#charles lee
I know it’s been a little while since I’ve been awfully busy. School ends soon so prepare for a lot of content! Until then enjoy my kiddos!
Fic Prompt: After being killed, Lee wakes up to a time before before he met Connor. Knowing the boy’s potential and certain of his grandmaster’s willingness, he decides to change things. Connor Kenway would be a Templar.
There are fics where Ziio lets Haytham see Connor once he finds out he’s a father but I’d love to read about a huge, politically motivated custody battle.
Prompt: Haytham meets the Templars his father killed
Connor: Are you collecting donations for the Templar Ball?
Lee: We don’t have balls.
Connor: …I honestly have no response to that.
Yeah For no reason
“Buddhist Fist & Tiger Claws” (1982, Charles Lee) Korea
A lowlife boot expert has his heart set on unearthing some hidden gold. He teams up with a super kicker and the dynamic leg duo set out on a boot bounty quest.
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“Adieu_ present my Compliments to any inquiring Friend_ Greet Vegobre kindly in my Name_ and believe me to be as sincerely as a Republican can be to a Royalist Your Friend John Laurens.”
- John Laurens to Francis Kinloch, June 16, 1776 (Bonus Bitchiness: Laurens addressed the letter as, “À Monsieur / Monsieur François Kinloch / Gentilhomme Anglois / à Genthod / près de Genevé” - he specifically called out Kinloch for being a “Gentilhomme Anglois” [Englishman] so the snarkiness could begin before Kinloch even opened the letter. Really, that wholeletter is a giant roast of Kinloch. 10/10, would recommend reading.)
“I have been in several actions; I did not call that an action, as there was no action previous to the retreat.”
- John Laurens to Charles Lee at Lee’s court-martial in July 1778. Lee had asked Laurens, “Were you ever in an action before?” And then Laurens came for Lee’s life. (Bonus Bitchiness: Lee asked Laurens, “Did you impute my embarrassment to my uneasiness, by having been counteracted by some officers under my command, to the contradictory intelligence I received, or to my want of a personal tranquility of mind?” Laurens responded, “I imputed it to want of presence of mind.”)
“The sword which I now wear in the defense of France as well as my own country I may be compelled within a short time to draw against France as a British subject, unless the succor I solicit is immediately accorded.”
- John Laurens to the Count de Vergennes when France was slow to offer more aid to the Americans during the Revolution.
“The Plan which brought me to this country, was urged with all the zeal which the subject inspired, both in our privy council and Assembly—but the single voice of reason was drowned by the howlings of a triple-headed monster in which Prejudice Avarice & Pusillanimity were united”
- John Laurens to George Washington, May 19, 1782. Laurens was informing Washington about how his plan to form a black regiment was again shot down by the South Carolina legislature. (Bonus Bitchiness: Laurens wrote to Hamilton in July 1782 and was still so upset about this slight that he basically wrote the same line: “I had, in fact, resumed the black project, as you were informed, and urged the matter very strenuously, both to our privy council and legislative body; but I was out-voted, having only reason on my side, and being opposed by a triple-headed monster that shed the baneful influence of Avarice, prejudice, and pusillanimity in all our Assemblies.” Also, I love the sarcasm in “having only reason on my side.”)
“If any explanation on my part can be useful in restoring matters I will chearfully [do] every thing that can be ex[pec]ted from an officer who prefers the interests of the service & the tranquility of a corps to all other considerations_ _ but unless I cd. see the officers assembled, I shd still be at a loss how to treat so extraordinary and unaccountable a business_ In any future discussion of it shd the Gentlemen discover an inclination to return to their duty, which I think if they know their own inter[ests] they must feel very strongly_ beg that I may be considered as totally out of the question_”
- John Laurens to Nathanael Greene, June 21, 1782. Long story short, Laurens led the Legion after Henry Lee, the officers in the Legion hated Laurens and wanted to serve under anyone but him, the officers said they would resign if Greene didn’t give them a new leader, Greene called their bluff. Laurens’s letter to Lee isn’t outright bitchy, but I definitely get a “screw this” undertone throughout.
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
