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Black Sails Monologuolympics BR2.1: Secondary Characters

13/14: Miranda vs. Julius

Miranda, to Flint, in 303: "When I first met you, you were so… unformed. And then I spoke and bade you cast aside your shame, and Captain Flint was born into the world… the part of you that always existed yet never were you willing to allow into the light of day. I was mistress to you when you needed love. I was wife to you when you needed understanding. But first and before all… I was mother. I have known you like no other. So I love you like no other. I will guide you through it, but at its end is where you must leave me. At its end is where you will find the peace that eludes you, and at its end lies the answer you refuse to see."

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Julius, to the Maroons, in 407: "Fools. You're all fools if you think this road leads to where he says it does. [...] What happens when our enemy realizes that all it needs to do to defeat us is to take away that common cause? Turn one against the other. And when that happens…as it is all but certain to do… which of us standing here are likely to be the ones who benefit and which the ones sold back into their chains?”

which monologue wins?

"before all, i was mother... at its end lies the answer you refuse to see."

"you're fools if you think this road leads where he says it does."

Voting ended onFeb 22, 2023

BRACKET TWO ROUND ONE // BRACKET TWO // #BSM

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Black Sails Monologuolympics BR2.1: Secondary Characters

8/14: Miranda vs. Rogers

Miranda, to Peter Ashe, in 209: "You destroyed our lives! You caused our exile! Thomas died in a cold, dark place… […] What do I want? I want to see this whole goddamn city, this city that you purchased with our misery, burn. I want to see you hanged on the very gallows you've used to hang men for crimes far slighter than this. I want to see that noose around your neck and I want to pull the fucking lever with my own two hands!"

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Rogers, to Berringer, in 403: “Years ago… as a privateer during the war, I was in a running fight with a Spanish galleon. Hounded her for days. By all rights, she should've surrendered long before she did. Just before her colors were struck, a shot was fired. A cheap, cowardly shot… fired with the knowledge they were about to surrender anyway and the presumption that they be entitled to quarter. This particular shot found its mark. Took three of my men… one of them, my brother, Thomas. He'd always been smarter than me. Braver. Better. Protected me when we were young. Taught me to sail when we were older. He was my closest friend. Lost to a cheap and cowardly shot. So, after they surrendered, I went aboard the ship. And I began with the captain. I was more deliberate with him. It took some time. Then I moved to his first mate. The gun captains. The gun crews. 74 men aboard that ship when I boarded her. But by the time we reached Acapulco, there was only one. The one I delivered alive to recount the tale. You asked what would happen next. My instinct is the same now as it was then. I will show them what the consequences are for threatening that which I hold most dear. I will leave no doubt about it.”

which monologue wins?

"and i want to pull the FUCKING LEVER WITH MY OWN TWO HANDS-!"

"i will show them the consequences for threatening what i hold most dear."

Voting ended onFeb 22, 2023

BRACKET TWO ROUND ONE // BRACKET TWO // #BSM

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Black Sails Monologuolympics BR2.1: Secondary Characters

11/14: Billy vs. Mr. Scott

Billy, to Silver, in 405: “Sooner or later, people are going to know. And we're gonna have to give them instructions about what happens to that cache once it lands. There's no more putting off a decision. Giving up that money is an impossibility. Flint will just keep pushing for these things, costly things that we pay for with our own suffering, with our own lives. You know this. You've always known this. Sooner or later, it has to end.”

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Mr. Scott, to Billy, in 208: "When Captain Flint first arrived on this island, he gained influence faster than any man I'd seen before. Or since. I heard men say it was because of the violence. I heard them say it was his charm. But it was clear to me the reason why he was so good at bending men towards his will was he knew the power of a story and how to harness it to his own ends. That man there, I would argue, may very well be his equal. […] Yeah, the story's his, the story isn't his. But the power of the telling... that is clearly his. At the moment, he's using it to help the captain. But God help us if he ever realizes what else he could use it to accomplish."

which monologue wins?

"you know this. you've always know this. sooner or later, it has to end."

"the story's his. the story isn't his. the power of the telling, that is his."

