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#Finding a good mate isn't izzy

asoulwithadream · 8 months

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TEASER REVIEW BECAUSE I'M DEAD

it's him. he's back. HE'S BACK. BESTIES HE'S BACK. i'm sick. his letter has caused my entire brain to shut down. "I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU. I LOVE BEING NEAR YOU. BREATHING THE SAME AIR" bestie how did you find ao3 in 1717? AND THEY GAVE US ALL THAT IN THE FUCKING TEASER TOO?????? dude he looks so fucking heartbroken– YEARNING RAAAAAAAH

THIS FUCKING SCENE— he CUSTOMISED THE TOPPERS TO LOOK LIKE THEM I'M CRYING SOBBING ROLLING ON THE FLOOR. omg omg omg omg they love eachother so much PLEASE. and poor sweet ed jesus he has been CRYING AND HE LOOKS SO EMPTY IM SICK IM DYING IM DEAD. i'm sick, i need the icu help. does this mean he's good at painting.

GOTH UNIFORMS. THEY'RE REAL. im so incredible sick frenchie has cat claws. HE HAS CAT CLAWS IM DYING. and JIM HAS A PAINTED BEARD and SHAVED SIDES. i'm actually going to burst into tears. my heart is going to stop at any moment. even FANG HAS A COOL NEW UNIFORM

i don't think i'm alive anymore at this point. THE PARALLEL. THE PARALLEL. and 9 guns he literally turned into the kraken. HE TURNED INTO THE VERY THING HE HATED HELP ME PLEASE (also did anyone notice the scene where he rose out of the ocean was very similar to potc??????? help??????) stede please stop looking lovingly out in the distance my heart has gotten enough beatings

competent stede in red. FABULOUS IM GOING TO CRYYY 2. izzy hands it's izzy isreal it's you PLEASE this is so reminisence of all the ao3 fics— izzy's finally realised what ed has become and needs to go find stede and bring ed back PLEASE HELP I'm GOING TO CRY IZZY AND STEDE BEING FRIENDS NO NO NO NO NO HELP HELP HELP HELP this is his road to self discovery and acceptance and love i'm feral

that's the same place mofos THAT'S THE SAME PLACE. THEY'RE CLOSE. omg they're going to end up FIGHTING EACHOTHER AREN'T THEY AREN'T THEY OR IS IT THE FIRST TIME THEY SEA EACHOTHER . (also, COMPETENT STEDE?????) HELP ME THEY'RE SO FIGHTING. OMG what if they're running TOWARDS EACHOTHER OKFLAIKHFL please this is insane i will cry david jenkins you have forsaken us all.

minnie what are you doing to stede. HE DOESn'T WANT IT. He'S UNCOMFORTABLE IN SUCH A STATE. LITERALLY THE NAME OF ONE OF THE EPISODES ANNE LEAVE HIM ALONE, (and do it to me) (please i'm desperate)

these two barbies are having the times of their lives.

im convinced that "susan" (whoever ruibo quan is playing) is a mermaid. buttons is being taught the way of the sea by her since she is part fish. she is setting him up with the ocean so they can make sweet love, instead of yearning like captain blondie and emo over there

WHO'S FALLEN IN A RIVER IN LEGO CITY. IT MUST BE SOMEONE ON BLACKBEARD'S SHIP MATES IS IT ED????? ED HAS FALLEN OFF A SHIP IN LEGO CITY. HELP ME WHAT IS GOING ON HERE. I NEED TO KNOW I NEED TO KNOW I NEED TO KNOW OMG THE REVENGE ISN'T SINKING ISN'T SHE??? PLEASE DON'T DO THAT TO ME

THIS IM SORRY BUT WEE JOHN IS LOOKING ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS, ROACH HAVING THE TIME OF HIS LIFE, AND IS THAT PETE THAT MUST BE PETE IT'S PETE ISN'T IT IT'S BLACK PETE. we don't have enough content with pete. YOU KNOW WHY? or else it would have to include LUCIUS. HAH. got you there david

well. that concludes my current rant. other parts of the trailer have been excluded bc they deserve their own posts OR others have phrased it better than me LMAO (yeah because what i wrote is peak shakespeare)

october 5th can't come fast enough help me

**UPDATE: FULL THEORY BASED ON THIS

#ofmd #our flag means death #rant #ofmd teaser rant #ofmd s2 #ofmd 2 #stede bonnet #ed teach #david jenkins #taika waititi #rhys darby #they're back they're really actually back #october 5th

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piratecaptainscaptainpirates · 2 months

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It is absolutely fascinating how in season 1 Izzy is constantly demonstrating how he's just very bad at the things he defines himself by, and in season 2 the story replaces these things and gives him something more grounded to hold onto. I think it's an essential part of his s2 arc that being "one of the crew" becomes a part of his identity.

He's always making implications about what piracy should be like and how pirates should behave (and this continues into s2 as well), but he's really kind of a shit pirate, isn't he? He has a standard for professionalism that other pirates don't feel the need to abide by, and Stede takes advantage of on several occasions. He seems to care quite a lot about doing things in the "proper" way, and in an underhanded profession like piracy, it's funny that he's always complaining about Stede's lack of "professionalism" or that Stede beat him "on a technicality."

He's also just really not a good sailor. Dismissing Ed's attempt to get him to engage him in talking about clouds is a rookie mistake - we know Izzy registered it, because he brought it up later, but when he was nagging Ed about telling him the plan and Ed immediately started talking about clouds, he should have been able to take the hint. Learning how to tell weather conditions is like sailing 101.

Izzy defines himself as a loyal person, with "loyalty above all" to his captain seeming like an essential aspect of himself when he talks about himself. But that's just horseshit, though, isn't it? In s1 Izzy is loyal to himself and that's it. He's shockingly quick to involve the English Navy, he constantly insults Ed when talking to others about him, he mocks Ed's attempts to define for himself how Ed wants to behave and present himself. He calls this loyalty but it's very obvious that his first priority is always maintaining his status as someone who is important (he's content to be captain after Ed and Stede sign the Act of Grace, and he only begins to panic in s2e1 when Ed reminds him that he can just find a new first mate). Being replaceable scares him.

And I think all these things really add to how as he grows in s2 being a part of the crew replace these traits in his mind. He is accepted by the crew explicitly in spite of how he feels "less useful." He no longer feels like he has to control Ed's behavior in order to feel irreplaceable because now he is a part of the crew and that on its own makes him feel like an irreplaceable part of things. Being a member of the crew becomes a core facet of his identity for him to hold onto and inform how he interacts with others.

#ofmd #our flag means death #usually i forget about izzy as soon as i'm not looking at him so enjoy me rotating him in my brain for a sec

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ladyluscinia · 7 months

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Ok. Ok. Time to put my thoughts in order about S2 and we're starting at literally the first scene because whoo boy is there a lot going on that I like.

So. Stede's Fantasy Pirate Rescue aka this show having no illusions about Stede's fuck ups and where the story-driving conflict is coming from (*cough* Stede and Edward themselves *cough*)

It opens with what frankly a concerning amount of fandom seemed to view as the solution to all the problems of S1 - namely a Stede vs Izzy swordfight. Stede is really going all in on his dashing pirate hero fantasy. He has the beard. The sword skills. He gets his sword knocked out of his hand (again) but this time it ends on a witty one liner and stabbing Izzy with a concealed knife before artfully claiming his cutlass. He even dramatically kills him! And, villain defeated, there's Ed running through the surf to embrace him! Everything is perfect and wonderful and conflict free - and it all collapses back into reality with Wee John literally farting all over it.

Pete even openly mocks his moaning "Ed, Ed" in his sleep!

Because it's a fantasy! A ridiculous one at that! And the truly fantastical bit isn't even the reunion, or Stede's heroics. No... The part that's absurd, that even Stede can't make himself believe in his own subconscious mind, is that there's a convenient external villain to all of this and he and Ed can just pick back up where they left off.

Fantasy!Izzy and Fantasy!Ed are basically barbie dolls in this dream, but you can watch Stede's awareness that this is truly just a comforting fantasy slipping through.

Fantasy!Izzy gets cast as the villain because why wouldn't he? Stede has disliked him going back to that conversation at Spanish Jackie's where he basically offloaded a bunch of his own issues on this random pirate guy for having bad vibes, Izzy did betray him specifically to the Navy, and the last thing his crew would have been able to tell him about was Izzy ordering his stuff tossed and rowing them to an island (on Blackbeard's orders, but that's easy enough for Stede to ignore). He's even got him putting on a villain voice!

But the line. The only fantasy character line in this entire dream that connects with the situation in reality instead of sounding like stock NPC responses. Stede defeats his villain and The Villain / Fantasy!Izzy / Stede's subconscious looks up from his knees and reminds him:

"I never made you leave him. You did that yourself."

And Stede kills him for saying it! Goes back to the comforting script where he demands to know where Ed is and Izzy calls him a twat! Shut up, subconscious, Stede needs to rescue his damsel!

And his damsel barbie doll is so happy to see him! Fantasy!Edward's lines are the most disconnected, NPC babble. It's hilarious 🤣

Fantasy!Ed: "I knew you'd find me, babe"

Stede: "You're not mad?"

Fantasy!Ed: "I knew you'd find me, love"

Stede: "So we're good? About everything?"

Fantasy!Ed: "Fucking love the beard, mate".

Can I mention how much I love the repetition there? Zero engagement in the conversation, totally amps up the NPC vibe.

