regshoe

Very interesting analysis of the different types of honour and Keith and Ewen's parallel choices here!

I see luzula has already linked her fic featuring Keith getting cashiered (and I remember I was surprised and interested by the details of the procedure when I first read that, too), but I shall say I recommend it! And also that there's plenty of room for more takes on the idea... :D As for Ewen getting ejected from Clan Cameron—would Lochiel, whose honourableness inspires Ewen in the first place, believe Loudoun's lies? Would Ewen's own followers turn their loyalties from him if they thought he'd acted dishonourably? I'm not sure, but there are certainly ideas there.

The 'prudence' stuff is pretty horrible, isn't it? It's really sad the way Keith feels the need to make up for his own good choices, as it were, by doing more of the evil that's expected of him, and apparently trying to convince himself to see it as the sensible, if not the right, thing to do. And I think that argument could certainly be made, yes—Keith, who's been an officer for twelve years, clearly has expectations of the Army that it's not currently living up to (wishing he could get back to 'civilised warfare' and all), and I can imagine him, horrified at what his... home? has become, relieved to be thrown out of it.