#overcompensates! he is so starving that he eats too much too fast and destroys both of them in the process

[naivety]

the thing is. the thing is that silver really thought thomas would be enough for flint to give up his cause of his own volition, his very essence for the last decade of his life, even just hypothetically, and dared to ask if he himself would be enough for madi to give up her's because they were enough for silver to do it first. the entire shape of long john silver was built on causes he didn't even care about because they cared about them first, and he cared about them. he remade himself for them like rocks under water to the point he didn't realize he truly thought they might do the same until it was too late. the thing is he was only able to reshape himself so easily around them because he had no original shape to begin with.