Player: S. Contact: PM / thewriteway Anything Else?: Will talk forever about various writing projects (original/fanfic), always linking to music, squeeing about ballet and literature, currently obsessed with CMBYN. Also, I’m Danish, placing me in the completely wrong time zone for this shit and I’m thus also utterly ESL, please feel free to let me know if I mess anything up!
Character: Michel (Laurent) Canon: Call Me By Your Name / Find Me (novels) Canon Point: Post the Cadenza chapter of Find Me; aka the point in time when Elio made his biggest mistake yet, which is saying something, and left Michel behind.
Crime: Severe child neglect.
Background: His parents hated each other and made not only each other’s lives miserable, but Michel’s, too, forcing him to study law when the last thing he wanted to do was to become a lawyer. Married, had a child, lived the heteronormative picture perfect as expected, because his parents didn’t get what they wanted out of life, so neither should he. Some things are passed on. After twenty years of marriage, he and his wife divorced, because Michel had fallen in love with another man (again) and his son used this as an excuse to cut all contact to him. Having lived largely alone since then, Michel spends his big salary on good food, expensive clothes and other materialistic/hedonistic pleasures – plus, keeping his old family country home habitable where he spends every other weekend or so. He’s a pessimistic but outwardly pleasant and seemingly content man who always has an anecdote to tell or a story from his life. Slightly self-absorbed but means well and does his best to provide for the ones he cares about. Initiates a brief but passionate affair with the thirty-year younger Elio Perlman when their roads cross and Elio becomes the last piece in a puzzle that Michel has struggled with his whole life, yet he eventually lets him go, when Elio has to continue along his own path. Like I said, Elio’s second big mistake.
Abilities: Michel is a lawyer. Since it’s never stated what particular field he works in, I’ve been cruel to myself and decided he’s a corporate lawyer. He’s the senior lawyer and big-time boss of his grandfather’s old firm.
Plans: I’d really like to poke into Michel’s relationship to his estranged son by making him reflect on his own role in their difficult relationship, something he generally refrains from doing in canon. Hopefully, philosophizing and pondering the nature of guilt/crime/blame and all these things that he knows very well from an academic and intellectual point of view should make him slowly open up about this extreme loss in his life and lead to some development. Furthermore, I’d really like to strip him down and have him adapt to a less luxurious life than the one he’s used to living in canon. It would do him some good and hopefully make him a little less obnoxious, though some of it is also just his personality and probably won’t go away entirely, alas. I'm hoping for some 'when times get tough, you get tougher' action!
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Anything Else?: Will talk forever about various writing projects (original/fanfic), always linking to music, squeeing about ballet and literature, currently obsessed with CMBYN. Also, I’m Danish, placing me in the completely wrong time zone for this shit and I’m thus also utterly ESL, please feel free to let me know if I mess anything up!
Character: Michel (Laurent)
Canon: Call Me By Your Name / Find Me (novels)
Canon Point: Post the Cadenza chapter of Find Me; aka the point in time when Elio made his biggest mistake yet, which is saying something, and left Michel behind.
Crime: Severe child neglect.
Background: His parents hated each other and made not only each other’s lives miserable, but Michel’s, too, forcing him to study law when the last thing he wanted to do was to become a lawyer.
Married, had a child, lived the heteronormative picture perfect as expected, because his parents didn’t get what they wanted out of life, so neither should he. Some things are passed on.
After twenty years of marriage, he and his wife divorced, because Michel had fallen in love with another man (again) and his son used this as an excuse to cut all contact to him.
Having lived largely alone since then, Michel spends his big salary on good food, expensive clothes and other materialistic/hedonistic pleasures – plus, keeping his old family country home habitable where he spends every other weekend or so.
He’s a pessimistic but outwardly pleasant and seemingly content man who always has an anecdote to tell or a story from his life. Slightly self-absorbed but means well and does his best to provide for the ones he cares about.
Initiates a brief but passionate affair with the thirty-year younger Elio Perlman when their roads cross and Elio becomes the last piece in a puzzle that Michel has struggled with his whole life, yet he eventually lets him go, when Elio has to continue along his own path.
Like I said, Elio’s second big mistake.
Abilities: Michel is a lawyer. Since it’s never stated what particular field he works in, I’ve been cruel to myself and decided he’s a corporate lawyer. He’s the senior lawyer and big-time boss of his grandfather’s old firm.
Plans: I’d really like to poke into Michel’s relationship to his estranged son by making him reflect on his own role in their difficult relationship, something he generally refrains from doing in canon. Hopefully, philosophizing and pondering the nature of guilt/crime/blame and all these things that he knows very well from an academic and intellectual point of view should make him slowly open up about this extreme loss in his life and lead to some development. Furthermore, I’d really like to strip him down and have him adapt to a less luxurious life than the one he’s used to living in canon. It would do him some good and hopefully make him a little less obnoxious, though some of it is also just his personality and probably won’t go away entirely, alas. I'm hoping for some 'when times get tough, you get tougher' action!
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