to heal, without all the horrible side effects that his cancer treatment caused.

 

She needs a way to see to her child, once Frank’s life insurance runs out. As it is easier to get approval to use natural remedies on animals then humans, she starts there.

 

She and Geillis work together between feeding her daughter, to get some made. Claire the scientist/ worried mum, Geillis as her support and markting person.

 

They started out small with udder balm for Laird John Grey’s dairy cows. Then a fungus treatment for Laird Colum Mackenzie ‘s sheep. To get her colic treatment to be used by Laird Fraser for his horses would allow her to stop worrying about how to see to her child.

 

She needs to speak with him as one parent to another.

 

Bundling Julia Frances against the chill of the Scottish air, she places her in the car and heads towards Lallybroch Paddocks.

[lady-o-ren]

FROM THE EDGE OF THE BLACK SEA

After a deadly confrontation with the Laird and Warchief of Clan Mackenzie, the last son of Lallybroch goes on a frantic search for his one true love, praying he isn't too late . . .

//

Jamie's found his runaway heart in the ruins of an old abbey by the sea.

He swings his long leg from off his great stallion's back and crosses what's left of the crumbling stone archway to the back where the wall of the abbey has collapsed.

Claire sits there amongst the rubble and weeds with her knees pulled up to her chest, transfixed by the rhythmic rise and fall of the black ocean waves. Was she longing for them to sweep her away?

Jamie couldn't bear the thought of losing her, even as guilt gnawed away at his guts for being the one to have selfishly brought her to this savage place.

For failing to keep her safe.

He can see the bruises on her neck with the lifting of her long dark curls by the cold misty wind and can only imagine what other marks hide beneath her cloak and crumpled dress, making his blood burn black with rage.

As if she's heard the mad thrashing of his heart, Claire looks over her shoulder and her eyes that could bewitch a man into giving up his soul widen in a burst of golden surprise.

"You idiot!" She cries to Jamie's horror. "You damned stupid fool!"

Seizing a rock, Claire hurls it at his head, followed by another and another after that. She then attempts to run when Jamie makes a move to grab her and becomes trapped against his chest.

"Let go of me!" She shouts, jerking violently in his arms wrapped ironclad around her.

"Sassenach! Claire! I'm not here to hurt ye!"

"Let go of me, damn you! Let go!"

The desperation in her voice tears at Jamie's very soul making his arms drop like lead at his sides.

Claire stumbles forward but doesn't run off like he feared she would. Instead she turns to face him, glaring fiercely, with her breath coming out in hurried white puffs around her flushed and freckled cheeks.

"Why did you follow me?" She demands.

"Why the hell did ye leave the castle wi'out telling me? Surely ye must've kent I'd search night and day for ye," Jamie fires back, shuddering with frustration and exhaustion from his tireless pursuit of her.

"It doesn't matter why. You weren't supposed to follow me anyhow." She waves her hand to the trees beyond them that blanket the hills. "Now Dougal will send the entire clan after us thinking you've betrayed him. "

"He won't. I made sure of that," says Jamie, voice cold and unrepentant as the tide crashing against the cliff side, eyeing her bruised throat.

Claire clasps her hand to it.

The same one she slashed Dougal's face and bare chest with in the shadows of her bedchamber, drawing blood that she can still taste like poison on her lips.

"You didn't have to - he didn't -"

Blood rushes to Jamie's face, furious as a thundercloud.

"I did what needed to be done to protect ye, Claire. "

"Jamie, that's all you've ever done for me. That's why I didn't tell you about Dougal. I didn't want to put you in danger."

"You think I care about myself? He hurt ye dammit!"

Jamie slams his fist against a standing stone.

"The one I've waited all my life for. Who holds the whole of my heart . . ." He takes a step closer, voice low and thick with passion. "The one I love."

Claire takes a step back, not daring to believe. Her voice a quivering whisper.

"You can't mean that."

Jamie fixes her with a searing blue gaze and says -

"Have I ever lied to ye?"

The tears come hot and fast down Claire's cheeks and Jamie does his best to thumb them away, lifting her face that's ethereal as a star in his big hands. Oh, how lovely she is.

"Since when?" She murmurs tearily. "How long?"

"From the moment I gave ye the breath of my body while you struggled for air on the shore, when ye weeped in my arms for what was lost to ye that first night at Leoch, my heart and soul have belonged to you. Even in death when I'm nothing more than dust in the wind and far beyond the hereafter, my love for you will never waver." He rests his brow against hers, bowed as if in prayer. "This I promise you wi' all that I am. Will you have me?"

