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Tommy Shelby - Peaky Blinders

Peaky Blinders Season 2 | Episode 4 / requested by anon

Cillian Murphy, PEAKY BLINDERS

By @masonjarofstars

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Что вы думаете о Лиззи, Татьяне и Мэй?

Hello) this is the first question on tumblr to me and I'm a little worried, thank you for your interest in my opinion and for the opportunity to speak out, this is very important to me. I will try to answer succinctly, describe the main qualities of the character and his key aspects in his relationship with Tommy.

I'll make a reservation right away, all of the following is just my purely personal opinion.

Лиззи.

Character: prostitute, poorly educated ("I did not graduate from school, went to work early" s5), prudent; understands that the only way to break out of her vicious circle is to successfully marry a man with money, candidates for selection are mainly men from criminal circles (Shelby, Changretta); loves children; is only sweet with those with whom it is profitable; knows how to keep secrets and not go where they don't ask; emotional; arrogant; jealous; short-tempered, but at the same time responsible, executive. It is still a big mystery to me how she worked as a secretary and conducted business in the Company, despite the fact that she could not write correctly (s5, when Tommy talks about her letter).

Lizzie/Tommy: initially, the prostitute-client relationship, which eventually developed into a confidential and friendly communication, "your man", thanks to which in s2 the relationship moves into a new direction employer-subordinate, "I need a person who looks through his fingers at everything."

I don't know, I didn't get the feeling that Lizzie loved Tommy, I saw in her only a financial interest and a desire to become a respectable woman. After Grace's death, Lizzie made every effort to become Tommy's constant lover, slowly and faithfully she went to her goal, trying to be there when he was completely broken and needed a woman's warmth. Being the mistress of the coolest gangster in Birmingham was very flattering for her. An accidental pregnancy became her "lucky ticket" to a luxurious life that she would not have dreamed of under any other circumstances. Which is exactly what Linda noticed in s4. In PB, every word has weight and meaning, so not once did Lizzie talk about her feelings for Thomas, neither before marriage, nor in marriage, nor in moments of his mental anguish, when he was weak in front of her and vulnerable, not once did she say that she loved him. All her speeches are only about money and what she will have left when he is gone, "I value my head for shilling more" is the main reason why she tolerates Tommy's indifferent attitude towards herself and their marriage. Only greed and calculation. Of course, it can be noted that she tried to be a normal wife, most importantly a mother for Charlie (I think this is the main reason for their marriage, Tommy saw that Charlie was lonely, he needed a mother). But due to the fact that they are completely different in intelligence and ambitions, there is no mutual attraction (chemistry) between them, their relationship does not add up. If it hadn't been for Ruby's death and Thomas's aggravated PTSD, I think they could have continued to live together in a "guest marriage" mode. But we see that by the end of s6, Tommy's psyche was exhausted and destroyed so much that he completely withdrew into himself, and Lizzie did not have the potential to help him recover, we see that she is completely unaware of how broken he is.

Татьяна.

Character: a runaway aristocrat from the Russian Empire, a princess, smart, educated, beautiful, has a position in society, rich, prudent, cynical, depraved, cruel, desperate, for the sake of her goals she will go over her heads, a devil woman, a fire woman. She is unhappy in her own way, since from a young age she was treated as a commodity, part of the deal, her aunt "sold" her niece repeatedly, as we see from the stories about Georgia and in the situation with Shelby. This experience killed everything "bright" in her, it seemed to me that she does not know how to love, to be compassionate, she absolutely does not understand Tommy's love and sorrow for his dead wife, and why he took her to the guest bedroom causes her perplexity. She liked to hurt him by breaking into his bedroom with Grace, his memory room, standing with her feet on his marital bed, using his wife's perfume. His love for his wife caused her inner envy and jealousy, so she tried to behave as subtly as possible in Thomas's house and trample on what was dear to him. Although why did he let her in there at all?!!

Relationship: exclusively business, with elements of sex and alcohol. No future was planned there.

To be honest, these s3 series, immediately after Grace's death, caused such a storm of emotions in me, I still can't understand why it was necessary to introduce such a plot with an abundance of debauchery, orgies so quickly, and most importantly, why it was necessary to bring it all to the house where a few months ago we played a wedding with a woman that Tommy will love for the rest of his life. I understand that this is all a movie, but I physically felt pain, bitterness and resentment for such an attitude to Grace's memory, it all looked like nothing terrible had happened, guys, moving on. I think it was rude to the fans of the T/G couple, who were already shocked by her murder. I am very angry at SK for this. Apparently, the author wanted to show the depth of Tommy's despair, the hell he found himself in, complete disorientation, and went all out. That's the only way I can explain it to myself.

