#Knight Takes Queen

[that-nerd-who-writes-fanfiction]

If I had a nickel for every time Santiago Cabrera played a character on a BBC show who was a noble, loyal and highly skilled knight/soldier, who served the king, was a hopeless romantic with only one or two main love interests, the Queen being one of his love interests who he an affair with, leading to life-altering long-term consequences, for both him and the Queen, I’d have two nickels.

Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

I’m not even mad, BBC writers were either onto something or on something when they wrote Lancelot and Aramis.

I’m sure there’s more comparisons, but I’m not finished watching yet so I’m just hoping Aramis doesn’t get banished or anything. They probably won’t kill him, but *

*it was at this point that I realised there’s been foreshadowing and I’m not saying anything because I don’t want to jinx it so I’m just gonna leave this here.

[enigma-the-mysterious]

Season 1 Episode 9

Athos: I don’t even have time to tell you how wrong you are

Aramis:

Athos:

Aramis:

Athos: Actually it's gonna bug me if I don't

[canadiangirl-82]

My favourite scene from Knight Takes Queen! 🤣🤣😆

Credit to Original Creator

[mariemichonao3]

Close enough for me...

[nasturtiumorange]

Day 28 of Inktober is Camping.

It’s so nice to spend time in the great outdoors and enjoy nature.

Right, Athos?

[belladonnaprice]

Mother Superior and Sister Helene being absolute /icons/ and tossing molotovs 😂😂😂

[nie-narzekam]

From: Athos

To: Aramis

(Source: Crustacean Singles)

[dorothyoz39]

Title of the story: Knight Takes Queen

Fandom: BBC The Musketeers

Summary: A retelling of “Knight takes queen” in a world where soulmates exist and are considered precious. Happy ending.

Fic exchange: Written for the Musketeer Garrison Fic Exchange Summer 2023 as a gift to @enigma-the-mysterious

I sincerely hope you like it!!

I tried to do a re-write of Aramis/Anne story with a happy ending while fulfilling some of your requests and using some of the stuff/tropes/etc that were your favorites according to the survey we filled at the beginning.

Genre: Romance, friendship, soulmate AU, a bit of magic, intrigue.

Season/episode: Season 1 – Episode 1x09 - Knight Takes Queen.

Pairings: Aramis/Queen Anne, Aramis & Porthos, Aramis & Athos.

Rating: T

Warnings: Injury, attempt of murder.

Disclaimer: Read profile

Acknowledgements: No beta, this time we just hope for the best, like brave little musketeers…

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 124

Bruce crouched next to the small child that had been bounding around for the last few months healing people, watching idly as they scribbled on a paper with quiet chirps. Spirit, the rest of Gotham had named them, Spirit and their Sister. 

“Hi Mr. Bat!” The child beamed from behind the mask when they finally looked up, burn scar stretching slightly. 

He ignored the gibbering man in the corner, at least for now, seeing as he’d just arrived. “Is your sister around?” The other, well he wouldn’t call them vigilantes seeing as the kids (He’d be surprised if Sister was an adult) focused more on evacuation or healing, but it was the closest word. 

“Nope!” the child put their crayons away in one of the many pockets inside the almost victorian-styled coat, one of the reasons they’d gotten their name. “Uncle Kerian is watchin’ me tonight, ‘cause Sister is busy.” 

“Uncle?” 

“Uncle!” 

Bruce could be forgiven for the startled wheeze when the literal shadows twisted and ripped, a pair of Lazarus-green eyes- or whatever they were- gleaming from the darkness, dark hair twisting as sharp teeth similar to the siblings’ were bared in very open warning. As if the giant flaming sword wasn’t enough of a warning already. 

Ah. That’s who had traumatized the several would-be kidnappers then. 

[inalandofsadclowns]

Defying their predestined roles worked out quite well for Merlin's friends. I mean

Lancelot, the commoner who committed identity fraud and became a knight. Knighthood did not stick at first, but he had sure as hell drawn the prince's attention. Eventually he lived and died a knight, just like in his dreams.

Gwaine, the noble-born who left his wealthy life and found what he'd been looking for: a family that loved him for himself.

Gwen, the serving girl, who rose to the throne and became the difference in the world she always wanted to see.

...

What I'm saying is maybe maybe if Arthur had moved to the countryside with Merlin to get that cottage core life against what everyone expected of him, then maybe everything would have been fine

[spacedace]

Had some more random ideas for the Accidentally God Queen of Clones Elle and her Amnesiac Knight Champion Kon AU (which really is a prompt a swear, ignore all the details/too many ideas I don't know enough about DC to be able to write this, so I'd anyone sees anything they like in any of this go wild ❤️)

- Tim doesn't take his mask off while in Elle's lair so Kon doesn't put together the fact that Tim is the mystery boy he kinda remembers. Leading to Kon saying that he hopes to one day find the boy he was in love with while Tim is trying to help him get his memories back, which then has Tim spiraling that Kon had a secret boyfriend that he never told Tim about before going missing.