Stede is begging his own dream to reassure him that he didn't hurt Ed that bad, to tell him Ed will be so happy to see him it will fix everything, and he doesn't get what he's looking for. Because it's not true. The show in fact laughs in the face of that interpretation. Stede's making up a idealized "fix" (being a dashing hero) for the BlackBonnet relationship, and even Stede knows it's bullshit.

Edward and Stede's relationship issues and personal struggles have a bodycount this season (R.I.P. Ivan 😭) and it's immensely satisfying that so far no one is inclined to pull their punches on this fact or foist the blame elsewhere.

Not even Stede's subconscious!

#our flag means death #ofmd s2 #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd 2x01 #stede bonnet ofmd #stede bonnet #blackbonnet #ofmd meta #ladyluscinia

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sarucane · 5 months

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Why didn't Izzy shoot Ed (then)?

Turns out that teasing out character logic is fun and people are interested so I'll just do it again ;)

Izzy has good reasons to shoot Ed here. Ed shot his leg and then outsourced the "kill Izzy" job to Frenchie. Now Izzy's a one-legged pirate, and as far as he's concerned his life isn't even worth living.

But Izzy is alive here. And he's alive because of what started when the crew intervened a few episodes back, told him he was in a toxic relationship with Blackbeard. The choices he made after that led to Ed shooting him, but also sowed the seed of a real bond between him and the crew, which led to him being alive here. Which--most importantly for answering this question--adds up to Izzy not being sure anymore that the old way is the right way.

Ed thinks Izzy will shoot him because there's rules to follow. Izzy told Ed "Blackbeard is my captain, not Edward. Edward better watch his fucking step." Well, Ed has come to the conclusion that he can't not be Edward. And he doesn't want to keep living torn between Blackbeard and Edward, alone and hopeless. He's desperate to let go, and is convinced the only thing "letting go" means is death, so he's setting out to make someone force him to let go.

And Izzy is the obvious choice of someone to make him let go, because Izzy does what Blackbeard tells him to.

But it's no longer that simple on this ship. It never has truly been that simple--Izzy was in denial about how human beings work when he demanded Ed just be Blackbeard again. And Izzy's changed, too.

Ed and Izzy are both caught between two ways of being in this scene. On the one hand, there's the pirate script, the Code of the Sea. Life is cheap, new first mates kill old first mates, first mates kill captains. Weakness is death. Roles are static and permanent, and the only "correct" change is death.

On the other hand, there's the Revenge script, where "life means something" and people "live for each other, not just to survive." Where deviations from the norm aren't just accepted, they're encouraged. Where people can be vulnerable and be supported, be weak and still worthy of life. Where people can change.

When Izzy refuses to shoot Ed, he is embodying that conflict. Izzy doesn't shoot Ed because he finds he really is done with the script. Because when it comes down to it, he may have threatened him--but he does not want to kill Ed.

But rather than risk or show the kind of vulnerability he did right before Ed shot him, Izzy frames this in the old narrative terms. He expresses contempt for Ed, that it's weakness that is making Ed come to Izzy for an assisted suicide. Izzy calls him "Eddie" as a way of diminishing him. He uses the kind of language he used back in S1E4, falling back on ideas like 'making a mess' that make sense to him, but invalidate the seriousness of what's happening here.

But at the same time, Izzy's actually setting his first healthy boundary in his relationship with Ed. Not "you need to do/act/etc," but "I will/will not do/act/etc." Izzy's spent years encouraging, feeding, and enabling this toxicity. He's not going to anymore. And he's not going to do it because he knows it's wrong--but he can't say that. Maybe doesn't even really know it.

It's a truly mad mix of growth and regression, and it's no wonder that Izzy falls back on the old script when he's alone and tries to shoot himself. And it's also no wonder that he fails, because he knows this is the wrong way to be. That both he and Ed deserve better.

#ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #ofmd spoilers #ofmd meta #izzy hands #ed teach

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chuplayswithfire · 2 years

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Edward Teach knows who he is. i think this might be a bit controversial in the analysis perspective, because the idea of Edward teach, fractured identity, doesn't know who he is, is pretty prevalent, but i think this comes from a fundamental lack of familiarity with the experience of being non-white in white society.

what Ed struggles with is the ability to find a landing zone where he can stop code switching. sure, Ed is a social chameleon and changes things up depending on who he's with, but this is a common strategy for people of color in survival mode - managing expectations, experiences, and presentation are essential for not just surviving but thriving in a white world, and that's what we see with Ed -

he's Blackbeard the charismatic celebrity pirate when he first meets the crew because he's putting on the job. he's Jeff the Accountant when he's trying out finer things and high society. he's Blackie with Calico Jack, his oldest living tie to the past, a man who went through hell with him in their youth and a man who clearly thrives on high adrenaline high aggression masculinity. at the end of season 1, he's the Kraken for Izzy, pouring on the danger to keep a known liability at bay (Izzy has betrayed him twice, now. Izzy is a liability) and this isn't a sign of fractured identity, this is a sign of a man who has never been able to show all of himself to anyone and be accepted, and a man who knows he must be in community with others to survive.

no pirate stands alone. you're in a crew, you're a captain, you're a first mate, you're something to someone at all times. Ed can't be on his own if he wants to survive as a pirate, which is all he knows, but he also can't find peace as a pirate, because he isn't known. its not that he doesn't know who he is. he's all of these identities.

it's that it isn't until he meets Stede that he finds a place where he can show all of himself. That's why they bond so closely - they're able to connect because they have common interests. Because Stede isn't scared of Ed, and when he learns more about him he's curious, he asks questions, he shares. Ed is able to relax and share more of himself, to the point that when he panics, he shares too much. He gets nervous. That's why he wants to leave in episode 7 - he has shown too much and they haven't talked about and Ed hasn't been that vulnerable with anyone in a long time.

But then Lucius helps him see that Stede likes him, that Stede is doing this whole outing for him, that everything is good, and he's settled again. And then in episode 8, he's nervous again, because he codeswitched to hang out with Calico Jack, to enjoy some of the old bygone times, and without the context of the conversation Stede and Calico Jack had and the context of Stede's background, he's left to assume that Stede has seen that Ed isn't classy and doesn't like him anymore. So he backs off.

But he comes back, and knowing himself and what he wants is why Ed can walk away from his whole life to be with Stede. Because he knows himself and what he wants. He starts the season knowing himself and what he wants and how he feels - Ed's arc in the first season is not about finding himself but about opening up, settling into his skin, and understanding where he wants to go next. Stede's arc is coming to terms with what he's done, and then finally gaining base knowledge of himself. Stede and Ed are on totally different levels throughout the season, because Ed knows who he is. He just doesn't know how to navigate to where and who he wants to be next.

So all of this said? At the end of the finale, Ed loses sight of who he is. He regresses and falls back because it's easier to be feared than laughed at, and because Stede has broken his heart and Izzy has made it clear that no one will ever stand by all of him, so he might as well be the self that still has people.

But Stede didn't reject Ed. Stede ran for his own reasons. Which means when he comes back to Ed, when he fights his way back to Ed, he's not going to be all, oh darling I can help you sort out your identity. He'll be like oh my fearsome darling, you really are beautiful as he looks at Ed's frankly terrifying visage (or exhausted visage, who knows how long it will have been since this man took a nap) and he's going to be fully accepting of who Ed is. Because Stede knows and loves Ed for who he is. He's seen him violent. He's seen him aggressive. He's seen him vulnerable, soft, sweet, sorrowful, overjoyed. He knows Ed.

When Stede comes, he won't be fixing Ed. It's not Stede's place to fix Ed. It's Stede's job to walk beside Ed, and be at his side, (and apologize) and navigate with him the pitfalls and ups for their relationship, and continue to be the first person that Ed Teach could ever be all of himself with.

#blackbonnet #ofmd #stede bonnet #edward teach #our flag means death #i might have lost the thread there in the end but look look look its about the recognition of the self in the other #its about loving in others what you cannot love in yourself and thus learning to love yourself #its about KNOWING who you are #but finding space to be #ofmd meta

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everyscreentoobeseen · 6 months

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From Blackbeard, to Kraken To Shark.

Even without the fictionalized of what really happened to his leg, I think the fact that Izzy calls Ed, A Shark and not a Kraken is a good look into what he sees Ed as now.

In Season 1, Izzy couldn't handle the idea that Blackbeard wasn't who Edward was anymore. Blackbeard was The Greatest Pirate Who Ever Lived and Izzy was The First Mate of said Pirate. He was more of an idol to worship and based your life around than a person.

Then he pushes Ed away from.... well being Ed. He threatens he demeans, he gets what he wants.

"Blackbeard's Back" he says.... but it's not Blackbeard who came out the other side of letting go of the Red Silk. It's The Kraken.

Blackbeard never told Izzy about his father's murder. He only told Stede. "Im the Kracken." A monster who sinks ships and destroys lives not because it needs food, or is being attacked by humans. But because you wandered into it's path.

So The Kraken keeps cutting off Izzy's toes. Keeps pillaging and pushing loot off the ship. Never returning to land because it's a SEA Monster. It cant survive on land. So Izzy soon realizes that this Blackbeard is not the one he wanted. Blackbeard was human. The Kraken is not.

It all comes to a head when he brings up the memory of Stede Bonnet. He was trying to bring Ed back but all it did was agitate The Kracken.

