Outlander Season 4 will bring us plenty of Jamie and Brianna moments once she makes it to the past. In honor of Father’s Day this weekend, here are the most anticipated moments from Drums of Autumn between the two.
It shouldn’t need to be said, but there are spoilers in this post if you’ve not read “Drums of Autumn,” which Outlander Season 4 is based on.
Outlander Season 4 is going to bring up Brianna and Jamie meeting for the first time. While that first meeting is certainly something we’re looking forward to, there are many other moments of Jamie being a father to Brianna. Some of the moments are positive and others can have you screaming at the two characters—pushed together with one completely out of her own time. This causes problems on many accounts, especially considering Brianna is from the 70s.
In celebration of Father’s Day, it’s time to look at the most highly anticipated moments between Jamie and Brianna in the fourth season. Most of these are the moments that had fans smiling and cheering, as the characters bonded and Brianna found herself with another father in her life.
#7. Jamie telling Brianna to call him Da
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This is something that fans have pulled across from the novels into fan fiction, both using a young Brianna or a young Faith to give Claire and Jamie the life they always wanted. However, it’s also one of the most highly anticipated moments between Jamie and Brianna in Outlander Season 4.
When Jamie and Brianna first come across each other, Brianna struggles with what to call him. She called Frank “Daddy” and “Father” just seems too formal. She wants this man in her life as a second dad—not someone to replace the man that had been her dad and loved her as his own when she was growing up.
Jamie doesn’t try to replace Frank. Instead, he tells her to call him “Da” and it’s just perfect.
#6. Giving praise when shooting
Jamie decides to take Brianna bee hunting. While they’re out, he teaches her how to load a musket and fire it. This is vastly different to the type of shooting she’d done in the past, but she catches on quickly. On top of that, she has excellent aim. Of course, Jamie is proud of what seem like natural talents.
Instead, he learns that Frank had taught her how to shoot. He taught her a lot of things that she’d need to know in case she was ever in the 18th century, almost setting her up for coming to the past.
Understandably, Jamie is a little uncomfortable knowing someone else raised his daughter, but he doesn’t do anything to ruin this moment. It’s going to be fun seeing the bee hunting scene play out in full.
#5. Singing the lullaby
Jamie had a lot of hopes and dreams as a father. As an 18th-century family man, that’s not surprising. His parents had raised him to be a kind and caring man, supportive of his wife and to become a good dad. Having dreams of what he would do with his children as bairns and then later as adults were perfectly normal.
He never got to live that out with Brianna, but he’s not going to stop with that dream. When Brianna needs him to comfort her, he sings the lullaby that he would have sung her as a baby. This is another beautiful moment to see him as a dad and his feelings open and raw. Plus, there’s the hilarious moment of Brianna telling him that he can’t sing.
#4. Discussions about Jack Randall
As Jamie and Brianna bond further, Jack Randall comes up in conversation. Of course, this is linked to her own rape but it’s a highly sensitive subject. This isn’t something Jamie would ever want to talk about and he’d usually shy away and avoid it. However, he doesn’t get angry with Brianna at all. In fact, he realizes that she’s asking for a genuine reason and she needs his help.
While it’s not all good news for Brianna, Jamie is open and honest. Their emotions are raw and it’s clear that there are a lot of underlying feelings for both of them; things Jamie doesn’t remember and other things he wishes he didn’t. This was a moment that would make or break this relationship and it certainly made it.
#3. Finding Brianna a husband
With the talk of rape, Jamie does everything an 18th-century father would do. He wants to make sure his daughter is provided for and not ruined by the rape. However, there are some major arguments over this subject. Of course, both Brianna and Jamie come from different times. Brianna is set in her 20th-century ways, while Jamie is set in his 18th-century ones.
All Jamie wants is the best for his daughter. He just doesn’t want her to lose all her prospects and, as much as we don’t like it now we’re in the 21st century, he’s just thinking as a typical 18th-century father. There is certainly going to be some tension and negative emotions, but these moments could bring some of the best drama for the characters.
#2. Delivering the baby
Brianna decides to keep the baby, but she’s certainly terrified that the birth is going to kill her. After all, giving birth was one of the most dangerous things a woman could do. Rather than go back through the stones, she wants both her parents by her side. Naturally, Jamie doesn’t really want to be there but he stays. He puts his daughter’s wants and feelings first.
This helps to add another layer to this bond between father and daughter. Being around for a birth wasn’t the norm for a man, even in the 1940s Frank wasn’t in the room for Brianna’s birth and it wasn’t normal in the 1970s for Brianna either. They shrugged off their expectations and social norms for something that was perfect for them as a small family.
#1. Agreeing the handfasting was a wedding
After months of searching for Brianna a husband and some hiccups along the way, Roger and Brianna are finally reunited and admit that there was a handfasting. While Aunt Jocasta doesn’t believe the handfasting stands, Jamie does. Well, at least, he claims this is what he believes because he knows that it will make his daughter happy.
There’s a beautiful moment between Roger and Brianna and their son, and it’s all thanks to Jamie and his decision to put his daughter first. This should be something we all expect, but in the 18th century, this was a huge step for a dad and something we can’t wait to see in Outlander Season 4.
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