#( 𝑰 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒆𝒈𝒈𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒎 ; musings (( Abe ))

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4 seasons of Turn and not a single checkers game between Ben and Abe.

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       Questioning what he got pulled into

       I hate every single one of you except Baker

        ❝ Do I smell blackmail? ❞

       I swear to god if someone finds my explicit drawing of Mrs. Strong…

       ❝ Your– what? ❞

       ❝ I’m more surprised that the Major has a drawing ability myself.  ❞

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Directions: Fill out the below sheet for your muse, then tag anyone you think may wish to play. Repost, don’t reblog!

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TAGGED BY: stole it from this other blog so I can talk about this gremlin

TAGGING: steal it from me

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ABE: So I don’t hate any of the characters I write. If I actually hated them, I couldn’t write them. Abe is probably one of my more disagreed muses (in terms of the mun’s feelings) and I’m purely interested in him because of all the potential he had and the fact I’m trying to figure someone so opposite of me and anyone I write. So that’s why I put 1/2 mark on the dislike box because it’s only half true.

I think if we saw a more historically accurate Abe to how he really was like, it would’ve been more interesting and made Abe a more likeable character. The Abe we see in t.urn seems almost the complete opposite of the rather paranoid, faithful, vengeful, and family-oriented man we see through his letters. I like the whole complex relationship with Richard at time and thinking deeply about why Abe does the things he does (his whole strained past, not having the life he wished he could have had, the more improved but still strained marriage with Mary towards the end of the show). I like these factors but I think the writers were way more sympathetic and favorable of Abe than the fans were and they kept trying to get the fans to see that. (And the weird comedic twist to Abe. The warm egg part is iconic but the whole “I have to go take a shit” is kinda weird to me lmao). They tried to make Abe more likeable there but it didn’t work for me. I really wish turn writers honed in more on the “intelligent” side of Abe that we see as he acts as a lawyer and pinning Rogers as Samuel Culper. I don’t mind Abe as the main character and obviously a lot of screen time is good for my writing of him, but idk I felt like the writers really wanted the audience to like him and a majority of us didn’t like him as much as the other characters. I kinda wish that they were okay with a dislikeable protagonist. I wish they did more with how Thomas, his brother, death affected him and how he got PTSD from his time as a spy and his time in the Sugar House (especially with his time in the British Army, with all of those beds and crowded spaces). That would’ve given Abe more complexity that the writers attempted to do with him (that really fell flat imo). Regardless, I am still into Abe and into exploring him as a character, through ships, dynamics, plots, etc, etc. Like most of my muses, I find songs that suit them and it helps me get into the mood to write them. (I put overrated in terms of the writers’ positive opinion of him, not the fandom’s opinion because he’s a heavily disliked character fandom-wise).

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( ooc ): Even though I'm not a huge fan of Mary/Abe just with how Abe treats Mary during the show, this scene of them is always so cute to me.

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Who's down to go on a camping trip?

Things that are amusing Elsie Marion @cabbxges-and-kings​.  How do you like that? Woodhull has a camp down in South Carolina

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In s1e6 when the bandit dude is talking about how if he had a son, he'd want him to know he died for his beliefs so he could avenge him and then Abe says "I'd want my son to choose for himself, rather than have his father choose for him." 😳

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( ooc ): I noticed in my over-analyzing of Abe, he likes to look at a person's eyes individually, shift his stare back and forth between each eye (or either side of a person's face). Just a small thing I noticed.