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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: mary bennet,
- ch: mr bennet,
- ch: mrs 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.
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Yes! And, um, honestly, if he had never gotten back to Jane for whatever reason, chances are he'd go on to be happy with someone else. (Bingley/Georgiana would probably work out pretty well, I think.)
Massive agreement also on 10, 19, 21 and 22.
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Re: i wish i could edit my comments
Bingley/Lady Susan would be ... OMG. I can totally see it, too. He seems kind of her type, and, well. It's kind of hilarious to think that Jane would have reason to be grateful to Lady Susan. Heh.
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I ... don't quite follow the idea that being in love before makes you less loving in the end. It might not have the first-time rush, I guess, but that has nothing to do with sincerity.
And thanks on the others! Those were some of my favourites. (Especially 22. *cackles maniacally*)
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But fluffy-cute Bingley/Georgiana might be fun. It would probably consist of Georgiana being a bit older and Darcy and Caroline and Louisa and even a somewhat reluctant Col F trying to play matchmaker and Bingley and Georgiana being completely oblivious to the whole thing to the frustration of all their relations.
ghhhh
fluffy cute Bingley/Georgiana needs to be written. If the thing with Jane hadn't panned out, I'm pretty sure they would have married. And the three of them would have been very happy together. ;)
Re: ghhhh
Fluffy cute Bingley/Georgiana would make me happy. People would keep leaving them alone together and praising one of them to the other and Bingley and Georgiana would take forever to figure it out. I am deeply amused by the thought of Bingley asking Darcy and Fitzwilliam for permission to marry her.