The Lachrymose Wedding (hey, wouldn't that make a great opera?)

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

I'm going to try doing a cut-in post so I don't hog the page. Thanks to Checkers for sending me the link for the directions. Let's see how badly I can botch them up.



How I doubt that it happened:

Eugenides and Irene, married, alone together at last.

Gen and Irene: "Alone at last!"
Gen: "The Guard should be reduced by half."
Irene: (flings jar of ink at his head)
Gen: (ducks)
Irene: (looks at Gen)
Gen: (looks at Irene)
Irene and Gen: "Waaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

More likely (to me, at least):

Irene and Gen are lying asleep. It is the dog watch of the night, a bad time for those haunted by nightmares.

Gen: (having a nightmare). "Please don't hurt me anymore. Please." (Cries in breathless, racking sobs that go on and on).
Irene: (Wakes up. Hears Gen's sobs. Recognizes them. Realizes what he's dreaming about. Wracked with guilt). "Wake up! It's all right. You're safe." (Remembers that, safe or not, he's lacking an arm because of her. Cries.)

Now, it may seem odd for me to think that she'd be able to speak of a scene like that to Relius in amusement and say (amusingly), "We were very lachrymose." However, since both the king and queen have very strange senses of humor, I would imagine further that at some point they both started to think it was rather funny that they're lying there on their wedding night sobbing their eyes out.

Okay, let's see if this works.

Leslie, delighted that LJ is working again

Comments

[jyms.livejournal.com]

as for the wedding night, i was thinking more of what they were feeling. they went through so much, did so many (nasty) things to each other, and then they're in the same room, thinking 'wait a moment, i'm married to you, and i love you?' they probably had a lot of conflicting emotions, so...*inkpot flies*, *start crying*, and well...

i really like Attolia's sense of humour.

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

Oh, Iike her sense of humor, too. "Strange" wasn't intended as an insult. Coming from me, that, and "warped," and "twisted," are all high praise. :) I nearly fall over laughing every time I read the bit where she offers him her wine and says, "Take mine."

Leslie

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, although that's partly Eugenides's sense of humor -- since she knows he's the only one who's going to find it funny. My favorite moment like this was in QoA, though, the "You have any mistresses and I'll cut your other hand off" line. Every time I read that, doesn't matter if it's the 10th rereading, my jaw drops, and I can FEEL the appalled silence in the room until Eugenides laughs.
(By the way, that was me before, the "Hamiathes Reservoir" post -- I could swear I left my name,but it doesn't seem to be there.)
I still vote for no nightmare on the wedding night -- but the beauty of the thing, as we keep reminding ourselves, is that it can be whatever works in your own imagination.
-Philia