The dissonance between Ed/Blackbeard and the Kracken is illustrated furthur when The Kracken points a gun to each of his crew members. The last person who gets questioned is Blackbeard.

Which of course is the last straw for Izzy pretending that everything is fine. He says his piece and gets shot for it.

Then of course his leg gets cut off and Ed finds him tries to get killed by him (izzy). Which he refuses, because even after everything Edward put him through he would never kill the man he's been with for decades.

He'll shot him to stop him from killing the entire crew. He'll let Jim smash a cannonball on his head. He'll let Fang beat him to a pulp. But he will stop them from just throwing his body in to the ocean. Placing it in one of the secret corridors.

Then Stede comes back. After Ed has already died. Im sure that some part of him told himself. If he just held on for a few more days. If he knew Stede was out there trying to come back. Maybe then Ed could've been saved. But it's too late. He killed the monster and now he has to live with it.

Except Ed's not dead.

Now everything is wrong. Ed is banished because "A rotten leg has to come off." Izzy spends an entire day drinking and trying to figure out what to do now that Blackbeard and Ed are gone. "What even are you?"

But he finds that just cause Blackbeard is gone, doesn't mean Blackbeard's crew is. They will be there for him even if he isn't Blackbeard's First Mate. But instead he can be The New Unicorn. He doesn't have to base his life around 'Whatever Edward is Doing' anymore.

So what does he say happened to his leg? After everything that happened?

A shark took it.

Sharks has a very bad reputation for being mindless killing machine. A sea creature that eats humans. Very much like a Kraken.

Except Sharks dont eat humans. They dont mean to at least. They eat seals. And it's only beacuse modern day humans made surfboards that from a sharks point of veiw looks like a seal when humans lay on it. They are still dangerous, but frankly they are most misunderstood animals.

Izzy has been misunderstanding Ed for years hasn't he? He thought Blackbeard was the truest version of Ed but he was wrong. He has no way of knowing that The Blackbeard he sailed with after 'We Gull Way Back' is actually The Kraken. So what is Ed to Izzy now?

Ed is a shark, who never wanted to eat (kill) Izzy but the man was 'dangling his legs' right in front of him. So he took a bite, spit him out and left him to die.

A dangerous animal that needs to be respected and understood better so that no one has to be hurt by him again. A very fitting arc for a man who for so long refused to see Ed as anything but Blackbeard.

#ofmd #blackbeard #edward teach #our flag means death #stede bonnet #ofmd izzy #izzy hands #ofmd meta #ofmd speculation #ofmd spoilers #ofmd s2 #the kraken #shark #ed teach

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avastyetwats · 6 months

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I've Got You

@izzyeffinhands

Gone again.

Stede lets out a quiet sigh upon finding an empty bed inside of Izzy's quarters, but the Captain isn't surprised. Israel Hands was not the type to stay in bed even when ordered. Even when it was what he needed after having been shot. The first several days that followed he had no choice but to stay in bed, but now that he was able to move about, he made sure to move. Far too much than he was allowed to and should, Stede thought with another sigh before he turned and exited the room, determined to find his First Mate and make sure he was alright.

Because with his injury, overdoing it was still a high possibility. Exhausting himself to the point of collapsing, causing the wound to come open with enough strenuous activity (though it was healing beautifully, thankfully), and causing himself so much pain he couldn't even make it back to bed. All of those possibilities filled Stede's mind and filled his gut with dread and fear. He'd almost lost the man he came to respect and care for and he didn't want to go through that again.

More importantly, he didn't want Izzy to go through that again.

The crew had done an incredible job taking care of him and though Stede was captain, he was often found helping take care of Izzy in whatever way he could. Checking in on him, helping to change his bandages, even annoying the man with a story or two while he sat in bed, but there was one night where Izzy admitted to enjoying Stede's company and that made him feel good...happy, really. Very happy.

Because he enjoyed Izzy's company just as much. He found himself wanting to be around him more, wanting to be close, in the same way he once wanted to be near Ed... especially seeing a softer, kinder side of Izzy.

Perhaps a part of it was also because he had saved Stede's life. The gun had been aimed for him, but Izzy took the hit. He got injured because of Stede... could have died because of him, or so he felt and so Stede wanted to do everything he could to help him in return.

But having nearly lost Izzy...

Stede has to take in a deep breath to stop himself from becoming emotional about it again. He's alive. He's here. He's okay. That's what matters.

Along with finding him and convincing him to rest and Stede had just the thing in mind for him. He'd be taking care of Izzy tonight, had it all planned out and everything.

Thankfully it hadn't taken the Captain long to find him. In fact, it was the first place Stede looked - at the front of the ship with the still headless unicorn statue. It seemed to be one of Izzy's favorite spots, Stede came to notice. Their current unicorn with the ship's former.

"Ah, here you are!" Stede exclaims, announcing his presence so he doesn't startle the other. "Had feeling you'd be out here when I went to your room and, surprise, found it empty." His words sound like a scold, and in a way they are, but there's also a bit of playful sass to them. "I know you don't want to hear this, Izzy, but you really should come in and rest. You've been moving around since this morning and I think it's time to come tuck it in. Come with me, hm?"

There's concern in his voice, and in his eyes, as he looks over the man perched on the side. Stede's eyes look him down and up as though making sure he's well and tonight, well... he just really wants to take care of him. Because Stede knows this hasn't been just physically tough on Izzy, but emotionally and mentally as well.

#and here we are!#he's starting off polite but he's gonna get all captain-y next reply hehe #he cares so much and just wants Izzy to be okay #c; stede bonnet #izzyeffinhands #v; family

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amuseoffyre · 3 months

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I got thinking today, while stuck on public transport, about the exchange at the academy:

Stede: You can't be Blackbeard without your... black beard. Ed: Come on, mate, that's all over. It was over years ago. My beard hasn't been black since I was young.

On the surface, Ed is being very literal about it, but as is often the case with him, there's a layer of subtext that goes completely over Stede's head, despite what he knows about Ed and his wish to leave piracy behind.

The subtext here is that he's wanted to stop being Blackbeard for years, ever since he was young, when he first adopted the monicker and persona.

We know that he wasn't Blackbeard when he was on Hornigold's ship. Hornighost in the Gravy Basket calls him Eddie (plus people like Anne, Mary and Izzy - people he knows well). This led me down a mental rabbithole of the information we're given in the gravy basket:

Ed takes Hornigold's presence on a deserted island at face value

"don't you want to know how I ended up here" "mutiny - it's always mutiny"

"last time I saw you, you said you were going to flay my skin off and feed it to me"

Ed's behaviour sliding back into an almost childish petulance, demanding that this pseudo-parent-figure acknowledges what he's done and provides approval

My working theory is that Hornigold's crew mutinied on him when Ed was still in his teens, maybe early 20s. They abandoned him on a deserted island "to let nature do the rest", which is why Ed isn't surprised to a) see him there, b) find him living off the stuff around him and c) dressed in scraps that he may have found from a wreck.

So this is when Ed stops being Eddie (except for occasional people who have known him since his youth) but before he becomes Blackbeard. I'm betting on this still happening when he was young, because Jack refers to him as Blackie and the frat-boy energy they both share suggests that this was what it was like in their post-Hornigold days. (Also supported by Yardies and Whippies - Jack tossing -ie on the end of words to yell it)

For the first time, they're the ones making the rules, doing what they want, ruling the roost. Ed holds onto this new name the same way he holds onto his weapons. There's implicit suggestion that he also tries to shield his real name by using Blackbeard instead, hammering home that this is the name that must be used - "Ed. The Blackie I knew woulda snapped your neck for calling him that" - "his name is Blackbeard or Captain, dog!"

And for a long while it's useful - it's a good, strong name. It becomes legendary as he fights for his survival and keeps staying alive, and is smart and cunning and skillful enough to rapidly rise up the unofficial ranks of the pirates of the Republic.

Only Ed gets left behind, trapped behind the beard and the name that goes with it. He has to maintain the status quo, keep doing what pirates do, and stay alive. Because, after all, the only way out that he knows of is death.

It hasn't been black since he was young. He hasn't really been Blackbeard since he was young.

#ofmd #ofmd meta #ofmd thinkie thoughts #blackbeard #ed teach

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xxbranch-dressingxx · 6 months

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Okay so thinking of how when Izzy brought it to Ed's attention that the crew was "worst for wear," bc the crew was traumatised, poorly fed, and likely looking at mutiny, (and how ed's immediate response was "Well didn't they get cake? cake is fun. They can even have drugs" as if any amount of "fun" stuff would change how ed's behavior was effecting the crew) What Ed says is "if you can't do the job, someone else will" and Izzy knows Blackbeard could have anyone as his first mate, he could walk up to anyone at the republic of pirates and tell them they were his first mate and they'd take the job in a second and do exactly what they've been told, hell he could find someone who would readily agree not to feed the crew or to beat them.

He knows Izzy's crew is important to him, he's the only one who cared when they lost men against the Spanish, he's the one saying the crew isn't looking good, so i wonder if Ed has regularly threatened to replace Izzy when they had disagreements.

What if any time Ed and Izzy fought he'd demote him temporarily and replace him with any old member of the crew who did something he liked (in this case, it was Frenchie because he seemed the most unbothered)

All this to say: what if Black Pete WAS Ed's first mate for a VERY short amount of time after Izzy and Ed had a rift?

