#jane pocock

[alloftimeandallofspace]

Okay, first your crush is in love with someone else. Then you find out your real father is a Scottish Jacobite traitor. Then you get kidnapped, and your adoptive father and cousins have to rescue you. Then you find out your situationship committed suicide after being accused of murder. Then you’re told your cousin is dead, and you get involved with his widow… only to find out he’s actually alive, faked his death, and is a traitor. And when you tell him about you and his wife, he beats you and locks you up in a Continental camp until your friend helps you escape. Then you find out your cousin's wife knew all along. And finally, you catch your adoptive father kissing another man and realize he hasn’t told you the whole truth about his relationship with your biological father.

And on top of all that, you still don’t know that your situationship—the one you had carnal knowledge with, who committed suicide—is actually your niece.

William really needs therapy.

[thirteen-tales]

— SILVIA PRESENTE as Jane Pocock in Outlander s7 (2014-2026)

[thirteenstorytelling]

— SILVIA PRESENTE in Outlander s7 400x640

[themusicsweetly]

though my soul may set in darkness it will rise in perfect light; i have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night

[Claire x Jane parallel requested by @erinmangerer]

[sassenach77yle]

Outlander 7x16 "A Hundred Thousand Angels"

He looked upon her face by candlelight for the first time, and the last. He felt emptied, hollow as a gutted deer. With no notion what to say, he touched one black-bound hand and spoke the truth, in a voice too low for any but the dead to hear.

“I wanted to save you, Jane. Forgive me.”

133 LAST RESORT~ "Written in My Own Heart's Blood"

[frxserwife]

I’ve seen the theory that the reason Claire feels so instinctively at home in the 18th century—more so than in her own time—is because she was actually born there and traveled through the stones as a child. And while I understand why some might find that an appealing idea, the timeline just doesn’t add up. By the time Julia and Henry go through the stones, Claire is already a child living with Uncle Lamb. If she had been born in the 18th century, the sequence would require Julia (and possibly Henry) to go through, have her, return to the 20th century, and then go back again—which clashes with the genuine confusion and disorientation both Julia and Henry show during their first crossing.

It’s also easy to overlook a key point: Claire is already alive when Julia is pregnant. And Julia isn’t pregnant with Claire—she’s pregnant with a second child. That detail alone shifts the entire conversation.

To me, the stronger, more elegant explanation for Claire’s sense of belonging isn’t that she’s “from” the 18th century in a biological sense—it’s that she’s lived it before. Diana Gabaldon herself has described Jamie and Claire’s story as a timeloop. When they die, their story begins again, over and over, a Möbius strip with no true beginning or end. Jamie’s ghost watching her in Season 1, Episode 1 isn’t just a romantic mystery—it’s a quiet vigil. He’s waiting for her to come back to him, to begin their story once more. She’s already lived this life, and stepping through the stones simply placed her back at the start of a path she knows by heart, even if she doesn’t consciously remember it.

[maidenvault]

Thinking about how William and Jane’s relationship doesn’t really feel romantic in the books. Even less than in the show I think, where it’s not much of a thing either. He’s very attracted to her and has compassion for her, but she’s a whore he’s taken under his protection and he mostly keeps his distance.

It’s interesting because it’s this pattern that William haplessly falls in love with every woman he meets. It’s the mommy issues, and it annoys a lot of fans but I personally find it endearing. Being unable to save Jane is probably so traumatic for him partly because of the losses William has already had. But when it would be truly wrong for him to expect anything from a woman he avoids thinking of her that way. It just shows he really is both his fathers’ son.

[theawkwardterrier]

Wednesday 100: How Many Worlds

Sometimes, when the night is darkest or Claire is gone tending a patient, Jamie considers what if they'd been slightly later.

It wouldn't have taken much — minutes, likely — for him and William to have entered and found not Jane waving at angels but having taken one by the hand and left.

It shakes him, the mere imagining of Jane blood-soaked and gone, before he'd known who she was to him, before he'd known her, witty and sharp and bright and bold. And it settles something too, knowing that for all that has been lost, there are things which have not.