Jesus, people. Pellew did everything he could. I kept worrying that he would get introuble for being so >:/ LAY OFF OF MY BOY >:/ >:/
And yeah. Four sisters and a mother that have claim on half of his salary as it is, in fact, and in his mental mutterings about money when he gets decomm'd (because the second book is narrated almost entirely from his POV), there's this lovely moment in the book, too, where Maria is fussing over Horatio, and Horatio is like o.O O.o o.O O.O.
And Bush is, like, tugging him out the door and being like "My sisters always do that" and "IGNORE THEIR CRYING. THEY ALWAYS DO THAT :D"
(Oh, British Naval officers doing the emoticons. But it's true. Even when he's a total grim jackass of a captain in, like, the fifth book? Even though he totally mentally disses Bush's ability to form proper plans, Horatio puts up with a comparatively enormous amount of sass from him anyways, and he talks all the time about how. . . horny-handed Bush is.)
You know, it's really interesting Horatio would read Maria fussing over him and trying to take care of him as, initially, nothing more than friendship. It really fits into the whole notion of how unsuited he is for making relationships outside of the Navy -- because really, in his brain, it seems like she's just watching out for him in the same way that other people watch out for him. It's just how his relationship and his style of leadership works, y'know?
And it turns that she has interest of another sort. There's good fic to be had about using that to tell a slash story about how Horatio ought to have read more into the way that some of the men who've cared for him. XD
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man. *_* horatio has a lot of people looking after him. *_*
Date: 2005-12-27 05:10 pm (UTC)And yeah. Four sisters and a mother that have claim on half of his salary as it is, in fact, and in his mental mutterings about money when he gets decomm'd (because the second book is narrated almost entirely from his POV), there's this lovely moment in the book, too, where Maria is fussing over Horatio, and Horatio is like o.O O.o o.O O.O.
And Bush is, like, tugging him out the door and being like "My sisters always do that" and "IGNORE THEIR CRYING. THEY ALWAYS DO THAT :D"
(Oh, British Naval officers doing the emoticons. But it's true. Even when he's a total grim jackass of a captain in, like, the fifth book? Even though he totally mentally disses Bush's ability to form proper plans, Horatio puts up with a comparatively enormous amount of sass from him anyways, and he talks all the time about how. . . horny-handed Bush is.)
You know, it's really interesting Horatio would read Maria fussing over him and trying to take care of him as, initially, nothing more than friendship. It really fits into the whole notion of how unsuited he is for making relationships outside of the Navy -- because really, in his brain, it seems like she's just watching out for him in the same way that other people watch out for him. It's just how his relationship and his style of leadership works, y'know?
And it turns that she has interest of another sort. There's good fic to be had about using that to tell a slash story about how Horatio ought to have read more into the way that some of the men who've cared for him. XD