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david jenkins: heard you guys needed a fake holiday to use for all the cons and watch parties and meetups and such
david jenkins: there's drag and everyone's very horny about it and we can even have a sexy insane guy doing torture for the freaks
david jenkins: and then there's a song and a worker's revolution and your faves all had great sex did i leave anything out?
Oh God I need to sleep but this idea won't leave my head. We all know Izzy Hands has amazing chemistry with all the crew in The Revenge. So.
Picture this. A "who-did-it?" fic. Buttons (let's pretend he's taking a break from being a bird) notices a hickey in Izzy's neck, and loudly announces it to everyone. When questioned about the identity of his lover, Izzy just smirks.
The story follows what each member of the crew was up to the day before. We find out all of them spent time with Izzy, any of them could have been the one to get lucky. We get to know how each character sees him, and what type of relationship they have with him (and well, most of The Revenge has at least a small crush on this man).
Partners, then.
Characters/pairings: Stede Bonnet / Ed Teach
Fandom: Our Flag Means Death
Rating: T
Word count: 2151
Summary: An Alternate Scene of the dock scene in 1x09.
His feet were moving, carrying him toward the sound instantly. He relied on his instincts, the feeling deep within that told him that Stede was in danger and needed to get to him.
Notes: I'm sure this has been done plenty of times but I just watched the show for the first time and got all the feels and wanted to write a little fix it for them. Likes and Comments always appreciated! Hope you enjoy!
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Ed broke through the brush, his heart racing, adrenaline coursing through his veins. He always enjoyed the thrill of a good escape, and the thought of having Stede waiting for him, being with him, only heightened the thrill.
As he bounded toward the dinghy waiting for him, it took him a few seconds to realize that he was alone.
"Stede?” his head whipped around, searching from where he just came, wondering if Stede was taking cover in the dark leaves.
His eyes trailed the sand beside the dock and his heart sank as he realized how quiet it was.
"Stede?” he called out again, hoping the man was nearby but the only sound that reached his ears was the lapping of waves against the dock.
He felt an uncomfortable twisting in the pit of his stomach, a thickness in his throat, his eyes still darting frantically in the darkness, hoping for the best but fearing the worst.
Soon enough he came to the horrid realization.
Stede wasn't there.
He had given Stede the head start and anticipated meeting him there, hopping into the boat and rowing away, hopefully getting miles out to sea before the British knew they were gone.
But as the seconds ticked by, there was still no sign of Stede.
It had been hours but he could still feel the tingle of warmth on his lips from when he had kissed Stede. From when Stede had kissed him back, looked at him with awestruck admiration, told him he made him just as happy as he made Ed, and then agreed to run away together.
His head whipped around, his heart leaping into his throat as the unmistakable sound of gunfire split the quiet night sky, followed then by a more faint scream.
Stede.
He had been around the man long enough to know his noises - to recognize his voice whether he was talking, humming, groaning or screaming.
His feet were moving, carrying him toward the sound instantly. He relied on his instincts, the feeling deep within that told him that Stede was in danger and needed to get to him.
From the moment he first laid eyes on Stede Bonnet, pale faced and bleeding at his feet, he knew he would do anything to protect him.
For the “send me an episode/scene/chapter” asks: what is your OFMD OC Ace Cooper doing during the episode “This Is Happening,” where they stop at St. Augustine and Lucius confronts Ed about having feelings for Stede?? 🖤🖤🖤
Oh! Yes! Thank you for asking about my boy! 🤩
So, first things first. Ace is Stede's first mate on the crew. When Stede first gathered the crew, when he saw Ace, Stede thought Ace looked like he was the strongest of them all. This means Ace is unfortunately the other one right beside Stede with all his 'duties' so to speak. Ace still thinks about all the men that went up to him asking him how much Stede was for sale during their time at the Republic of Pirates.
Anyway, when Lucius goes on to confront Ed it's basically a moment of clarity for Ace because it's a moment where he realizes he's also in love with Stede and possibly Ed Which he most definitely is
But he feels like Stede is also in love with Ed and knows that they help each other make them a better person. So he just struggles with accepting the fact he won't be with either of them. He eventually will he just feels like he's not good enough for either one of them.
Then when Ed goes back to Stede before Ace and Lucius follow, Lucius will notice Ace's quiet demeanor and him just staring at the ground, he comes to the realization that Ace also loves them both, but Ace refuses to talk about it anymore, and just gruffly mumbles tells him to come on before they find something really fun without them.
