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flinthamilton:

Here is the problem I am having when it’s said that Thomas is automatically going to be upset at what James has become/ruining Nassau after the pardons were given out.

While it might be true that he wouldn’t like what’s happening now, the truth is what England/Woodes has done with Nassau and the pardons is not what Thomas wanted either.

What Thomas wanted, while on the surface it looks similar, there was a lot more to it than just “pirates getting pardoned and a return to the Crown’s rule.”

Thomas was explicitly against the way England governed and the way it treated people. Thomas wanted pardons for the pirates yes, but he also wanted changes to the system that was making people suffer ( his talks about changing systemic things, wanting to give people their lives back and help them, miranda’s quote about him doing things out of love, etc.) He didn’t want Nassau to just go back to British rule as it stands.

And that, ultimately, is why Flint still fights (at least in part, ofc he is still fighting because that is all that is sustaining him). Because this is not what either of them were trying to do. Because the civilization/status quo that exiled and destroyed him, the same one that killed Thomas and Miranda, is the same one that has returned to Nassau.

He openly wonders in 305 if he should give up fighting because he wonders if fighting now is going against everything he and Thomas and Miranda were trying to accomplish. And in 307 he then admits why he’s still fighting; because it’s not what Thomas was trying to do. Thomas was trying to change England, not bring it back to the same status quo.