crosspost: baby Fitzwilliam and Darcy

[anghraine]

My young Fitzwilliam and Darcy headcanon!






The original: The Two Sons of the 1st Earl of Talbot by Thomas Lawrence. It's much too early for my headcanon P&P, which iirc is set 1795-6; this was painted only a few years before that. But the features and colouring are so exactly my idea that—eh, time is an illusion.

...Despite my blond!Darcy villainy, I do imagine Darcy's hair as dark—darker than any of the major adaptations, actually. I can go either way for Fitzwilliam, but I do like the aesthetic of red-haired Fitzwilliam and black-haired Darcy.

(I also picture Darcy as a particularly adorable child who gets his cheeks pinched and is extremely indignant about it. Fitzwilliam has zero regrets about being The Plain One.)

Comments

[stultiloquentia]

Oh yeah, that works! Though poor Fitzwilliam is veering into Hapsburg territory, a little. Darcy is perfect. Will he grow out of that rosebud mouth, do you think?

[anghraine]

I didn't think of it, but lol, I kind of love the idea of him not growing out of it. He does have something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks, after all. ;)

That said, I was imagining it looked different when he got older. I have a throwaway line about it in tolerably well acquainted (though I completely forgot about this painting when I wrote it!), so ... I guess in my headcanon 'verse he does. Tragically.

[stultiloquentia]

The closest I can get to a Mr. Darcy fancast is Claudia Black from Farscape. :P

[anghraine]

I wouldn't have thought of her—but I can see it! Especially an older Darcy, say, with this one. But I feel you on the fancasting front! The only one that has really clicked with me is Vicky Papadopoulou; this shot reminds me of that little Darcy (hm, maybe I need to let the mouth stick around, after all :P), by contrast to a more delicate and distinctive Wickham à la Rosamund Pike's Jane.

(Men? What men?)