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northernpansy · 2 years

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talking about people overstating Izzy’s role in Blackbeard’s crew i’ve seen a bunch of posts about how Izzy is the one doing all the killing for Blackbeard since Ed won’t and how he’s the one that has to do the nasty dirty work

and no doubt Izzy has killed on Blackbeard’s orders but (i think?) the only person we actually see get ordered to do one of Ed’s proxy murders is Fang with the snail fork, so it definitely isn’t Izzy’s special task to do Blackbeard’s murders

honestly i’d be surprised if Izzy even knows that Ed’s only done the one murder because if he did know i don’t think his fanatical lust for violence would allow him to idealise Ed the way he does

i believe he definitely thinks of himself as burdened/honoured with taking care of all the dirty work when actually Fang and Ivan and the various unnamed leather daddies probably all do their share of it, and Izzy (in classic middle-management fashion) just believes that all the responsibility/stress/indispensability/praise belongs solely to him

#Ed’s only done the one murder STILL until PROVEN OTHERWISE the Luciuside was merely ATTEMPTED #i really like Izzy’s charcter i think he’s a fantastic nuanced antagonist #but Ed’s perfectly capable of being Blackbeard without him which imo is part of what makes Izzy so tragic & interesting as an antagonist #he thinks he’s more important than he is and when that world view gets shattered he does whatever he can to restore it it’s cool motivation #another thing that makes him a good antagonist: most of his villainy is so *mundane*#i reckon most people will have experienced his particular brand of nastiness because self important middle managers are everywhere #the last post i reblogged made me think of this but it had an important message about racism that i didn’t want to dilute or speak over #but yeah check out that post cause framing Izzy as more competent than Ed & the rest of Ed’s crew is bad #our flag means death

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