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The lowdown: You post your prompt, anon or not. Someone else will hopefully fill it (also anon or not). Not for profit, just for fun. And in this case, for king and country.
Anon is on, IP logging is off.
Rules:
No wank
No kink-shaming
Be respectful to everyone
The mod is not your babysitter
Use the warnings
No prompts with characters under the age of 16 in sexual situations, please.
Please keep the discussions in the prompt post to a minimum. We have a discussion post
Mandatory trigger warnings/warnings for both prompts and fills:
non-con/dub-con
abuse (physical and mental)
issues such as racism, sexism, homo-/trans-/-bi-/ace-phobia etc
character death
suicide
self-harm
eating disorders
extreme physical or mental illness
substance abuse (alcohol, drugs, medication)
bullying
gore and horror
If this list misses anything, do let me know, though please understand that if absolutely everything is added this list will never end.
You are encouraged and advised to add additional warnings at your own discretion.
Please make use of the subject line.
If your prompt alludes to the book or any of the other adaptations, please let us know which one.
Lastly, prompt freezes (which I have to say I’m really not fond of) etc will be at the mod’s discretion. I will decide on a prompt cut-off point for prompt posts once I know how fast the meme moves.
Announcement: A blanket spoiler warning is necessary for prompts pertaining to season 2. Just season 2 Spoilers in the subject line will do.
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Series 2 Episode 4 spoilers Actions and Consequences
Date: 2015-01-30 10:25 pm (UTC)Treville, the man who has stood by the King through everything!
Fuck This!
One by one Athos, Aramis, Porthos, and d`Artagnan go to the palace, throw their pauldrons at the kings feet and leave, going to join Treville wherever he goes.
He is their Captain, their Loyalty is to him, not the over grown child sitting on a throne.
Slash or Bromance OT4/Treville
What happens beyond this is up to the filler, where they go, what they do, if Louis finally grows more than a tea spoon of brains and calls his Musketeers back!, its fillers choice.
S2 Ep 4 Spoilers - Constance and Aramis
Date: 2015-01-30 10:56 pm (UTC)Can I have Constance and Aramis having the "OMG you idiot, what the hell have you done??" talk, sometime after the tent scene? Because O_o.
S2 Ep 4 Spoilers
Date: 2015-01-30 11:13 pm (UTC)Re: Fill: Cold Comfort 2/?
Date: 2015-01-30 11:15 pm (UTC)Re: Series 2 Episode 4 spoilers Actions and Consequences
Date: 2015-01-30 11:21 pm (UTC)Re: S2 Ep 4 Spoilers - Constance and Aramis
Date: 2015-01-30 11:29 pm (UTC)Re: Fill: Cold Comfort 2/?
Date: 2015-01-31 12:12 am (UTC)PLEASE. First of all, this story is brilliant and I want all of it ever- bring on the sequels! And second, I am in desperate need for a fix-it for this entire mess of a season. Treville being used as a punching bag every episode was already getting really old, and this latest thing in ep 4 is just ridiculous. At this point just about the only thing keeping me amused is imagining all the 'defeats' as a clever ploy on Treville's part with some ultimate triumph and comeuppance yet to come. Preferably with Richelieu's connivance. So: yes /please/ to everything you are suggesting!
And I'm super mega excited to hear there will be a new part soon :) counting the hours!
Re: Fill: Cold Comfort 3/?
Date: 2015-01-31 12:20 am (UTC)It was hard not to note the cardinal's absence every passing day. Yet it was not just his physical absence or anything particular in their daily interactions that made themselves felt. All these things were glaringly obvious in their absence as well. But Richelieu, as important, as larger as life, as irreplaceable as he had been was not the only thing missing. With him had gone that part of Treville that not exist anywhere else, without this partner to share it with.
He had always been aware that their relationship had been an anomaly. Now that Richelieu was dead all parts of that relationship ceased to exist. Meanwhile the world went on failing to notice the lack of something it had never realised had been there.
