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Entry tags:
- ch: anne de bourgh,
- ch: caroline bingley,
- ch: catherine bennet,
- ch: charles bingley,
- ch: charlotte lucas,
- ch: colonel fitzwilliam,
- ch: elizabeth bennet,
- ch: fitzwilliam darcy,
- ch: jane bennet,
- ch: lady catherine de bourgh,
- ch: lydia bennet,
- ch: m gardiner,
- ch: mrs bennet,
- character: mary bennet,
- character: mr bennet,
- fandom: austen,
- genre: headcanon
Personal canon: P&P
We all have a personal canon -- the X that exists in our heads, with all the little additions and details our minds supply. Sort of like fanon, but for one person instead of a weird fandom virus. So, for Pride and Prejudice, this is mine:
(1) Lady Catherine adored Lady Anne and loves her children.
(2) Mrs Bennet’s name is Jane. Her family always called her Jenny, but Mr Bennet never has. (His given name is James. She’s never called him that, either.)
(3) Darcy has never seriously pursued a woman in his life. If he had, he’d have some idea how to go about it. (Eavesdropping totally doesn’t count.)
(4) Bingley has fallen genuinely in love before. That doesn’t make his love for Jane any less sincere than if she were his first attachment.
(5) Elizabeth loves dogs. Darcy prefers cats.
(6) Mary was never in love with Mr Collins, though she did approve of him, and would have gladly married him.
(7) Kitty isn’t clever or staggeringly beautiful or good-natured or, really, anything much at all. But she can be trusted to keep a secret.
(8) Until Georgiana, Darcy was the youngest of the Fitzwilliam grandchildren. Even Anne is two months older than he is.
(9) In Darcy’s family, nicknames are rare and strictly regulated; he never had one himself, and he never dreams of calling his wife and sister anything more informal than Elizabeth and Georgiana. (Nor does it ever occur to him that Elizabeth, relentlessly Lizzy’d and Eliza’d for twenty-one years, would feel anything about this – let alone relief.)
(10) Jane does believe what she says. This does not make her stupid. It doesn’t even necessarily make her wrong.
(11) Lydia never changes, except to become rather more ambitious. When her children grow to adulthood, she relives her youth through them.
(12) Darcy is a thwarted idealist. Elizabeth is not.
(13) Mr Gardiner always assures his sister that, even if worse did come to worse, he would take care of her and her daughters. She never listens.
(14) Mrs Gardiner is the natural daughter of somebody.
(15) Darcy’s parents did not marry for love. Elizabeth’s did, for a certain value of “love.”
(16) Caroline was never in love with Darcy. At all. She isn’t a spawn of hell, either, though she’s always a rather unpleasant person. (Louisa is not appreciably better.)
(17) Darcy's probably homozygous everything. He's very inbred.
(18) To Elizabeth, Pemberley matters not as a display of wealth or importance, but of elegance. She always knew Darcy was rich. She never imagined he had taste.
(19) Fitzwilliam and Darcy have been best friends for as long as they can remember. As boys, they were all but inseparable; as men, they are . . . all but inseparable. They’re cousins and companions and one another’s only serious confidants. Even Georgiana thinks of Fitzwilliam as a sort of youngish uncle: her almost-father’s almost-brother.
(20) Charlotte is an aromantic asexual.
(21) Anne de Bourgh is selfish and spoilt, but she's genuinely ill.
(22) Even when they share a bed, Darcy and Elizabeth do not share a bedroom.
(She steals the blankets. He rearranges her writing desk. She leaves her robe on the floor. He hangs incomphrensible paintings on his wall. She ... yeah.)
This is probably for the best. It'd be a tragedy if they murdered one another.
(23) Jane, Elizabeth and Lydia marry in the mid-1790s, their hair down and their skirts full(ish).
(24) Darcy's relatives are numerous, ambitious, ridiculously interrelated, and affectionate. He's been solving their problems, settling their disputes, and generally arranging their lives for years, to the satisfaction of all. (Upon their marriage, Elizabeth stumbles into a position of unprecedented authority, at first because she controls access to Darcy and later because she somehow morphed into a matriarch when she wasn't looking. It's all vastly amusing.)
