#william laurence

[samkee00]

I feel like everyone needs to know that the first version of my drawing of Laurence was... less dignified

Temeraire and Laurence, from Naomi Novik's Temeraire book series! I've only read the first three books, so no spoilers please!!!

[weepingmusicmilkshake]

I find it interesting how Temeraire and Lien seem to be just the same at times, one more mature than the other, of course, but still... oddly similar in their actions.

One last drawing before school ends me tomorrow

[emily-e-draws]

His Majesty’s Dragon the comfort book ever.. yes I have five hundred books on my tbr yes I am instead reading Temeraire again

[chiropteracupola]

you can turn anyone into little creechures :)

[hismajestysaerialcorps-temeraire]

“Reluctant Ride or Die” yeah that’s spot on

Laurence has so many ride or die bitches around him. I love that you’ve got Granby who is probably just Like That™️ but then you’ve also got Tharkay who wants so badly to NOT associate with England if he can help it and by the sheer force of Laurence’s unshakeable sense of honor becomes the reluctant ride or die.

[kingoftheu]

William Laurence truly has one of the funniest character arcs of all time. He does a complete 360 over the course of the series. Totally turned around yet somehow exactly where he started. He completely changed his worldview while being absolutely steadfast about it. He undergoes impressive character development while his character does not change at all. He is so damn stubborn about his preconceived notions of honor that he is willing to abandon his preconceived notions of dragons, gender, and race. He transcends the regency society he lives in not by breaking the confines of rigid values but by expanding those confines to include everyone.

[argetcross]

Temeraire, Tharkay, and Laurence in the Alps

[goddamnshinyrock]

a spy and a traitor (war heroes) share a drink and a laugh

[pappadu]

gotta stop myself from binge-reading all the temeraire books somehow

[crownomancer]

“Where you go, you leave half the world overturned behind you. You are more dangerous than Bonaparte in your own way, you and that beast of yours.”

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Shoutout to @cozy-fish-crow for reminding me of this amazing quote.

But it’s done! A little messy, a few mistakes, but it’s done and I’m happy.

[andro-beaurepaire]

Kisses, then and now <3 (2025 aka the year I decide to make peace with my messy dirty please-clean-your-fucking-scanner sketches)

[emily-e-draws]

bedtime stories (a mathematics textbook)

[slimyshield]

bro. you're telling me that laurence had full on amnesia. like "weeks have passed and I still can't remember anything" amnesia. "the doctor thinks that if I haven't remembered anything by now I never will" amnesia. and the sight of his beloved dragon of eight years did not jog his memory, nor being told of various huge events in his life, including literal treason, which years after the fact still weighed heavily on him. none of that helped. I repeat: not even temeraire, the one living being above all others whose company he preferred. not seeing granby, who he knew almost as long as he knew temeraire, or berkeley or harcourt, or even emily roland, who looks a good deal like her mother, the woman laurence was lowkey dating for years. no, you're telling me that what jogged his memory at long last was seeing tharkay, who he had not known before temeraire; and he called him by his first name even as he remembered everything. and then he called in a favor to thee Napoleon Bonaparte, a favor earned when laurence committed treason, a favor that laurence practically vowed never to cash in on, in order to save tharkay's life even though he had also just realized tharkay was a spy, which laurence was super pissed about. and then later tharkay invited laurence and temeraire to live on his estate with him. as though this is all happening in a fucking romance novel instead of a nine-book series about the napoleonic wars. and I'm supposed to be normal about it??? I'm supposed to think that laurence and roland wound up together when tharkay is right there??? I Could Not Believe Mine Own Eyes reading the last two pages of league of dragons. oh my god

[fedyastars-art]

I’m took sick to tell if I like this or not. if it gets deleted in like a week then I got better and realized there was 5000 glaringly obvious mistakes and I hated it. anyways I’ve tried begging miles upshur, hadley fraser and now CAPTAIN WILLIAM LAURENCE OF TEMERAIRE. I BEG OF YOU SIR, TAKE MY SICKNESS- *ACHOO* *ACHOO* WOUGH WEEHHH *COUGH* *falls over dead*

[sarcasticbeanie]

so it begins

[dreadbirate]

I love a man of honor punishing himself with responsibility for atrocity because he thinks he is no longer good for anything else.