I know we always talk about the cursed/depraved side of hamburr (and don't get me wrong, I agree), but what would you imagine to be some iconic sweet or tender moments between them?
i vibe with this but i think the complicated nature of their relationship kind of precludes and prevents tenderness for the most part. also i'm not sure if you are asking this in a fanfic-y capacity and want me to add my own interpretations, or if you mean things that actually happened. i think answering this question is going to require me to do both because some of these stories are anecdotal. anyway stop me if i get too metaphysical.
kip's bay: burr inadvertently saves hamilton's life. one of those temptingly narrative moments where with hindsight it's easy to clap and gawk and point when like of course that's not how life works. but... cathedrals everywhere etc. the girls go crazy for this one. end of season 1 cliffhanger, 8.1/10 on imdb.
burr showing up at philip schuyler's library and them studying together - some sources say burr actually lived there for a time, after which he went to go live with some elderly van rensellaer women. other sources say he just spent time there to study & read. either way, this can be summed up as "hamilton returns triumphant from the high of yorktown only to see his heavily pregnant wife and beloved father-in-law entertaining This Man". and also, as always, troup is there.
working together on, and just being jointly involved with, various legal cases throughout the 1780s [too many to link here] but included in this are: whatever this is in reference to, wilkes vs. seton, cooper & craig vs franklin (in conjunction with burr's handling of a related prevost case), catherine bayard v john cruger, augustus van horne, william malcom, samuel breese & burr. in fact, the entirety of the 1780's seemed to be a very chill, very friendly decade for them, see below.
hamilton listing His Favorite Guys for miranda's revolutionary designs. no context.
i will never recover from this. that Oh My God They Were Roommates vine except this is whatever conversation the woman was having on her phone. we know one one thousandth of it's power. we scoff and laugh with the sunglassed man, but only because we're terrified of what it could mean. she could have been solving climate change; speaking to a long-dead god. we'll never fucking know.
dinner parties. sarah livingston-jay i'm so sorry i know they absolutely slaughtered the vibe and flattened your crème brûlée.
[depending on how heartwarming you think political scheming is] them working together to undermine clinton's gubernatorial election in 1789. (<-- long post, but the details of what happened is toward the bottom) this one is actually super intriguing because it's the only time burr and hamilton worked together on behalf of the same political cause/party and can be interpreted as the moment when the powers that be sense their alliance could be dangerous and subsequently encouraged their rivalry. i'm not saying they were naive pawns in an oftentimes life-or-death political quagmire that was far stronger and more powerful than either of them knew at the time but i am also in fact super duper saying that. sweet in a way that makes you long for death.
does burr like me? pleaseeeee tell me he likes me...okay good anyway he's so weird lmao
burr's involvement on hamilton's behalf during the reynolds affair: the prevention of the duel between hamilton and monroe, his handling of maria's divorce, his "sacred obligation" to protect her daughter susan. odd behavior unless you take into account that this is aaron burr and alexander hamilton.
military committee of new york city & related quasi war things. they seemed to really be into each other in the late 1790s for reasons i don't think any of us want to explore. also probably the point where adams's exceptionally low opinion of them was formed. boy did he have a lot to say about the pair of them.
grandes ames. this was horny and nothing will convince me otherwise. "tender and sweet" could be a stretch here but burr seemed to think this was a compliment. putting this in conjunction with the achilles metaphors. also, coming from hamilton, horny. both fall under the umbrella of this like weird shady begrudging admiration and respect they had for each other. Heartbreaking: Worst Person You Know Just Kind Of Turned You On.
"help me, cassius" / leguen case [sweet? bizarre? up to you i guess] - this is one of those moments that make me howl with laughter every time i read about it. commercial law case that boiled down to hamilton & burr vs troup & gouv morris. bottle episode, 4 emmys, 9.6/10 on imdb.
jay sending them upstate together for some intense & convoluted real estate litigation (NY vs. CT about a tract of land between them) and then not paying them and burr complaining to jay about it on their behalf. another forced-proximity, there-was-only-one-bed episode. the writers are coasting on previous seasons and have given up.
levi weeks trial [again.... its a matter of taste]. first high profile murder trial in nyc, extremely sensationalist and extremely shady for everyone involved, famously their joint defense of him was so impenetrable the jury returned a verdict of not guilty after less than ten minutes of deliberation. levi week's brother ezra was simultaneously involved with burr and hamilton in some business dealings (providing building supplies for both the grange and the manhattan well company). the devil works hard but manhattan defense attorneys work harder.
political theater-style street debates, a type of love language if you're clinically insane
tw cheetham: he was at the devil's sacrament again and saw burr and hamilton at the applebees
the much-contested suicidal burr asking for money early in the morning : like i said in my post here, the source of this story is john church hamilton whose intel is dubious at best. however. this story originated with eliza, and was corroborated by william coleman. gentlemen appealing to other gentlemen for loans and money and credit (especially broke bitches like burr) was very much a thing that they, and their peers, did. i'm more apt to believe that john church (who would have been all of twelve years old at the time) willfully misconstrued and misreported this event for propagandist purposes than i am willing to write it off completely.
the singing. oh god the singing. by this point they were so elaborately wound up in each other's business that Uh oh! the ruination of one could actually mean the ruination of the other. in fact that's exactly what it means. better sing a song in front of all our friends about it. extremely controversial episode that divides critics but becomes a cult favorite ten years later.
the poetry connection. more bits here. also here's a contemporary poem about them from 1795. i don't really have anything else to say about this one; its romantic and woo woo and i get it but i think in the context of your question it's pretty pertinent.
like i said at the start of this a lot of this is my own interpretation but these indeterminately factual #stories color how i view their relationship and interactions, and any sweet/tender moments they may have had.
i actually want to revisit this
