Chapter Five: The Homecoming Pairings: D’Artagnan/Porthos, Porthos/Aramis, and a little tiny bit of D’Artagan/Athos Warnings: Explicit sexual content Another @muskiesrewatch ficlet! Now D’Artagnan’s getting involved… Also on ao3!
If he were held at gunpoint, D’Artagnan could not have recalled what he’d been planning to ask. On reflection, it could not have been important enough for him to go strolling right into Porthos’ room late in the evening.
for @rhesascoffee who prompted me “Aramis is worried that Porthos wont forgive him for killing Charon, but knows he would do it again if it meant saving Porthos. A fic where they deal with this maybe?” and “D’Artagnan feels guilty for doubting Porthos. Maybe he avoids him, or goes out of his way to do things for Porthos. Porthos, adorable big teddy bear he is, sets the boy straight and puts his mind at rest” and “Athos finally gets Porthos home safe after the whole ordeal in the Court and can finally fall apart and express his relief” . I bunged them all together :) hope you like.
WARNING: canon deaths.
It’s instinct more than anything, and then Aramis is watching Porthos hold his friend and lower them to the ground and he can’t hear what’s being said but he knows all the same because they seem to keep doing this, it seems to keep happening over and over. Just a month ago Aramis was holding Marsac like this, listening to Marsac’s last words, listening to Marsac. This man isn’t Marsac. Porthos isn’t Aramis. Aramis killed Marsac, Aramis killed this man, Porthos gets to be guiltless. He didn’t come for Aramis, didn’t rescue him, didn’t kill his friend, it was Aramis who had to do that. It wasn’t until right this second that he was grateful for that, he’d been feeling a twist of bitterness about it but now he’s standing here with a bloody sword and watching Porthos’s shocked face as the man dies, and he’s glad that it was him who ended Marsac’s life and no one else. Because he’d never have been able to forgive anyone for taking that most precious life and he doesn’t know what he’d do without these men who are so incredibly important to him. And whoever it is Aramis just killed he means at least that much to Porthos, Aramis can see it.
Nice dogs, nice ceilings, pretty bits of Constance’s house, odd bits of Paris, Serge bringing Aramis dinner in a HUGE bowl, Porthos drinking out of the weird cup that must hold about a thimbleful of liquid, Constance is very pretty.
I watched one oh four. Good episode
What?
Is that NOT a good summary?
Well fuck it, it’s sad and exhausting and everyone is ambiguous and a dick.
Showing off for each other
I can’t with these two
Chapter Three: Commodities Pairing: Porthos/Aramis Warnings: Medical scene (stitches), discussion of light BDSM, explicit sexual content @muskiesrewatch —finally some Portamis!
Chapter One / Chapter Two / Chapter Three:
‘Never again, do you hear me?’ Aramis threaded the needle.
‘You say that every time,’ Porthos replied. ‘And you know you never mean it.’
‘That’s quite beside the point,’ Aramis snapped. ‘It makes me feel better.’
‘Don’t know why,’ Porthos shifted his weight carefully. ‘Much better that I have your back.’
‘But I didn’t have yours,’ Aramis murmured. His hand eased over Porthos’ shoulders, adjusting his position on the table.
Porthos getting betrayed so completely SUCKED. There he was listening to Bonnaire’s stories about his ‘adventures’ and his little piece of heaven and drinking his rum and Bonnaire KNOWS what he’s doing- he KNOWS he’s not giving Porthos the whole story. He purposefully hides from Porthos that the paradise, the adventure, the cheap labour, all of it, is built off slavery.
Bonnaire is charming and funny and smooth and he wins us all over with Porthos and we all get implicated.
There’s loads of hidden stories in this episode: the slave trade, Richelieu and the navy, Paul Munier’s trade (probably also implicated in the slave trade btw). Porthos’s mother, Marie-Cessette, the parallels between Porthos and Dumas’ father General Dumas, a man who was the son of an enslaved woman and a marquis, who took his mother’s name, who rose high in the French army. Dumas’ mother, whose name we don’t even know because of varied source material and even then, we don’t know if it was her name or a name given to her by white people.
Chapter Two: Sleight of Hand Pairing: Athos/d’Artagnan (one-sided… for now) Warnings: Masochism, trainer/cadet dynamic @muskiesrewatch another chapter!
‘Promising, but raw.’
The words were out of Athos’ mouth before he thought how they sounded. The others didn’t let it slide for long: Aramis gave him a gentle elbowing on the way out. ‘Raw?’
‘What’s he promising?’ Porthos added.
‘Stop it,’ Athos said. ‘Both of you.’
for @rhesascoffee and for the @muskiesrewatch week two: Sleight of Hand and d’Artagnan and the theme was… fuck knows but it’s relevant im sure. prompt was “ put your arm around me - or just fall” if poss could this be a big brother little brother thing with D'art. I also thought with the Dartanian prompt, perhaps that could take place in series 1 canon. Perhaps it is the first time that Porthos and Dartanian have been sent on a mission together without the other two. And Porthos is injured. We didn’t see a lot of those to building their relationship together in the first series, so perhaps Dartanian isn’t too surehow to relate to Porthos at first, but this shared adventure brings them together.
“What do you mean, ‘take d’Artagnan’?” Porthos says, glowering bad temperdly at Athos. Athos ignores the tone and the expression.
“Aramis is busy, I’m busy,” Athos says.
