#Stede does NOT want to be protected (he wants to protect Ed hfhfkgh. eventually they'll realise they can do both) | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

bougiebutchbinch · 5 months

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I just love the parallel of Stede saying to Ed 'you deserve to be loved even if you have done bad things. you deserve to be soft and sweet and you deserve to have kindness' and Ed saying to Stede 'you deserve to go fucking apeshit darling <3 tear them apart with your bare hands. that's my husband, yeah the one covered in blood. so fucking proud of him'

and obviously they both say to Izzy 'you too deserve to be loved and treated with kindness and you didn't deserve pain and suffering and you don't need to be afraid of your own vulnerability; you are safe to be vulnerable with us' and then they all kiss

#gentlebeard #blackbonnet #steddyhands #stede bonnet #ed teach #ofmd #izzy hands #they deserve this I think #I choose to believe that they both support each other's change!!!!#Ed is obviously wary of Stede's growing bloodthirst and for genuine reasons #he doesn't want to watch Stede fall into the same trap he did #he sees Stede as someone he wants to 'protect' from following a dark path like the kraken #Stede does NOT want to be protected (he wants to protect Ed hfhfkgh. eventually they'll realise they can do both)#he was disturbed by Murders and genuinely haunted by them at first #I choose to believe he's kinda Into It now so the characterisation shift makes sense lol #and Ed learns to kinda love this #and that he and Stede are not doomed to the same trajectory #but Stede also has to deal with the fact that his desire to be More Piratey might hurt ED #and that's gonna destroy him if he lets it #UGHHH I am poking them with a stick #that's such an interesting plot worm #Stede trying to give up on his whole future because he's afraid of how it'll affect Ed and Ed being #SO genuinely fucking touched and happy #but also Not Wanting Him To Do That #and GENUINELY supporting Stede and wanting to help him and being super proud of him #but struggling to reconcile the new amazing peace he's found - that stede and izzy built with him! - with Stede's bloodthirst #UGHHHHHH THEMST #silly gay pirates #THEY ALL WANT EACH OTHER TO BE HAPPY AHHHH

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