shirogiku:

dreamingpagan:

shirogiku:

what do we actually know about her mother’s death? the pirates attacked their ship, but when was it? I’m trying to make sense of when Peter became the Governor of the Carolinas and am Confused.

What if the woman traveling with Alfred Hamilton was Ashe’s wife? Traveling aboard the same ship because they were headed the same way? What does the show actually say about Alfred’s death? Does it even mention the poor woman he was with? I mean – if that was the case – holy shit no wonder Ashe hated Flint so much. Wasn’t the Maria Aleyne headed for the Carolinas?

GEEEZ never occured to me

the show says nothing about the mystery woman. she could have been a servant, but she didnt seem that way. she could have been another passenger and killed by flint as a witness, but then why show her at all? so after MUCH headache, I headcanonned it as:

-Thomas’s mother long dead/I dont want this blood on Flint and Miranda’s hands too;

-Alfred remarried bc tired of waiting for Thomas to make a child (remarried either shortly before 1705 or after comitting Thomas); the wife is never shown bc Alfred is a douche and doesn’t take her anywhere relevant with him;

-so that woman was a new wife (which I mentioned in Never a Smooth Sailing, also explaiing why Richard says that Thomas is the eldest son); if Thomas had any brothers close to his edge, I’ll never believe he’d NEVER mention them or take interest in their lives, no matter what they are like;

So, I also thought that Abigail was actually there when her mother died! as in, she witnessed the murder, that’s why she flashes back to the attack. And there was no child in that cargo hold. But I don’t know why the pirates spared Abigail and only killed her mother?

See, I always took that flashback to be her flashing back to when she was taken by Low and his men. They presumably killed her chaperone/governess (no young lady would have been traveling alone, after all, and she didn’t seem any more of a child than she is in the show in that flashback, at least not to me), and that being on the ship triggered it, especially so close to the events happening in the first place.