#richard crawford

[orangeshipper]

I'm having a moment about Richard Crawford.

Richard, the older brother, the stolid, safe, reliable, responsible one. Yet also the one who:

Is described as being "good value at a party" after throwing a man in a river and having a merry old time with ham and liqueur, well away from his pregnant newly-wed wife on Christmas eve (Game of Kings)

Definitely plays some kind of strip dice game with Francis, in an inn called The Little God of Love (Queens Play)

Suggests to their mother that Francis would be equally distracted by hot young grooms as hot young maids (Disorderly Knights)

[allthefoolmine]

Fellow members of the Lymond Tinyfandom, I have committed fanfiction. Please enjoy.

Red wise, brown trusty

Summary:

"He had dropped head and shoulders to the bed, one hand gripping the silk and the other holding her outstretched hand as if it were his hope of eternity. Mariotta brought her other arm to encircle his shoulders and comforted him." ~ Game of Kings, p. 481

Or, a missing scene: how Mariotta Crawford comforted her husband when he came back to her

[spending-life-pretending]

having to be normal about the crawford brothers is a full time job

[bonaesperanza]

On his return from the Committee Richard had been made to repeat again and again the pattern of question and answer. They had thrashed the case out, the three of them, until they were exhausted; and she had sent her son and Mariotta to bed. She moved, and the dark roses shivered. There was an Ewe had three lambs, and one of them was black. What of it? Sheep are commonly white: does that make white unassailable, any more than the pure light of the sun before the prism? How may a breed freshen except under mutation? How improve its whiteness except by admitting a rogue cobalt to its candid meadows? ... Not that the misery had been lived through quite in vain. In all her life she had never heard Richard speak as, distressed as vehement, he had spoken to them that evening.

I love this GoK passage because the naive person reading it for the first time thinks that obviously the black sheep is the unconventional, controversial Francis, unlike his two decent siblings, and Sybilla is thinking that maybe it's good for him to be different.

And then, if you look back on it once the parentage drama starts (imagine rereading the series in anticipation of the publishing of RC or CM!), it seems like an admission that Francis is a bastard. How improve its whiteness except by admitting a rogue cobalt to its candid meadows?

SPOILERS FOR THE MUTUALS CURRENTLY READING THIS

But after CM, it all fits into place and you realize that this passage isn't about Francis at all. It's about Richard. She is thinking about Richard, she was thinking about Richard and his reaction both before and after this passage and she never stopped. She is relieved about Richard - throughout the book, as he was chasing after Francis, she was afraid that he'd turn out as bitter and unforgiving as Gavin, and she's relieved to see that he's capable of understanding and forgiveness. Especially since they're all thinking that Francis will be hanged and Richard will be the only one to continue the Crawford line, not any of the children of her beloved FC1.

... Not that the misery had been lived through quite in vain.

It could be the misery of going through everything going on with GoK-era Francis. But because it's immediately preceded by all the talk of introducing a rogue cobalt to freshen the breed etc. it sounds like she's talking about the misery of staying married to Gavin and going through the entire charade for Richard's sake.

It was misery for her and for everyone else, and it culminated in the death of Eloise and probably Francis too from her current vantage point, and she was afraid that she'd end up with only Richard, who would be Gavin writ small, but at least now Richard has shown himself clever and empathetic and noble of spirit and she's calm in the realization that finally he's gotten over the flaw in his maturing.

Also Richard is the only one with darker hair - it's really obvious in retrospective that he's the "black sheep" and the one who is different from the other two.

[cesaray]

[viper-motorsports]

May flowers accentuate the second round of the 2015 Blancpain Endurance Series as Von Ryan Racing’s N°58 McLaren 650S GT3 lead the way through Britain’s Silverstone Circuit to win the three hour event.

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015)

3x04 || 3x13

[mistikfir]

3x12 "The Number of the Beast Is 666"

"Will is the Lamb of God?"

[cokedupblonde]

you like your girls insane

[aavalon2]

cindy crawford & stephanie seymour for versace by richard avedon

[the-glamour-vault]

[orangeshipper]

Don't mind me, I'm just here wallowing in the little dell with Richard and Lymond being overwhelmed by my feelings....

[piscessunnie]

“the model and the movie star” Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere by Herb Ritts for Vogue US, November 1992

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[bonaesperanza]

The more I rotate Richard and Francis Crawford in my head the more I appreciate that their personalities actually have the same exact blueprint of "die-hard loyalty and a sensitive romantic soul wrapped in a thick layer of emotional withdrawal, avoidant tendencies, and propensity towards burying oneself in work", it's just that one comes in the "firm and rock-steady!" flavour and the other in the "flighty and dynamic!" flavour.

Their relationship styles are both best described with the word "uncommunicative", and yet they are uncommunicative in fascinatingly opposite ways.

And it's especially funny that they're both in love with vivacious strong-willed women who come to the conclusion that the only way to get their husbands to communicate or express genuine emotion is to dramatically provoke them into some kind of outburst. To which the men reply by first attempting to escape, and then eventually by being drawn into the argument. (And obviously the argument is about him being too high-handed and not involving her in his thought process and making all his decisions unilaterally.)

[cesaray]