#bsanniversary

For the Black Sails 10th anniversary week: Favorite season.

That knife is in his back. How did he stab himself?

"It's a funny thing, the more those men need you, the more you need them. And it drives us to do the most unexpected things."

For the Black Sails 10th anniversary week: Favorite story arc.

"you heard him."

II. • And then what? Then they blockade the island, choke off trade. A few crews will resist, but how long can they survive without my father's support? One by one their numbers will dwindle. The fort will be abandoned. Soldiers will storm the beach. By the time the smoke clears, my father will have arrived. First time he's set foot here in five years waving the royal commission that his bribes purchased and lording over the place. Round of applause, the new governor. Somewhere in London, some foul fuck will get news of all of this, light his pipe and say, "Finally, all is right again in Nassau." XIX. • You saying this ain't real? Of course it is. The fort will be repaired. If he says it, he'll do it. When you first opened that door and showed me the Urca gold, do you know what I saw? A solution. The mortar that would secure the sand beneath our feet. The thing I could offer to England or Spain or whomever arrived here and threatened to reorder things, and say, "Take this and leave me be." Everything is dependent upon that gold, and right now it is sitting in a fort with no guns and full of holes.

"I'm no one, from nowhere, belonging to nothing. I'm a wretch like you. And yet, mountains of gold have changed hands because I chose it, thousands of men in Nassau are living in fear of my return because I decreed it, hundreds of dead redcoats in a forest not far from here because I made it so. I am the reason grown men lie awake at night. I am a new beginning for Nassau."