Talk:Charles Hershtik/@comment-142.244.5.132-20200612194645/@comment-142.244.170.149-20200717210804

That might explain it.

We can see from A Bitter Cold, 3 that there is a lantern right where he stood, so he likely reached it off of the wall, maybe fell whilst getting it down, and threw it from there.

I'd also like to add another hypothesis - that Charles went kamikaze on the crab rider just after it spikes Emil O'Farrel. In the scene where Charles throws the lantern, Emil is alive, yet in the next scene Emil is pinned to the wall and Charles is on top of the beast.

Why did he enter such a crazed state after the spiking of Emil O'Farrel? I'd wager that the two of them were close friends. In The Bitter Cold, 3, where they slaughter the cow and Charlie vomits, Emil's tone sounds like he is sympathetic towards Charlie, whilst Lanke's "Never been on a farm before, Charlie?" sounds more like teasing to me. It may be a possibility that Charlie wasn't as close with the other midshipmen, and due to Emil O'Farrel's kindness they were on friendlier terms. Hence during the fight, Charlie sees the man who was the closest thing to a friend with him on the ship gets spiked, and, after seeing the man who was kind to him get mortally wounded, decided to take drastic action to avenge him by leaping on the crab rider to attack it as much as possible without regard for his own safety.