And that is virtually the sum total of everything I remember from my Latin class, heh.
(Laurence appreciates this irregularly.)
HAH! That is so true. Also, oooh, thinky thoughts on threesomes, I want in. Especially since I have been doing A LOT of thinking on them lately. I think I have an entirely different conception of the dynamics than you, which may be obvious since otherwise I'd be writing entirely different stories. I agree Laurence doesn't take very good care of himself, and that he needs several dedicated keepers, but I think that says more about how he thinks about himself. I feel like once Laurence realized something was going on, that person A or B (let us for the sake of argument call these people Thanby and Grahkay) was in love with him, he would struggle with it a lot, and ponder it, and talk it out with his dragon, who would cut through all the bullshit with a simple and profound yet horribly socially inappropriate statement, and then after a lot of wibbling and angsting, he'd come to terms with it and pounce.
I guess what I love so much about Laurence is that he's such a dynamic character--he really has gone through such dramatic changes in the course of the series. I don't know if I even actually liked Laurence very much at the beginning of His Majesty's Dragon, and now you can pry him from my cold dead fingers. I think you're definitely right, though, about him being entirely wrapped up in Temeraire in the first two books--first in the "HOLY SHIT I HAVE A DRAGON" rush and then the "WTF GTFO CHINA AAHHHH" bit. But I do think we see him becoming more aware in all the books, of the people he's with and of the ideas he'd taken for granted his whole life. And I think as a result of having gone through what he did in the end of EoI and VoE, and having survived--I don't think HMD-era Laurence could ever have conceived surviving that, you know?--I feel like, as a person, that's an enormous change, that he's re-evaulating a lot of things.
Grant you, I am a crazed Laurence fan! I am not at all impartial. And I definitely think it's important that regardless of what happens, Temeraire is naturally the first person (Er, dragon... dragons are people, right? Right.) in Laurence's life. Actually, that's sort of true for all dragons and their captains, isn't it? Jane and Excidium, and now Granby and Iskierka, who requires, if anything, more attention than the average dragon. In this scenario, Tharkay is the one that I tend to worry about being left out--luckily, I think once he gets his bearings, he's not the type to just loll around bemoaning his neglect. He's more likely to thwack people with a newspaper, or turn up in eyeliner and strike people dead with the hot. But yeah, that's part of why I love Laurence/Granby--Granby, like Roland, would know exactly what sort of level of investment to expect from a captain with a dragon, and as for Tharkay, I think he's cautious enough that by the time he got involved in a relationship he would have sussed that out for himself.
Obviously, YMMV. I am not here to be like "OMG YOUR IDEA OF THREESOMES IS WRONG." But here is my take on their personal threesome dynamics as I tend to see and write them? ALSOTHANKYOU. I'm glad you thought it was hot.
...now you've got me eyeing tennis slash with interest. DAMN YOU. I don't even know anything about tennis. Other that it involves terms like thirty-love. And rackets.
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I love that in Latin, procrastination means 'for tomorrow.'
Date: 2009-04-03 11:52 am (UTC)(Laurence appreciates this irregularly.)
HAH! That is so true. Also, oooh, thinky thoughts on threesomes, I want in. Especially since I have been doing A LOT of thinking on them lately. I think I have an entirely different conception of the dynamics than you, which may be obvious since otherwise I'd be writing entirely different stories. I agree Laurence doesn't take very good care of himself, and that he needs several dedicated keepers, but I think that says more about how he thinks about himself. I feel like once Laurence realized something was going on, that person A or B (let us for the sake of argument call these people Thanby and Grahkay) was in love with him, he would struggle with it a lot, and ponder it, and talk it out with his dragon, who would cut through all the bullshit with a simple and profound yet horribly socially inappropriate statement, and then after a lot of wibbling and angsting, he'd come to terms with it and pounce.
I guess what I love so much about Laurence is that he's such a dynamic character--he really has gone through such dramatic changes in the course of the series. I don't know if I even actually liked Laurence very much at the beginning of His Majesty's Dragon, and now you can pry him from my cold dead fingers. I think you're definitely right, though, about him being entirely wrapped up in Temeraire in the first two books--first in the "HOLY SHIT I HAVE A DRAGON" rush and then the "WTF GTFO CHINA AAHHHH" bit. But I do think we see him becoming more aware in all the books, of the people he's with and of the ideas he'd taken for granted his whole life. And I think as a result of having gone through what he did in the end of EoI and VoE, and having survived--I don't think HMD-era Laurence could ever have conceived surviving that, you know?--I feel like, as a person, that's an enormous change, that he's re-evaulating a lot of things.
Grant you, I am a crazed Laurence fan! I am not at all impartial. And I definitely think it's important that regardless of what happens, Temeraire is naturally the first person (Er, dragon... dragons are people, right? Right.) in Laurence's life. Actually, that's sort of true for all dragons and their captains, isn't it? Jane and Excidium, and now Granby and Iskierka, who requires, if anything, more attention than the average dragon. In this scenario, Tharkay is the one that I tend to worry about being left out--luckily, I think once he gets his bearings, he's not the type to just loll around bemoaning his neglect. He's more likely to thwack people with a newspaper, or turn up in eyeliner and strike people dead with the hot. But yeah, that's part of why I love Laurence/Granby--Granby, like Roland, would know exactly what sort of level of investment to expect from a captain with a dragon, and as for Tharkay, I think he's cautious enough that by the time he got involved in a relationship he would have sussed that out for himself.
Obviously, YMMV. I am not here to be like "OMG YOUR IDEA OF THREESOMES IS WRONG." But here is my take on their personal threesome dynamics as I tend to see and write them? ALSOTHANKYOU. I'm glad you thought it was hot.
...now you've got me eyeing tennis slash with interest. DAMN YOU. I don't even know anything about tennis. Other that it involves terms like thirty-love. And rackets.