Mun Note: Although I have written some allusions toward the scandals that run rampant throughout the Hamilton family, it occurs to me I should actually put down some specifics so people have a full overview of the General Bullshit that Thomas deals with even before his own scandal tore him down because let’s face it, that family is cursed. It’s probably the wigs.

This post will go into why on occasion Thomas will snap at people unprovoked or crawl into their laps like an Irish Wolfhound that has not realized it’s fully grown ass is too big for this seat, simply by introducing the general cast / explaining a bit about Whomst The Fuck the Hamiltons even are.

• Thomas is the oldest of three children born to Lord Alfred Hamilton – one of the Lord Proprietors of the Bahamas – and his wife, Helena Hamilton

  née Stanhope.

  Helena had three older brothers – Christopher, the eldest of the Stanhopes, inherited the family estate and was both a landowner and lawyer. Benjamin, the second eldest, maintained a valuable career in the Navy and was post-captain by the time she died. His career largely tended to benefit the overall reputation of the Stanhopes and consequently, the good nature of their estate.

  Andrew however, was the one who made bank as it were. With oversights in the EITC until ultimately gaining a post as governor in the Carolinas, he made a ridiculous amount of money which he poured back to Christopher, who in turn used it to enrich the estate and buy back ancestral lands that had been sold under their father’s tenure.    

  These three men hate Alfred Hamilton with an extreme prejudice to which Thomas is not in the least bit unaware, and each one of them had some small part to play in keeping Thomas from suffering an even worse fate than what he did when his own scandal came into light.

• After Thomas was his brother, William Daniel Hamilton ( who preferred to go by Daniel, and is referred to by Thomas as Daniel, as Publicly Speaking “William Hamilton” is a traitor to England, whereas Daniel Hamilton is simply – and shall always be – Thomas’ little brother )  who by 1715 was known better as Henry Davis, a notorious pirate harassing trade routes in the Bahamas.

• Following Daniel is Anna Teresa. Following the scandal surrounding William, Alfred had Anna married off to Lord Cuthbert Langley. Her abrupt suicide followed within a year of the wedding and with it, Thomas was inducted to understanding the role Lord Langley played in Daniel’s exile.

  In short: Langley heads those whose conspiracy Daniel uncovered. Alfred, in attempt to appease Langley and ascertain the family Hamilton would not be summarily destroyed by the much older and influential Langley peerage used Anna as collateral and bribery to remain in good graces. Due to Anna’s death, Alfred was forced to trade Thomas – or rather, Thomas’ influence over new age radicals and the more progressive voices in parliament.

  It eventually becomes common for Thomas to receive letters from his brother-in-law encouraging him to enforce or support certain causes and ideologies, always under the emphasis that family ought to support one another. Needless to say, the very crest of the Langley family eventually becomes a rage trigger for Thomas, who sees all dealings with them to be ruinous and irresponsible. 

• Tabitha – a woman whose surname is unknown to Thomas and would likely be as false as the given one she had offered – was his solitary contact with Daniel, and how he managed to keep abreast of piratical affairs in the Bahamas better and more accurately than was often portrayed by publicists. She was killed on the day of his arrest, in consequence for attempting to afford him a window of escape. For this reason, much like James and Miranda, Daniel eventually comes to believe that Thomas committed suicide in Bedlam.