When can Jeeves cry?

[storyfan]

 All right, flist folk, I need a little help. When you have a spare minute, please take my poll. If you'd like to comment afterward, feel free. And does anyone know how to get rid of or hide the poll info (number and who can view it)?

Poll When can Jeeves shed a few tears?

Comments

[random_nexus]

Dang, I already gave you my 4 ha'pennies on this. *grin* But I was sorely tempted to pick "bunny suit", too. Honestly? I think the canonical crying over Rocky's atrocious jim jams till the break of tea-time was for effect, I seriously doubt those were real tears. *grin*

Still, what a lovely confab you've kicked off!

I have to agree with jmparrot, though, that if he utterly failed Bertie in some vitally important way, he might shed a few tears--but I'd say it's HIGHLY unlikely they'd be anything but private. At best he might shed them in some interaction with Bertie, but even then, only the teensiest of them would escape him, I'm sure.

I'm SO looking forward (as usual) to your ficcy goodness, ma'am!

EDIT: for the department of redundancy department

[storyfan]

Department of redundancy department! I've always loved that expression.

Talking with you gave me the idea for this poll, and I'll bet you're not surprised how it turned out. We simply can't have him sobbing his heart out even if it is broken.

[blackletter]

Like everyone else here, I think that Jeeves is only human and so he presumably cries *sometimes*, and he probably cries at the same sort of general life suckitude that makes anyone cry--loosing someone close, betrayals, feelings of failure...

But I think that he only cries in private. It would take a *lot* for Jeeves to ever cry in front of another human being. Maybe hearing about a sudden and devastating death would do it. And even then he'd try his darnedest to not show tears and would get himself to some private place to grieve as fast as possible.

[storyfan]

I think you're right. It's all about keeping up the granite exterior which is, of course, the only defense servants had. Private grief, which I find so much more heartbreaking, is what Jeeves would indulge in (And I just ended a sentence in a preposition. Dang!). Now me, I cry all over the place. No one is spared.

Thanks for commenting, and I hope your class went well.

[emeraldreeve]

My 2 cents. Jeeves is human and humans cry. I don't think he would cry in public. Although I'd like to think that he'd cry on Bertie's shoulder after they had been together for years. I've certainly written it that way, and I'm sticking by it. :) In canon, the main thing that really upsets Jeeves is clothes. I think he cries, and that he has some fun times laughing over things Bertie says and does when alone in his lair. I don't believe Jeeves would ever have hysterical type crying.

[storyfan]

And you should stick by it. You write these two quite well.

Yes, no crying in public. I agree. A few tears in the privacy of the home would probably be all right, but under the right circumstances. Thanks!

[captainpellew]

One word. Lederhosen. Yup.

[storyfan]

All I can think about is Frankenmuth, Michigan, where the waiters at chicken restaurants indeed wear lederhosen.