it's them

you know how it is when it takes a gallon of booze for you to make a move on your two best friends? Fernand knows.

have you got any tcomc playlists? 👁️👁️

OH, ABSOLUTELY I DO

i posted them a while back but i can't be bothered to find the post, so if i do i'll delete it to keep from clogging up the tags...

as i've said before, it's been a hot minute since i've really participated in the fandom (i'd like to remedy that), so some of my views on the characters have changed a bit since i made these? so not all of the song choices are perfect imo anymore... but i am constantly tweaking these playlists so it's whatever.

oh also also, a couple of these are major WIPs, lol. ANYWAY.

putting them under a read-more cut so that nobody hates me for the length of the post, lmao

here's Edmond's:

here's Fernand:

here's Villefort:

here's Danglars (one of the ones i'm less happy with lol):

here's Caderousse (my favourite character heheh):

here's Mercédès:

here's Albert (idk this one's a WIP):

here's Benedetto (another of my favourites!!):

and finally, Valentine! (my beautiful darling sweetheart):

i also have playlists for a couple ships i like, so if you're interested in those, feel free to ask, but they're not quite as good lol

"Ah, to have dreamed for ten years of being your husband, Mercedes, and to lose that hope, which was the only stay of my existence!"

Fernand is such a loser.

But this line does ring true much more genuinely for Edmond in prison, doesn't it. I'll have to wait until we get to that point to be sure of how long he was in prison (definitely don't believe it was this exact number). I do remember though that he had already expected his father to be dead, but wanted to find Mercedes and was confused at her being gone.

The dream of being her husband wasn't quite the only hope for him, or at least wasn't the only motivation keeping him alive. He was ready for revenge too, and earlier he would've chosen death in prison if not for Abbe Faria. But still, as far as good things he was looking forward to once he got out of prison, it was pretty much his dad, Mercedes, and the treasure that would enable them to live well. I don't think he fully dove into dedicating his entire life to revenge until those hopes were dashed, by his dad's death and Mercedes' disappearance/marriage.

Also, he actually knew she wanted to marry him, unlike Fernand who is just whining even after he's been repeatedly refused and told he is only family to her.

I'M BACK from my deep deep slumber.

I present to you the collab with @man-zi-ka-ro!

🌹🎭🌼

sorry i had to

Some Count of Monte Cristo characters as bracelets

(My friend made the Dantès and Villefort ones)

Monte Christo cats part 2 ✌ (The first drawing is a scene from this Russian production!)

Image descriptions: 5 greyscale drawings of anthro cats. The first is a drawing of two cats dancing in profile, with the view cut off at their knees. The left cat is a short, round black cat wearing a sleeveless dress, long velvet gloves, & tassel earrings. She's singing with a somber expression, and reaching out to touch the other cat's face. The other cat is sleek with a long snout & pale tabby markings. He's wearing a black leather coat & leather gloves. He's looking down at the other cat- his expression is almost angry, but he's smiling. He's holding up one of the other cat's hands. The second drawing is of a fluffy dark tabby cat walking towards the viewer. In one hand he holds a rapier. He's wearing thick gloves, a grey vest, a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up, white pants, & dark shoes. His tail is fluffed up & he's looking to the side angrily, baring his teeth in a strained smile. The third drawing is of a grey cat wearing a simple dress. She's standing, leaning forward slightly, with one hand clenched in a fist by her heart & the other holding onto her skirt. She's singing with her eyes closed. The fourth drawing is a bust of a round tabby cat with a pale snout. He's wearing a white shirt, waistcoat, & a loose bow tie. He's cringing with his teeth bared & eyes shut tight. The fifth and final drawing is a bust of the fluffy tabby from earlier. He's facing the right with his right arm extended in front of him- his hand is out of frame. He snarls angrily, "you've started this game, & I'm going to end it!" End descriptions.

The Count Of Monte Cristo (2002)

What is that supposed to mean?

It means your father is a man like any other.

fernand mondego de morcerf x “poor george” by james supercave

The Calendar of Monte Cristo: Chapter 27

1815: Danglars leaves Marseille and becomes an accounts clerk in Spain.

1815: Marriage of Gaspard Caderousse and Madeleine Radelle.

1815: Fernand and Caderousse called up for military service.

