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[cadmusfly]

napoleon and lannes for the ship ask game? :)

Three Questions For Ships

Ship It

(1.) What made you ship it?

Reading about Lannes going “come on buddy I’m your best friend you can’t do this shit to me” to Napoleon multiple times, Napoleon going “he didn’t even talk about his wife and kids when he was dying, he was all about me! And also he was very tiny when i met him and I made him who he is don’t question it”

Also my predilection for military hierarchy ships from appreciating Age of Sail fandoms because Commander/Second in Command is such a tasty, tasty dynamic

I don’t see it as based in historical fact as much as NapJuno - I don’t think any Napoleon slash ship except definitely NapXander can attain that - but I enjoy the fictionalised versions that’s been woven here and in my mind~

(2.) What are your favorite things about the ship?

Lannes is… unlike Junot in NapJuno, Lannes is more confident. He does wheedle and exaggerate in letters and requests to Napoleon, but while Junot is all like “I need you”, Lannes is all “You need me”.

I see NapLannes as very bro-y, two guys hitting each other with wooden chairs, remember when we were boys and having fun? We’ll have some fun in the middle of the night but it doesn’t really matter, it’s just a fling, we don’t actually have feelings for each other and we’re not going to talk about it, shut up and kiss me you nerd

And it gets heartbreaking later on as Lannes emotionally matures, as he becomes disillusioned with war and becomes more self aware in a melancholy way, but he knows that he’s incapable of not following Napoleon - oh, he’ll call Napoleon out, he’ll disagree with him, but he can’t leave him and he can’t mutiny or break away because that’s not who he is, not anymore

It’s fundamentally a tragedy, but most of these ships here are tragedy.

Also I kinda like the idea of loyal hound motifs for Lannes - he’s not strictly metaphorically a hound, he’ll snap at his master, but those teeth are just for show in that case.

(3.) Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

Same caveats with NapJuno in that this is a tiny community, but, hmm… don’t think this is unpopular per se, but about ships, I don’t think in another context where same sex relationships are praised or institutional or anything, I don’t think NapLannes would ever be official. They’re not the type to get married or monogamously promise themselves to each other or even acknowledge that what they have is romantic/shippy.

They’re just here to fuck around, even as the chips are on the table and there’s less fucking around to be seen and they both become legends and it’s less fucking and more wistfully dreaming of the days when you could fuck around.

Thanks for the ask!