#karl ofmd

[beansprean]

More bikie au nonsense ❤️

Jim was raised by a pit stop nun to be gods greatest mechanic and avenge the street racing crash that killed their family. Stede keeps track of everyone’s birthdays on a bike sticker. The secret library in his engine has somehow not caught on fire.

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[ID: Drawing dump of an our flag means death modern bikie au.

1. Ed, with full beard and loose hair in a spiked biker jacket with a kraken patch on the shoulder, crouches next to Stede’s motorcycle, staring with fascination into a secret compartment he just opened. His nails are painted black. Stede, wearing a simple blue button down and gray trousers, is standing behind him with a smile and leaning over to speak. He says, “I had to downsize the engine to make room, but I think it was the right move.” Dazzled by his brilliance, Ed responds, “fucking mental…” Stede’s bike has the shape of a Harley but is clearly custom and painted bright teal. The metal nameplate on the fuel tank dubs it “The Revenge” and the rest is covered in various stickers including one of Mary’s lighthouse, a peace sign, a list of the crew’s birthdays, a smiley face, a pink one that says “I brake 4 birds” and a green one that says “excuse my kiwi attitude.” There is also a pride sticker and a small mountain sticker on the steering fork and a kiwi (the bird) sticker on the right handlebar. Mounted on the headlight is a small wooden unicorn. We can see some stickers on the other side from where Ed has lifted the secret compartment, including a pink heart and a large sticker of a stack of books with a second “ssh!” Speech bubble sticker to the side of it. Each handle has dangling yellow tassels.

2. Ed, mirrored sunglasses pushed to the top of his head, grins excitedly at Karl (a black breasted buzzard) standing on top of Button’s helmeted head. Buttons, in his usual impassive straight-backed manner, tells him, “Karl sends his warm regards.” He is wearing a long-sleeved beige shirt, jeans, gray fingerless gloves, and a denim vest covered in actual buttons of various sizes and colors. His plain gray helmet (no visor) is covered in scratches from Karl’s claws.

3. Jim crouching and looking to the side suspiciously. They are wearing ripped jeans, brown boots, fingerless brown leather gloves, a gold cross necklace, and a grease-stained once-white shirt under a faded blue mechanic’s button-up that says “Jim” on the breast. In the breast pocket is a grease-stained rag, and they are holding a socket wrench like a knife.

4. Ed, wearing Stede’s blue button up, gray trousers, and black tie, is grinning excitedly and dramatically gesturing to Stede with both arms. Stede, sliding into the scene, looks equally excited. He is wearing Ed’s leather pants, fingerless gloves, mirrored sunglasses, and leather jacket zipped up over a bare chest.

5. Izzy, wearing a black tee shirt tucked into jeans, a spiked leather vest, one right glove, black choker, and ring on a necklace, stands angrily with his fists clenched at his side. In his left hand is a knife. His right arm has a rope tattoo wrapped around it that turns into a snake, as well as a cursive “Daddy” on his bicep. His left bicep is wrapped in a bleeding barbed wire tattoo. Someone has put a birthday hat on his head. Teeth clenched around a scowl as confetti rains down on him, Izzy growls, “I fookin hate this.”

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[missmacfire]

[cerulean-devil]

Jim and the boys of the Revenge 🗡🏳️‍🌈✨

[burnt-scone]

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[luciuscodedswedeboy]

Buttons transmogrifying into a seagull and knowing the exact procedure to do it implies that Karl and Olivia were also actual people that transmogrified & maybe knew Buttons before

[athenashaw]

Ok so hear me out (sorry if this has been done :) )

Buttons takes Olivia to Mary's Widows Support Group

Olivia is obviously distraught about Karl, and Buttons has noticed. So he takes her to see the group and acts as translator.

He tells the story. The widows are confused but eventually just accept it. Olivia is a regular and valued member. The Widows appreciate her wit. She goes to all of their outings. Buttons always accompanies her to translate. The Widows help him with his grief over Karl.

There's even comic potential with Buttons not mentioning he knows Stede, and thinking Mary is referring to some other Stede if she ever mentions him. Buttons would 100% describe his job as High Moon Priest and Husband of the Sea or something like that. They're just peacefully co-existing. It takes a full year to realise they're talking about the same guy. After that they just shit-talk him (affectionately).

[mothbyte]

Check out my Inprint for this

Buttons and Karl  🪦

[madzillus]

Karl we miss ye buddy

[haluton]

[sherlockig]

- Bad luck to kill a seabird: the tragic death of Karl

[xfxdedstxr]

Our Flag Means Death is #1 stream on HBO max for the 7th week in a row and nobody has caught on that it’s just the same 50,000 of us just rewatching the entire season over and over and over again.

[irradiatedwarlock]

Tribute to my beloved Nathaniel Buttons. My favourite seawitch, druid, bird guy™. May he no longer feel the cruel limitations of his human form insofar as loving his one and only. The Sea. 🧝‍♂️🍵🕊

[laceratedlamiaceae]

Buttons & Karl

[5000stars-in-reach]

Now that we know that magic is real and confirmed in the ofmd universe Buttons really did hex Calico Jack and he really could talk to Karl and Olivia. For all we know Buttons could actually tell that the rabbit was intelligent.

[cursed-coat-of-homosexuality]

Y'all think Karl has children? If so what do you think are their names?

[ladyluscinia]

Me and @rattus-villosissimus have Daemon AU Buttons's whole deal figured out, btw.

So Karl is a perfectly normal seagull that hangs out with Buttons as you see in the show. People have a sense of when an animal is a daemon vs a regular bird, so not getting this sense feels very novel and possibly unnerving - this is why Edward fucking loves it on first sight. Buttons absolutely still talks to Karl and sees nothing odd about that whatsoever.

Buttons's daemon is Olivia - a seagull of the exact same species as Karl. She can be seen occasionally preening his feathers and generally socializing as seagulls do... except the rule is animals naturally avoid daemons and often refuse to touch them so this is also very weird. Buttons went through an unspecified near-death experience as a young man that he only describes using convoluted metaphors. It left him truly separated from Olivia (like a witch) meaning she has freedom to travel as far as she wants from him, though most people don't actually realize this immediately since Buttons sounds like he's crazy talking and Olivia tends to stay around the ship (though uncomfortably further from him than most normal daemons).

They are both so weird.

Only issue I have is that I need to recast Karl, because the gull that played him was a Silver Gull native to Australia. I need one actually found in the Caribbean.

The left photo shows a Ring-Billed Gull (slightly larger than canon Karl) which looks a bit more like the Silver Gull, but they breed up in the Northern US / Southern Canada and only winter in the Caribbean. Meanwhile the gull on the right is a Laughing Gull (same size as canon Karl) which lives in the Caribbean year round. The black hood is their summer look, and their head reverts to white outside of breeding season.

I'm leaning toward the Laughing Gull.