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Trinity Blood ficlet: Chevalier
355 words. PG for implied character death. Literary allusions abound. Another new character perspective.
The tumble into the Abyss is a long one.
Chevalier
Disclaimer: Trinity Blood belongs to Sunao Yoshida, Gonzo and others
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He’s never had any care for terran literature before, never really cared about all the many books his tovarăş treasured. But now things are different, now he can put faces to the names on tattered yellow pages. The flimsy parchment has seen better days and had always been kept so carefully on an often dusted shelf, where it had sat amongst many other novels of course, all of terran origin with titles in a smattering of languages or titles translated from them. But of all them this one was prized and so he had kept it once all hope was gone.
Folding the page back sharply so that spine bends in on itself he glares. The language is unfamiliar and he struggles but perceivers. As long as the Marquise pays in the end, he doesn’t care. The Vicomte is already dead and the Chevalier has run away and it is not to a convent that Cécile has gone to find her last repose.
It takes him a moment to realise that he’s bitten his own finger hard enough to draw blood. If there were any justice; the Chevalier would have flown back to his past refuge and put the Marquise’s eye out himself. But there is no such thing as justice or equality and the Chevalier barely had enough courage to flee the Marquise in the night than actively do her harm.
If only…
It’s only a tattered old terran novel, it doesn’t mean anything. And every time he says it he tries to make himself believe that.
If he had any courage…
But he escaped. To fight another day? To flee the Marquise’s stifling embrace.
“Ego sum resurrectio et vita.” The devil extends his hand and the Chevalier prepares to screw his courage to the sticking place.
She gasps instead of shrieking “Why!”
And he does more than put out the Marquise’s eye.
Later, with her blood finally washed from his hands, he carefully puts a tattered novel back in its place upon a pristine shelf and for a moment fancies that he can smell the contented exhale of a certain brand of nicotine.
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The novel in question is very obviously Les Liaisons dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos. The Marquise de Merteuil does escape at the end but loses an eye to small pox and is forced to flee the country in disgrace at her previous actions.
Ion casts himself in the role of the Chevalier Danceny, his grandmother as the Marquise de Merteuil, Süleyman as the Vicomte de Valmont and Radu as the unfortunate Cécile de Volanges. Thus take the implication of the destruction of Cécile as you will.
Dietrich has a cameo with the famous line from John 11:25 “I am the resurrection and the life.”
And of course there’s another famous line from Macbeth Act 1, Scene 7 in there too.
Radu really seems to be quite the source of beyond the grave pwnage these days.
The tumble into the Abyss is a long one.
Chevalier
Disclaimer: Trinity Blood belongs to Sunao Yoshida, Gonzo and others
++++++++++
He’s never had any care for terran literature before, never really cared about all the many books his tovarăş treasured. But now things are different, now he can put faces to the names on tattered yellow pages. The flimsy parchment has seen better days and had always been kept so carefully on an often dusted shelf, where it had sat amongst many other novels of course, all of terran origin with titles in a smattering of languages or titles translated from them. But of all them this one was prized and so he had kept it once all hope was gone.
Folding the page back sharply so that spine bends in on itself he glares. The language is unfamiliar and he struggles but perceivers. As long as the Marquise pays in the end, he doesn’t care. The Vicomte is already dead and the Chevalier has run away and it is not to a convent that Cécile has gone to find her last repose.
It takes him a moment to realise that he’s bitten his own finger hard enough to draw blood. If there were any justice; the Chevalier would have flown back to his past refuge and put the Marquise’s eye out himself. But there is no such thing as justice or equality and the Chevalier barely had enough courage to flee the Marquise in the night than actively do her harm.
If only…
It’s only a tattered old terran novel, it doesn’t mean anything. And every time he says it he tries to make himself believe that.
If he had any courage…
But he escaped. To fight another day? To flee the Marquise’s stifling embrace.
“Ego sum resurrectio et vita.” The devil extends his hand and the Chevalier prepares to screw his courage to the sticking place.
She gasps instead of shrieking “Why!”
And he does more than put out the Marquise’s eye.
Later, with her blood finally washed from his hands, he carefully puts a tattered novel back in its place upon a pristine shelf and for a moment fancies that he can smell the contented exhale of a certain brand of nicotine.
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The novel in question is very obviously Les Liaisons dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos. The Marquise de Merteuil does escape at the end but loses an eye to small pox and is forced to flee the country in disgrace at her previous actions.
Ion casts himself in the role of the Chevalier Danceny, his grandmother as the Marquise de Merteuil, Süleyman as the Vicomte de Valmont and Radu as the unfortunate Cécile de Volanges. Thus take the implication of the destruction of Cécile as you will.
Dietrich has a cameo with the famous line from John 11:25 “I am the resurrection and the life.”
And of course there’s another famous line from Macbeth Act 1, Scene 7 in there too.
Radu really seems to be quite the source of beyond the grave pwnage these days.