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multiple things can be true at once. you can acknowledge that izzy's ending makes narrative sense and that the writers know what they're doing with it AND you can be absolutely devastated on the floor in a puddle of your own tears sobbing and sobbing and sobbing and sobbing and s

REMEMBER WHEN STEDE APPARENTLY SAID "I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU, I LOVE BEING NEAR YOU, BREATHING THE SAME AIR" IN HIS LETTER IN THE TEASER? REMEMBER HOW HE DIDN'T SAY THAT IN THE ACTUAL LETTER? REALIZE THEY'VE ALREADY REUNITED? REALIZE HE'S GONNA SAY THIS TO HIS FACE?

god, stede really just learnt that the love of his life has died, that he was too late to save him and that the people directly responsible for his death are his own crew and he still got them all out and saved their lives, even IZZY whom he hates so much, he didn’t shout, he didn’t take it out on them, he made sure that they were alright and only then did he go to see ed’s body and fell apart, on his knees, all alone in the dark