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HOLY SHIT THIS IS GOOD. I am so happy that there are always real characters in BS fanfics! aljskdalksdjasd DO TELL ME ALL!

*rubs hands together in glee* Ok! So – we have to start off with Thomas’ grandfather, Sir James Hamilton, the 1st Duke of Hamilton. James, as it happens, died without leaving a male heir. He had a daughter, though – Anne (Archibald Hamilton’s mother), and a brother, William. When James Hamilton (yes, I know, I made that noise too) died, the dukedom went to his brother William. William died in 1751 during the last battle of the English Civil War – without leaving a male heir. Anne took the title as James’ surviving eldest child – but what if William had had a male heir, only that heir was born AFTER William died? 

It’s well within the realm of possibility – William wasn’t old when he died, he was only 35, and if his only son had been born, say – two months or so after he died, possibly a little longer – it’s well possible that the family, scrambling to a. protect the child and b. recoup their losses after the war went against them, would have settled the title on Anne, thereby giving the Parliamentarians no reason to come after young Alfred – and no reason to come after Anne, because she was a woman and they would have hesitated to have her imprisoned as they would have a male heir to the title. When Charles II came back to the country, the matter of the title would already have been settled – and Alfred would be neatly out of a title that should, by all rights, have passed to him had things worked out differently. It makes sense that a certain amount of money – a lot of it – and the title of Earl would have been given to Alfred to offset the loss of the larger estate and the title, but he probably would have spent the rest of his life feeling cheated of both, which helps to explain part of why he’s such a massive prick.

Also, all of this plays nicely into my theory of how Alfred is a Jacobite, because his family was well known for their sympathies, and if his father died fighting the English Parliament, he’d be anything but sympathetic toward the people that booted James II off the throne and put his daughter and son-in-law on the throne instead. And if Alfred was a Jacobite, that explains why he went so nuclear on his own son when there was the hint of political scandal attached to his proposal for Nassau – Alfred wouldn’t have wanted anyone looking too closely at his personal affairs if he was committing treason in his spare time. 

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OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOD WHO IS ARCHIBALD

I’m SO GLAD you asked! Archibald was the governor of Jamaica from 1711 to 1716, and for fic purposes, I’m headcanoning him as Thomas’ second cousin on his father’s side. Archibald was a Navy officer before he was a governor and I’m reasonably certain that he and James would have served together – probably even both been involved in at least one battle, although most likely on different ships. Archibald was also just about Thomas’ age – if we go with the notion that Thomas was about 32 or so in 1705, then he and Archibald would have been born the same year. Previously I had been headcanoning him as Thomas’ uncle, but the dates just don’t work as Alfred would have to have been born long before Archibald’s oldest brother, thereby making him a duke rather than an earl. I’ve inserted Alfred elsewhere in the family and the backstory actually makes him make sense in an awful kind of way – want to hear it?

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oh my god, that wanker would totally deserve the storm that’s coming her way

I’m not sure how no one’s said anything about her before now, tbh. I’ve been here four years and I’m fed up with her crap – I can only conclude that the others are putting up with her behavior because she can’t shit on them the way she evidently feels she can on me. Unfortunately for her, I’m not my predecessor and I’ve got a lot lower bullshit tolerance, nor am I afraid of going to my other coworkers who have complained about her and going “look, we’re all sick of this, let’s have an end of it.” There’s one other person in the office who seems to think she’s God but she’s retiring in a couple of years so I can outlast her.

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I hope she chokes on her cheese next time ☠️ how dare she

same, honestly. she’s horrible, and I don’t say that lightly, but the galling thing is that she’s uber Christian without apparently having learned that whole “compassion for others” thing too well because when it comes right down to it, she’s incredibly judgmental and just… not nice, at all. And dear gods the histrionics every time something goes even minutely wrong – it’s exhausting just listening to it, I can’t imagine how she keeps it up.

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the real question is… for whom would the outsider be rooting for? also sorry for the spoilers, i haven’t finished the game myself but i can’t help it D;

Well, the Outsider seems to like Corvo insofar as he ever likes anyone. Delilah he most emphatically does not like, and Daud seems to irritate him. Granny Rags seems to have freaked him out years ago to the point where he warns Corvo about her. All in all – I’d have to say he’d probably be rooting for them all to destroy each other just so he could start over with a fresh bunch of assholes.