De leur côté, les trois mousquetaires aimaient fort leur jeune camarade. L’amitié qui unissait ces quatre hommes, et le besoin de se voir trois ou quatre fois par jour, soit pour duel, soit pour affaires, soit pour plaisir, les faisaient sans cesse courir l’un après l’autre comme des ombres; et l’on rencontrait toujours les inséparables se cherchant du Luxembourg à la place Saint-Sulpice, ou de la rue du Vieux-Colombier au Luxembourg.
-CHAPITRE VII. L’INTÉRIEUR DES MOUSQUETAIRES
I love them. I love them!! it's also fun drawing as I read because I usually save any kind of drawing for after I've finished something so I can figure out a consistent design, but it's been a good time changing things as I go :) anyway, I wanted to draw all 4 of them in the same illustration, so here! we! go! (in order from left to right: d'artagnan, athos, porthos, and aramis)
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas (trans. Pevear)
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An ask for an ask? Character breakdown: Athos. (If you want 😊)
Thank you for the ask!! <3
Oh you don't know what you've stepped into there, I *just* went to see The Three Musketeers new movie last night and hum, I have feelings (not necessarily in a very good way...)
If you're asking about Athos, it must have transpired that I like The Three Musketeers (as a book). I read it in my young teens, fell in love with those four idiots (affectionate), and d'Artagnan in particular, with the Friendship that is the core of the story. That feeling of fierce loyalty, no matter where life takes you. I also fell in love with Alexandre Dumas' style. The universe he created, his humor, the colorfulness and joy in his writing.
Anyway, back to Athos.
How I feel about this character.
He's probably my second favorite. In film adaptations, he's often reduced to a tragic and rather sad figure, but he's so much more than that. Yes, he's a sad drunk, but he isn't sad all the time. He's wise and he's an important mentor to d'Artagnan (especially in the early years). And he's just as funny and daring as the rest of them. One other thing that the movies often get wrong is that they make Porthos the only "bon vivant", but they all are. The eat and drink away all their money all the time. They live for intrigues and adventures. *All* of them.
I do have issues with the whole Milady thing. Not Athos' most glorious actions there... I don't want to spoil too much but if you know the story, well, those were questionable actions...
All the people I ship romantically with this character
I'm not really a shipper as a 30 something, and I was even less a shipper at 13, so I've always seen the whole friendship as perfectly platonic. And his one (past) love story didn't end well, so... yeah, no shipping for Athos.
My non-romantic OTP for this character
Athos & d'Artagnan, probably. Like I said, I like their particular bond within the quatuor. It's somewhere between a father/son dynamic and older brother/younger brother.
My unpopular opinion about this character
I wish adaptations would respect the characters' ages a bit more accurately. Athos is only 10 years older than d'Artagnan, so not even 30 when the story begins.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
I wish adaptations would show more of his happy/daring side. We're talking about a character who's able to duel left-handed. Who upon learning his new BFF has to go to England decides they'll all go. Etc.. I also wish there were adaptations of Twenty Years Later, Charles I, Charles II and all that. Athos has a big part in that.
Book canon-wise, I wish he had a happier ending.
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Tom was only like 27 here. He looks so young, but also looks and sounds just like he does now. What is it with his sexy, laid back way of speaking, he’s so beautiful, I just can’t…
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FIRST POST LET'S GOO
Anyways the three musketeers from the book how I imagine them ❤️
Athos, Porthos, Aramis (❤️💕) and d'Artagnan!
I'm planning on coloring these but I probably never will, who knows
(Forgot to add this earlier but the sketches look smeared because my stupid ahh poured orange juice on the paper by accident 💔)
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