Fandom meme

[nineveh_uk]

This was going round a while ago and I had no time to do it. But now I will!

Give me a character and I will tell you...

* How I feel about this character
* All the people I ship romantically with this character
* My non-romantic OTP for this character
* My unpopular opinion about this character
* One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
* Something about them I consider true, even though it's only my head canon/fanon

Comments

[legionseagle]

I've explained before that I think Sayers was shockingly bad about either lack of research into or blatant handwaving away of facts about legal procedure and etiquette (for example, in Strong Poison Miss Climpson blatantly breaks an oath, with no-one remarking on it at all) and one of the odd things about the first trial is that apparently no attempt is made to put forward a substantive argument about what Boyes could have done to get the arsenic into himself. It's all dependent upon them arguing that the Crown hasn't proved Harriet did it.

[nineveh_uk]

Yes, it's not as if they don't have any alternative options. Ryland Vaughan is adamant that Boyes didn't do it himself, but it's hard to imagine that he would come across well in the witness box. He's so obviously vindictive towards Harriet, and he's spoken openly about being able to supply Boyes with poison, that it oughtn't to be impossible to make him appear at best totally unreliable and just trying to get at H, with an added suggestion that he might well have done it himself.

[legionseagle]

I can see why Sir Impey might not have run that line of defence, but portraying Vaughan as a jealous and unreliable bloke with a crush on Boyes you could see from space who might have done in Boyes in an "If I can't have him he's nobody's" sort of move would have been my approach.

[nineveh_uk]

It would at least cast a bit more doubt in the jury's mind than eloquent pleading seems to have done. Could there have been concern that by saying "these are the sorts of people Boyes hung about with" that the jury's opinion of Harriet would have been blackened further (except that she obviously didn't hang out with Vaughan herself).

[legionseagle]

It would explain why she refused marriage.