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occasionally clicking while holding the cursed captain in the hopes it will let me place a tender little kiss upon his cheekbone

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Madame Olivia is a trans woman, here's why:

her backstory comic is about finding the woman she was always meant to be

canonically made the potion that let's you change your appearance

because I can headcanon what I want

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I saw a pirate so beautiful I started crying?

I immediately felt compelled to give them the nine captain’s chests I had in my sloop and say: “You are the best looking person I have ever seen so I think you deserve it and I was going to buy a new ship with the gold but whatever” but decided against it. And then I started crying. I seriously cried for an hour. I ran to the nearest cave and came out later and I was even more tired before. I was overtired and btw I am a Gold Hoarder. I don’t know why I cried because of that and they were better looking than all the models I’d seen ever!

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how do you feel abt the founder of the bilge rats? in my opinion? shes sexie. but i miss Duke :(

i love her !!! she's cool as hell and im excited to see what she's going to get up to :] !!

as for duke, yeah, me too. i'm also kinda happy for him though? next step of his own journey & such, u know how it is

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how do you feel about the new tall tale? esp since it has Stitcher Jim's hideout! (I'm abt to do the tall tale and thought I should ask you your opinions since you are thee sot lore master)

oh the heart of fire? objectively, it’s probably not the absolute Best tall tale (especially if you enjoy puzzles unfortunately 😔), but it IS one of my favorites simply for the sense of progression and the atmosphere. and i LOVE flameheart’s presence in it, the way he taunts you as you go along? it’s so good. 

honestly the whole thing is like, much more cinematic than video game..y. with the way the plot progresses, the music, the way characters interact with yours even though you yourself cant really interact with them. idk it makes me feel badass!!! it’s cool as hell

i also appreciated learning the new skeleton glyphs !!

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i started this a while ago and idk if i’ll ever actually finish it so for now have an incomplete briggsy because you’re epic

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[ID: The Gay-Bi-Lesbian / Distinguished-Functional-Disaster Alignment Chart filled out with pictures of several characters.

Distinguished Gay: Sir Arthur Pendragon, Distinguished Bi: DeMarco Singh, Distinguised Lesbian: Madame Olivia

Functional Gay: Duke, Functional Bi: Humphrey the Hoarder, Functional Lesbian: Chief Trader Mollie

Disaster Gay: Rathbone / The Gold Hoarder, Disaster Bi: Stitcher Jim, Disaster Lesbian: Mele Silvertounge. End ID]

just my thoughts

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[ID: A digital drawing of Wanda / Captain Warsmith on a gray background. She’s a skeleton wearing the Reaper’s Bones uniform. End ID]

Wanda in Reaper’s Bones Uniform when?

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do you think there will ever be a crab boss? i feel like theres so much crab imagery and with the ocean crawler set it seems to be building uo to something like that to me

oh hell yeah i sure hope so !!! i’ve seen some really cool fan concepts for the ocean crawlers, and they might not end up being accurate but they’re really cool to think about!

it’d be neat if it was another world event or something, like an island sized crab with a whole coral reef on its back comes up to the surface and you have to beat it back down? i dunno. but i hope we end up learning what the fuck an ocean crawler actually is at some point, at least !

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oh, great news! with the ashen winds update, we’ve learned a few more tidbits about the forts!

the ashen lord Captain Grimm was responsible for their construction, at the order of Flameheart. they were meant to hold and defend all their treasure! and Duke makes it sound like there were once more forts than are currently in the game!

i'm curious but is there lore about the forts in game?

not much, but there is!!!

the sea of thieves twitter revealed a while ago that the forts were constructed by Flameheart, and after his disappearance, loyal followers still maintained them, and stocked them with loot as tribute once he returned

their original purpose, and what they’re doing now that he’s back is currently unknown (at least as far as im aware)

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HI!!! I'm admittedly not on tumblr all that often and I love your content, do you have a Twitter? also! what are your thoughts on the lore so far up to this point? (i.e. the return of Flameheart and these fire lords ig)

unfortunately im not on twitter, it scares me 😔

& honestly the lore fascinates me !!! it's genuinely my favorite part of the game !! i love the way it handles it too, with the journals & the monologues n stuff! i appreciate that not everything is answered yet- im sure lots of things will remain mysterious (like the ancients, mermaids, and curses, probably) but it seems like with every update if something's not answered, a puzzle piece is introduced and it's so compelling!!!!! i love watching the events and drama unfold and im so excited to see what comes next!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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have you heard about the new update for next week?? do you have any theories what the new encounter they hinred at might be?

admittedly i havent been keeping up with the news recently BUT !!!! i have JUST gotten up to date and my initial thoughts are that it might be our first real look at an ashen lord? (whether or not that means Jim specifically though im not sure)

i think it’d be neat if it was a unique boss for the ashen fort! or it’s entirely possible it’s part of a new tall tale and theyre just keeping hushed about it

whatever it is though, im excited to find out!!!

