#literally just goes from hal waking up immediately post-shrewsbury to hal waking up immediately post-operation

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just checked the word doc which has my draft of the shrewsbury wound-john bradmore sequence, thinking it was around 10k long. it's actually 19,242 words long. double what i thought it was. holy crap.

#text posts #the henry v novels #literally just goes from hal waking up immediately post-shrewsbury to hal waking up immediately post-operation #and the start of a timeskip to his 17th birthday #(i kinda want to revise it to put in stuff from what i learnt about facial injuries in wwi caused by shrapnel and add in two more joans) #(joan of navarre and joan waryn hal's nurse - joan fitzalan is already there) #reread it recently and thought about how the alternate povs of it would be SO UPSETTING #hal's pov is somewhat kind to the reader because he's pretty out of it #he's either out of it with rudimentary medieval painkillers and anaesthesia or off his face with pain. #there's still emotional shit there but it's filtered through the physical pain and the 'drugs' #everyone else is dealing with the emotional shitshow of seeing someone you love in absolute fucking agony begging to die #while fearing he's going to die and having their own traumas #(i.e. joan fitzalan watching the grandchild that most resembles her dead daughter almost die) #(i.e. edward/aumerle has a brief appearance and you know he's Fucked Up because of losing richard ii and now he's losing hal) #(i.e. richard courtenay is basically 'i will stay here and love him as he dies if he dies' and witnesses every. fucking. thing.) #(i.e. joanne waryn is there and remembering him as a little baby she helped raise.) #(i.e. humphrey is Just A Kid trying to be strong for his big brother and making everything worse for bradmore) #(i.e. scrope can't cope and has to live with the guilt of that and oldcastle is overwrought and causing problems) #(i.e. bradmore is like 'i can see you're in desperate need of a dad. hello desperate need i'm dad. #also. i think your grandma might kill me if you die. so. don't ok?) #(i.e. joan of navarre is meeting her new husband's son for the first time and hoping he doesn't die.) #and hal's just. largely oblivious to all this.