excuse yes I am here for Thomas Hamilton burning that fucking place

thefckingwarship:

Angsty thought of the day (this is the first thing I thought of this morning when I woke up, I live the angst life):

What if Thomas knew James was Captain Flint the whole time? What is Thomas heard James tell the story of ‘Mr. Flint’ from when he was a child?

What if when he was in bedlam, or when he just got out he started hearing about this new pirate captain who’s been making life quite difficult lately. This pirate captain doing all these extreme things, and scaring people shitless. This pirate captain named Flint with red hair and the hourglass flag.

What if when Thomas is told that James and Miranda are dead, he doesn’t believe the lies, because of course, that’s what they’d want him to think. He knows that in truth they’re all shaking in fear at the hell James McGraw turned Captain Flint can bring upon them, and finds comfort in that thought,

What if when he hears that Captain Flint killed his father, that is the final thing that confirmed all of Thomas’ suspicions, (whether it happened before or after he was sent away from bedlam.)

What if when he’s on the ship to the new world he hears the sailors and the other people aboard talk about Captain Flint, the terror, and Thomas just praying that Captain Flint would attack the ship. That with every bump, a fight would start above decks and then his James would barge in through the doors and save him. But that doesn’t happen.

What if when they approach port, Thomas has this hope that when he arrives, Captain Flint, his James, would be standing there with a whole hoard of pirates ready to rescue him. But that doesn’t happen.

What if when he arrives the plantation there’s still this last hope. After a year or two of working in the hot sun, he still occasionally glances at the gates, hoping to see them come down and to see his James, Captain Flint, storm in with an army, burning the place to the ground. But as years go by he starts looking less and less, hoping less and less.

What if still after that, he keeps hearing that stories of newcomers and the guards talking about the great menace, Captain Flint, and his latest conquests, and Thomas smiles to himself. Because, even though he might not be coming to rescue Thomas, the thought that James is still alive is good, and after everything he’s been thought, the thought of James getting his revenge on the world that took everything from them doesn’t seem that bad.

What if after many years he hears after the success of nassau, and while it is run by pirates it is successful and free, and no doubt, that had a great deal to do with the efforts of Captain Flint. But he’s lost all hope of Captain Flint coming to find him, his James must think he is dead.

What if he hears of the burning or Charlestown, some 10 years after he last saw James and things, how much pain must he be in, what horrors has he faced, Oh God he is still fighting.

What if he hears the news of Captain Flint being killed by Hornigold and spends several nights and even days crying, but in the back of his mind thinking that after all the things that James has been thought, surely he must be some have he could have gotten though this too.

What if when he hears about Captain Flint’s return and victory over Woodes Rogers, he has a smile on his face for days that no amount of hard work under the unforgiving sun can take away. Because his James, his Captain Flint, is still alive and still fighting.

What if when Captain Flint, his James, finally returns to him, it is far from the reunion Thomas ever imagined, because after the shock, he realized that his James came back to him broken and in chains. And Thomas thinks, perhaps it is now his turn to fight, his turn to stand up against those who have wronged them and burn this place that thrives off their misery to the ground.