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misterhornblower ([personal profile] misterhornblower) wrote in [personal profile] enablemeplz 2018-07-29 12:06 am (UTC)

Hornblower (1998)

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Horatio Hornblower ➣ Hornblower (1998)

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Memes & PSLs with canonmates and/or characters from similar universes, both shipping and gen. Of the members of his own cast, I only ship him with Archie, but if there's chemistry between Horatio and a male character who isn't in his canon I'm down to discuss shipping! I'm mostly interested in writing him in his own era, but I'm not totally opposed to modern AUs.

preferences & ideas
I enjoy threads based on interpersonal drama, especially ones that elaborate on canon dynamics or events. Texting threads are also fun!

GENERAL IDEAS: Life onboard the Indy! Stuff taking place during the quarantine in S01E02, the realities of combat on the mainland in #4, maybe shore leave or the drama of a major storm. Maybe also Horatio having to learn to ride? His level of skill extends to staying in the saddle on a reasonably well behaved animal, but he's not good at it overall and is rather self-conscious about his riding abilities (or, rather, his lack thereof).

FOR ARCHIE: Ship or gen! For shipping, slow-burn/will-they-won't-they are faves, as are situations in which both parties think their feelings are unrequited and don't want to risk losing the friendship (but things inevitably start heading closer to a romantic relationship anyway). Lots of possibilities for their time in El Ferrol, especially while Archie is recuperating from his attempt at self-starvation and Horatio's spending pretty much all of his time at his bedside - I think that in any interpretation that holds his feelings for Archie to extend beyond platonic, El Ferrol was the point at which Horatio's attachment to him progressed from "really, really fancying his best friend" to "in love". Stuff early in their friendship in which Horatio's still sort of figuring out his feelings for Archie (and perhaps the same for Archie himself) could also be fun.

FOR PELLEW: Father-son dynamic! Maybe Horatio does something that leaves Pellew disappointed in him but it's not something that he can technically be punished for, which puts him in an awkward position as Horatio's CO, or needs to come to him for advice and doesn't know how to do so.

FOR CLAYTON/SIMPSON/STYLES: Threads taking place onboard the Justinian pre-duel as Horatio tries to establish his place in the pecking order amidst the growing conflict are of particular interest here, as are threads that revolve around tensions getting higher during the quarantine, or maybe one taking place in El Ferrol.

FOR MAJ. EDRINGTON: Getting to know each other, and establishing a working partnership. I think that by the end of #4 Horatio feels fairly neutrally toward him, leaning on the direction of thinking well of him, and it's a pity we didn't see more interactions between the two. Threads that fill in the gaps onscreen or perhaps an alternate timeline in which the mainland fighting stretches on longer than expected are both of intererst.

Feel free to toss your own ideas my way as well! Preferred contact is PMing this journal.

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