buildarocketboys:

I’ve read a few fics where Thomas is very well behaved at the plantation and sometimes talks to Oglethorpe about books and stuff. And while I’ve enjoyed those fics, I don’t see it that way.
I see Thomas, once he’s been removed from Bedlam and taken to the plantation and had some time to sort of semi-recover (in a place where, while he’s doing backbreaking work every day, he’s not locked in a cell and being tortured frequently in the name of therapy) being really, FURIOUSLY angry.
Thomas not being polite and pacifying, not holding his tongue about the injustice he and his fellow inmates are facing, because what good did that do him before? He TRIED playing politics and changing the world in a way that society deemed acceptable, and his own father locked him up in Bedlam for it.
So Thomas takes every chance he can to make things harder for his captors, to piss them off, make their work harder, complain and rile the other prisoners up with his words like only Thomas can. Because even if he can’t escape this place, even if he thinks he has nothing to escape to, thinks James and Miranda are dead – he’s not going down without a fucking fight.
Thomas Hamilton as angry and bitter and ready to fight as Flint is, but with less outlet for his searing rage.
Thomas Hamilton who, when James is brought in, in chains, after the initial blissful reunion, is as ready as James is, if not more so, to burn that fucking place to the ground.

#thomas hamilton#flinthamilton#I love my sunshine son#my feisty sunshine son#honestly Thomas is in no way docile or a pushover#and I understand the idea some people have that Bedlam might have broken him – in spirit and mind#but while Bedlam is obviously gonna be a trauma he carries for the rest of his life#I just see Thomas getting fiercely fucking angry about it more than anything#also he may not have James’s fighting skills but he is RIPPED from working those fields all day#between his words and James’s tactics#I’d say it takes them…a week at most to turn that plantation to ash#good fucking riddance

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