"Bloody Jack" ramblings
Apr. 8th, 2012 11:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amelia_petkovaOne of the reasons why I love the Bloody Jack series so much is all the references to and interactions with historical figures of that period, both real and fictional. This brings us to:
Characters and Historical Figures I Want Jacky Faber to Meet:
(This list is very much European/English language-based as well as literary, as those are the areas of early 19th century history and literature I am most familiar with.)
--Zorro (he's active a couple of decades after the events of the current Jacky books, so I maintain it could totally happen)
--Brothers Grimm
--Louisa May Alcott (She wrote potboilers! Alcott also lived in New England and I am sure that a fictional version of her would have read Amy Trevelyne's Jacky books.)
--Jane Austen/her characters
--Mary Shelley
--Washington Irving/his characters
I may make additions to this list in the future. I wanted to include Casanova, but according to the official Bloody Jack timeline, she was born only eight years before he died.
I also have fun imagining Jacky ending up at the Jusenkyou Springs from Ranma 1/2. (Is there anybody here who hasn't heard of that anime/manga? The basic context you need is that it is a set of cursed springs and whoever falls into one, takes the shape of whatever died in the spring. Cold water activates the curse and hot water changes the person back to normal.) Jacky could fall into the Spring of Drowned Boy, which would make it easier for her to crossdress! Although I worry that it would do even more harm to Jaimy's remaining mental stability.
Characters and Historical Figures I Want Jacky Faber to Meet:
(This list is very much European/English language-based as well as literary, as those are the areas of early 19th century history and literature I am most familiar with.)
--Zorro (he's active a couple of decades after the events of the current Jacky books, so I maintain it could totally happen)
--Brothers Grimm
--Louisa May Alcott (She wrote potboilers! Alcott also lived in New England and I am sure that a fictional version of her would have read Amy Trevelyne's Jacky books.)
--Jane Austen/her characters
--Mary Shelley
--Washington Irving/his characters
I may make additions to this list in the future. I wanted to include Casanova, but according to the official Bloody Jack timeline, she was born only eight years before he died.
I also have fun imagining Jacky ending up at the Jusenkyou Springs from Ranma 1/2. (Is there anybody here who hasn't heard of that anime/manga? The basic context you need is that it is a set of cursed springs and whoever falls into one, takes the shape of whatever died in the spring. Cold water activates the curse and hot water changes the person back to normal.) Jacky could fall into the Spring of Drowned Boy, which would make it easier for her to crossdress! Although I worry that it would do even more harm to Jaimy's remaining mental stability.
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Date: 2012-04-08 03:49 pm (UTC)(I also want Pirates of the Caribbean and Master and Commander and I don't care if they're not one hundred percent the right time period. JACKY IMPROVES EVERYTHING.)
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Date: 2012-04-08 04:00 pm (UTC)Clearly Jacky needs to become a time-traveler! (I want Amy along for the ride so that she can write about everything.)