#this is where i think flint just stops lying
#he’s facing death there and the underworld stuff is happening
#and he’s ready for it to be over
#so i think he is telling silver the truth here
#he is facing death with no lie to comfort himself with
#or to motivate himself with
#just the knowledge that if this is it and he believes that it is
#he has nothing left with which to get past it
#and i think that this is genuinely where Flint-the-persona dies
#miranda birthed flint into the world and miranda lays him to rest
#and john silver gets james mcgraw in his place
#ten years older and ten years harder and more tired and really terribly alone
#but not motivated by shame or rage or the need to keep fighting
#so he goes to the queen and he makes his appeal and he doesn’t lie about any of it
#all the best and worst parts of him in balance and somewhat at peace
#silver says he was returning flint to an earlier state of being at the end
#but that had already happened
#at least as much as it was going to (via @sidewaystime)
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