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This Masterlist only includes stories I have written since I returned to ficcing in December 2020. All links go to my works at An Archive of Our Own, where I am, as here, DorsetGirl.

Most of the stories listed below are based on the ITV series Sharpe, starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe. The series was itself based on a series of books by Bernard Cornwell, all called Sharpe's xxx. I do not claim to own any of the original works my stories are based on, nor am I making any profit. Quite the opposite, given the amount of time I spend on them...

Sharpe Transcript Series

These stories are based on detailed transcripts of moments in the show, imagining the thoughts, emotions and motivations of the characters portrayed on screen. In these fics, all dialogue is borrowed from the show while all other words are mine.

Sharpe’s Rifles: Saving Sir Arthur
Sharpe’s Rifles: Sharpe Meets the Chosen Men
Sharpe’s Eagle: Dangerous Street for a Lady
Sharpe’s Challenge: Sharpe Meets an Old Friend
Sharpe’s Peril: Hanging Barabbas
Sharpe’s Peril: Sharpe is Shot. Again.
Sharpe’s Peril: Sharpe Reflects On His Life
Sharpe’s Peril: The Road to Calcutta
Sharpe’s Peril: Sharpe Returns
Sharpe’s Peril: One More Battle


Letters With Marie-Angelique

A Regency Romance series, set in 1821. After his adventures in India (Sharpe's Challenge and Sharpe's Peril), Colonel Richard Sharpe retired to his farm in Normandy. Three years later, out of the blue, he receives a letter from Marie-Angelique Bonnet, whom he met in Peril. In the show, the Sharpe/Marie-Angelique pairing is hinted at as a future possibility:

Marie-Angelique: "Perhaps... one day I shall visit you?"
Sharpe: "I should like that."
Marie-Angelique: *waiting for a kiss*
Sharpe: *oblivious*
Marie-Angelique: *kisses Sharpe*
Sharpe: *looks thoughtful*

1. A Letter of Hope
2. Letter of Invitation
3. A Letter of Interest
4. A Letter of Light
5. Invitation to a Dance
6. Daffodils
7. Dance With Me
8. Walk With Me
9. A Marriageable Property
10. A Good and Decent Man
11. To Our Future, Whatever It May Hold
12. The Suitor
13. Moving On
14. Love Letters
15. Sunrise in the Garden
16. Confession
17. A Quiet Evening In
18. Clearing the Air


Other Sharpe Stories

Army, Sir. Just - Army

Rough Diamond (set during Sharpe’s Rifles)
A Proper Officer (set during Sharpe’s Peril)
Inspection Before the Battle
A Crack Company (set during Sharpe's Eagle)
Sharpe im Dornwald (Sharpe in the Thorn Wood)


Sharpe/Harper

FlashSlash - 4 ficlets, prompts 145 and 146
FlashSlash - 4 ficlets, prompts 142 and 144
Sharpe by Day
FlashSlash Challenge 137
FlashSlash Challenge 136, Prompt Set 1
FlashSlash Prompts 140 and 141
Sharpe im Dornwald (Sharpe in the Thorn Wood)


Harper would like these to be Sharpe/Harper. One day, maybe

Imaginings
A Little Wild Bird


Post-Canon

Filming Sharpe's Farewell (RPF)
Sharpe's Farewell (just the scene itself, for those who don't want to read RPF)
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1:30 Hold on, this scene is what Marlott saw in his dream. How did he manage that?

7:25 "How can that be? She's cured!" "All sins are forgiven here - no corruption". So he's either seeing, or imagining, his wife and baby daughter in the afterlife.

8:15 Maybe it's just the light, but it looks like Sean's got grey roots. At least his hair is back to light-brown/sandy in this, unlike Sharpe's Peril where it was quite a dark brown for some reason.

9:55 Urgh, actual grave-robbing. They're looking to take the boy, Marlott's informant, who was buried earlier that day. Umm, they seem to have put a girl in there to replace him. Is it the girl they offered to Marlott towards the end of the previous episode?

