#lupin/béchoux

[lemonadeandlanguages]

Barely four chapters into La Barre-y-va and this really is the gayest Lupin book wow

[badlydrawnarsenelupin]

// thinking about Lupin and Béchoux being horrible for each other, just absolutely terrible. And it's all Lupin's fault. Lupin being the biggest asshole all the time to Béchoux, using him, lying to him, betraying his trust, having sex with his ex-wife, just the fucking worst.

Yet Béchoux, after all of that, still shows up at his door, and he hates Lupin so much. This lying, scheming, manipulative son of a bastard. It burns because Lupin is the best detective he's ever seen, he's just that good at it all–committing crimes, solving them, saying the most charming and horrible things in the same breath. He has everyone in the palm of his hand and Béchoux is so, so hopelessly attracted to him.

For Lupin, who lives so many lives and lives them fast, constantly changing social circles with very few people who actually sticks by him for long... to have this one guy, this silly detective he's been so horrible to, willingly show up to his door again and again... he likes it. Maybe he feels a little smug about it, because he knows Béchoux hates his guts. But mainly, he's genuinely surprised and pleased! He knows he's an awful person, but despite all of that, this guy is still here.

They get together, they talk like best friends, they flirt, they sleep in the same room. Lupin kidnaps Béchoux in the middle of a date with a criminal-couple. They go on a road trip and solve crimes together.

and then Béchoux fucking betrays him, after so long, when Lupin was happy to see him again! Policier de mon cœur!

[leblancsvoleur]

Lupin likes his women dangerous and ready to kill him. He prefers his men stupid and himbo. It's true, Maurice Leblanc told me himself.

People who ship Arsène Lupin and (S)Holmes based on the Thief/Detective trope fail to consider the fact that Holmes is too smart to be Lupin's type of men.

[girafeduvexin]

Je sais pas ce qui m'arrive, j'ai trop envie de finir cette fic, je vais peut-être ENFIN y arriver, c'est la première rencontre de Poirot et Japp, avec Arsène Lupin qui se mêle à tout ça, Arsène Lupin qui flirte avec des flics (the usual), pas encore Béchoux (Lupin n'a pas encore eu le plaisir de le rencontrer) mais Ganimard va bientôt rentrer dans la danse.

[take-me-to-valhalla]

Tagged by @ladyniniane! thank you :D

3 ships you like: I am deeply unoriginal and like popular ships. Although since I read the Arsène Lupin books, I like the Lupin/Béchoux one (too bad there's like 3 fics of them on Ao3...) if I'm being egocentric and cite my own characters, I like Lionel/Raphaëlle, Lionel/Urbain and Polidori/Sid (in a fucked-up kind of way)

First ship ever: Mmh. Probably Sakura/Shaolan from Card Captor Sakura. They were so cute!

Last song you heard: Calloway by Zeal and Ardour. May have danced to it all alone in the street at midnight. Maybe.

Favourite childhood book: Aaaah how can I chose. TOO MANY.

Currently reading: The Arsene Lupin series (in case you haven't guessed it, it's been taking over my brain) I still have three/four books left, but I forgot my anthology at work...it's above my locker...I hope it'll still be there when I'll go to work today :c (it belongs to the library!)

I just finished Dungeon Meshi, too. It was really good! Food as a metaphor for a lot of things.

Currently watching: Nothing. I don't watch a lot of series...

Currently consuming: nothing, I have to go to work and don't have time to eat or drink something! (but I have time to answer tag games, I guess)

Current craving: More time to write, to draw and to play the Sherlock Holmes game series!

Tagging whoever wants to do it!

[loveinstreams]

Un prompt : on sait tous que Béchoux est musclé (tm), et du coup, un exemple est Lupin est 'waaaaahhh 😍' (J'avais en la scène de B99 où un autre personnage se jette dans les bras d'un autre et l'autre le prend tranquille ljxlxhkhd)

Béchoux savait qu'il n'était pas le plus charmant ou le plus élégant. Plusieurs fois déjà, on lui avait reproché sa mine tombante et son allure de garçon de café. Il se savait pas toujours brillant et un peu lent à la détente à certains moments. Cependant, Béchoux n'y voyait pas réellement d'inconvénients puisque ces défauts ne l'avait jamais empêcher de séduire, qu’il s’agisse de son ex-femme ou, plus particulièrement, du plus grand cambrioleur de France. À la vérité, il y avait bien un aspect chez sa personne qui semblait s’inscrire dans certaines conventions de beautés corporelles: il était musclé. Assez même, surtout dans les bras et le haut du corps. Il n’en était pas particulièrement vantard, mais Béchoux se disait que cette facette de son corps devait plaire, surtout par les regards qu'un certain gentleman lui lançait lorsque certaines parties de ses bras étaient mises à nues.

