Three Musketeers: Chapter 47
Nov. 16th, 2017 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerIt's been a dispiriting week so I'm behind in The Three Musketeers, but I can at least report that the characters have been suffering a week even more dispiriting than mine. D'Artagnan is dispirited because Milady is trying to kill him! Milady is dispirited because her stupid assassins just keep failing! The musketeers themselves are downcast because, as a result of their efforts to help d'Artagnan, they too are now in Milady's crosshairs.
We have not seen Anne d'Autriche or Constance Bonacieux for quite a few chapters, but Queen Anne is still married to Louis XIII and Constance is hidden away in a convent to save her from Milady's vengeance so I think we can take it as read that they are suffering too. They are my favorites and I hope we will get more chapters about them (and by that I mean that I hope we get another scene where Constance flings herself to her knees to swear allegiance to Queen Anne, I HAVE SIMPLE NEEDS), but sadly I think it will be some time before they show up again. WOE.
Also, I've got to say. For the most part I am really into Athos's "strong and silent noble lord who is fleeing from his opulent yet dark past, yet cannot fully conceal his innate superiority, and also has suffered so much that he's just totally zen about death because after everything else that happens to him that's small potatoes" -
But goddamn is he an asshole to his lackey. Let the poor man speak, Athos! And for God's sake don't drag him into a picnic in an abandoned bastion in the middle of a battlefield! (The musketeers are picnicking in this unlikely place so they can discuss their future plans without eavesdroppers.) I guess probably it's beneath a musketeer's dignity to carry his own picnic basket - but dude, try it just this once.
We have not seen Anne d'Autriche or Constance Bonacieux for quite a few chapters, but Queen Anne is still married to Louis XIII and Constance is hidden away in a convent to save her from Milady's vengeance so I think we can take it as read that they are suffering too. They are my favorites and I hope we will get more chapters about them (and by that I mean that I hope we get another scene where Constance flings herself to her knees to swear allegiance to Queen Anne, I HAVE SIMPLE NEEDS), but sadly I think it will be some time before they show up again. WOE.
Also, I've got to say. For the most part I am really into Athos's "strong and silent noble lord who is fleeing from his opulent yet dark past, yet cannot fully conceal his innate superiority, and also has suffered so much that he's just totally zen about death because after everything else that happens to him that's small potatoes" -
But goddamn is he an asshole to his lackey. Let the poor man speak, Athos! And for God's sake don't drag him into a picnic in an abandoned bastion in the middle of a battlefield! (The musketeers are picnicking in this unlikely place so they can discuss their future plans without eavesdroppers.) I guess probably it's beneath a musketeer's dignity to carry his own picnic basket - but dude, try it just this once.
