#billyvane

First of all, they should totally fuck. They’re both very hot and i’d like to see them tearing each other’s’ clothes off. 

Also it’s a waste that Billy never gets to fuck anyone (especially since him being asexual was denounced by Tom Hopper) and Charles really is too pretty to be heterosexual, I refuse to believe it.

But that’s not what i wanted to talk about. That’s just a picture i like having in my head.

As i have mentioned some while ago I do believe they would both have benefitted if they had decided to team up. 

Billy would have gotten his honest captain who says what he thinks and isn’t big on secrets and schemes and Vane would have had someone with Jack’s wits but without his dominant self-interest, Billy is a loyal fucker after all. 

There is more though. 

After Billy came back from the dead he was changed by the things that were done to him. 

He says that in his talk with Dufrense. “Have you ever been tortured? Suffered pain applied by men who saw you as less than a man. Saw you as an animal?”

Now, who does that remind us of? Might there be another character who suffered under people who viewed him as property? Less than human?

Billy goes on, “Cause it isn't actually the pain they're inflicting that's the most frightening part of it. It isn't the fear of future pain. It's the knowledge that even when the pain stops, even if they were to let you go, that they've changed you.”

That of course strongly reminded me of what Charles says to Jack about his time as a slave. 

And just like Billy wants to make sure none of his brothers ever suffer the same fate he did, Vane later in season three vehemently opposes the use of slave-labour in rebuilding the fort.

Both of them have suffered unspeakable things and are resolved to spare others the same terrors.

Apart from that parallel the whole scene with Billy and Dufrense and everything that follows shows clearly that Billy was permanently changed by what happened, just as Vane has been by his past.

And while at the beginning of the show they could not have been more different, as time goes by and both of them change, they end up being pretty similar in several regards.

I would have loved to see more scenes with them interacting, especially after Charles Town, which was a turning point in Vane’s character arc and resulted in them being on the same side.

They are both such strong characters and it would have been very enjoyable to see them work together towards a shared goal. 

Getting to fuck Billy through his heat is a privilege one has to earn. Charles doesn't mind proving himself.

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#4…  “I’m too sober for this.” Billy/Vane

Billy watches, almost horrified as Charles lays out an 11x11 sheet of paper with three dozen circles on it.

“We need to go over the seating chart.” Charles hands him a pencil.

“The seating chart?” Billy uses the eraser side of the pencil to scratch the side of his head as he stares at the paper stretched across their living room floor. “Why can’t people just sit where they want? They’re not children, they don’t need direction on how to sit do they?”

Modern AU. cop!Billy and nurse!charles. IDK, I just like them.

This is a sequel to Put me in coach