× Miranda Lives au | Pirate Queen Miranda Miranda survives her ordeal in Charlestown. Realizing that she will never be able to return to the world she considered her home, and no longer wishing to, she joins Flint on the high seas, unable to remain at peace after learning how hers and her loved ones lives were ruined. ( shoutout to @jmeelee for the inspiration )
one of the many things about james flint is his rage is sacred, and by that i mean its etymology is love and its natural state is righteousness. i don’t think there’s a dark thing in himself he’s fighting to drown and that resurfaces of him despite himself, that is one of the narratives we’re sold but it clearly bears the mark of homophobia, on the contrary i think light is the permanent resident, and maybe it’s all his or maybe part of it is something thomas left or maybe thomas just mapped it and gave it shape and a name. as much as he is desperate not to be or be seen as a villain, i think he also deliberately tried to to claw at the light and make himself into that thing out of the fragments, a dark thing but an effective thing, a faceless thing but a useful thing, but despite all the ways he bends himself to have a chance against the system that broke him down, in the end like bodies are returned by the sea to shore james flint is returned by love, returned always to trying to do something good, good for himself and his love and in the name of himself because there’s no shame in that when shame was used to cut you, but also, crucially, good beyond himself and past himself
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
the proof that james flint is actually a very compassionate man is in the fact vane literally did say to his very own gay face “i understand a woman’s need for domesticity, but a man’s?” while standing in his own house and despite that james flint still did not begin killing every straight white men he encountered on sight
despite being made into a monster for his love, despite being cheated on by his closest friends, despite being shunned from society by the same people who once admired him for ever daring to question society, james flint still believes in the inherent goodness of people. he believes giving power to the people is the only way to change the world. he believes that taking away what hurts people will also take away the veil of nastiness these people have put up. he does what he does for people. even though humanity has given him so many reasons to hate it, he doesn’t. he believes in people. he cares for people.
he told thomas that a man trying to change the world fails for everyone else in it, and i think falling for thomas and thomas’s love and their shared desire for a revolution, had turned that thought not to an obstacle but a solution. to change the world you need the people in it. and for that to happen, you have to consistently, persistently love people.
do u ever just. stop and remember that james singlehandedly turned the tide of the finale battle, enabling silver to rescue madi, and then literally saved jack rackham’s life, and all this after being hunted and attacked by six men with orders to kill him… and then they condemned him to a life of imprisonment and slavery?
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