The Road to Santiago
Chapter 26: Red
Not all nights are peaceful, and the past seems intent on catching up with Anne despite all her efforts to leave it behind.
Again, four hands writing with @silverssarcasm
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Anonymous asked:
the streets are asking when a new chapter of “the road to Santiago” is going to drop 👀
Hi, Anon! First of all, this has made my little heart very warm, so I hope you don't mind that I kiss your pretty head.
Aaaaaaaand with just six chapters to go, which are mostly outlined, I hope that soon! We wanted to post them in March, but both Silver and I have had quite a rough spring with work and life and everything happening too much. We're currently editing chapter 13 of Things we haven't said, as we've mostly written the two stories simultaneously, so hopefully very soon there will be updates on both fronts!
Thanks for asking! ❤
Don't remember when this was nor who this was but Anon, I can say now that updates are happening within the week :)
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Will you help me, Aramis fans? :)
So I guess this mostly addresses book! Aramis fans and everyone else who’s familiar with the d’Artagnan Romances book canon:
According to you, which are the top 3 most significant/characteristic Aramis quotes or scenes described in the books?
Especially from Twenty Years After and Man in the Iron Mask (that is, the years where Aramis gradually transforms into the ambitious ahem, monster [oops] he becomes towards the end, not the sweet peach he is in the first book.) For example: “Yes, and leave Porthos behind me, to talk and relate the whole affair to every one,- Porthos, who will suffer, perhaps! I will not let poor Porthos suffer. He is one of the members of my own frame; his grief is mine. Porthos shall leave with me, and shall follow my destiny. It must be so.”, see?
Of course, there’s a good reason why I’d like to read a few thoughts on 40+yo Aramis from the devoted fans , but I’m not really gonna tell you, I’m asking for a friend :P
But hey, I can always gif Aramis stuff in return :3
Just three? Woe! I tried to limit myself by taking each one from a different book and not to think about it too long & hard:
1. Twenty Years After, i.e. The One Where Aramis Slaughters A Man Because He Laughed At Something That Athos Said:
Aramis, on the contrary, killed and got himself intoxicated on that bit by bit, as was his habit. His blazing eyes became flaming; his mouth, so finely cut, smiled a terrifying smile; his nostrils flared, breathing in the smell of blood; each of his sword blows struck precisely, and the pommel of his pistol finished, slayed the wounded who tried to get back up.
2. Ten Years Later, i.e. The One Where Aramis Gets The Promotion He Wanted And An Old Franciscan Monk Dies In His Arms (V. Sad)
The Jesuit left the room. Then, turning towards the physician, and observing his pale and anxious face, he said, in a low tone of voice: “Monsieur Grisart, empty and clean this glass; there is too much left in it of what the grand council desired you to put in.”
Grisart, amazed, overcome, completely astounded, almost fell backwards in his extreme terror. Aramis shrugged his shoulders in sign of pity, took the glass, and poured out the contents among the ashes of the hearth. He then left the room, carrying the papers of the dead man with him.
3. The Man in the Iron Mask, i.e. The One Where Aramis’ Cunning Plan Was Foiled By A Dear Old Friend And He Takes It Very Well Without Putting A Curse On Anyone At All:
Aramis withdrew from his breast the hand he had concealed there; it was stained with his blood. He had dug his nails into his flesh, as if in punishment for having nursed so many projects, more vain, insensate, and fleeting than the life of the man himself. Fouquet was horror-stricken, and then his heart smote him with pity. He threw open his arms as if to embrace him.
“I had no arms,” murmured Aramis, as wild and terrible in his wrath as the shade of Dido. And then, without touching Fouquet’s hand, he turned his head aside, and stepped back a pace or two. His last word was an imprecation, his last gesture a curse, which his blood-stained hand seemed to invoke, as it sprinkled on Fouquet’s face a few drops of blood which flowed from his breast.
(The Grotto Scene Of Slaughter & Pagan Blood Sacrifice is a close contender, but it’s too long to be quoted here.)
You have to love the scene from “The Three Musketeers”, though, where he’s all “Your Eminence, you know I’m not at all the violent fierce soldier type, indeed I intend to become a priest, and why that guy totally ran onto my sword that I just happened to be holding out like that, I have no idea”:
“Very well,” said the cardinal; “and you, Monsieur Aramis?”
“Monseigneur, being of a very mild disposition, and being, likewise, of which Monseigneur perhaps is not aware, about to enter into orders, I endeavored to appease my comrades, when one of these wretches gave me a wound with a sword, treacherously, across my left arm. Then I admit my patience failed me; I drew my sword in my turn, and as he came back to the charge, I fancied I felt that in throwing himself upon me, he let it pass through his body. I only know for a certainty that he fell; and it seemed to me that he was borne away with his two companions.”
That was a very tragic and sad accident indeed. Aramis was very contrite. If only he’d held his sword in a less awkward manner, that clumsy man would not have fallen on his poor, abused blade. I’m sure he later asked Athos for absolution, as he is wont to in times of great distress.
