#hornigold era

[disabledpirate]

Hornigold’s Boys:

#Hornigold era #izzy hands #ed teach #calico jack #jackedhands #IS THAG THE SHIP?? #ofmd #benjamin hornigold

[boatcats]

Make You Laugh

Eddie had never felt so wretched at the beginning of shoreleave. Normally feeling sick was confined to the last day as the crew suffered through their hangovers in an attempt to board the ship at least somewhat sober when the time came.

But Eddie hadn't had anything to drink. And he probably wouldn't get to. He'd have to pay the doctor and then shell out for a room in which to curl up for a few days and hopefully sleep it all off. That didn't leave anything for drink. It didn't leave much of anything for food either but one step at a time.

Fuck Hornigold and double fuck fucking Timothy (rest his soul).

Ed and Timothy had boarded the merchant ship together during the raid. The plan - the fucking plan - was that they'd fight together in the stern. But Timothy got ... excited or panicked or something and next thing Ed knew he was running up amidships slashing and hacking as he went. Which left Ed in the stern. By himself.

He'd done his best but his arm had gotten slashed all to hell. Which sucked but admittedly didn't hold a candle to what happened to Timothy when Hornigold found out he'd abandoned his post.

Ed hadn't fucking told. Timothy got himself caught up near the bow somehow and Ed heard the mate yelling "what are you doing up here?" and winced despite his frustration and the blood dripping down his arm.

Timothy was keelhauled later that night. And Ed was called forward by the mate and informed that he'd be holystoning the decks with sea water for losing control - shredded arm and all.

It hadn't been Ed's job to watch Timothy and he could tell the mate disagreed with the punishment. The mate didn't like when expectations weren't clear. But they were all just bobbing along in Hornigold's wake so the mate handed Ed the holystone and bucket and Ed holystoned the decks. His arm didn't like that.

His arm had not gotten better in the days that followed.

So now here he was on shoreleave, tired and sick and about to pay out all his share for a doctor and a bed to crawl into. Fuck.

"Eddie! Hey Eddie!" Jack popped out of a tavern door and ran up to Ed. "Wanna bet I can chug this whole gallon of milk?"

Eddie gave Jack a once over. He did, indeed, have a gallon of milk. "What do you have that for?" he asked.

"To chug. Nicked it when the barkeep's back was turned. Come on! Think I can chug it?"

"No," Ed said.

"Watch!" Jack winked, tipped his head back, and put the neck of the gallon to his lips. He started strong with at least five good swallows but he appeared to have forgotten he'd need to breathe at some point. His eyes began to take on a panicked look. At last he breathed in. But he forgot to take the bottle away from his lips so what he breathed in was milk.

Things got chaotic after that. Jack coughed and choked and wheezed and continued to pour a steady stream of milk down the front of his shirt.

Ed started laughing. He couldn't help it.

Then Jack started laughing, too. In between choking.

When Jack could speak again he rasped "Told you I could do it!"

That was it for Ed. "Fuck!" he gasped, laughing so hard tears ran down his cheeks. He kept trying to get himself under control then he'd look at Jack and start again.

Something was unfolding warm in his chest. That was the thing about a boy doing something stupid to make you laugh - it was stupid but it meant he wanted you to laugh.

"So where are you headed?" Jack asked once they'd finally laughed themselves out and Jack had wiped some of the milk out of his eyes.

Ed sighed. "Doctor. Fucked my arm up. Then inn, I guess. Need to sleep."

"Wanna go halvsies on a room?" Jack gave him an obviously calculating look.

"No, you'll be loud and invite the whole town over."

"Yeah, but you're fucked up enough to sleep through at least some of that. And I'll be gone during the day. Mostly. We can get a nicer room if we both chip in."

Ed thought about it. If he and Jack went in on a room together it would leave him enough coin to buy a square meal or two. And he'd have someone there if he got really sick. Jack was probably better than no one at all. Probably.

Ed would never tell but he was a little scared. At least someone would know if he died.

"Fuck it. Yeah. I'll go in on a room with you. Meet you at the inn?"

"Hell yeah!" Jack pumped the air. "Go do your doctor thing. I'll meet you at the inn."

