#kraken crew

[smudgeandfrank]

The Kraken Crew jam session ✨️🎶🏴‍☠️ 11x17 Prints of this Kraken Crew piece are now on my Etsy! Link in my bio! ✨️🎶🏴‍☠️

I love this trauma-bonded family SO MUCH 🖤😭🖤 I had to make some piece of fan art in their honor! What do you think they're singing? ✨️🎶

[derekstilinski]

something something frenchie's jimi hendrix mcr welcome to the black parade emo goth marching band breakup boat kraken era dark days fit will always be famous

bonus:

[sky-fire-forever]

To the people who say that Ed never harmed the Kraken Crew:

I am genuinely so confused by this take. First of all: Ed is shown to be violent even if that's not directed at the Kraken Crew specifically. He threw Lucius overboard and thinks he killed him in cold blood and he tortures Izzy by mutilating him. Even IF he never physically harms Jim, Frenchie, Fang, or Ivan directly, he is still behaving violently. He is killing people and taking out his depression on both Izzy and the innocent people (ish, they're still naval officers) that they are raiding.

Even if Izzy (and Lucius, remember) are the only direct victims of his physical abuse... they are still victims of that abuse? No matter what Izzy has done, be it threaten him, verbally lashing out at him, or even abuse of his own if you interpret it that way justifies how Ed physically takes him apart and makes him EAT parts of himself. That is beyond abuse. That is both physical and mental literal torture

And remember, Lucius was entirely innocent. He was actively trying to HELP Ed and that did not stop Ed from behaving violently towards him.

If you say since we see no signs of Ed abusing the Kraken Crew, I will remind you that the way Ed led the Kraken Crew got Ivan killed. Ivan DIED due to decisions made during Ed's time as captain of The Revenge, likely due to the constant raids making them exhausted and weakening their ability to fight.

We don't know enough about Ivan's death for me to really say that for certain, so it's speculation. But if Ivan died during a raid, the responsibility still falls on Ed's shoulders. He is their captain, it is his job to protect and defend his crew and we are explicitly told that he did not bat an eye when Ivan went down. We even see Ed kill a member of his own crew during his suicide attempt. A crew member falls overboard and we see Fang reach for them. This is directly caused by Ed sailing into that storm.

He points a gun at his crewmates and they have NO IDEA if he's going to shoot him. They're clearly afraid that he might. Fang starts crying and they all tense up. Frenchie expects Ed to kill him when he finds out that he's been hiding Izzy. They are afraid of their captain, they believe he does not care about their lives and that he could kill them at any moment.

This is abuse. I genuinely do not care if it is physical towards anyone but Izzy or not, it is abuse plain and simple. Ed behaves in an abusive manner towards his crew. That abuse actively puts their lives in danger. Constantly forcing them to go on raid after raid after raid for no reward (because he makes them dump the treasure that they believe they are earning for themselves, as Frenchie flat out asks Izzy if they're receiving "their cut") and exhausting them in the process makes them more likely to be killed on the field. Fighting while exhausted and demoralized is fucking difficult!

And before anyone says that's just life aboard a pirate ship, isn't Ed supposed to be better? Isn't he supposed to be better than Hornigold? Even Ed remembers having good times on Hornigold's ship with Jack. And the Kraken Crew appear constantly exhausted and terrified, carving out their own moments of joy just like Ed had to while under Hornigold

I have seen posts claiming that Izzy fans have a disconnect between interpretation of a character and their actual actions, but the lengths I have seen (certain, not all) Ed fans go to to completely absolve Ed of his cruelest actions absolutely baffles me. Like... Ed made Fang kill his dog and that's BEFORE he became the Kraken.

Ed is a dark character. He does twisted shit. Is that not INTERESTING to you? Does it not fascinate you that a man perfectly capable of torturing his crew and driving them harder and harder and harder until some of them die fueled by his own desire to make himself irredeemable STILL at his core is a man who wants nothing more than to be loved? Do you not find it somewhat beautiful and that this man with so much blood on his hands is still told "someone will love you. You are not a monster, but a person despite your cruelty"? Do you not think the story of a man so completely consumed by all he has done realizing that he can not erase the damage of what he did isn't a good tale to tell? Do you think there is a fundamental difference between the man who tells Stede not to kill and the man who has killed for himself?

I feel like stripping him of his horror takes away so much of who he is. So much of what makes him interesting. He CHOOSES to leave Stede's crew on an island to die of exposure or starvation. He CHOOSES to basically kidnap Frenchie and Jim. He CHOOSES to hurt those closest to him in horrible ways

And he chooses to come back from that. Chooses to try to do better. To learn. To grow. To love.

