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Hickey is from AMC's The Terror, a historical horror/drama about the real-life Franklin Expedition, which set sail in 1845 to chart the remainder of the Northwest Passage and promptly vanished. In real life, the crews were never seen again and their fate remains quite mysterious - and the show is a fictionalized interpretation of What Might Have Happened (Plus Some Supernatural Bullshit).
As you can imagine, the canon is pretty damn bleak! Things do not go well for these crews! Some themes that may come up when chatting with Hickey about his life are: cannibalism, starvation, flogging, serious diseases like scurvy and lead poisoning, imperialism/colonialism, murder, corpse mutilation, and racism against Inuit people. I'll always warn for these in the subject line as they come up. In particular, I try not to get into the racism if I can help it.
Please let me know in the comments if you'd like to avoid any of these topics or would prefer to avoid Hickey entirely! Comments are screened.
ETA: oops forgot to mention - Hickey has some old timey views on gender/sexuality/sex that may verge on bigoted. Worth noting that he himself is gay and has a very "do whatever you want as long as it doesn't affect me" take on these things, but he is from a time period with very little socially-accepted flexibility with gender/sexuality. He's likely to react with surprise/confusion at open conversation about being LGBTQ+.
As you can imagine, the canon is pretty damn bleak! Things do not go well for these crews! Some themes that may come up when chatting with Hickey about his life are: cannibalism, starvation, flogging, serious diseases like scurvy and lead poisoning, imperialism/colonialism, murder, corpse mutilation, and racism against Inuit people. I'll always warn for these in the subject line as they come up. In particular, I try not to get into the racism if I can help it.
Please let me know in the comments if you'd like to avoid any of these topics or would prefer to avoid Hickey entirely! Comments are screened.
ETA: oops forgot to mention - Hickey has some old timey views on gender/sexuality/sex that may verge on bigoted. Worth noting that he himself is gay and has a very "do whatever you want as long as it doesn't affect me" take on these things, but he is from a time period with very little socially-accepted flexibility with gender/sexuality. He's likely to react with surprise/confusion at open conversation about being LGBTQ+.
