#lupin raoul

[priinglescafe]

Reasons to vote for Assane Diop!!!

1) he is a FAMILY MAN. he has a son named Raoul whom he loves very very much.

2) he is a thief to clear his father's name. his intentions aren't selfish at all.

3) his best friend is named Benjamin and they have some OUTSTANDING sexual tension.

4) he's so kind to everyone he meets!! he gave a whole DIAMOND to some random old lady that he remembered from his childhood.

in conclusion even if you don't vote for him (I love Sly Cooper too) please please please watch Lupin on Netflix and talk to me about it I've been hyperfixated for so long and the fandom is like 3 people

Round 1, Match 8

[Image description: a versus graphic of Sly Cooper from Sly Cooper and Assane Diop from the Netflix Lupin. Sly is a raccoon wearing a black eye mask and a blue outfit trimmed in yellow. He has a long hook and is leaping over something. Assane Diop is wearing a black newsboy cap and a long black coat and is standing on a rooftop. His body is facing away from the viewer, but he looks over his shoulder to the left. /End description]

[cambrioleur]

Random observations on this season (updating)

(SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY)

Episode 1

I don't think we've ever seen Assane do a genuine fourth-wall break before

OK so Claire has a last name now

Assane really expected that he could just show up and Claire would just fall at his feet

I'm surprised Benjamin is just allowed to continue working at his shop

This feels better-edited than Parts 1 & 2

Name a more iconic duo than Belkacem and failing constantly (she really doesn't listen, does she)

Episode 2

Philippe Courbet sighting

NEVER invite Guédira to a funeral lmaooo

Hang on I'm just now realizing that Juliette is at this funeral, too (she's standing in the second row behind Benjamin and Claire and honestly doesn't seem too upset about Assane's "death")

I like how in the flashback Babakar tells Assane that he reminds him of his mother and then it turns out she was a criminal

This seems to be around the time of Raoul's birthday again; he really can't catch a break on that

Episode 3

New shipping war just dropped: Guédira/Belkacem vs Guédira/Fleur

That bit where Claire was outright begging Benjamin to tell her Assane was alive and he couldn't...that was sad

But then it was followed by Benjamin doing the "uhh my FRIEND just died" act with Belkacem which was funny

This gang of thugs is trying a little too hard tbh

Assane's disguise in this episode is fucking terrible lol

The basketball coach disguise, on the other hand, is the only time I've genuinely thought he wasn't recognizable

Episode 4

Ironically that coach persona is probably the best parenting Assane has ever done

Claire? Doing things that are vaguely cool?? That feels illegal. Also, she looked so proud of herself for swiping that book, lol

Betraying Benjamin was certainly...a choice on Assane's part ("everyone disliked that")

This episode is going to devastate the show's Tumblr fandom

Episode 5

Assane trolling the shit out of Guédira will never not be funny

These 1998 flashbacks are pretty dark actually

Honestly the way Claire got that reveal out of Benjamin was very well-played on her part

Guédira out here looking like present-day Ringo Starr with that disguise

Aww look at Assane playing the matchmaker for Guédira and Belkacem, heh heh

This is easily one of the funniest episodes

Except Benjamin is straight up not having a good time -- it looks like he got beaten up in prison

Episode 6

Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, I'm not totally sure Benjamin knows that Assane betrayed him. It's possible he just thinks that he fucked up with the bracelet and then missed a cue in the maze

"Pasta with ketchup" jesus fucking christ Claire that sounds horrendous (although I'm guessing the only reason they did that was because of the ketchup-bottle reveal)

Assane really has Claire's number because he's now seduced her twice under two different identities

IDK whether or not Raoul has figured out that the coach is his dad but it's funny that he still seemed to be shipping it either way

It's nice that we get to see Claire's more playful side in this season, like her messing with Assane by acting really flirty with "Alex" after she realizes they're the same person

INCREDIBLE casting for the younger and older versions of Keller tbh; they easily look like they could be the same person

Episode 7

What a nice family reunion...it would be a shame if something happened to it...

The flashbacks are significantly darker than the present timeline this time around

Guédira finally got to arrest Assane, good for him!

The scene at the train station with the letter from Assane to Claire sort of reminds me of the ending to A Tale of Two Cities, which I had to read for AP prep a while back

Oh look, Hubert Pellegrini is back

So they're CLEARLY setting up another season with this ending

The choice of people to show on the montage there was interesting, lol

I could see a Juliette antagonist arc happening tbh

Maybe Assane's mom isn't all she seems either

And what about Benjamin? If he turns against Assane the viewers are going to lose their minds

[skelleste]

Raoul's Halloween costume, Jigen from Lupin III.

[leblancsvoleur]

There's something so interesting about the way Arsène Lupin likes to act all upper-class, likes blending into the upper folds of the social hierarchy by giving himself titles of nobility. But he grew up poor! His mother was disowned for marrying below her class! He was denied his first marriage because he had no career nor status! He burglarizes the rich! But despite the contempt he holds against the noble family that disowned and abused his mother, he still desperately wants to be a part of the nobility, to have that status that he and his mother were kicked out of.

He uses the noble name from his mother's side when he's living and dressing himself up in higher society, and held his common name from his father in contempt. He compares himself to royalty! He tries to take over Europe once!

Yet despite that. Joséphine, Countess of Cagliostro, the Lupin before Lupin, tells him: You're not Raoul D'Andrésy. You're Arsène Lupin, son of a common man and a crook. I know what you are, a thief.

