IZZY'S THEIR UNICORN! LUCIUS AND HIS CUNTY LIL BELL BOTTOMS! A SEAGULL! FRENCHIE'S GOT A PEANUT ALLERGY! FANG AND ED WENT TO CATCH FISHIES! IZZY AND STEDE WERE LITERALLY JUST HANGING OUT THE WHOLE TIME! PROPOSAL!!! IZZY JUST VIBING AND GETTING PRAISED!!! IZZY MADE LUCIUS A LIL WOODEN SHARK!!! IZZY ALREADY KNEW HOW TO WHITTLE AND HE DOES IT WELL!!!!
This might sound weird, but. One thing I really, really love about Our Flag Means Death is that it shows men crying. And not a few manly tears either, but full on ugly sobbing
Ed's PTSD breakdown in the tub, Izzy's mental break under the Kraken's pressure, Ed crying over the breakup, Izzy crying over the unicorn note, Fang crying over his dog and over Izzy
It's just really meaningful that we see grown men cry! And cry realistically. It's still not something we see a lot of in media and I just. Really like it
the fact that they use the figurehead izzy defaced for "not doing its job" to instead give him his purpose and identity back. the fact that figureheads were historically not only fixtures of stature and power but also, to their crews, "the eyes of the ship guiding them safely home". the fact that izzy protected the goth crew from a lot of edward's spiraling ire physically, the fact that when izzy was presumed gone and dead the ship was steered and then moored in a storm. the fact that without his intervention they would have likely died in that storm, but instead afterwards were able to be come across by the other half of their crew and brought "home". you see the vision, don't you?