#ofmd #ofmd fic #calicobeard #baby ed/jack #ed teach whump #injury cw #hornigold era

[nswd-ofmd]

Chapter 30: Adventure Calling

Read: @ A03

Summary: Edward Teach. Captain Edward Teach. Finally Edward has his own ship, fully crewed and course laid in. True the ship is third hand, and true the crew is made up different bands of people with shifting alliances; true that Edward's not sure who he can trust, or if he can trust anyone. And as much experience as Edward has, he's going to find out he's still got a lot to learn.

Snippet:

“We don’t have to go out to sea to avoid a storm that isn’t there,” says Bland Fuck. “I assure you I will stand by your side if you say that it dissipated.”

Edward gives Aconi a look, trying to tell him without words that this was why he didn’t want the fucker aboard, let alone as a helmsman. Bland Fuck will take twice of everything he’s given until he thinks he’s better than anyone else. Aconi closes his eyes briefly as if he takes Edward’s point.

“If Edw— if the Captain says the storm is coming, a storm is coming,” says Aconi.

“So certain? I would like to know the magic of it,” says Bland Fuck sarcastically.

“It’s in the wind,” Edward says, because it’s fucking obvious. “It’s in the smell, it’s in the feel, it’s in the way that the water moves. Maybe if you kept your hand on the wheel and stopped bitching with your mates, you might have felt it too.”

#our flag means death #Our Flag Means Death Fanfic #Hornigold Era #Edward Teach #Calico Jack #Anne Bonny #Sam Bellamy #Hornigold era #backstory fic #Never Shall We Die #Nocturneequuis Fanfic

[thegayafrienda]

Too Many Eds

Author: thegayafrienda

Artist: sweetpotato_70

Art Masterpost

Beta readers: MarcoInarossManBun, lovedhands, my husband who shall remain unnamed

Characters: Blackbeard | Edward Teach, Calico Jack Rackham, Izzy Hands, Buttons, Karl, Benjamin Hornigold

Relationship(s): Jack/Ed/Ed, Jack/Ed, Ed/Izzy, Jack/Izzy, Ed/Hornigold, Izzy/Hornigold (mentioned), Jack/Ed/Izzy/Stede (future/implied)

Rating:  Explicit

Additional Tags: Transfeminine Blackbeard | Edward Teach, selfcest, threesome, murder, blood, magic, gender dysphoria

Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence, Main character death, Underage (referenced as having happened in the past)

Summary:

A young Jack Rackham finds a pair of fangs in a dead man's skull on a raid. When he decides to take them, a magical chain of events is unleashed that will leave Jack, his boyfriend Ed, and their ship's tantalizing first mate Izzy changed forever.

Featuring: A Jack/Ed/Ed threesome! Transfemme Ed! Magical Buttons! And so much more blood

Wordcount: 12,990

Too Many Eds by thegayafrienda

#jackedhands #our flag means death #calico jack #edward teach #izzy hands #hornigold era #my fic

[ask-calico-jack]

Any fun stories about the hornigold era group? (Ed, you, izzy, Annie and mary)

Oh, Izzy wasn't there. I'm not sure what gave you that impression. I've met Izzy Hands a handful of times we never sailed together, cept when I was over to visit Eddie but that only lasts a week or two at a time.

Anyway it was kind of a sausage fest. Annie, who we picked up later on in my tenure with ol' Horny because I kidnapped her for ransom money and she hated being an earl's daughter so much that we couldn't get rid of her even when he offered to pay up, was the only girl there that we knew of. She stabbed first and asked questions later so she managed to cement her spot. I say that we knew of because Mary was there the whole time she was just going by Mark. Which in retrospect she only got away with that because we were all so stupid, Hornigold included. Annie caught on to her because they were flirting and Eddie caught on because he's smart but I fully didn't find out until after we mutinied the bastard.

I think I told the story about me, Eddie and Felix (RIP) getting tripping on mushrooms here.

What would be fun to tell. This is a broad question. Me, Eddie and Mary were around on that boat for years before we finally decided enough was enough and just fuckin killed the bastard. A shit ton of our buddies died, the turn over on Hornigold's ship was insane because he didn't give enough of a fuck about us to not throw us at a raid we couldn't win and would kill you for insubordination, so there was never really a solid group. I started off as a cabin boy and had to claw my way up the social ladder. Eddie went from cabin boy to first mate.