Claire reluctantly pulls away and looks up at his face beaming with devotion she's never known, could never dream of, hands grasping at his chest.

"More than anything I want to say yes -"

"Then say yes!" Jamie sings, his lips brushing the corner of her mouth as he says so, clutching her waist to his.

"But the clan -" Claire pleads, cupping his stubbled cheek, forcing him to meet her gaze. "They'll kill you because of me."

Jamie lays his hand on her wrist, feeling her pulse throbbing hard against his palm and squeezes it.

"My uncle had many enemies and a great many of them are drinking to his death right now not knowing who gave their laird the final blow nor caring. And as for us," a shy and hopeful smile illuminates his face that gives Claire's heart an ache so sweet. "They'll think we've eloped just like my mother and father did. That damned fool James Fraser, they'll say, bewitched by his silkie bride."

And then there's no longer a need for words or even air as Claire once more takes Jamie's breath away, this time with a joyful, heavenly kiss.

//

Backstory: Jamie finds Claire on a rocky shoreline thinking she's a dead seal. But when the seal starts to move he thinks there's a pup trapped inside. He slashes the belly open and out comes Claire. Bloodied. White as bone. And her first gasp of human life leaves her choking and breathless hence Jamie giving her the breath of his body so that she may live.

Also I couldn't think of a better name for this drabble nonsense so I went with the first thing that popped into my head. The song by The Cure - The edge of the deep green sea. That song has a totally different vibe than what's conveyed here but damn what a great song.

Forgive the stupidity of the drabble pls

[theawkwardterrier]

Wednesday 100: Home and Away

Traveling through cold and rain never bothered Jamie. He wouldn’t dwell on it now, riding with MacQuarrie's men, but his mind returns to keeping Claire warm on the way to Leoch, to wrapping her in his plaid as they rode to Lallybroch, to them entwined in the bed that is beginning to become theirs.

He imagines her in the laird's room, washing — it's evening and she likes to be clean from the day. He will stop on the way back, he decides. He’ll buy her a ewer, simple and solid and good, to make his home even more theirs.

[always-outlander]

The Outlander 31 Day Challenge: Day 1

Shoutout to @gotham-ruaidh

Day 1: Favorite Season 1-3 Episode:

For me it would have to be episode 12, “Lallybroch”

Season 1 in so many ways is my comfort season, but this episode in particular provided so much. These two had been working towards this moment, and finding this place and time of peace since we first met them in episode one. To finally reach this one goal of theirs together was a monumental moment in their relationship.

And even though it is short lived, this glimpse into what their life here is like and could be is such a much needed pause in the larger story of their lives. Jamie and Claire love each other deeply at this point, but do not verbalize it until this episode. They have shown their love with their actions and commitment, but to hear the words spoken between them was so beautiful to watch.

For Jamie, this episode is paramount. This place shaped who he is entirely. He was raised here yes, but he carry’s the weight of his home and the people who inhabit it with him daily. The loss of his father was profoundly significant to everyone at Lallybroch and in his family. Jamie feels guilty for his fathers death, remorse that he was unable to see him buried or mourn him properly. Ashamed that he has been unable to return home and live there as the proud son and laird he was destined to become. To bring Claire home to Lallybroch was his singular goal since he met her. To give her a simple life that he longed for, in the place he longs for. He made her ring from his key because it is the only thing he can offer her. Lallybroch will always be home for him, but sharing it with Claire? That would make him whole. But as we see in this episode, it is because Jamie is unable to stay and become Laird, that the weight of the household falls on Ian and Jenny.

Jenny Fraser might be one of my favorite characters in the series, and this episode she truly shines. She proves her mettle in more ways than one, and exposes Jamie’s weak points in subtle but effective ways. She has held their home and family together without him, created a family of her own, and has loved and supported Jamie from afar in her own way. The two siblings deeply love one another, and their stubborn natures are what make their dynamics so fiery and intense at times. But at the end of the day, you can see parts of each other reflected in both of them. Jamie was so young when his mother passed, when Jenny was attacked, when his father died. They both had to grow up earlier than what was fair. Because of that, they have taken different approaches to their healing. Jenny has taken on responsibilities Jamie is both unaware of and disinterested in. He believes that he is able to step into the role of Laird with ease, and Jenny makes sure to point out that being a Laird is more than a title. She teaches Jamie so much in this one episode, and makes an immeasurable impact on Claire.

