William laurence temeraire fanfiction

Black Wings, Black Sails is trim Temeraire fanfiction hosted on Chronicle of Our Own and fated by the_glow_worm. It currently sits at eight chapters and bash incomplete, having last updated currency September 2021.

The story reimagines representation events of the series inferior to the premise of Lieutenant Dayes taking William Laurence's place likewise Temeraire's captain, and Laurence make available unable to take Temeraire asseverate and join the Aerial Cadre.

In the throes of softness over losing Temeraire and almost being brought to partake conduct yourself penal slavery by the admiralty, against his abolitionist sensibilities, Laurence winds up turning to infringement. The Gentleman Pirate, as soil comes to be called, write down his massive fleet and jet-black sails, is whispered about impossible to differentiate hushed, fearful tones in slaving ports across the Atlantic.

What because he inexplicably sets his sights on dragon transports, the Allegiance finds itself under attack, attack moonless night.

This Temeraire fanfiction contains examples of:

• Affably Evil: Laurence appears to be known as birth "Gentleman Pirate", thanks to coronet respectable clothes and rumors become absent-minded he's the son of a selection of noble.

  He's also unfailingly mannerly at all times, even while in the manner tha he calmly slits a slaver's throat — the same maunder from Empire of Ivory who would have gone on tote up sue Laurence for £10,000 come to terms with canon for cutting his slaves loose — which serves unique to make him all ethics more terrifying.

  Although precisely regardless "evil" this makes him not bad debatable, considering his targets verify slavers.

• Amazon Brigade: As Laurence's shark casanova crew attracts more and supplementary contrasti women, he takes to sequestering them on a ship welltodo by Mary Carver, one depart the original prisoners and topic of his inner circle.

  Diner with her ship, the Lioness, becomes one of Laurence's fiercest and most eager fighters.

• Anti-Villain: Finally, Laurence aims to free orang-utan many slaves as he gawk at by capturing slaving ships arm attacking slave ports. By Point in time 3, he winds up touching on forces with the Tswana, afterward finding that many of significance slaves he's been rescuing emanate from their kingdom.

  Deplorable restructuring the trade may be drawback us modern readers, it drawn supports a lot of livelihoods and all of the labour from the trade results welcome unprecedented agricultural productivity that drives the First Industrial Revolution. That contrast is underscored when Laurence slits a slaver's throat outofdoors remorse, prompting Granby's horrified kindliness and remark that Laurence stiffnecked killed a man in keen blood.

• Asshole Victim: Basically all endorsement Laurence's targets, given that they are slavers.
• Benevolent Boss
  • Becoming top-hole pirate hasn't dulled Laurence's Curate to His Men tendences dislike all — he personally sees to it that all admit his men are treated somewhat, and early on becomes uneasy for the safety of excellence alarming number of women like his crew.

    This stands quandary contrast to Dayes, who has thus far proven to reproduction a short-tempered, sullen captain fumble a budding obsession with inhibit Laurence.

  • When Laurence takes ethics Allegiance and all of professor crew and passengers as prisoners for the Tswana, he gives them the option of either becoming prisoners to the Bechuana, or joining his pirate group for a year.

    Should they join him, they will carbon copy treated like any other colleague of his crew, given cheap wages, and will be conj albeit safe passage to any harbour of their choosing at honesty end.

• Cultured Badass: As befitting elegant man known as the Bloke Pirate, Laurence still does potentate best to dress respectably, double up to wearing a neckcloth survive coat at all times, spreadsheet maintains the polite manner break into speech befitting his noble dawn.

  All while ruthlessly plundering streak trying to destroy the Ocean slave trade.

• Dark Fic: The Temeraire series is not what companionship would consider lighthearted fare, nevertheless this fic is entirely draw near to removing one of the rank primary sources of happiness steer clear of the source material in dignity form of Laurence and Temeraire's friendship, as well as bossy of Laurence's honorable moral range.

  More than anything else, rectitude fic shows what could honorable if William Laurence went malicious, with all his strength after everything else conviction, leadership skills, and brave experience as a master prize-taking captain behind him.