Oh ok I've got one. Eddie, Mary, Me. 1693. We're on a beach with some other buddies because Hornigold was steering on the Rhino horn again. So we were just fucking around waiting for Hornigold to decide what to do, and Mary decided that it would be fuckin hilarious to pants the biggest guy on the crew: One Eyed Will. So she sneaks up on him on the side without the eye and just ripped his fuckin pants down. He turns around and she's gone before he can catch sight of her, but he sees our other pal, Harvey, and picks a coconut off the ground and chucks it at his head. That's how the coconut war was born and it became a tradition whenever we were on a beach after that.

#ooc: im not yes anding sorry Izzy's whole thing falls apart completely if he knew Ed before he was Blackbeard #besides I'm pretty sure that Fang's ed's oldest employee in canon anyway #babygirl tag #mary tag #wife tag #felix (rip) #jacked lore #hornigold era

[tresdem]

From the upcoming chapter 29 of Never Shall We Die

#Our Flag Means Death #Our Flag Means Death fic #WIP Wednesday #Edward Teach #Anne Bonny #Calico Jack #Sam Bellamy #Hornigold Era #Backstory fic #Never Shall We Die

[medievill]

here to curse your kinktober with some Jack/Ed praise kink content

#ofmd #our flag means death #ed teach #ed teach ofmd #calico jack ofmd #calico jack #ofmd fanfic #ofmd fic #jack x ed #ed x jack #i’m calling them jackbeard and no one can stop me #hornigold era #ofmd kinktober #our flag means death kinktober #kinktober 2023

[thehelpermouse]

Bored and kind of obsessed with the Hornigold era trio right now so allow me to share some of my salacious and not so salacious headcanons with y’all.

Ed and Jack were both on Hornigold’s ship as crewmen rather close in age

Izzy was there before them and is a bit older than them and was in higher standing on the ship than they were.

Ed’s ambition, resourcefulness, and flair for the dramatic quickly caught Izzy and their captain’s attention. Jack less so because he came off more as the reckless jackass that followed in Ed’s step.

Hornigold never had any romantic or sexual interest in the trio (sorry I know that’s popular in the fandom)

Izzy started offering more opportunities and a higher share of all loot to Ed as a means of getting closer to him so he could build Ed’s reputation on the sea more. Izzy could see Hornigold growing older and weaker and could see Ed had the most potential to captain next besides himself (which he had no actual interest in).

This got on Jack’s nerves quite a bit. Ed was his best friend after all and this Izzy snob is just gonna come in and try to spend all this time with Ed and steal him away?

Jack constantly made jokes about how Izzy was just trying to get in Ed’s pants by sweetening him up with a higher share of the loot.

Jack proposed matelotage to Ed since he was getting a greater share they might as well both benefit.

Ed full on rejects Jacks proposal thinking he’s only joking.

Jack’s next strategy is to get on Izzy’s good side in hopes of getting ahead and getting more time with Edward. Ed obliviously let’s Jack invite himself on he and Izzy’s errands and misadventures, eventually establishing them as a trio.

This gets on Izzy’s nerves. He doesn’t like Jack at all but will play nice for Edward’s sake.

Post mutiny, Jack was Ed’s first pick for first mate, but after the incident with the French vessel Ed was angry with how far Jack had pushed him into violence and threw him off the ship, designating Izzy the new first mate, ultimately the smarter choice from the beginning.

Now onto the nsfw shit

Izzy is a masochist, a sub. And a bottom. These are just his preferences. He’s still one of the most fearsome and deadly pirates that ever sailed, he’s no wilting Lily. It takes a tough man to get pleasure out of the shit Izzy’s into. If it were up to him he’d probably be in some 24/7 dynamic with Ed.

Ed is a sadomasochist, leaning more on the masochist side, and a verse that prefers bottoming.

Jack is a straight up sadist and verse. He’d love to bottom for Ed but won’t look the gift horse that is getting to fuck Ed, in the mouth so to speak. It does however make him incredibly jealous of the fact that Ed will fuck Izzy and do all that crazy depraved dom shit that turns that old grouch into an agreeable puddle of dopamine.

Ed treats sex with Jack differently from how he treats sex with Izzy because he cares about and maybe even loves Izzy while Jack is just fun to him.

Because of this Ed wishes Izzy would fuck him or at least let Ed be gentle with him. Constantly hurting and degrading Iz takes an emotional toll on him.

Jack on the other hand gets off on all that shit with Izzy. The whole of their sexual encounters is hate sex with lots of degradation flowing both ways.