Surprisingly, it was the lack of Richelieu's mediating powers the court felt most. Not just to mend the rift Treville had so foolishly allowed to open between himself and the king. But the scene the Spanish ambassador and Rochefort had caused only days before would surely lead to grief sooner or later. The Spanish crown was prideful – and rightly so, as it commanded the most formidable fighting force of the known world – and certain to avenge any slight against itself or one of its envoys.
Treville let a grim smile tug at his lips. Don Fernando had been right in one regard: Richelieu would never have allowed that scene to transpire.
He wondered what his lover would have made of it. Treville was just returning from the palace - despite the king's disaffection turning out to be one of the few things in life Louis ever committed himself to Treville still had his duties - where the king was already contemplating what honours to bestow upon Rochefort should he return triumphant. If he returned at all.
Treville was uncertain what outcome he should hope for.
Rochefort troubled him. Even before he had vanished to eventually resurface in a Spanish prison the comte had made Treville's skin itch.
Treville had respected and loved – in his own mind he could say it – Richelieu for many things; his commitment to the crown and his unerring judgement in steering the ship of state among them. But he had never made a secret of the fact that he despised both the methods and the agents the cardinal frequently employed – had employed – to realise his great plans. That part of their relationship at least had not been a lie.
Yet, presently this Rochefort rode towards Spain, accompanied by four of Treville's best men, on a mission to free or assassinate a man whom Treville loved like a brother and who should be long dead. The that it had been years even before his (supposed?) death that Treville had las seen de Foix face to face had not changed anything about their bond. It was a bond forged by battle, tempered by blood, and secured with secrets. The kind that could not be broken by time and distance alone.
He remembered the despatch that had told of general de Foix' death in battle. He remembered the date, what day of the week it had been, and what Richelieu had done for him after. Once the cardinal had wrested himself lose from his eternal balance act between appeasing the queen mother while simultaneously doing what he could to prise the king lose from her influence and running a state at the same time. All so could look after Treville for an hour or two.
Treville blinked angrily and reminded himself that he was not in the privacy of his own chambers. And now he had sent men riding out after the ghost of his friend. If he was even that. Perhaps Rochefort was wrong. But perhaps de Foix was alive. Perhaps, just perhaps his musketeers stood a chance of freeing him.
And perhaps it was better to expect nothing of this fool's errand but his four musketeers to return to him alive.
But would the world be so cruel to take one beloved person from him, then raise his hopes of having another returned to him immediately after, only to snuff that hope like a candle?
Treville let the sound of the city drown out his thoughts as he headed back to the garrison. Even after the cardinal's death life in Paris had never stopped for the small people, but even as it was beginning to take up shape in the same old ways for its nobility, Treville found himself adrift, unable to let the river of time move him forward as it did everyone else. The last couple of days had passed agonisingly slow for him, while everything around him hastened to return to a state of normalcy. He found it hard to accept that it had been only days since the funeral.
When he thought about the funeral he felt anger return. But he had heard the king tearfully recounting how beautiful he thought it had been and how grateful he was to the priest who conducted it so superbly, and Treville simply could not help it.
He wondered whether should he enquire after a private ceremony, sure it was what was needed here. But who could he possibly ask?
Treville chided himself for being still hung-up on the funeral while people who were not him already dismantled the cardinal's earthly possessions. The legal issues should have been clear, but last he had heard they were still hunting for Richelieu's testament. Treville half smelled a scandal there – the cardinal had been meticulous in his book-keeping. Something as important as a will did not simply disappear – but all he had to go on were rumours. No one told him anything and he was not in a position to ask.
It was someone else's affair now. Just as it had been someone else to attend Richelieu at his deathbed and someone else who brought the news to his kin. Once they found that will it would be someone else who would receive what worldly goods the cardinal had left to posterity. It was some comfort that while enjoying beauty and luxury as much as any nobleman Richelieu had never been one to bestow sentimental value on mere possessions.
