my piratecore

Here are the Boys! I’m spending way too much time on these! It’s the black sails curse baby (forever stuck in your brain like a bullet)!

1. Flint glaring at Silver in the warship after Silver nearly wakes a Spanish soldier, from episode 2.1. Tumblr text post from firefox-official: “youre so mean” if you guys werent fucking stupid i wouldnt have to be mean to you. change starts with you”

2. Silver speaking to Max (offscreen) in the brothel from episode 1.2. Tumblr text post from shez-a-dove: “my talent it coming off warm and inviting and open but still remaining a fairly closed off person”

3. Flint covered in blood speaking to the Walrus crew after killing Singleton from episode 1.1. Tumblr text post from c0ffeeb1ack: “he’s a cult leader, he’s a fashion icon, he’s a war veteran, he’s immortal, he dies all the time, he’s haunted, he’s high and he’s sober, he’s agnostic, god hates him personally. i”

4. Flint collapsed at Miranda’s door from episode 1.2. Tumblr text post from dearrot: “my immense self hatred VS my delusional god complex”

5. Silver leaning against a wall smirking at Billy from episode 1.3. Tumblr text post from bagginshield: “im such a man who leans in doorways. relaxes against the counter. drapes across a cough. sprawls over an armchair. my spine isnt straight and by god neither am i”

6. Flint mid-snarl and glaring at Silver (offscreen) on the beach from episode 2.1. Tumblr text post from waerlogas: “i may seem like an angry person on the surface but deep inside im actually angrier”

7. Silver and Flint huddled close and speaking from episode 2.2. Tumblr text post from cthonicdionysus: “I’m going to be honest with you I’m not going to be honest with you”

8. Silver pointing a pistol at Flint on Skeleton Island from episode 4.10. Tumblr text post from ovur: “This is how I win. *loses*”

9. Flint holding a book in the captain’s cabin of the Spanish warship, looking back towards the door from episode 2.3. Tumblr text post from nymphpens: “i read classic literature for fuelling my God complex fun”

You’ll fight a war, so we can make a life? You don’t get one without the other, my sweet.

I always make fun of that one conversation between Flint and Gates where he sounds like a raving lunatic even though he is normally very good at convincing people. But his underlying guilt makes him so defensive and incoherent that he just lashes out. He knew how close Billy and Gates were (he demonstratively took Billy’s sword during the funeral to show he gives a shit), and if he felt guilty over not saving Billy, he sure as hell felt guilty over murdering Gates.

So after Billy comes back the space between them becomes too loaded with the absence of someone they can’t mention without shattering the fragile truce they forged to keep the crew together. Except Billy does mention him twice in 2x7:

Both times they are conveniently interrupted before Flint’s silence goes on for too long. But Billy isn’t just saying this to tease him, he’s looking for confirmation. It’s unclear how much he knows about what happened but it’s safe to assume the summary he gets from Silver is all he ever gets. And considering what he says to Rogers in s4 (that Flint killed Gates over money) that thought was festering there for some time with no charitable assumptions. He phrases it so differently both times like he wants Flint to react, to admit it, to deny it, to say something. He comes onto him honestly, and expects the same honesty in return. But the most honest reply Flint can give him is not lying.