have thomas and lord weatherby swann ever met? was weatherby a contemporary of his father’s?

Questions like these make me want to bring Weatherby back to the blog honestly, because timeline wise it would make perfect sense for Weatherby and Thomas to have been contemporaries!

They actually would have been born around roughly the same time ( on my blog’s timeline actually Weatherby is only a year older than Thomas ) which is something I hadn’t mathed out earlier though now that it’s in front of me it’s kind of wild to consider that these lives would be so parallel to one another and yet so far apart.

I have Weatherby set as born in 1672, making him 47 when he and Elizabeth move to Port Royal where he has been appointed governor in 1719. Thomas, meanwhile, was born in 1673, making him 42 when he reunited with McGraw after ten years on the plantation in 1715.

Chances are fairly high that Weatherby and Thomas attended school together, with Thomas just behind, and that their circles were relatively close considering Lord Alfred Hamilton was governor of the Bahamas prior to his death in 1708, and it is likely that Weatherby’s family was in close association to the Hamiltons prior to Weatherby’s appointment over Port Royal.

have thomas and cutler met?

Once upon a time, Thomas punched Cutler Beckett in the face. It was awesome.

Ridiculous Mean Girls nonsense aside, Sky and I did have some discussion about how it was likely that Cutler worked within Thomas’ circles and some of his *ahem* backdoor dealings as … it … were … ended up mixing with people Thomas felt rather protective of, thus leading to said violence.

I actually never did do the math on it though and fun fact with the math this is actually impossible and I am mad at me. Here is why though. ( Lemme do the math for you I guess, says He Who Hates Math )

The story takes place in 1715, which coincides with the Price of Freedom timeline, when Cutler is stationed in Africa in his very early 20′s. I believe he’s 24 @tidefated correct me if I’m wrong.

Anywhore Thomas was relevant in England 8 – 10 years ago. When Cutler was anywhere from 14 – 16 so like even if they had met I doubt tiny Cutler would have made much of an impression on the then 20-something Lord Hamilton.

have thomas and norrington ever met?

As I don’t write James Norrington this is 100% extrapolated from details amassed over the years on Lawrence Norrington, his esteemed father whom I have occasionally NPC’d and whose fate I ended up designing for other reasons. I know far more about him than I do about his son as most of my experiences with James outside of canon have been various roleplayers who all have different Hot Takes.

Chances are Lawrence was contemporaries with the senior Lord Hamilton – and most assuredly with Admiral Hennessey. They’re all in roughly the same age group, with Lawrence arguably the youngest among them. While it is possible that Thomas and James interacted as children, the fact of the matter is distinguished though he might have been through battle and his nautical skills, Lawrence Norrington was a self made man who bore no titles and therefore is unlikely to have been in a position to place his son amid such esteemed peers at that time.

The only other possibility would be for them to meet at school – and by this point Lawrence would have enough of a name for himself and enough of a spare in his pocketbook to afford the best possible education for his only son, so this is the most likely window available – but also depends 100% on the portrayal of James himself, as I have seen him pressed by his own father as early as eight ( which is in keeping with the canon considering he was dragged pirate hunting when he was barely five! ) and I have seen him as an educated bastard who started his career somewhat later than most on account of an extended study period, with a grand sense of self importance and a dire need to impress others on account of his father, whose shadow he would always be at war with.

Ultimately I think there is argument for and against, so it would be up to you and whoever is playing him to figure out the best point for them to cross paths based on how that person in particular views James’ upbringing ( and lackthereof. )