Pete is too genuine abt the "i wonder if he remembers me" bit and not like the crew has asked but I think if Pete WASNT on Ed's crew before it would have been revealed right now, but if you rewatch season 1 Pete is the ONLY person Izzy, Ivan, and Fang bother pushing or punching casually while also kinda ignoring he exists as if he has some sort of grudge.

So what if during a raid Pete had Ed's back, and Ed was upset abt something Izzy said or did, so he goes "Wow Pete, you saved me, I'm gonna make YOU my first mate" Only for Pete to fail horribly at being first mate so Izzy had to "take care" of him by marooning him somewhere or leaving him behind at port to take his old job back and Pete is far too embarrassed abt whatever happened to even bring it up while Izzy has already walled that instance of ed being a petty bitch off in his mind palace so it just never bears discussion between the two of them.

#ofmd #izzy hands #our flag means death #ofmd blackbeard #Black Pete #fang ofmd #ivan ofmd

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izzyspussy · 6 months

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white collar crime au where stede bonnet's father is a retired white collar fbi agent who fell in love with and married the wealthy heiress whose stolen painting he once recovered, but they were ultimately incompatible due to their differing up-bringings and lifestyles and eventually got divorced and he got half of her assets and stede, who he resents for having the same born privilege as his ex-wife and that he himself is still obsessed with gatsby style

stede grows up learning all about criminals and in particular of course white collar and organized criminals, as per his father's area of expertise. he gets landmark and cold cases instead of bedtime stories, his father reliving his own glory days and the romanticized glory days of his heroes, who he fantasizes he could have become like if he hadn't let love and fatherhood ruin the more important things in life.

of course, stede is meant to also be glorifying the so-called good guys. but he resents his father right back, and resents his mother too for leaving him with the man, so he doesn't particularly feel for nor identify with the victims either. and so the only characters left to admire are the thieves.

as stede grows up, he obviously chooses not to follow in his father's footsteps, and yet still keeps abreast (as well as he can as a civilian, but his father's name does get him quite a bit of favor, especially when wielded in combination with his mother's wealth) with the most glamorous white collar cases. and he becomes obsessed with the devious blackbeard and his mysterious nameless partner in crime.

the legends say the duo can steal from anyone, forge anything, escape from anywhere. there are rumors that blackbeard himself is not quite fully human, harkening back to the most glamorous periods of crime of all - rockabilly bank robbers, wild west outlaws, golden age pirates. he can walk through walls, travel by shadow, shapeshift, put a curse on a troublesome lawman with merely a look. of course, all but the most superstitious fence or beat cop knows none of that is true, including stede, but isn't it a romantic tale to tell anyway?

eventually, stede finds himself falling into his father's steps. he resents his wife, his children, his lack of career. and he can't bear to become any more like him, and he convinces himself it's for the best for mary and the kids too - after all his dad was hellish to live with, worse to be raised by, so it's a blessing if stede abandons them before he can treat them badly, right? so, equipped with enormous wealth and more connections to the underbelly of society than a law abiding citizen should reasonably have, stede manages to run away as a nearly fifty year old man in the modern world.

and, well, he's already doing that so he might as well get into a little crime too. so he starts trying to live out his romanticized fantasies of robbery. he tries to be - drum roll please - a gentleman thief.

in the process, he crosses meets blackbeard, whose real name is ed teach, and his partner izzy hands. (in this version, izzy's derogatory nickname is "sticky hands" instead of "dizzy izzy" because unfortunately the white collar crime world is actually very nearly as stuffy and classist as the world they steal from, and while the two of them have handily obscured edward's background such that he seems to have sprung fully grown from the head of a stolen diamond or whatever, they've not done that for izzy and as such having grown up poor he is branded as a petty thief, no better than a shoplifter, despite the fact he can and does rob circles around the rest, even now at two or even three times their ages.)

ed tells stede, "you know, the whole gentleman thief thing, that's just in tv shows, mate." and stede tells ed, "until now!" and well... being a regular art thief was fun when it was a challenge, when there was still anyone bothering to try to catch them (the newest classes out of quantico don't even believe they're real, just a moniker all the unsolvable cases get thrown under). back when ed was taking all the low expectations society had of him and turning them into something high out of reach of anyone else. it's boring now, he's done it all, and it never satisfied him. never made him feel any better.

but maybe the gentleman thing could freshen it all up again, make it interesting. add a new challenge. wear suits and be charming and don't hurt anyone. maybe even pull some type of robin hood shit...

that could be fun.

#jack facts #ofmd #blackhannet #stede bonnet #ed teach #izzy hands #hc

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soupbitch-moneybitch · 6 months

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i am genuinely impressed by what the show has done with izzy this season

i was never like, a Discourse(tm) izzy hater, but i didn't like him bc he was a narc and a weasel, and yet they've managed to make him delightful to watch, and i think it's because they haven't actually given him a traditional redemption arc

a traditional redemption arc, imo, is where a character apologizes and does something narratively that is good enough to counteract their past behavior

izzy has 1. not apologized for jack shit, and 2. has not really done anything all that significant to make up for what he's done

but he's not the antagonist anymore. he's just A Dude whose role is no longer to instigate conflict. the writers haven't taken away or dismissed the harm izzy caused (which is good bc a lot of his behavior had racial and homophobic undertones and it would be an issue to sweep that under the rug), but what they /have/ done is given him depth

izzy was caught up in his idolization of ed/stuck on some toxic masculinity bullshit, AND he has admitted to himself and aloud that this has caused harm to the person he loves and the others around him. this does not eradicate that the past existed

izzy hated (hates?) stede because he was a fruity little guy making his boss/love interest go soft, AND he's learned that maybe that's okay because ed needs that balance, and that maybe the two of them don't need to be enemies. this doesn't mean he and stede are going to be besties; their relationship makes sense for where they're at narratively

izzy sold stede and ed out to the english because he didn't like what ed had become, AND he has learned that he can't own ed (literally or figuratively) and have everything be roses; ed is more nuanced than izzy originally wanted to believe. this doesn't mean that the crew isn't still healing from the results of having to surrender to the english

izzy attached his identity to being blackbeard's first mate, AND he's beginning to find out who he is without him (imagine season one izzy's reaction to seeing a crew member in drag, let alone dressing up himself). this doesn't mean he's suddenly got all his toxic codependency out of his system (he still loves ed, and is in the beginning stages of detaching himself from that web)

izzy was a piece of shit to the crew, AND the crew has grown to appreciate his presence and want him around. their forgiveness doesn't mean they don't think he's still a dick, he's just "their dick"

idk, if they had done a traditional redemption arc i probably would have just continued to dislike him, but because they are fucking masterful at making the characters feel like actual, well-rounded, nuanced people, i'm able to not only accept izzy, but enjoy his scenes

as always, i'm just deeply impressed at how djenkins and the writers and actors etc always manage to subvert expectations. nothing about this show is traditional, and that's what makes it precious because -insert "sometimes things that are expensive traditional are worse" meme-

anyway, i like izzy now, the end

#i won't put this in the izzy tag just bc some of it is neg #but for the record i don't hate your fave #i just think he's morally grey #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #diz says words

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run-me-through-but-not-like-that · 1 year

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Shore Leave and Secret Dates

Summary: The crew want you to join them on shore leave but they have to find you first. They didn't expect to catch you with Izzy Hands, acting like lovers.

The crew was excited to be granted shore leave and even more excited to get to the closet pub. Once all the resupplies were brought onto the ship, the crew were dismissed, Buttons volunteering to stay aboard to keep watch. He didn't like leaving the ship much anyway.

It was more surprising that Izzy had actually slipped away from the Revenge the first chance he could, he was usually somewhat resistant to taking shore leave, not trusting the others to not sink the ship while he was gone.

The crew disembarked the ship, gathering at the end of the port, chatting between themselves.

"Wait, hold on, this isn't all of us," Frenchie called everyone to a stop before they could go any farther.

Everyone paused and looked around, realising that there was indeed somebody missing. "Where's Y/n?" Fang asked.

"Actually, I haven't seen them for a while," Lucius hummed.

"I think I saw them leave earlier," Roach shrugged, not seeing the big deal. You were an adult, you clearly had somewhere you wanted to go.

"Oh, they said they had some plans for their shore leave this morning," Lucius recalled.

"Should we find them, let them know where we're going to drink in case they want to catch up later?" Black Pete asked.

"Good idea!" The Swede grinned.

"Alright, here's the plan..."

Sure, they really didn't care where Izzy had gone off too but they wanted to track you down. Just to check you were alright and to invite you to join them for their night off of the ship. Surely whatever you had to tend too wouldn't take all night.

The crew split up into smaller search parties, agreed on a bar to meet back to at, and headed off through the town in search of you.

Lucius, with Pete and Fang by his side, slipped in and out of each pub they could find in case you had gone for a drink. They were having no luck until they came across some smoky little pub tucked away off of the wider streets.

The three of them entered, though they didn't feel like this was really your scene. They lingered near the doorway, looking around the room that was lit by countless candles. A part of them had expected to find you in a pub as it was shore leave but they didn't expect a place like this, and they definitely didn't expect you to be with their missing first mate.

And yet, there you where.

Izzy was sitting at a small table with three other men around his age, pirates or sailors of some sort at least by the look of them. Rugged and ship hardened.

Seeing Izzy Hands in the company of others was startling enough but not anywhere near as startling as finding you sat comfortably on his lap. You had an arm wrapped around his shoulders to see yourself close and a drink in your other hand, settled in your lap lazily.

