#monchevy role play

[vanstock1992]

Is anyone interested in some MonChevy role play? Paragraph form on discord only. I am willing to play either The Chevalier or Philippe, either are fine with me. Interact with this or send me a message to express interest.

[gemocide]

So I’m an RPer and I’m a bit rusty. I’m trying to get back into it so would anyone like to RP? My muses are-

Rumple (OUAT)

Ed Nygma (Gotham)

Chevalier De Lorirane (Versailles) 

Jim Moriarty (Sherlock)

Meg Masters [2.0] (Supernatural)

[missholson]

SHIP HISTORY MEME

Embrace your past and get to know your friends’ fandom origins!

Rules: Post gifs of your fandoms / ships starting with your most current hyperfixation and work backwards. (Bonus points if you share any stories about how or when you got into that ship! But not necessary!!) Then tag anyone whose fandom history you’d like to learn about!

Tagged by the sweet @unwillingadventurer​, thank you girls! <3

Hoffmann & Tennstedt (Das Boot) The baby face & the stone face. :) The biggest reason for this series is my sister, who tried to lure me into the fandom already last summer by showing the first episode. Sadly it was a far too distressing experience. The story is about a WW2 German warfare, so it isn’t very light entertainment for Saturday night. The show seemed like a worth watching production, though, but I doubted if I could ever watch it completely. After visiting Berlin now in February 2020 there was no hesitation anymore. The story focuses on the Nazi German submarine, U-612, and the occupied city of La Rochelle in France. However, not everything is as black and white as one might expect. One of the biggest messages of the show is that war is always brutal, no matter which side you fight. The innocent are always suffering. It also shows how the ideal thoughts of warfare crumble, if it comes at the cost of greed, deception, health or life. There is disagreement among the leaders on boat, too. The new commander, kaleun Klaus Hoffmann, is young and inexperienced but kind-hearted and wise. Next on the scale, IWO Karl Tennstedt, is an experienced sailor and an glory-seeking soldier, who envies Hoffamann's position. He regards Hoffmann as incompetent and a disgrace to Germany. So, there is plenty of tension between these two!

Louis & Philippe (Versailles) I started watching the show sometime in 2015, but found it quite distasteful. It was more brutal than expected, and I was overwhelmed by people's greed and dirty behavior, so I stopped watching after a few episodes. Every now and then I saw pics/gifs on Tumblr, especially of Monsieur and Chevalier, that I finally wanted to give another chance in January 2020.  This time the experience was the opposite, and I got a better grip on the story. I was surprised how little I liked the popular Monchevy pair and, instead, so much the quarreling brothers. I was very moved when they joked with each other and showed brotherly love. In the scenes of conflict, I missed their compassion. I haven't watched the rest of seasons 2-3 yet, so I don't know if they get better. I hope so because together they would be a powerful duo.

Matt & Cherry (Red River) I had recorded Red River (1948) on my set-top box, and the closing date was expiring in December 2018. It was Montgomery Clift’s breakthrough movie, so it was a must see. The movie was a refreshingly different western, where the hero is not a macho cowboy and John Wayne a bad guy for a change. But most of all, I was amazed how Cherry Valance's behavior towards Matt Garth was so heavily double entendre. At first they are presented as challengers and opponents of each other. Slowly Cherry starts to show admiration for Matt, and increasingly talks about his gun. In return, Matt needs Cherry's shooting skills to herd cattle. Eventually they become each other's trusted ones. I always find it fascinating, if tension begins to develop between the opposing characters. If the story has a couple that doesn't change, develope or lacks dynamics, it probably won't arouse interest.

Fritz & Dr. Frankenstein (Frankenstein) I had seen a Tumblr gif of Renfield crawling in Dracula (1931) in August 2018. It was Dwight Frye’s breakthrough role. The movie inspired me to watch other Universal monster movies, of which Frankenstein (1931) became my favorite. The work pair of the story, these two outcasts of society, melted my heart. For unexplained reason they have joined their forces and seem to be working well together. They have a mutual partnership, where they can act naturally without fear. Their work is unique, e.g. digging the graves or snatching hanged bodies, but they treat it like any other dayily job. Somehow, I like this way of approach. Actually I have written about Fritz already earlier, where I take a closer look at their relationship. The text can be read here.

