Purely hypothetical Devil's Whore question

[snowgrouse]

This is by no means for a Sexby/Rainsborough fic nor am I attempting to write one, nope. This is puuuurely hypothetical. I am struggling with characters' names here. Most of the time these guys are called by their surnames, but then Rainsborough was a bleeding hippie and probably would've encouraged first-name-basis type things (I may have read

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[kalypso_v]

I've forgotten, what did Rainsborough and Cromwell call one another?

[snowgrouse]

IRL or in the series? I could swear I've read about some of the familiar names the guys had for each other, but I'm drawing a complete blank and Google isn't helping.

[kalypso_v]

In the series... had a vague memory they'd addressed each other at some point, though too hazy to think how.

[snowgrouse]

AFAIK, Cromwell addressed them by their first names. That's one of the reasons why I'm dithering between the surname/first name thing, because being on a first name basis would be a Leveller sort of thing to do. Although this version of Sexby is so introverted he might be the only one still calling people by their surnames, to keep a polite distance. Whereas the real Sexby would probably have made it a political point to use first names in the name of equality. So it's tricky.

[kalypso_v]

Also Cromwell and Rainsborough were the same class and Sexby wasn't... though I'm not sure which way that would play at that date. (Bloody hell, Michael Fassbender was Rainsborough?)

[snowgrouse]

Yeah.

Man, I am failing at writing this. It's so incredibly difficult to write in a period "voice", and I'm not sure if I can do it. I am actually attempting short bits of gen (and/or non-explicit slash) stuff here, and not my usual prose poetry porn. Although this may just end up being a series of drabble-y snippets of Sexby angst just so I can do more of the poetic stuff I'm far better at. Except I am officially Not Writing This Fic. At all.