[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Outlander: Blood of My Blood, Season 1 Episode 7, “Luceo Non Uro.”]
Outlander: Blood of My Blood could have simply revealed who Claire’s (Caitriona Balfe) brother is within the flagship collection, as her mom, Julia (Hermione Corfield), baptized her new child within the newest episode, “Luceo Non Uro.”
As viewers found within the prequel spinoff, Julia was pregnant when she and her husband, Henry (Jeremy Irvine), went lacking from the 1900s, solely to seek out themselves transported again in time to the 1710s. After having slept with Lord Lovat (Tony Curran) to make the laird suppose he’s her little one’s father, Julia allowed him to consider the infant could be baptized beneath the identify Simon Fraser.
What Lord Lovat was unaware of was that Brian (Jamie Roy) assisted Julia in baptizing the infant, serving to her usher within the boy’s official identify as William Henry Beauchamp, earlier than conducting one other ceremony with Lord Lovat. So, does the infant’s identify reveal his identification?
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There’s a small probability that viewers could have already met him, as they recall Lord Lovat’s son, Simon Fraser (James Parris), from Outlander‘s Season 2 installment “The Fox’s Lair.” Whereas the character, in accordance with timelines, doesn’t match child William Henry’s delivery yr, the identify technically does.
Nonetheless, that Simon was supposedly the son of Lord Lovat and Margaret Grant, a personality we haven’t seen within the TV reveals, and he was born roughly 10 years later than Julia’s child. However he’s the closest model of a personality that matches the infant’s description presently and could possibly be tied to the flagship present.
If Julia and Henry are to reunite, although, together with their son, this child’s position as a grown character may stay a thriller. And if the present chooses to maintain Claire’s brother within the 18th century, one idea we’ve got is that maybe William Henry could possibly be given a special identify if or when Lord Lovat discovers he’s not the daddy.
Within the collection, Brian has one other brother, Alexander Fraser, who can also be a bastard, who by no means appeared on Outlander the TV collection, however ended up in France. Contemplating Claire’s distinctive relationship to Grasp Raymond (Dominique Pinon), who healed her amidst her stillbirth of daughter Religion, and his connection to France, maybe Grasp Raymond’s understanding of Claire may be tied again to her household’s time-traveling expertise, ought to they be led to France, alongside Alexander?
Contemplating Jamie’s full identify is James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser, maybe Alexander got here from his “uncle,” or the son of his father Brian’s new finest good friend, Julia… It will function an attention-grabbing callback and be a solution to hold issues from the unique present fairly constant, because the character doesn’t seem in Outlander.
However what do you suppose? Tell us your theories about Julia’s child and what position Claire’s brother may play because the reveals unfold.
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