candlewinds:

johnsconstantine:

Miranda Barlow Appreciation Week ♕ Day 1: Favourite quote

“Look at her. When I first learned she was on the island, I saw in my mind a five-year-old child hiding behind her mother’s dress. Then I saw her. I realized she’s a woman. It’s like she’s some sort of clock that’s finally struck its chime and woken me from this dream we’ve been living, reminded me how many years separate me from a world I still think of as home. How unrecognizable the woman I am now would be to the woman I was then.”

#‘some sort of clock’ #is incredibly painful considering that scene in 2.09 with the clock #and ‘woken me from this dream’ ‘still think of as home’ #like this is so painful cause isn’t that what the actual clock did #that was what made her realise what a giant betraying shit peter ashe is #the storyline that was reopened with abigail ended with miranda sitting there seeing the clock and everything clicks into place #and i think (and we’ll never know cause she fucking died) #but i think that as miranda saw peter for who he really was or had become #she also lost the last part of her old self and stopped seeing london and civilisation as her home #miranda still lived in a world; in a dream if you will #where england wasn’t the enemy #she accepted james as james flint #she tolerated the pirates and she never wanted to adhere to civilised society’s rules #but it was still her world #until that moment #she’s woken up from that dream #flint lost hope in england when thomas was taken away but miranda didn’t #she lost it when she realised peter had betrayed them #the last friend they had became the real enemy and civilisation stopped being her world her home #that rant at the end was so brutal so angry #on top of finding out that a man she saw as a friend betrayed them #it was miranda witnessing the last connection to a life she still clung to being ripped away (via queerpyrates)

I’ll be honest – I really, really wish we’d gotten to see a Miranda that was done with civilization – that had finally come to the realization that she wanted nothing more to do with it. I would have loved to see Miranda come to understand Flint that little bit more – to see them come together properly as partners instead of having her world carefully separated from his the way it had been for the ten years previous. I would have absolutely loved to see Miranda as the one that gave the order to fire on the town instead of Flint and see him just kind of nod to give the order to the gun crews. Avenging Valkyrie Miranda would have been amazing and bloody terrifying at the same time.