Мэй.

Character: an attractive, educated, bored widow with good connections in high society, the owner of a stud farm, an excellent business partner for Tommy, opening up new horizons for his business. Ambitious, adventurous, suspicious, prudent, the mind prevails over the heart.

Relationship: Thomas is a pleasant exotic adventure for her, a curiosity, a "racketeer". A partner for sex, with him she feels like a woman again, "alive". Of course, this is a misalliance. It is unlikely that their relationship would end in marriage, I think they could only be lovers for a certain time, later the relationship would come to naught. In their communication, May's superiority over Thomas was felt, her tone always seemed to me imperious, she obviously tried to "bribe" him with her connections in high offices, thereby taking control of him. In her environment, Thomas would always be an outsider, from the lower society, even the groom in her stables allowed himself to be arrogant to Tommy, mockingly hinting at "gypsy stuff" when he gave good advice.

The whole essence of May's relationship to Thomas is shown in May's dialogue with Grace. For her, Shelby is primarily a lover, and she is a profitable connection for him. In her eyes, he is a man only about business: business, business and only business. She rules out the possibility that Thomas might love someone.

In conclusion (a little bit about Grace).

All the female characters who appeared in Thomas's life throughout all 6 seasons perceived him as an attractive, extraordinary, intelligent, very interesting man. But none of them loved him completely, with all his flaws and injuries. Only Grace. She was the one who sacrificed everything for him. In the first season of her career, she "betrayed all the principles given to her by birthright." In the second season - a quiet rich life, position in society, respect for his family. In the third season, with her life itself, though not consciously, but I'm sure if it were necessary, she would give her life for him voluntarily.

Grace was like Thomas, with her skeletons in the closet, with her injury, and her hands were "covered in blood." They were burned by circumstances and this made them "the same", they understood the motives of each other's behavior.

Other women in Tommy's life (excluding Tatiana, on the contrary, she was more "sick in the head", not controlled), were emotionally healthy, they did not cross the line, they were not broken, so they would never have been able to understand and accept Tommy to the end.

Thomas understood all this, felt and knew that there was no such Grace and never would be, which is why he never forgave himself for her loss. He died inwardly with her.

Love is blindness

Poor Lizzie.

Been binging your fics. When you write, what kind of consideration you make about Grace, Lizzie and May as Tommys love interest. Grace being the one he truly loved is undeniable, but he seemed to be very interested in May as well in S2/S4. Doesn't show the same interest in Lizzie. Even with the events that took place post S3, he might've loved and treated May better, a better fit as his partner. I wonder why he never sort May out after Graces death but went to Lizzie instead

I've writ about Grace before so will focus on May.

I don't think May would have been a good fit as a long term partner. I saw May's interest in Tommy exactly as he said 'because I represent something to you'. But he might as well have been talking about what she meant to him, because she was very significantly representative to him: because of her class, because of how she approached him, all the ribbing his brothers gave him, the fact that he, Small Heath shitty little gangster, could afford her...

I do think they had such a soft, sweet, tender and beautiful affair it was probably very healing and soothing for both, given they were trying to recover from losing loved ones, but it couldn't last. He was so very careful to only show certain aspects of himself to her.

I think of their attempted reconnection in S4 and his frustrated 'you people' outburst, his disgust at 'you people' and his self-disgust in dialogue with her at how business was less moral and clean caused more widespread damage than his gangster life, but he was looked down on by 'you people' for his gangster actions and lauded for the business ones. I suspect if he'd tried being with her long term, that 'you people' would have become quite a violent, extended piece of pain and friction. He would have either been swallowing it down constantly and hurting himself from it, or lashing out and hurting her for it.

I feel like he never wanted to hurt May at all and just didn't want to risk situations where he would hurt her. Hence how readily he accepted her breaking it off with him immediately after his 'you people' scene, which was pretty much the first and only time he expresses that layer of his actual, unadulterated self with her, and he almost ruefully accepts that that means he's now made it very clear he's unsuitable as a partner.

