Poor Hunter. And the boys upstairs, so sweet and smutty. And yes selfish. But faced with trying to figure out how to escape from prison, when escape is almost impossible and incredibly risky, and the chances of making it back home so slim... well I'd stay in bed with my long lost lover too.
Is it Tolstoy that said something about every happy family being the same, but every miserable one being different? I think that depression can be like that, so very individual to personality, place, and circumstance. I certain can't imagine what it would be like to be this wretched, desperate, crabby, hateful man, stuck in prison and unable to be happy about anything. Bleh. I could do Archie laying in bed quietly hating himself and the world though, passably at least.
One does wonder, whether Hunter hears the boys having at each other! That couldn't be good for his peace of mind.
Archie in his handsome brave bitterness is much more palatable. Hunter is just Blech... and yet. If he had discovered the long lost love of his life, maybe the shoe would be off the other foot.
It was of course, Tolstoy. It was Anna Karenina.
I hope that Hunter does not hear them. I don't know how he would react having that lever over Horatio. (Were the articles enforced for POW's?)
I'm not sure about the articles. I'd assume that prisoners would live under whatever rules the prison had, but whether deeds in prison could also be punished under the Articles once they were at sea again... I don't know. I feel like there is some sort of distinction between things you can do at sea, and things you can do on the shore, but that might just be too much "It's ok, it's not against the Articles if we bugger each other in this inn" fan-fic.
Oh heck, that's a really interesting question but I'm afraid I don't have a definitive answer. I'm know that rank had to be observed by POW's but I don't know if the Articles of War were binding.
However George Vernon Jackson records that in Bitche in 1812 the "lower class of English prisoner" were a law unto themselves.
"...they were placed in souterraines where they reigned supreme and legislated for their community upon principle of their own, administering reward or punishment to all who deserved one or the other....The rank of a man was of no avail as soon he appeared in the souterraines...."
I have no idea if these "lower class prisoners" were seamen but I suspect they probably were. I've always thought this is a remarkable detail that would make a great plot bunny!
Is it Tolstoy that said something about every happy family being the same, but every miserable one being different? I think that depression can be like that, so very individual to personality, place, and circumstance. I certain can't imagine what it would be like to be this wretched, desperate, crabby, hateful man, stuck in prison and unable to be happy about anything. Bleh. I could do Archie laying in bed quietly hating himself and the world though, passably at least.
One does wonder, whether Hunter hears the boys having at each other! That couldn't be good for his peace of mind.
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It was of course, Tolstoy. It was Anna Karenina.
I hope that Hunter does not hear them. I don't know how he would react having that lever over Horatio. (Were the articles enforced for POW's?)
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I'm not sure about the articles. I'd assume that prisoners would live under whatever rules the prison had, but whether deeds in prison could also be punished under the Articles once they were at sea again... I don't know. I feel like there is some sort of distinction between things you can do at sea, and things you can do on the shore, but that might just be too much "It's ok, it's not against the Articles if we bugger each other in this inn" fan-fic.
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However George Vernon Jackson records that in Bitche in 1812 the "lower class of English prisoner" were a law unto themselves.
"...they were placed in souterraines where they reigned supreme and legislated for their community upon principle of their own, administering reward or punishment to all who deserved one or the other....The rank of a man was of no avail as soon he appeared in the souterraines...."
I have no idea if these "lower class prisoners" were seamen but I suspect they probably were. I've always thought this is a remarkable detail that would make a great plot bunny!
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