Adrian & Antony (Sebastiane) Well, this couple is a specialty of its own. They are another ones found through Tumblr. I saw a picture of them in June 2018 which led me to watch the film. In terms of story or acting, it's not a very special movie but technically professional level. First of all, it was shot under the blazing Sicilian sun on 35 mm film. The light is a vital factor when using a film camera, so the pictures look very rich. The scenes, where these two are having fun together in slow motion, are breathtaking. I had never seen anything like it before and, in my opinion, stole all the attention of the story since they were just characters in supporting roles. It was like a gay paradise on earth.  Here I realize the importance in the way how the characters are presented. The technical presentation can play a surprisingly huge role when we try to read and understand the characters. It can influence us either to share their thoughts or to move even further away from them. Bonus points I give for Latin, which the entire cast is speaking in the film. I would also like to clarify that this is not a p**n movie or a family movie either. It’s a gay erotic story with some full frontal nudity.

Reinhold & Conrad I’m not sure if this is a ship or fandom, but I feel extreme warmth and joy for this pair (the Berlin trip may have something to do with this). They are also the only people from real life instead of characters. I’d like to share my story about them, unfortunately it's very long (I've never been a fluent writer) but explains my interest in more detail. I got to know Conrad Veidt already in high school at the turn of the millennium, the time before DVDs. Near the school there was a buy-sell-exchange movie shop, where my sister and I visited regularly. Somehow we ended up with the idea that we wanted to see The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), so we went to the store again. There was no copy, as expected, but the seller said he would keep in mind if one came up. Months passed and after a long break we visited our regular place again. This time, the man had news for us: he had received a copy and kept it in safe for us. We couldn’t believe our eyes and ears. First of all, the kindness of the man made us speechless, and secondly, we never thought we would get our own copy of such popular rarity. At that time movies were not re-released as often as they are today. It was a VHS cassette, bw, not tinted like the original version, and its quality was far from the 4K richness and sharpness. My sister still has the tape and is one of the treasures she will never give away. For years the film was the only Conrad movie we saw, along with Casablanca - until the digital age and the social media arrived. Again I have to thank Tumblr, where I found the actor Anton Walbrook. One of his most famous films, Viktor und Viktoria (1933), is directed by Reinhold Schünzel, whom I knew from Conrad's film Different from the Others (1919). I began to study Reinhold's background more closely in December 2017, and it turned out that he is a forgotten multi-talent in the film industry: He was a versatile performer in comedies and dramas, a prolific director and an idea-rich screenwriter. He had an eye for creating stories that were told in the minds of people in addition to acting and lines. He questioned gender roles and built juicy plot twists around them. He loved theater and was a popular celebrity in 1920’s Germany. He was also a colleague and friend of Conrad. They began their film careers at the same time in Richard Oswald's films, shared the ups and downs, even their wardrobe, and reached fame. Eventually they both had to emigrate from the national socialist Germany, so their paths parted. The following reunions were always a joy, “like the meeting of comrades who fought in many wars together”. Reinhold was supposed to direct Conrad’s first film at MGM in Hollywood, but the plans were changed. They never got to work together since the German years, when Conrad died suddenly. “Part of my life is gone forever”, as Reinhold wrote in his tribute to Connie's death in 1943. He returned to Germany in the end of 1940s and died in Munich in 1954. This is why they are so precious to me and why I find it important to share the memory of these two lifelong friends. The picture is from Eerie Tales (1919), one of their earliest movies together with the director: Reinhold, Richard and Conrad. Reinhold’s full tribute can be read here.