Voting ended onFeb 22, 2023

BRACKET TWO ROUND ONE // BRACKET TWO // #BSM

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Black Sails Monologuolympics BR2.1: Secondary Characters

14/14: Miranda vs. Gates

Miranda, to Eleanor, in 203: "Every man has his torments. Demons born of past wrongs that hound and harass him. You perceive the effects of Captain Flint's demons. Echoes of their voices. But I know their names. I was there when they were born. I know the things they whisper to him at night. So you can believe me when I tell you that within his chorus of torments… none of them look or sound like me."

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Gates, to Flint, in 108: "Lying sack of shit was Mr. Cregg. So I bought the boys a round with the pesos, traded the pocket watch for a bit of tail, and spent two weeks that winter in New York trying to deliver that fucking letter to his sister. Looked high and low. Never found her. So on the way home, I waited till we were in open water and I could see no land in any direction, and I dropped it over the side. Returned to the sea. There are no legacies in this life, are there? No monuments. No history. Just the water. It pays us and then it claims us. Swallows us whole. As if we'd never been here at all.”

which monologue wins?

"every man has his torments. demons born of past wrongs."

"there are no legacies in this life, are there? no monuments. no history."

Voting ended onFeb 22, 2023

BRACKET TWO ROUND ONE // BRACKET TWO // #BSM

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Black Sails Monologuolympics BR2.1: Secondary Characters

10/14: Billy vs. Miranda

Billy, to Rogers, in 407: "I am Long John Silver. The resistance in the interior… I built it. I led it. It was mine. I was hitting your supply lines to the estates, fomenting sabotage in Nassau Town. Fighting your soldiers in untold skirmishes. You killed many of my men, and I got my fair share of yours. […] I want you to know that I'm withholding nothing. That I'm telling the truth. And I know what I'm talking about. I don't care about the cause now. I don't care about Nassau now. I want one thing and one thing only. […] They all turned on me. Discarded what I'd done for them, the sacrifices I made, and left me for dead. And I want them all to pay for it. I cannot achieve it on my own. You could… if you were so inclined and you knew how. […] They are strong when Flint and Silver are united. But separate the two of them, turn them one against the other, and their world collapses. I tried once and failed. But I didn't possess the instrument necessary to make it work.”

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Miranda, to Flint, in 208: "Look at her. When I first learned she was on the island, I saw in my mind a five-year-old child hiding behind her mother's dress. Then I saw her. I realized she's a woman. It's like she's some sort of clock that's finally struck its chime and woken me from this dream we've been living, reminded me how many years separate me from a world I still think of as home. How unrecognizable the woman I am now would be to the woman I was then."

which monologue wins?

"seperate flint and silver, and their world collapses."

"it's like she's some sort of clock that's finally struck its chime."

Voting ended onFeb 22, 2023

BRACKET TWO ROUND ONE // BRACKET TWO // #BSM

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Black Sails Monologuolympics BRACKET TWO: SECONDARY CHARACTERS 🏴‍☠️

billy, gates, israel hands, julius, maroon queen, miranda, mr.scott, woodes rogers.

Bracket Two begins TODAY at 5:00 PM! You'll have to choose between monologues like "and i want to pull the FUCKING LEVER WITH MY OWN TWO HANDS", "No one changes the world. not like this." "There are no legacies in this life, are there?" and more!

Below is a full list of competitors & their rivals in the second bracket.

You can find the polls for the first bracket here, the polls for the second bracket will be here, and all polls so far will be here.

Polls for Bracket 2: Secondary Characters will go live on Tuesday, February 21st, at 5 PM EST!

