#outlander 04x12

[gotham-ruaidh]

Serious shout-out to Lord John Grey, who for two episodes has been the *ONLY* person 1000% confident that Jamie and Claire will find Roger and bring him back

[gotham-ruaidh]

when u have nothing but heart eyes for ur OTP but also kinda want to be one half of the OTP

see also: Lord John Grey and Jamie & Claire

[gotham-ruaidh]

I’ve been thinking about your question of whether revenge would heal the wrong done to you.  

I advise you now that you must not seek it.  

For the sake of your soul, for the sake of your own life, you must find the grace to forgive. 

Freedom is hard-won, but it is not the fruit of murder.  

Do not fear that he will escape vengeance. 

Such a man carries with him the seeds of his own destruction.  

[gotham-ruaidh]

“After all that, I still loved her.”

-- Roger MacKenzie, 04x12 “Providence”

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It’s striking how Roger’s feelings for Brianna are identical to Jamie’s for Claire. Consider that after Claire fell into his life, Jamie:

Was shot (the next day)

Lived as an outlaw

Was forced to outwit his uncles by avoiding pledging loyalty to them

Was forced into marriage

Killed an English soldier who tried to rape his new wife

Had to return to the site of where he had been brutalized (Fort William) to save Claire from the clutches of the man who had brutalized him (Black Jack Randall)

Risked his life to save Claire at the witch trial in Cranesmuir

Was arrested by the Watch

Was imprisoned, beaten, raped, dehumanized by Black Jack Randall - all to save Claire from him

Endured months of emotional torment in Paris

Went against 

Challenged Randall to a duel, and was imprisoned

Lost his firstborn child - and lost the chance to ever see her with his own eyes

Marched in the cold, wet Scottish weather with the Jacobite Army

Was forced to send Claire back through the stones - losing the chance of a life with her, and a life with the child he had just found out about

Survived the Battle of Culloden and its bloody aftermath

Lived like an animal in a cave for 7 years

Served prison time

Was paroled in a gilded prison (Helwater)

Was blackmailed into sleeping with his employer’s daughter

Killed his newborn son’s putative father, to protect the baby

Returned to Lallybroch a shell of a man

Lost his printshop in a fire

Almost lost Claire when she found out about Laoghaire

Was shot by Laoghaire

Endured separation at sea from Claire

Etc.

And despite this - despite all of this - Jamie still loves Claire beyond reason and logic. 

Despite the pain and death and heartbreak that followed from just about the moment he met her - he will *always* make the same choice. He will *always* choose her.

Roger and Jamie love their wives deeply. I can’t wait to watch them build their relationship, and recognize this kinship.

[gotham-ruaidh]

This song was running through my head at the end of 04x12...