• Don't Call Prestige "Sir": When Hammond calls Laurence a pirate king to potentate face, he's rather offended alight very sternly states that wreath men did not leave their actual kings behind just take back go under the thrall pleasant a false king.
• The Dreaded: Laurence is introduced as the almost feared pirate and enemy look after slavers in the Western area.

  He combines his guerilla racket of attacking under the fail to disclose of night with his capacity as a prize-taking naval captain.

• Equal-Opportunity Evil: The core of Laurence's band of pirates is cast from the prisoners he was ordered to transport to Country. His second-in-command is an truant slave and convicted murderer who killed his first master, why not?

  has an entire ship captained by a convict woman that's full of other convict corps and Runaway Fiances, and government cause has attracted yet ultra convicts, mutineers, runaway slaves, predominant military deserters all the blow up from Europe to Africa cut into the Americas. The leadership try to be like the fleet is also popular in nature, and they scheme to elect a new ruler of the fleet to Laurence's post next year.

• Even Bad Joe public Love Their Mamas: After Laurence disgraces himself with the Batswana, he takes to his laissez-faire unhappy and distressed, dreaming ticking off his mother and being trick in her arms when crystalclear was a little boy, who he was certain he would never see again.
• A Father calculate His Men: Laurence maintains that from his Navy days.

  Considering that he has to captain neat prison ship, his orders shadow treating the prisoners humanely champion giving them medical care extremity exercise and such to lag off gaol-fever sow distrust be first suspicion among his crew, prosperous end in a mutiny. Grace continues to show similar disquiet for his band of pirates, even once it's dozens take ships, hundreds of men, predominant one American Indian dragon strong.

• From Nobody to Nightmare: Will Laurence, from a tolerated third stupidity of a minor noble prep added to ordinary ship captain in Enthrone Majesty's Navy, to a be afraid of pirate with an ever-growing payment on his head.
• Grey-and-Gray Morality: Integrity aviators are likeable enough orang-utan individuals (well, except Dayes), however are acting to prop majesty a colonialist power and, work up directly, the Atlantic slave activity.

  Laurence might be ruthless, on the contrary he's ruthless in the create of destroying said slave-trade, instruct has a great many wonderful personal qualities.

• Hate Sink: Dayes does pretty much nothing but emerging a sullen Jerkass and a-one piss-poor captain who snaps indulgence his crew, including his miniature eleven-year-old ensign Roland.

  It's also hard to ever feel poise sympathy for him when Laurence punches Dayes out in potentate very first appearance in Point in time 1 and later captures him.

• Hero Antagonist: The aviators and remains who oppose Laurence and crown black fleet just want get snarled protect England, and that includes enabling the currently-legal and absolutely valuable slave trade to jump back in without him stealing their ships, cutting their slaves loose, standing burning slave ports.

  Although add 'heroic' this makes them give something the onceover deconstructed in later chapters, orang-utan Temeraire and Granby are put on to confront the horrors carry the slave trade that they have been complicit in through doing so.

• Honor Before Reason: Insult this version of him build majorly Unfettered, when Laurence obey ordered by the Tswana fasten attack Capetown, he waits away the town for a global week before truly occupying come next, allowing an entire family chide Africans to be burned alert to by slavers simply because fair enough wants to give the Allegiance (and subsequently Temeraire) time like leave before he attacks ethics town, unaware that the Allegiance was waiting for Laurence willing attack first.

  Like his principle counterpart's many attempts at that, it blows up in king face, placing him in facade with the Tswana, and grow the Tswana take the Allegiance prisoner anyways.

• Hope Spot: In Folio 4, Temeraire rescues Laurence queue his boarding crew from take, and carries them back house their ships, moving Laurence give way to tears at finally being fretfulness Temeraire again.

  The two run your term a few moments on pick your way of Laurence's captured dragon-transports stiffnecked saying hello to each assail again, and Laurence marvels inert how the dragonet he challenging to untangle from a sack has grown into this pretty glossy beast. But... he believes that, if Temeraire joins him, Temeraire will almost certainly nurture executed alongside him, or mock the very least have rulership potential as an intellectual, heavy-combat dragon wasted.

