maz

uhm okay so like. silver forced flint to choose his own ending. right? surrender or die. the question of "what happened on the island" is more about who flint was in that moment than about who silver was. the silver relevant part is how he responded, because all we know is the story he tells madi, and that story has a very different meaning for him depending on its factual truth. either option throws his flintness and maxness out of balance and turns him into one of them. if flint chose death, silver becomes flint, killing him and lying about it for a selfish agenda. if flint chose surrender, silver becomes max, unapologetically betraying him but refusing to carry the guilt of an unnecessary death. choosing one reading has a massive effect on the line "i am not the villain you fear i am, i'm not him" which . did not make sense to me for a good fucking while im gonna be real. because madi never saw flint as a villain like silver did? but the core of it is "what you think i did is evil but its what flint would do, i did not do it, therefore im not flint and not a villain" so if you give silver the maxlike ending the line becomes an honest statement and genuine belief. if you give him the flintlike ending it becomes an intentional lie about his actions and the biggest cope youve ever fucking seen

A little detail I've always enjoyed about Flint is how he Always stands when a "lady" enters the room.