#GOD. DDAMMIT SHE DESERVES SO MUCH

[sins-of-the-sea]

Talk About Me

(( @dragonskxn​, you got it right the first time, I just ended up writing a novel, WHOOPS))

Phoebus looks at Rashid, Ruixiong, and Guy pressing their ears against the locked door to the Captain’s cabin. Yelling can be heard on the other side. "Is.... the Captain and Abena fighting??"

"Yes. Over Giovanni and Miss Annalise."

"What are you- this is a family matter! Give them privacy, g-ddammit!!"

"We are! The door is closed, isn't it?"

"You know what I m-"

"I DON'T CARE!! HE IS NOT READY!!"

"YOU CAN'T CODDLE GIOVANNI FOREVER, JOSEP!! He's clearly in love and you need to support him!"

"............

"Scoot over, I need room." He squeezes in to eavesdrop by pressing his ear against the door with the others.

"Josep, he's locked at 23. He's not a child, he's a man now. A man of ripe marrying age."

"A 'man' who spent most of his entire life up until the Master locked in a cellar with only fairy tales and his brothers as his points of reference of how relationships work!"

"He's had us! We're not his parents, or yours! We're better than they are! Look at how we raised Arcelia! All the times she cried, it wasn't because we weren't there for her, or locking her up in a cellar, or forcing her to hurt her best friends in the name of God!"

"We burn down plantations, vandalize entire mansions, and torture certain people for fun, Abena. We’re pirates. We're not paragons of healthy relationships either."

"That is besides the point and you know it! Do you not see your cousin's eyes whenever the topic of Miss Annalise comes up? His smile is brighter than the sun, Josep. He sings songs of love at the forecastle instead of just distracting himself. He comes up with new recipes based on his outings with her! She’s his princess, Josep! It's not just any kind of love, it's his love! His very own. No one else's."

"Did you forget he is Greed of the Seven? Just as you are Envy and I am Wrath, his love and emotions are driven by the very Sin he embodies, invokes, and even embraces. He's going to be the ruin of Annalise, sooner or later. And all the more he'll end up hurting himself just as he would hurt her."

"You don't know that! How could you have so little faith in your own cousin?! He's not Gregorio or Lorenzo!"

"You don't know how much they've imprinted onto him, Abena. How much they--how much the money-hungry Venice has imprinted onto him. He may have been locked in that cellar for much of his life... but he walks the way Gregorio does. He talks the way Lorenzo does. The ideas Giovanni has to shower his love for Annalise was no different from how the brothers did to woo their eventual wives--and extramarital paramours. He’s confusing his Greed for her for love, Abena. You don’t know it because you haven’t seen what it’s like to be raised and encouraged to replace love with greed."

"What are you saying, Josep? Are you telling me Giovanni does not deserve to love someone and be loved in return?"

"That's not what I'm saying at all. From what I am seeing with Miss Annalise, she too is simply lonely and wishes for companionship. I am happy she and Giovanni click together well. She’s a kind, lovely girl, a far better choice of a love than I would wish on anyone. What I am saying is...."

"Is...."

"..........That we are being listened on." He stretches out his arm, turning it into fog so he can reach for the door. Upon touching it, the door also fogs up, allowing Ruixiong, Rashid, Guy, and Phoebus to fall through into the Captain's cabin.

"......Uh....."

".......Please don't kill us, Captain."

"Of course I won't. I'll just to disembowel you alive."

"RUN!!" 

Abena sighs as she watches all of the men race out of the cabin.

#SORRY THIS TOOK A WHILE LMAO #sorry Anna this is Giovanni's family you're going to have to deal with them lmao #abuse tw #child abuse tw #child abandonment tw #[Captain Josep Frascona] #[Abena Frascona] #[Rashid al-Qadar] #[Wang Ruixiong] #[Guy Duchamp] #[Phoebus Duchamp] #[Meme] #dragonskxn