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Fic Rec: Jeeves and the Inferior Valet
Mar. 11th, 2013 12:14 amA truly remarkable crossover is a story that makes it seem inevitable and only right that these characters should meet. To take two fandoms of very different emotional tone and make them work, while keeping characters intact, is harder than it sounds.
But when it's done right, it's so good.
Jeeves and the Inferior Valet is a Downton Abbey/Jeeves & Wooster crossover, and it works brilliantly. From the idea of Violet Crawley summoning aunts and calling in favours for unmarried granddaughters (and Aunt Dahlia blackmailing Bertie to attend), it works.
Add in Thomas Barrows and a Bertie who may be in love with Jeeves but certainly wouldn't suggest anything ungentlemanly to that paragon of valets, and certain things occur.
You see, Jeeves is a paragon among valets, but there are certain things one cannot ask him to do. Barrow was no Jeeves, but he was a valet with dark, brilliantined hair, who had only just now herded me neatly out of a shallow puddle of soup.
Certain things that result Bertie and Thomas both being the in the soup, and turning to Jeeves. As should always happen for Bertie, it is a happy ending by the end, even if Jeeves superior brain and ability at blackmail are required.
But when it's done right, it's so good.
Jeeves and the Inferior Valet is a Downton Abbey/Jeeves & Wooster crossover, and it works brilliantly. From the idea of Violet Crawley summoning aunts and calling in favours for unmarried granddaughters (and Aunt Dahlia blackmailing Bertie to attend), it works.
Add in Thomas Barrows and a Bertie who may be in love with Jeeves but certainly wouldn't suggest anything ungentlemanly to that paragon of valets, and certain things occur.
You see, Jeeves is a paragon among valets, but there are certain things one cannot ask him to do. Barrow was no Jeeves, but he was a valet with dark, brilliantined hair, who had only just now herded me neatly out of a shallow puddle of soup.
Certain things that result Bertie and Thomas both being the in the soup, and turning to Jeeves. As should always happen for Bertie, it is a happy ending by the end, even if Jeeves superior brain and ability at blackmail are required.
