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just gonna leave this here for the bush girlies (gender neutral)
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Are there any good Lieutenant Hornblower/Mutiny/Retribution fics out there focusing on the non-officers of the Renown? We see a couple of them (I am on record as being fascinated by Hobbs), but there’s a whole ship’s company and they must all have opinions. There seems to be a captain’s party and a lieutenants’ party among them and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s others who don’t care but just think discord among the officers gets us all killed (or is an opportunity…). In the film Matthews says, iirc, that a third of the men would follow the lieutenants (or was it two-thirds, I don’t remember the proportion) - I want to see him sounding them out! The captain will have had a steward - how does he feel about it? Heck I’d even settle for the other midshipmen, I’m almost certain they’d never have just Wellard on a ship that size. I’m not well-researched enough to do any of this justice myself but I bet someone out there has been.
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mutiny is great bc horatio (+bush and buckland too) spends most of it in a state of inner turmoil about Duty; his duty to the captain vs the fact it’s increasingly clear he’s unfit, and duty to the ship + fleet + navy. and the fact that doing something would be mutiny, likely leading to hornblower’s death vs not doing something will probably cause everyone’s death
meanwhile from about 5 minutes in archie is like ‘this guy is crazy and we need to do something about it.’ and then he takes another five minutes to get to ‘horatio let’s get rid of this guy. we need to get rid of sawyer guys’
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Buckland being forced to take on the role of captain and being overwhelmed by everything so that he can't make any decisions
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