Claire says it herself in this episode, that being at Lallybroch makes her feel like she actually might belong there. “There” can mean many things; there, in that house with Jamie, Jenny and Ian. Or there, in that time period, back 200 years in the past…with Jamie. She is happy and contented and in love. It’s the first episode that we as viewers see and know without a doubt that her love for Jamie is real and worth it to her. And it’s also when we see her allow other people close to her and Jamie to imprint on her, particularly Jenny. She never had a sister, she never had a family beyond her uncle. These people are wary at first, but you can see in this episode that they are willing to accept her and will love her, and she loves them. Claire’s first true introduction of her new, accepted life in the past takes place in this episode. She looks around and knows she will be happy to stay here, with Jamie and his family. By the end of the episode we know that they are once again thrust into danger, but for now it’s a much needed moment of reprieve.

Ian Murray is hugely important in this episode, and makes a palpable impact on the viewer and Claire. He’s the first person who can give Claire and the viewer insight into Jamie’s life before we first see him in the opening episode. He was with him in France, he was Jamie’s closest childhood friend, and he represents the life Jamie would be living had he not become an outlaw. I think we see that in some ways Jamie looks at Ian and pity’s the simple life he leads (while recognizing a lot of that has to do with his leg). Jamie craves a life of adventure and enjoys the mischief and excitement of being an outlaw. But Ian shows Jamie what a contented life with the woman you love looks like. With kids, with a home and community around you. Now that Jamie has Claire, his whole world has changed. He can envision a life with kids, and we see how heartbroken he is when Claire reveals she cannot provide them with that life he’s spent the episode envisioning. Ian also is the window into Jenny for the viewers and for Claire. He softens Jenny’s personality and interprets her actions for her so that the viewers (and Claire) understand that despite her stubborn exterior, she has a heart of gold just like her brother. She’s a fighter, and she is fierce. Ian is the anchor for both of the Frasers, it seems. His impact was huge in this one episode. It also serves a duel purpose, because when we eventually meet young Ian, we can understand his character due in large part to understanding who his father is.

This little home is the cornerstone of this show in many ways, and this episode always makes me smile when I watch it. It might not be the most action packed, or have the most important moments in regards to moving the plot along, but in many ways it is the real turning point of the story. A break amongst the cruel realities that plague this couple, and a window into the souls of some of our favorite characters, especially Jamie.

[nellie-elizabeth]

Outlander: Unfinished Business (7x09)

We're back, at long last! It's been a million years!

Cons:

It's not the actress's fault, but I did find the re-casting of Jenny to be distracting. The reunion vibes, and the tension between Claire and Jenny, all that stuff - it just didn't pack the same punch because it was some random woman I'd never seen before in my life, you know?

Also, I'll wait until next week to judge, but I feel like this show is always lacking in the Ian Sr. and Jamie relationship. It makes sense that a great deal of time goes to Young Ian's reunion with his dying father, but I could have used more of Jamie and Ian together as brothers, here. A more emotionally poignant moment of return, the laird back in Lallybroch and seeing the man who maintains it for him.

I have had this complaint so many times over the years with this show, but the truth is, the voice-over stuff just does not work for me! There are times when it's less bad and times when it's more bad, but that's about it. Roger having a voice-over in this episode was distracting as fuck. I understand that it would have potentially been challenging to get across the revelation of Roger being in the wrong time without some sort of awkward statement of reality in the exposition, but they could have found a better way, I'm fairly certain.

Pros:

For all that the voice-over annoyed me, I still did like Roger's journey into the past. They really made a meal out of that moment when Roger shows up to Lallybroch. There's a knock at the door, and you think Jamie and Roger are about to be reunited, you're so relieved because now Roger is going to have his family with him on his hunt for Jemmy, and then... nope! Syke! It's such a good twist in the books and the show too. So fun to get to know Brian Fraser a little bit too, and to see young Jenny - it was easier to get on board with this different actress in the flashback.

Laoghaire is such an interesting character because her anger is motivated more by bitterness and heartbreak than by pure reason, and yet she's also not entirely wrong about Jamie screwing her over. It's funny how this character keeps turning up like a bad penny and then trying to murder Jamie right in front of our eyes, and yet you're still kind of hoping that Jamie will do right by her and make sure she's okay. The acting has a lot to do with it, I've always really liked her performance in the role. I also like that Jamie gets heated with her even when he's trying to be the reasonable one and offer his apologies. This is a story where the ex-spouses aren't going to be friendly with each other in the end, no matter that they're both in different happy relationships now. Some wounds don't heal.