Un jour, et c'était à l'époque de Jean Vavert, Béchoux s'était retrouvé à devoir rouler ses manches jusqu'en haut du coude, pour aller chercher un indice tombé dans le fond d’un tuyau, ce qui réduisit Jean au bégaiement pendant une bonne minute. Théodore trouva d’abord ce comportement étrange et ne fit aucun lien avec le dévoilement momentané d’une partie de ses biceps, mais ce n'est que lorsque l'accident se produisit de nouveau quelques semaines plus tard qu'il fit le rapprochement et qu'il comprit la légère teinte rouge sur les joues de son collègue. C’était durant une autre de leurs enquêtes en associés. Ils s'étaient contraints à devoir utiliser les méthodes peu orthodoxes de son acolyte et à se cacher dans l’armoire de la chambre d'hôtel d'un suspect pour l'espionner. La proximité des corps étant de mise, Béchoux se retrouvait à recouvrir Jean de son torse ce qui semblait gêner son collègue vu l’effort qu’il portait à mettre le plus distance possible entre eux. Dès que le suspect sorti de l’appartement, Jean, dans son empressement pour s’éloigner de Béchoux, s’enfargea le pieds dans l’armoire et bascula vers l’avant. Béchoux essaya de le retenir, mais l’autre pieds de Jean glissa sur le tapis si bien que, en tournoyant, ce dernier se retrouva dans ses bras, comme une femme à la fin d’un tango. La position était d’un comique évident, mais, à la grande surprise de Béchoux, aucune remarque ironique ne fut émise. Le visage de Jean, si proche, avait pris une teinte cramoisie, la bouche légèrement entrouverte comme pour rétorquer quelque chose, qui ne vint pas. Il détourna les yeux et, même une fois remis sur pied et fouillant la chambre, Jean refusait de croiser son regard. Béchoux, remarqua cependant les petits coups d’œils en coin qu’il lui lançait lorsqu’il se croyait subtil.  

Avec le temps, Théodore en avait donc conclu que c’était cet aspect de son physique qui attirait l’autre homme. À chaque fois qu'il se débarrassait d'un vêtement ou qu'il laissait entrevoir la peau en dessous du tissus quelque chose brillait dans le regard du cambrioleur et Théodore se sentait traqué par cette lueur. Comme s’il se trouvait face à un loup qui observe sa proie, qui la dévore déjà avant même d’y avoir touché. Un rappel de son nom. Lupin. Sauf qu'au lieu de grogner ou de hurler à la lune, c'était un gémissement, profond et salace qui sortait et qui dansait sur sa colonne vertébrale de Théodore, un frisson de peur, d'impatience. Quelque chose de magnétique, de mystérieux dans cette faim lisible sur le visage de Lupin à la moindre vu de ses bras nus. Théodore ne cherchait pas à comprendre, c'était grisant et lui faisait oublier toutes les incertitudes qui pouvaient subsister encore quant à son physique. Et puis, comment réfléchir, avec ces mains dans son cou, ces doigts qui tirent ses cheveux, cette bouche qui murmure de chaleur et qui vient tuer doucement les mots avant même qu’ils aient pu naître de sa bouche? Un massacre sans cesse à recommencer de ces choses qui viennent des tréfonds du cœur.

[leblancsvoleur]

OP, I am going to have to fight you on the honour of Confessions of Arsène Lupin (Les Confidences d’Arsène Lupin).

this book had four stories with Lupin and the Narrator!! Two of which was entirely just them going on a little mystery solving adventure! I love the interactions between Lupin and the Narrator so so much, there's just something about the author, unabashedly having a self-insert in their OWN stories, just to have fun and be best friends with their own character that I find so endearing and great.

I LOVE how we just open the book with Lupin chilling on the Narrator's couch, and they're just chatting so casually like this is a regular occurrence.

