#as stede still haunts ed no matter how hard he tries to put up his walls again

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Been thinking about the ships and I decided on committing to a full-fledged theory for s2 (not a headcanon cause I think I'm onto something):

We got The Revenge, Stede's ship.

We got Blackbeard's ship, presumably Queen Anne's Revenge though the name was never stated in the show.

So now Stede needs some sort of new vessel for the time being, and takes a merchant ship and decides on naming it Royal James ("fits with the R theme").

So what I'm theorizing is

1. Ed's former ship is gonna be called Queen Anne's (Blackbeard's flag wasn't historically accurate until it was...)

2. The Revenge... is gonna sink. Something's gonna happen to it, but either way, they can't stay there anymore when the season ends

Even if they wanted to, it now holds bad memories of it becoming a shell of a ship for Ed's kraken era. And who knows what happens to Queen Anne's, maybe something similar. So now they're left with Royal James, but since they have now finally met in the middle, this can become a complete fresh start for both of them... so they rename it Queen Anne's Revenge.

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd meta #story #storytelling #as you can tell this is following #the symbolism that these ships are stede and eds relationship #stedes ship was his and was flashy and comfortable #eds ship was his and was intimidating and merely a vessel #when ed took on the revenge it was still haunted by stede #as stede still haunts ed no matter how hard he tries to put up his walls again #and thus this ship will be Theirs to signify Their relationship #let.me.dream.with.ofmd