16 June 1815: Battle of Ligny. Fernand goes over to the English. [H]

1815: Following the Second Restoration, Fernand returns to France as a sub-lieutenant.

c.February 1816: Fernand, now a lieutenant, begins courting Mercédès. [R]

c.August 1816: Marriage of Fernand and Mercédès. [R]

18??: Birth of Albert.

1821: Caderousse visits Danglars and Fernand to ask for help after his business fails.

1823: l’Expédition d’Espagne. Danglars makes the beginning of his fortune supplying the French army. Fernand ends the war as Comte de Morcerf, a colonel and an officer of the Legion of Honour. [H]

1821–1829: Greek War of Independence. Fernand enters the service of Ali Pasha. [H]

182?: Danglars marries his first wife.

182?: Danglars’s first wife dies.

182?: Danglars marries his second wife, the widow Madame de Nargonne.

182?: Danglars becomes a baron.

June 1829: Caderousse tells Abbé Busoni what became of Edmond’s friends. Abbé Busoni gives Caderousse a diamond. [R]

Caderousse's narrative doesn’t contain any explicit dates, which serves to obscure a chronologically interesting aspect of Fernand’s career. Caderousse states definitely that Fernand served in l’Expédition d’Espagne, including the capture of the Trocadero, and then went on to serve under Ali Pasha until his death – but Ali Pasha died in January 1822, before l’Expédition d’Espagne and the capture of the Trocadero in 1823.

There’s also something up with the fair that Caderousse mentions at the end of the chapter, that he’s planning to find a jeweller at. He’s presumably referring to the annual trade fair at Beaucaire, which was a big deal: reputedly, more trade was done at Beaucaire during the week of the fair than in Marseille in an entire year. The thing is, by my count (which will be substantiated in later chapters) this scene is taking place in early June, and the fair was held in the last week of July.

I've started reading A Fire Born of Exile (Aliette de Bodard's sci-fi Count of Monte Cristo retelling), and it's interesting figuring out who each character is. I'm about a fifth of the way into it, and so far we have (apologies for omitting accents)

Suong Quynh/Da Lan: the Count/Edmond Dantes

Hoa: Maximilien Morrell

Minh: Valentine Villefort

Heart's Sorrow: Albert de Morcerf

Guts of Sea: Haydee? I'm not entirely sure, maybe amalgamated with other members of the Count's household

Prefect Tinh Duc: Prosecutor Villefort

Van: Edouard Villefort

General Tuyet: Fernand de Morcerf, but also Mercedes, which is a fascinating decision. Women's wrongs etc etc

Thanh Nhang: the bits of Fernand that aren't Tuyet? It's hard to tell so far

Thien Hanh: Monsieur Morrell

What's interesting to me here is that A Fire Born of Exile has made some adaptational choices (starting the action after the timeskip, omitting Danglars and all his related plots) that are pretty common, but most adaptations that make those choices center the plot on Albert, while this one has picked Valentine and Maximilien, which is fascinating. When reading The Count of Monte Cristo I honestly found their plotline quite boring, mainly because it dragged on for a long time insisting that Valentine was too perfect and saintly to do anything like "move out of a house where everyone hated her and she was being poisoned to death", so I'm curious to see what an adaptation that gives her more agency will do.

for the ask game...count of monte cristo..

hiiii

Favourite character: villefort.. i hate him but i don't..

Second favourite character: agh i have SO many.. maybe héloïse she's also terrible. or eugénie one of the few normal people in that book.. or albert....

Least favourite character: probably fernand mondego/count de morcerf he bothers me.

The character I’m most like: eugénie i would say..!!!!

Favourite pairing: eugénie and louise probably i don't know..

