It’s been a week, fam, and I’m still reeling and truly, breathtakingly, incandescently fucking furious, and I have to say, I’m starting to feel a little bit alone. If anybody else feels like they want to rend Silver down into his component parts, I’d love to hear from you – I never thought I’d sympathize with Billy again, but I do now as the fandom as a whole forgives Silver for what he’s done and I sit here going:
I’m suddenly having horrible parallel feelings about that scene between Flint and Silver on the island, and the scene in season one when Flint killed Gates.
“This is not what i wanted.”
Season one, the captain kills his quartermaster to keep his fight alive. Season four, the quartermaster ‘kills’ his captain, to bring it to an end.
“What did you do?”
“What was necessary.”
Silver paid a heavy price for his betrayals,but with that he purchased these happy endings for all of them-from Flint to Max to Jack and Anne to Maroons and the rest of pirates.He stopped the war and there was an only way to do so-he had to stop Flint.At the beginning of 410 Flint told him and Jack about the unstoppable war he is planning.There was no other way.Silver could have him killed,he could easily arrange it but he chose to ‘retire’ him and reunite with Thomas.End his decade of hell and that nightmare he lived in,drag him in chains to Savannah…but alive and slowly regaining sanity.What Silver did was indeed mercy and I couldn’t agree more with you if I tried.He did that out of love,for both Flint and Madi.War is glorious and his motives were selfish,but choosing life over death of loved ones is not wrong.
‘War is glorious and his motives were selfish,but choosing life over death of loved ones is not wrong.’
So much this. I feel desperately sorry for Madi, and I doubt Silver or I will ever truly understand the scale of the things she was willing to die fighting for, but he did what he did out of love. Whether or not it was his right to make that choice, and whether or not it was selfish or selfless or some tangled mix of the two, his motivations stemmed from a place of goodness. He isn’t a monster. He’s a man who has endured such deep torments and pains that he couldn’t bear to speak of them to his best friend in the entire world. I can’t stand to see him demonised for trying to spare the people he loves painful and tormented ends, even if the cost was great.
#yehehehehes #defend my curly son#I am so conflicted and angry and frustrated and saddened and happy and hopeful about this ending all at once#but this is the reason#despite all my anger for the fact that Flint was cast away to suffer under the same yoke he’d despised for years#that I could not cancel my sea poodle #I understood his motives #but#a guilded cage is still a cage #and James flint still deserved better#if John truly wanted to retire Flint#he could have just purchased Thomas’s freedom#but perhaps he couldn’t trust a ‘free Flint’#which is silly because he said himself the man changed once they got closer to Savannah#and a free McGraw should have been just fine #I’m rambling#anyway yes I defend my trash son but do not forgive him his betrayal#he could have walked away#instead he made decisions for everyone effectively becoming the very thing he hated#a tyrant #is it too early to start drinking? #long John fucking Silver#black sails meta via @crucifythenburn
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