Captain_Amore

I was crazy once

[captainunderscoreamore]

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Current hyperfixation~ The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion

Other Interests Include~

🏰Disney💫Star Wars🦾Marvel⛏️DSMP (RIVALS DUO SKREEE)👾Markiplier🎪The Amazing Digital Circus🐻Five Nights at Freddy’s🌲Gravity Falls🦉The Owl House (Huntlow)🤖Murder Drones🧁Arcane🌊Percy Jackson👑Knights of Guinevere🍔Bigtop Burger🦜bird💚just to name a few

Islington.

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(Choosing numbers at complete random for this one)

2 & 13 + Jack, character ask game

#2 - My hope for Jack's narrative! A part of me ships him with Arabella because it would be absolute chaos. In reality, I don't want him to entirely lose his scalawag traits, but I do hope he finds a path forward that is a little less dangerous. More stable. Perhaps with his chameleon nature, he can gain positive notoriety as a brilliant actor!

#13 - Fav Dialogue. This isn't a single line but I cackle every time he calls Emma some absurd "pet" name - from darling to sugar plum fairy to pain au chocolat. He is so outrageous, clearly having SO much fun needling her, and I love it.

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5 & 7 + Pierce for the character ask game!

y'all letting me talk about my blorbo, and I love you for it

# 5 - favourite scene?! How can you make me choose 😭 Possibly this moment from Feb 13 vol 6:

It encompasses the tone of the series so well for me – the sweetness and comfort and humor found in the every day. Pierce choking on his tea over this lives in my head rent free.

Tied with June 8 when he and Emma reunited at Stonecrop for the first time, and he admits, “I’ve long developed a habit of not growing accustomed to people, Emma Lion, but I have found the last few days ill-fitting without you.” We see here an admitted crack in the defenses he'd built up to protect his heart, giving readers a glimpse of his growth and new-sprouting hope.

# 7 - it was difficult but I forced myself to narrow it down to one & outside the TSwift catalog 🤣

"I And Love And You" by The Avett Brothers - longing, the running from a past, the difficulty of emotional vulnerability while yearning for a place to belong & a connection with someone 💔

"But it don't pay to live like that/ So cut the ties and jumped the tracks / For never to return"

"Oh, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, take me in/Are you aware the shape I'm in?/My hands, they shake, my head, it spins"

"Three words that became hard to say/ I, and love, and you"

[existentandexhausted]

Hawkes and 3, 5 & 19 for the character asks game!

okay here we go!

3. which 3 emojis would this character use the most?

okay so he would use the thumbs up and thumbs down to avoid answering directly and i think he would just use a lot of the hand ones in general, like ✌️👋👏. he would use emojis at the most random times

5. favorite scene with character?

this is a tough one. i'd say maybe, book eight, at stonecrop. no particular scene, but he has a bunch of very fun one liners and actions. ex. "I rarely poach on Islington's estate." and when he's just reading a book at the dinner table and Mariana

19. assign a new hobby to the character

hmmmmm– sleeping.

but in all seriousness, i think he would enjoy rowing. i'm not a rower myself, but going off of vibes, i think it fits

this was really fun, thank you for the ask!

[unearthlydust]

SEBASTIAN STAN as BUCKY BARNES CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR THUNDERBOLTS*

[captainunderscoreamore]

ask game! Emma for 7 & 17

🎶I’M SO GLAD YOU AAAASKED🎶 (sung in the tune of Nick Fury’s solo in Rogers: the Musical OKAY ANYWAY—)

7. Song associated with character

I would LOVE to find more songs that capture Emma’s true spirit & such but most things I have saved are more general Alchemy. However I was absolutely shooketh when I heard this song and found so many similarities with our own Emma

Like this bit alone? The book? The Cleopatra??? Get out. And I hardly listen to Taylor Swift!

17. Something you have in common with the character

Don’t even get me started. This girl is so me—I only wish I was half as clever as her.

Spewing out words at the briefest fluster or excitement and having a mother constantly advising to “hold one’s tongue”? Me. The constant desire to read & ridiculous comments in the margins? Me. Appreciation for one “looking particularly tall today” or inquiring the ethics of marrying a man solely to gain a library instead of flirting like a normal person? MEEEEE.

