An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Terror (TV 2018)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Francis Crozier/Thomas Jopson, Edward Little/John Irving/Henry T. D. Le Vesconte, John Irving/Thomas Jopson, Thomas Jopson/Henry T. D. Le Vesconte, Graham Gore/Thomas Jopson
Characters: Thomas Jopson, Henry T. D. Le Vesconte, Francis Crozier, John Irving (1815-c.1848), Edward Little (1811-c.1848), Graham Gore
Additional Tags: During Canon, Clothed Sex, Erectile Dysfunction, Sexual Fantasy, Voyeurism, Exhibitionism, Orgasm Denial, Blow Jobs, Dom/sub, Power Imbalance, feigned noncon
Series: Part 4 of (Our) time is running out
Summary:
He talks. He talks about Le Vesconte’s thighs and Gore’s hands, about Irving and Little biting their lips, hair and uniforms in disarray; about him, the captain, sitting at the head of the table and watching every act.
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@smallerhawk this is for your Jop post :D I hope you like it!
@theterrorwhumpathon “Violent Fantasies” square
@leadandblood asked me for a tag once this was published :D
Forbidden ship — Jopconte — written for Week 4 of Kinktober.
Post-rescue AU: everything’s canon except their deaths (yes, including Jopson being left in the tent). Prompt: D/s, BDSM. You can probably guess the rest. A little bit of Jopzier on the side, as a treat.
Jopson keeps the gloves on when they do it. It’s convenient for him, and it only sharpens the fact that they never really touch—skin to skin. Henry doesn’t mind. He loves the gloves, that thin barrier between them, as if the white fabric could save them from getting too close. The thought makes him scoff, quietly.
“Something funny?” Jopson asks. He looks angry, which suits him, of course. Henry wishes he’d hide it better, but then again, Jopson’s the only one honest enough to be angry with him—and that’s fair. That’s why Henry is here, on his knees, on the worn floor of the small apartment the ex-steward rents. Jopson may no longer serve his captain, but Henry knows the service isn’t over. It never was.
The slap comes sudden and clean, turning his head, making him blink.
“I asked if something’s funny,” Jopson repeats, eyes sharp with contained frustration, though his face stays composed. He probably thinks he hides it well. Maybe he does. Henry would come to him regardless, even if he were ragged and plain. It isn’t the beauty he seeks—though the fact that Jopson still has it doesn’t hurt.
“No.” The word catches, more breath than voice, almost a scoff though he hadn’t meant it. The next slap he takes without flinching.
“If you came for fun,” Jopson says, pushing his hair back with a gloved hand—white against dark strands, devastatingly neat—“you’d better go to your friends. If you have any left.”
The words catch in Henry’s throat, tightening there like something pulled too fast.
It was meant to be a 20k fic, but I’m retired now, so this one’s going to be short. Yapping about the initial idea below.
The premise: haters-with-benefits slowly (and awkwardly) stumbling into a strange sort of friendship. Jopson’s trying to navigate his life, yearning for Francis, and taking it out on Dund, who, incidentally, is the one asking for punishment and almost using Jopson for his own mental problems. At some point, Dundy tries to fic things to get Jopson to come out clean to Crozier (he is a manipulator) but Jopson is the one who has to take a step.
This fic, though? This one’s a good old-fashioned whooping session.
illicit meetings w your other captain's steward (aka the 'maybe if we meet enough like this they'll get jealous' to 'actually scratch that im obsessed with you' pipeline)
Just had a Jopson x Dundy thought (first time) and I think Dundy is one of the few people Jopson subs for because he is one of the only one willing to really lean into the class/hierarchy aspect of things. Like I feel Jopson goes to him for really masochistic reasons, it's almost self harm.
More NSFW thoughts below
Like I imagine them doing roleplay of a servant in a house and the master who forces himself unto him under threat of him firing the servant. A lot of degrading and humiliation. He's also probably one of the few willing to flog Jopson or to recreat the flogging experience with him, but like safe and sexual style.
Can you believe this is the first time I'm considering their pairing?
For a ship game: jopconte? (nonexistent ship of course)
⭐ Ship it !!!
What made you ship it?
i can't even tell u. like i think i heard one single person talk about it, then i thought about it on my second rewatch, and then i was sold. i think their respective idolizations of crozier and fitzjames make for a reallyyy interesting dynamic between the both of them. they're also both so cunty
What are your favorite things about the ship?
i love their drama so i LOVEEE putting these guys in a modern au in my wips. just anywhere i can make them interact beyond the restriction of rank in canon. i wanna see them be toxic in a club in the 90s u see u understand
but on a more serious note i love how both of them have carefully constructed their images re: masculinity and rank. jopson is the perfect steward whereas le vesconte doesn't submit to his duty. they're like if narrative foils could destroy each other upon contact. they're not polar opposites but there's something sinister and volatile going on. they compliment each other in a nasty way and they're both capable of being vicious. they're like two exotic predator animals. or fire and gasoline. when they split up there's a casualty count.
Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?
i don't think there's any popular opinions about jopconte there's like nine of us out here 😭
folks were talking a bunch about jopconte recently & it inspired me to pull this off of my ideas list and turn it into a real fic, and then it got away from me so now there's 6k of fitzjames/jopson/le vesconte smut in the world. oops! enjoy <3
Thank you @rain-fall-down and @la-reina-del-norte for tagging me :D
Showing up late, bringing filth 👌 this is for @smallerhawk - that beautiful fantasy prompt I don't have a link to now, but! It's getting filled 👌*insert a cheap joke here*
Jopson asking the realest questions here. Is he stopping at Dundy? Who knows. Maybe, perhaps, could be, if it fits, only the gods know, etc.
Not tagging anyone since I'm pretty sure I'm the last one filling it!
@corinnasstays 🥹
Also, also! @theterrorwhumpathon Violent fantasies! I'm a firm multifiller believer. Why write for one thing when you can pull a triple slam? The world is my oyster *is forcibly taken off stage*
