#🪐 — izzy / headcanon.

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also something something about izzy as a character representing "the old guard," those queer elders who endured extreme danger & hostility for who they were (exhibit A is him & ed constantly talking about how all their old friends are dead & didn't make it like hello) & who heavily relied on assimilationist tactics to survive in a society that he knew would never accept him, & therefore now struggles deeply to be at ease around all the younger queers who have no desire to hide their identities, & has a hard time trusting in a safe space where there is no fear of repercussions for who he is

#& the way that he's finally getting there !! #the queer joy & healing of it. #holds this show so close to my heart. #🪐 — izzy / headcanon.

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with the new season & also a few new of.md followers here i just want to gently remind everyone that i write izzy as a trans man. & no, he's not necessarily "out," so unless we talk about it ooc your muse would have no way of knowing this. so it shouldn't affect most threads, but it does factor into my portrayal in some small ways.

#part of me wants to do like. #a proper HC post about this & the way he Exists in his body. #not just a lil reminder type deal. #so maybe i will. #i had been a little hesitant to talk about it on the dash but. #i really doubt any of my lovely mutuals will be uncool about it. #so maybe i will talk properly about it in the coming days / weeks. #especially knowing what he's gonna get up to next episode. #iykyk. #🪐 — izzy / headcanon.

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whispering very softly into the night :  izzy is trans

#🪐 — izzy / headcanon. #i've been thinking about this a lot. #i know this is never going to be canon but tbh ? i don't care. #this is my blog canon. #just to indulge my queer lil self. #no one knows except ed maybe. #it shouldn't affect threads. #unless we get rlly invested in a ship. then we can talk abt it. #all i'm saying is. #he is a gay trans man. #thank u goodbye.

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the emerald ring that izzy always wears around the cravat at his throat was a family heirloom that belonged to his mother.  miriam was a kind  &  compassionate seamstress who married richard hands shortly after moving to london from her ancestral home near modern-day gaza.  as a child, izzy loved his mother very much  —  she is the only person who has ever touched him gently.  when she died of pneumonia when he was twelve years old, izzy kept her ring for himself.  for awhile, he wore it on his finger.  when he joined the navy he kept it safely hidden in his inside pocket.  only after he joined edward’s crew did he begin to wear it at his throat, always visible  &  yet holding his defensive outfit tightly closed.

#🪐 — izzy / headcanon. #realized i never actually posted this. #when people say he had an ex wife i just laugh & laugh & laugh. #like are you insane ? him ? #clearly izzy was a mommy's boy. #don't ask him about her he will not tell you. but i will.

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anyway, the only time we ever see izzy's right hand without the glove is in that scene belowdeck when ed asks him to shoot him & he refuses, & during the storm scene directly thereafter where he does shoot ed to prevent him from destroying the ship & killing the crew. pretty incredible that the only time he ever shows his hand (literally speaking) is during the climactic moment of breakdown of his relationship with ed.

what's even more interesting is that in the scene with him & ed belowdeck, you can see that he has a little red heart tattoo on the junction of his right hand & thumb to match the black spade on his left. notable here that ed has a spider tattoo on his hand, which he says that he covers with gloves because he's afraid of spiders. in contrast, izzy has a heart tattoo on his right hand, which is always covered except in the above noted exceptions. the symbolism is not subtle. this is a man who guards his love from being seen, literally & figuratively hides his heart because he's afraid of love — until he finds himself in an active a life-or-death situation where there is no other choice but to face it & act on it.

there isn't a brand there as far as i can tell... but it's my blog & i do what i want, so i'm probably still keeping my back-of-hand deserter's brand headcanon, at least in most verses. his right hand has both the brand & the little heart tattoo (to me).

#🪐 — izzy / headcanon. #the glove is important to me personally. #thinking of how the costume designer called izzy ' sentimental. ' #which HE IS. #but would never admit. #unless under duress. #& then that jim got his glove in the end. NOT normal about that. #biting things biting things biting things...

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🪐 — izzy / headcanon ;

izzy’s right glove that he never removes is covering up a large ugly brand on the back of his hand that labels him as a naval deserter. the tool that was used to make it would look something like this but with a large D beside the crown design in the center. he keeps it covered because he doesn’t want anyone — fellow pirates or otherwise — to know of his past in the military.

#🪐 — izzy / headcanon. #i have so much to say abt this lil dude. #but this is the hc that requires the least expansion. #i will do a much longer one abt. #how he met ed. #which IS related. #but that one will be Big & this one is quick. #so have this for now.