shirogiku

replied to your post:

“your prompt about Flint falling off the Andromache makes me imagine…”

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it’d be great bc Miranda would get directly involved with the crew muuuch earlier. and the gold won’t go anywhere lol bc we know all spaniards die out on that beach and it doesn’t matter WHO brings it into nassau in the end. it’d be such a poignant scene tho, hennessey vs james

Exactly! And there’s the question of just whose idea it was to put Thomas in Bedlam – Alfred’s, or Hennessy’s, because I could totally see that being Hennessy’s vengeance against Alfred – a kind of, “you make me repudiate my son, I’ll make you do the same to yours,” kind of measure, since I could see him being really angry at Thomas for having dragged James down with him. It’s also another way to force James to run rather than staying to fight. If Thomas had still been free, he might not have left. He might have done something profoundly stupid and stayed in England, albeit maybe not in London, but with Thomas locked up, he almost had to leave if he didn’t want to get Thomas or Miranda killed outright. If that was the case…. oh gods, I do not want to imagine that. Ow. Thanks, brain.

And pirate Miranda. I could totally see her coming to rescue James with his crew firmly under her control the way they never were under his. Miranda becoming the leader of the rebellion against England, all because Flint fell off a ship and she found out what Hennessy did to her husband. It could be glorious, and I in no way have time to write it right now.