11:15 What's this? Has Marlott got together a lynch mob? And where from? So far he's been presented as a man who has nothing and no-one except a vicar who hasn't seen him for years and the PC (or whatever his rank is) he's been assigned.

11:40 My God, Sean is so Sharpe in this. It sounds kind of silly saying "same voice", but he does change his voice for each character, and he's definitely using Sharpe's voice here, and expressing anger in the way Sharpe does. Even bloody looks like Sharpe sometimes, which I never saw in Martin Odum's face or Neil Byrne's (and not for want of looking!)

13:25 "Someone's been murdering to undercut our trade". That's the trade of delivering fresh bodies to anatomy schools, and the grave-robber - who says he's a businessman supplying a demand - says that on a number of occasions he and his fellow grave-robbers have turned up with a body only to find it's not wanted because they already have one even fresher. With the rigour still on it.

14:50 Holy fucking shit. This is why I don't watch this kind of thing, I nearly hit the fucking ceiling.

I'm definitely stopping there for tonight, I do not need this fresh in my head when I go to sleep. On the upside, I suppose the occasional adrenaline jolt is good for you.

I'm conflicted now - I don't want to turn away from one of Sean Bean's more recent works; I do want to stay alongside John Marlott, because Sean has a real knack for showing the loneliness and vulnerability in a character, even while showing that the character - Sharpe for example - barely recognises it in himself. But I don't enjoy Gothicky undead horror stuff and would never normally watch or read it.
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I doubt if I'll keep this up for very long, but let's see how it goes.

I've finally got access to Netflix, mainly because I want to watch Season 2 of Snowpiercer which starts tomorrow, but in the meantime, I'm having a look at the Frankenstein Chronicles.

I'm liking the music here, it's quite unusual though I can't pick out exactly what it is about it. I notice this is set in ?1827? and it's quite strange because Sean is obviously a lot older than he was in Sharpe but he's back in more or less the same time period.

Since starting to watch Sharpe in December 2020 I've also watched the whole of Extremely Dangerous and the first two episodes of Legends. In neither of those did Sean Bean look or sound anything like Sharpe, but at

3:56 he shouts "What are you waiting for?" and he suddenly sounds so like Sharpe that I expect him to follow up with "...cavalry? I've shit 'em."

4:44 Jesus Fuck, I was not expecting that. Though maybe I should have been. I haven't read much about this programme but there do seem to be hints of undead stuff. Anyway, Sean Bean's character reaches out to touch the hand of the dead girl at the edge of the water and it grabs him...

8:55 It's a bit odd that, although Sean Bean is definitely the star here - and his name is the only one above the titles - so far he's not coming over as the star. In fact his character is being either pushed around or disrespected by just about everyone so far.

10:05 Hmm, now he's going undercover. And he's ordered by the Home Secretary to move to a different office and different accommodation. This sounds like he's being cut off from everyone and everything he knows. I'm honestly not sure if I'm going to enjoy this show or not - I normally choose not to watch or read Gothic Horror type stuff. But you know, Sean Bean.

10:27 This is a really grim-looking place he's moving into. Very bleak and lonely looking.

10:39 OMG he's got a box with a sword and a pistol in it. I'm getting flashbacks. Both weapons look old and uncared for - perhaps Marlott was at Waterloo. Actually, given that Sean Bean was 56 in 2015 when he made this, that makes Marlott around 56 in 1827, ie born 1771, which makes him 6 years older than Sharpe, and thus 44 at the time of Waterloo.

11:36 Now he's getting a couple of small locket portraits out of a small box, and a gold ring. And flashbacks to standing next to a stream in better clothes and looking younger. All part of building the character I guess, and I need to guard against being too impatient to go along with it properly. And now he's lit a candle in front of the photos, just to rub in the fact that whoever these people are, they're dead. Which I'd worked out.

12:45 Not sure what the other guy is saying here: "...prices [of bodies for teaching anatomy] have dropped since talking of bringing the workhouse ?stiffs? (sounds more like "diffs) our way."

