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Outlander 31 Day Challenge: Day 17

Welcome to the Outlander 31 Day Challenge!

Today is Day 17: Favorite Brianna scene

The immortal exchange with Lord John in 04x11 "If Not For Hope" - when she asks him to marry her, lets him know she knows he is in love with her father, and threatens to expose his sexuality to the world if he refuses.

She is practical, badass, and every ounce Jamie and Claire's daughter.

And Lord John knows it! Which is why he tells her that he loves the love Jamie and Claire have for each other, and how he wants her to have the same love in her life.

I do love the respect and admiration they have for each other. I so hope that in Season 7 we see them together with William!

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Braeden Clarke // Kaheroton // “Outlander” (04x11)  

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YOU HAVE MADE MY LIFE WHOLE

😭😭😭😭😭

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[gotham-ruaidh]

when u have nothing but heart eyes for ur OTP but also kinda want to be one half of the OTP

see also: Lord John Grey and Jamie & Claire

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[gotham-ruaidh]

Jocasta tells Brianna how much she is like Ellen.

Brianna comes to the dinner wearing Ellen's pearls. Then proceeds to chart her own destiny, despite the intentions of her relatives. Outsmarting them. Just like Ellen did.

Jamie would be so proud.

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[gotham-ruaidh]

Yet again, in 04x11 the Outlander writers deftly use a three-beat to advance a story. Case in point - Jamie’s letter to Brianna.

Beat 0 (not part of the three-beat, but a moment that perfectly sets it up): Brianna is short with Lizzie when Lizzie asks whether she will forgive her father. Brianna uses words like “if”, not “will.”

Beat 1: Lord John gives the letter to Brianna. She is surprised, and taken aback, and suspicious that Lord John knows more than he lets on.

Beat 2: That night, Brianna looks at the letter - it’s on her nightstand - but she doesn’t read it. Still full of confused emotions.

Beat 3: After the hullabaloo with Lord John - he tells her his impressions about Jamie (and Claire), and she realizes that he has no reason to lie. She learns a lot about Jamie through Lord John’s eyes. We see that she’s been carrying the letter in her pocket - perhaps a plot convenience, but more likely because she wanted his words to be close to her. And then we see her open up the letter.

Each time she sees the letter, Brianna is emotionally at a different place. Suspicious, hurt, confused. Not sure whether she even wants to read Jamie’s words. But her short experiences with Lord John - and his words, which she knows must be true - move her. She learns from him. And goes from being bitter, to being suspicious, to being at least open to seeing what her father has to say.

A three-beat is a simple, but so very effective plot device and I was so thrilled to see it used so effectively in 04x11. 

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[gotham-ruaidh]

Lord John all heart eyes over Jamie and Claire's love tho

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[gotham-ruaidh]

Lord John (indirectly) describes Jamie as a gentleman.

Jamie describes himself as a brute.

What a spectacular contrast he is.

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[gotham-ruaidh]

I have not read all of the LJG books only the ones with Jamie in them. I do not remember LJG being so careless as to screw in the hallway of a house where he can be seen by just anybody. Isn't this totally out of character?

Consider that he propositioned Jamie - a prisoner under his supervision - knowing full well that there was a fundamentally unequal power dynamic in their relationship at the time.

Also consider that in canon, he’s seen leaving the slave quarters late at night - clearly after an assignation. Another fundamentally unequal power dynamic.

So no, it’s not out of character at all.

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