and I love that about him

sidewaystime:

drivingsideways33:

ok, like, every flavour of James Flint is A++++, like from James going “my judgement with regards to the two of them isn’t compromised” and then literally breaking a man’s nose two seconds later for making Improper Suggestions about Thomas and Miranda to the whole “I’ve been ready to return him to the sea for a long time” to him leaving a copy of La Galatea for Miranda to- well, you get the drift

BUT

James manipulating Dufresne to get back The Fucking Warship?

*melts into a puddle *

no lie, the thing he does with Dufresne is probably my favorite Captain Flint moment.

It’s such a spectacular masterclass example of the thing Miranda says to him in the carriage: he is really fantastic at getting his way and in a manner that means that most people don’t know he’s gotten it. And he does it all without saying one single lie. Not even like, a halfassed withholding of the truth.

I want alllllll the fic about him doing that kind of thing to other people.