Despite Jack sincerely being into all that, he’s chaotic and disorganized and doesn’t apply the right amount of structure and personal touch to domming that Ed does which is what Izzy ultimately craves.

So there you have it, all the reasons they work but fundamentally don’t work as a triad.

#Hornigold era #ofmd #ofmd blackbeard #edward teach #Izzy hands #calico Jack #ofmd izzy hands #ofmd calico jack #blackhands #cjizzy #jackhands #jackbeard #all headcanons

[arsenicflame]

sam + izzy who get matching tattoos at the height of their relationship as a vow to each other, and when everything falls apart and izzy leaves with ed after the mutiny, he destroys his in a fit of anger, completely obliterating it.

sam still has his, kept perfect, even now.

#i think this requires you to know the nuances of my bellhands hornigold era set up to hit but i still haven't written that up. so #too bad #im taking this tattoo thing and running with it apparently #its in my brain. driving me insane #nyxtalks #ofmd #izzy hands #israel hands #sam bellamy #bellhands #maybe. this will finally make me elaborate

[silverspadesss]

and if i started plotting and writing the screenplay for the tv series of hornigold-era ofmd featuring young ed and izzy and jack and introducing sam bellamy and paulsgrave williams and charting the journeys and origins of all the main pirates from history in this world. what then. would y’all be into that?

#please i have so many ideas #it would definitely have to be grittier and darker than ofmd #but i can practically envision at least three series of hornigold-era ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd #edward teach #blackbeard #izzy hands #calico jack rackham

[krakensmaw]

𝐈𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐏𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊, 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐏. had walked it much like this, of late : long past midnight, stumbling a bit from drink and exertion. smelling of salt and smoke and leather grease ( like jack fucking rackham ). ❛ oof ! ❜ a slight trip over the threshold, tip toeing their brutish way inside. he stepped over to the bunks they shared with izzy and glanced down to find a FAMILIAR set of eyes upon them.

❛ christ, iz ! you scared the piss out of me. ❜ spoken low in a hushed whisper. he draped against the bunk's ladder, limbs loose and an easy grin playing 'pon his face. moonlight shone through a porthole and caught on dark curls in DISARRAY ; on the marks now blossoming at edward's throat. ❛ the hell are you doing up for, mate? ... shit, did i wake you. sorry, sorry. ❜ shirt and pants were shed in a rush, leaving edward in his smallclothes to climb up the ladder and settle in bed.

a beat of silence ere they rolled, head hanging over the edge of the top bunk to look down at izzy. those curls tumbled like a curtain about his face. ❛ how was your night? did you miss me ? ❜ a wink, quick as a whip.

@indestructiblelittlefckr

#indestructiblelittlefckr #' verse / learning to fly ! #blowing kisses @ you and iz! #have some hornigold era lads <3

[blackflcgs]

Continued from here @indestructiblelittlefckr

Oh.

Edward accepts the kiss when it meets him. Pressing forward against Izzy's mouth, his hand coming up to cradle his jaw. It's gentle. It's sweet.

He's a little starry-eyed when Izzy pulls back and for a moment all Ed can do is look at him. He smiles, charmed.

"Yeah. Course it's okay." Ed's laying on his back in the grass overlooking the beach, but he's staring up at Izzy. It'd been the easiest thing in the world to sneak away from the rest of the partying crew when Izzy had expressed wanting to do so. It's cute, really, seeing him all drunk the way he is.

Edward sits up. He isn't exactly sober himself and he's directly in Izzy's space, their faces hovering right near each other. His voice is low when he speaks, as fond as the light in his eyes, "Kiss me again, Iz."

#indestructiblelittlefckr #v: hornigold era #(( stop this they're so sweet )) #(( lil babies ))

[indestructiblelittlefuckers]

[ wonder if like there was a time that Izzy was more chill, less stressed and less feeling like he is the one to take care of things, and even let himself be happier with Ed, but then Ed had one of his "erratic moods" and he wouldn't/couldn't do anything that needed to be done and things went horribly wrong so Izzy knew that if Ed would just be Ed (see what I did there), he'd have to be the responsible one]

#headcanon (izzy) #he certainly saw ed in his moods in the hornigold era #but maybe it was more manageable then or he thought itd be over if #ed was captain

[nswd-ofmd]

Chapter 31: The Court of the King

Read: @ A03

Summary: The arrival at Moxey Town brings with it new frustrastions and dangers, though most of them is Edward keeping his fluctating crew of disparate alliances and personalities in line and behaving themselves. Still, another threat looms large in Spanish waters, a threat they will have to circumvent or face before they can even reach the colonies. The King knows the answers, but if he'll be ally or enemy in the future, only time will tell.

