And It Was...Magnificent

First off, this is a quick warning to you all. Some of the stuff here is going to deal with the Antebellum Period right before the Civil War in the Deep South. This is going to deal with the Confederacy and race relations and a whole lot of historically accurate but highly objectionable material by today’s standards. You have been warned.

So. Remember how I said I sat down and made a time line for him… well, this is pretty much it. Now, I could sit down and give the minutia of ever single battle of the Civil War he fought in, but honestly, that’d take a lot of time, so I’m just going to highlight some of them and give my reasoning behind it all.

Staring with my reasoning for his birth year. I’m going with the age of the actor, which honestly, for that time period, Ethan Hawke would be considered “old”.  The average life expectancy during this era was 37 and Ethan Hawke is 45. Knowing that the movie takes place in 1879 that places the date of his birth to 1834.

TIME LINE 1834 - Born in New Orleans, the son of  landed gentry. (he’s old money). His family hails from French fur traders that made it big and expanded their trading into a business. They ran the trading docks and ports. The year he was born, the family gets the trading contract for the very first gas company. (it brought this new fangled fuel to the city that was used in lights)

1835-1847 - Your standard upper class childhood. There were schools and tutors. Lessons on math and reading and languages. He would take trips with his father up river to learn more of the business. Most of his young life was controlled and dictated by the family patriarch. Just about everything was decided for him. from what he was going to wear to who he was going to marry all before the age of 10.

1847 - 1854 The Boarding School Years. Generally, well to do young men would be sent to boarding schools from the ages of 13 to the age of 20. These were basically colleges and would bring an even more formal education to those who could afford it. I believe that during this time is when he discovered his sexuality. He would go on to graduate Boarding School and rejoin hid father’s trading business as a full partner.

1861 The Civil War begins. Louisiana succeeds from the Union and there is a large call for able bodied men to fight. While Goodnight cares nothing for the politics of it all, he sees it as “romantic” and as his “god given duty” to stand for his beloved state. He  swears in and joins the 9th Louisiana Infantry Regiment. During the training phase, it’s discovered that he’s an amazing shot with a rifle and made a sharpshooter.

(aside - the 9th has an amazing and painful history, I really recommend reading up on them if you have any interest in it)

1861 - 1865 The Civil War is fought. The 9th fought 14 Battles in 1862, 6 in 1863, 8 in 1864, and finally 2 in 1865. In this time, the brigade suffered innumerable losses to both the fighting and to disease and starvation as well as from desertion. The highlights are as follows:  - Second Battle of Manassas -The regiment ran out of ammunition and resorted to throwing rocks at attacking Union soldiers while defending the Unfinished Railroad - Battle of Chantilly - It was rumored that a sharpshooter from Company D killed Union General Kearney. This rumor is true. The shooter was Goodnight. - Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)  - 22 confirmed kills.  The casualties of the battle were a combined 22,717 dead, wounded or missing. General Lee later describes this battle as “Artillery Hell”   - Battle of Fredericksburg  - Gatling Guns were used for the first time in combat against the South. Lots of people died. - Battle of Gettysburg - He was most likely put into use early in the fighting (Little Round Top) and was not part of Picket’s Charge (he just watched from the tree line) - Battle of Rapahannock Station -  Over 1,600 Confederate prisoners were taken from the eight understrength regiments defending the bridgehead. Of the 1200 men of Hays’ Louisiana Brigade, 699 were captured. - Prisoner of War (Nov 1863 - March 1864) March of 1864  500 of the 699 men from the brigade captured at Rappahannock Station were exchanged and returned to duty  - Siege of Petersburg - Appomattox Court House - the final battle and surrender of Lee to Grant signifying the war ends.

“So what happened to you guys?”

“Oh, you know: boy meets boy, they fall in love, it’s all sunsets and fireworks until it isnt.”

Red : What the hell’s he talking about?

Vasquez : It’s really not that big of a deal.

Attention Grand Collab

This post can serve as a center for all the oc information. What means, and is not limited

Face Claims

Ages

Family

Ships

Roles in the movie & any aus

Personality traits

Character songs

And any other information you would care!

Looking forward to hearing about them!

