aw

it's not bad!

just dark.

but you know, the characters are complex and human. esp ol' a-dot-ham, wh you know, didn't have the best life ever.

it true.

A friend just started writing (and I'm betaing) a modern AU fic where it's not hamwash, but Washington dangles something before Hamilton and he.... ends up doing stupid shit that's 10000% shady to get it.

that sounds like it could be potentially good.

but yeah, there's the quid pro quo dynamic where washington is hamilton's emotional support and he likes it, like, it's something hemakes time for.

(and Washington KNOWS that you can't do this clean, so the implication is that he's toying with Alexander.)

but i can efinitely see a different dynamic where washington either doesn't like or doesn't have time for (or both) being that role.

ahhhh yeaaaah

yes, alex is his top employee and they have incredible working chemistry and he likes the guy a lot and wants him to be better

and they have incredible sexual chemistry

BUT

Alexander needs a LOT of emotional support

right

and washington either a) isn't interested in handling it doesn't feel capable of it, and not in a way that he wants to improve c) feels it a lower priority o

goddamnit

b )

like, most of him is like

"Alex wants to sleep with me because alex is damaged. we both know it's because alex is damaged but alex doesn't gaf because of that damage. and i am a weak human with base urges."