17:25 I certainly don't know the whole of the Thames but this certainly doesn't look like any bit I do know (yes, I know it wasn't actually filmed by the Thames, though I would have thought this scene could have been filmed at London Apprentice. Too many boats going past nowadays, I suppose.)

18:42 So he's chucked a dead pig in the river at a known state of the tide, and now he's watching it floating down river. (Not sure why I'm assuming it's down river when I have no idea which bank he's supposed to be standing on, but if this actually were London Apprentice then it would be going down river.)

I can't help wondering why Sean does all these little local television things. Doesn't anyone want him for big film roles? I mean, the man is an excellent actor but he doesn't seem to often get parts that actually need a good actor. I'd like to see him in some huge, stunning role in a huge stunning film and win Oscars. Perhaps it's because - as he says himself - he doesn't audition very well, so he gets offered things that people want him for rather than going for auditions nowadays? I just feel he's underrated and would love to see him lauded as a really top actor rather than just as one who's famous for a few long-ago parts.

He hasn't actually done a film since The Martian in 2015.

Dammit, I wanted to upload a new Sean icon, but LJ is telling me I'm using "40 out of 15" and it won't let me upload any more. That was the entire reason for having a paid account ffs. Maybe that's gone wrong somewhere.

Continuing next day:

25:20 Hold on, he's just introduced himself as Inspector "Marlowe". Did I miss him pronouncing Marlott without the T at the end, or has he had to change his name as well as everything else linking him to his normal life?

27:45 I wonder if Sean Bean was getting flashbacks, standing in a room with a whole rack of guns on the wall.

29:30 So Marlott has syphilis, and "passed it on unknowingly". I'm going to guess for now that he got it in the Army - not at all unusual at the time - and that it was his wife he passed it onto. The fact that his wife was much younger than him (born 1799 from her headstone) and that their only known child was born at the end of 1822 suggests that he didn't marry until 1822, maybe after completing 21 years with the colours.

"Hear my prayer, oh Lord,
And let my cry come unto thee.
For my days are consumed like smoke
And my bones are burnt."
Edited extract from Psalm 102, King James version.

Marlott has a limp, and Mr Wilford uses a cane. I know Sean Bean injured his leg very badly as a child, but we saw Sharpe running, jumping, climbing mountains, and we saw Neil Byrne running, jumping, climbing balconies and rooves, so I'm guessing this is not Sean himself but something he chooses for some characters. It certainly fits with my guess that Marlott was in the Army. I know I haven't seen much of Sean's work yet, just the above and a few clips of Boromir and Ned Stark, but Marlott is closer to Sharpe than any of his other characters I've seen so far.

32:25 Has Marlott's little informant been got by "the monster"?

32:50 Aaand someone's whistling "O'er the hills and far away". Love it.

33:25 This fresh body just collected from the Fortune of War pub looks likely to be the informant.

34:50 I didn't know mercury treatment for syphilis caused bad dreams, though it's certainly (a) a useful plot device to show us what Marlott is thinking/dreaming about and (b) an excellent way to allow Sean Bean to showcase his expertise at playing trauma.

35:00 The darling man has a bit of a belly on him now. The ravages of time come even to the most beautiful.

36:50 The takes of Sean running are definitely shorter than they were in 1999. See above comment.

37.35 Marlott is hijacked and taken to A Bad Guy, who says to his underling "Sharp work, Jack."

37:40 Bad Guy notices that Marlott's pistol is bronze plated. "Bow Street!" he says, to which Marlott answers, "Soldier."

37:45 Bad Guy asks "What Regiment" and Marlott answers to my utter delight and honestly not much surprise "95th Rifles". And he even goes on to state "2nd Light Battalion". I am so happy for this.

Apparently the chest that he opens earlier in the episode has a Rifles green jacket in it - an officer's one - complete with Waterloo badge. And he's wearing Cavalry boots.

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