I think he was also very conscious that a fling with a racketeer adds a bit of spice to May's reputation in social circles, but taking up with him long term? He would have damaged her reputation significantly.

So as to speculation on why he went to Lizzie and not May in S3: Lizzie was close (daily exposure), Lizzie had done this for him before (the dispassionate sex scene in S2 is very shortly after Polly told him he needed to get over Grace; the dispassion could be read as him trying to just fuck it out of his system), no matter what he does with Lizzie it's not going to hurt her reputation any more and I feel like he was just sick of constantly hurting people/women by that point - in some ways Lizzie is a lot more reputationally durable to his 'corrupted touch' than any of his other women.

I also feel like Grace's death made him feel very out of control, and Tatiana's approach made him feel out of control, the whole Russian affair was something he was struggling to control, he had whatever weird sexual trauma/disgust/horror thing going on with Hughes as well (powerlessness?), and he couldn't do anything about any of that. Probably a lot of anxiety there and a desperation to feel like something was in his control. His engagement with Lizzie during S3 ('having sex again when he feels like it') felt like it had a lot of him exercising his control, including how where when and if they have sex. Someone like May wouldn't enable this level of control, and hence no sense of 'safety'/appeasement of anxiety around sex and women generally.

I think a huge part of Tommy and Lizzie's interactions were non romantic, off-screen and only alluded to, which makes it harder to see how they ended up marrying/becoming a couple when compared to these more obvious romantic-style relationships in May and Grace. But as a writer the invisible is absolutely fascinating to me so I think that's why Lizzie x Tommy appeals more to explore than Tommy x May or even Tommy x Grace. We saw and understood what was happening with Tommy x May; by contrast I'm still puzzling out what was going on with Lizzie x Tommy to build to the relationship complexity we see in S5 and particularly S6.

Lora, congratulations again on your milestone!! I would like to request a dark AU with the prompt "Jealous Sea" by Meg Myers. It can be for anyone you'd like although I was wondering what you might do with a Tommy x May pairing.

Hey, Lee! This is my first time writing a canon ship and it got a bit dark, but I hope I made it justice!

JEALOUS SEA BY MEG MYERS

May placed a gentle hand on Tommy's freckled face, he opened his eyes, weakly smiled and closed them again.

She couldn't believe her own luck (if she could call it that), two years after Tommy abandoned her at the races claiming he'd find her later, they made love on the stables under a sky full of stars.

After years of suffering, everything was nearly perfect, a diamond ring shone on her finger, her name was on his testament and a baby was in her womb, she wasn't sure if her body was able to carry it until the end of the pregnancy, but she was happy anyway. Things were nearly perfect.

Her dark eyes moved to the tattoo on his arm, she loved all of Tommy's tattoos, but that one always put her in the insecure zone.

Thomas, Grace and Charles, their initials were marked on his skin like a testament, May feared that was where his love and loyalty still remained.

One of them was already gone, deceased, May felt slightly guilty for the invading happiness in her heart when she got the news Grace was dead.

When it came to Charles, well, she supposed he was a good boy, very accepting of her and Tommy's marriage, it was a shame he needed to be gone too. May couldn't stand to look the boy in the eyes, they were Grace's eyes in a boyish face.

Tommy didn't know, but had already told her what to do, allergies, Charles had deadly allergies to peanuts and shellfish, she doubted the new cook was aware of that.

"Shall we get inside?" Tommy asked, sitting up and putting his shirt back on.

"Sure," May softly smiled, "I'll tell Frances to serve dinner."

"What's it tonight?"

"I don't know, love, the chef said he'd make his main specialty."

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Tommy calling Buck ‘Evan’ is my new religion 😭

Ways in which I think canon Buck would initiate more bucktommy kisses next ep<3

right before leaving for the bachelor party, they’re saying goodbye, so he leans up and gives tommy a peck. just mwah!

when Tommy saves chimney, Buck throws his arms around him and kisses him hard

alternatively, same scenario, Tommy gets off the chopper and before getting a word in Buck walks up to him and kisses him w so much intent they take a few steps back

while dancing at the wedding, Buck gets soft and kisses him slowly (in front of everyone)

back at the loft after the wedding, Buck kisses him hesitantly and it turns,, hungry

soft “here’s your coffee” morning kiss after an off screen night — aka saucy event?