What a treat to meat Joanie, and see her set off on her life as a nun! I liked her going to Jamie, her stepfather, and laying out the situation with her mother and the land she stays on. Jamie does the right honorable thing, taking care of his stepdaughter and making sure Laoghaire can marry her lover without losing her home. You hate that women are in the position to have to depend on a man doing the right thing, but you're glad knowing that this man always will do the right thing. I liked the almost girlish excitement Laoghaire displayed when she realized she was going to get everything she wanted, and how she tamped it down in front of Jamie and Claire. (Also, it is pretty ridiculous that Ned Gowan is still alive - this is a detail from the books that always made me chuckle.)

I think I mentioned in earlier reviews that Ian and Rachel's romance on this show (and also in the books if I'm being honest) isn't my favorite thing in the world. But given that she's absent in this episode, only evoked by name, I do like the role she plays in Ian's journey, here. He comes home after so many years, an entire life lived away from his place of birth. He's been married and divorced, he's lost a child. He's been adopted into, and then chosen to leave, a tribe that gave him a new cultural identity to lay alongside his Scottish origins. He's on the cusp of maybe making a new happiness with someone, only then he discovers that his father his dying.

So what does he do? He writes to Rachel to release her from any implication that she would wait for his return. He has to stay, to spend the rest of his father's life by his side. Then we get a sequence of scenes that actually did make me tear up. Jenny rips up the letter Ian wrote to Rachel, then takes him out to the family graveyard, where Ian sees that they've put a grave up for his infant daughter. They copied the Mohawk words from Ian's letter onto the grave, so it says "most beloved daughter." Jenny tells Ian that he'll have a place here to remember her and that she was on this Earth with him. And that he'll always be here at Lallybroch with them too, even if he leaves. As Jenny says, Ian's father wants him to go and live the rest of his life.

So... Ian's off with Claire back to America. The moment between father and son, when Ian comes out of the house and down the stairs, grievously ill and unsteady on his feet, the way they stare at each other and wave goodbye... god, there's something so definitive and beautiful and tragic about it. It's something that isn't really a part of our modern world in the same way. Ian Sr. doesn't have long left to live, and Ian Jr. is going very far away with no means of getting back quickly. They know they're looking at each other for the very last time, and they get the chance to say that goodbye with the full knowledge of that reality. It really tugged at my heartstrings!

Obviously because I am me, the thing that got me the most pumped about this show being back on the air is Claire getting that letter from Lord John. I always swoon when John uses first names with Jamie and with Claire, it feels like he's taking liberties in the best way. He implores her to come to Philadelphia to save his nephew Henry. I know the sequence of events that's about to be set off here, and I've got to say it's some of my favorite shit in the whole damn series. I am SO excited for the next couple of episodes - we even saw John in the "next time on," about to give Claire some bad news...... I am frothing at the mouth!

Ahem. Anyway. It was nice to be back in Lallybroch, I liked this episode quite a bit. Roger and Buck have run into Geillis, another bad penny, and we'll have to see how that goes when we check back in with them next week!

8/10

[outlanderbrasil]

Os Temas de Outlander por Diana Gabaldon

Os textos que você vai ler foram escritos por Diana Gabaldon, aonde ela comenta sobre cada um de seus livros e o significado de cada um deles. Estes textos podem ser lidos em inglês no seu famoso Compendium, o The Outlandish Companion. A tradução foi feita pela equipe Outlander Brasil.

Os textos abaixo contém spoilers. Se você não gosta de spoilers, veja apenas dos livros que você já leu.

A viajante do tempo - Amor

Enquanto meus livros são frequentemente classificados como (por pessoas sem saber do que chamá-los) romances românticos, eles não são. Entretanto, A viajante do tempo é, de fato, o único que tem a estrutura necessária para ainda passar como romance romântico. Isto é, é uma história de um namoro; seu mecanismo central preocupa-se com a união de duas pessoas em uma (teoricamente) permanente união monogâmica. Além disso, contudo, explora a natureza do amor sobre uma série de níveis e em uma variedade de contextos.

