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Black Hound ([identity profile] black-hound.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2006-01-31 12:31 pm

Affirmation by Rach74 (NC-17)

Fandom: HORATIO HORNBLOWER
Pairing: William Bush/Archie Kennedy
Author on LJ:[livejournal.com profile] rach74
Author Website:NA
Why this must be read:

Among the major characters that populate the A&E movieverse adaptations of the C.S. Forester novels, the pairing of Archie Kennedy & William Bush is rarely written. Thankfully [livejournal.com profile] rach74 has adopted them, bridging the events and characterizations of the books and the movies and blending them together in her Kingston Days Universe. And this pairing works.

"Affirmation" is set in the Sheerness era of the book canon and after the episode "Duty" in the movieverse adaptations. Archie Kennedy is a strong and capable character providing a strut of support for William Bush as he deals with the direct and collateral issues of losing a limb, and the very real prospect of never again having a posting at sea. These issues are revealed and explored through the relationship between these 2 men, and not always in an idyllic fashion. But at the core there are the ties that bind through all adversity.

Affirmation