Izzy had one of his arms wrapped around your waist to keep you steady where you sat, and his other hand wrapped around his tankard that sat on the table in front of him.

Izzy seemed...relaxed, like he was enjoying himself, something most of the crew didn't think he was capable of. He wasn't smiling as much as you were but the corner of his mouth would quirk up every now and again, no look of stress or worry on his face.

"That is Izzy, right? I'm not imagining things?" Black Pete asked without taking his gaze away from the table.

"No, that's definitely Dizzy," Lucius nodded, staring just as much.

"Since when were they...?" Pete waved his hand vaguely, unsure if 'dating' would be a suitable word.

"No idea, babe," Lucius shrugged slightly.

"Do you think it's been going on for a while or just happened today?" Fang asked, head tilting to the side curiously as he watched his boss flick a small smile up at you before turning back to speak with the men.

"They look pretty comfortable," Lucius commented, thinking back on interactions he had seen before, trying to reconceptualise them.

Now that he thought about it, you took it pretty easy on Izzy and he was always less prickly when it came to you. You always agreed when Izzy was being particularly difficult but never laughed at his expense, never found any enjoyment in the nicknames or teasing. Despite that, he couldn't pinpoint any particularly damning situations.

"And since when did Izzy have friends?" Pete questioned.

Lucius shrugged again, feeling a little lost. Looking closer, Pete appeared to be right. These men seemed to be some sort of friends of Izzy. He was speaking to them with an ease he never showed towards the crew, perhaps with Fang, Ivan, and Edward from time to time. Every now and again he would glance up at you, as if checking that you were alright. More interestingly, he seemed to be bringing you into the conversation naturally, as if the man actually possessed some actual social skills.

Occasionally the two of you would lean in to each other to share some private conversation when the chatting drifted off between the other men. That was the only time Izzy let out a proper smile, still small and reserved but honest and light all the same. He seemed like a completely different man.

"I recognise one of them, just some old pirate buddies. I don't know his name but I've seen him around before. Izzy probably used to sail with them or has just ran into them a lot, we all tend to visit the same ports after all," Fang explained, not seeming too surprised by the trio the two of you were sitting with. "So should we leave or...."

"I think we should get some drinks, seems like a nice place, right?" Pete looked to the two men, clearly just as curious as they were.

"Yeah, a drink. Sounds good," Fang agreed with a nod.

Lucius sighed, shaking his head fondly as he followed them to the bar. Pressing in between them both as they got their drinks.

Once handed their drinks, the trio, not very conspicuously, turned to watch you and Izzy once again. You played mindlessly with the hair on the back of his neck as you spoke with the unfamiliar men, chuckling at something one of them said, Izzy had rolled his eyes at whatever it was. They couldn't hear anything that was being said but did hear the boisterous laughter of one of the men.

Izzy brought his tankard up to his lips and tilted his head back, finishing his drink before whispering something in your ear. You smiled and nodded before knocking back the rest of your drink and standing from his lap.

The men complained with groans and protests but Izzy only rolled his eyes at them before saying his goodbyes. You waved a polite goodbye to the men, linking your arm through Izzy's before leaving the pub together.

"What is going on there?" Lucius asked against the rim of his cup, more to himself than anything,

"Don't think it's anything suspicious, right? I don't trust him," Black Pete's expression hardened slightly. Lucius couldn't help but feel a little fond at how protective Pete could be about his friends, even if he knew he would lose a fight against Izzy. It was just one of the many things that made him so lovable.

"Nah. Izzy is a hardass but he's not a complete bastard. It's nice, he's on a little date," Fang quickly came to his boss' defence, shrugging with a genuine lightness. He truly wasn't concerned, just thought it was cute.

"Hopefully it will calm him down a little," Lucius muttered, making the two other men laugh.

Frenchie and Wee John weaved their way through the side streets before circling back to the main street. They had partially forgotten what they were even doing in the first place and were just about to head back to find the rest of the crew. At least, that was the plan until they spotted what they had been looking for.

"Hey, there they are!" Frenchie grinned, pointing down the alley to the opening that spilt into the main street.

Wee John followed where Frenchie was pointing, seeing you at the opening of the alley. "...with Izzy?" he asked.

"Oh, huh, yeah...that's weird," Frenchie frowned slightly, the two of them coming to a halt. "Do you think they skipped a chore or something, Izzy is being a pain in the ass about it?" he asked, looking up at the larger man.

John seemed to ponder the possibility before shaking his head. "Uh, no. No, I don't think that," he placed a hand on Frenchie's head, gently swivelling it back to face the two of you.

The two of them watched as you said something they couldn't hear, but whatever it was had Izzy shaking his head at you while you laughed. Before Izzy could turn his back to you, threatening to leave you behind, you grabbed the front of his waistcoat and turned him back to you.

He didn't appear to protest in the slightest as you tugged him closer, giving him an apologetic little put. If they didn't know any better they would say you were giving him puppy dog eyes and it seemed to be winning him over.

You earned a small eye roll from the first mate and then a quick peck to the lips before Izzy wrapped an arm around you and marched you down the street, out of sight.

Feeling a little stuck in place, Frenchie and John looked at each other with wide eyes. "When did that happen?" John asked, his nose turning up slightly in distaste.

"I think we should talk to Buttons...maybe he knows something about a curse or something," Frenchie suggested, looking concerned. "What if Izzy is a mermaid? Or like...a siren?"

"I dunno, he doesn't give off mermaid or siren vibes," John wasn't sure what you were doing with Izzy Hands, but he didn't think he was some sort of sea creature.

"Maybe he's just good at hiding it," Frenchie nervously chewed on his lip.

"...we'll talk to Buttons, just to make sure," John agreed, beginning to share some of the other man's concerns.

Roach had recommended some little outside bar in this port and Jim had decided to take Oluwande there, thinking he would like it. It was a cute little hole in the wall kind of place that sold flavoured cocktails, not too busy and perfect for them to spend some uninterrupted time together.

The two of them sat at one of the tables outside with their fruity concoctions. "Roach was right about this place," Oluwande sipped from his drink, flicking the tiny umbrella with a small smile.

Jim couldn't help but smile a little to themselves, seeing that they had made a good choice. "Think he could make something like this?" they asked.

"I bet he could, and I bet Stede would get him what he needed," Oluwande nodded. Plus, Roach would probably like a new project, trying to perfect a new recipe.

"Stede would love these," Jim chuckled, eyeing their own tiny umbrella.

Oluwande laughed, agreeing wholeheartedly. He looked around, taking in the lit up street. It was late, the sun having set, so most of the market stalls had been closed, apart from a handful that sold wares that might catch the eye of patrons wandering about of an evening.

Glancing over to one stall, Oluwande paused and Jim instantly noticed. "Olu, you okay?" they asked, that familiar protectiveness slipping into their voice.

"How much alcohol is in these?" Oluwande turned back to them, taking another sip of his drink.

"I dunno. Saw them pour in a lot but I can barely taste it," Jim shrugged. It was honestly impressive how much rum they had poured into the glass, yet all they could taste was pineapple.

"Well, I think I'm seeing things," Oluwande frowned, turning back to whatever had caught his attention.

Jim chuckled and shook their head, "alright, I doubt that."

"Okay, so, do you see what I see?" he asked, nodding towards one of the stalls.

Jim raised an eyebrow but humoured him, turning to see what he was talking about, only to pause as well. Jim quickly focused in on you browsing a stall that was settling some random little trinkets.

That wasn't strange or a cause for any concern, but what was strange was your choice of companion. Izzy Hands was standing beside you, looking significantly less interested in the wares being sold.

Jim tensed a little when Izzy placed a hand on your shoulder, pulling you away from the stall and muttering something to you. At whatever he said, you just nodded and walked away from the stall.

Oluwande and Jim watched as you wandered up to the bar that they were drinking at, not seeming to notice them. They had chosen a more private table. You ordered a drink, something thick and orange coloured.

Jim glanced back at Izzy just in time to see him purchase something from the stall you had been browsing and slip it into his pocket. Then, the man followed after you.

"Iz, you have got to try this," you turned and held out the drink with a smile on your face when you saw him approaching.

"What is it?" Izzy asked, eyeing the glass you held.

"Mango something, it's the best thing I've ever tasted," you gushed, pushing it into his hands.

Izzy took the glass but lifted it to his nose. It certainly smelt of mango. "Iz, you're too paranoid. Just try it," you tutted fondly, tapping the bottom of the glass in encouragement.

Not needing anymore convincing, Izzy took a sip. He seemed to ponder the flavour before taking another, longer, sip.

"See, it's good!" You turned back to the bar and ordered a second drink so you could have one each.

Once you had your new drink in hand, Izzy guided you over to one of the free tables and you both took your seats.

"...that's not a date, right?" Oluwande asked, turning back to Jim.

"Looks like a date," Jim nodded, "don't know why they'd go on a date with him though."

That seemed to make Oluwande consider something for a moment. "You think there's something more going on there?" he asked but Jim just shrugged, not sure what he was trying to get at. So, he clarified. "...you don't think he's like...forcing them or holding something over their head, do you?"

"I don't know, surely they know they could come to one of us if that was the case," Jim hummed lowly before their expression darkened. "But if he is, I'll fucking kill him," they promised.