BRACKET 2 ROUND 1 ROSTER:

Gates: "Billy wasn't expendable to me." (107) VS Miranda: "It doesn't feel like living anymore." (104)

Mr. Scott: "The villain makes the story." (306) VS Miranda: "There is a life in Boston." (107)

Billy: "Have you ever been tortured?" (207) VS Maroon Queen: "But I have seen those things." (304)

Miranda: "I have been devoted to you since that day." (205) VS Rogers: "They all feel entitled to a part of your story." (301)

Miranda: "Men like Thomas need men like you. To protect them from the world." (205) VS Billy: "There are no two people close enough that something cannot seperate them." (408)

Julius: "Among pirates, loyalty changes easily, it seems." (406) VS Hands: "You're gonna have to kill him." (407)

Rogers: "Lord Thomas Hamilton." (307) VS Julius: "No one changes the world. Not like this." (407)

Miranda: "I want to see that noose around your neck, and I want to pull the fucking lever with my own two hands!" (209) VS Rogers: "You asked what would happen next." (403)

Hands: "Fuck Flint, don't fuck Flint." (405) VS Billy: "I knew it would be difficult to seperate them." (410)

Billy: "I am Long John Silver." (407) VS Miranda: "How unrecognizable I am." (208)

Billy: "You know this. You've always known this." (405) VS Mr.Scott: "The story is his, the story isn't his." (208)

Mr.Scott: "The world changes. It is inevitable. Maybe the only thing that is inevitable." (204) VS Miranda: "Great men aren't made great by politics, Lieutenant." (201)

Miranda: "But first and before all, I was mother." (303) VS Julius: "You're all fools if you think this road leads where he says it does." (407)

Miranda: "Every man has his torments." (203) VS Gates: "There are no legacies in this life, are there?" (108)

ADDITIONAL MONOLOGUES TO BE INTRODUCED IN ROUND 2:

Billy: “A new story for Nassau,” (310)

Miranda: “I think you are fighting for the sake of fighting!” (205)

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Black Sails Monologuolympics BR2.1: Secondary Characters

1/14

Gates, to Flint, 107: "I know what happened on the Maria Aleyne. You told me the man you killed was reaching for a weapon. You told me it was self-defense, but there were no weapon in that cabin. I went and I looked. And I still kept my mouth shut. I don't know why, but I know you used the crew to assassinate those people. Men died that day. Our men. And I suspect there's been other times when we've been expendable to you. And if yesterday was one of those days, then you and I have a problem, because Billy wasn't expendable to me. He was a son to me.”

Miranda, to Flint, 104: "That book is something I shared with Thomas. I just missed it. Our life then when he was alive. I can feel myself forgetting it and I don't want to forget it. This place, this life that we've been living here, it doesn't feel like living anymore. I can't be alone in feeling this way. Some part of you must feel it, too."

which monologue wins?

"billy wasn't expendable to me. he was a son to me."

"this life that we've been living here, it doesn't feel like living anymore."

Voting ended onFeb 22, 2023

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Black Sails Monologuolympics BR2.1: Secondary Characters

9/14: Hands vs. Billy

Hands, to Silver, 407: "You're confident in his plan, maybe because it's a good plan. Maybe because it's the only plan. But maybe it's just because if his plan don't succeed, you'll have to show him that you prepared for the failure. That the world ain't gonna be what he wanted. And that a treasure he wanted left in the ground ain't in the ground no more. And when that happens… and the extreme reaction follows, it's one of two roads ahead. You're either gonna have to concede and let him have his way…or you're gonna have to kill him. You know this, don't you?”

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Billy, to Madi/himself, 410: "Please know… I was so conflicted about all this when it began. I knew it would be difficult to separate them… Flint and Silver. They'd grown so close, it was hard to know where one ended and the other began. I worried that the act of separating them might destroy them both… when what I wanted was to remove Flint. And I saw no other way. But the things I've done in the pursuit of it… were intended to honor my oath. But somehow, here I am now. What I've just done… there's no coming back from that. There is no difference between Flint and Silver now. Or between Flint and any of them. They are all enemies of mine. Now, I believe they are outmatched today. I believe at the end of the day, there will be no more of them left alive. But if somehow… they are able to prevail today against us… fight their way through the British soldiers above, through the governor, through me.. I will ensure that at the end of it all, when they walk through this final door, there is defeat awaiting them.”

which monologue wins?

"you're gonna have to kill him. you know this, don't you?"

"i worried that the act of seperating them might destroy them both."

Voting ended onFeb 22, 2023

BRACKET TWO ROUND ONE // BRACKET TWO // #BSM