Sep 24, 2025 9:12 AM
I'm extending a comment I made on Rose's review of the same book (https://www.lit.salon/reviews/OL28434W/PinqvhOaDD3kaQPDEHmr/captain-save-a-hoe)
Like most greentexts, this is both a hilarious and touching read.
>be me, Toni, 25yo cavalery officer.
>poor family, got sent to military school as a child
>never got to meet girls and fall in love like the other boys, always in school
>one day see cutie
>get invited to party by her rich uncle
>arrive late, everyone already seated
>manage not to spill spaghetti and talk to people
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>don't want to be rude, invite the rich guy's daughter to dance
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>didn't notice she is a cripple. She cries
>don't know what to do, run away in shame
>send flowers the day after
>come to apologize, chat with her and the qt3.14 cousin
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>cutie is actually engaged.
>never mind, at least the cripple feels better because I'm here
>come back every day
Toni will go on and achieve his transformation, from undersocialized Anon to certified White-Knight driven by pity and guilt: he will try to please the sensitive crippled, her father, her cousin, her doctor by all means in order to erase his initial faux pas. He has no resolve and just follows the latest advice that has been given to him, always in the interest of someone other than him. Since everything done for a good reason seems acceptable, small lies become his main tool (and they eventually snowball).
He will become the archetypal Nice Guy, who thinks he is the one able to save her, who can't imagine himself doing bad, even inadvertently, and who can't bear the idea that he might once be someone else's bad guy. Naivete and vanity don't mix well.
I do feel sorry for the character, whose mistakes are those of youth. He is stuck in someone else's hell, and given a mission he doesn't realize he can refuse: he is too overwhelmed by the stakes, makes it his own hell, and eventually drags everyone in it.
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