i've been thinking about izzy never owning up to his role in edward's downward spiral the past couple days, and just now was rewatching the first episode of season two and-
it's worse.
it's not just that he doesn't own up to it - he actively denies it.
during the 'atmosphere on this ship is poisoned' convo, at some point, izzy reaches his breaking point, and snaps- and then he says: "the atmosphere on this ship is fucked. everyone knows why. your feelings for stede fucking bonnet."
your feelings for stede fucking bonnet.
except we know it's not true.
it's not the feelings that are the problem - ed wanted to process these feelings, was on his way to doing so, thanks to lucius' and the rest of the crew's support. how well would it have worked, we can't know for certain - but i'm pretty damn sure it would have gone much better than how it did with izzy's 'intervention'.
honestly ed shooting him in the leg is a pretty toned reaction to izzy absolving himself by pushing all the blame onto ed and his feelings.
ed's feelings aren't the problem.
the problem is the unhealthy way to cope with them that he was forced into, as well as being forced to assume a persona that he so desperately wanted to leave behind.
and then? we're supposed to just believe that izzy suddenly does a 180 degree turn, that he is suddenly completely fine with and accepting of ed being ed, of ed's relationship with stede?
no.
i don't know who the character who does these things is. but it certainly isn't izzy hands.
