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[April 12th] [The Three Musketeers] Legacy
Title: Legacy
Day/Theme: the apple does fall far from the tree
Series: The Three Musketeers
Characters/Pairing: D'Artagnan
Rating: G
As he grows older, d'Artagnan often reflects on how lucky it is for France that Louis XIV resembles his mother. Not because he really has a burning desire to see the Habsburg lip inflicted on all future generations of French royalty, but because if the lack of physical resemblance between the young king and the old one could not be so directly laid at Anne of Austria's feet, then it would have to be so - indirectly.
There is absolutely no likeness in personality. This is what causes d'Artagnan to formulate his First Theory of Royal Illegitimacy, because frankly, if one had been seeking a cunning autocrat in the old court then one's eyes would have gone directly to Cardinal Richelieu. However, the late cardinal's features are if anything more deeply engraven in d'Artagnan's mind than the late king's, and try as he might he can find no resemblance there either.
The Second Theory is dismissed almost as soon as it is formed. The king certainly does not look anything like a sou-pinching Italian.
The Third Theory is really not a theory so much as a series of random guesses. D'Artagnan actually contemplates writing to Aramis in Spain, to ask the acknowledged master of court gossip which one of the Queen's many admirers back in the day would have been most likely to lend himself to stud service.
The Fourth Theory makes d'Artagnan wish very hard that he had never thought of Aramis in this context.
Day/Theme: the apple does fall far from the tree
Series: The Three Musketeers
Characters/Pairing: D'Artagnan
Rating: G
As he grows older, d'Artagnan often reflects on how lucky it is for France that Louis XIV resembles his mother. Not because he really has a burning desire to see the Habsburg lip inflicted on all future generations of French royalty, but because if the lack of physical resemblance between the young king and the old one could not be so directly laid at Anne of Austria's feet, then it would have to be so - indirectly.
There is absolutely no likeness in personality. This is what causes d'Artagnan to formulate his First Theory of Royal Illegitimacy, because frankly, if one had been seeking a cunning autocrat in the old court then one's eyes would have gone directly to Cardinal Richelieu. However, the late cardinal's features are if anything more deeply engraven in d'Artagnan's mind than the late king's, and try as he might he can find no resemblance there either.
The Second Theory is dismissed almost as soon as it is formed. The king certainly does not look anything like a sou-pinching Italian.
The Third Theory is really not a theory so much as a series of random guesses. D'Artagnan actually contemplates writing to Aramis in Spain, to ask the acknowledged master of court gossip which one of the Queen's many admirers back in the day would have been most likely to lend himself to stud service.
The Fourth Theory makes d'Artagnan wish very hard that he had never thought of Aramis in this context.