your ribbon box [catherine angst]
title: Your Ribbon Box
rating: G
fandom/pairing: The Tudors; mostly just Catherine, but slight Catherine/Henry.
spoilers/warnings: S02E02, "Tears of Blood" and how fucking gpoy a title amirite. Attempted oldtimey!voice, and arguable interpretation of Catherine's motivations.
summary: When she departs, they call promises of their affections.
words: 202
disclaimer: I do not own Showtime's The Tudors, or Charlotte Sometimes' "How I Could Just Kill a Man".
a/n: So do I have my popes wrong, or is Peter O'Toole supposed to be the papal version of Alessandro Farnese?
They speak of her courage with kind words that Catherine feels she does not deserve. She does not see the bravery in her actions; does not see what it is that they praise so highly, as though what she does is a monument to her faith.
She remains firm in her decisions because she knows that she is right. She remains loyal to her husband because she knows their marriage is true. She remains calm and certain in the face of humiliation at the hands of his husband’s great whore, his silly little tryst whose hold over the King will falter soon enough, just as all the others’ have, because she can at least be certain that God is on her side, and that she does as He would wish by not surrendering under the circumstances.
They call her a heroine, refer to her as though she is saintly and weep when she leaves them. But Catherine cannot agree with their feelings, can only accept them as graciously as any person can, for she does not see what she does in their same light.
To her, it is simple. She only does what is right, in the midst of so much wrong.
rating: G
fandom/pairing: The Tudors; mostly just Catherine, but slight Catherine/Henry.
spoilers/warnings: S02E02, "Tears of Blood" and how fucking gpoy a title amirite. Attempted oldtimey!voice, and arguable interpretation of Catherine's motivations.
summary: When she departs, they call promises of their affections.
words: 202
disclaimer: I do not own Showtime's The Tudors, or Charlotte Sometimes' "How I Could Just Kill a Man".
a/n: So do I have my popes wrong, or is Peter O'Toole supposed to be the papal version of Alessandro Farnese?
They speak of her courage with kind words that Catherine feels she does not deserve. She does not see the bravery in her actions; does not see what it is that they praise so highly, as though what she does is a monument to her faith.
She remains firm in her decisions because she knows that she is right. She remains loyal to her husband because she knows their marriage is true. She remains calm and certain in the face of humiliation at the hands of his husband’s great whore, his silly little tryst whose hold over the King will falter soon enough, just as all the others’ have, because she can at least be certain that God is on her side, and that she does as He would wish by not surrendering under the circumstances.
They call her a heroine, refer to her as though she is saintly and weep when she leaves them. But Catherine cannot agree with their feelings, can only accept them as graciously as any person can, for she does not see what she does in their same light.
To her, it is simple. She only does what is right, in the midst of so much wrong.