Nós temos o conflito de Claire sobre (verdadeiramente) amar dois homens. Temos o amor de Jamie por seu pai, sua irmã, e seu lar, e o amor de Murtagh por seu afilhado. Nós temos o amor profundamente conflituoso entre os irmãos MacKenzie. Temos o amor dos membros do clã um pelo outro, seu Laird e seu lar. Temos as emoções muito complicadas do Capitão Jack Randall, embora se alguma delas constituem amor, ou meramente obsessão, é um assunto para o leitor decidir. E temos o Amor Divino, no qual Claire mais ou menos tropeça em um ato de desespero. Mas quase todo relacionamento no livro descansa no amor e a história inteira como uma prova do poder do amor.

A Libélula no Âmbar - Casamento 

Este livro lida, principalmente, com o desenvolvimento de um casamento específico- o de Claire e Jamie- mas ao longo do caminho se observa vários outros relacionamentos e combinações que exploram o conceito. Temos o casamento arranjado de Mary Hawkins e o idoso e verruguento Visconde Marigny. Temos os casamentos de classe e conveniência sem amor, porém pragmáticos vistos na Corte Francesa e os casos eventuais e egoístas que contrastam tão fortemente com o senso de compromisso e abnegação no coração de um bom casamento. Mais tarde nós vemos o amor condenado entre Mary e Alex Randall, e o casamento pragmático entre ela e Jack Randall (baseado no amor de Jack por seu irmão, ao invés de por Mary). Vemos a culpa de um casamento rompido e remendado na recomeço das relações de Claire com Frank e a paz de um casamento duradouro, profundamente comprometido entre Jenny e Ian em Lallybroch, e apreciamos as várias ameaças que há nesses vínculos sociais e como as pessoas sustentam um casamento, ou não.

O Resgate no Mar - Identidade

O Resgate no Mar tem muita aventura, mudança de tempos e lugares, busca de destino e assim por diante, mas o tema basilar é a busca de uma pessoa por identidade e como se definir, aos seus próprios olhos, ou nos dos outros, ou nos da sociedade no geral. Pelo casamento, pela carreira, pela vocação- ou pelo reconhecimento da sua própria essência de ser. Você vê isso organizado mais visivelmente (claro) na história de Claire e Jamie, primeiro conforme ela busca o marido que ela perdeu e por quem anseia e então conforme eles buscam por um desembarque seguro e um lugar que possam sobreviver juntos.

A metáfora contínua encontrando seus nomes: Jamie tem cinco para escolher, mais um título mais vários apelidos e ele vive sob uma variedade de noms de guerre (frequentemente baseados literalmente de guerre) ao longo do livro, em resposta a sua mudança de funções e de quem está atrás dele no momento. Claire, claro, saiu de Beauchamp, para Randall, para Fraser, para Randall e agora está prestes a ser novamente Claire Fraser, ou será Sra. Malcolm? Ou talvez Madame Etienne Marcel de Provac Alexandre? (Simbolizando a ligação do seu destino com o de Jamie, sim?). Como Jamie conta a Claire no meio do livro,

“—Durante tantos anos —ele disse— por tanto tempo, eu fui tantas coisas, tantos homens diferentes. — Senti que ele engolia em seco e ele remexeu-se um pouco, o linho de seu camisão farfalhando de goma. —Fui tio para os filhos de Jenny e irmão para ela e Ian. ‘Milorde’ para Fergus e ‘Senhor’ para os meus colonos. ‘Mac Dubh’ para os homens de Ardsmuir e ‘MacKenzie’ para os outros empregados em Helwater. Depois, ‘Malcolm, o mestre-impressor’ e ‘Jamie Roy’ nas docas. — A mão acariciou meus cabelos, devagar, com um som sussurrante, como o vento do lado de fora. —Mas aqui —ele disse, tão baixinho que mal podia ouvi-lo —aqui no escuro, com você... eu não tenho nenhum nome.” Eles dois adotam, descartam e adaptam funções conforme vão de um bordel em Edimburgo, a Lallybroch, ao Caribe, e por último lançados à praia por um furacão, para a América. Lá, despojados de tudo, exceto um do outro, Jamie finalmente recupera e reapresenta sua identidade, quando ele se apresenta a um salvador: 'Meu nome é Jamie Fraser... E essa é Claire... Minha esposa.”