Least favourite pairing: MONTE CRISTO AND HAYDÉE FOR EVER.. haydée GET behind me

Favourite moment: either the monte cristo + mercédès reunion or the. i don't know dinner party where he is just tormenting everyone.. genuinely any time that guy is tormenting people.

i'm not doing the rating because i don't know how to rate things but . it's good

EPISODE HIGHLIGHT: THE CAPTAIN OF THE MONTE CRISTO

Today we're highlighting our 28th episode of Season 1: "The Captain of the Monte Cristo"    

it's the count of monte cristo but in spaaaaaaace!

you can find it wherever you get your podcasts! (if not, pls let us know!)

https://shows.acast.com/tranthologies/episodes/the-captain-of-monte-cristo

Image description under the cut

Slide 1: A dark purple background. In white lettering, a title reads: "THE CAPTAIN OF THE MONTE CRISTO” In the centre of the page, there is the cover art for this episode. It pictures two a planet and a spaceship. The cover art has arrows pointing away from it with text coming off them. The text coming off the arrows reads as the following: "1. Drama! 2. Retelling of a classic! 3. T4t romance! 4. It’s got jazz! 5. Happy ending! 6. Cool old timey duel! 7. It’s in SPAAAAAAAAAACE!”

Slide 2: A dark purple background. There is a design of a piece of paper in the centre of the page. On the paper, text reads: “The Count of Monte Cristo but in SPAAAAAAAAAAACE!” There are spaceships in the top right, bottom left, and bottom right corners of the page.

Slide 3: A dark purple background. Covering most of the page, there is a design of white lined paper. On the paper, an excerpt from the episode reads: “Narrator: In this time away from the world, she realizes her name is not Eden, but Esmen. It takes them over a decade to repair the Monte Cristo, but at long last, they make their escape. Upon return, Esmen spends years rebuilding themself as the Count of Monte Cristo. Their mysterious emergence and wealth draw the attention of high society, though they are never recognised as one of the galaxy’s most infamous pirates.” There is a spaceship in the bottom left corner.

Slide 4: A dark purple background. In the centre of the page, there is a design of white lined paper. On the paper, the credits read: “CREW: Written by Sylvie Keyes. Directed by Sylvie Keyes and Zoey Davis. Audio editing by Zoey Davis. Art by Sylvie Keyes. CAST: Ronan Fernsel as Esmen. Moira-Juliet Scott as Mercedes. Alex Abrahams as Fernand. Sats Di Stefano as Albert. Wes French as the Narrator. Ace as Servant on the Château de Morcerf. Shawn Tumbokon-Flowers as Renée. L M Chlohessy as Franz.” There is a planet on the left side of the page and a spaceship on the right side of the page.

An absolutely stellar quote for each of the villains from 'The Hundred Days':

Villefort shuddered at the idea of the prisoner cursing him in the darkness and silence, but he had gone too far to retreat. Dantes would have to be broken between the cogs of his ambition.

God, that second line is so good. What I love about this line is how deliberate and at the same time resigned it is. Villefort will sacrifice anything to his ambition, and by doing so finds himself somewhat trapped by his own choices. He has no way out but forward. While he may cringe a bit, and dreads the idea of reprisal from his enemies, he knowingly continues to walk this path.

...his denunciation had been accurate and, like all men with a certain natural aptitude for crime and only average understanding of ordinary life, he described this strange coincidence as 'a decree of Providence'. But when Napoleon had returned to Paris and his voice, imperious and powerful, was heard once more in the land, Danglars knew fear.

While his decision to leave here does end up working for him, it's motivated by no great strategic mind; rather, he is described as having criminal instincts but not a great deal more. He fears revenge (and that last line is fantastic) but, for all his scheming, he isn't the character who sees the picture around him most clearly (except in one distinct way - he remembers Dantes, and fears him, rather than any official/larger-scale fallout. He knows the kind of man Dantes is more than the others). That's Villefort, who is described above and earlier in the chapter as being quite aware of his situation and possible future ramifications, as well as having good instincts. So Danglars runs, always hoping to rebuild anew somewhere else.

As for Fernand, he understood nothing. Dantes had gone away; that was enough. What had happened to him? Fernand did not try to find out.

Look, this guy's dumb. He's a loser. He wants Mercedes, he hates Dantes, and that's as far as he goes. His lack of curiosity or awareness of what is truly going on around him makes him in some ways the easiest mark of them all, certainly compared to the two schemers above. This quote made me laugh.

Caderousse was called up as Fernand had been; but, being eight years older than the Catalan and married, he was not recruited until the third wave of conscription and sent to guard the coast.

