#max+silver

max starring at the room silver saying there must be a way to get around the room

thinking about how. silver said “guilt is natural it will also pass if you let it” and max said “this will pass if we let it” and how max said about the pearls “this comes from nothing that is its virtue” and silver said “i am no one from nowhere belonging to nothing” and how they’re both looking for freedom but not the kind of freedom flint or madi want and how they’re both so good at manipulating and reading people that they can both fit into whatever role is asked of them to play and how they each refuse to be defined by their pasts but are still so shaped by it and how they ultimately made the same choice (choosing the one they loved over the bigger struggle they had been working towards) with such drastically different results and how jon steinberg said “she lives in the spaces between everybody else’s stories and so I think that gives you the ability to kind of walk around behind the walls of the house that everyone else thinks has solid walls” and how that applied to silver until he lost his leg and became quartermaster and became long john silver and thus became trapped in a story not of his own making and that was max’s worst nightmare and part of what she was trying to avoid in not marrying the man guthrie picked out for her and so max’s happy ending is remaining in the shadows undefined by anybody else’s stories reveling in her power and freedom and silver’s unhappy ending is being identifiable by his missing leg and everything he lost and everything he gave up and being forever condemned to be Long John Silver the protagonist in a story of unending horrors

the difference btwn max and silver being that max is stunningly, painfully, clinically self aware and uses that knowledge of herself to contort herself into whatever she needs to be to survive vs silver having absolutely no sense of self whatsoever so the manipulation of his “self” isn’t just a means to survival it is itself survival

the way i care more abt max and silver than any other relationship on the show even tho it gets abt 5 minutes of screen time........help girl my brain is rotted

still mad we were robbed of a max/silver friendship. i know everyones favorite m/f friendship is lesbian/himbo but i raise u 2 sneaky bitchy gay liars who cause problems on purpose, together <3

i’m literally never not thinking about max and silver and the way they parallel each other and the friendship they could have had. like the way they recognize each other immediately....literally everybody else they know underestimates them or ignores them or misunderstands them (at least at first) which is exactly how max and silver want it. but from the second they meet each other they can read each other and it’s bc they recognize the kindred spirits in one another. and then theyre separated by plot etc etc but can u imagine if they’d become close? self love thru recognition in the other