I’m tagging: @wohlbruecks, @perfides-subjekt, @kennyboybarrett, @chapinfan69​, @electricnormanbates​, @ars-historia-est​, @suchamiracle-does-exist​ and anyone who likes to do it. Would you like to share your stories behind your otps? :)

[vera-dauriac]

Versailles - top 5 things you'd change about it ;-)

This is so much easier than Firefly! I love Versailles,but damn, do I love it in spite of some really questionable choices. So, let’sdo this thing.

1. Philippe doesn’t rape Henriette. I think the writers wishthey could take this back, too. Considering where this relationship goes, thetwo of them having issues in the bedroom, but essentially being friends, makesso much more sense.

2. Satanic baby murder plot from S2 just goes away. There’sway too much plot happening in S2 anyway, and I don’t care how historically accuratethis one is, the whole thing is unnecessary and ridiculous.

3. Thomas should be a more compelling character. He neverfeels like an arch villain, and I know this probably sounds anathema to theMonChevy shippers, but how much more interesting would it all be if he had realchemistry with Philippe?

4. Don’t ask me to cite my source for this, but apparentlyS2 Ep7 “A Night” was originally conceived as a bottle episode of just Louis and William at the convent.I would literally sacrifice an appendage for this to have happened.

5. Jacques. He’s Louis’s moral compass, and I guess Madamede Maintenon is going to play that role now, but I think he’s a moreinteresting choice for the job.

[fuckyeahfightlock]

Monchevy, 1 18 20?

1. What kinks do you headcanon that your OTPs engage in?

I think they are probably pretty rough with each other sometimes; Monsieur has that inner warrior that wants to attack--slapping, pinching, biting hard enough to leave marks--and the Chevalier gets indignant when his mignonette gets too toppy, so he’s likely to hit back and wrestle him into submission. Plus, they love a good dramatic fight and why shouldn’t that spill over into their bedroom activities? Yeah, they both like it rough, to spend all that aggressive energy.

18. What time of day are your OTP most randy?

After bathing, before dressing. They both appreciate beautiful clothes, but there are so many layers; constricting cuts; pinching, heeled shoes. . . and given it takes them each nearly three hours to dress and have their hair arranged, they don’t wish to mess it all up to have to start again. They bathe together, and it always ends in sex that makes the valets wonder (but not REALLY wonder) why they’re so late to be dressed, and which leaves their hair snarled and their bodies smelling of each other.

20. Does your OTP role play? What’s their fave fantasy?

The Chevalier plays a virgin and Monsieur the courtesan hired to teach him the ways of love. There are many forks in that particular path at the moment Monsieur slips the courtesan’s skirts aside to reveal what lies beneath. . .sometimes he plays at being a girl, sometimes a boy, sometimes a man, and the Chevalier has a repertoire of reactions from shocked, to tentatively intrigued, to outraged to the point of near-violence, and many more besides.

At St Cloud, they have a wing full of artists-in-residence, for whom they are generous patrons and benefactors. It is no accident that all these painters, musicians, actors, dancers, and poets are all beautiful young men. They spend long hours in bed together at Versailles detailing their plans to inspire their pet artistes on their next visit to St Cloud.

[louisleroisoleil]

sunbeambot replied to your post “I know that it’s not the opinion of the people here, and more the...”

Oh please. Let people like what they like. And I would say that the fandom, at least on this tag and the tag on Twitter does not "fetishize" the characters. Oh... and Louis is a god aweful boring character.

Wait okay, so you’re saying ‘let people like what they like’ but yet, you are pointing out that Louis is an ‘awful’ (not aweful, by the way), boring character.  Is that letting people like what they like?  I am sorry that you clearly have no understanding of History or the role that Louis plays and only can see something for a ship.

Secondly, I never said I didn’t like Monchevy. I like them a lot, but Philippe is more than that, and by reducing someone to just a ship, someone who is as dynamic as Philippe, it does him an incredible disservice. But yes, feel free to only consider the ship part.  

And yes, people do fetishize characters. Tumblr in general has that problem. But yes, do continue to think only your smple minded opinion matters.

[gemocide]

Decided to make a Twitter RP account for my new fave character. Might bring the character here, not sure though. Go follow me at Ready4ThisChevy.