#everything we can attribute to Cornelius Hickey is actually an imposter but he is present and that is the name he gives us

[mycannibalromance]

today i am thinking about how the original cornelius hickey's personhood and agency is so completely stripped from the narrative that we continue to refer to his murderer by his name

#I KNOW we aren't given his real name so practically we do not have a choice but this is. boiling my brain #you are a young man about to go to sea for the first time you are enthusiastically sharing the news #you meet the wrong man and he kills you to wear your name #and the fact that we know literally nothing of him aside from a brief glimpse of his face his hometown #and the fact that the expedition was to be his maiden voyage #everything we can attribute to Cornelius Hickey is actually an imposter but he is present and that is the name he gives us #so that is what he is called #effectively erasing the man he killed both in body and in memory he is left not even his name!!!!!!!!! #cornelius hickey #the terror #amc the terror #⚰️