- Canon point has now been chosen to be the most tragic possible.
- Additions have been made to Personality section:
In general, though, the core of Nostradamus is a kind man who has not had the chance to rest because of his visions, because of the plague, because of his low social status.
That is not to say he's without a temper--he threatens Clarissa, the girl he saved from the woods, after bringing her to the castle leads to misfortune and death as she grows up. He locks her up in a cage, threatens to starve her. His anger doesn't lead to duels him grabbing a sword; it looks different than Henry and his sons, with their constant low-level dick-waving over Mary and other women. He is usually angry on behalf of others, and not for himself, and it manifests more in words than outright violence: "You see Mary as a victim. You think you have a bond because you see yourself as fate's victim, too. But she is a beautiful queen, and you...you are a monster." The one time we see him with a sword in hand is to cut the head off a snake, saving Olivia's life
Nostradamus' relationship with Olivia leads to tension in his relationship with Catherine when he attempts to leave the French court with her, to start a new life. Catherine sees the loss of his visions as a betrayal, and Nostradamus threatens her: "You can force me to stay... but not to see. You'll have me, but not my visions. Not if you cost me this last chance at happiness." In the end, though, he sends Olivia on to Trinidad and his family alone, after Catherine leaves the aforementioned venomous snake in her luggage--he wishes for her to have happiness and recognizes (bitterly) that he's sort of chained to the court; Catherine will not let him go free. We don't see him talk to her again on the show for the rest of season 1, not until plague threatens the castle in season 2.
The loss of Olivia leaves Nostradamus with a certainty he'll never love again, but the character isn't shown dealing with this, as he moves out of the recurring cast in season 2, and his last episode (which is after my canon point) is the death of Francis, which he predicted at the beginning of the show.
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- Additions have been made to Personality section:
In general, though, the core of Nostradamus is a kind man who has not had the chance to rest because of his visions, because of the plague, because of his low social status.
That is not to say he's without a temper--he threatens Clarissa, the girl he saved from the woods, after bringing her to the castle leads to misfortune and death as she grows up. He locks her up in a cage, threatens to starve her. His anger doesn't lead to duels him grabbing a sword; it looks different than Henry and his sons, with their constant low-level dick-waving over Mary and other women. He is usually angry on behalf of others, and not for himself, and it manifests more in words than outright violence: "You see Mary as a victim. You think you have a bond because you see yourself as fate's victim, too. But she is a beautiful queen, and you...you are a monster." The one time we see him with a sword in hand is to cut the head off a snake, saving Olivia's life
Nostradamus' relationship with Olivia leads to tension in his relationship with Catherine when he attempts to leave the French court with her, to start a new life. Catherine sees the loss of his visions as a betrayal, and Nostradamus threatens her: "You can force me to stay... but not to see. You'll have me, but not my visions. Not if you cost me this last chance at happiness." In the end, though, he sends Olivia on to Trinidad and his family alone, after Catherine leaves the aforementioned venomous snake in her luggage--he wishes for her to have happiness and recognizes (bitterly) that he's sort of chained to the court; Catherine will not let him go free. We don't see him talk to her again on the show for the rest of season 1, not until plague threatens the castle in season 2.
The loss of Olivia leaves Nostradamus with a certainty he'll never love again, but the character isn't shown dealing with this, as he moves out of the recurring cast in season 2, and his last episode (which is after my canon point) is the death of Francis, which he predicted at the beginning of the show.