Anghraine

This has nothing to do with the last post per se, but one of my favourite things about imagining the characters of different Austen novels encountering each other is taking account of when the different books were written rather than making them immediate contemporaries. It’s not better, it’s just super entertaining to me personally.

Like, people talk about what, say, Elizabeth would think of Emma—but Elizabeth was invented in 1796 and Emma in 1814. How does Emma come across to a nearly forty-year-old Elizabeth Darcy? 1815 sees the events of Persuasion resolved in Bath. If the Tilneys are also in Bath, what would Catherine (created in 1798), think of Anne Elliot, some seven years her junior? Does Marianne Dashwood (who first emerged around 1795), sympathize with Fanny Price (created ~1813)?

I don’t know, but it’s fun to consider!

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I’ve been trawling my headcanons tag, and like… 99.9% of them are still dear to my soul.

[Later that day]

Eh, pulling them out of the tags:

- #1 at all times: Darcy is on the autistic spectrum (this is a pretty common headcanon, for kind of obvious reasons).

- Luke Skywalker uses the Skywalkers’ ancestral language with Anakin on the second Death Star; Anakin uses the language when he proclaims “I am your father,” but resolutely sticks to Basic on DSII until he’s reclaimed himself and is dying (I wrote a fic about it here).

- The Stewards’ origins as 1) a family of ultimately royal origin and 2) the descendants of a Faithful family in Númenor come together with the House of Húrin originally going back to a Faithful family established by Númenor’s first princess, Tindómiel.

- Vanozza dei Cattanei in The Borgias is Castilian, a courtesan out of Toledo originally named Juana de Castañeda.

- Darcy and Elizabeth have separate bedrooms along the lines of Congreve’s Millamant and Mirabell.

- The Elvish aesthetic of the First Age is primarily ancient Egyptian and ancient Greek (to go with Tolkien’s Egyptian-Byzantine-Roman influences with the Dúnedain).

- Kuvira from Legend of Korra chose to call herself ‘Kuvira’ after she was abandoned by her parents, guided by her quasi-foster mother Suyin Beifong.

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