Oluwande didn't consider himself the paranoid type, but you randomly being caught on a date with Izzy Hands of all people was...odd. "Should we...follow them?" he asked. Jim was more protective than himself, more likely to jump to the worst case conclusion, so he would appreciate their opinion.

Jim watched you both for a moment. You didn't look in anyway uncomfortable, your smile easy and eyes shining. "No, they seem to be enjoying themselves. We'll just talk to them when we get back to the ship. Probably nothing to worry about," they assured him.

Oluwande nodded his agreement with a relieved smile before the two of them went back to their own date.

"Alright, we'll do a lap around town and head back to the meeting spot. That way we can say that we looked and still get a table for the crew before it gets too busy," Roach decided. Sure, he'd like you to join them on their shore leave as much as the others but he didn't see the point in interrupting your plans. If you had wandered off on your own, you likely had a reason to.

"Why are we looking for them anyway?" Ivan asked, following behind Roach and The Swede. He hadn't argued with the plan to search for you but he didn't really understand it.

"They just disappeared, crew just wants to make sure they're alright and invite them for drinks," Roach shrugged slightly.

"Yeah, don't want them missing out!" the Swede added.

Ivan frowned a little. "You know they're just going to be with Izzy, right?" he asked.

In front of him, the two men came to a stop and turned to him. "Uh, no...why would they be with Izzy?" Roach questioned.

"Because they're together?" Ivan spoke slowly, beginning to feel like he was the one missing something.

"Right, hold on. What?" Roach shook his head, feeling the need to catch up.

"Together, like...romantically?" the Swede frowned slightly. He knew he misunderstood things sometimes, surely he was misunderstanding what Ivan was saying now.

"Yeah, I think anyway. Don't know the details, the boss isn't exactly talkative about that kind of thing, but there's something going on between them," Ivan nodded, realising that the others just weren't aware of the budding relationship.

"How do you know that?" Roach asked sceptically.

"They always take night watch together, I'm normally scheduled for the shift after them," Ivan shrugged.

"And you never said anything?" the Swede near pouted.

"No, didn't think it was important or a secret really. None of my business anyway." Ivan wasn't really in the habit of gossiping about his boss' love life, even if that was more normal on the Revenge as opposed to the Queen Anne.

"Right, well fuck this. I'm going to get a drink, not interested in crashing a date," Roach huffed at the waste of time.

Ivan just shrugged his agreement and Roach grabbed the Swede by the arm, dragging him along with them before he could protest.

Making their way back to the pub that the crew had deemed their meeting point, the trio wandered past a smoky little establishment. "This is usually where Izzy goes for a drink at this port if you want to check in," Ivan informed them.

"Wouldn't hurt," the Swede shrugged.

"Fine, fucking hell," Roach groaned, still unhappy about the useless chore.

Though, before they could go inside, Lucius came walking out with Pete and Fang. "We found them!" Lucius announced with a grin.

"Was Izzy with them?" Roach asked. Alright, maybe he was just a little curious about the whole thing.

"Yeah-wait, how did you know that?" Lucius' smile fell slightly. Roach pointed to Ivan, who just shrugged at the quizzical look he received.

"There you go, they're in there, can we go drink now?" Roach asked impatiently.

"Well, they were in there. The two of them left, we just stayed to finish our drinks," Black Pete corrected.

"But job done, let's head back to regroup with the others," Fang smiled, placing his hand on Lucius' shoulder.

Everyone agreed and began to make their way to the agreed upon pub.

Lucius couldn't help but pout a little to himself as he silently vowed to get as much information out of Ivan as possible. It wasn't fair that Ivan knew and he didn't!

It would be fair to say that when the crew finally regrouped, there was a lot to talk about. Plenty of theories being made about you and Izzy, even some accusations of mermaids and sirens being made.

"Won't the crew be looking for you if you don't show up at some point tonight?" Izzy asked, worried that he may have been monopolising your time for too long. Though, he couldn't bring himself to care too much. They got to have you all of the time, surely he could be allowed to spend this time with you tonight.

"Nah, I told them that I have plans. They'll know I'm okay," you assured him. "And you're sure you don't need to get back to the ship?" you asked, squeezing his arm lightly, almost teasingly.

"The captains will surely be keeping themselves busy, I'm sure they won't even notice my absence," Izzy shrugged. Plus, Buttons wouldn't sink the ship, he was one of the few competent members of the crew.

"All the better for me then," you teased, managing to catch him in a quick kiss.

"Fucking hell," Izzy rolled his eyes fondly, his words more bemused than biting. "C'mon, I've arranged accommodation for us. It's a little further inland," he prompted once he got the confirmation that you wouldn't need to check in with the crew, or didn't want to check in with the crew he supposed.

"Sounds unlike you," you hummed, squinting slightly with faux suspicion. Izzy usually avoided going too far inland, he liked to stay close to the water, got antsy if he spent too much time off of a ship. "Why inland?" you asked.

"I have the coin for it, thought we might get somewhere we can actually get a warm bath," Izzy explained, blushing slightly, he always seemed to be somewhat embarrassed when he was being sweet.

Despite the reasons you gave, you had a feeling it also had something to do with putting some distance between the two of you and the rest of the crew. It wouldn't really be a break for him if he had to deal with them and, while you loved the crew like they were your only family, you understood.

"Hmm, that does sound nice," you smiled, leaning into his side as he led he way.

It was the next day, around noon and before the curfew that the captains had set for the crew's shore leave, when you got back to the ship. You walked up onto the ship to see most of the crew on the deck, having probably returned the previous night to sleep rather than spending coin on rooms.

As soon as he saw you board the ship, Lucius was smiling in that conspiratorial way he does and approaching you. "Where were you all night?" he asked accusingly.

"I told you I had plans," you reminded him with a small laugh, wondering what wild ideas he might have come up with about how you spent your shore leave.

"Anything interesting?" there was something knowing about the way Lucius questioned you but you were pretty sure he was just digging for any possible dirty details.

"Nope. Just got a nice room at an inn. Had a drink, ordered myself a nice bath, and slept in a soft bed. The perfect shore leave," you told him. He had to give you some credit, you sounded believable.

"Right," Lucius nodded. He was clearly suspicious of something but before he could interrogate you further or just spit out what he really wanted to say, Izzy was walking up onto the ship.

"What the are you all doing just sitting around?" Izzy questioned, scanning the deck. Those who were above deck were lounging about without a care in the world, instead of readying the ship to set sail.

"We technically have an hour left before shore leave is other, so we don't have to do anything until then," Lucius huffed, arms crossing over his chest.

Izzy muttered something under his breath, knowing he wouldn't take sense into them and not wanting to sour his mood too much so soon. Ignoring the crew, he headed towards the captains' cabin to make his report and to be given their new course.

Lucius, though, just couldn't leave him be. He just couldn't help himself. "How was your date, Iggy?" he asked, loud enough for the whole deck to hear.

Izzy froze halfway towards the captains' cabin and you felt yourself tensing as well. You stayed quiet, watching Lucius' face in an attempt to tell if he actually knew something or if he was just playing with Izzy.

"What the fuck are you talking about, Spriggs?" Izzy asked lowly, turning back to the scribe.

"Who were all your buddies? Didn't think you could even have friends," Lucius smirked, letting Izzy know what he saw. He hadn't completely planned on bugging the first mate so much, not so soon anyway, he had actually planned on talking to you first. But Izzy had come back all hostile and annoying so he just couldn't help himself. He loved getting under Izzy's skin, it was so easy.

"Alright, Lucius, that's enough," you sighed. Obviously Lucius had seen the two of you out last night, and now you just had to do some damage control.

"You alright, amigo?" Jim asked, moving closer to where you and Lucius stood, something dark in their voice.

"Uh, yeah, why?" you looked to them with a small frown, confused as to were the sudden concern came from.

Jim shrugged, just glaring at Izzy as they twirled their knife between their fingers. The threat clear.

"What the fuck are you implying?" Izzy's defences had risen properly now as he marched over to the three of you.

"I'm sure they're not implying anything," you quickly insisted before turning back to Jim, "I promise, I'm okay. You have nothing to worry about."

Jim nodded, taking your word for it, but still sent Izzy one last warning glare. At least you knew that you had friends you could rely on.

"No curses or anything?" Frenchie asked, not coming as close as Lucius or Jim.

"What?" you frowned in honest confusion at the question. Still, you made sure to reassure him, "uh, no, Frenchie. No curses to worry about." While you were confused by Frenchie's question, Izzy just bristled more.

Thankfully, before anything could escalate any further, the captains emerged from their cabin and wandered over.

"Everything alright over here?" Edward asked, sensing the tension as he looked between everyone.

"Has there been a disagreement, perhaps something we should all discuss?" Stede looked warily towards Izzy (always assuming he was the problem, which wasn't completely unfair but still).

"No captains, no problems," you tried to diffuse the situation, this really wasn't how you planned on everyone finding out and it didn't seem to be going well.

"Everything's fine, we're just talking about Izzy's little date," Lucius informed them with a smirk.

"A date?" Stede asked, eyes widening slightly, eyebrows nearly reaching up to his hairline. Izzy might have been offended if he wasn't already so irritated.

"Didn't tell me about that, mate," Edward turned all his attention to Izzy with a smile, seemingly happy for his friend.

"Well, that's...that's good, right?" Stede didn't sound so sure, still lingering in his surprise.

"Fucking hell," Izzy muttered to himself, dragging a hand over his face. He wished they were out on open water so he could fling himself over the railing.

