verbal lollygagging

you said you only live once; you also said you love your boyfriend

the parallels between wwx and flint are. girl I can't even BEGIN to describe to you. Someone comparing them is what got me to watch the untamed in the first place. i am linking some posts but don't click on them until you finish season 2. like. yeah. I know i have more in my tag but this was what i could find. anyway all this to say that's barely an au but i CANT GET INTO IT without massive black sails spoilers. this post from @orpheusilver describes how i feel about this better than anything i could write.

Okay but thk black sails.

Fadel and Bison are pirates - I don't think Lily is their captain bc sexism but she secures all the leads for this crew and takes a hefty cut. She uses the crew to her own ends, as well, though ofc that's a secret <3 Perhaps Fadel and Bison are captain and quartermaster? Christ is a privateer/governor who's coming to bring Civilization back to Nassau (or wherever this is set. I should look into piracy in Thailand) and Kant is a former pirate who was arrested and Christ is using as his man in Havana so to speak. Christ recognizes the pull that Lily has on the island which is why he sends Kant to infiltrate Fadel and Bison's crew - to sew dissent, maybe? Not sure. Style..... I'm not sure exactly where he fits into all this. I don't think he'd be a pirate, but he's adjacent to piracy, working with them.

and eclipse infinity train au... (for people who have not watched infinity train: it's a magic train designed to help people work through their problems and grow as a person, basically) This would be set early in the show, before Akk and Aye have begun to trust each other at all. I think they wind up on the train because of Aye, actually. He's in a fit of despair about Dika, the impossibility of fighting the institution that killed him, and the train appears while Akk is stalking him, and Akk follows him aboard. They both have pretty high numbers, but Akk's is much, much higher than Aye's and he assumes that this must mean a high number is good. He leans harder into his callousness and rigidity.