musesandtheirjottings:

captainqueer-oflesbos:

“flint will always miss silver” no tf he won’t if he and madi are truly of the same mind about the war he’s gonna “”“always”“ want to kick his ass into the next century

Actually I disagree that it’s Madi who is in Treasure Island. The Madi we know from Black Sails will not agree to run a tavern while Silver goes on hijinks. I think this is Max. If we consider that history happens as in the real world and Nassau falls to the Empire again, the loss of Rackham and Bonny and Read, then knowing how Max and Silver conspired for the Urca gold and betrayed Flint – I think, these two incredibly sly characters would have come together to make another bid for the gold.

If this is how it goes down, I think Madi leaves Silver a few years past where the show ends and becomes the full-fledged freedom fighter that was her legacy.

I don’t have anything to corroborate this theory other than the look on her face in that final shot. It was not a look of love or acceptance but one of momentary forgiveness.

Honestly, it didn’t even look like that to me. I’m not saying that because I didn’t like their relationship – I did, actually, for a while there. It was sweet, and I really wish he hadn’t fucked it up. But that look she gives him on the cliff – that was the look of a woman who’s come to a decision she doesn’t like but that she knows needs to be made, and I honestly don’t think that decision was welcoming Silver back into her life as a partner. I just don’t buy it – not from her, of all people. I would almost believe Flint forgiving him more than I would her, simply because Flint has got Issues and very demonstrably is willing to forgive Silver far, far too much whereas Madi doesn’t have that same sense of self-loathing and loneliness that would back up that kind of decision on her part after what he’s done.