Okay, I admit this stretches 'absolutely stellar quote' to the limit. It's not really at all, but I do feel like it kind of sums his role up decently. He's kind of a sucky guy, but not as much as the other three. He hangs back, in terms of villainy, both in convicting Dantes and in profiting off his absence, compared to the others. While he does get drawn in to the villainy repeatedly, it is more reluctantly/gradually... but it does still happen. He succumbs to temptation. He gets used, he keeps quiet out of cowardice, he gets greedy, etc. I dunno, it's probably just because I thought some of the other lines were somewhat character-defining, but I thought this line about his eventual conscription sort of matches his role among the villains.

Also, a couple bonus lines that I love:

So it was that Dantes, during the Hundred Days and after Waterloo, remained under lock and key, forgotten, if not by men, at least by God.

The reversal of the usual phrase here, where he may be remembered by men but has been forgotten by God, is delicious.

It was not the fact that Mercedes lacked the courage to carry out this intention, but the succour of religion that saved her from suicide.

I dunno, I love the emphasis on her bravery and her genuine love for Edmond. Also the contrast of her 'hopeless expectation' driving her to suicide being held back by her religion and the comfort she recieves from Fernand is such an interesting contrast to Dantes' own suicidal thoughts in prison.

Characters in the count of monte cristo

Those he love are showered with blessings and protection. But these extreme emotions of wrath only extend to those he hates. 35) He uses his outward warm nature to manipulate those around him into harming his enemies. men to all the tortures his fiery imagination could contrive, but even the cruelest ones seemed too mild and too short for them." (Pg. 147) Yet his true nature and motives are quite the opposite. Monsieur de Morcerf was "obviously charmed by what Monte Cristo had said." (Pg. He appears to his houseguests as a gracious and understanding host who always seeks to please. Even through Dantes time in prison (and for the grand scheme of the text this really is a short time), there is the constant hope that he will be freed.The Count of Monte Cristo has many sides to his personality, and is anything but one-dimensional. This drives the plot in a near auto-pilot-esque way because what would a novel be if the protagonist didn’t win out in the end? Certainly not as good. With the exception of one or two wild cards, it is very apparent from the beginning that Edmond has those that are on his side, and those that are very apparently not. His father’s allegiance to the Bonapartist Party seems to be doing him no favors and Edmond even less! It is very clear that Villefort is acting on his own self interest and is trying to ensure that none of his father’s acts serve as a detriment to Villefort’s own life.įrom the little knowledge I have of The Three Muskateers, I feel as though Dumas often splits his novels into two categories “us versus them”. These characters, although self motivated, seem round in complexity but static in character they had a lot fueling their actions but the ideals that drive them, namely greed, do not seem as though they will change all that much.ĭuring Edmond’s arrest Villefort is almost more suspicious than any of the other characters in the text. He and his cohort in Edmond’s arrest, Baron Danglars, seem to be the most important antagonists. Edmond’s arrest is most quickly blamed on Fernand by many a reader (you’d be lying if you said you didn't know he had something to do with it), and the thoughts of Edmond’s coming revenge is enough to keep anyone turning the pages. The way he just couldn’t seem to accept Mercedes and Edmond tying the knot was an immediate clue in that he would be up to no good soon. Her act of marrying Fernand while Edmond was in prison, however, works as a significant plot point, because Edmond seeks revenge on Fernand for more reasons than just one.įernand Mondego could be pegged as a story’s antagonist from a mile away. Mercedes seems to be driven by several different types of motives, creating in her a round character. As she said that she could never be with anyone other than her beloved Dantes the first red flag was set off in my mind. This encounter sets the reader with a positive outlook on Mercedes, for she is incredibly faithful to the love of her life Edmond. Mercedes is first seen talking to Fernand Mondego, who is dead set on marrying her for he is deeply in love with his cousin. But, when a text is over 500 pages and the main character manages to get his dream job and his dream wife in the first few chapters, the foreshadowing does not have to be that blatant to let the reader know that something is about to go down.Įdmond’s dream wife as previously mentioned, is Mercedes. At 19 years old he is already “set” to be captain of the ship he was a crew member for. He’s a round, obviously dynamic character. The Count of Monte Cristo makes very evident that the protagonist of the text is Edmond Dantes. (It often seems like the first day of a new school when everyone is expected to remember everyone else after the first class period) The beginning of a text is the most imperative time to introduce and shape the characters of a novel, and is therefore the most difficult time to understand everything that is going on. A novel’s plot is developed first and foremost through the interactions of its characters.