Pellew waved his thanks away. "No more than my duty, Mr Kennedy."
I never know what to make of fic versions of Pellew, like this one. Pellew in the movies never gave Archie a second thought - I'm not convinced he knew his name. I like this Pellew better, but the canon version is just so very Horatio-focused himself that I find (canon) him off-putting.
Yeah. Some of this is me knowing too much about historical Pellew, who was notoriously loyal to his men.
And some of it is -- he says very little to Archie in canon, and I'm honestly not sure he'd know how to deal with him. Archie's broken in a way Pellew's not equipped to deal with. I think post Muzillac he probably valued him more, but had no CLUE what to do with him; and this comes out in various bits of ATKM fic.
But it was Pellew that had the forming of Horatio, and Horatio does not leave men behind (cf Duchess and Devil). Pellew does not like losing men (cf Frogs and Lobsters).
And in M and R Pellew IS so Horatio focussed that all I could come up with, because I like Pellew, is that he was pulling some strings behind the scenes. Or at least, I could shoehorn that in to canon, and it let me play with Admiralty politics, which are an odd kink of mine :)
And as always, none of this is any excuse for not pulling it off on the page :)
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Date: 2006-11-17 05:51 am (UTC)Pellew waved his thanks away. "No more than my duty, Mr Kennedy."
I never know what to make of fic versions of Pellew, like this one. Pellew in the movies never gave Archie a second thought - I'm not convinced he knew his name. I like this Pellew better, but the canon version is just so very Horatio-focused himself that I find (canon) him off-putting.
Yeah. Some of this is me knowing too much about historical Pellew, who was notoriously loyal to his men.
And some of it is -- he says very little to Archie in canon, and I'm honestly not sure he'd know how to deal with him. Archie's broken in a way Pellew's not equipped to deal with. I think post Muzillac he probably valued him more, but had no CLUE what to do with him; and this comes out in various bits of ATKM fic.
But it was Pellew that had the forming of Horatio, and Horatio does not leave men behind (cf Duchess and Devil). Pellew does not like losing men (cf Frogs and Lobsters).
And in M and R Pellew IS so Horatio focussed that all I could come up with, because I like Pellew, is that he was pulling some strings behind the scenes. Or at least, I could shoehorn that in to canon, and it let me play with Admiralty politics, which are an odd kink of mine :)
And as always, none of this is any excuse for not pulling it off on the page :)