Charlie Prince
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[edit] Introduction
[edit] About
The film itself gives no specific age for Charlie Prince, although a scan of a script page places Charlie's age at 31.
Charlie has a noted dislike for Pinkertons and posses, is fashionable to a fault (purple shirt and vet, orange cowhide chaps, off-white leather jacket) and sports two guns which he holsters backwards, for easier cross-draw action. Though it seems unlikely he was old enough to fight in the War, the imdb.com FAQ also notes that his jacket is a copy of a Confederate officer's dress uniform shell-jacket, which seems pertinent; he certainly treats Ben as though he's a combination of father-figure and military commander, and refers to those gang-members killed in the movie's initial robbery as "the four we lost in battle."
WARNING: SPOILERS
Charlie is a vain, proud and vicious young man whose sole redeeming feature is his unwavering, near-fanatical loyalty to his "boss". He takes every given opportunity to remind people who he is and who he works for, and thinks nothing of shooting disarmed men in cold blood, burning a sheriff's deputy alive after he's already given him the information he wanted (perhaps because stopping to let him out would slow the process of rescuing Ben down), and offering "$200 cash dollars" to any person in Contention, Arizona who'll kill one of Ben's captors.
Charlie also eventually shoots Dan Evans in the back until he runs of of bullets, a crime for which he himself is shot (along with the rest of Ben's gang) by Ben, first in the chest from a distance, then right through the heart at close range with one of his own guns.
[edit] Pairings
The most popular ship involving Charlie is Ben Wade/Charlie Prince, which is a slash pairing. An odd sub-pairing which has recently begun to gain strength, however, is Charlie/Jackson, another Wade gang-member--the same big, red-headed man who Charlie pistol-whips for trying to get him to abandon Ben, in fact. On closer examination, Jackson can be often observed both giving Ben the stink-eye throughout the film (most strikingly in the bar scene in Bisbee), and sharing frame-space with Charlie. Possibly this is just because director James Mangold thought Ben Foster and the actor playing Jackson (Shawn D. Howell) made a striking contrast together, but it does almost seem to canonically support a "relationship" between the two characters. In most Charlie/Jackson pieces thus far, Jackson is shown as sexually hypnotized by and/or subservient to Charlie, who tops him from below, treating him pretty much the way that Ben treats Charlie; Jackson mistrusts Ben Wade, and wants to convince Charlie to leave him, but knows this is unlikely to happen. Much angst ensues.
[edit] Timeline
[edit] 2008
- On February 18, 2008, Gemma Files posted the first part of "Pits of Sin," a Ben/Charlie story, to threetentrain.
- On February 21. 2008, baggyeyes posted "Trouble in the Henhouse," based on baggyeye's earlier story "Secret Weapon," to threetentrain. "Trouble in the Henhouse" was the first Charlie/Dan story posted to this community.
- On March 18, 2008, paragraph posted "Promised Land" to threetentrain. This was the first Charlie/William story shared with the community.[1]
- On March 23, 2008, Gemma Files posted "Detour" to threetentrain. This was the first Charlie Prince/Jackson story shared with the community.
[edit] Links
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