Well Hellooo there ladies. After 10 hilariously funny laugh out loud threads, I thought the final Sexmas Eve of the series (sob) would be as good a time as any to finally delurk and join you all if I may. I would have done so threads ago, but your sheer rate of random blabbering level of commitment and my lack of belief I could match up against your erudition and eloquence of wit kept me lurking in the shadows.
However with all this speculation on plot lines (yes, plot chat....who'd have thought!), I got to wondering how they could maintain the Athos/milady tension and have developed a theory....I've not read that far into the book, so if it resembles the original story in any way, apologies for being boringly predictable.
Anyway, here's my theory (ahem) I reckon the real reason why milady did for delaferetheyounger has to come out - he did something vile to her and because he was everybody's favourite no one would believe her - but it would be something that would justify her killing him. So, rather than hating her, our gorgeous hero can go back to feeling guilty and tortured for originally having her hanged. She is then thrown in the Bastille, from where he secretly help her to escape. She finds another evil patron and sinks back into the shadows so she can continue being devilish, but this time Athos can't resist her when she returns periodically every episode to ravish him.
They get a bit of bed action, we get a bit more billowing, open even more, shirt action, and Athos gets to remain miserable and self loathing (just the way he likes it), cue lots of piercing bedroom eyes and leaning.
So whaddaya think? More holes than the real plot writers??, I'll fit right in then :)
Heres my list btw:
As Musketeers - Athos
In RL -Tom Burke (but he'd have to arrive in full Athos costume on that gorgeous black horse)
So, sorry Hannah, Comtess and all the others on the Athos spreadsheet, you'll have to budge up a bit, I'm about four and a half years pregnant, and if I don't get a go, I will get very hormonal on yo ass - chin jut, clicks fingers realises I'm a middle class white woman from a small northern town and really can't carry that off Fortunately, in my lecherous fantasies, my massively distended front side completely disappears and I magically revert to the taut athletic body I had 10 20 years ago.
I may hang on to the impressively hoikable bosom however.