Snippet:

“I’m not going to thank him!” Freckle snaps. “It’s his fault Toby is dead!”

“Fuckin’ isn’t. I didn’t tell him to pull a knife on her, did I?”

“Captain,” says Fadel. “A moment.”

It takes Edward a second to realize Fadel is talking to him and allows the slender man to pull him aside and lean in, whispering so close to Edward’s ear his breath tickles.

“A captain doesn’t say: ‘fuckin’ isn’t.’”

#our flag means death #Our Flag Means Death Fanfic #Hornigold Era #Edward Teach #Calico Jack #Anne Bonny #Sam Bellamy #Hornigold era #backstory fic #Never Shall We Die #Nocturneequuis Fanfic

[girlbossblackbeard]

THOUGHTS AND LAYERS

i spent literally an hour analyzing this trailer at 0.5 speed. this post is long af and these thoughts are in no particular order and are poorly organized:

-there's a big storm (which I think was already confirmed), and ed gets swept overboard by a bucket on a rope:

he then crawls up out of the water onto the beach

then goes into the forest, creates a hut, has a journey of healing and self-discovery, meets hornigold (or his ghost??)

and kills him thus killing the part of himself that he hated the most (his violence) as a parallel to stede finally getting rid of nigel's ghost by accepting and believing in himself

-in the stede/ed split screen, the stede shot is from the first ep of s2 right after stede finds the marooned crew at the end of ep 10 in s1 (you can tell bc his hair and clothes are still clean, there's no gay bandana around his neck, and that's his lil dinghy buttons is rowing)

-they go to shore and wind up at the merchants shop where "susan" overhears they're tracking down blackbeard

and she invites stede's crew onto her ship, cue the outfit change in the BTS photos:

-the way stede makes that little swishy turn in the red coat -

makes me think this may be first time he's been in fine clothes since his "death" and i hope we get a moment of him reflecting on how he gave up everything for ed only to have him hate him :( but then obviously realizing that ed is worth it and he'd do it all again in a heartbeat if it meant getting a chance at spending the rest of his life with him

-izzy and stede team up, and izzy is clearly training either himself or stede on the revenge (?)

soooooo many questions: what caused him to leave ed and join stede's crew? is he fighting with ed and is training to take him out or is he just done having his love be unrequited so he leaves and just so happens to stumble into stede? is izzy thinking that if he can't cut out the longing he has for ed he has to kill him instead so the pain will go away? what, pray tell, the fuck is going on in here on this day

-wee john in the mermaid costume (and olu in a bunny or donkey costume?):

a fuckery? or just a weird acid trip? OR IS IT THE TALENT SHOW THEY NEVER GOT TO HAVE??

-ed really does force everyone on his crew to wear war paint

-all the tally marks scratched into the walls - is that the number of days since stede bonnet broke ed's heart?

-ed in the forest in PEARL NECKLACE HELLOW????????

-the tear in ed's eye as he moves the cake toppers closer together which he also painted to make the lady look more like him he literlaly is in love wiht stede so bad wht the FUCJ

-ed's crew is murdering SO MANY PEOPLE at the wedding wtf (pic not included bc scary)

-delusional moment but i hope anne bonny on stede's lap is looking at calico jack off screen

-stede and ed are running towards each other on the black sand beach (thank you @sluterastede for pointing this out to me wtf!!!!!!)

which evolves my theory that ed in the forest goes through his healing journey and realizes he wants to openly love stede again but then the navy attack and stede just so happens to have found ed at the same time and they're fighting to get to each other and taking out everyone in their way (what if that was okracoke lmao)

-the swede and spanish jackie hooking up in the trailer

makes me think the bts shot of ed and jackie is them looking at stede and the swede, and ed being SO in love with stede obvi but jackie is watching the swede do some weirdly hot shit so she's gotta have him (what if they got married and he became her umpteenth husband in a drunken vegas-like shotgun wedding where she wakes up the next day to realize what has happened lmao)

-also this pic is DEF from the reunited/make up era bc ed's half-up hair, no makeup, soft eyes, and buttons' clothing. i am weeping

-stede in pain - is it an injury or a tattoo? or torture as @sluterastede posits?? he looks down at his lower body before screaming so maybe he knows what's about to happen to him??

