#bsposting

[dykealloy]

[dykealloy]

I'm no one. From nowhere. Belonging to nothing.

[dykealloy]

something something characters doomed to the fate of the narrative and the more they try to fight it the worse it becomes

[dykealloy]

would love to hear your thoughts and opinions

[dykealloy]

The thought that keeps incessantly plaguing my mind is that silver could have left prior to it all going to shit. He could've found a way out. And the moment that stands out most prominently for me - the turning point, I think - is right after the season 1 finale. Before he saved flint from drowning. Before he agreed to a tag-team commandeering of a goddamn spanish man of war. Like, he fully intended to escape - and he could have tried to do that - "I'm not doing it! I don't need to return to Nassau, I am happy to find some other place to survive." He could've gone back to the crew. He's manipulated mansplained malewifed his way out of so many situations before, surely he'd find a way out of this one too. He didn't need to go with flint. You can literally see him turn around, intending to leave. Then he stops. And he turns. And I think this is the moment he begins to loose grip on his capability to weave his own narrative.

Silver could have left at any time before this point and maybe its simply hubris and it was doomed to happen but he stayed. He stayed and I don't think flint would have gotten as far as he did without him. He stayed and in his refusal to tell his own story the narrative seized him by the throat and didn't let go. And from there on out it just keeps slipping from him, and by the time his leg is gone he's absolutely lost all control over it. He becomes the person he was pretending to be. Because at this point he is dependent on flint and the crew because it becomes the only place he can belong - "where else are you going to wake up each day and matter?" Silver's completely lost all agency by this point. The only thing that's left to do is play out this story he's found himself swallowed up in.

[dykealloy]

I think it’s very funny and devastating that silver is incapable of introspection beyond the surface level. The man will explain his reasoning for helping/saving Flint in s2 when he could’ve sided with others or taken an alternative route as “a means of securing a very valuable prize. No more, no less” like sure my dude let’s not unpack any of it, it’s okay, we can wait three seasons for you to articulate that you might like Flint more than the average person. And even then, in s3 it’s “Who is more powerful? The one who made the storm or the one who convinced us into battle to defeat it? A man of his capacities, his state of mind becomes reality” like he is more likely to convince himself that Flint is a god than to consider the much simpler explanation that he is in love with him. And by s4 where he is actively defined by Flint and by the story Billy curated for him he just keeps lamenting to his very tired wife that he has Flint’s trust and his friendship and he needs them all to live through this and he would go so far as to betray them both to ensure this and to the very end Silver’s like I’m not going to delve any deeper into the parallels here or the underlying reasons that underpins this all I hate his ass

[rolandapostatize]

i'm a fan of the idea of madi at first deciding to try again with silver and then their quote unquote marriage deteriorating slowly over the course of nearly a decade until she decides to fully cut him off (at least on the personal level - maybe they still have to meet for business dealings/politics which just makes it worse & harder)

[rolandapostatize]

of course flint's reaction would be terrifying to him.. the one thing he can't control is how flint and madi react. of course it's terrifying that flint [redacted]s him enough to want to work through this with him. it literally negates the whole reason he did all that in the first place.