Lucius then just sighs in exasperation at how idiotic these men are before following after them.😂
It's completely okay they had sex. There is nothing wrong with it and it isn't what temporarily broke them up.
They are both grown-ass men who've had sex with other people before (for various reasons and with various results). The seriousness of their relationship doesn't rise or fall on whether they've had sex because despite social mores, those two things aren't intrinsically linked. Sex is part of how people process complicated feelings all the time (see: funerals, near-death situations), and if both parties are clearly consenting then that isn't necessarily a bad thing or something that ruins a relationship.
Ed wakes up and gets rid of a tangible part of a persona he's wanted to shed for a long time. He makes his lover breakfast in bed. He's not rattled by Izzy coming in to tease them, if anything he's calmer than Stede is (which makes sense as the partner who has actually been with a man/had sex he enjoyed before).
They have a very happy date where Stede's new celebrity status doesn't bother him at all. Ed getting rid of the Blackbeard leathers 'felt good.' More gentle ribbing about sex with Stede gets a smile from Ed.
(They could have chosen to talk about Ned Lowe that morning, by the way, or at some other time that day, or literally whenever they both felt ready to do it. I don't think they did and I think they really should, but they by no means had to process every bit of it five whole seconds after it happened.)
There is no awkwardness, distance, or upset between Ed and Stede until it becomes clear just how much Stede is blowing up as a newly successful pirate, and just how much Ed is thinking about retiring. His conversation with Jackie highlights just how much those are incongruous things. That's when he freaks out and leaves. That's when he starts picking a fight - about how they're moving too fast, about how Stede isn't instantly supportive of his plan to drop everything and run off to a new career, about how fishermen and pirates are fundamentally different or whatever shit he says in the moment.
Because Stede is 100% correct about what Ed is doing - he's blowing it up. Ed is looking for the barest hint of conflict anywhere he can to turn into a bigger fight, and then using that as an excuse to leave before Stede can do it first. And Stede may think that's a fear of commitment or intimacy or something, since he doesn't have the full context, but it absolutely is a cowardly move.
I've seen posts saying Ed is clearly communicating his needs and I feel like I'm living on another planet. Did he ever say 'I'm scared we want fundamentally different lives and that means we can't be together'? Or 'I'm worried the life you want to embrace is the life I need to drop, because it's toxic for me'? Because until he says that, he hasn't told Stede anything.
And nothing about those very real fears has anything to do with sex.
I'm honestly pissed at the reviewers who were claiming this season is all fanservice with not enough action or whatever the hell it is they said.
Good Omens s2 was fanservice, it was huge fun but 90% of it was everyone spinning their wheels while learning maybe one or two pieces of new information. Everyone is largely the same, flaws and all, and until that ending happens it's mostly meant to make us enjoy watching our OTP and have comforting feels about them.
This season of Our Flag is about Ed and Stede (and, I'd argue, Izzy) deciding the kind of people they want to be. That's happened since minute one and every episode has moved that forward. We see that in their fantasies, in their hallucinations, in who they are separately and together, in every single person they meet.
It's not a coincidence that Ricky is a noble fascinated by pirates until his playing around gets him hurt, and then his reaction is to burn it all down. (Unlike Stede, who thinks he's lost the man he loves and his immediate reaction is to forgive his crew and get them to safety before he even thinks about mourning.)
Or that Ned Lowe is mannered and loves music but is a sadistic snob who thinks everyone is disposable, and that's who Stede kills in cold blood.
It's not a coincidence that Zheng is a brilliant pirate with a broader vision but a people-focused kind of leadership, who is actively trying to build a force that ends pirating by giving everyone pay and security just when Ed is thinking about retirement again.
Even the way some of the crew find their bliss and leave or start considering it, the way they operate as individuals but also as a sort of unified force demonstrating community and safety and open easy queerness and how they're all transformed by it (sometimes literally). The contrasting images of piracy as encroaching death and perfect freedom.
It all hangs together so well, it's so smart and has such clear things to say. To call that 'fanservice' is such an insult to it. To deliver more of what made the show gather a fanbase by understanding its own arc and message is just good, strong writing. Because writing that understands the audience it built doesn't feel mindless. It feels like a thesis.
"I'm now realizing that the entire season (and possibly the entire show) I loved and enjoyed before actually sucked and I was just fooling myself."
Cool, I just found like three new narrative layers in the goofy plot about the cursed suit.
Hope you guys process that grief in a very normal way that stays away from Twitter.
Bitter transmascs who are gay LOVE Izzy Hands and Jean Vicquemare. Something something about loving and never being the first choice. Something something about not being someone worth getting better for.
