Uh, I can't possibly explain Moby Dick to you in a comment! But suffice it to say that Queequeg is literally deprived of a voice (as well as any kind of real culture) in the novel - he has four or five lines, mostly along the lines of "Him hunt big fish ugh" - he's not "misunderstood" so much as he is an avatar of the benign Savage rather than a real character at all - indeed, he's completely written out of the novel from then on, save for a brief humorous anecdote.
Also, Ishmael and Queequeg are very clearly queer in canon, and are referred to as being like a married couple and they share a bed - you can't *not* put in relationship stuff, and part of what I was doing was making the queerness overt - I write for a slash audience, and that is important to all of us.
In any case, as with all fanfic, in some of the R&G stories there's more going on and in some not. I just thought that since you were holding it up as an exception you might be interested in seeing some of the fanfic for it yourself.
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Also, Ishmael and Queequeg are very clearly queer in canon, and are referred to as being like a married couple and they share a bed - you can't *not* put in relationship stuff, and part of what I was doing was making the queerness overt - I write for a slash audience, and that is important to all of us.
In any case, as with all fanfic, in some of the R&G stories there's more going on and in some not. I just thought that since you were holding it up as an exception you might be interested in seeing some of the fanfic for it yourself.