(25) Darcy and Elizabeth, Jane and Bingley, Colonel Fitzwilliam and Mary Crawford, the colonel's brother and Georgiana, even Mr Bennet, Lady Catherine, Anne, Kitty and her clergyman -- in their (very) different ways, they all live happily ever after.
(1) Lady Catherine adored Lady Anne and loves her children.
(2) Mrs Bennet’s name is Jane. Her family always called her Jenny, but Mr Bennet never has. (His given name is James. She’s never called him that, either.)
(3) Darcy has never seriously pursued a woman in his life. If he had, he’d have some idea how to go about it. (Eavesdropping totally doesn’t count.)
(4) Bingley has fallen genuinely in love before. That doesn’t make his love for Jane any less sincere than if she were his first attachment.
(5) Elizabeth loves dogs. Darcy prefers cats.
(6) Mary was never in love with Mr Collins, though she did approve of him, and would have gladly married him.
(7) Kitty isn’t clever or staggeringly beautiful or good-natured or, really, anything much at all. But she can be trusted to keep a secret.
(8) Until Georgiana, Darcy was the youngest of the Fitzwilliam grandchildren. Even Anne is two months older than he is.
(9) In Darcy’s family, nicknames are rare and strictly regulated; he never had one himself, and he never dreams of calling his wife and sister anything more informal than Elizabeth and Georgiana. (Nor does it ever occur to him that Elizabeth, relentlessly Lizzy’d and Eliza’d for twenty-one years, would feel anything about this – let alone relief.)
(10) Jane does believe what she says. This does not make her stupid. It doesn’t even necessarily make her wrong.
(11) Lydia never changes, except to become rather more ambitious. When her children grow to adulthood, she relives her youth through them.
(12) Darcy is a thwarted idealist. Elizabeth is not.
(13) Mr Gardiner always assures his sister that, even if worse did come to worse, he would take care of her and her daughters. She never listens.
(14) Mrs Gardiner is the natural daughter of somebody.
(15) Darcy’s parents did not marry for love. Elizabeth’s did, for a certain value of “love.”
(16) Caroline was never in love with Darcy. At all. She isn’t a spawn of hell, either, though she’s always a rather unpleasant person. (Louisa is not appreciably better.)
(17) Darcy's probably homozygous everything. He's very inbred.
(18) To Elizabeth, Pemberley matters not as a display of wealth or importance, but of elegance. She always knew Darcy was rich. She never imagined he had taste.
(19) Fitzwilliam and Darcy have been best friends for as long as they can remember. As boys, they were all but inseparable; as men, they are . . . all but inseparable. They’re cousins and companions and one another’s only serious confidants. Even Georgiana thinks of Fitzwilliam as a sort of youngish uncle: her almost-father’s almost-brother.
(20) Charlotte is an aromantic asexual.
(21) Anne de Bourgh is selfish and spoilt, but she's genuinely ill.
(22) Even when they share a bed, Darcy and Elizabeth do not share a bedroom.
(She steals the blankets. He rearranges her writing desk. She leaves her robe on the floor. He hangs incomphrensible paintings on his wall. She ... yeah.)
This is probably for the best. It'd be a tragedy if they murdered one another.
(23) Jane, Elizabeth and Lydia marry in the mid-1790s, their hair down and their skirts full(ish).
(24) Darcy's relatives are numerous, ambitious, ridiculously interrelated, and affectionate. He's been solving their problems, settling their disputes, and generally arranging their lives for years, to the satisfaction of all. (Upon their marriage, Elizabeth stumbles into a position of unprecedented authority, at first because she controls access to Darcy and later because she somehow morphed into a matriarch when she wasn't looking. It's all vastly amusing.)
(25) Darcy and Elizabeth, Jane and Bingley, Colonel Fitzwilliam and Mary Crawford, the colonel's brother and Georgiana, even Mr Bennet, Lady Catherine, Anne, Kitty and her clergyman -- in their (very) different ways, they all live happily ever after.