-ed in the forest wearing the pearl necklace (see above), ed saying "fuck you stede bonnet" wearing the pearl necklace (see below)

does he pick it up at the wedding??? (theory credit to @sluterastede!!!! can u tell we watched the trailer together 400 times) i can't tell if he's wearing it in the one wide shot of him in that scene:

but regardless of when he acquires it, does he take it bc he remembers stede said he wears fine things well???? and he starts to believe he may deserve them??

-side note about a LACK of something: ed isn't wearing the cravat at all in the trailer near as i can tell, and he's not wearing the pearl necklace when throwing knives at the wall (at least from what I can see, which is not much) which leads me to believe that scene is in the earlier part of the season

-lastly, the most important song lyrics from the trailer (the beautiful ones by prince):

and that's my dissertation on the ofmd season 2 teaser trailer thank you

#ofmd #our flag means death #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #edward teach #stede bonnet #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 predictions #ofmd s2 trailer

[jaskierx]

thinking about ed's reasons to live - warmth and good food and orgasms - and the moments in the series when these are present (or not), and how all roads lead back to stede

there's a distinct lack of warmth in the gravy basket. it's tinted blue as if it's cold. ed's near-death is portrayed as him drowning in cold water. we don't see him with a robe or a blanket at any point in the kraken era, not even in private, even though we know these things comfort him. we don't see him having any physical contact with the crew - in fact there's often a large space between him and the others. he does not feel the warmth of other human beings.

in contrast, warmth is a key feature of times when he and stede work together well - they use fire to appear like a lighthouse in s1e4, stede burns the boat after the aristocrats upset ed in s1e5, ed is under a blanket when stede comforts him in s1e6, they enjoy the snake snack by the fire in s1e7.

when ed eats without stede, it's not 'good food' - either he's eating marmalade out of the jar or cake icing off a dagger because he misses stede, or he's using the wrong cutlery to eat a prawn and getting laughed at by the aristocrats. he ensures the crew get cake from the wedding raids, but does not join them to eat it. he accidentally ruins the fishermen's meal in s2e8.

when ed eats with stede, the meals are substantive and good quality - breakfast spreads, the snake snack, the meal they don't pay for. they take part in so many little social rituals associated with eating - making food for each other, clinking their teacups together, stede getting the crumb out of ed's beard. many of their major relationship moments revolve around food - stede bringing ed breakfast in s1e4, the cutlery being a turning point in s1e5, blackbeard's bar and grill in s1e7, jack interrupting breakfast and 'well well look who's eating seaweed' in s1e8, their reconciliation at the dinner at anne and mary's house in s2e4, the breakfast in bed in s2e7.

orgasms is in some ways an obvious one bc the only sex scene he has is with stede - but on a wider level, he has very little positive physical contact with anybody that isn't stede (other than his cute little friendship dance with anne) - even his interactions with jack feel somewhat forced and over the top. but ed and stede touch all the time, in a very casual way, and a lot of the moments where they touch are significant - ed holding stede's hand while he's unconscious in s1e4, ed throwing his arms around stede after the lighthouse plan works in s1e4, ed resting his head against stede's hand in s1e6, the foot touch in s1e8, stede trying to wake ed up in s2e3, ed reaching out to protect stede in s1e9 and s2e6, the way they wrap themselves around each other when they kiss.

in comparison, the ways that he shares contact with other characters is starkly different - fang describes desecrating ed's unconscious body, he indirectly loses autonomy over his body when he's forced to shave his beard at the privateering academy, ed and izzy's touches in s1e10 are either violent (e.g. ed feeding izzy his toe) or an uncomfortable violation of boundaries (e.g. izzy touching ed's cheek). compare this to stede's approach to touching ed - he asks ed to come out from under the blanket in s2e4 instead of pulling it away, he checks in with 'is this okay' when they're holding hands in s2e5, he waits for ed's nod of consent in s2e6.

idk i'm just emotional about how hornigold asked ed what he liked about living and he basically said 'stede' three times

#ofmd #edward teach #blackbonnet #stede bonnet #ofmd meta #lyse.jpg