Without conscious thought his gaze swept over the pistol at his belt, the engraved metal shining silvery.
They had both been too unsentimental and perhaps even cynical to consider less practical gifts. In fact, according to Richelieu's words the gun had not even been acquired as a gift to a lover, but it would merely have been a waste of the intricate, elegantly designed metalwork to pass them up or into less skilled hands.
Treville had to smile despite himself. These games they had played.
In the end Treville thought he had been holding up nicely so far in the days Richelieu's death.
After the initial panic had passed, and while having watched the king cry his eyes out, having been forced to make consolatory noises while receiving grieved accusations in return. He guessed the fact that the cardinal’s death had left the state in such uproar and thus had kept him busy had helped sustain him. The waters were far from calm now, but the dauphin’s birth had covered the uneasiness with a celebratory stasis – a new anchor in the storm. The monarchy being strengthened through an heir had allowed everyone to calm down and catch their breath.
A rather ragged breath in Treville’s case.
It was one less drop in a sea of worry. Worry for a state that lay in shambles, vulnerable without its chief political defender. Worry for a court presented with a power vacuum and prepared to tear itself to pieces over it. Worry about the Vatican sending someone new to look after their interests with confused loyalties and little experience in French court politics. Worry for a king who lacked direction without the kind of political advisor who was loyal to nothing but France and himself and who possessed the courage and means to do whatever was necessary. Worry about spending too much time nursing his own hurt instead of supporting his king or looking for threats that might exploit Louis’ weakened position.
Lost in thought he finally turned to walk into the garrison and stopped dead in the gateway. There stood a small coach in the courtyard, without a crest to identify its owner and the horses still in harness. Its driver was busying himself with a crust of bread, probably having waited right in the garrison courtyard for quite some time.
Re: Fill: Cold Comfort 2/?
Date: 2015-01-31 12:23 am (UTC)Plus, I'm hoping we'll be getting some nice scenes of the boys claiming their undying loyalty to their deposed captain.
ANYWAY: The next part is up and I hope it works for you. :)
Re: Fill Unexpected Love 14
Date: 2015-01-31 01:03 am (UTC)Re: Fill: Cold Comfort 3/?
Date: 2015-01-31 01:09 am (UTC)Excuse me, auth!anon, but there seems to have been some mistake? Because it looks like you just left us on that cliffhanger? And you wouldn't be that cruel, right? So there's more about to be posted? Right? ;_;. RIGHT?!?
You continue to break my heart :( Treville may think he's doing okay but the grief is palpable in every line. No wonder he can't keep up with politics with all this going on inside. I loved the little insights into their relationship, the games they play, and the gift of the pistol. And the Cardinal wrestling himself away when de Foix's death was reported was so poignant and perfect. Gah, I love this fic more wIth every part!
Missing will, hmm? I smell a rat. But I am crossing my fingers that that carriage is the beginning of the end for Treville's grief. Please keep writing, author, I can't get enough!
Re: TW: Homophobia, humiliation, stalking. BroT4, Portamis
Date: 2015-01-31 05:37 am (UTC)Very Mini Fill Re: S2 Ep 4 Spoilers - Constance and Aramis
Date: 2015-01-31 07:21 am (UTC)Aramis blinked, then calmly shrugged. "Probably the same thing you were when you were snogging d'Artagnan in the middle of the street in front of your husband's house last year," he said, voice so dry he could have done Athos proud.
Constance growled, her fingers itching to smack his face, but in the next heartbeat the fire had gone. "Yes, well," she murmured, trying to keep her face stern, "d'Artagnan is not the queen."
Aramis's lips twitched. "Good of you to notice. d'Artagnan must appreciate that."
She snorted despite herself, fighting against a sudden smile. This, she thought, was the danger of Aramis. "Never mind what he appreciates," she huffed, working to maintain a level seriousness - then mortified when her voice emerged tainted with more regret than she thought she had to harbor. It pooled like ink in her stomach. "Which I'm not sure is much of anything anymore."
