#maximilien morrel

[besotted-with-austen]

The Count of Monte Cristo: I have been preparing my plan for years and there is nothing I don’t know! This is MY Dark & Gritty Revenge Story, I am writing it and everyone else is only ink under my pen!

Maximilien Morrel: oh, so you know about my Romeo-and-Juliet subplot?

The Count of Monte Cristo: your what

[purplebass]

2025 books - the count of monte cristo by alexandre dumas

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

[susiephone]

*in the voice of someone who has two separate brainrots at once that are now combining into one, far more insufferable brainrot* maximilien/valentine hadestown au is this anything can anyone hear me

[oragnefriut]

what do i have to do to deserve a speech like this from someone

[teamfortresstwo]

I wonder if Maximillian has any trauma from his time as a soldier … It could explain his relationship with Valentine, fixating on someone who might make him feel whole, innocent, normal again after having killed so many people who truly didn’t even deserve it… it would also explain his description of himself as stoic despite his actions speaking to a great instability . He had to learn to be okay with it while he served, and now he cannot be normal . Valentine is his last chance, she’s his only reason to live at this point . (I also like the idea of her having somewhat of a soldier fetish and liking the idea of violence and brutality at least a little . She knows it’s amoral and that it should be repulsive but she’s attracted to the power and catharsis it implies . I think this is another thing which would put him at odds as he expects her to be saint like and prove him worthy of normalcy where she expects him to be a soldier that should cherish her enough to fight and kill in her name.)

[jeanlib]

Some bts of The Count of Monte Cristo tv series

[itsnotsocrates]

unsure how many people will find this as hilarious as i do but i long for a sitcom spinoff centred on whatever it is the second generation gets up to when they’re not being used as pawns in someone’s convoluted vengeful machinations. if anyone knows of good fic about the boy’s club of aristocratic paris pleaseeee let me know <3

[compagniedesfrelons]

The ONE real interaction between Franz and Maximilien in the book is sooo funny.

Maximilien knows Franz is supposed to marry Valentine and is struggling to not straight up punch him in the face or ask for a duel right there or... burst into tears probably.

Meanwhile Franz is surprised that this young man all his friends call a hero and speak so highly of is a bit cold towards him. How is he to know this is related to his fiancee, a woman he agreed to marry to please his family (she did the same), and who clearly doesn't like him ?

They're really going through two very different genres of books 😂