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CALLUM TURNER and AUSTIN BUTLER in MASTERS OF THE AIR (2024)

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samuel "sam" kinney, 31, radio operator-waist gunner

sam kinney was born in chicago in 1912. he's the oldest of six and he would've been the only boy if his parents hadn't bookended the kids with another boy after four girls in a row. ask him how he feels about that (generally pretty positively, he thinks.)

pa kinney served for four years in the great war, came home and promptly Never Spoke About It, before spending the rest of his life working on a fishing boat off lake michigan. sam was a teenager by the time he started going smelt fishing with his dad, eventually joining him on the boat and pretty positive he'd turn out the same way, too, were it not for his mother's insistence that he not put all of his eggs in that particular basket, as it were.

all things considered, and far, far different from who he is now, sam was a pretty awkward, shy teenager. he had enough friends for his own liking and certainly went on a few dates here and there but nothing long lasting or serious enough. by the time he'd realized he'd had a crush on one of his classmates, she was off getting married to someone considerably older than her and whisking off to somewhere outside of chicago. he'd bury those feelings deep down and move on with his life.

at eighteen, much to his mother's chagrin, he started working full time on the boat with his dad who, in these later years of his life, insisted this was where he was happiest when he wasn't with his wife and kids. sam spent a little less than a decade working off lake michigan and had it not been for the war, he would've probably continued on with it without issue.

(he does not think he'll go back to it after the war is over.)

his twenties are really when he grows into the person he is now--sure of himself, a little bit of a skirt chaser and, generally, someone who likes to have fun even if it's at the expense of (the sanity of) others.

backtracking: he joins the war effort the day after pearl harbour, like so many others, and gets sent to scott field to learn radio ops after they discovered he was more than half decent at morse code and when he was finished there, they sent him to gunnery school.

really, if he was more than half decent at morse code, he was beyond better in gunnery school--field stripping and reassembling machine guns, troubleshooting and repairing malfunction problems, ground training with skeet shooting from the back of a moving jeep.

he passed final qualification by a wide margin and was given his rank, flying status and his crew badge before being sent overseas to belfast in july '42 to wait out reassignment, stationing in east anglia and assigned to a b-17 crew out of thorpe abbotts by august of that year.

cheating death, more or less to this point, has really had an affect on him. not that he thinks he's infallible or anything but when shit can go wrong at the drop of a hat, he figures he might as well enjoy life while he can. while he is an immaculate professional when he needs to be, he's going to make the best of an awful situation wherever possible.

alexa play we're here for a good time (not a long time) by trooper.

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evelyn "evie" warren (nee brooks), 25, housewife

evie brooks is the second of two daughters born to the very definition of city folk. her parents spent most of their lives living in boston where her father worked for general electric while her mother spent her days entertaining a cadre of the wives of the husbands that he worked alongside. as a result of her father's career, the brooks' were late to the parenting game, eventually welcoming evie's older sister, linda, in the winter of 1911. if they'd expected to have another child soon thereafter, in an attempt perhaps to catch up to the rest of their social circle, they'd been met with disappointment that eventually settled into acceptance. it was a surprise then, when, in the first quarter of 1918 they fell pregnant with evie. nearly seven years after they'd had their first child, their second joined the family in august and it was deemed complete.

by the middle of the next decade, evie's father retired and the family moved to sun prairie, wisconsin. family, they'd said, even though years later evie isn't entirely sure that was true because she doesn't have any memories of spending time with any family that wasn't her parents or her sister, but whatever: it wasn't boston anymore.

evie's childhood is achingly normal. she spends most of her younger years on her mother's hip while her sister scowls nearby and her mother tries to teach her how to bake and cook and do all of the things that she had honed over the years. while linda showed no interest in any of it, evie was thirteen and had already been tasked with learning all the secrets of how to win the local baking contests with the perfect cake. evie thinks she hates it a little (or a lot) less than her sister but it isn't her favourite thing--she enjoys that she gets to spend time with her mother, mostly.

at the very least, those baking contests introduce her to jack warren. she falls in love with him almost instantly--he's sweet and kind and when he proposes two weeks after they graduate, evie doesn't hesitate to say yes. her parents don't understand why she doesn't have reservations about moving to live outside of the city but they don't vocalize it much past the first time. they're happy, they say, but wouldn't they rather find a nice home in a suburb somewhere a little closer to live and raise kids?

it turns out: no!

after all, evie was never going to ask or make jack move from a place that he'd so clearly loved and a place that, the more time she spent there, she'd come to love just as much. she took to life on a farm quicker than she'd thought she would and appreciated seeing a different way of living life, realizing that, perhaps, this had been the missing piece in her life. the city was fine, it was all she'd known for a long time, but fresh air, green grass and lots of it? can't get better than that.

with jack coming from a large family with all of his brothers and evie with her sister, kids are inevitable but not easy or a given right off the bat. recurrent loss hits the both of them and evie runs the gamut emotionally--sadness, shame, guilt. it's easy to wallow in that for a week after it happens each time but after that, she'd prefer not to talk about it. it's not healthy to ignore it, sure, but it doesn't feel particularly productive to talk about it anymore, either.

when she gets pregnant again, it's initially hard for evie to feel comfortable with it and to even feel connected with her own body, like she's fully aware of the fact that it could betray her at any second and would choose the moment after she'd gotten excited to inflict maximum damage but the further along she gets, the more she feels the baby kick, the more she settles into the idea that, this time, it's for real. their daughter, molly, arrives in november of 1941, right on time, with all ten fingers and all ten toes and she's utterly perfect in every single way if you asked evie, not that she's biased or anything.

evie's got a warm heart and enough compassion to span a country mile but she's not one to suffer fools easily and, when tasked with talking through decisions with other people, tends to rely on logic instead of what her initial/gut reaction is, no matter who's on the other side of the discussion.

she was not super fond of the idea of raising molly by herself during a war after jack got conscripted and even less fond of the possibility of him dying before it's over but it is what it is. he wasn't going to ask for an exemption, she wasn't going to force him into it and they both knew that. without jack's family to help out and keep her on even ground, evie's nerves would be about 50% more frayed than they already are.

writing letters helps, mostly. the more chaotic, rambly, anxiety ridden ones tended to get stuffed in envelopes and hidden away in a box and the ones she sends tend to be more about molly and how she's growing and the milestones she's hitting (because evie hates that jack is missing out on them) and life on the farm (yes, with plenty of mentions of the cows) and the things jack gets to look forward to when he gets home because it's nice and normal and hopeful, perhaps.

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MASTERS OF THE AIR (2024) ↳ part two

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let's play a game it's called how long can i pretend i don't have basic needs and human emotions

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Jane Austen, Emma

Sufjan Stevens, Futile Devices

Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf

Hozier, Shrike

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Sierra DeMulder, Your Love Finds Its Way Back

Nizar Qabbani

“What I feel for you can’t be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds.”

Katherine Mansfield

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FBI • 6.09

I love you.

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I want to make a home for you. I want to be a home for you.

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