#jay.docx

his suit is literally....... orange and gold. with fish scales.

i just think that's. interesting. especially because the wedding cake topper does not have this detailing.

meaning that ed noticed this Fine Fabric and it stuck in his mind as being stede-like. and his subconscious uses it to construct his vision of stede.

this is also where i point out (perhaps needlessly) that... this is a wedding suit. ed, on the verge of death, imagines his love swimming towards him, yes. but more specifically... his groom.

so... we've talked abt ed's body language during lucius and pete's wedding, but not stede's. during the parts of the scene where he's in the background, stede is looking at ed. then, ed presumably makes a comment to him, so stede looks at him head-on. when lucius and pete say their "i do's" (or rather, "fuck yeah's"), stede appears to be daydreaming. his eyes are unfocused. suddenly, we see him snap back to attention, and he cheers.

i could be wrong, but my theory is that stede was fantasizing about having his own wedding with ed. they are in sync.