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Ooooh yes! What a good question! It never gets old for me, tbh. My first big fandom and my newest one colliding. I haven’t thought about this in a while though, so it’ll be fun to figure out again. 

So, to me the obvious Slytherins: my boy John Silver. Max. Eleanor. Rogers. Cunning, resourceful, ambitious, often self-serving, but willing to do absolutely whatever it takes to protect the people they love, even if it means doing messed up shit. I feel like we see that thing in Black Sails that JKR occasionally bothered to include in HP, where Slytherins aren’t all just the same shade of Evil™ and actually when it comes to looking after their own family/friends they’ll do incredibly brave or difficult things to protect them (a la Draco’s mother lying straight to Voldemort’s face about Harry being dead). Sometimes in following their ambitions our Slytherins lose sight of protecting what’s important, but once they realise that they’ll move heaven and earth to fix that, even if it costs them everything. But then sometimes they really are just the worst...Rogers.

Hufflepuffs: Mr Gates. Mr Featherstone. Mr Scott. Billy (pre-S4 mental breakdown). I feel like Hufflepuffs make for good quartermasters, valuing hard work, loyalty, and fair play. Plus, Mr Featherstone looks a bit like a badger, so that makes me happy. I suppose even after his Beard of Betrayal story line, Billy’s still Hufflepuff-ish? He valued loyalty and fair play so much that it completely broke him when the crew turned on him. And if there can be Gryffindors who go bad, like Peter Pettigrew, there can surely be Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws who spectacularly fuck up their life choices too. Billy’s one of them.

Ravenclaws: Miranda. Thomas. Thomas in particular seems a fairly obvious one. He has Hufflepuff traits too, clearly, but his passion for learning and debating and his love of wit (”Thank you, dear. Well played.”) scream Ravenclaw to me. Miranda I think has more additional Slytherin traits. She can definitely be cunning and resourceful, and that streak of ice cold vengefulness in her seems more Slytherin than anything else. Overall though, I think Ravenclaw. At least, Ravenclaw when not pushed to extremes.

Gryffindors: Flint. Madi. Anne. Vane. Teach. Like with the Slytherins, I feel like you have many different shades of Gryffindor in Black Sails, but they do tend to share a common regard for bravery, daring, and adhering to their own personal codes of conduct. Vane and Madi in particular strike me as two classic Gryffindor types. I mean, Madi is basically Hermione. Bookish? Check. Brave? Check. A crusader for social justice from a young age? Check. Both Anne and Flint could be argued to be Slytherin-ish, I think, but Anne in particular I’m not sure it fits that well (I love her, but she’s more often the deadly instrument for Jack’s cunning plans, and she seems to have zero ambition of any kind). Flint has traits all over the place, and I think perhaps I’d call McGraw a Slytherin, but overall I think Gryffindor fits him best.

People I can’t decide on: Jack bloody Rackham. He fits so squarely between Slytherin and Ravenclaw that I really don’t know where I’d put him. He fits both houses to a t. Is he a cunning and self-serving Ravenclaw? Or a witty, knowledge-hungry Slytherin? I honestly don’t know. Perhaps he’s like Miranda; perhaps he’s the Ravenclaw pushed to extremes. Also the Maroon Queen. I have no idea where to put her. Perhaps another Slytherin?

It's gonna go great and then it will be over! :)

jmesbarnes replied to your post

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!

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AHH GOOD LUCK!!! you'll be amazing 

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It will be okay!

old-long-john replied to your post

Good luck! The wait is absolutely the worst part. Once you've actually started it'll be over and done with before you know it. ❤︎

vowel-in-thug replied to your post

Tbh i think fighting a pit of snakes is preferable to defending a thesis but once you succeed (AND YOU WILL) then you’ll be ready to fight a pit of snakes

flintings replied to your post

LOVE YOU GOOD LUCK ❤❤❤❤

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Good luck honey

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You're gonna kick so much ass tbh ❤❤❤

AAAAAAAGHDFAHG THANK YOU ALL SO, SO VERY MUCH!!! this kind of support rly helps and i hope i come out of this alive tmrw

And sadly are the ones that haven't been shown us:/

I think that as time passes, Silver probably misses the excitement and the feeling of being part of something that is bigger than you. The way many vets later in life talk about the war that, when they were a part of it, was this horrifying and terrible thing, but as they grow older, their memory kinda … puts the whole thing in a more favorable light, and the more traumatic apects fade away. So there might be a bit of that, but that wouldn’t be all.

I don’t think that Silver will necessarily come to regret his decision - but he will realize that it cost him more than he’d initially thought. And so of course, he’ll wonder what might have happened it he hadn’t done it, if he’d told Jack to fuck off, if he’d trusted Flint more, if he’d found another way, what he could have done differently. The “what if” that Silver, especially as he grows older, would have to ponder again and again. 

I’m not sure he’ll be miserable - but life, in general, tends to be a huge disappointment for most people. All the things that could have been, the roads not travelled, the relationships not pursued, the chances not taken. And while we don’t know a lot of Silver’s and Madi’s relationship, I think it’s pretty much a given that it’s not all going to be rainbows and roses. And when they hit a bump in the road - well, it would be only natural for old grievances to come to light. Every time they see people in chains. Every time Madi is mistaken for a slave. Every time they struggle to make ends meet in a world that exploits people for their labor and gives very little in return. 

And I imagine that the moment Silver learns that Billy Bones has the map - that there are plans to unearth Flint’s treasure - there might be more than a bit of resentment. He’ll think of everything that he had to sacrifice so that the treasure would stay buried. He’ll think of the price he paid - that he had to betray Flint, that he had to betray Madi, and the toll it took on their relationship. And he’ll think that if someone deserves a part of that treasure, it’s him. Because he knows, better than anyone else, what’s in that chest, and Billy Bones does not deserve even an ounce of it, the bloody traitor. And neither does that ignorant squire who thinks he can just get his dirty paws on Flint’s fucking treasure. 

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