Tumblr crosspost (13 June 2020)

[anghraine]

Today in my failboat OTP: Darcy edition!

He began to wish to know more of her, and as a step towards conversing with her himself, attended to her conversation with others.

kj;asdfjkd;fa he’s almost/actually twenty-eight years old and has to work himself up into talking to his crush

#at this point BARELY a crush too #i love him

Comments

[elperian]

I just got to the first proposal scene and *oh my gosh*, the way he thinks he's doing so well at Rosings, both during the piano scene and then during the solo visit at the Collinses, and it's just like...dude. This is a trainwreck, oh noooooooo (I'm lovin' it).

[anghraine]

Heh, I think the solo visit at the Collinses is interestingly sort of on and off, where he vacillates between this is fine :D and backing away, but it's more about his internal vacillating than any uncertainty about her! It is a total trainwreck.

(I also love Elizabeth's theory that she keeps coincidentally running into him in places where she told him she'd be because he's masochistically punishing himself!)