“It’s just a routine reconnaissance of some rich noble’s household because the king has some paranoia about the poor guy’s loyalty,” Porthos says. “I’m gonna be sitting in the kitchens and chatting to the servants, not getting shot at.”
“He could use the training,” Athos says. Then he glares right back at Porthos. Porthos is sat on the table cleaning his guns and has been running his hands menacingly over their casings, Athos isn’t intimidated he’s known Porthos for years: if he decides to shoot Athos out of irritation it won’t be fatal and it won’t be over this. “You need backup, he’s backup, stop arguing.”
Porthos makes an unimpressed face and raises his hands, widening his eyes, utterly sarcastic. Athos waits. Porthos shrugs crossly and grabs his guns, fingers flicking over them putting them back together, getting to his feet to holster them.
“You like him, anyway, why are you making a fuss?” Athos asks, exasperated with the elaborate display happening in front of him, Porthos checking his weapons and his moustache.
Captain Treville being cute in 1x02.
d’Artagnan + Porthos gifset for the Muskies Rewatch week 2!
Porthos and d’Artagnan’s relationship makes me soooooo happy. I love how proud Porthos is of having taught d’Artagnan some fighting moves, and how d’Artagnan looks up to Porthos.
Musketeers Rewatch, Week 2 “Slight of Hand”
just some screencaps from Slight of Hand. They’re not new, but they’re for the rewatch ANYWAY cus I SAY SO @muskiesrewatch
To celebrate the day and moment I fell for Athos…
Chapter One: Friends and Enemies Pairing: Porthos/Athos, background Porthos/Aramis Warnings: Explicit sexual content, drunk sex @muskiesrewatch here’s the first chapter!
There were nights in Paris that felt like there was nobody else in the world.
Porthos took Athos home through one.
You know that whole idea of “show don’t tell” in regard to characters? They do that so well in the first episode of The Musketeers. Look at how much we know about each of them after just a few scenes, that sets them up for the rest of the series.
There’s d'Artagnan, Mr Single Minded to the Point of Recklessness - because I couldn’t possibly wait and heal from my injuries before going to fight to the death with the man I think killed my father I have to go right now
There’s Porthos- It’s-all-fun-and-games-until-someone -starts-a-fight-and-then-it’s-high-stakes-fun-and-games. He duels a guy with a fork and is ecstatic about it in his very first scene
Aramis “I just want to love everyone and make witty banter with my boyfriend bestfriend” he just looks happy anytime anyone notices him or his ridiculous ideas
And Athos, Sir Tortured Soul, I don’t deserve to live but I won’t stop fighting to stay alive. He’s in front of a firing squad and he doesn’t want to die, he’s terrified, but he also yells at them to get it over with because poor boy doesn’t know what to do with himself
I meant to get comments up about “Friends and Enemies” sooner, but it’s been a busy week and my thoughts aren’t coalescing into anything terribly coherent. So, they might read a little scattered.
Constance is my favorite of the female characters in The Musketeers. The only female character that even came close to being a favorite was Sylvie. The first episode, “Friends and Enemies” was a good first showing for Constance. From the moment we see her in the market, she’s confident. I still chuckle at the “gut you like a fish” bit.
I like that she’s not automatically comfortable with d’Artagnan. I’m not sure if I even got the sense that they were ‘meant’ to be together. She lets d’Artagnan know the boundaries and it’s not about being a married woman. It’s about being a woman. I liked that she let him have it for forcing her into a kiss and then told him to stop staring when he couldn’t keep his eyes from looking down. Perhaps it’s that that made me like her so much. She wasn’t going to be something for him to gawk at or use. She even reminds him she only is helping because of Athos, not him.
I was gonna do a text thing for Porthos’s intro for the @muskiesrewatch but, well, it is Sunday night and I just cannot be arsed at this point in time. So have pictures and some thoughts, in no particular order:
1. it is interesting that the shot they choose to start on is his hands. I think they started zoomed super in for Athos and Aramis’s intros too but tbh I was mostly paying attention to Porthos and Cosntance so I couldn’t swear to it. Anyway, Porthos’s hands and a violent action, cracking Dujon’s fingers, claiming his win.
2. His gleeful laughter is great and it is kinda bellows of the stuff and sounds not in-genuine exactly but seems like a show or part of a show, the same show he is twisting and fussing at his mustache for - gotta look his best. He just basks in the joy of his win and as if he expects adoration; praise and glory.
3. ‘ohh, that’s treason’. Hahaha that is so beautifully comical.
4. Porthos’s complete and utter nonchalance at having a gun in his face. He is used to this, he spends way too much time in inns cheating red guards into duels.
5. Porfork. Need I say more? You know I’m gonna anyway but Porthos with his lil fork. Oh right the theme is how it speaks to later characterization so improvised weaponry and fighting close, that’s Porthos’s thing.
6. Everything in this scene is a show, a game Porthos i playing. He has absolute confidence in both himself and I guess Athos as backup. He’s having fun and Dujon’s incredulity in the face of Porthos’s performance just highlights the flourishing strutting.
7. Athos you knocked out my red guard, you took MY red guard, he was MINE I called DIBS. Lol. Who has the time?
8. The last thing is of Athos simply because I LOVE the way he looks at Porthos and says Porthos’s name. And the contrast between the show of the scene and Porthos’s ‘yeah I gotta work on that’. Porthos’s language, his tone, everything changes. I love that it kind of hints that Porthos has plenty of other registers as well as making damn sure we as the audience know that H Charles has plenty of other registers. s’great. Also Tom Burke is pretty.