All to say she has a quirk and charm I constantly aim for. EMMA MY GIRL🤍🤍🤍🤍

[fathermulcahyofficial]

What if your local insomniac vicar had a group of 9 friends that were the Victorian equivalent of frat boys that adored you

[fathermulcahyofficial]

Emma M Lion Vol 3 got me like

[captainunderscoreamore]

Emma M Lion Vol. 4 and 5 and 6 and 7 and 8 and

[kaomojiloser]

that one eva stratt scene

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I read your post about Pierce not being a Byronic hero and I have a question. Byron was born with a clubfoot so his personality was shaped with himself being a wounded hero. He starts from less than zero and builds a shell to accommodate that. On the other hand, we don't know why Pierce limps. A congenital problem, a war injury? And the way Brower is being so quiet about this important information makes me suspect the revelation will be catastropic. Five soldiers went after him and Pierce was warned they might hunt him down and hurt him again. Those are very determined officers. This wasn't just them being drunk. So my question is, what do you think happened to Pierce?

Ooh thank you for the question!! Firstly, I find the tracing of physical disability in Byronic heroes, starting with the namesake of the trope, an intriguing research angle.

But! to your main question: what do I think of Pierce's injury and history with the soldiers?

⚠️spoilers ahead

We do know that Pierce was stabbed by bayonets (Mar 14 vol 7), and it seems this happened in a location where his path crossed with Dr. Fairchild (Mar 17 vol 7), who he met in Africa (July 15 vol 3). Thus, it's unlikely that the incident overlapped with Maxwell's time in Afghanistan or has anything to do with Maxwell's death. I suspect, based on timing and location, it was in the First Boer War. But I've digressed.

Knowing what we do of Niall Pierce (self-deprecating, justice-seeking, anti-Imperialist), I suspect the cause may be something that might technically be treasonous but that readers would consider ethical. Perhaps he allowed some POWs to escape torture, perhaps he defended an "enemy of the state" from being set upon, or perhaps he prevented soldiers attacking a woman/child/innocent civilian. Perhaps Pierce caught them doing something they oughtn't, either as eyewitness or in a photograph. The soldiers, driven by hive mind and coursing adrenaline, turned on Pierce and marked him as an enemy. The "if you're not with us, you're against us" mob mentality.

Because I recently rewatched North and South, I turn to it for a helpful example. The protagonist, Margaret Hale, has a brother in exile because when he was in the Navy he was part of a group standing up to a cruel, tyrannical captain (in the book, I think he is the leader of said group). We can sympathise with Frederick ethically, but in the eyes of the law, his actions were mutiny & treasonous.

I suspect Pierce's tale is something like Frederick's. His ethics motivated him to act in a way that the soldiers perceive him as a traitor. I don't think the revelation will be as calculated as, say, concealing a previous, still-valid marriage.

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Continuing this discussion-- why the LEG 🦵 specifically?

I see how soldiers might target his leg symbolically if they accused him of cowardice and running from a battle. It would make sense that Pierce's sense of pride would want to hide that. However, I don't know that soldiers would attack him for it, nor that people would look down on him for it; if he were actively serving in the military, yes, that's desertion/cowardice & shameful and would risk retaliation. But he's observing the war as a civilian. He doesn't have any military issued weaponry to protect himself should he somehow get caught up in the action. I don't think anyone would have expected him to stand and fight in that scenario–with what weapon? Also, this wouldn’t have been his first experience of conflict, why would he have run from this one?

I have some slightly more specific hypotheticals working from my supposition–Pierce acted ethically, soldiers took it as personal offense or treason–to explain an injury directed at the leg, AND have it be something that Pierce doesn't like to talk about.

Firstly, the choice of his leg could mean nothing; it could only mean that the soldiers wanted to maim him because killing would be too risky (what to do with the body, what to do with his equipment, people are going to wonder where the only photographer went), and the leg is a large target with some chance of recovery. Furthermore, if he was in a fistfight (Islington does note that Pierce has a long reach and seems an experienced fighter pre-injury), his arms up to defend his upper body would make his legs an easier target. Then stabbing his leg might not have meaningful connection to the reason for the attack but simply have been a matter of access. It could also be they were trying to kill him, either by leaving him without mobility & abandoning him to die, or by hoping to cut an artery, causing Pierce to bleed out; either option could reasonably be blamed on a battle–struck by shrapnel, bad luck *shrug*

If the leg is symbolically connected to The Incident, I imagine a few scenarios in which they might have targeted his leg:

Fearing for how they will be treated, Pierce allows some POWs to escape. Soldiers are angry & decide to punish his legs for allowing someone else to "run."

Pierce catches a soldier doing something cruel - ex: harassing locals or attempting to rape a woman - and fights the man. In the course of the fight, he breaks the man's leg. His friends retaliate by cornering Pierce and injuring his leg.

Similar to above but Pierce interrupts/ catches the whole group doing something they shouldn't. They know he has witnessed this & see him as a threat, so they attack. They may have intended to kill him but were interrupted.

