Hm, I have but didn't draw the connection (perhaps because I haven't read the fic recently). I had to go back and look over the fic again, though now I do see what you mean. I would still argue that the character archetypes themselves don't map as Aubrey -> Laurence and Maturin -> Temeraire; if anything, the fic points towards a parallel between Laurence and Maturin, which...hm...does start to make sense to me. (Now I will never be able to un-see Temeraire as a very precocious, young and hyper dragon version of Jack Aubrey.) XD Thanks for pointing it out. (And sorry, kaigou for continuing the digression.)
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Date: 9 Feb 2010 04:21 am (UTC)