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hey it's the same mother fucker who asked about the servant of the flame last night. which order of the souls member do you like the most? tbh I like Olga and Oliva the most!

ohhh i really like Olive and Oya !!! but Olivia is iconic

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[ID: A digital drawing of the Servant of the Flame from the waist up over a white and pink background. They’re wearing a black cloak with golden accents, a loose red headscarf, gloves that look fingerless at first and a pirate hat. Their face is hidden under a golden mask with a wooden chin. No skin visible. They’re forming a heart with their hands, while holding a short sword. There are two red hearts floating next to their head. All the colors have a slight red or pink hue to them. End ID]

Reaper’s Bones not only stole my treasure but also gave the Servant of the Flame my heart.

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OOUGGH IM SO GLAD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE THINKING ABOUT SEA OF THIEVES HLVRAI AU... PLEASE !!!! PLEASE PLEASE SHARE UR IDEAS I WANNA HEAR THEM SO BAD

OHHH ANON YOU HAVE SAVED MY FUCKING LIFE WITH THIS ASK THANK YOU SO MUCH

SO !! i barely have anything yet bc i just had this fucking brain blast like an hour ago but. here are my Thoughts so far:

so the very first thing i tried to think of was like. what everyone is? i did my best w this but i am so fuckin open to ideas..... i don’t know shit! 

the easiest answer right off the bat was who the humans are (or at least the pirates who appear to be human) in this. we got the science team as the pirate crew—gordon, tommy, bubby, and coomer! they are sailing the seas and maybe they are not doing a very good job of it but it’s fine. it’s Fine

the second easiest answer was benrey’s situation. we got skeletons fuck yeah. benrey got some of that curse uh oh! however w benrey’s situation that’s more like... sometimes being a skeleton rather than just steadily turning into one, i thought maybe the curse fucked up on him? maybe it’s like. he’s only half cursed to just sometimes be a skeleton but he can also look human again too. i don’t fucking know. also OH SHIT BENREY HAS TO BE NOT HUMAN UHJHHHHHHHH fuck it guess he’s part ancient now too. i guess. shit i’ll have to spend more time on him but this is.. the gist

next we got uhh forzen babey. i’ll be honest i’m not too confident on this one. i had the vague idea that maybe he’s a mermaid? although whether he’s one of the mermaids that steals sunken pirates and turns them into mermaids or one of the mermaids who was turned into a pirate i can’t really decide. i mean the pirates-turned-mermaids are always helpful in game, and forzen. well. Isn’t, but the mermaid-mermaids live so far deep that they’re never seen? so i don’t know. but he’s out there.... in the ocean....... somewhere....... waiting for me to have more brain power to answer this

it’s darnold time! i’ll be honest i also don’t have many ideas for this guy. i thought maybe he’s got something to do with the order of souls? that’s vaguely related to potions right? sage darnold with the oos eyes curse and he reads the fuckin skull juices to help out the crew with their voyages..... i think? there are other options too but this is the one that jumped out at me the most!

GREGORY MAN. the man himself. SO I GOT TWO POSSIBILITIES HERE FOR THIS GUY. what i can’t decide on is how much of canon sot i want to be canon in this au... mainly, the stuff abt the pirate lord. i got two options here, one of which is that ramsey still exists as the pirate lord and he hangs out doing mostly the same shit he does in canon, and gman is like. an ancient who stuck around the sea of thieves for whatever reason? which would make tommy a descendant of the ancients too, hence why i specified earlier that all the pirates in the crew might not be human..... EITHER THAT OR gman is the pirate lord and ramsey fuckin uh doesn’t exist in the au. and i CANNOT for the life of me decide which i like better. ANY HELP APPRECIATE HERE PLS

OH ALSO I FORGOT SUNKIST HE’S A MONKEY THAT TOMMY HAS AND HE CAN DO COOL TRICKS AND EVERYONE LOVES HIM. HE’S IMMORTAL SOMEHOW. DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT

THEN. it’s tim,e for “how the fuck did everyone get past the shroud into the sot”

i think no matter who the pirate lord is in this au they’d have no problems letting pretty much anyone in honestly. ramsey just kinda says “oh you washed up unconscious on the shores of old sailor’s isle? cool let me just not ask any questions and part the shroud for you real quick ok bye” and honestly i can’t imagine gman would be much different—although he’d probably be more cryptic abt it than ramsey is

SO. GORDOS. i feel like him coming to the sot was a last resort of sorts. he feels lost in life, unsure what his goal is or where he’s going, and he hears of this mystical sea that nobody who enters ever leaves but apparently there’s adventure and treasure and wonder there so he’s like fuck it, i’ve got nothing else to do and goes there hoping to find some sort of purpose. and find it he does :)

tommy time! i feel like whatever brought him here had to be partially related to his dad? either he’s just There bc. well. his dad’s the fuckin pirate lord, or gman’s all cryptid abt being an ancient and left tommy to sort of grow up in the sot on his own while gman kept a distant eye on him, just so tommy wouldn’t find out too much abt being an ancient or whatever. uh. so he’s pretty familiar w the world of sot and all its wacky magic shit! 

