#richard abernathy

[apinchofm]

favourite book couples ⤵

Richard Abernathy & Hermione Abernathy (née Watson); Earl and Countess of Fennsworth in On The Way To The Wedding

[ride-thedragon]

I hope that Lucy Abernathy is mixed (it's been decades since the great experiment, show some results) but I hope Hermonie is East Asian for no reason other than them being blonde and blonder might actually make me lose it. Lucy can be a person mixed with POC alone too (Black and South Asian, Native and Black, etc) but them being distinct doesn't make it as creepy for Richard and Gregory, gives us distinct protagonist and allows everyone to be represented by Bridgerton love interest.

Hermonie is literally coveted throughout the narrative, falling in love every two chapters and getting her happily ever after with a Count and her best friend's brother (who names a child after her).

We need to do what's right.

[gregxlucyweek]

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[jake-amy]

Just to add to that last ask, Lucy says Richard is four years older than her, making him 24 in 1827. He graduated Cambridge the year before (which would be 1826). Therefor he would be age 23 at graduation just like Gregory.

richard's age is the one that bugs me with the inconsistency because at one point in chapter two, he's said to be four years lucy's elder (making him 24), and then in chapter eight, lucy tells greg that richard is 22! how did we get this wrong within the same book........

greg also says in chapter seven that richard is four years his junior, so the 2:1 references make me want to side with him being 22 at the time of OTWTTW (which i think also makes sense, that he graduated at 21 and delayed taking up his seat by one year, rather than three?), but i do like the compromise of saying he's a young 23, to make up for the lack of consistency between all the statements about his age!

[0bsessiv3s0ul]

I can't wait for Autumn 🍂🍁

[urfavoritedcwhore]

“it’s starting to smell like pumpkin spice!”

“it’s starting to smell like scary movies!”

no.

it’s starting to smell like, the snow in the mountains was melting and bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to realize the gravity of our situation.

[academic-vampire]

𝔚𝔥𝔞𝔱’𝔰 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔩𝔬𝔳𝔢? 🥖🍷🧺🍇🪟☕️🫖

[potatosaresweet]

in my richard papen era(failing academics, in need of friends, romantising things i don't even understand)

[lanabanana79]

[lizzyaka]

One thing i can yap and yap on about for ages is the fact that the greek class cant for the life of them grasp the fact that bunny is upset by the murder of the farmer

When henry is telling the story of the bacchanal to richard, he says bunny couldnt understand how serious the situation was because he was freaking out which is funny, because he was the only one who understood

Henry also said that bunny wasnt upset about the murder but rather about the fact that theyd gone without him, and that he couldn't possibly care that theyd killed a man because he wasnt "exactly the most moral man" as if u needed to be fucking gandhi to realize that killing someone is wrong

When bunny started acting out they were all convinced he was doing it out of spite or to get under their skin, completely ignoring the signs that showed he was having a complete nervous breakdown and was slowly losing his mind because of what they had done

This is because they themselves did not see the act as something that was morally wrong, but rather an inconvenience for them. Like francis said, it wasnt voltaire they killed. They were so out of touch with reality that they lived not in this world but in one where morality doesnt exist, one they are the center of where the gods personally descend to be by their side. They lived in their ancient tales and greek poems. Bunny was the only one who was grounded and they cant understand that. It doesnt even begin to cross their minds. And its the same with bunnys death, they dont care about the morality of it because in their mind they are closer to gods than to humans and gods do whatever they please. They can kill a farmer and who cares? Its not like he was voltaire. They can kill their friend and who cares? Heroes kill and heroes die all the time.

this distance between them and the real world is the most important part of their characters because it explains everything else, from the incest to henrys suicide. Bunny was the only one who was rooted to reality which is what always set him apart from the rest and most importantly why things started to spiral out of control as soon as they killed him. He was their anchor to the real world and to sanity.

[apinchofm]

day dreams of pugs 

Gregory x Lucy

1.6k, G, extremely fluffy!

gregory saves lucy's dog and they fall in love. except he doesn't know who she is.

[ride-thedragon]

I love the Sapphic Eloise Truthers in the Bridgeton fandom. However, if we look 2 letters down to the left, I think Miss Lucinda Abernathy has the potential to capture a beautiful homoerotic friendship with one Hermione Watson.

Lucy literally has no one person constantly in her life other than Hermione, and it's in my personal opinion that she should be held a grudge for the lying.

Now, this book doesn't need any more drama, but Hermione feeling like Lucy would only care to be at her side not caring about romance while she's in love with her brother, keeping it secret and Lucy being hurt and betrayed that the one person who she loves and is there for her would think that she wouldn't be happy for her. There is also a class divide that could play into it, the fact that Lucy contemplates the idea that Richard and Hermione wouldn't be able to live in scandal to reach to the idea that she wouldn't marry Gregory . The material is there.

