Battle Buddies

Fans of founding father Alexander Hamilton and the founding father that should have been, John Laurens, will hopefully enjoy this modern take on the relationship that has drawn international attention since opening night of the award winning musical, Hamilton.

In this modern take, Hamilton and Laurens meet at Fort Benning where they both arrive for Basic training.

This work is a collaboration between Wattpad authors @n0seinabook and @Adhale1774. Adhale1774 writes Alexander Hamilton POV while n0seinabook writes John Laurens. Being this is a story taking men from the 18th century and transporting them to a modern setting, each author made decisions regarding their characters in what was to be kept and what could change in order to modernize the story. Both chose how they envisioned each man in this time period. Being that AdHale had previously written Hamilton with Lin Manuel Miranda as his base at the request of writing partners, and due to the fact 18th century Nevis is nothing like modern Nevis anyway, Hamilton in this story is Puerto Rican. He still hails from the Caribbean, holding that true to character, but a different location than actual Hamilton.

N0seinabook has been writing Laurens privately as well as with ADHale for coming on five years and has a clear vision of the brave man in this century. You will not find the internalized homophobia often characterized in the man himself, but rather a confident, proud gay man seeking his own fame as Col Laurens did in his short, brave life. The role of Laurens has mentally been played by Liam Hemsworth.