✧ ASK MEMES — BLACK SAILS 4.06-4.10.
Content Warnings: piracy, war, death, murder, violence.
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“They respect you, so they’ll listen to you.”
“You were older. You were beautiful. I revered you.”
“We have no choice but to defend ourselves!”
“The one thing he’s never done is force me to choose between him and you. That, you did.”
“We’re at war… and you’re an asset.”
“Despite what’s gone on, you are my friend.”
“You chose. Live with it.”
“You’re welcome to stay if you like.”
“You were a pirate once.”
“It is a new day. But one that demands we all unite behind a common cause.”
“Amongst pirates, loyalty changes quickly, it seems.”
“If we fight them together, there’s a good chance we live, hold our ground, maybe even fight them off.”
“I loved you. And I betrayed you. But I cannot apologize for it.”
“If I apologize, you will know it is a lie. And I do not wish to lie to you ever again.”
“I am going to stay with you. I want to take care of you.”
“One can be happy that way, can’t they? A life of isolation and uncertainty as long as it is lived with someone you love… and who loves you back. It is possible, isn’t it?”
“‘If we’re lucky’ is not a notion that’s worked well for us recently.”
“I’ll not leave anyone behind.”
“Seems a fair amount of resentment towards you these days. I just want you to know… that I remember what you did for me.”
“How can we all have sacrificed so much and none of us has anything to show for it?”
“I want him to pay for all of it dearly. Do you want to help me or not?”
“I need you to know…that I did everything I could to keep her safe. I… I don’t expect that to mean anything.”
“It wasn’t… your fault. It wasn’t your fault.”
“This war is going to begin. This camp is going to fight it, with or without you.”
“They may call you a king, but only in the kingdom that is no more.”
“You’ll have plenty of time to murder her another day. Right now, you need to rest.”
“No one changes the world. Not like this. Not all at once. The world is too strong for that.”
“I can’t let this be for nothing. I just can’t. It has to mean… something.”
“You have to trust my judgment for a little while while yours is reeling.”
“You’re one of them. You’re a pirate. You are!”
“Why would I even consider taking on a pirate as a partner like this?”
“When you and I are of the same mind… there is nothing we have not yet been able to do.”
“She died fighting. As will I.”
“She wants him dead and she wants me to do it.”
“I do it for us. That’s how it started. That’s how it’s going to end.”
“What if the result of this war isn’t beyond the horror? What if it is the horror itself?”
“I think that you are the best of us.”
“Why are you doing this? Talking about us like it’s a thing? I don’t know who broke it first. But it broke. And there ain’t no putting it back together again.”
“Privacy always comes with a price, dear.”
“Do not ask me to choose between a war and a wife. I do not think you’re going to like the answer.”
“I do not expect your understanding, but I demand your support. As my partner. As my friend. Do I have it?”
“You killed my friend. I wanted you to know that.”
“To rise from where you began… to where you now stand, I cannot imagine the road you’ve travelled.”
“The crown does not divide. It cannot be shared.”
“Hear me very clearly. There is no hidden message and no equivocation. You will make no move against him.”
“Fuck you doing out here? It’s a fucking mess out here. Come inside.”
“I refuse to situate a man in a position where he might interfere one day with my ability to repair things with you.”
“You are the bravest person I have ever known. The truest person I have ever known.”
“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.”
“There is nothing important that does not include you.”
“I know you know how to fight. I want to teach you how to fight and not die.”
“For pride to be an issue between you and I… well, I think we’re playing past that by now. Don’t you?”
“Am I not what I am at this point?”
“You are, for now, a necessary evil here. Do not test my patience.”
“You’re still watching my eyes, which is a good way of getting yourself killed.“
“Jesus Christ, don’t do that. If you want to ask where I come from, just ask.”
“You have no idea the restraint this takes. How urgent the instinct towards violence.”
“You know of me all I can bear to be known. All that is relevant to be known. That is to say, you know my genuine friendship… and loyalty. Can that be enough and there still be trust between us?”
“You cannot honestly believe that placating me is going to repair what’s been broken here.”
“You think killing me means defeat for them? You will have given them a martyr to unite them.”
“What are you doing down here? Are you a fucking coward?”
“Pain is an exceptional tutor.”
“How much ransom can be afforded for the cause? How many casualties can be tolerated for the cause? How much loss?”
“This isn’t a war. That is a fucking nightmare.”
“In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility. There is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.”
“ All this will be for nothing. We will have been for nothing.”
“I will stand here with you… for an hour, a day, a year…”
“I lost you once. I would not do it again.”
“He trusted you. He was your friend. And you killed him.”
“You may think what you want of me. I will draw comfort in the knowledge that you’re alive to think it. But I’m not the villain you fear I am.”
“A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends, it matters less and less. The stories we want to believe… those are the ones that survive.”