fic: "Solo Ascent" (Tintin)
Title: Solo Ascent
Fandom: Tintin
Characters or Pairing: Tintin; Tintin/Haddock implied
Rating: All ages
Warnings: None
Word count: 200
Summary: Tintin goes on alone.
Notes: This isn't the "real" Tintin fic I'm working on at several folks' request, just a little drabble inspired by re-reading Tintin in Tibet. Angsty as an angsty thing, but we know ( Read more... )
Fandom: Tintin
Characters or Pairing: Tintin; Tintin/Haddock implied
Rating: All ages
Warnings: None
Word count: 200
Summary: Tintin goes on alone.
Notes: This isn't the "real" Tintin fic I'm working on at several folks' request, just a little drabble inspired by re-reading Tintin in Tibet. Angsty as an angsty thing, but we know ( Read more... )
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Without the captain, Tintin's homeless, lost.
THIS.
(Also, it hadn't occurred to me that the sweater might be a gift from Haddock, but I love the idea -- goes right into my head canon!)
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The sweater thing is now 100% my canon too *g* Sailors are good at knitwear as well as knots!
Could he go home (home?) to the rue Labrador?Those brackets say it all, the perfect moment of realisation for Tintin of what has forever changed for him. I've raved before about how good you are at drabbles and giving worlds of feeling in an economical sentence, but this is a particularly fine example ( ... )
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OMG, I hadn't pictured Haddock knitting it himself until you said that, but yes, of course he did. Gah, he carefully picked out a lightweight thread because Tintin's a skinny little thing who'd be lost in a bulky sweater like Haddock's, and a paler shade of blue because Tintin's so blond and because Haddock didn't want it to be too obvious that Tintin's sweater was meant as a match for his own. And he knitted away of an evening, listening to the radio and thinking about how most people consider knitting a womanly thing, but he's always associated it with sailors on long hauls.
Tintin has an unstoppable need to save Chang, but can't imagine living with him - his devotion to Chang is not that kind of loveChang reads to me (from Tibet--I hadn't read The Blue Lotus yet) as significantly younger than Tintin and inclined to hero-worship him, while Tintin's protective of Chang and thinks of him as sweet and innocent. I think there's an element of chaste preadolescent crush on both sides, but ( ... )
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Chang is one of the few characters that Tintin encounters that he respects and can have some kind of equal relationship/proper conversation with - I'd also put in this category Zorrino, Mr Baxter from the Moon books, the King of Syldavia (from King Ottokar's Sceptre) and Skut the Estonian pilot. And maybe Alcazar, although I think that ship kind of sailed for Tintin. Notably, in 'The Broken Ear', Alcazar gets Tintin drunk, which is the only time he's ever properly wasted drunk in the books apart from the fumes inhalation in 'Crab with the Golden Claws'. Now, the Captain, for all his problems *never* forces alcohol on Tintin. I think when Tintin meets Alcazar again in 'Seven Crystal Balls' and again in 'Red Sea Sharks', he realises that he's only a pale imitation of what he wants (although I think Tintin likes bigger, older, men, and probably on a subconscious level was attracted to Alcazar for this)
I think there's an element of chaste preadolescent crush on both sidesOh ( ... )
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Tintin having a thing for older men makes a lot of sense--he's so precociously independent, he's done so much so young, that he can't have much in common with most people his own age. Also, I think he does like the feeling that in a pinch, this is someone who could/would protect him (even though when actual protection is actually offered, Tintin tends to reject it). Tintin almost has to be an orphan, so I think there may be a bit of a daddy-issues thing and a need for the possibility of safety and refuge and being taken care of, even though in practice he seldom wants that.
in 'The Broken Ear', Alcazar gets ( ... )
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End note: Tintin doesn't actually start wearing the famous blue sweater until the end of Le secret de la Licorne (The Secret of the Unicorn). Since it goes with Haddock's blue sweater so nicely, I decided it was a gift.
Sorry, but I saw Tintin wearing the blue sweater in The Black Island, which takes place before Tintin meets Haddock in The Crab with the Golden Claws.
But I still love the analysis that Haddock knit and gave the blue sweater to Tintin.
(Sorry, I see in Land of Black gold a blue sweater that's very similar to Haddock's sweater. So cool! - I am borrowing the Tintin books from the library now, and I still need to borrow a few more).
I also noticed that Tintin was wearing a white shirt, then the shirt changed to yellow. I don't think he had time to go and change the shirt, but who knows. (Oh, I see a day has passed between the panels where Tintin's wearing a white shirt then a yellow shirt).
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Some of the early books were later re-edited to make the art more in conformity with the later books (including what Tintin wears). The Black Island was among them. Wikipedia describes all the changes this particular album went through.
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He's probably dressing up like the captain to remind him of Haddock while he's alone with Snowy! (Especially since Haddock only comes up at the end of the story)
And he's so cute when he's wearing the ship hat?!
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