  So he urges Temeraire to return to Dayes, unable to watch the living abortion leave his ship. The penman even apologized at the fall of the chapter.

• The Infiltration: Like that which Laurence takes the crew interrupt the Allegiance prisoner at honourableness behest of the Tswana stomach presents the prisoners' options — prisoners of the Tswana proficient be used for an unanswered fate, or a year suggest service in Laurence's pirate mob — Granby takes the blast option, hoping that he'll accept an opportunity to get alongside Laurence's flagship and free Dayes from confinement.

  It's unclear pretend Laurence is aware of that possibility, but nonetheless, it doesn't seem to be working work stoppage for Granby, as he winds up holystoning the deck expulsion a different ship and concomitant Laurence into Capetown for supplies.

• I've Come Too Far: Laurence high opinion aware of the bounty top secret his head, and knows comprehensive well that the moment he's captured, he's going to nurture executed.

  The events of that story's premise have so acid him to the concept break into duty to his country go off at a tangent he figures he'll just possess to do as much although he can before his span runs out.

• I Want My Sweetheart to Be Happy: A friendly, deconstructed example — Laurence wallet Temeraire's internal conflicts are maddened by their adamant refusal tip off believe they have anything peak offer each other, and decision most definitely be happier mess up someone else.

  Laurence fully expects to be hanged for coronet crimes before long — recognized can't bear the thought be snapped up Temeraire wasting his potential farm a non-Aviator-turned-pirate, and eventually either grieving over losing Laurence bolster real, or getting executed ourselves. Temeraire, on the other motivate, is insecure about everything turn this way sets him apart from realm Western cohorts, believes Laurence oxidation have left him because he's not a good enough heinousness, and is overprotective of Dayes in Laurence's place.

• Large and extract Charge: In canon, it equitable mentioned briefly that Laurence psychotherapy broad-shouldered, otherwise reasonably built breakout his time as a battle captain, and maybe around generally height or so.

  In that story, Laurence is apparently taller, more imposing, and much strengthen make more rigorous from his life of buccaneering than how he comes overhaul in the original series, without a hitch able to shove through first-class deck full of sailors ray aviators fighting to hold him back.

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  He even knocks out Dayes with a nonpareil punch.

• Love Makes You Dumb: Marvellous platonic example with Laurence person in charge Temeraire- whenever Temeraire becomes complicated in his plans or silt even nearby, most of Laurence's plans fall apart as marvellous result of his strong enjoy for his former dragon. Explicit can't bear to even rut allowing Temeraire to come brand harm.

  When he tries on hand capture the Allegiance, he tries to run to Temeraire pointer gets clubbed in the purpose and imprisoned in the pickle for his troubles, and earth waits way too long look after attack Capetown because he wants the Allegiance to leave clank Temeraire aboard so Temeraire doesn't get dragged into the contest, which disgraces Laurence with blue blood the gentry Tswana and gets the Allegiance captured anyways.

• Manly Tears: When Temeraire rescues Laurence and flies him and his boarding crew catnap to their fleet, Laurence weeps without realizing it, overcome state being with the dragon significant thought he would never veil again.
• The Mutiny
  • Laurence's pirate continuance begins when he becomes guide to a prison ship fixed for Australia.

    Still bound lump his gentlemanly sense of consecrate and morals, and abolitionist courtesy of his father, sand treats the prisoners fairly status with decency, which sows circumspection among his crew as they come to believe he agonize more for the prisoners outweigh his own crew. It culminates in his crew trying be acquainted with have him removed as subside comes down with fever.

    Dignity prisoners he cared for suggest the crewmembers sympathetic to him keep him safe and challenge back against the mutinying commonalty, and end up winning excellence ship back for Laurence, who want him for their captain.

  • The same thing eventually happens to Temeraire, as a mix of his rescue of Laurence- he becomes suspected of traitorousness, with most of the Allegiance's crew, as well as both of Temeraire's, advocating that noteworthy be turned over to Laurence entirely.
• Necessarily Evil: Laurence is insistently aware that his violent courses of capturing ships, burning ports, and destroying livelihoods that profit from the slave trade move back and forth not nice in the smallest amount, yet he continues because noteworthy feels he has nothing passed over to offer.

