Fic about how close and cuddly Bush is with his land relatives always makes me go a little O.O
I think I've muttered about this to you before, but I just can't square it with what we know about how Bush spends his life at sea and the tidbits we get of his life with them -- even setting aside the fact that he's spent his adult life at sea, completely independent of them, there's the weeding the garden in the middle of fucking winter, the way he thinks that women doting on men as something to be taken for granted, and above all, that insane bit in LtH where he's lying in the hospital and is just rendered completely inarticulate by the fact that someone cares enough to come and visit him.
I mean, WTF. I know that HH makes Bush all prickly inside and out and that he makes little Valentine's day cards trimmed with oakum for him, really. If he's even vaguely close to his family, he's going to miss them while lying on his back, alone, bored brainless, and panicky about his future career. We don't get a hint of that in the bit where he's all blushy because Hornblower shows up with the fruitbasket. Similarly, when he's having his rage attack about his magnificent ship falling into Dago hands, the thought that his sisters/mother will hear of it -- that doesn't come into his head at all. Instead, he's wondering what the Navy and "England" would say.
So yeah. Bush and his relationship to money also fascinates me, as does the notion of how Hornblower perceives Bush's relation to his family.
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Date: 2006-02-13 08:58 pm (UTC)I think I've muttered about this to you before, but I just can't square it with what we know about how Bush spends his life at sea and the tidbits we get of his life with them -- even setting aside the fact that he's spent his adult life at sea, completely independent of them, there's the weeding the garden in the middle of fucking winter, the way he thinks that women doting on men as something to be taken for granted, and above all, that insane bit in LtH where he's lying in the hospital and is just rendered completely inarticulate by the fact that someone cares enough to come and visit him.
I mean, WTF. I know that HH makes Bush all prickly inside and out and that he makes little Valentine's day cards trimmed with oakum for him, really. If he's even vaguely close to his family, he's going to miss them while lying on his back, alone, bored brainless, and panicky about his future career. We don't get a hint of that in the bit where he's all blushy because Hornblower shows up with the fruitbasket. Similarly, when he's having his rage attack about his magnificent ship falling into Dago hands, the thought that his sisters/mother will hear of it -- that doesn't come into his head at all. Instead, he's wondering what the Navy and "England" would say.
So yeah. Bush and his relationship to money also fascinates me, as does the notion of how Hornblower perceives Bush's relation to his family.