Angst, resentment betrayal, and a strong female friendship that earns a namesake by the end.

Ms. Shonda Rhimes, I need you to walk with me.

[gregxlucyweek]

Friendships AND Crackships galore! It’s Day Five, so tell us some of your favorite OTWTTW (platonic or romantic) pairings!

We’re also headed to the gallery 👀🖼️ Show off your finest Greg x Lucy Art!

[jake-amy]

Hi so first hopefully you don’t think this is too weird but you’re one of the main Gregory Bridgerton fan account on Twitter and I wanted to see if you had any thoughts on this:

In the first Smyth-Smith book, set in 1824, Gregory is in final year at Cambridge. He is said to be around same age as Honoria, who is 21. On the surface it makes perfect sense for a 21 year old to be in final year. However, Greg was born in 1801 and in TSPWL, also set in 1824, he says he is 23. Anthony was due to go to Oxford aged 18. Students typically went to university age 18 (sometimes as young as 15) for a period one to three years. Gregory would have had to leave Eton when he was 18 which was 1819. Furthermore, from OTWTTW we knew he went to Eton and Cambridge with Lord Haselby and Neville Berbrooke. The only explanations for are :

Greg and Neville did a two year grand tour before university and only overlapped with Haselby for one year or the pair of them spent 5 years in university. (Flaw: considering Greg’s allowance I doubt he could afford this and I also don’t think he liked Neville enough)

Completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies a lá Richard Abernathy. (Flaw: that only there’s a two year gap between G&R, they both went to Cambridge but they don’t know each other)

I need to re-read all the Bridgerton books for some more clues about Greg’s whereabouts but honestly, he is the sibling we probably know the least about from the books and this one timeline detail of education should be impossible to get wrong and yet here I am.

Don’t even get me started on Colin and Greg’s show!verse education or book!verse Lucy and Hermione finishing school and debut at twenty years old!

no i love this, this is so welcome! <3 <3 <3

– gregory really is the character whose whereabouts are a big question mark, there's just a bunch of hand-waved "oh, he's off doing such and such" until he needs to show up in TSPWL and IIHK. like he couldn't make the time to come home for his mother's birthday but he's supposedly at daphne's ball at the end of RMB. we need to launch a full-federal investigation.......

– maybe if we say greg is an early may baby we could say he's 22ish in "just like heaven" and the first halves of RMB/WHWW, and then turns 23? and then kate's house party in OTWTTW is later may, hence he'd already turned 26 by the time he meets lucy – i could see greg doing a grand tour, possibly! maybe a much, much more condensed version of what colin was doing. it's pushing believability a little since it's never mentioned AND colin is the one to suggest "you'll have to travel" right after gregory creates the scandal at lucy's wedding. neville.... i don't feel like he's someone who would've liked to be abroad for long and you're right that greg wouldn't have wanted to go with him fjkdslfj

– i think lucy says haselby is a decade her elder.... making him at least 30. if greg and neville are 26, maybe they overlapped that one year at cambridge, but that would mean they did have to start school in 1819 🤔 so then that rules out pre-university travel. unless of course haselby also delayed his studies. much to think about.

– i'm dead jfkdj it says something about richard electing to remain at school even when he didn't have to, and delaying having to take his place in society (i think he's only able to do this for a year though, since he's 22?). but i'm wondering if that's a possibility for either neville or greg to have done (it's not super plausible.... but maybe? 😭). though then that also doesn't make sense for greg to say his path never crossed with richard's at school, unless he meant they were there at the same time but didn't actually ever meet.

– headcanon for hermione (who's prospects hadn't yet been 'secured' the way lucy's were with haselby) is that she asked her family to send her to finishing school to delay her debut so she could keep up her correspondence with edmonds (also why was he encouraging a romance with a 16/17 girl? a discussion for another time....)

– lucy going to school worked out in everyone's favor, with her wanting to be somewhere where she could make friends and davenport wanting a "well-polished" wife for haselby, but it's also sad to think she loses out on having a season she realizes she would've actually enjoyed (so i like to hope that the period between her first and second wedding wasn't too bogged down with scandal, and that she got to have some fun)

– greg in the show not going school.... but we all know that's because they couldn't let the fan favorite character remain off-screen cmon now! (no but 😭 i'm assuming they want us to think his term ended before the start of season 2, and then he has tutors over his break) anyways this is a mess i feel like charlie day in that gif. thank you for sending this ask and i loved all the evidence and reasoning you put together! we WILL figure this out 😤

[0bsessiv3s0ul]

"Do you understand the violence it took to become this gentle?"

[qiornono]

it’s that time of year again where i reread tsh for the bajillionth time so here is the greek class!!!