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[anghraine]

So, I just saw a P&P+D&D alignments thing on Tumblr (with hundreds of notes, naturally) that had Lady Catherine as evil(???) and Darcy as Lawful Neutral.

uhhhhh

what

(But seriously, if you've missed that Darcy is a good person, then ... er, I think you've missed a substantial chunk of the novel)

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[beatrice_otter]

...

Darcy is the second-most wholly good character in the book, after Jane. He's just awkward and a bit of a snob, and he realizes that both are things he should work at correcting and so he does it, thus ... proving again that he is good.

[anghraine]

It's like ... there's a very considerable section of the book dedicated to "he's been a good person all along and his real flaws, which he's working on, do not negate this." It's not even just the Pemberley scenes! From the end of the his letter to the end of Mrs Gardiner's, a ton of the material is about reinforcing what a good person he is. I was just ... what.

(It's doubly "what?" to me personally because I think Elizabeth is much more of a lawful type than Darcy in Austen terms, and the sorting had her as Chaotic Good.)

[elperian]

I 100% do not understand the Austen Tumblr fandom.

[anghraine]

I've had the occasional cool experience, but there's a lot of "wtf?????"