#after a decade hal is as much in the dark about miranda as the crew and when pressed flint earnestly struggles to explain! | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

chamerionwrites · 4 months ago

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This is why the bit of undramatized backstory I’m most burningly curious about is probably Flint & Gates. How did they become genuine friends. (And at a time when Flint - who is a ten-time gold medalist in Not Making Friends - was presumably at his most wounded and walled-off and feral, to boot?) What made Hal so loyal to him. How did Flint also lowkey decide that Hal was his pirate dad. Is Hal even remotely aware that he’s been cast in the role of Flint’s pirate dad. Is Flint even self-aware about casting Hal in the role of his pirate dad, or is this all writhing sea serpents living in the here-be-dragons zone of his traumatized subconscious

#absolutely everything about the flintgates divorce is SO fucked up and it only gets more so the longer you look at it #flint smiles and laughs and drinks and plots with gates like almost nobody else and yet he has explained NOTHING of his past #after a decade hal is as much in the dark about miranda as the crew and when pressed flint earnestly struggles to explain!#they’re friends coworkers drinking buddies an old married couple a star athlete and his coach a toxic boss and his HR manager #and somewhere somehow perhaps unbeknownst to BOTH of them they are also a deeply traumatized child and his adopted father #having a messy breakup because flint maybe-murdered gates�� other (acknowledged) adopted son (who is in fact alive and sorta well)#what the FUCK guys. what the fuck!!!!#men will literally hunt spanish treasure galleons instead of going to therapy #black sails #my posts

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