And I wonder if it could also go another way -- Archie doesn't make Horatio feel better.
!!!! Oh man. Oh man. I hadn't even considered that, and it totally totally could. I'd forgotten that we were dealing with psycho Hornblower, and if the weight of Maria and the whole guilt with that is weighing on him heavily -- as it might, if he used to do the bunny with Archie -- I can totally imagine that it eats and eats and eats at him. Archie, so brave and sure, everything that a captain ought to be, able to prevent injustice on his ship. How he, Horatio, used to give advice to Archie. *_*
Him coming out on deck, and Bush and Archie suddenly shutting up with guilty looks because they've been talking about him. And how Archie's behavior changes towards him, subtly, after that. Hornblower convincing himself that Bush and Archie were discussing how unworthy he is for command when Bush was just filling in the blank sof what'd happened, and Hornblower subsequently snapping at Archie, and ;lgkhd;flkjg. :/ :/
How the structure of command now keeps them from addressing things.
It really plays on the Sawyer element of Hornblower's paranoia.
I'd like to think that Bush would be happy for Archie and would chalk up any difference to the vagaries of the service. There's that stuff later in the LtH about how he realizes the Navy is capricious, etc. And I suspect that while he wouldn't accept the difference in rack as the proper way of things the way he does for Hornblower, he'd be ultimately OK with it. He seems to yearn for rank because of the material privileges it brings -- captain's share of prize money, security -- rather than for the validation of rank, the way that Hornblower does. So yeah. Lust for Kennedy's trim little sloop would, I think, be the most apparent element of it.
Or maybe I'm just wildly deluding myself because I love Bush so much.
It's interesting to think about how this encounter could, if you wanted, strengthen the friendship between Archie and Bush and further distance Archie and Horatio. *_______*
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Date: 2006-02-08 04:21 am (UTC)!!!! Oh man. Oh man. I hadn't even considered that, and it totally totally could. I'd forgotten that we were dealing with psycho Hornblower, and if the weight of Maria and the whole guilt with that is weighing on him heavily -- as it might, if he used to do the bunny with Archie -- I can totally imagine that it eats and eats and eats at him. Archie, so brave and sure, everything that a captain ought to be, able to prevent injustice on his ship. How he, Horatio, used to give advice to Archie. *_*
Him coming out on deck, and Bush and Archie suddenly shutting up with guilty looks because they've been talking about him. And how Archie's behavior changes towards him, subtly, after that. Hornblower convincing himself that Bush and Archie were discussing how unworthy he is for command when Bush was just filling in the blank sof what'd happened, and Hornblower subsequently snapping at Archie, and ;lgkhd;flkjg. :/ :/
How the structure of command now keeps them from addressing things.
It really plays on the Sawyer element of Hornblower's paranoia.
I'd like to think that Bush would be happy for Archie and would chalk up any difference to the vagaries of the service. There's that stuff later in the LtH about how he realizes the Navy is capricious, etc. And I suspect that while he wouldn't accept the difference in rack as the proper way of things the way he does for Hornblower, he'd be ultimately OK with it. He seems to yearn for rank because of the material privileges it brings -- captain's share of prize money, security -- rather than for the validation of rank, the way that Hornblower does. So yeah. Lust for Kennedy's trim little sloop would, I think, be the most apparent element of it.
Or maybe I'm just wildly deluding myself because I love Bush so much.
It's interesting to think about how this encounter could, if you wanted, strengthen the friendship between Archie and Bush and further distance Archie and Horatio. *_______*