Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: The Terror (TV 2018)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Cornelius Hickey/Solomon Tozer
Characters: Cornelius Hickey, Solomon Tozer, Magnus Manson, William Heather (1810-c.1848), Thomas Armitage
Additional Tags: this is has a fight club vibe until it turns into a romcom (like fight club should have), Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Insomnia, Solomon-i-don't-have-PTSD-Tozer, Football/soccer, Meet-Cute, Attempt at Humor, Sharing tobacco, gratuitous descriptions of Hickey smoking, Smoking, Other Additional Tags to Be Added
Summary:
Solomon Tozer, sent back from [redacted] hates the boredom of being a Royal Marine in his own country where nothing ever explodes. He answers a fishy craigslist ad about a midnight football match he's supposed to play in. Even the contact email sounds like a scam
[email protected]?? that's a porn bot if Solomon knows one, but he has nothing better to do anyway.
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“In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege—as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover—as long as he is riddled with bullets.
Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.”
–Tarantino’s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.
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oh but jesus was a cross maker
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I'm writing a fic and when I've found all the right 10thousand words it's over for you bitches
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The Terror
1.09 "The C, the C, the Open C"
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Idk I just think it’s so interesting how Hickey uses names and titles as a tool to manipulate the people around him (especially the mutineers). Calling Tozer “sergeant” when he’s first convincing him to mutiny, to play into his desire to follow his rank and protect. Switching to “Solomon” when he’s trying to get Tozer to open up more about the Tuunbaq. Intentionally not calling Jopson “Lieutenant” after his promotion as a subtle dig. How often he says Billy’s name, especially during the ring scene and when Billy’s entertaining the idea of a mutiny before the walk out (“speak your mind, Billy”). Smugly directing his story about kidnapping Silna to “Captain Crozier” and only Captain Crozier, then after kidnapping him only referring to him as “Mr. Crozier” and making the mutineers do the same (but Hodgson, who’s not loyal but is at least complacent to Hickey, stays “Lieutenant Hodgson”). Calling Tommy, who’s always Tommy or Mr. Armitage, “Private Armitage” when he’s ordering him to brutalize Crozier, because Hickey knows he’s always wanted to be a marine, so in his camp he’s given him the rank of one. It adds an such an interesting layer to Hickey’s “reconfigure, reinvent, rearrange” speech.
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