Time is still too constrained for me to yet engage properly with your longer comments above, but I may be able to share a few small things here.
Both Siroc and Ramon are capable of figuring out Jacqueline's secrets in a story that presents them with the right clues, past or present. I don't think that canon did, or intended to, but a good fanfic story certainly could. And each man would respond better and faster than the other to different types of clues.
I'm afraid that I have no background in the stories you're specifically referencing. I read on the AO3 these days, and there are only three YB stories there: one I wrote, one written for me, and one that I've so far chosen not to read for content reasons. ~wry~
From what you say of various stories, I suspect that some people unfortunately don't recognize that Siroc's undoubted genius is as narrow as it is deep, from a certain perspective. He has great instincts for things and poor instincts for people. He doesn't realize when he ought not say certain things to Duval, for example, as in when he wants to perform an autopsy, and doesn't he appall Jacqueline a few times as well, blithely asserting things that upset her religious or cultural sensibilities? (Which he should theoretically share, and yet he apparently doesn't in any deep way.) Siroc sees disembodied facts and mechanisms very clearly, but not people. (Only "Secrets" suggests that he has a personal interest in sex, even, and that content is really only supporting the point.) As a storytelling shorthand, one might perhaps posit that it's worth conceiving of Siroc as on the very highest-functioning end of the autism spectrum: able to achieve great feats of concentration and connection, but challenged by social cues.
Ramon, on the other hand, has a fair amount of emotional intelligence! He usually engages with people, often especially women, not just with enthusiasm and respect but with a sense of openness to circumstances. His sister is the only presently important (living) female relative among the four of them, and he's in touch with her from so far away. And as a Spaniard in Paris -- a Spaniard in the musketeers! -- he's very much an outsider in important ways, and must feel it... as Jacqueline hides her outsiderness as a woman, as a peasant, as an outlaw.
(I understand that the series "bible" originally called for Siroc to be a "former slave" -- perhaps meaning a galley slave, perhaps something else -- which would certainly have made him also an outsider, but that idea never made it into canon in any way. For all I know, it predated the casting and was subsequently dropped.)
Re: YB - Jacqueline
Both Siroc and Ramon are capable of figuring out Jacqueline's secrets in a story that presents them with the right clues, past or present. I don't think that canon did, or intended to, but a good fanfic story certainly could. And each man would respond better and faster than the other to different types of clues.
I'm afraid that I have no background in the stories you're specifically referencing. I read on the AO3 these days, and there are only three YB stories there: one I wrote, one written for me, and one that I've so far chosen not to read for content reasons. ~wry~
From what you say of various stories, I suspect that some people unfortunately don't recognize that Siroc's undoubted genius is as narrow as it is deep, from a certain perspective. He has great instincts for things and poor instincts for people. He doesn't realize when he ought not say certain things to Duval, for example, as in when he wants to perform an autopsy, and doesn't he appall Jacqueline a few times as well, blithely asserting things that upset her religious or cultural sensibilities? (Which he should theoretically share, and yet he apparently doesn't in any deep way.) Siroc sees disembodied facts and mechanisms very clearly, but not people. (Only "Secrets" suggests that he has a personal interest in sex, even, and that content is really only supporting the point.) As a storytelling shorthand, one might perhaps posit that it's worth conceiving of Siroc as on the very highest-functioning end of the autism spectrum: able to achieve great feats of concentration and connection, but challenged by social cues.
Ramon, on the other hand, has a fair amount of emotional intelligence! He usually engages with people, often especially women, not just with enthusiasm and respect but with a sense of openness to circumstances. His sister is the only presently important (living) female relative among the four of them, and he's in touch with her from so far away. And as a Spaniard in Paris -- a Spaniard in the musketeers! -- he's very much an outsider in important ways, and must feel it... as Jacqueline hides her outsiderness as a woman, as a peasant, as an outlaw.
(I understand that the series "bible" originally called for Siroc to be a "former slave" -- perhaps meaning a galley slave, perhaps something else -- which would certainly have made him also an outsider, but that idea never made it into canon in any way. For all I know, it predated the casting and was subsequently dropped.)