(actual sot lore question here bc this is smth i don’t know—does all the magic that happens in sea of thieves happen beyond the shroud? i wonder if the rest of the world also has skeletons and giant sea monsters and magic and shit or if it’s just inside the sea of thieves...... hmmm for this au i’m gonna assume that all magic is something unique to the sea of thieves and doesn’t happen beyond the shroud) 

The Bubby. honestly i like the idea that bubby came to the sot just to like... get away from the outside world? like maybe he’s on the run from something............ this is very very vague in my mind and is extremely subject to change but i like the whole “I’M LEAVING THIS WORLD!” thing as bubby being like fuck the regular world i’m going into the flesh eating devil shroud and nobody can stop me. and then he did

coomer. the man himself. i think coomer came to the sot searching for adventure! and more to learn! he’s always looking to broaden his horizons and where else to go but to the mystical sea of thieves when looking for new experiences? coomer is just here to have a good time :)

UH i think darnold already existed in the sot... he just sorta Lives There... there are npcs who just fucking were born and raised there right. like tasha was in the sot at age 4 so it makes sense right?? darnold just live here and he helps get the crew from the outside world familiar with the sot!

FORZEN has been in the sot for ages—either he’s always been here as a mermaid or he got turned into one so long ago and he’s just been getting angrier and angrier w it every year he’s trapped here. he barely remember why he came anymore but god does he regret it. :(

gman either way just kind of Is There huh..... as the pirate lord i honestly can’t imagine his origin being much different than ramsey’s? like he just makes friends w the ancients like hey what’s up i like this sea. my sea now. or he Is an ancient and just fucking chills there. whatever

OK THAT’S MOSTLY IT FOR WHAT I HAVE FOR TECHNICAL STUFF WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO IT..... HERE ARE SOME OTHER FUN BITS I THOUGHT OF:

bubby discovers firebombs and Uh Oh. Uh Oh Everyone Watch Out Bubby’s Got Fire Powers Now. he only accidentally sets the ship on fire SOMETIMES it’s FINE. (also his favorite region is the devil’s roar. unsurprisingly. he likes the chaos it brings)

bubby and tommy + coomer as well are agents of chaos in general. they don’t follow the fuckin Rules and it makes gordon’s life a living hell. 

bubby: look gordon i dug up some grubs! gordon: cool man, put those in the barrel and we can use them to fish late- bubby: (shoving the grubs in his mouth) gordon: BUBBY NO WHAT THE FUCK DON’T EAT TH coomer: oh, what a good idea, bubby! i am feeling quite hungry myself! (also starts eating worms) gordon: I’M COOKING DINNER AT THE CAMPFIRE RIGHT NOW PLEASE DON’T tommy: oh are the worms okay to eat? i wonder what they taste like gordon: NO STOP benrey, shoving worms in gordon’s face: eat worms? eat worms now please?

coomer finds out how to launch himself out of a cannon and he becomes unstoppable. the crew is attacked by an enemy ship and everyone’s like “oh fuck everyone get to the cannons!” and they go there to find coomer fucking launching himself directly onto the enemy ship, and he kills their entire crew in seconds. by the time he mermaids back to his ship everyone is fucking stunned silent and coomer is just like “well, that takes care of that! let’s get back on course, gentlemen!” and since then they just fucking fire coomer at people like a weapon whenever they get attacked by other pirates or skeletons. It Always Works

UH AND I THINK THAT’S KIND OF WHAT I HAVE SO FAR? i might be forgetting something but this post is long enough as is...... 

IF ANYONE HAS ANYTHING TO ADD FEEL FREE!!! i love sea of thieves so fuckin much man... and i didn’t even TOUCH on anything like any of the reaper’s bones shit which i would be interested in looking at getting involved in this au somehow...... i will probably come back to this if anyone else is interested !! otherwise that’s all i got for now!!!! thank you so much for asking anon!!!!!

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i'm curious but is there lore about the forts in game?

not much, but there is!!!

the sea of thieves twitter revealed a while ago that the forts were constructed by Flameheart, and after his disappearance, loyal followers still maintained them, and stocked them with loot as tribute once he returned

their original purpose, and what they’re doing now that he’s back is currently unknown (at least as far as im aware)

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do you think the servant of the flame can get it

what kind of a question is this? of course they can. the servant of the flame is genuinely the sexiest motherfucker on the sea of thieves. the only reason i said briggsy is the best designed character in the game is because i forgot they existed, which i should be executed for

look at them. Look At Them. scarf AND hat. gloves that look fingerless but aren’t. got that scratchy-ass whisper voice. leanin on that sword like it’s a cane. LOOK AT THEM. tasteful bronze mask. and EVERYONE knows that black + gold + red is the sexiest color combination there is.

the servant of the flame could Get It. they could get So Fucking Much. i want to hold where their cheek would be and gaze into the eyes that they may or may not have