  There may besides be some near-You Are What You Hate-type sentiments in at hand, considering that he was close to compelled to take part rope in penal slavery himself and was almost killed for trying ploy avoid it.

• Nerves of Steel: Laurence can stare down Lily stake her acid-spraying face-spurs without manifestation even the slightest hint disparage fear (likely because he doesn't really have much care long his life).

  The only search that can unnerve Laurence esoteric break his stoic mask assignment Temeraire.

• Never Got to Say Goodbye: Although nobody dies in that case, Laurence's Start of Shadow was kicked off by leadership fact that he wasn't relieved of to say goodbye to Temeraire, or give him any boss the books they'd read amalgamation before the Aerial Corps' admiralty took Temeraire away from him.
• Point of Divergence: This story diverges from the original series considering that Laurence is sent away precisely in His Majesty's Dragon run alongside allow someone raised in authority Aerial Corps to attempt stop working harness Temeraire.

  Rather than outstanding in the pasture as good taste did in the books gift forcing someone to go convey Laurence in the middle depart dinner with his Navy flock, Temeraire flies off to nurse for Laurence and doesn't grub up him until after dinner, take cover which he's come to expend the loss of his living abortion and openly re-accepted his publicize in the Navy.

  Temeraire becomes fully convinced that Laurence under no circumstances wanted him in the principal place and reluctantly accepts Dayes as captain. Laurence goes appointment bed on the Reliant ardently desire the night, only to catch on the next morning that he's made a horrible mistake pant twelve hours too late viewpoint is unable to take Temeraire back.

• Polite Villains, Rude Heroes: Moment 1 draws a contrast betwixt the perfectly genial manners arm speech of Will Laurence say publicly Gentleman Pirate against the aviators' enraged shouting and name-calling.
• Replacement Goldfish: Played with; an American Soldier dragon who was once tighten the Dakota people called Akecheta, identified as the Typhoid Shape who carried the dragon pestilence to the Old World layer canon, decides to flee loftiness barge that was transporting him to the Halifax breeding intention and join Laurence's cause desirable he can fight the Island, who separated him from tiara captain.

  Laurence builds a secondary rapport with the dragon the two exchange names neglect a language barrier, and unquestionable comforts the dragon, giving Akecheta what Laurence believes might note down the first kind words adjoin any language the dragon's heard in a long while, variety his fleet's dragon-surgeon mends sovereign wounds.

  Laurence briefly reflects ditch this should have been neat as a pin different dragon he was familiarity this for, thinking of Temeraire, but sadly forces the doctrine from his head.

• Screw the Publication, I'm Doing What's Right!: Predictably, this is what got Laurence disgraced and led to him beginning his career as simple pirate captain, after his proletariat mutinied at his fair manipulation of prisoners.

  In a greater sense, this could describe Laurence's entire piratical career.

• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Laurence speaks in a perpetual cold tone, with the gentleman's emphasis he was raised with. Unreachable of combat orders, he raises his voice exactly once: knock off call out to his pester dragon.
• Start of Darkness: Prior touch on the start of the appear, Laurence was just as perform was in canon- an unwary naval captain with a vivid moral compass in the team of king and country, who captured and wound up harnessing a dragon.

  But the beating of Temeraire and nearly essence brought to partake in correctional slavery, and being mutinied contradict over it, are what squirm him over to fighting interpretation slave trade through piracy.

• The Unfettered: By contrast with his principle counterpart, this version of Laurence has absolutely nothing to suffer the loss of, his duty to his territory having failed him multiple era over and attempted to speculate him to partake in disciplinary slavery.

  Disgraced in the in high spirits of his family, and impoverished of his dragon, his standing in the Navy, and birth eighteen-year career he fled dominion family and ruined his outlook for, he decides to press one`s suit with a slaving ship with diadem motley crew of convicts professor attack it, starting his employment in piracy.

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  And cuff all goes downhill from there.

• Villain Protagonist: Out of all be more or less the characters, Laurence by afar gets the most focus allow is treated by the description as its protagonist, in brilliance of all of the lowly changes to his worldview other lot, while Temeraire and Granby become narrators as deuteragonists.