Aramis's eyes darkened somberly and he took a step towards her, fingers out as if to touch her elbow. Turning abruptly, she stepped away, pressing her palms over the abrupt and unwanted emotion rising in her cheeks.
"I know you still love him," Aramis said from behind her, in a timbre soft and kind - so boldly gentle it threatened to break her heart open all over again. Which, she could not - she would not.
One long, deep breath, and quickly under control again, she turned back to face him. "And I thought you had learned to have better sense," she whispered.
Lowering his chin and digging gruffly at his hair, he nodded. "At one time, so did I," he returned, then tried to smile as though to brush it all away, but it was a poor attempt, like a child trying to wear a paper mask after dragging it through the rain.
By pure reflex, she found herself touching his elbow instead. "Then we're both of us fools," she remarked, trying to make her voice light. It didn't work. Her heart stayed heavy and his head stayed bowed.
Eventually, she dropped her hand, and that, more than anything seemed to call his attention back to her.
Lifting his eyes, he met her gaze. "Fools," he agreed, then looked away with a shaky breath. "Fools trying to be sensible." When he looked back, all the steadiness she expected from him was in place, the mask dried and solid once more. The corners of his eyes wrinkled. "And how's that going on your end?"
She wanted to smile, but couldn't. "Painfully," she admitted.
Gently, he squeezed her shoulder, something ghost-like in his expression, then turned as if to leave.
With a serge of fear, she stopped him, just as he reached the door. "Be careful, Aramis. This... you and... Please. Be careful. You must."
Setting his hat on his head, he nodded once, and was gone.
Re: Onesie - loose-fitting casual jumpsuits for adults
Date: 2015-01-31 07:25 am (UTC)Spoilers Series 2 Athos and his experience with matters
Date: 2015-01-31 07:31 am (UTC)Re: Very Mini Fill Re: S2 Ep 4 Spoilers - Constance and Aramis
Date: 2015-01-31 07:31 am (UTC)Re: TW: Homophobia, humiliation, stalking. BroT4, Portamis
Date: 2015-01-31 07:32 am (UTC)Re: Modern AU - ill Aramis
Date: 2015-01-31 07:34 am (UTC)Re: SEASON 2 SPOILERS Aramis/Rochfort CW: non-con, abuse, humiliation
Date: 2015-01-31 07:38 am (UTC)Re: Spoilers Series 2 Athos and his experience with matters
Date: 2015-01-31 07:47 am (UTC)Re: Very Mini Fill Re: S2 Ep 4 Spoilers - Constance and Aramis
Date: 2015-01-31 08:17 am (UTC)If you can't tell, I really liked this. I'm not the OP but I think this fill is great.
Re: Series2 ep 4 spoilers Athos`s prior experience on drug addiction TW Drug abuse, withdrawl
Date: 2015-01-31 08:40 am (UTC)"Never thought I'd say this, but I miss the cardinal"
Date: 2015-01-31 09:23 am (UTC)Your Secrets are burried with me-Season 2 Spoilers
Date: 2015-01-31 09:26 am (UTC)What if what the Cardinal was trying to tell the Musketeers was that with his death all their secrets were safe (after all, Rochfort doesn't seem to know that Athos is Milady's husband). Unfortunately, given the bad blood (sometimes literally between) it got misinterpreted. Or possibly Richelieu meant it to be that way, one final mess with the musketeers heads.
Athos is really Thomas
Date: 2015-01-31 09:31 am (UTC)His older Brother, Oliver brings home his beautiful and much younger wife. Thomas is attracted to her and she to him and an affair happens.
One day, Oliver finds out and is furious (threatens to kill Thomas and make her watch) and Milady stabs/kills him to try and protect Thomas. She (not unnaturally) thinks Thomas is going to protect her, but he is horrified, arranges as the new Comte for her execution and them flees to Paris, joining the Musketeers.
How would that affect things?