Pierce catches one or the group doing something unethical and openly threatens to tell their commanding officer. They set upon him and target his leg as a message to say "let's see how fast you can run and tell on us now. If you snitch, we'll do worse” or “hope you can make it back to camp, bye”

Perhaps Pierce does report one or more soldiers, leading one (or the group) to get in trouble & they hold a grudge over it. Their revenge is the maim-to-plausible-deniability-of-a-kill method.

Any of the above scenarios strike me as believable the soldiers would carry grudges and attack again, especially with a hefty dose of alcohol.

In the scenarios where soldiers turn on Pierce for protecting someone, they may still exact their violence against the innocent(s) after attacking him. Pierce's leg then becomes a constant source of internalised shame, a reminder that his intervention wasn't enough; that he wasn't enough. In many of these, Pierce would not want to talk about The Incident because:

if he was unable to protect innocents & his effort was for naught, he would feel regret and self-disparagement.

if his actions were technically treasonous, he would not want to endanger himself nor a loved one with the knowledge 

if the attack was a warning meant to silence him, he may feel guilt and shame that he did not speak up

if Pierce's speaking up or reporting an unethical soldier(s) caused them to exact revenge on someone else (in addition to him), he would feel guilt and regret.

Another way to think of the injury: What if the leg is not connected to The Incident but rather The Growth? Pierce has had to rely on no one but himself and stand on his own two feet for a long time. What if the injury to his leg is more symbolic of him having to learn to lean on others? Now he’s more susceptible to being off-balance and might need a little extra support. Perhaps the injury is a consequence of his determination to conquer a problem independently, and through the injury he is learning how to let others in and support him?

What we know about Pierce as a character is that he has a low image of his self-worth. He tells Emma he knows she could be with other, “finer gentlemen” and that he is far below her. Emma sees him blaming himself even for some of the "catastrophes" of volume three: 

"You seem cursed with our strange catastrophes." Mr. Pierce looked thoughtful, rubbing the inside of his forefinger along his chin. "Ironically, the events seem to trace back to Tybalt, the cat I introduced to Lapis Lazuli." He was blaming himself. A ridiculous thing I could not countenance.  "It is not your fault," I replied. “A strange accident, as you said yourself.” "We cannot always predict the outcomes of our actions, Miss Lion, however well intended."

That last line especially resonated in my research on this question. Could this reflect some of the situation which got his leg injured? A well-intentioned action that backfired?

Factoring in Pierce’s self-deprecation makes me suspect that The Incident is not one Pierce keeps quiet for fear of ruin or censure but because he unjustly blames himself or carries guilt or regret on behalf of others.

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Character ask game with our St. Crispian's friends ✨ Send me a character and a number or two. Then reblog to keep the game going!

If you need ideas for characters, there's always the character wheel

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1. give advice to a character

2. hope for the character's narrative

3. which 3 Emojis character would the character use the most

4. who should play character in a series

5. favourite scene with character

6. give character a book (within their era or modern publications!)

7. a song associated with character

8. would you be best friends/sibling/partner with character

9. a non-canon ship for this character

10. what can you learn from character

11. a crossover you would want to see character appear in

12. give character a trip to anywhere

13. favorite dialogue from the character

14. has your opinion on this character changed & if so how

15. if character was a Disney princess what would their animal sidekick be

16. who do you wish character interacted with more

17. something you have in common with character

18. what would character play in DnD

19. assign a new hobby to the character

20. what movie/show would you want to watch with character

21. what would character bring to game night

[magewardensurana]

I love how canonically Bucky wears winter soldier merch.

And that he generally wears it over his metal arm.

Also this means there's merch for the guy responsible for the Pennsylvania bombing and who was thought to be responsible for nuking Idaho.

[missmorwen]

He's such an idiot <3

The Unstoppable Wasp (2018) #10 and Captain America (2004-2011): The Death of Captain America Vol. 1: Death of the Dream

[why-i-didnt-text-you-back]

Emma M. Lion

Lapis Lazuli House

Whereabouts Lane

St. Crispian’s, London

[badassdemonsword]

You couldnt come up with a jollier name for a bird if you tried

[minmos]

this thang has one of my favorite ebird descriptions of all time

[captainunderscoreamore]

Happy birthday to Islington, Duke of

You don’t look a day over 173 🤍

Be sure to stab Julius in his honor!

[paverics]

“my father is a boy and my mother is a girl so i’m mixed” is the funniest possible response to someone asking your gender and it came from 6’5 Viking footballer and notable weird little guy Erling Haaland on a Snapchat

[paverics]

comedians can only dream of writing something this funny

[pinklocksoflove]