Yay this chapter is magnificent! We haven't remarked yet on how delightful it is that this whole thing is in Porthos' POV, which makes everything so much more fun while keeping the internal dramas of the Disgustoid-kind veiled in mystery (and open to gross shipping).
Also, how nice of Porthos to name his horse after Athos' brother? Aww.
//“I imagine this is what Charon tells those he carries across the River Styx,” Aramis muttered, in a low enough voice that both Athos and Descartes could safely pretend they hadn’t heard anything.// Written before the Disgustiad, you say? ;) Also I love it when he's being a bitch.
//Athos waved a dismissive hand. “We would shoot you.”// I love one (1) asshole ❤️. I love him.
//Athos was silent as the grave, Aramis immaculately groomed as ever, and Descartes pale and haggard.// I feel like we missed a lot of behind the scenes Disgustoid Drama.
//“You are, in short, casting aspersions on the great Aristotle himself, Monsieur.” said Aramis. “Who claimed that such correlation existed.”// Sick burn. Defend your bae's countryman! (Because the Disgustiad is so canon compliant, I can no longer distinguish this from that and anyways, I'm certain there are BTS Teef.)
//“But if my senses are not deceiving me, it is time to stop for a repast. I feel distinctly hungry.”// I love him too. We share priorities.
//“Excellent idea. If you agree, Monsieur,” Athos said, enunciating beautifully and saluting Descartes with a perfectly executed flourish, “we will stop by the next inn, where you can continue with our education.”// XD I hate him! (I love him.)
//Aramis and Athos merely exchanged a glance. Athos shrugged and seated himself in an easy chair by the fireplace, stretching his legs out so that the soles of his boots came to rest against the andirons. Aramis, restless where Athos was phlegmatic, roamed the room like a tiger, the cup of hypocras dangling forgotten in his hand.
It was unbearable to watch the fortifying nectar go to waste. “Aren’t you drinking it?” Porthos said when he couldn't take it any longer.//
This entire scene is so good and vivid and very much The Three of Them! ❤️
//Athos stopped Aramis with a hand to his chest and thrust the velvet purse at Descartes.
“Now it is an insult,” he said in a voice that few had heard and lived to tell the tale.// LORDY! *agitated self-fanning* OMG OMG this.... *gestures weakly* THEY
//and the rather more aquiline and accusatory face of Grimaud, whose eyes expressed all the emotions that his tightly sealed lips could not.// I ❤️ the Grigori, heroic as ever.
Okay but Descartes is a piece of shit and a very lucky one too! There were about to be so many TEEF! Stabbity-stab and Teef!
They should all go look at Mannekepis while they're in Brussels. It would cheer them greatly, I'm sure.
Is this faithless harlotry (full offense, Rohan Nymph!) going to push darling Flitters into the molesting arms of the Church again???
which makes everything so much more fun while keeping the internal dramas of the Disgustoid-kind veiled in mystery (and open to gross shipping).
Which is the whole point!
Also, how nice of Porthos to name his horse after Athos' brother?
I think he had a horse called Vulcanus in one of the books?
Ha ha, yes Charon was written before Amazingness! The Musai were sniffing my loins already. And the chyortik is at his best when he's being bitchy and meow. Just as Athos is being best when he's being an asshole <3
I feel like we missed a lot of behind the scenes Disgustoid Drama.
It's foreshadowing of all those scenes in 20YA. "Aramis and Athos were still in bed" LOL
This entire scene is so good and vivid and very much The Three of Them!
Yes that was very TTOT! Especially Athos being Phlegmatic and Porthos being Thirsty. And then Athos being all "I will kill you, but in a polite and gentlemanly manner, because you're not a prole." Descartes is very lucky that I had no further use for him and that he historically survived his brush with Intrigue and his encounter with The Three Of Them.
Porthos probably had a good giggle at Manneken Pis and his tiny shrimp.
Is this faithless harlotry (full offense, Rohan Nymph!) going to push darling Flitters into the molesting arms of the Church again???
That is the question! (But really, the important thing is that Athos will be Hurt, yet suffer Manfully.)
Deiseach (Guest)
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Jan 201903:48AM UTC
THERE WILL BE MANFUL SWOONING???
Hurrah for the return of the fainting maiden! Is this because of blood loss, traumatic injury (to himself or others) or the bruising of his tender susceptible heart? I don't care if a few proles bite the dust, but be careful with the tender heart! Don't batter it too hard :-)
Yes indeed! This was was commissioned by Ysande, who requested Athos getting hurt and suffering manfully, and that's what this is all about (poor Descartes just got dragged in to flesh out the background a bit :D). There might be some deaths along the way, but nothing serious, and worry not: the tender heart cannot break yet! That wouldn't be canon.
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