#Francis Crozier

[hesbianspock]

ok francis rawdon moira crozier post: everyone’s always (rightly) repeating the “irish and middle born” line but i really don’t see talk about it beyond that — except maybe having him spit some irish gaelic while he fucks fitzjames in a fic, and i guarantee you that man would not have been a fluent irish speaker (see: efforts from both the english and from irish communities to prevent people from speaking irish). and as part of that i’d like to see more discussion of francis’ betrayal of who he is and where he comes from.

he is irish. the famine has just begun. he spends his life attempting to rise through the ranks of, to be a successful arm of, the empire that has ensured his status as a second class citizen, his inability to speak his ancestral language, the genocide of his countrymen. francis has his assertive personality and his vocal objections and his challenges, but ultimately he’s betrayed the very essence of who he is and only does it further upon destroying himself with alcohol — because to the empire, what else would an irishman do?

and he has so little genuine self awareness about it. deep inside himself, in his subconscious, i’m sure he knows. but he could never begin to Truly know it within the conscious or to actually vocalize it. bc how do you even begin to acknowledge or make sense of this about your ENTIRE LIFE?

and ofc this parallels with james and with hickey. pretending to be something you’re not, betraying the very essence of what you are. hiding. he doesn’t know it but THAT is the basis of his initial resentment of those two: they’re betraying themselves.

because to him, at first, hickey is an irishman who has so fully committed to the betrayal he won’t even speak in a way that implies his origin. hickey thinks this double deception makes them comrades, but in reality, would francis really have had hickey punished As A Boy if not for their first exchange? would hickey have mocked francis’ irishness from the gallows if not for the failure of that disguise, this betrayal of a perceived countryman?

the full extent of james’ betrayal is hidden to francis until the cairn but he still sees it, and he sees himself in it. the obedience, the obsequience, the ambition, the admiration, (the queerness,)

so when james confesses his bastardry, his non englishness, his deception, even if francis did not now love him, how could he ever hold it against him? he’s done worse.

and, perhaps most significantly, paralleling that with silna. francis helping the empire to colonize and imperialize other places as ireland was. silna avoiding and almost rejecting her duty for nearly the entirety of the show, seeking shelter with and in some cases allying with the interlopers she despises and who have ruined her life. Tuunbaq Is Dead.

[cockroachesunite]

Go for broke AU part 2

☞ (Part 1)

[favouritefi]

everyone at work thinks frank’s sobered up but every night he goes home and drinks with the madman he keeps in his attic

[staud]

Are we brothers, Francis?

-> 5/∞ CHARACTER DYNAMICS in The Terror

[wantsusdead]

THE TERROR (2018) — 1.02 'Gore' ◈ [francis crozier gifs] ◈

[asparklethatisblue]

Raising a young vampire involves lots of baby bat flight training 🩷

For @swanfloatieknight who asked for Louisa in the vampire AU

[leadandblood]

These make AMAZING lockscreens

[eiralivered]

she has that sadness in her eyes that you only see in alcoholic captains of doomed arctic expeditions

[effemar]

[axelnordmann]

[lady-hammerlock]

I wanted to do one of those poll things for season 1 of The Terror. You know the drill, share it and tell me which one of these you think is a lie. To my fellow Cold Boys enjoyers, please share and don't give it away.

[hesbianspock]

“then you are free” is the HALLMARK of colonialism and homosexuality. it is a genuinely kind thing to say, genuinely good, genuinely the RIGHT thing to say, but without even realizing it, francis continues to play into empire. the colonies were a haven of european homosexuality — the french called sodomy doing it colonial style for the precise reason that colonies (and prospective colonies) were a realm in which queer europeans could act out parts of themselves acceptable only in non european society, even as they fought tooth and nail to conquer said society for the empire.

gifs from @cinematicnomad

[daincrediblegg]

[anne-is-confused]

Captain Francis Crozier, at Furthest North.

[staud]

He goes out. Crozier, moved, lies there with the enormity of the gift Jopson's giving him.

-> 6/∞ CHARACTER DYNAMICS in The Terror

[wantsusdead]

THE TERROR (2018) — 1.02 'Gore' ◈ [francis crozier gifs] ◈