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Ships that I Ship: Day 122: Edgar Allan Poe/Davy Crockett
Canon: Harold Schechter's Poe series
Pairing: Davy Crockett/Edgar Allan Poe
Canon Level: Friends
Harold Schechter's Poe series is a four-book series where Edgar Allan Poe teams up with other well-known people of the era to solve murder mysteries. The first book, Nevermore has him teaming up with Davy Crockett. I personally find this series endlessly amusing, although that may or may not the author's intention. But Poe is just so serious and thinks so highly of himself and his intellect, and I just read him as being an incredibly narrator with regards to his own personage and, for me, that disconnect is so much fun to read. Poe will never use a $1 word when he has a $5 one he could use instead!
There's a scene somewhere in the book (that I sadly couldn't find in my quick perusal, so I have to go by memory here) with Poe and Crockett camping outside for the night. They're sitting by the campfire, just the two of them, and having a heart-to-heart about why they've been acting the way they have towards each other. At the end, they finally understand each other, and I swear if one of them had been female the scene would have ended with them having sex. Probably a fade-to-black as this isn't that sort of book, but I have read that scene before. It ends with sex. Canonically, it ends with a strong friendship that causes Poe to name drop "my very good friend Davy Crockett" everywhere for the next three books, but my version is the way it should have ended.
I admit, I also want to pair Poe up because he spends a not-inconsiderable portion of the book wishing his twelve-year-old cousin was thirteen so he can finally marry her. Which is something the actual Edgar Allan Poe did, and Harold Schechter does his best to make this fact palatable to a modern audience by having Poe be the perfect Victorian gentleman to his cousin, where even the thought that he might see her ankles sends him running from the room. So Schechter makes the relationship completely and thoroughly non-sexual, but yeah. I have so much no for those sections, and pairing Poe up with another man works as a solution for me. I'd still wish for Poe/Crockett even without the cousin thing, but the cousin thing certainly adds to my desire for Poe/Crockett.
Suggested reading:
None.
Pairing: Davy Crockett/Edgar Allan Poe
Canon Level: Friends
Harold Schechter's Poe series is a four-book series where Edgar Allan Poe teams up with other well-known people of the era to solve murder mysteries. The first book, Nevermore has him teaming up with Davy Crockett. I personally find this series endlessly amusing, although that may or may not the author's intention. But Poe is just so serious and thinks so highly of himself and his intellect, and I just read him as being an incredibly narrator with regards to his own personage and, for me, that disconnect is so much fun to read. Poe will never use a $1 word when he has a $5 one he could use instead!
There's a scene somewhere in the book (that I sadly couldn't find in my quick perusal, so I have to go by memory here) with Poe and Crockett camping outside for the night. They're sitting by the campfire, just the two of them, and having a heart-to-heart about why they've been acting the way they have towards each other. At the end, they finally understand each other, and I swear if one of them had been female the scene would have ended with them having sex. Probably a fade-to-black as this isn't that sort of book, but I have read that scene before. It ends with sex. Canonically, it ends with a strong friendship that causes Poe to name drop "my very good friend Davy Crockett" everywhere for the next three books, but my version is the way it should have ended.
I admit, I also want to pair Poe up because he spends a not-inconsiderable portion of the book wishing his twelve-year-old cousin was thirteen so he can finally marry her. Which is something the actual Edgar Allan Poe did, and Harold Schechter does his best to make this fact palatable to a modern audience by having Poe be the perfect Victorian gentleman to his cousin, where even the thought that he might see her ankles sends him running from the room. So Schechter makes the relationship completely and thoroughly non-sexual, but yeah. I have so much no for those sections, and pairing Poe up with another man works as a solution for me. I'd still wish for Poe/Crockett even without the cousin thing, but the cousin thing certainly adds to my desire for Poe/Crockett.
Suggested reading:
None.