[ SECRET POST #2364 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2364 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 098 secrets from Secret Submission Post #337.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

06. http://i.imgur.com/o06H8WX.png

[(Anonymous)]

How dare they make your husbando a stupid girl, amirite?

[vethica]

I am not sure a character from 19th century French literature can qualify as a husbando.

[(Anonymous)]

You wouldn't believe how obsessed some fans are with their 19th century literature male characters.

[vethica]

Fair enough.

OP here

[(Anonymous)]

I could have written it more clearly. It isn't the fact that Aramis is a girl what bothers me. It is more that, as another anon says in other comment, 'He was, in the books, the prettiest and the most elegant'.

So, obviously it means the character is a girl, right? Well, excuse me while I facepalm.

And then they make her story all about the man she lost.

Re: OP here

[(Anonymous)]

I used to write a small series where D'Artagnan was secretly a girl but no one suspected it because they read them as masculine.

[chardmonster]

...?

[(Anonymous)]

They all are female here, not only the pretty one.

And it is Barbie.

[electromouse]

Holy crap I remember that anime.

The more I remember, the more my mind goes to that shower scene where the anime shouted loud and clear "Plot twist: ARAMIS HAS BOOBS!!" and that was the only episode I saw of it.

[(Anonymous)]

I so wanted to see this series, but no anime group I knew ever got it, and I don't know if its available now. IS IT???? Because I really want to see it, still.

[electromouse]

I just went to search for it and found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8yidDdXKro

[transcriptanon]

[Picture is from an anime version of "The Three Musketeers". D'Artagnan, Aramis, Porthos and Athos are sitting and standing together at a table and laughing over something. There is a tagline in the picture that says: "One friend in a lifetime is much. Two are many. Three are hardly possible!"]

I will never get over the fact that Aramis is female in this version.

Secret because who the hell remembers the Three Musketeers anime.

[ninety6tears]

Was this any good?

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't actually heard of this anime, but I can't help but find Aramis to be a very odd choice. I mean, if you're only going to be gender-swapping one of the Musketeers, why would you pick the one who was so heavily involved in the Church? It doesn't make it impossible (wanting to be an abbess rather than an abbe, easy enough, though the Jesuits would be more difficult), but it seems to me it'd be more difficult than making Athos or Porthos or even d'Artagnan female. Why go for the most difficult one to do well?

[(Anonymous)]

He was, in the books, the prettiest and the most elegant, so I guess that worked more for him than for the others. D'Artagnan, Porthos and Athos exhibited more "masculine" qualities from the start. But yes, his involvement with the Catholic Church doesn't really fit - as a woman, options were rather limited and often linked with life-long seclusion in a convent.

[(Anonymous)]

That's what I thought. I mean, Porthos would be easy to turn into a woman. Athos would be slightly more difficult, but the Athos/Milady storyline would be fascinating if Athos were a woman too. D'Artagnan would actually be really easy as well, a Gascon girl who dressed as a boy to fulfil her dream of being a Musketeer, and that would be fascinating when Athos, in particular, found out.

Aramis just seems to be the hardest to do. You'd have to change his whole backstory ... and his whole story in general, actually, since his surviving several events depends on his relationship with the power structure of the Church.

Spoilers

[(Anonymous)]

Well, they do in fact change his whole backstory. She becomes a musketeer to avenge her brother. Or was it her fiancee? I don't remember. Anyway, whoever it was, a significant man on her life was murdered. And she kind of betrays the other musketeers when the opportunity to confront the killer comes up.

Re: Spoilers

[(Anonymous)]

... Okay then. So, not really Aramis at all, then?

If you were going to do that, why not pick D'Artagnan? Some adaptations have gone the route of his avenging dead relatives (it's been too long since I've read it, I can't remember if his father's murder was original or from the adaptations), and he's hotheaded enough to get into that kind of trouble.

Or Athos, at a push. He's not much closer than Aramis, but the thing with Milady could have been worked around to that.

[(Anonymous)]

If I remember right I loved this anime and I also loved this twist. I was also fan of Lady Oscar so it was normal (?) for me to see a female fighter. As a child I thought it was normal for this time era that women wear male clothes to become a fighter.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, as far as I know the whole "girl disguises herself as a man and fights in a war" did start happening around the 16th - 17th century.

[truxillogical]

Huh. Never heard of this, but it looks like fun.

[swordspoint]

I used to be obsessed with this anime back in the day! It's still one of my favorite Musketeers adaptations.

[(Anonymous)]

I remember! Though I completely missed the whole "Aramis is a girl" thing when I watched it as a kid... I was pretty shocked when I found out about that plot twist a few years ago.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow. I was only aware of the version where they were all dogs. Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds. Good times.