- Elle and the rest of the Clone Club realizing immediately that Tim has to be The Guy and deciding to run with this chance for chaos and matchmaking. They lie about being able to send Tim back immediately and that he's gonna have to stay for awhile, but hey he can room with Kon! Ignore the fact that there are hundreds of rooms in this place, Kon has a big bed and is great at snuggles!

- When Kon became Elle's Knight, he started getting trained by Fright Knight & Pandora. He gets really good at fighting with just about every weapon (baring firearms) imaginable as a result.

- Fright Knight also insisted on teaching Kon all the other stuff outside of fighting a knight must know including the code of chivalry and the "Seven Points of Agilities" which sounded fine to Kon (learning how to ride horses/Night Mares and how to joust were both cool & expected) up until he was learning how to waltz with the giant ghost of fear as his partner. And don't get him started on having to both be able to recite and write love poetry (Elle, at least had fun, though that really came from laughing at his expense).

- He has tattoos now, some sentimental or just because he likes them, but he also has an ornate sword going down his back, and a shield split across both firearms that appears whole when he holds them together. The sword and shield are actually his (magical/ghost made) weapons that disappear from his skin when he summons them and return when he's done with them.

- Baddass and beautiful ornate (but practical and very comfortable!) Knight armor! It has filigree! And a cape!

- Instead of his sword sending people to the Nightmare Dimension, instead his shield can reflect attacks back at people (it's made to be used for ectoplasm based attacks, but can be used to deflect lazers).

- When Kon surrenders to the Justice Leage, he is wearing his armor, though sans helmet (which Pandora & Fright Knight are gonna kill him for later, helmets being a key features in the whole not dying portion of fighting has been something they've been yelling at him about for ages) and seeing Kon in ethereal knightly armor makes Tim bluescreen for a bit because damn.

- Kon falling in love with Tim and feeling conflicted because his mystery boy is out there somewhere, while Tim is just agonizing over the fact that Kon never told him about mystery boy and oh god did Kon not trust him with that?

- Elle gets Fright Knight in on the match making by telling him it'd be a good way for Kon to practice chivalry. Fright Knight takes this as an opportunity to make Kon recite his bad poetry (written about Tim both in terms of Kon writing about mystery boy and writing about Red Robin). It's truly awful. Tim loves it.

[demonscantgothere]

Adding a tangent to the dangerous 'guard dog' trope post, I just want to say what drew me to Halbrand and Galadriel, and what turned out to be Sauron and Galadriel, was this very trope — he followed her guidance, her lead, even if her ideas were insane and he knew it. He had every intention, it seemed, of staying in Númenor. But this Elf, this crazy, determined Elf, gnashing at the teeth, convinced him to take a ship and follow her back to Middle-earth, "the one place I swore never to return," and he went there, anyway. At her insistence. At her beck and call.

If Galadriel had said yes to Sauron, she would have had him wrapped so tight around her finger, he would have served her — not the other way around, mind you. She would have never served him. She would have been a Queen, and he would have been her guard dog — just like he was Melkor's guard dog first, a master whom he served with the utmost brutal, dogged loyalty. He would have given the same to Galadriel and nothing less.

Hot take: Sauron thought he found another master to serve before Galadriel denied his proposal, and so he chose to become the master himself — a fallen lieutenant, foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog with no master's hand to guide him, transforming into a Dark Lord.

[enigma-the-mysterious]

Season 1 Episode 9

Anne: [stops kissing Aramis]

Anne: What do you think you're doing?

Aramis: What do you mean?

Anne: I mean your hands!

Aramis: They're on your waist!

Anne: I know! What am I, a nun? Put them somewhere useful

[canadiangirl-82]

Happy Santiago Saturday! ❤️🔥

Credit to Original Creator

[wiggledude]

The new event "rain burst" in ptn makes me INSANE. This game feeds me so good with

Shalom's and Rahu's relationship.

also just some picks that are extremely pretty <3

[yelling-space]

CELESTE APPRECIATION post

I raerly see anyone mention her but i love her sm yes this is mostly like 98% hc shes only got like 5 lines in hole game what more do u want from me

anyways, my sweet sweet barely domesticated celeste :

-"Why did my husband come back with a child ,a dog ,a living skeleton, a man who can throw him around like he weights nothing and a knight(derogatory)" -Cahara's so wiped 4 her and honesty i would to if that was my wife, she def pegs him 2 btw i mean just look at him, my point exactly.

-gets along with Enki the most 2 everyone's surprise, there paper wight besties. & share a worrie for Cahara they will never verbalise as well a dislike for D'arc- i mean knights.

-celeste is d'arces first (and only) female friend, much to clestes own dismay.

-d'arce thought she was a gold digger at first, as you can tell they had a grate first impression of each other

-only trusts people about as far as she can throw them (rip rag , he can still man handle the group whore with ease tho so good for him)

-can not hold a convo with a child 2 save her life , the length of her mertanl intents extend to bringing the child 2 Cahara .