Name: Xavier Diego Montigo Vasquez

Age: Early 30′s

Face Claim: Diego Boneta 

Family: Vasquez (Older Brother)

Ship: Goodnight Robicheaux

Song: Massacre of El Kuroke by The Dead South

That's the way it had to be I grew up at the count of three Got no reason to repent They say a man is born to kill He learns his trade it becomes a thrill That's what they did to me then

Role in Movie and other cannon relevant information: The Thief, refused to leave his brother’s side when the law came against them. The two became even more inseparable than when they were children. Been known to pickpocket and steal whatever he can get his hands on what ever it may be. Has been known to prefer a rifle, unlike Vasquez (who Xavier says can’t shoot the broadside of a barn when using a rife). He also has been known to keep the company of trappers and traders, picking up on their languages and has become fluent in English, Spanish, French. 

Personality (in a modern setting): A general disaster of a human being honestly, but a sweetheart. It’s a miracle and pure luck that he has been able to survive this long in life. He loves his brother, and has been known to run and jump onto Vasquez’s back just for the hell of it. He’s clever as a tack and has the knack for languages. 

Red Harvest : Only if you don’t ask why. *pulls four pristine human skulls out of his bag* Choose one.

Billy :

Red Harvest :

Hey, thank you for the ask! I had a random, personal headcanon thing like this started, and it was great to get to dust it off and actually finish it! 

Head Full of Ghosts

Vasquez: Vasquez’s nightmares usually include feelings of being pursued, while at the same time, he’s searching for something that he cannot find. He doesn’t dare look behind him. He can hear hounds and hoofbeats, and the shouts of men who would make a trophy out of him. Occasionally, the people chasing him are the members of gangs he used to run with. Sometimes his horse is lame. He can never find a place to hide. Sometimes he finds himself in the town he used to live in, and is denied sanctuary by his family. On waking, he’s not sure what was so terrifying about the dream in the first place, but he feels scared and miserable…and sad.

Billy: The dreams that rattle Billy the most are the ones in which he is ineffectual in tasks he’s very good at. Sometimes his knives are missing from their sheaths, or the blades are so dull, they don’t cut anything. Any punches he lands have no effect on his enemies. Sometimes there is something preventing him from helping Goodnight. His dreamscapes vary. Sometimes he’s on a ship. Sometimes he’s in some deplorable camp full of railway workers. When he wakes, he quickly calms himself, though the aggravation of having been so unnerved in the first place sticks with him. They are, after all, just dreams.

Sam: Sam dreams of war and slavery. His family, and the ruin that used to be his farm. Sometimes, in his dreams, Sam is after a bounty that’s been eluding him for too long; someone who is and is not Bart Bogue. Then there’s the woods. Sam’s instincts scream at him not to enter, but going around will make him lose precsious time. The farther he goes, the thicker the forest becomes; the more the trees seem to crowd him. They groan and creak, and that plaintive noise reminds Sam of the sound a rope makes when it has been pulled taut. Sam keeps going and he finds it more difficult to breathe. He always wakes up before he makes it out of the woods.

Goodnight: On the worst nights, Goody’s unconscious mind is a jumble of any number of horrible things. War, not being able to recognize his own reflection. There are nights he dreams he can’t find his targets in his rifle’s crosshairs when it’s imperative that he do so. Then there’s the owl. That’s as close to describing the thing that haunts his dreams. It has talons, and it shrieks. Goodnight can hear its wings, though he doesn’t think owls’ wings make sound when they’re in flight. It’s predatory. It’s an ill omen. He can smell rot, and the owl’s voice becomes the cries of dying men. His voice intermingles with theirs as he screams himself awake.

Red Harvest: After nightmares, Red wakes from quietly, tears hot on his face. He chokes back a sob as he looks at the rest of camp, hoping no one has seen the result of his nightmare. He won’t sleep the rest of the night. Anything to avoid reliving images of disease sweeping away his people like a cruel tide, or or being crowded onto reservations. Those things are usually mixed with themes of being completely, and hopelessly lost, or with being unrecognizable to his people upon returning to them. And climbing. There are hills in his dreams. Hills that no matter how hard he climbs, or digs in with his fingers, he can’t seem to surmount them.

Jack Horne: Jack becomes a monster in his most vivid nightmares. He becomes a vicious, destructive force, devoid of compunction or mercy…and he knows that he’s been that thing before. Or something very close to it. He can’t stop all the heartbreak, and rage, and violence. He damns himself over and over again with every brutal act, and somehow his family has seen all of it. He wakes up with hurt in his heart and the overwhelming feeling of shame and guilt. The loss of his family eats at him, and he he feels worse yet when there’s a part of him that recognizes he’s grateful his family never saw what he became.

1) Faraday is a fucking sociopath and gets off on violence. He only has good dreams about things like that, and that look on his face is him not wanting to admit that no, he does not have the same response to killing people that most people have. He knows he’s not normal.