I have issues with season two, but if we had more time to watch Ed come back from this, to see him make amends with the crew he so horribly damaged, I would have thought this was the best arc ever. Redemption stories are my favorite because it shows that everyone is capable of both good and evil. Ed is capable of both too. I really wish people would see his growth for what it is: a man so entrenched in violence with a nonlinear recovery that hurts people and still keeps trying anyway. Rather than someone who never hurts anyone at all

[hawper]

The pirate knight

[innkeepercore]

a modern take on the Drastic Changes that happened to Frenchie pre and post kraken crew era

[celesmaxwell]

your wedding

is about

to get

a

WHOLE

lot

more

INTERESTING

SAY "I DO" NOW

[cobra-creampuff]

When Ed is just standing around in every raid during the Kraken Era, we the audience know it's because he wants to get killed, but nobody else does. And Ed also thinks everyone hates him and either hasn't been pushed far enough yet or is just too scared to do something about it, but we the audience know it's because they care about him or at least sympathize with him despite it all and they're all still hoping he'll get better.

So during raids when he's just standing there, and somebody comes up and is maybe going to get him (like he wants), one of the crew will take them out before they can land a blow or take a shot. Because they noticed he's not fighting and he's not paying attention, but they don't know why, and if they did honestly that would probably just make them even more likely to look out for him even though of course they're all trying so desperately to look out for each other too.

And for anyone other than Blackbeard (TM), for anyone even slightly less lucky, this would surely damage his reputation. For anyone else, word would spread that he's not actually all that, he relies completely on his crew. It would cast doubt on all his incredible deeds. A one-man legend is impressive, but if it's the crew? Well, that's just competence isn't it.

But it isn't anyone other than Blackbeard (TM). It isn't anyone less lucky. It's Ed. So instead, it helps his reputation. Somehow it manages to make him even more larger-than-life. Even more worthy of the type of fear and awe usually only felt for Gods.

No, because it's Blackbeard (TM), the rumor that spreads is that his crew are extensions of him. They start out just like anyone else, but then he takes control of them. He can see through their eyes, he can hear through their ears, he can speak through their mouths. And he uses them to fight for him, not the way other Captains use their men, no. You can creep up behind his back and think yourself unseen, but you don't just have to go unseen by Blackbeard himself, but by every single one of his men.

If they see you, he sees you. And he won't even bother to turn around and look you in the eye - he'll just kill you with a knife thrown from the other end of the ship, or slit your throat with a pair of claws from behind, or shoot you right between the eyes without ever needing to so much as draw his gun.

[itswhatyougive]

He Was Their Dick (and they loved him)

It's really hitting me again how the Kraken crew saving Izzy was such an act of LOVE.

There was nothing for them to gain by saving Izzy once he'd been shot by the Kraken, nothing at all!!

Not even the possibility of Izzy protecting them from Krakbeard, since the deranged captain had already made it very clear he wanted Izzy dead.

Also, as Izzy was very badly injured at the time, it could be assumed that he would not be able to move from his hiding spot.

Since Krakbeard basically signed his death warrant, Izzy would never be able to move freely aboard the ship without facing rhe Kraken's wrath. He would have to stay sequestered in that little hidden room.

If anything, the crew keeping him alive was making their own lives harder, as well as putting said lives in danger.

It would've been much simpler and straightforward to shoot him, throw him aboard, and shrug it off as the humane way to end his life. We'd seen them waste others with little remorse, after all, and Izzy had been a dick to them in the past anyway.

And yet!!

Almost immediately after Izzy had been shot, one or perhaps all of them must have decided to take that chance to save this seriously wounded older man.

They had to quickly find a hiding place, haul his body, do their best to treat his wound, keep him sedated and quiet as best they could, then sneak him medicine and probably food and rum, help him relieve himself and clean that up.

They would have to do this for the foreseeable future, as Krakbeard told Frenchie in no uncertain terms that he had no intention of ever going back to land.

They would have to keep him alive and hidden for as long as the rest of their lives would allow on that doomed ship.

Surely that would sound like too much trouble for a crew that was focused only on living second to second? Not even Archie really understood their reasoning at the time.

All the same, the ever-opportunistic Frenchie and survivalist Jim put aside their self-preservation instincts just to hide this guy and keep him safe.

Fang had known Izzy for the longest, so it stood to reason that he would be the most inclined to help. And yet, Archie and Jim scrubbed Izzy's blood from the deck while Fang cried and Frenchie was likely tending to Izzy.

Frenchie also went to fetch medicine for him, and Jim and Archie cut off the rotten leg. While it's likely that Fang was just too traumatized to see Izzy in that state without crying and drawing attention, the fact is that the other members of Kraken crew stepped up when they really didn't have to.

Frenchie jeopardized his own position as first mate to lie multiple times to cover for Izzy.

Deranged as the captain was, first mate is considered a pretty privileged station. One would think a clever guy like Frenchie would try to get in the captain's good graces to try to ensure his own survival and not do anything that would potentially get him in big trouble.

And yet......well, you get the picture.

The Kraken crew risked it all for Izzy, and they did it for LOVE