fic: "An Engagement Present" (Tintin)

[kindkit]

Title: An Engagement Present
Fandom: Tintin
Characters: Bianca Castafiore, Tintin/Haddock
Rating: All ages
Warnings: None
Word count: 200
Summary: What Bianca knows.
Notes: Set during Les Bijoux de la Castafiore (The Castafiore Emerald). Further notes at the end.

Comments

[mab_browne]

Oh, that made me laugh. La Castafiore must have had a brain cell or two to survive in the Arts, and indeed, it would make a charming opera. :-)

[kindkit]

I'm glad you liked it, thanks!

[miss_morland]

Yay Castafiore fic! \o/ This is hilarious and charming and absolutely spot-on, right down to her mangling of Haddock's name. Totally believable, too -- she's saved Tintin and Haddock from a tight spot before (L'Affaire Tournesol, anyone?), so I'm absolutely convinced she has a kind heart under all her infuriating diva-ness.

Soon everyone will believe Captain Drydock's had his heart broken by La Castafiore.

But of course. *g*

[kindkit]

It was fun writing her POV (especially finding new names for poor Captain Haddock). I'm glad you liked it!

[elfwhistletree]

I haven't acquired and read all the Tintin books yet, or acquired a relevant icon, which I am clearly going to need, but I've very much enjoyed your discussions with Halo about the books, and your additions to canon, so I shall enjoy the books all the more.

And I love your insight into Bianca's perspective :-)

[kindkit]

Yay, it's always great to help entice people into something one enjoys. The books really are tremendous fun. Thanks!

[halotolerant]

Awesome! Oh, I love Castafiore *doing them a favour*, that's brilliant! And, yes, as others have said, her inability to get the name right even then and her huge yet quiet self-belief are spot-on *g*

And the info about the decriminalization is very useful not that I'm currently wondering about writing tons of fic around a certain portrayal of Chauvelin or anything...

[kindkit]

She is utterly self-absorbed, of course, and yet she may not be wrong about throwing off a bit of suspicion. I don't have the impression that countries like Belgium and France were actively persecutorial the way the UK was (especially from the end of WWII until 1967), but an adult man/underage boy relationship is exactly the kind of thing that's most likely to get prosecuted. (Which, depending on what the age of consent is, may be perfectly reasonable.)

I'd bet there are at least one or two good books about homosexuality, culture, and law during the French Revolution--in the last 30 years there's been a huge wave of interest in the history of sexuality. I can't think of any titles offhand, but I'm sure an Amazon search would pull some up.

[heliophile_oxon]

What a brilliant, ingenious interpretation of the whole Castafiore engagement débacle! I love it. And you've made me like her much more, too *g*

[kindkit]

Thank you!

I don't find her all that likable myself (not so much because of the way she treats Tintin and Haddock as the way she treats Irma), but in this case she may be right.