angelo and the hickster's post-belle arctic adventures

[spotsalone]

CORNELIUS HICKEY
caulker's mate (T)
alive

ANGELO SAUPER
lieutenant (NZ)
alive

SOLOMON TOZER
marine, sergeant (T)
alive

GEORGE HODGSON
lieutenant (T)
alive

MAGNUS MANSON
ab (T)
alive

EDWARD LITTLE
lieutenant (T)
alive, 1 hp

CHARLES DES VOEUX
mate (E)
alive

WILLIAM PILKINGTON
marine, private (E)
alive

JOHN LANE
boatswain (T)
alive

JOHN DIGGLE
cook (T)
alive, lung damage

JOHN SULLIVAN
capt. of the maintop (E)
alive

JAMES RIGDEN
coxswain (E)
alive

ROBERT FERRIER
ab (T)
alive

ROBERT THOMAS
mate (T)
dead, scurvy

THOMAS ARMITAGE
gunroom steward (T)
dead, tuunbaq

JAMES DALY
marine, private (T)
dead, tuunbaq

EDMUND HOAR
captain's steward (E)
dead, tuunbaq

THOMAS TERRY
boatswain (E)
dead, scurvy

THOMAS WORK
ab (T)
dead, scurvy

HARRY GOODSIR
surgeon (E)
alive, rescued

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angelo cr chart
mutineers cr chart...

timeline:

• arrival; late july, mutineers' hill
  
• tent chats; early august, temporary camp
  
• spotting the ships; late august, terror camp
  
• tuunbaq attack; sept 1, ice floe camp
  
• boarding terror; fellas it's gay; early sept, hms terror
  
• dog to dog communication; early sept, forecastle
  
• bark bark bark; early sept, on deck
  
• coat! and post-tozer debrief; early sept, angelo's cabin
  
• 🌶️; early sept, hickey's cabin
  
• the dogs are unionizing(?); mid sept, cargo hold
  
• tozer/captain stuff, look at them having an adult conversation; mid sept, greatroom
  
• little rescue mission; early oct, terror bay
  
• post-little debrief; early oct, hickey's cabin

Comments

[cleansheets]

[ Despite the gravity of the topic, that gets a snort of amusement from Angelo, muffled against Hickey's collarbone. ]

Alright. Let's.

[ Hickey's optimism is an eternal point of fascination to Angelo. It's an attitude he associates with bright-eyed fools, with the kind of people they were stuck with at the castle, idealists who do not know better. Hickey is none of that - he's just adept at spinning things. A conman who never stops and yet somehow he's got everybody fooled. Angelo included.

After all, he can't help thinking that Hickey has a point. If Ish hadn't sabotaged him at the end, if they hadn't met in that hall of mirrors, if... It's pointless to speculate, and still. ]

I don't like the idea of fumbling blindly forward, but we'll just have to play the cards we're given. As always.

[spotsalone]

[ As always, Angelo says, and Hickey thinks of how frail Billy felt as he died. We'll make the best of a bad situation, like we always have. Angelo is not sickly, but the differences between their bodies is growing more apparent as the polar night looms.

Hickey lets his arms fall to Angelo's waist instead, hoping the subtle shift will stop him from associating this moment with the memory of Billy. Really, the similarities are thin. He's only thinking of it now because of the camp, surely. ]

It's only blind fumbling if you aren't using your head. Ish didn't intend to provide us with the opportunities he did; we were the ones to capitalize on them.

[ There is an element of blind fumbling, of course, but Hickey refuses to think of it in those terms. He prefers to squeeze any semblance of control he can get out of a given situation. ]

We'll do the same with this new development. Bringing Little on board is sure to unlock a number of opportunities we haven't anticipated.

[cleansheets]

[ 'We' feels like a rather generous assessment, when Angelo spent most of their time in the castle in a haze that he's not sure he's fully woken up from even now. It's strange to think that it's been months since - months without Frontal to help him sort through his unmanageable mess of feelings, and he's still moving forward. It makes his heart twist unpleasantly to brush upon that thought, no matter how briefly. ]

Then let's hope Tozer knows what he's doing and he doesn't croak on us immediately. If you want to go for the emotional appeal, surely we should make a longer show of trying to keep him stable.

[ Although the 'we' in this is as generous as the one Hickey had been using - Angelo has no intention of attending to Little himself.

There's a beat in which it seems like that's all Angelo had to say, but then he adds on another question: ]

What kind of person was he, as a lieutenant?

[ His predecessor - the first lieutenant of HMS Terror. It's not as though Angelo has truly started identifying with the title, but holding it gives him a measure of security to anchor himself in a story that fundamentally was not meant to include him. ]