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Mar. 13th, 2024 12:45 pmAn anon said:
Just stumbled across your Darcy/Emma fic which was delightful, and I can't help wondering what Knightley would think of their relationship, and what Darcy would think of Knightley? Would love to hear any of your headcanons for this!
I replied:
Oh, thank you! It’s an old one, but was fun to come up with and write.
I think it’d be very difficult for Mr Knightley. In part, there’s his general love for Emma, which naturally would make the whole thing painful, but I think Darcy’s character would also make it complicated.
On the one hand, Darcy is very respectable and upstanding, in ways that I think Mr Knightley would value, and to some extent, Darcy could be a good influence on Emma (he’s more deliberate, more disciplined). But on the other, they share quite a few faults and would probably only exacerbate them in each other, which would be painful to watch even for the limited duration of Mr Woodhouse’s lifetime.
And then they’re gone for just about forever. I imagine there would certainly be an amount of resentment and disapproval of Darcy mixed in with general respect—it’d be hard.
As for Darcy, I think he would be largely oblivious to all this, or at least fairly indifferent. Mr Knightley isn’t the sort of person he’s usually drawn to (who seem to be lively, outgoing types), but at the same time, is very much the sort of person he’d respect IMO. So he thinks well of him, but without a lot of interest in him—if they’re thrown into company together, he’s happy enough to talk with him, but he doesn’t go out of his way to seek him out or anything like that. He mostly thinks about him in relation to Emma.
After they leave for Pemberley, I doubt he’d think much about him at all.
Tagged: #this is probably not the most exciting answer #but is what i envision there!
Just stumbled across your Darcy/Emma fic which was delightful, and I can't help wondering what Knightley would think of their relationship, and what Darcy would think of Knightley? Would love to hear any of your headcanons for this!
I replied:
Oh, thank you! It’s an old one, but was fun to come up with and write.
I think it’d be very difficult for Mr Knightley. In part, there’s his general love for Emma, which naturally would make the whole thing painful, but I think Darcy’s character would also make it complicated.
On the one hand, Darcy is very respectable and upstanding, in ways that I think Mr Knightley would value, and to some extent, Darcy could be a good influence on Emma (he’s more deliberate, more disciplined). But on the other, they share quite a few faults and would probably only exacerbate them in each other, which would be painful to watch even for the limited duration of Mr Woodhouse’s lifetime.
And then they’re gone for just about forever. I imagine there would certainly be an amount of resentment and disapproval of Darcy mixed in with general respect—it’d be hard.
As for Darcy, I think he would be largely oblivious to all this, or at least fairly indifferent. Mr Knightley isn’t the sort of person he’s usually drawn to (who seem to be lively, outgoing types), but at the same time, is very much the sort of person he’d respect IMO. So he thinks well of him, but without a lot of interest in him—if they’re thrown into company together, he’s happy enough to talk with him, but he doesn’t go out of his way to seek him out or anything like that. He mostly thinks about him in relation to Emma.
After they leave for Pemberley, I doubt he’d think much about him at all.
Tagged: #this is probably not the most exciting answer #but is what i envision there!