One of my favourite Lupin moments of all times.... just the image of him walking away into the night, softly humming and singing these lines as if he's going die... ALSO original poem is good!!!

The Wedding Ring!!!! Lupin dropping everything and rushing over in record time to help this woman who mailed him in urgent distress. The fact that it was a promise he made her years ago, something that most people would brush off as just talking big, but he kept his word to the letter!!

and the twist at the end! This one woman, the only one mentioned besides Herlock fucking Sholmès to be able to recognise Lupin no matter his disguise!!! The bittersweet-ness of their past relationship and how he was the name engraved on her ring as a platonic reminder and talisman!! IT'S SO GOOD

The third story is another Lupin and Narrator one and again, I love the continuance of Lupin dropping whatever he's doing and rushing over whenever his close friends sends him a message, even when it's something non-urgent like the thing in this story.

Also again, I love love love how this story is just Lupin and Narrator going on a little whimsical adventure of their own. Their interactions are so important to me...

THE INFERNAL TRAP my god this story... the tonal WHIPLASH of it from the previous three are so immediate. It's straight up burned into my core memories.

Lupin's thievery indirectly being the cause of a suicide... the fucked-up-ness of him still playing the 'hero' to the public and sending the money back because he felt bad... Like yeah, 813 is fucked but this one ALSO hits so hard because it's condensed into a short story.

He was captured and bested by two women! Completely helpless! Bested so thoroughly in such a short time and he was literally facing down the barrel of a gun!! He 100% believed he was going to die!! He entirely should've been dead!!! if not for a twist of something so out of his control!!! WHAT THE FUCK

ALSO this little snippet of what he thinks of death and his beliefs about dying and life and just ASLKFAASAAAHG

anyways, Silk Red Scarf is good! Direct Ganimard POV of being bullied and Lupin being an asshole, a little more than usual... Lupin's wedding is good!! They're all good!!!

Tbh I thoroughly admit that some of the stories aren't like super memorable bc they don't really have a lot of Lupin or are Grand Adventures™ like Hollow Needle or Crystal Stopper but idk... I really like that it is the way it is? There's still a lot of good little moments and I adore that it's like Arsène Lupin, Slice-of-Life Edition, where he just appears and disappears in and out of people's lives as he pleases.

My (somewhat unhinged) tierlist of Arsène Lupin books and (even more unhinged) thoughts on them

S-tier: L’Aiguille creuse, 813, Le Bouchon de cristal, La Comtesse de Cagliostro, L’Agence Barnett et Cie, La Demeure mystérieuse, La Barre-y-va

A-tier: Arsène Lupin gentleman-cambrioleur, Les Huits Coups de l’horloge, La Cagliostro se venge, Les Milliards d’Arsène Lupin

B-tier: Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès, L’Île aux trente cercueils, Les Dents du tigre, Victor de la Brigade mondaine, Le Dernier Amour d’Arsène Lupin

C-tier: Les Confidences d’Arsène Lupin, L’Éclat d’obus, La Demoiselle aux yeux verts, La Femme aux deux sourires

D-tier: Le Triangle d’or

My reasonings and thoughts are under the cut because they got exceedingly long and rambly. I started off trying to be sensible but it appears I progressively lost my sanity as I went along, sorry about that. I read the first ones a long time ago so my recollection of those are much fuzzier than more recent books. Also I read them in French so I have no idea what they’re called in English and was too lazy to look it up (this thing has taken me long enough already). Spoilers abound.

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[jeannes-world]

So... Is Arsène Lupin a bit bi/pan ? I was reading "Les milliards d'Arsène Lupin" and these 3 sentences left me with a little gay vibe.

"Come on, answer, policeman of my heart"

"[...] I would be scared for the integrity of your beautiful physique!"

"He kindly took Béchoux by the arm."

Maybe men were more friendly and touchy between them back in the 30's. But it just feels so gay when you read that in 2021, so I had to share it.

[andresylupin]

Lupin and Ganimard, sitting on a bench, ✨holding hands✨

[allerdeguise]

// character tag drop ! 

[leblancsvoleur]

Arsène Raoul D'Andrésy Lupin being the most pathetic baby girl ever:

allows himself to get arrested and mopes in prison after getting rejected

*in his cell* "Ganimard! Ganimard! I loved her so so much... Don't you understand??" "Sir, this is the national prison."

gets sniped in the back by a woman, nearly dies, falls in love and marries her

daydreams about his wife while Ganimard and an army of cops is breaking down his door

"Detective Béchoux! Don't you love me anymore? No??? Woe is me...I shall now proceed out the window!"

became a thief at age 6 to support his mom!!! he's just a little guy!!!! the littlest guy of all times!!!

