silver is so funny to me. he learned that thomas is maybe potentially alive and immediately starting tearing his own life apart at the seams. that piece of information would make anyone crazy of course! he feels really normal about it! #normalguy. DON'T. examine why the idea of flint learning this and leaving him the war behind makes him feel weird and twisted up inside.
and then, of course, he has hands and billy being the devil on his shoulder and the other devil on his shoulder (his evil advisors. his anti-marriage counselors, if you will.) which causes him to transfer these strange and unknowable feelings (they're not gay thoughts SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP-) onto his relationship with madi. this is an easy transfer because she and flint are so similar! which is a very really normal thing that makes him feel normal! (SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP)
so of course he has no other choice but to blow up his whole life about it. #normalguy
