#winterpapen

[luxielisbcn]

honey, i’m home!

[WIP]

My first winterpapen art!

[tapeworm-loser]

Really powerful to me that truly Richard is closer to every Greek student besides Camilla despite his fixation on her—and in the end, the thing he has most in common with her is that they both were in love with Henry

[savemesamwinchester]

The moment I clocked Winterpapen in TSH.

  'Henry?' I said at last, my voice scarcely more than a whisper.

  He let the cigarette fall from his fingers and took a step towards me. It really was him – damp, ruddy cheeks, snow on the shoulders of his overcoat. 'Good God, Richard,' he said, 'what's happened to you?’

  It was as much surprise as I ever saw him show. I stood where I was, staring, unbalanced. Things had got too bright. I reached for the door frame, and the next thing I knew I was falling, and Henry had jumped forward to catch me.

He eased me onto the floor and took off his coat and spread it over me like a blanket. I squinted up at him and wiped my mouth with the back of my hand.

[ccuniculusmolestus]

My favorite toxic cople 🩷

[donnas-books-taste-a-lil-fruity]

Not a want but a need. Pls link me if ever this becomes a fic. Dead ass, any time, day or night or 50yrs from now.

trans richard. trans richard who wanted to leave plano because he couldn't be out in his parents' house. trans richard who went behind their backs to get on testosterone as soon as he turned 18 and struggled to hide the effects from them. trans richard who goes stealth when he gets to hampden. trans richard whose new friends can see he doesn't have many clothes but don't know that it's because he only took the small amount of masc clothes he had. trans richard who binds with mens' shapewear and packs with socks. trans richard who sees all this wealth around him, knowing it could pay for life changing transition care, but is unwilling to let people know he needs it, and besides, he wouldn't take their money anyway. trans richard who hears everything bunny says to and about francis and camilla, knowing he would say some terrible combination of the two at him if he found out. trans richard who is terrified when francis kisses him because if things progressed too far, he'd find out and might feel tricked. trans richard who one day, if things hadn't gone the way they had, might have trusted the rest of the class enough to tell them.

trans richard (nothing goes wrong au) with his sugar daddy boyfriends who pay for his surgeries and anything else he needs. trans richard who (on paper at least) becomes [deadname], francis' mysterious wife the family never seems to meet, when francis' grandfather finds out he's gay. trans richard who gets gay married 20 years before it's legalised through this one cool trick (having an F on his birth certificate).

[puerile-fawn]

This is Henry Winter to me.

[fishendless]

richard: …so, what i was saying- i was really upset about john lennon’s death

henry: oh, i’m sorry. was john lennon your uncle?

richard:

[shallankholins]

romance is real guys .

[halepatakala]

every inch of me is full of pain

oh you should've come over

my broken bones can smell the rain

and they're aching to recover

(commission art by soulstream)

[dgirl18]

I relate to Richard Papen way too hard because I too have a longing for the picturesque, think Henry Winter is a God with excellent shoulders and lie pathologically.

[corwnvus]

[toastery]

forget winterbunny y'all, henry and richard??? wdym henry left italy early and has been following richard around to see where he's been staying and richard just happened to collapse in his arms while henry looked over his bleeding wound......... i've been shipping these two since the beginning here's my reward !!!

[chaoticmiserablelover]

Was it casual when? No, nothing about this relationship was ever casual.

[mysticaldistancing]

Oh god.

I didn't know we have Henry and Richard as Patroclus and Achilles in the book? Literally written there?

Anyway, see, in this passage, Richard is portrayed as Achilles and Henry as Patroclus (You see, because he came to Richard's dream) that means we know.... Well....

[ccuniculusmolestus]

Bunny Corcoran be like “I know a spot” and then scams you with a 300$ bill in an expensive restaurant

[luxielisbcn]

winterpapen is more than canon

whether you believe Richard and Henry’s relationship was requited or not you cannot deny there WAS homoerotic subtext, Richard did not compare his dynamic with Henry to Achilles and Patroclus for no reason…the last scene being between them and the “i loved him too!” was more than enough to prove their relationship was not just platonic or manipulative. Especially since richard declared his love for Henry in the same context as Camilla did…come on now.

Henry showed rare moments of vulnerability with Richard such as when Henry was in near tears after julian left and sat alone with Richard in the library where richard greeted him “hey…hey Henry it’s me” ???? he wouldn’t have shown that kind of emotion around anyone else in the greek class. He also opened up to Richard in that same scene about how Julian was more of a father to him than his actual father.

Their conversation in the country house as well where Henry was able to recognise that Richard hated where he came from and Henry admitting he felt the same.

I can also recall their argument outside of Henry’s apartment while Henry was gardening. Richard was near tears despite Henry being unusually calm and dismissive instead of hostile and belittling like his arguments with Bunny or Charles.

Another point is that Henry saving Richard was more than enough to buy Richard’s trust and loyalty, Henry did not need to go out of his way to yell at the nurses for being too aggressive with him while he was asleep, reading to him at the hospital and never leaving his side and giving Richard his own bed for the rest of the winter as well as preparing him meals and taking care of him.

Henry purposely came back to Hampden from Rome looking for Richard for days instead of busying himself in his work or studies like he often would.

Henry’s mom holding Richard’s hand at the hospital, staying by his side nearly everyday and thanking him for being such a great friend to her son also proved so much even if she was under the impression he took a bullet for Henry. Henry’s mom knew about Richard despite this which I find very lovely.

Richard still driving Henry’s car all those years later is also very heartwarming considering the many memories they shared there both good and bad like the time Henry told Richard to drive him to the optometrist in order to get away from Bunny but they ended up just driving around by themselves.

There was also this one particular scene where Henry knocks on Richard’s dorm and awkwardly maybe even shyly asks him if he’d like to go for a drive with him alone and Richard grabs his coat without a word and they wind up going out to lunch together.

Henry admitting that he wanted to include Richard in the bacchanal but did not due to the other members not entirely accepting him or deeming him worthy enough is another interesting point. Henry tells Richard he’d always known he’d figure out what they did to the farmer even if the rest did not deem Richard smart enough to uncover what they had done.

Henry tasting burnt coffee and thinking of Richard first thing.

Henry driving to Richard’s dorm at night when they both couldn’t sleep.

In Summery:

They are not platonic

They are not one sided

Henry did in fact care for Richard and admired him

Their relationship was not solely built on manipulation and control