I have spent far too much time meticulously analyzing Biggles's state of mind in Hatchet. :D Because, yes, he seems to be intentionally drawing Fritz to ask him to help ... only to go, haha, why would we help you? Which seems oddly cold for him! But he's clearly dealing with his own issues in that book.
He's ok with the finding and rescuing bit, but he'll only do it for free <333
I know. <3333 And Raymond just goes along with it without a single complaint! Even though information is literally the entire reason why he's financing and justifying the expedition in the first place.
He is totally making his own arrangements with EvS at the end, though.
(I do find the entire conversation with EvS on the plane a bit revisionist about this, however, when Biggles implies - or outright states - that he's there on his own initiative and no one told him to go. Biggles! You may feel this way now, but you were literally ordered to go! And you said no at first!)
Honestly, I wonder what would've happened if it had gone the other way and Raymond had told him not to go. He's never directly gone against Raymond's orders even when he wants to, though he's found a number of ways of doing convenient end runs around them in a "la la la, I can't go against orders if you don't know I'm doing it in the first place" kind of way. But in this case, his orders and what he wanted to do, at heart, conveniently lined up and even gave him the extra push he seemed to need. It would be a really fascinating dilemma if his duty and heart had ended up in conflict instead ...
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He's ok with the finding and rescuing bit, but he'll only do it for free <333
I know. <3333 And Raymond just goes along with it without a single complaint! Even though information is literally the entire reason why he's financing and justifying the expedition in the first place.
He is totally making his own arrangements with EvS at the end, though.
(I do find the entire conversation with EvS on the plane a bit revisionist about this, however, when Biggles implies - or outright states - that he's there on his own initiative and no one told him to go. Biggles! You may feel this way now, but you were literally ordered to go! And you said no at first!)
Honestly, I wonder what would've happened if it had gone the other way and Raymond had told him not to go. He's never directly gone against Raymond's orders even when he wants to, though he's found a number of ways of doing convenient end runs around them in a "la la la, I can't go against orders if you don't know I'm doing it in the first place" kind of way. But in this case, his orders and what he wanted to do, at heart, conveniently lined up and even gave him the extra push he seemed to need. It would be a really fascinating dilemma if his duty and heart had ended up in conflict instead ...