Tag: thomas-hamilton

thomas-hamilton replied to your post “bean-about-townn replied to your post “Do you think Flint killed…”

this makes sense, though. Alfred gets embittered because of the loss of his wife.

honestly, I’d always imagined that he possibly married Thomas’ mother against his wishes and resented Thomas for tying him to a woman he didn’t want to be married to. Richard Guthrie implies at one point that Thomas had brothers – I have to wonder if they were all from the same parents or if Thomas was the only legitimate heir, hence Alfred’s frustration but limited tolerance up to the point of canon.

thomas-hamilton replied to your post “hiddencait replied to your post “It’s been a week, fam, and I’m…”

i thought of this; he excused his actions towards Flint as ‘giving him happiness’ fully knowing that he won’t be a burden that way. why wouldn’t he bring Thomas to Nassau, safe&sound instead of taking Flint to the plantation?

EXACTLY. If he wanted Flint happy, there were much better ways of accomplishing that. He didn’t actually give a crap about that, or he would never have let him suffer any longer than he did. Instead, Silver knew Thomas was alive for weeks and said freaking nothing, even in the face of Flint mentioning the possibility of Thomas being alive. This was not a benevolent gesture – it was a way to get Flint even further away from Nassau, and that he did so by dragging him there in chains just says to me that he had no intention of allowing Flint to ever come back, one way or another. It’s inexcusable in every sense of the word.