Os Tambores de Outono - Família

Se A Libélula no Âmbar lida com o estabelecimento e crescimento de um casamento, Tambores faz o mesmo com o conceito de família e sua importância na vida de uma pessoa. Uma das maiores noções, desenvolvida ao longo dos livros, é que uma família não consiste apenas de pessoas que compartilham DNA, nem uma família deixa de ser importante, se seus membros estão separados, ou mortos. A família de Claire e Jamie, conforme eles estabelecem-se na Carolina do Norte consiste em Fergus e Marsali, o filho deles, Germain e o sobrinho de Jamie, Ian, assim como Brianna, a filha que Jamie nunca viu.

Quanto a essa filha, seu choque ao saber da verdade de sua paternidade a conduz a achar sua família e arriscar tudo para salvá-la, enquanto Roger MacKenzie Wakefield (nascido Mackenzie, mas adotado por seu tio-avô) arrisca tudo por causa dela, e torna-se sua família, também, juntamente com seu filho, Jeremiah (que pode ou não ser de Roger, mas o qual Roger reivindica firmemente como seu). Qaundo Brianna escreve no seu bilhete para Roger, anexo com a prataria da sua família, fotos e recordações: “Todo mundo precisa de uma história... Esta é a minha.”

A Cruz de Fogo - Comunidade

A Cruz de Fogo continua o senso de “construção” dos livros, do namoro, ao casamento, à família e agora à formação de uma comunidade, conforme Jamie reivindica seu destino original como laird e líder, sustentáculo e protetor de uma comunidade. Vimos fazer isso (brevemente) em Lallybroch e então durante os anos depois de Culloden, quando ele liderou os prisioneiros em Ardsmuir, e os manteve (na sua maior parte) sãos e vivos ao forjá-los em uma comunidade. Jamie foi sempre definido (para ele mesmo, assim como para o leitor) pelo seu forte senso de responsabilidade e aqui nós o vemos em pleno funcionamento, conforme ele junta arrendatários para sua terra, Fraser’s Ridge, com a ajuda (e obstáculo ocasional de arrepiar os cabelos) dos viajantes do tempo de sua família.

Assim como em qualquer história que vale a pena, a autodefinição de um protagonista (quer seja uma pessoa ou um grupo) é um processo tanto de descoberta, como de conflito. Pedras no caminho, oposição e perigo são as ferramentas que a natureza usa para esculpir uma personalidade marcante da pedra nativa. E assim nós vemos não apenas a formação da comunidade de Fraser’s Ridge (um paralelo e microcosmo da América emergente), mas a luta individual de Jamie, Claire, Brianna, Roger e outros para se encaixarem no seu ambiente em mudança, e preservar suas próprias identidades e descobrir suas vocações no processo.

Um Sopro de Neve e Cinzas - Lealdade

Estou tentada a dizer que o tema de uma única palavra desse livro é “sobrevivência”, mas os meios pelos quais tantas pessoas sobrevivem às vicissitudes de um mundo girando fora de controle é realmente um tema melhor, eu acho. Nesta instância, nós exploramos a lealdade feroz de Claire e Jamie um com o outro e com sua família. Mas além de lealdade as pessoas, lealdade as ideias e ideais é uma coisa enorme nessa época da História da América e o conflito dessas lealdades é paradoxalmente tanto a causa de fratura social, como dos meios de sobrevivência, quando o mundo está em colapso.

Nós vemos outras formas de lealdade em trabalho, a lealdade da ganância e autoproteção, entre a gangue de Brown e o bando de saqueadores de Hodgepile; a lealdade à tradição e aos líderes entre os Cherokee; a lealdade ao Rei, país e regimento mostrada por John Grey, e a lealdade da amizade, como vemos entre Lord John e Jamie. E, em última análise, nós vemos a lealdade e amor dos pais, que farão qualquer sacrifício para o bem de seus filhos e o futuro.

Ecos do Futuro - Nexo

O ícone na capa da edição americana desse livro é um estrepe, uma arma militar que data à época dos Romanos. O ícone na capa da edição do Reino Unido é um esqueleto de folha, mostrando a superioridade do departamento de arte de Orion em relação aos meus próprios instintos, mas incorporando o mesmo conceito basilar: as ligações complexas e frágeis entre pessoas, períodos e circunstâncias.