Round 2, Match 6

[Image description: a versus graphic of Mask⭐️DeMasque/Ron Delite from Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations and Arsène Lupin from the Maurice LeBlanc books. Mask wears a grey full face mask and a black and white and red suit decorated with thick gold cords on the shoulders. He’s shown running with a large green bag over his shoulder. Lupin is depicted with a top hat and monocle. /End description]

[lemonadeandlanguages]

writing patterns tag game

Rules: post the last sentence from your 10 most recently posted fics (less if you don't have 10 is also fine).

tagged by @measuredmisura, thanks! :)

A Nighttime Visit (Zorro) - Señor Zorro pulled back, smiling, as he felt the mask loosen, and Doña Lola gazed lovingly into the eyes of her husband as he leaned in once more to steal another kiss.

The Baron Slips Up (The Baron) - With a wry smile, Bristow added, “Why, John, Lorna, what’s with those looks? Why did you think I was here? To arrest the Baron?”

The Baron to the Rescue (The Baron) - “But kiss me again.”

An Early Morning (The Baron) - And, as was to be expected, not three hours had passed when Bill was notified of a call for him about an attempted burglary at John’s antique shop.

An Interrupted Burglary (The Baron) - But his smile was eloquent enough.

Shag Club (BBC Ghosts) - “I already know your type.”

Bristow, Burglar (The Baron) - The Baron and the Carley pearls could surely wait a little while longer.

Unorthodox Methods (The Baron) - Truth be told, he’s not sure he minds all that much.

After-Dinner Conversation (The Baron) - “But,” she added, almost as an afterthought, “have you ever considered how dashing you’d be as a cracksman?”

Stolen Kiss (Arsène Lupin) - Forgetting all plans to confront him about the earlier kiss, Béchoux cornered a laughing Barnett and furiously demanded he return what he'd taken, internally cursing the day he met Jim Barnett… or rather, Arsène Lupin!

Welp, there's not much of a pattern... less dialogue than expected but it's a pretty even mix of short and long sentences lol

tagging (feel free to ignore!): @dimdiamond, @vectorofsins, @folatefangirl, and anyone else who wants to do it :)

[badlydrawnarsenelupin]

// *stumbles out of the depths of google search covered in blood*

Well, I've finally found an English version of Victor of the Vice Squad that wasn't some $500 vintage first edition on Ebay. Here's the full scan of it by u/lowsee3 on reddit.

There has also been a recent release of The Billions of Arsène Lupin in English. However, to be frank, I don't recommend buying it. This story, the last Lupin tale to be officially, partially serialized before Leblanc's death, is written in a choppy, unfinished manner. Many of the story elements parallels The Crystal Stopper. Yet Lupin does not have the same charm here, and is downright atrocious in some parts. The Girlfriend of the Week is like a weaker version of Clarisse Mergy at best.

The translation does attempt to edit and enhance upon the unfinished work with numerous footnotes, it is probably the most worthwhile part of this edition.

So yeah, I do not think it's worth it. I recommend just google translating the original French if you're real curious, at least you'll still have the "policier de mon cœur" line from Lupin to Béchoux (which this translation changed to "my dear friend" for reasons unknown).

[leblancsvoleur]

so we know sherlock holmes (who dirrectly inspired the lupin series) is skilled with violin playing, right?

do you think arsène would be good with any musical instrument or could we all agree he's just a tone-deaf theif?

He did attend "private flute lessons" in Barnett Agency, and was described as playing the basic scales with the wrong notes. But he was clearly more interested in the woman teaching the lessons in that scenario so... (also did it to piss off Béchoux)

I don't think there's any other mention of him playing instruments in canon but I could be wrong.

I think, seeing his skills with basically everything else, he could definitely be good at an instrument if he wanted to be. Although purely based off of vibes/aesthetics, I think he'd enjoy the idea of being the conductor of a big orchestra more.

[gentle-phantom-thief]

« LuChoux » est un nome de couple pas mal mignon haha ca sonne comme « le choux »

[girafeduvexin]