Oh, this is lovely! A perfect drabble, as well as a perfect picture of who Marianne and Brandon are/become over the course of S&S.
How romantic a lifetime of discovery would be.
That is so very romantic, and I think it's very much the sort of thing Marianne, now better acquainted with the world, would think -- she got to know Willoughby in only a few hours, and as Elinor rightly pointed out, there was nothing left after that, and Willoughby didn't stick around. Of course this image is only strengthened by having Alan Rickman in the role being very mysterious and romantic...
Also love that you brought up the flannel waistcoat bit! That line always cracks me up, and I think in time Marianne would laugh at herself and it would be a great joke between them.
And it's so interesting that you've put the word "longing" there in the next-to-last line. It seems like marriage would be the end of longing -- but I think it's quite true that it's only the start of longing!
I suppose since my review's getting longer than your drabble, I'd better stop, lol. But this is just wonderful. And I do hope you'll try some more Marianne/Brandon sometime, because I think you've got just as astute observations about them as about R/T that would make for fabulous fics. And there's just not enough Austen fic out there!
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Date: 2009-01-06 09:03 pm (UTC)How romantic a lifetime of discovery would be.
That is so very romantic, and I think it's very much the sort of thing Marianne, now better acquainted with the world, would think -- she got to know Willoughby in only a few hours, and as Elinor rightly pointed out, there was nothing left after that, and Willoughby didn't stick around. Of course this image is only strengthened by having Alan Rickman in the role being very mysterious and romantic...
Also love that you brought up the flannel waistcoat bit! That line always cracks me up, and I think in time Marianne would laugh at herself and it would be a great joke between them.
And it's so interesting that you've put the word "longing" there in the next-to-last line. It seems like marriage would be the end of longing -- but I think it's quite true that it's only the start of longing!
I suppose since my review's getting longer than your drabble, I'd better stop, lol. But this is just wonderful. And I do hope you'll try some more Marianne/Brandon sometime, because I think you've got just as astute observations about them as about R/T that would make for fabulous fics. And there's just not enough Austen fic out there!