Ruby: (Yawns) I haven't slept that well in weeks!
Jaune: Same. (Weiss cuddled between them) I wonder why that is...
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Without Weiss
Yang: (Swings open door) Hey, Ruby, I'm heading out to the club with Blake. Cool?
Ruby: (Snaps awake) H-Huh?! What?!
Yang: Cool, thanks, bye~! (Slams door)
Ruby: (Bleary, Looks around)
Nora: (Kicks door open) JAUNE! HELP!
Jaune: (Rolls out of bed, Hits the wall wrong) AGH! W-What's going on, Nora?!
Nora: (Holds out finger) I have a splinter, and I can't get it out!
Jaune: Ugh...
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With Weiss
Blake: Where are you going?
Yang: To let Rubes know we'll be out all night.
Blake: Bad idea. (Points to the door) See?
"To whom it may concern,
Jaune, Ruby, and I have retired for the evening. If there is an emergency, contact us by our scrolls. They work, I assure you. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE ARE YOU TO TRESPASS WITHOUT MY PRIOR PERMISSION!
Sincerest regards, Weiss Schnee"
Yang: ...I've never seen a wordier "Do Not Disturb".
Nora: Ren, I think there's something outside my window! I was gonna get Jaune, but Weiss threw me out with her glyphs!
Ren: No, you can just sleep next to me tonight.
Nora: Okay~!
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Ruby: Oh, that's right! Weiss is our sleep bodyguard!
Jaune: She's so great, isn't she?
Weiss: (Smiles, Snuggles closer to Ruby)
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Here's a nice sleepy throwback from Our Super Adventure Volume 3 - CUTE! (that's the title!)
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Hergé & the Chateau de Moulinsart Cheverny
Last year I had the opportunity to visit the Chateau de Cheverny near Blois, France - while the manor stands in a small village in a valley full of magnificent medieval and renaissance-era castles, it stands out from the crowd, as its likeness was popularized in the Tintin comics! The chateau was among the first in the area to open its doors to the public in 1914, which is likely how Hergé stumbled across a travel brochure all the way in Belgium (he never visited the chateau himself). Moulinsart/Marlinspike Hall was first featured in a Tintin comic in 1941, and embedded itself as an iconic setting in the series.
Herge notably removed the two end wings from Moulinsart - I guess he thought that the chateau was too big for the Haddocks! The manor itself hosts a large staircase in the center portion, with straight hallways leading down both wings. The chateau was constructed in the 1620s, although a previous version of the castle had been built 300 years prior, but only a couple of old sketches of the castle remain. Some of my personal research suggests that Cheverny may have been used to secretly store art and artifacts from the Louvre and the National Archaeology Museum during Nazi occupation of France, but that story deserves a whole essay in and of itself!
“The King’s Bedroom”, in the upper East wing of the house. The walls were covered in tapestries depicting various scenes from Homer’s Odyssey
One of the smaller bedrooms in the upper West wing
The gardens in the back of the manor were pretty similar to the gardens of Versailles in terms of geometric patterns - Cheverny underwent large-scale renovations in the 1760s, so it’s not surprising that the owners may have taken a page out of Louis XIV’s book!
Like 60 hunting hounds? Cute and sweet ladies
The manor grounds also had a Tintin-themed exhibition space, where recreations of various rooms in Moulinsart were available to walk through
Some displays from The Secret of the Unicorn
Ye Donjon
Tournesol’s laboratory!
Dining room
Tintin’s room, featuring some of his fits!
A draft from the Castafiore Emerald, the only comic to entirely take place at the chateau
And of course there was a Tintin shop just outside of the grounds as its current main claim to fame - the chateau gets around 350,000 visitors per year, compared to the nearby Chateau de Chambord’s 1,000,000 annual visitors!
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Jaune: (Yawns) Good morning... Wait, why am I on your side of the bed?
Ruby: Oh, I got scared last night that a Grimm would burst through the door and eat me.
Jaune: Heh heh... What?
Ruby: My side is closer to the door, so...
Jaune: Ah, that makes sense.
Jaune: ...
Jaune: Wait...
Jaune: YOU WERE GONNA SACRIFICE ME?!
Ruby: Aw! Thank you for understanding~!
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