"Who did you go on a date with?" Edward asked before pausing, as if realising something. "Wait, hold on...you actually made a move?" he grinned proudly down at Izzy before looking over at you.

"Edward," Izzy pleaded to no avail.

"Fucking hell, mate. I'm proud of you!" Edward clasped a hand over his shoulder, giving Izzy a little shake. "Told you they'd go for it."

"Edward, just leave it," Izzy could feel how hot his face was getting now as wished the floor would swallow him up.

"Too late for that," Edward laughed, arm slipping around Izzy's shoulders.

"Alright, well...now you all know, so..." you shifted awkwardly, wondering if they would actually just drop the topic.

"So, we have many questions," Lucius protested. Of course they wouldn't drop it.

"He's right, we do," Black Pete agreed, nodding vigorously.

"It's none of your business," Izzy snapped.

"Izzy is right, their relationship is nobody else's business," for a moment Izzy thought that Edward might actually be helping him out but, "except mine, and he is going to tell me everything."

"I am not," Izzy glared up at his captain.

"You will. That's an order," Edward said it jokingly but everyone could tell that he meant it.

Izzy somehow managed to blush more and you couldn't help but chuckle to yourself. You knew it was only a matter of time before the two of you went public with your relationship. You had just been waiting, knowing that the crew would want to involve themselves as soon as they found out.

They were proving you both right.

"Alright, I'm done. Do your jobs or don't, I don't fucking care," Izzy muttered, violently shrugging off Edward's arm and stomping down to his cabin.

With Izzy no longer there, everyone turned their attention to you. "I don't want to hear a word," you warned them before they could hound you.

"I'm sure the crew is just...concerned and curious," Stede reasoned.

"Concerned?" Edward frowned, looking to his co-captain. "What would they be concerned about? It's just Iz."

"Edward's right, there's nothing to be worried about. Izzy and I have been...seeing each other for a little while now, we've just been keeping it to ourselves," you assured them all.

"Why?" Lucius almost sounded offended. You didn't even need to give a real answer, only look at him for him to understand. "Ah, right, yeah...I guess I can see why you wouldn't tell anyone," he blushed.

"Okay, but I have a question," Black Pete couldn't help himself. "Why? Like, why Izzy?" he asked. At least Edward seemed as annoyed by the question as you did.

"Because I like him, and the rest is none of your business," you huffed, "no more questions."

"Something should probably go check on him," Edward spoke up, happy to help you put an end to the questioning.

"I'll go," you responded without hesitation. Edward smiled at you for that, seeing how you cared for his closest friend.

Once you disappeared down into the ship, Edward readied himself to lecture the crew for their nosiness, ad if he wouldn't be asking for every little detail from Izzy as soon as he got the chance.

You let yourself into Izzy's cabin without knocking. He was sitting at his desk, elbows propped up as he massaged his temples.

"Hey," you quietly told him it was you, closing the door behind you.

"They thought-" Izzy began but you didn't let him finish, neither of you needed to give any of those thoughts any credibility.

"I know," you walked up to him, running your fingers through his hair and kissing his forehead. "But they're wrong, and I'll tell them that over and over again. They just haven't seen the sides of you that I have, Edwards has though and he's supportive," you reminded him.

"Wish we could have had a little longer without them knowing," Izzy sighed, sounding more tired than anything now.

"They'd have to find out at some point, it's difficult to keep secrets on a ship. They're surprised but they'll get over it, they'll come around and see what I see," you promised, you would make sure of it.

"You still won't be getting any favouritism," Izzy mumbled half-heartedly as he pulled you down into his lap.

"I know," you laughed, moving easily until you were pressed up against his chest comfortably. "Just don't put me on barnacle duty," you pleaded playfully.

"Alright, maybe just a little bit of favouritism," Izzy conceded, making you smile before giving him a short kiss.

"It's going to be okay," you assured him, looking on the bright side, "at least we don't have to sneak around anymore." Izzy allowed his muscles to relax as he rested his forehead against your shoulder. "Ed is going to want to talk to you, do you want me to be there?" you asked.

"No, he's going to be a pain in the ass, I'll handle it. Unless Bonnet is there, then I'll need you to stop me from stabbing him," Izzy decided, making you laugh again.

"I'll be there if you need me," you promised, burying your hand in his hair as he nuzzled against your neck.

You didn't seem to think this would end badly, Izzy decided to trust you.

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sixstepsaway · 2 years

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so i've touched on this briefly in a few of my izzy hands metas, but i want to talk for a moment about how stede (and the show in general, actually, along with a couple of things that speak volumes about izzy) appears from izzy's point of view, without the benefit of the audience's perceptions and ability to see stede when izzy can't

His first impression of Stede is that Stede took two English hostages, and his second is that Stede ran his ship aground. So right off the bat we have "potentially dangerous" and "stupid" rolled into one.

When we first meet him, Izzy speaks to buttons on the beach. Buttons is, in that moment, completely vulnerable. He has no weapon, no company, all he has is a little whittling knife and the carrot he's whittling. Izzy asks where the rest of the crew are, and leaves him alone rather than taking the opportunity to either take him hostage or kill him.

We don't see a lot of Izzy after that until Stede sees him in the jungle, but between these two points Izzy visits the native village (that took Stede and Pete hostage for being lightskins who would be a threat to them), strikes a deal with the natives and buys the hostages.

There's a couple of things to gather from this: the first is that Izzy was not taken hostage by the natives. He's a white man who looks like a pirate and has two flunkies of color, but the natives leave him alone. This, to me, says that Izzy has either been here before or his reputation precedes him even here: he might be a pirate and a bit of a shithead, but he's not a threat to the natives. He isn't going to kill them without a good reason (self-defense for example), nor is he going to colonize them. Instead, he comes in, makes a fair deal and buys the English hostages from the natives and then leaves with them. This says volumes to me. If he was going to be put on trial like Stede, his trial would have overlapped Stede's or happened around when Stede was getting psychotherapy from the natives, so it didn't happen. He was treated with at least a small amount of trust.

He then meets Stede out in the wood and Stede steals his fairly purchased hostages from him. This makes me laugh every time I think about it. Stede is like, "Omg! Izzy STOLE OUR HOSTAGES! We must get them back immediately from that scoundrel!" But, no, Izzy bought them fair and square from the natives who stole them 😂 this makes me unironically laugh far too hard actually.

Stede pretends they're surrounded, pretends the jungle is haunted (Stede, honey, why that?) and then bests Izzy with what looks like a letter opener.

At this point, Izzy must (fairly) be thinking: what the fuck is going on here? Because he was bested by the stupid pirate, which he supposes is probably how he got the hostages to begin with? (Which; yes).

So he goes back to Edward, who he expects to be like, "Holy shit, Izzy, someone dishonored you in fair combat? Let's go wreck them RIGHT NOW!" and who is, instead, like, "Holy shit, Izzy, someone dishonored you in fair combat? Let's go let them wreck me RIGHT NOW!" which... I, too, would be a little disgruntled and confused by that one.

Instead of wanting to destroy this dude that humiliated his first mate and (likely) best friend, Edward wants to meet this dude, invite him on board and...what? Be friendly with him? That must seem utterly insane to Izzy. If my best friend did that to me, I'd be thinking she'd gone crazy too.

By the time they find Stede, he's about to get murdered by the Spanish and, instead of just... letting that happen... Edward sends his crew (Izzy included) to kill the Spanish first and save Stede and co. They lose crewmembers in the process. So now, not only has Stede not defended Izzy's honor against the cheating pirate, but he's also sent a few of their crew to their deaths for... what? To save the worst pirate Izzy has ever seen?

It's no surprise that by this point Izzy is already losing his shit, and that his entire head explodes when Edward and Stede swap clothes and Edward is introducing Stede as Blackbeard and acting like he has a new best friend. From Izzy's limited perspective, Edward is losing his mind and making increasingly erratic and irrational choices.

So when Edward spins it as, "I'm bored and I want to go be rich, so I'm thinking we'll kill Stede and say he's me and I'm him and then you can have this ship and we'll be good, yeah?" finally there's a logical reason for what Edward has been doing. It makes sense now. A few crewmembers aren't too high a price to pay for a plan like this: lull Stede into a false sense of security where swapping clothes or doing whatever Edward says isn't out of the realm of possibility, that way when they decide to enact the plan, it'll be easy.

...except Edward doesn't go through with the plan. He is, as Izzy puts it in his voiceover (and he got! a voiceover!! Stede, Jim and Izzy are the only ones who have gotten a voiceover, and Jim's is more a journal entry than an actual Voiceover (Izzy and Stede just get to talk over the show, Jim is writing and the voiceover is translating it)), being seduced by Stede Bonnet.

Which makes sense.

From Izzy's point of view, Edward had a plan and something he wanted (one of the few things Edward had actually told him about, unlike the thousand other things they don't communicate over), and then Stede had been seducing him and manipulating him, as well as giving him a taste of the thing he wants (being rich and free) while still holding it over his head and slightly out of reach. As long as Edward is dallying with Stede, he gets fine things, and pretty clothes, and bows in his beard, and he gets to go to fancy parties and whatever else he wants, but all of those things at contingent on Stede's affections. If Stede gets sick of Edward, or Stede decides he's had enough, or Edward decides he's had enough, all those fancy things go away. It isn't a permanent solution like the "assume Stede Bonnet's identity" plan is.

