#robert ferrars

[besotted-with-austen]

Jane Austen: Lucy, Robert Ferrars enters the room, his expression stony.

Anne Steele: *loudly munching her snacks* how stony? Can I roll to see how stony his expression is?

John Willoughby: you are not even in the room!

Anne Steele: but I want to see the drama!

Jane Austen: “Miss Steele, since my brother has definitely lost his mind I find myself in the regrettable position to ask you to keep yours: leave him free to fullfill his obligations, and stop this foolishness once for all”.

Lucy Steele: can I make an Investigation Check to understand how much he believes what he says?

Jane Austen: sure.

Lucy Steele: that’s an eighteen.

Jane Austen: good, good-he is absolutely sincere in finding the whole situation absurd, but he is also very entertained by the idea that his brother has fallen from grace for someone like you; he is delighted by the chaos and he thinks the outcome is going to favour him.

Lucy Steele: *slowly* he might not be wrong.

Lucy Steele: I tell him that Edward has to fullfill his obligations towards me, that I am not going back on my word, no matter how many times he will try to change my mind. But, I would not mind seeing him again, since I cannot hope to see his sister or his mother, that I miss terribly, and I feel so lonely without Edward.

Anne Steele: wait-

John Willoughby: are you trying to seduce him? Your dear heart’s brother?!

Jane Austen: *without breaking a sweat* roll for Deception, you need at least a forty.

Anne Steele: *wheeze* that’s high, even with your ridiculously high Charisma!

Jane Austen: his family hates her and he thinks she is beneath him, so-

Lucy Steele: *flatly* Natural Twenty.

John Willoughby: WHAT?

Anne Steele: WHAT?!

Lucy Steele: and I have twenty at Charisma, plus five. I did not sacrifice my Intelligence for nothing, you know.

John Willoughby: *shakes his head incredulously*

Jane Austen: *pause*

Anne Steele: you broke her! Oh my, you broke her!

Jane Austen: okay! Great! He tells you he will come back and talk more about Edward.

Lucy Steele: *smirks* sure.

Jane Austen: And he scurries away, under the weight of that Natural Twenty! Dear God!

John Willoughby: *sputtering* Edward is scrambling to make a living for you!

Lucy Steele: he is doing that.

Anne Steele: *cackling* his family has forsaken him in every way because of you!

Lucy Steele: they are doing that, aren’t they?

John Willoughby: he still thinks you are going to marry him!

Lucy Steele: *faux surprise* oh my gosh! Poor thing! I will write him a letter after the wedding.

[sadierosewrites]

I have a [completely unfounded in facts] suspicion that Robert Ferrars' obnoxious behavior in the shop in Sense and Sensibility was based on something that happened to Jane Austen. It's exactly the kind of infuriating interaction that would send me to my pen when I got home, to be infused into a character I didn't like.

[bethanydelleman]

AITA for leaving when my fiancé didn't love me anymore?

u/throw_awayAITA45432

I fell in love with Eddie when we were both only nineteen. I would have married him right away, but he wanted us to wait until he had enough money to support us. I wasn't even sure at first if I should accept him because I knew his mother wouldn't like me, but he loved me so much and begged me until I was finally convinced to say yes.

Four years later, we still weren't married. I loved him, completely, entirely, with my whole heart, but he had fallen out of love. I could tell; he kept talking about another girl, he stopped visiting as often, his letters were less expressive, he even tried to convince me to break the engagement and claimed it was for my sake! It was so clear that his love had never been constant even though I had never even looked at any other man except him.

His family learned about our engagement and he was disinherited, I still would have married him, I would have lived on fifty pounds a year for his sake! But he came to me later and tried again to break the engagement. I was so disgusted I could not even speak with him.

Then I didn't see him or hear from him for days and days. His brother, Robbie, came to visit me and we talked a lot while I was lonely and abandoned. When I started to fall for Rob, I honestly thought Eddie was never coming back for me. I thought he had given me up, so when Rob proposed, I was taken by surprise, but I considered myself a free woman. What else could I have done?

AITA?

Top Comment:

u/AnneSteele

Lucy! this is you!!!!! i know there is a word limit on this forum but you left out a lot of info like how edward was in love with elinor and you arranged for us to stay at barton so you could keep an eye on her. also, I don't remember you telling edward you dind't want be engaged, i was there remember? you wree pretty excited at the time. also we did know that edward was going to be made into a clergy. he told you tht on the last visit soo he didn't abandon you. then when robert came I remember you saying he was a great beau. also, didn't you try to catch a few men while edward was away, before he fell for elinor. you told me that it was better to hve several baskets of eggs, or eggs in your basekt?

i think you can do an update and put in more stuff that happend.

u/CaptainPoppyPants And the truth comes out, YTA. Also, Anne my dear, you want a username that isn't your real name. That's dangerous, sweetie.

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AITA Jane Austen Masterpost

[firawren]

Mrs. Ferrars: *disinherits Edward*

Mrs. Ferrars: Take that, Miss Steele! You'll never get our fortune!

Lucy Steele:

x

[thepoetsvortex]

Robert Ferrars marrying Lucy Steele will never cease to be one of the most deus ex machina Jane Austen moments EVER.

Like, where does it come from?? I understand Lucy’s greedy motives entirely but why would Robert indulge such a woman- who is vain and selfish and materialistic and jealous and not even pretty? Why sign up for a life of misery forever? Spite? What? It makes no sense.

Like obviously Lucy is awful but what is going ON with this man

Jane you got some ‘splaining to do.

[rayatii]

I have seen the most well-known onscreen adaptations of Sense and Sensibility, and while all of them have pleased me in their own ways, I am still utterly disappointed that none of them include the bit from the book in which the Dashwood sisters first meet Robert Ferrars at a jeweler’s store while he’s fussing in the most nitpicky manner over which toothpick case to buy because it’s one of the funniest character introductions I know of, especially considering his characterization later on in the book.

[marianedashwood]

lucy steele introducing herself to robert after edward loses his inheritance

[georgiansuggestion]

consider a gentleman’s comments undeserving of the compliment of rational opposition