#buckrich

[magatsumii]

No one can convince me that Richard wasn't deeply, madly, hopelessly in love with Buckingham. He yearns for that man, he breaks down when he doesn't find him by his side. More than anything, he misses Buckingham's warmth. Even while fighting him, while knowing that he's been betrayed, Richard can only remember the moments of their bliss together.

[musicalyeetreblr]

1st base: I call your heterochromia cute

2nd base: electoral fraud

3rd base: I lock you up in my gayass tower

[yomog1u]

[rottedfromrotrk]

[blackmudofnoshape]

Was rereading Requiem of the Rose King and thinking about how interesting Richard and Buckingham's relationship is. Frankly speaking Buckingham can be kind of a creep if you consider how he got into Richard's bed, like he created a dangerous situation that basically forced Richard to reveal his body to him and take advantage of that and that frankly speaking could edge into dub-con territory. But the thing about Buckingham is that unlike what Elizabethan writer did about Richard III's supposed hunchback (they tend to link physical deformity to evilness and immorality), Buckingham did not link Richard's body to being evil or cursed exactly (that's what Richard's mother did). He also somehow avoided exploiting Richard's internalized shame about his own form and identity (by not using that as blackmail to coerce him into sex), but instead consider it the reason why Richard alwyas avoid at naming and acting on his own desire. Buckingham was somehow treating Richard's body as an object that he desire, that he would bargain for by using the crown as a leverage, which is a leverage that he believed Richard was vulnerable for; it's definitely objectifying, but somehow still managed to be better than some typical sex black-mail plot. And he was right in that he saw through Richard's surface level of desire, that is to be a king that would honor the Yorkist dynasty, and it kinda revitalized Richard a bit out of the "I'm a tool and weapon" state, but it instead vitalized him into a destructive direction. I mean like. These two guys clearly has a pathologic need for power grabbing that probably originated from being powerless pawn and children in adults' political gambles, especially Buckingham, but the thing is that Buck's issue can be kinda sated by having power and commanding attention, while Richard's issue is kind of like a manifestation of a deeper issue that is he wants to exist in a way that is loved and not shameful, which the crown isn't going to give him. Then there's the fact Buckingham is terrible at falling in love and be normal and be NOT possessive and Richard has been gaslit by York that the crown can bring happiness to whoever wears it. Yay disasterous toxic yaoi. I'm reading too deep into this shit.

[m3ntalee]

i am a buckingham lover born into a world of buckingham haters

[cinnamonsparx]

In the Devil's grasp, and he in mine.

[oroontheheels]

He is still cheeky 🌚