[walks-the-ages]

"Lupin doesn't take life."

Someone clearly hasn't read anything that came out after 'The Hollow Needle'

[elliottjpg]

I binged season 3 of Netflix's LUPIN this weekend. I'm coping with the pain by drawing some blorbos.

[ctrl-lupin]

Yes, I would be very interested hearing your head canon (@tim-ribbert-56) (in response to this post)

I have decided for my personal entertainment that Clarisse de Cagliostro is related to Lupin III, and here's why.

-pulls out Arsène Lupin's Wikipedia page-

In the novel La Comtesse de Cagliostro, a young Arsène Lupin (at the time going by the name Raoul d'Andrésy) was courting Clarisse d'Etigues, a young lady of a well-to-do family, and trying to win her hand, despite her father's disapproval.

Throughout the course of the novel, Lupin meets and falls in love with Joséphine Balsamo, aka the Countess of Cagliostro, and abandons Clarisse in favour of her. To clarify, Joséphine is not actually countess of anything, she is (or claims to be) a descendant of Giuseppe Balsamo aka the Count of Cagliostro (who was also count of jack shit), a famous conman from the 18th century.

Shenanigans ensue, which I will not go into in details on, but oh my god I am insane about Raoul and Joséphine, I want to dissect them and study them under a microscope. It turns out Joséphine aka Cagliostro is evil as fuck, Raoul/Lupin realizes that and goes back to Clarisse (whom he had previously abandoned like an old sock, I fucking hate this guy), marries her, and a few years later has her kid.

Unfortunately Clarisse dies in childbirth, and Joséphine, who was still around and very very pissed at Lupin (and jealous as hell of Clarisse whom, may I mention, had never personally antagonized her in any way whatsoever, Joséphine is just fucking bonkers). Joséphine also kidnaps Lupin and Clarisse's son, Jean, and raises him as her own son. (I have not yet read the following novel The revenge of Cagliostro so I don't really know what Jean's deal is, I just know he's an antagonist).

The following is my headcanon, based on these events. In the universe of Lupin III, Jos��phine Balsamo was actually countess of the small kingdom of Cagliostro (maybe Giuseppe was count, maybe he conned his way into becoming count, maybe he bought the land and built a fake kingdom with a fake history, who knows).

After the events of The revenge of Cagliostro, Jean settles down in the country of Cagliostro, gets married, has a child, and that child will later have a daughter of their own, who they name Clarisse, after their late grandmother. Clarisse de Cagliostro, of Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro fame, would thus be the great-grand-daughter of Arsène Lupin, making her Lupin III's cousin/niece/whatever you call this specific degree of separation.

I am choosing to make Clarisse de Cagliostro a great-granddaughter of Arsène Lupin, rather than a granddaughter, because Arsène Lupin was very young when the events I described unfolded: he is 20 years old when he meets Clarisse d'Etigues and the whole Cagliostro debacle happens, and 25 by the time Jean is born. I'm assuming he had Lupin II much later in his life. So Jean and Lupin II (half-brothers) would have a significant difference in age, and so Jean's hypothetical child (grandchild of Arsène Lupin, so of the same generation of Lupin III) would be much older than Lupin III. Clarisse de Cagliostro is younger than him, maybe around the same age if you stretch it, so she's have to be a great-grandchild.

Now I need to read The revenge of Cagliostro and study Arsène Lupin's wikipedia page in more detail to determine when exactly Lupin II was born and who his mother was. And also where Albert's family branched out, because the fact that he's called D'Andrésy should theoretically place him as a descendant of Arsène Lupin's mother but not of Arsène Lupin himself; but Jean was also going by that last name, so who fucking knows.

No I am not insane I promise, I am just a gigantic nerd.

[reeve-in-a-suit]

trying to find fan any fellow fans of Lupin <3

It’s a sketch of Raoul in season one. I literally didn’t touch paper once school started and then he worked a miracle for me.

[cullen-ruler]

sue zhao / lupin, chapter 1: ep 1 / forgiving our fathers, dick lourie / would've, could've, should've, taylor swift / love letters or suicide notes, doc luben

[badlydrawnarsenelupin]

// Isidore Beautrelet, 18 & Raoul D'andrésy, 15

[kiaroscuro]

It should come as no surprise that I absolutely love the Lupin Netflix series,, especially Lupin fanboy extraordinaire Guedira, haha. I wish that there was more of an (English) fandom for the series, 'cause I can't speak / read French ;-;

I also love how KID-style most of the heists are, haha I guess this would be an AU where Ren goes international on KID-style heists, crossing paths with the French police in the year of absence that Assane has? Or something like that :)

[cambrioleur]

Assane = started the hashtag to troll the police

Fleur = picked up on it and is actively promoting it within the media

Belkacem = raging and ready to arrest anyone standing even remotely near the river

Guédira = knows he's supposed to do the same but not-so-secretly supports the protestors

Claire = knows the true origin of the hashtag and wishes Assane wouldn't toy with people like that

Ben = knows the true origin of the hashtag and thinks it's funny

Raoul = doesn't know the true origin of the hashtag but also thinks it's funny

Bruno = actually shitting in the Seine

[luckysheikah]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN RAOUL IS IN UNDEAD GIRL MURDER FARCE AND NOT JUST LUPIN W H A T

[stonecoldspaghetti]

i think sophie and assane met in paris trying to grift the same guy.

[walks-the-ages]

Ralph?

Ralph?!?

His name is Raoul! Who changed it in the translation, and why ??