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comtessedebussy:

Okay so I am going to avoid my tendency to hijack othe rpeople’s posts and make my own post for that James/Thomas Beauty and the Beast AU @flintsredhair and I were discussing

Wherein Thomas doesn’t even recognize James in monster form but James recognizes Thomas – and doesn’t want him to know it’s him. And James’ curse isn’t that he needs to find someone who will love him as a monster (because, well, Thomas loves James’, so he’s not going to fall in love with someone he thinks isn’t James) but that he has to find someone who isn’t afraid of him. Which is a pretty tall order given that he’s, well, Flint and the whole point of becoming Flint was to be feared, because that’s how he gets shit done. Of course, that means that once he’s become Flint, it’s a lot harder to return him to the sea when James is through with him, because it’s night impossible to find someone who doesn’t fear Flint.

So of course Thomas is rather terrified because, well, giant literal monster, and he doesn’t know that it’s his truest love.  And for some contrived plot reason Thomas needs to spend some amount of time with James, and James doesn’t want Thomas to know what he’s become, but he also doesn’t want to frighten him. So when Thomas is returned to him, James treats him well, treats him gently, and would never, ever hurt him, no matter what – without telling him who he is. 

So although Thomas starts out fearing the monster, because who wouldn’t? – he comes not to fear him, and even to trust him. And that’s what transforms the monster back into James: having someone see him as James, not as a monster. 

And then of course there’s the ensuing angst of “why didn’t you tell me?”  

also consider – James is still James and he still does and says things sometimes that are just so very him that Thomas is reminded so very much of him that he almost suspects by the time the retransformation occurs. Only James turns a phrase that way, only James would see the strategic value in doing something the way Thomas has suggested, only James takes his tea the way he’s seen Flint take it when he thinks Thomas isn’t looking.

On Kindly Beaches – Chapter 1 – Theonenamedafterahat – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

bean-about-townn:

Chapters: 1/3
Fandom: Black Sails
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Captain Flint/Thomas Hamilton
Characters: Captain Flint (Black Sails), Thomas Hamilton, Woodes Rogers, Max (Black Sails), Charles Vane, “Calico” Jack Rackham
Additional Tags: Other Black Sails characters are also there, And Miranda is there in spirit, Wrongful Imprisonment, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Reunion Fic
Summary:

Woodes Rogers tries to get Thomas Hamilton to help him persuade Captain Flint to accept the pardons. This does not go well for him.

On Kindly Beaches – Chapter 1 – Theonenamedafterahat – Black Sails [Archive of Our Own]

comtessedebussy:

flintsredhair:

comtessedebussy:

bean-about-townn:

comtessedebussy:

penflicks:

Where are the James/Thomas sleeping beauty AUs?

I did not know I wanted this but now I WANT THIS

Additionally, consider: a beauty and the beast AU. James is the “monster” because of course that’s how he considers himself and he has to find someone who loves him as said monster..and of course Thomas does.

oooh what if james got turned into the beast bc he had already ‘lost’ thomas. and he thought there was no chance of him finding his truest love bc thomas was already ‘dead’ 

omg so like losing thomas is literally the thing that turns him into a monster but thomas being returned to him turns him back? 

I love that but I also love the more traditional “James thinks he can’t be loved because he’s a monster and Thomas proves him wrong” storyline where Thomas meets him as a “monster” and still sees the good in him. 

no but why not both? why not one where Thomas doesn’t even recognize James in monster form and James doesn’t want him to know, but he still sees the good in him and that’s what turns him back?

Oh my god Meg Idk if you just made it 20 times more angsty or if that was my brain but what if James recognizes Thomas, but Thomas doesn’t recognize James – so of course Thomas is rather terrified because, well, giant literal monster, and he doesn’t know that it’s his truest love. And James doesn’t want to frighten him, but he also doesn’t want Thomas to know what he’s become, so he treats him well without telling him who he is, so of course Thomas sees the good and gentleness in him and stops fearing him and that’s what turns him back…and for some contrived plot reason Thomas needs to spend some amount of time with James, during which time he doesn’t know who James is and slowly gets to know him and starts to stop fearing him

yaaaaaassss that is exactly what was going through my evil brain!

comtessedebussy:

bean-about-townn:

comtessedebussy:

penflicks:

Where are the James/Thomas sleeping beauty AUs?

I did not know I wanted this but now I WANT THIS

Additionally, consider: a beauty and the beast AU. James is the “monster” because of course that’s how he considers himself and he has to find someone who loves him as said monster..and of course Thomas does.

oooh what if james got turned into the beast bc he had already ‘lost’ thomas. and he thought there was no chance of him finding his truest love bc thomas was already ‘dead’ 

omg so like losing thomas is literally the thing that turns him into a monster but thomas being returned to him turns him back? 

I love that but I also love the more traditional “James thinks he can’t be loved because he’s a monster and Thomas proves him wrong” storyline where Thomas meets him as a “monster” and still sees the good in him. 

no but why not both? why not one where Thomas doesn’t even recognize James in monster form and James doesn’t want him to know, but he still sees the good in him and that’s what turns him back?

piankart:

Portrait of James McGraw.

I wanted to try something new using this as a reference photo. Drawn in PS over 2 days. This isn’t trying to be accurately period-typical anything, although I did borrow the color scheme from a late 1700s painting.

Somehow I always end up drawing Flint more angsty looking than he is in my reference photos, so I changed my headcanon for this piece a little bit… let’s just pretend a bad art student made this painting and kept pissing James off so that’s why the portrait turned out that of a grump. 😉

Please do not repost my art or remove caption, thank you!