O livro segue quatro histórias principais, as quais se conectam de forma maior e menor e, dependendo de qual imagem de capa você prefere, revela a importância e resiliência de tais conexões em tempos de guerra e conflitos pessoais ou mostra as veias subjacentes de nutrição e sustento entre as pessoas que as mantém inteiras apesar dos estresses da passagem do tempo. Como com Um Sopro de Neve e Cinzas, EU considerei um tema alternativo de uma única palavra, neste caso, “mortalidade”. Não morte, como tal, mas uma realização da natureza finita da vida e o que isso faz as pessoas. Esse era um conceito muito mais difícil de pôr em uma capa, entretanto.

Escrito com o sangue do meu coração – Perdão

Se a palavra de Eco era “nexo”, os leitores mais perspicazes estão provavelmente esperando que a de MOBY seja “espaguete”, ou, possivelmente, “polvo”. Entretanto, não é. É “perdão”, tanto a doação deste bálsamo, como a recusa de perdoar e o que a doação e a recusa fazem tanto aos doares, como aos beneficiários em ambos os casos.

Vemos esse conceito em operação entre os personagens principais- particularmente no que diz respeito à reação de William a descoberta de sua verdadeira paternidade e no que diz respeito aos esforços de Claire em lidar com conhecer o homem que a estuprou e sua reação com o que Jamie faz em relação a isso. Mas também o vemos em passagens menos importantes, lidando com personagens incidentais. A Sra. Bradshaw e a escrava Sophronia, por exemplo. A Sra. Bradshaw mostra uma determinação corajosa em ajudar a garota (assim perdoando-a pelo que poderia ser visto por uma mulher inferior como cumplicidade na infidelidade de seu marido), apesar de sua incapacidade (e quem poderia imaginar isso?) de perdoar seu marido e a luta interna aparente que a situação a custa. Rachel perdoa Ian imediatamente acerca de sua confissão que ele fora casado anteriormente e sua admissão do medo que ele poderia não dar a ela, filhos.

Jamie perdoa Claire e, relutantemente, Lord John, por terem dormido um com o outro, enquanto pensavam que ele estivesse morto, mas não consegue perdoar Lord John por confirmar diretamente seu próprio desejo por Jamie.

Claire instantaneamente perdoa Jenny, a cunhada que outrora ela amara profundamente. Jenny enfaticamente não perdoa Hal, o comandante dos homens que machucou sua família e que contribuiu para a morte de seu marido, mas ela aconselha e ajuda Claire, que deve lidar com sua realização que o homem que a estuprou está vivo, ao compartilhar a experiência de sua filha. Buck MacKenzie não consegue se perdoar pelas formas como ele falhou com sua esposa. Roger explicitamente perdoa Buck pelo seu papel em enforcá-lo, mas demonstra o efeito bumerangue do perdão, no qual a sensação da ferida retorna e deve ser lidada outra vez.

Fanny perdoa William e Jamie por não terem sido capazes de salvar Jane, mas você pode claramente ver que eles não perdoam a si mesmos e vão viver com os efeitos de seu fracasso por algum tempo. “Espaguete” é provavelmente o termo certo, realmente...

 GABALDON, Diana. The Outlandish Companion. New York: Delacorte Press, 2015. V.2, p. 545-550

[anon-argentine]

Hey, outlander fanfic writers, I have a proposition for you.

Genderbent Claire and Jaime.

WW2 Army Physician Clarence Beauchamp is on a trip with his friend Frank in Scotland, to celebrate the end of the war. Druids, stones, he finds himself in the 18th century. Enter a group of Scots that save him from Randall (who uncannily resembles Frank), and with them a fearless red-headed Scottish woman named Jenny. (Yes, in this AU, Jenny is Jaime laird of Lallybroch while his rebel sister is thought to be dead).

Jenny McTavish seems to have the respect of all the men that surround her, they treat her like one of their own. Clarence later learns of the bounty on Red Jenny’s head, etc, etc.

Plot goes along essentially the same. Clarence is taken to Castle Leoch, he wins their tentative respect due to his prowess as a healer. Jack Randall is trying to get him, Dougal still has him marry Jenny so that Clarence has some legal clan protection. Any other changes to characters and plot are up to you.

Someone tag me when they write this, I’d love to read it.

[gotham-ruaidh]

Outlander 31 Day Challenge: Day 24

Welcome to the Outlander 31 Day Challenge!

Today is Day 24: Favorite Jamie + Claire being silly/adorable scene

This would have to be - hands down - the adorable, amazing Drunk!Jamie scene in 01x12 “Lallybroch.” Why?

