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For so long, I thought I knew what I was. A daughter who usurped her father. A woman who had taken control of a wild place.
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↳ max (black sails)
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black sails rarepair appreciation week – day 2: canon rarepairs ↠ maxanne ♡
You are the bravest person I have ever known. The truest person I have ever known. And I betrayed you and it sickens me. I am so sorry for working so hard to protect the wrong things. For failing to see that there is nothing important that does not include you.
so I risk it all just to be with you
and I risk it all for this life we choose
also Hot Take but reading abigail ashe as being smitten with billy bones or any other pirate is a reductive reading of her story arc. her storyline is all about how acts of kindness & compassion have the power destabilize the cruelty of an oppressive “civilization.” abigail is told all her life that pirates are monsters, but when she encounters flint & his crew she realizes they are men and therefore deserving of kindness and compassion, and it’s abigail’s compassion that saves flint several times over: first when abigail warns flint & miranda that her father hates flint specifically, second when they reach land & flint is immediately arrested but abigail demands that he meet with her father, and finally she saves flint when vane uses her diary as evidence in flint’s trial.
miranda is killed bc the man who shoots her refuses to see her as anything other than what society has told him she is: a monster. he refuses to have compassion. and when miranda is killed, lord ashe refuses to show any compassion to flint. treating flint with compassion would mean compromising his power over charles town, and he’s not willing to relinquish that; thus we see that kindness & compassion are incompatible with any “civilization” that is built on oppression & violence. such a civilization must squash compassion towards the groups it has othered because an act of compassion would compromise the social order.
abigail, then, learns that it’s not the pirates who are the villains, but her hypocritical father, a man whom she thought represented justice & goodness. however, justice and goodness is impossible without compassion.
flint, then, burns down charles town; he becomes the monster that society wants him to be. the destructiveness & violence of “civilization” is perpetuated because he and miranda are not shown compassion or kindness.
like idc if you want to read abigail ashe as being smitten with billy bones or whoever that’s your prerogative but you also have to realize that abigail’s attitude towards the pirates are driven by a compassion much more profound than a schoolgirl crush. and in terms of genuinely shipping her with any of the pirates……she’s a teenager so. dont do it.
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