Poor Aramis, he’s shocked and appalled every time some poor sod drops dead in his vicinity.
I don’t have a quote, per se, but that time in Twenty Years After after Athos got himself arrested (again), after Aramis explicitly told him not to go get himself arrested (again), when Aramis quietly and efficiently goes to raise an army to spring him from jail. I will always want Aramis as my best friend.
Fortunately, he can give them absolution if they absolutely insist that they must die while he’s around. Like the guy whom he dueled for reasons in 20YA and absolved, just in case.
I have the quote:
A gentleman turned around. Athos fancied he had seen him among the crowd. It was Aramis. He bowed with great friendship to the count.
“Aramis,” cried Athos, “I am arrested.”
“Good,” replied Aramis, calmly.
And then he went and raised an army. Like the dear old friend that he is.
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So I’ve been screencaping The Musketeers like there’s no tomorrow for raisins™, so here you have a bunch of icons. Some things:
- Mostly focused on the garments, but there are a few faces too.
- As uploading everything here it’s tedious, here you have a link to a Google Drive folder.
- Use them freely; if you want to reblog or like the post if you use them, it’s cool. If not, it’s cool too.
- Source: my own screencaps + HD images from Far Far Away Site
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So I’ve been screencaping The Musketeers like there’s no tomorrow for raisins™, so here you have a bunch of icons. Some things:
- Mostly focused on the garments, but there are a few faces too.
- As uploading everything here it’s tedious, here you have a link to a Google Drive folder.
- Use them freely; if you want to reblog or like the post if you use them, it’s cool. If not, it’s cool too.
- Source: my own screencaps + HD images from Far Far Away Site
Image descriptions under read more
I was sure with the other picture but the jacket was not seen in its totality. Here it is though: Aramis’s season 3 jacket in the DnD movie trailer, worn by Chris Pine.
ID: screenshot of the DnD movie trailer, in which we can see four characters standing in an arena, the two men on the foreground and the two women in the background, one between the men and the other on the right side of the picture, with a curved rounded wall behind them and public in the grades. The character more to the left is a brown-skinned man with dark hair wearing a yellow shirt that peeks from underneath a black tunic and a brown cloak. He wears two belts around his waist from which it hangs a leather pouch. The next man is white and wears light brown pants with two belts, a dark blueish shirt and an open leather jacket, the tabs of which hang until his mid thighs, with some texturing in the sides, and which closes at the front with a six buckles that run along the neckline down to the waist. The woman that stands in the background, seen between the man, is white whith ginger hair and some little horns on her head, petite. She’s dressed in dark greens though she’s out of focus so her clothing is not very detailed there. The other woman has brown skin and dark hair and a muscular build. She’s a bit out of focus but we can make out that she’s dressed in leather armor-like clothes, with vambraces and a harness crossing her chest. At the bottom of the image there’s the video toolbox with the play symbol on the far left and a notice of “4524 views”, and the duration on the other side, “1:29/2:04.” END ID.
More images and IDs under the cut
Late and with Starbucks, but here’s the first prompt for the last week of Musketeer March: Love of a Musketeer.
Pick up The Road to Santiago, Chapter 25: Forgiveness here
As always, co-writing with @silverssarcasm
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New Aramis Centric Fic!
I started a shiny new fic about Aramis’s not so shiny past! It’s on Ao3, I try to update weekly. The Good, the Bad, and the Dirty
Sometimes, you will wake up and not immediately know where you are. You are not in the familiar surroundings of your bedroom, perhaps because you are on a vacation, or sleeping at somebody else’s place. Usually, your conscious mind will catch up after a second or two and provide the information you had momentarily forgotten. You’re on the road again and camping. You went home with a pretty girl. You stayed with a sick or injured friend.
To get to the point, however, on waking up and not knowing where he is– this is not his camp in the woods, and he does not remember going to sleep. The throbbing ache in the side of his head is probably an indicator as to why.
Furthermore, this is not a bed.
Aramis takes a deep breath and wills himself not to panic.
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Muskteer March, day 17: Peace (alternate prompt)
Written et cetera between @silverssarcasm et moi
Musketeer March, day 12: Astronomy + Stars
Again, writing with @silverssarcasm
They’re just a couple hundred kilometres away today <3 (Fun fact: when I walked the Road back in 2004, I got snow in the middle of July near the reaches they’re visiting today.)
Musketeer March, day 11: Pistol or Pistole
Bit late, but here it is! Again, co-screaming with @silverssarcasm et cetera
Musketeer March, day 10: Rochefort
He’s a lying liar who lies.
Again, screaming and keysmashing with @silverssarcasm
Musketeer March, Day 9: This is what you made me
Again, co-writing with @silverssarcasm!
Three minutes late and with Starbucks but there goes Musketeer March, Day 8: Favourite Female Character (Ninon)
Again, written along with my dearest @silverssarcasm