- LOVE LOVE LOVE the drunk!violin (nicely echoes the tipsy!violin when Jamie comes down the stairs in 01x07 “The Wedding”)

- Jamie thinks he’s being soooo sneaky when he comes in the door

- Claire is all sassy in a tired, “I can’t believe I married this idiot” kind of way

- Drunk!Jamie has to be asked to speak English - proof that Gaelic is his default setting

- “I had to show him the difference between abuse and discipline” - followed by the butt slap that echoed around the world. The fact that Drunk!Jamie is not-so-subtly referring to his ill-fated attempt to “discipline” Claire, and their conversations about it later at Leoch, shows just how deeply that episode has affected him

- Claire’s adorable reaction to the butt slap - oh no he didn’t!

- “I told him he’d have to answer to the laird of Broch Tuarach. That’s me!” — Seriously Jamie, are you five?

- Wait, wait, oh my God, Claire has actually seen an elephant!!

- And my absolute favorite part of the scene: the head roll. Why sit up when you can just roll all over your understanding, accommodating wife?

[thetruthwilloutsworld]

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Coming to Australia in February for the first Hublander event, our inaugural guest is none other than the true laird of Lallybroch - @SamHeughan himself! If you're a fan of Outlander, this is one event you can't afford to miss!

Sydney 24th February 2024

Melbourne 25 February 2024

[ofmythsandfables]

J.amie F.raser

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VERSES

On The Run (1743 ; Aged 23)

Jamie is in hiding from the British going by Jamie MacTavish, having a price over his head for a crime he didn’t commit. He lives with his uncle who is Laird of Leoch, and is sheltering Jamie from being found.

Laird of Broch Tuarach

Jamie finally returns home to become Laird at Lallybroch. He lives with his sister Jenny, brother-in-law, and nephew. Though, Jamie never lets his guard down, knowing danger is always around the corner and is worried he’s putting his family in jeopardy.

Est-ce que tu parles français? - 1745 (aged 25)

After a close call with the British, Jamie flees to France to live with his cousin. There, he runs a home as well as his cousin’s wine business while he travels for some time. Not entirely realizing it, he begins to enjoy the finer side of living and falls into step with it well. Here, Jamie is furthering the cause of the Jacobite rising.

Battle of Culloden - Could take place weeks before the battle or after.

Jamie returns to Scotland to fight against the British. Though the Scots lose the battle, Jamie gains revenge on Jack Randall even though he is taken to a jail, far from home, for being a Jacobite.

Home Again - 1765 (aged 45)

Yes, twenty years have passed. Jamie is back in Scotland and under a different name, Alexander Malcolm. Working as a printer and owning his own business in the town of Edinburgh, he lives a quiet, low life. Or at least, he tries to.

America, The Colonies - 1765 (includes season 6)

After a harrowing journey across the seas, Jamie ends up in America. North Carolina, to be precise, and settles down as best he can with his own land called Fraser’s Ridge.

You Say You Want a Revolution... - 1777 (aged 57)

Jamie is sought after to join the British during the very beginning of the Revolution, though he struggles whether to fight for them or the opposing side, to help better the future of his family. {More will be added once Part 2 of S7 comes out this November}

Through the Stones (Modern day ; Aged 25-35, depending)

Just a week before the Battle of Culloden, Jamie has accidentally gone through the stones at Craigh na Dun and wound up in the 21st century. He’s been living in Edinburgh for ten years, and though it hasn’t been easy to adjust, Jamie’s been doing his best and working as a bartender in a local pub. (If one would rather a younger modern Jamie not too long after falling through the stones, discuss with me first)

!!! IMPORTANT !!!

!!! Season 1 Spoiler ahead / TW: r*pe mention below !!!

Depending on the verses, there’s much more detail in each of their stories. As for one major and significant detail: being captured and r*ped by Captain Jack Randall which happens at the end of Season 1 (this is during his time at Leoch, though transitioning into becoming Laird of Broch Tuarach), I will not write those scenes out. It was traumatizing to watch, and I could never write that horrific scene. BUT, I can and will write about his PTSD with that unfortunate life event, because I think part of that makes up the Jamie we all know and love. As far as any other details go, depending on the verse, I will be more than happy to explain to any of those who are not an Outlander fan or just haven’t a clue what it’s about in full depth if you would like to know what Jamie is internally going through. The poor man goes through A LOT in each season, so to list it all here in each verse would be too much to read lol so if you’re curious, let me know and I’d be happy to oblige!