And I wonder if Izzy has seen this kind of seduction of Edward before. Not specifically the way it goes with Stede (the feelings are real, it isn't just sex and a fun distraction), but I wonder if Jack shows up and gets Edward into bed and distracts him and Izzy has to deal with it because if he doesn't their raids get erratic and they lose more people. Edward is, canonically, neurodivergent and mentally unstable, and although this doesn't mean he can't make his own choices or that Izzy should get to run roughshod over everything he wants, it does mean that sometimes he probably makes some poor choices and when those poor choices trickle down and effect the crew and their wellbeing, it is Izzy's job as first mate to try and fix it.

If Stede decided one day to throw his crew at some horrible situation just on a whim because he felt like it or because his mental health was acting up that day, it would be expected for Buttons or Lucius or Jim or Oluwande or someone to speak up and try and do something about it, for the sake of everyone else. Mental instability is not a get out of jail free card for getting those around you into trouble.

So when Edward seems seduced by Stede, Izzy starts putting pressure on the situation. He, with Ivan and Fang's backing, relates Edward's current situation back to a situation from before, making a point that this isn't just Izzy having a jealous tizzy fit, this is both Edward's plan and how Edward tends to think in general: pets make you soft, soft is bad and will get you and those around you killed, so deal with the problem before it deals with you.

When Edward can't handle the pressure and can't deal with the problem himself, Izzy steps in. Edward does not stop him from stepping in, which regardless of everything else, probably reinforces to Izzy that Edward knows he's doing the right thing, he just couldn't do it himself.

And sure, okay, Izzy throws a little fit when he loses, but so would you if your bff's rich ass, annoying new boo had beaten you once again through virtue only of having a god damn cherry wood mast and now you have to row off in a dinghy to god knows where to figure out how to fix all this and leave the crew behind.

Izzy says again and again throughout the whole show that Stede Bonnet did something to his boss's mind, and honestly? I can see it. From Izzy's limited perspective, I can see it. Edward masks, as I've said before, and the second he joins Stede's crew he becomes Stede and the crew. It genuinely seems like Stede brainwashes and changes him, especially when you lack the context of everything that happens in scenes Izzy isn't in.

And so, Izzy comes up with a plan to deal with the situation. It's a two-pronged plan:

Part 1 is Calico Jack, who is, without question, the grossest pick for Izzy to send after Edward. If he knows that Edward masks, in his own way, and knows what Edward turns into around Jack? It makes perfect sense to pick specifically Jack to send after Edward to make Edward someone Stede can't stand to be around to the point Edward has to leave the ship. It even works. Stede really dislikes Ed-masking-as-Jack, and rightly so considering that isn't the real Ed (Stede gets a lot of glances at the Real Ed, probably moreso than most, probably not quite as much as Izzy, who has the benefit of a lot of time with him, and moments such as the bathtub scene and when Ed actually admits he's bored and wants to give it all up probably count as unmasked moments, or as close as Ed can get right now) and this version of Ed is... unpleasant to be around.

But from Izzy's point of view it's less "Ed becomes unpleasant around Jack," and more "Yeah, try on this really low class version of Ed, you fucking fancy ass high class snobby little rich boy," because to Izzy - whose accent is aggressively, unabashedly working-class - it makes perfect god damn sense that Stede would be turned off and horrified by the kind of person Ed becomes with Jack.

Part 2 is the English. This one is simpler: trap Stede and his boat, send the English out there, acquire ship as payment, Stede dies.

It's a very good plan. It's a plan that actually goes off with only a minor hitch (Jack got bitchy at Ed about "when Izzy told me--" and Ed's penny dropped, so he came back). Stede is literally lined up for execution. No one else gets hurt. Edward is remanded to Izzy's custody. The Revenge is handed over to Izzy. No one but Stede gets hurt.

Truly, I don't think we talk enough about how mercenary yet merciful this plan of Izzy's actually is? No one but Stede gets hurt (emotional damage does not count here because that requires Izzy to conceptualize that Ed loves Stede and that the crew do too, he doesn't think that way right now, so it doesn't factor), the crew (despite being pirates themselves) are safe, Edward is safe, the English leave them alone (and they actually do! Only Edward and Stede sign up for the Act of Grace, but the English keep their part of the bargain and leave Izzy and the crew in peace), and surely Izzy plans (until the Act of Grace) to hand the Revenge over to Edward, or at least give him a lift back to his own ship. He just wants Edward safe.

The last Izzy sees of Stede is him crying over the idea of being shot and killed, and signing away Edward's freedom for his own life. Edward actually doesn't call for an Act of Grace on his own behalf, he's already fine just remanded to Izzy's custody, it's Stede who, out of nowhere, goes, "Well, if I'm signing ten years of my life over to the English, Edward is too!"

Which, ahem, not great, Stede. I see where you're coming from, but not great at all.

Finally, the last real impression Izzy gets of Stede after this is Ed coming back a broken wreck because Stede got bored of him and cut him loose after all of this.

Izzy's impression of Stede in season 1 boils down to: incompetent (ran ship aground), lucky (mast), stupid (half the decisions he makes including getting captured by natives), selfish (dragging Edward into his shit), irresponsible (nearly gets his crew killed multiple times) and finally someone who just... leaves Edward when the going got tough.

From Izzy's point of view right now, Stede is awful, and a bad person for Edward to be around, and I can honestly see that point of view.

This turned a little rambly and disjointed, idk if it's as good as my usual metas, I was just having Thoughts™ and now y'all have to deal with those thoughts, my apologies lmao.

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cannebady · 2 years

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Last night my brain saw fit to throw me a fic prompt via dreams.

A canon era AU where the rift between Ed and Izzy reaches a fever pitch before Stede leaves Barbados. Maybe Ed's just really done being Blackbeard and knows he can't move on with Izzy at his heels, expecting things he can't give. Or maybe Izzy tires of Ed's disinterest and flagrant risk taking.

Whatever the circumstances, Izzy leaves the Queen Anne's Revenge in Barbados without much of a plan. He's about to break one of his cardinal rules by getting absolutely pissed beyond reason at a shit pub when he hears about some rich ponce who's setting sail on a brand new ship. Even though he's deep in his cups, an idea starts to form. One that would allow Izzy his own command within a matter of months, almost guaranteed.

Izzy spends some time doing recon because he's nothing if not thorough. He sees the man, an uptight rich twat type if he does say so himself, with endless resources and zero know-how. The thought of having to call the man Captain, even for a short while, makes him green about the gills but needs must.

The ship, at least, is new and beautiful and Izzy figures it wouldn't take long until he can call her his own.

First, he needs to get hired so he puts on his best genial expression and makes his introduction. Whatever he was expecting, the guy is even worse. He is a rich ponce, and a twat, but worst of all he's fucking cheery. He's also, inconveniently, maybe just a little good looking. He's not Izzy's type, of course not, but his eye is immediately drawn to a very well fitted waistcoat embracing what looks to be a lovely chest indeed. And well, it's been a while and Izzy's not fucking dead, okay? He can ogle someone here and there, he's a fucking pirate for fucks sake.

Anyway, it takes nothing more than an introduction for Stede Bonnet to hire him and he's first mate again by his first afternoon.

Stede's inexperience and attitude grate something fierce at Izzy's patience, and he snaps at him twice in as many days so he isn't surprised when he's asked to the Captain's quarters. He's expecting a flogging, or perhaps an old fashioned beating, but instead he finds himself presented with a cup of tea, in a fine china cup and saucer no less, while Stede attempts to talk it through. Izzy makes a mental pact with himself to be on his best fucking behavior. The sooner Stede lets down his guard, the sooner Izzy can strike.

He hates the bastard a bit, and he can't help but remind him of that sometimes, but he's also got some balls on him Izzy has to admit. And the tea is always, begrudgingly, fantastic.

With time, Stede starts asking Izzy to teach him the ropes and Izzy finally gives in, if for no other reason than it ups their general chance of surviving long enough for him to stage a mutiny.

Stede, though, is ever a surprise. He's strong for someone who has led a life of luxury, and he does have a passion for the work, though he's still fucking squeamish which drives Izzy fucking mad.

Before Izzy knows it, they've been at it a few months and Stede's getting competent. They're even starting to work well together, not that he'd admit it on pain of fucking death. Sometimes, he even has a drink with Stede, who insists that Izzy call him Stede when they're not on deck instead of Captain or boss, in the evening. It's nice and Izzy hasn't thought of mutiny in any real way in days.

It bothers him, but he's distracted enough with a green crew and a green Captain that he doesn't even realize he's started to enjoy himself until he spots an awfully familiar black dot in the distance.

Fuck.

Before long, the Queen Anne's Revenge is running up on The Revenge and Blackbeard himself is boarding, all skintight leather and cocky swagger (fuck, he's gorgeous), and Stede, who should be shaking in his ridiculous heels, instead looks at Blackbeard, at Ed, with hearts in his eyes as if he'd hung the stars himself. Izzy can relate but this development makes something strange and hot churn in his belly and he doesn't like that shit one bit.

It turns out that Ed had heard tell of a Gentleman Pirate and was intrigued, of course he was, but was quite surprised to find out that the gentleman's first mate was someone familiar.

Queue Ed and Stede being weird and romantic, and falling in love while Izzy loses his mind watching his first love and his new something become a thing.

Queue Ed and Stede bonding over shared interests, one of which happens to be their first mate and how they might just be a little smitten with him.

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