#but i really wanna try my hand at 2 that is absolutely my favourite benedict

[hukkelberg]

There's a few tropes popping up in my register as I back comb through the entirety of the Penelope/Benedict tag (which is not that big of an ordeal as it may seem considering there's only 64 of them and I haven't sorted out the ones that involve Colin) and a lot of them are the common you know forced marriage, compromising, arrangement of convenience etc but I've picked up on a funny little dichotomy:

Benedict is very sweet and dotting and admiring—a handsome man coming to sweep Penelope off her feet in a joking way as they either find themselves married off or arranged to be so amongst one another, and are pleasantly surprised by the tender feelings that creep up on them. This one strikes me as very austenesque.

Benedict accidentally walks in on a naked Penelope or finds her engaged in whichever licentious act, and is so immediately utterly horny someone has to physically step in and remove him from the situation, and then he's off chasing after her so hard he (also accidentally) crosses the cusp of lust into love without noticing. This one is very fun.

I enjoy both very much, it goes without saying

#and by god i will write them both one day. #i think everything we left in the garden most resembles a grown version of one #bc it's very much persuasion meets widowers falling in love #but i really wanna try my hand at 2 that is absolutely my favourite benedict #it's like A fell first B fell harder but benedict's both #hukkelberg.exe has stopped working #penedict #i guess im just tagging the ship name until i find an appropriate ship tag