Hmm, never thought of that. I took it it was ghillie: attendant on a hunter. His gamekeeper, nore or less.
I bet that you could write a nifty little fic talking about how deeply and to heart Archie takes Horatio's little GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF MAN speech to him at the bridge. Like, contrast how Archie has that panic attack there to how calmly he goes to his death in Kingston? And use Horatio as the pivot-point.
Hmmm. I've sort of done that, but taking his rescue of Horatio as the pivot instead. I think that Archie doesn't, until that moment, believe in his own courage, or his own, well, manhood, to be archaic about it, but he IS archaic. In that era, that was manhood.
(Also, I think he'd infinitely rather hang than land in another French prison, so there is that.)
sometimes -- I wonder how much of his respone to fear-provoking circumstances is kind of a panicky overreaction to all the terrible things that he's suffered and had to submit to. And hunh.
In Duchess, quite a lot. In F and L, less so, but still noteably. By Mutiny and Retribution, I think rarely. When he goes off like that, he doesn't tend to make good decisions (cf starving himself to death so Horatio and the rest could get away, bombarding the French), wheras later he does what needs to be done whether he happens to be terrified (trying to protect Wellard) or not (tossing Bush off the cliff).
He's got some family background in stuff we're currently writing, but not a fic about it as such, no, though Widget did some AUs speculating on a non-naval Archie that do have some of that.
And you have inspired me to go write up my Rule. Singular, I realize to my shock :)
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Date: 2006-01-14 11:14 pm (UTC)I bet that you could write a nifty little fic talking about how deeply and to heart Archie takes Horatio's little GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF MAN speech to him at the bridge. Like, contrast how Archie has that panic attack there to how calmly he goes to his death in Kingston? And use Horatio as the pivot-point.
Hmmm. I've sort of done that, but taking his rescue of Horatio as the pivot instead. I think that Archie doesn't, until that moment, believe in his own courage, or his own, well, manhood, to be archaic about it, but he IS archaic. In that era, that was manhood.
(Also, I think he'd infinitely rather hang than land in another French prison, so there is that.)
sometimes -- I wonder how much of his respone to fear-provoking circumstances is kind of a panicky overreaction to all the terrible things that he's suffered and had to submit to. And hunh.
In Duchess, quite a lot. In F and L, less so, but still noteably. By Mutiny and Retribution, I think rarely. When he goes off like that, he doesn't tend to make good decisions (cf starving himself to death so Horatio and the rest could get away, bombarding the French), wheras later he does what needs to be done whether he happens to be terrified (trying to protect Wellard) or not (tossing Bush off the cliff).
He's got some family background in stuff we're currently writing, but not a fic about it as such, no, though Widget did some AUs speculating on a non-naval Archie that do have some of that.
And you have inspired me to go write up my Rule. Singular, I realize to my shock :)