-she is not mother material but for some reason they're trying to keep a baby with a high infant mortality rate its funny

i think celeste probably didn't have great parents or a good role model, deadbeat drunkard parents that kicked her out and kind of left her to fend for herself & close of to the world and that's why she has such a disillusioned take on parenthood + where her own approach to children comes from but uh oh !! cahara wormed his way into her heart ! and who's to say his clear and utter devotion to this little girl cant win her over either i dont think either her or Cahara were going out of their way to get pregnant - it's like an unfortunate by-product of the nature of Celeste's career, and Cahara's love for her being what led to him being so willing to step up. i don't think either of them ever really thought about having kids, or at least didn't think they'd be good parents, but celeste getting pregnant or cahara bringing back a child is just the way life ended up going. it's the renaissance era, abortion methods are on par with childbirth in terms of deadliness anyway. she's just not going to have to keep risking her life via pregnancy if cahara goes out, gets enough coin to support them both, she's not going to be like every other peasant woman who's forced to become a broodmare because every 1 in 2 children fucking die before they turn 5. clesest being pregnant is just what ended up happening. the love in that is to do with their RELATIONSHIP, not their love for some idealistic family life. i think cahara wanting to give it a try is something celeste would think is really sweet and admirable, but she'd probly keep a lot of her more cynical thoughts to herself on the matter.

saying that i think they both have a lot of cynical thoughts about it really, but i cahara goes so quickly into "this is my wife, this is our future baby" because otherwise what's the point in taking on such a risky mission in the first place ? but if he's got a noble cause, then it might seem worth it, right ? it's that extra push of encouragement for him, even if it comes with a lot of scary things like the responsibility, being a parent, maybe settling down witch is a scary thought for someone whos always so used 2 being on the move

as for celeste ; she doesn't even know if she's going to make it through the pregnancy, or if the baby will. it's just another mouth to feed at the end of the day. she doesn't care about carrying on a legacy, or raising a child into greatness like so many others beg and plead of god to bestow upon their children. she knows she'd be a shit mom and she's hardly a loyal partner at the moment. but she loves cahara, and seeing that fear in his eyes when she told him, but also that spark of light, that little bit of joy, made it at least worth holding on for.

celeste: it's probably not going to make it anyway, i either risk death in childbirth or death in abortion methods, so. celeste: its getting me enough bank rn to keep myself healthy so we'll just see what happens i guess celeste watching cahara bring home an entire child:

okay cringe time over. i wont go into 2much detail about her relationship with the others though i think its a very slow process of her learning to tolerate get along with the creatures friends cahara brought back -as soon as celeste meets d'arce her mild suspicion and distaste for ragnvaldr will be replaced with her disgust for d'arce -think celeste would be pissed she wouldn't be able 2 pull cahara out of ragnvaldrs grip unless she stabbed him or something, witch shes both angry about it but also relieved since it probably kept cahara out of trouble in the dungeon (because lord knows her husband is a magnet for trouble) inside me there are 2 wolfs ; one is mmm hot stong wife carry cahara like a sack of pataos , the other is screaming at me that this is the 1600 and she would be starving and poor. so to compromise with myself im going 2 say : - physical speaking celsest is probly stronger then most women in her profession and could probly drag an unconscious cahara around then againg i also think cahras way ligher then someone of his build&carear should be shes stronger then enki (then againg who isnt) but cant match d'arces physical strength. saying that modern au Celeste would beat d'arce in an arm wrestle.

in-refence 2 my last post; celest is a child darkness, she has a barbie killer husband,there for. she deserves to be as much hater as she likes d'arce: you two are the healthiest couple i know who still have an avid sex life cahara: ASSUMPTIONS ! celeste: we're the only couple you know.

acholic wise i think celeste could out drink d'arce (and at least keep up with ragnvaldr for a little bit)

celeste: d'arce is a pain in the ass cahara: :confustion: :stress_smile: she means well babe cmon celeste: im gonna beat her with a stick cahara: ,, babe,,

cleseste is not payed enough 2 be d'arces therpist or help d'arce figure out she likes women (shes not payed at all actuly,she is simply trying 2 tolrate her husbands new freinds becuse she loves him but also only has so meny braincells she can lose in a day and conversing with d'arce seems 2 kill all of them)

celeste hears d'arce talk about jeanne once and instantly starts going "wow you loved a girl wow that girl who was like you in every way wow that girl who like. shared your morals. or something. wow tell me more about that girl" (stab stab stab metaphorically stab stab stab)

(about cahara getting arrsed and taken by the police) rag: you lack of concern,,, concerns me. are you not worried ? celeste: dogs always find their way back home.

- d'arce and cahara make the same enamoured and light-blush expression whenever celeste rages btw - celeste :handshake: enki taking the piss out of knights + a generally more cynical outlook on life & being cold bitches that secretly care about cahara a lot

(first time they all stayed the night) enki learning hes the favorite for once and he thinks its just the most hilarious thing to fucking happen local woman-lover put out by being rejected by hot scary wife, local berserker intimidated by what scary wife might do if she finds out what he did to her precious boytoy local shadow wizard ? on the floor ugly laughing because scary wife reluctantly asked if he wanted the guest bedroom.

celeste: YOURE NOT STAYING HERE PERMANENTLY. but youre allowed to stay overnight. enki: is this (gags) kindness ? oh my god. revolting. celeste: is that a yes or not you fucking worm enki: yesplease