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There are wolves on the walls as well as outside them, but these wolves look like men.
He's barefoot on the ramparts after having spent the whole night carousing, contemplating the world in that quiet hour just before dawn, listening to the wolves singing their lonely song in the surrounding hills, when Pierre comes up to him with a question and a proposition.
It's not stated explicitly in the film, but it's implied that this party was the moment when Pierre first takes serious notice of Jacques; a squire already notable for his size and strength, who can read Latin as well as a priest, but also loves to fuck pretty women in semi-public settings. He's the ideal wingman for Pierre, who is also all of those things, but who, alas, is not very good with numbers.
Jacques, conveniently, is.
And, moreover, Jacques is happy to go do the dirty work of twisting the arms of whoever owes taxes due to his liege lord, his newfound friend and ally, with the hopes of having his loyalty generously rewarded. Unlike Jean de Carrouges, whose family name was ancient, honorable, and came with significant property, Le Gris's father was the first of his family line on record. They were newly minted nobility, with no heritage, no honor, and without significant holdings to divide among siblings upon his father's death. Having the favor of a liege lord like Count Pierre would have been critical to Jacques, both politically and financially; it could make or break his, and his descendants', fortunes.
It was clear though, that, at least in the film, the relationship between these two was also based on a sense of kinship and genuine affection for each other. Pierre confides in Jacques not just as a liege lord but also as a friend, and it's as a friend as well as a vassal that Jacques agrees to help.
Screencap used for reference was taken by @/vanshots on Twitter; thank you!!
About 9.5 hours of drawing time. I had a lot of fun with that fur lining the blanket. It looks like it would be a nightmare, but it really wasn't; maybe that means I'm getting better at fur?
He's barefoot on the ramparts after having spent the whole night carousing, contemplating the world in that quiet hour just before dawn, listening to the wolves singing their lonely song in the surrounding hills, when Pierre comes up to him with a question and a proposition.
It's not stated explicitly in the film, but it's implied that this party was the moment when Pierre first takes serious notice of Jacques; a squire already notable for his size and strength, who can read Latin as well as a priest, but also loves to fuck pretty women in semi-public settings. He's the ideal wingman for Pierre, who is also all of those things, but who, alas, is not very good with numbers.
Jacques, conveniently, is.
And, moreover, Jacques is happy to go do the dirty work of twisting the arms of whoever owes taxes due to his liege lord, his newfound friend and ally, with the hopes of having his loyalty generously rewarded. Unlike Jean de Carrouges, whose family name was ancient, honorable, and came with significant property, Le Gris's father was the first of his family line on record. They were newly minted nobility, with no heritage, no honor, and without significant holdings to divide among siblings upon his father's death. Having the favor of a liege lord like Count Pierre would have been critical to Jacques, both politically and financially; it could make or break his, and his descendants', fortunes.
It was clear though, that, at least in the film, the relationship between these two was also based on a sense of kinship and genuine affection for each other. Pierre confides in Jacques not just as a liege lord but also as a friend, and it's as a friend as well as a vassal that Jacques agrees to help.
Screencap used for reference was taken by @/vanshots on Twitter; thank you!!
About 9.5 hours of drawing time. I had a lot of fun with that fur lining the blanket. It looks like it would be a nightmare, but it really wasn't; maybe that means I'm getting better at fur?
