#would be an interesting parallel/passing of the torch moment if STEDE of all people let Izzy know that he's wanted

[cononeillbreastingboobily]

Alright so this post by @biceratops7 made me positively insane.

It made the alarm in my head go off because!!!!! Yeah!!! Stede only knows being needed, not wanted!!!

Do you know who else on the show is like that?

This guy:

[Image ID: photo of Con O'Neill as Izzy Hands/end ID]

Remember how, after the fuckery in Discomfort in a Married State, Izzy was about to leave, and Ed stopped him, saying

[Image ID: screenshot of episode 4 of the show. Ed, wearing Stede's white shirt and black cravat, talks to Izzy by the railing of the Revenge. Ed says to Izzy: "I need you here."/end ID]

This draws such a painful parallel between Stede and Izzy.

Stede, who's been unwanted by everyone his whole life, only dragged from place to place to fulfill the role of the son of a wealthy landowner. Who had a marriage forced upon him, without even seeing his bride prior to the wedding day.

But then, in that little moment when he and Ed were signing off their lives and going to he privateering academy together, Ed showed him, for the very first time, that he is wanted, that somebody would go as far as subject themselves to a life working for the crown, if that means saving Stede's life.

Except here's where the parallel breaks, as Izzy doesn't have anyone to let him know that he's wanted instead of needed, that he isn't being kept around due to his usefulness, but for a level of fondness someone might have for him.

That being said, the development of the relationship between Izzy and Kraken!Ed in the future seasons might be fascinating as much as tragic. Both of them stuck between a rock and a hard place, where they're both unhappy, but neither is able to step up and say something.

#idk #i'm just saying... #too many thoughts in my mind #izzy hands #izzy brainrot continues #ed teach #blackbeard #blackhands #stede bonnet #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd meta #ough ough ough #would be an interesting parallel/passing of the torch moment if STEDE of all people let Izzy know that he's wanted #izzy hands meta