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marley-manson · 12 days ago

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yk a solid potential set up for beejhawk that gets around the whole cheating thing, BJ's inevitable guilt dragging everything down, etc, while also dodging enlightened 1950s poly saint Peg, would be BJ fucking Hawkeye, feeling really bad about it, telling Peg in a letter without telling Hawkeye so he can't stop him (and without saying it's a gay affair obviously so they don't get fucked by the army), and Peg writing back like 'i totally understand :) it's okay if you need comfort while we're apart i trust you to come home to me :)'

because Peg's been having an affair herself the whole time and this way she relieves some of her own guilt lol, a la Henry and his wife

then you also get easy post-canon beejhawk when the truth comes out and Peg wants to marry the new guy or BJ freaks out and leaves or whatever

#original idea feel free to steal lol #even if i use it myself at some point peg having an affair herself should by rights be a common ship trope #marley on mash #mash #ship hb #i guess tbf if it's a single point of view that doesn't continue post-canon then the reader would never know peg's motivations #except in an author's note but yk that's also valid. or even if it was hawk's pov and he just made a guess that it's a likely possibility #without telling bj lol that would go some way towards making peg feel a little more human imo #(not that a beejhawk fic has to even acknowledge her lol but me personally i gotta make things make sense with canon in my head #before i can write them. and peg cheating is infinitely more appealing to me than saint peg who encourages bj to fuck around)

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