Charles-Henri Rewright

Charles-Henri rewright

Now, a very big critique I have with my previous versions of Sanson (that I haven't published yet) and several other versions FGO, Monsieur de Paris and Innocent, is that young Charles is way too fluffy and not clumsy enough, especially when contrasted with his historical counterpart.

I want him to come off as roguishly intelligent, and as someone able to pass for someone else in boarding school, so for his lies to be convincing, he'd also need to have a fairly good memory. Also, he'd be helping his father kill/torture people since age 12 as a summer job.

He lacks self-reflection, and would be considered kind of brainwashed and crazy...He doesn't lack empathy, but he does lack self-reflection.

Also, he was known as being clumsy on the scaffold, so I think for a fictional counterpart, it would be kind of funny if he's also clumsy off the scaffold. Also, because being clumsy was the worst reputation an executioner could have, so he's pretty insecure about it. But he also survived a lot of potencial lynchings...So, that's an odd combo.

I also like the idea of him befriending the school's professional spanker.

Also, because being in a boarding school with some wealthy kids from aristocratic families, and poor kids from artisan families, he would need to eventually have to explain away that he didn't experience several social events that were common place at the time with his father being a Janséniste (something deeply frowned upon in a Jesuit school no less, and while knowing his father is a devout catholic).

Also, dance lessons (yes, his dad decided to pay for dance lessons) would be as awkard as possibly possible. And his lying and lack of self-reflection would create scenes like this:

Teacher: No, Charles-Henry, it is not acceptable to knock out book cases. Go stand in the corner with the dunce hat.

Charles-Henri: Yes. I'm so sorry. (thinking to himself: wow, I can't believe that with jesuits and normies, it's this easy to talk myself out of a whipping. All I have to do is stand there with a silly hat, faking embarassement. Is this the reason why outsiders spend so much time trying to harm people condemned to the pilory who don't appear to care ? Interesting...)

Or:

Classmate: How can you befriend the guy who's in charge of beating us ?

Charles-Henri: There's no school rules against such frequentations, so I simply took my liberties as I see fit. Rules are strict enough as is. (Really, he's made to share a room with the school corrector).

(Basically, honor and caring for one's reputation was very important in the XVIIIth century, for at least purely self-preservation reason. And now, there's a 10-14 year old who never had to maintain reputation amongst his peers having to fake his identity at boarding school.)

Living abroad really shows me how absurd American and Canadian politics regarding public transportation really are

The "right wing politicians being pro-cars and anti-public transport" is a level of absurdity that is seldom seen accross the world. Like, the country were I reside is deeply socially conservative, very traditional values, and still have public transportation and walkable streets.

Is my character design better than Snow White 2024 by Disney ?

Like...I know it's far from perfect, but I still like it. I decided to go a "by the book" approach to her character design, and go for something 1740s inspired.

Scalpel

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Jean-Baptiste, now pinned down and his movements limited by his stroke, felt like he was young all over again, in the worst way possible. He had once again many rivals who swarmed to Paris like vultures, each one trying to get the position of executioner of Paris for himself. He and his mother managed to diverge most of them, usually with revelations of bribery.

And once again, he was in a position to once again dissobey his mother in the name of love, this time not fraternal nor sexual, but fatherly. Socializing with his colleagues and their sons did taught him how it was expected of their wives to know how to dissect, how to cook human fat, and so on, and even help their husbands or sons on the scaffold. So now, Madeleine should learn that trade to. He would also need to have her desensitized as fast as possible to sleeping and living right next to torture instruments.

Setting up new rules for her was key, and that meant she would have to sleep in the torture chamber at least once a week, it didn't matter which day. "No, Madeleine, it's for your good, and you are not allowed a single word of protest, have I made myself clear ?

-But...

-Also, you will join your brothers for the next dissection. Make sure to dress more simply for the occasion."

Madeleine seemed puzzled. Normally, she was not allowed in, at all. It was explicitly against the rules set up by Anne-Marthe. But also, she was normally also not allowed to sleep there, nor wanted to. Yet, many things were now changing...Changing for the worst, and if she would to be married off soon, she might as well have be taught the skills to survive it.

Jean-Baptiste Sanson rewright

So, I think for a more historically accurate and sensible manga about the Sanson family...

Jean-Baptiste would be the...least normal one. He grew up without the need to maintain a reputation, but with a crap ton of rivals.

As an adult, he's the type of man that doesn't leave indifferent. He's cold, and tends to use psychological violence to avoid physical one when he can. He's a firm believer that kids need CP, and a lot of it, plus instinct of repitition. He's abusive physically, but with his family, he shows a more affectionate side.

Also, to him, wanting the approval of someone on an emotional level is deeply intimate. and he's overall very stoic. The only one he oppenly seeks the approval of is his mother. And frankly, that makes him seem like kind of an asshole. Also, because of his status as executioner in third generation, he doesn't necessarily understand the social norms that are outside his cast. To those of his cast, he comforms pretty well, and he's the figure of hardened pariah masculinity, without necessarily being rude. Also, he's often times more polite with the condemned that with the judges.

With that out of the way, Jean-Baptiste is a man in a stressful situation. Just imagine killing for a living, having a list of rivals including one that lives right next door, and also having the equivalent of Weinstein as a nextdoor neighbour, exept if Weinstein was into more sadistic stuff and frequently expressed his desire to torture his daughter, right in front of him, and he has the social status to get away with it. That's on top of being an executioner, with all the psychological weight this implies, and he's also a medic who makes his own remedies from scratch, with his wife and daughter being the main helpers. Also, Charles-Henri was a klutz, who would often mess up stuff on the scaffold, and gets bullied even with a secret identity in boarding school (this is the school system that produced a certain Divin Marquis). So, for Jean-Baptiste, keeping his eldest son unlynched is a part-time job to mess up his already incredibly busy squedule.

Jean-Baptiste and the comte de Charolais are "friends", well, more of an allience. Charolais finds Sanson III fascinating because he's one of the only people who doesn't fear nor admire him, and also because his low social status and medical skills allow the count to use Sanson III to patch up his victims to drown out the scandals. In exchange, he has a pact of non-agression, plus he'll help defend the Sanson's family's interests for succession stuff.

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