#( A CHORUS OF VOICES; THEY REACH BACK CENTURIES. ) madi

[somfte]

Civil War

[video description: A Black Sails fanvid focusing on Eleanor, Mr. Scott, and Madi. Between clips of Madi and Eleanor discussing their past on the beach, there are scenes showing Eleanor and Mr. Scott's interactions, emphasizing how Eleanor fails to consider Mr. Scott's perspective, and the ways in which Mr. Scott is never able to lose sight of his position in society. The penultimate scene is Madi's speech to Woodes Rogers. As her speech escalates, sounds of chains clanking and being removed can be heard in time with the clicking of the knitting needles being used by Eleanor's ghost.

/end description]

Dialogue transcript:

Eleanor: You trust him? Flint. You've cast your lot with him.

Madi: What does it matter to you?

Eleanor: Before this war began, before everyone's roles changed, your father mistrusted Flint as much as anyone in Nassau did. I assume you were in some contact with him all that time. I'm surprised that his feelings didn't influence you.

Eleanor: For how long had he been secretly aiding them?

Flint: He began, he said, after the Spanish raid.

Eleanor: Did he say why he did it?

Madi: You were my sister. There is very little that I remember from when I was young, but I remember this.

Mr. Guthrie: Once upon a time Mr. Scott was my personal houseboy. Until he proved himself worthy of greater responsibility. That earned him an education which he then passed on to my daughter. And look where that's gotten me.

Madi: You were older. You were beautiful. I revered you.

Mr. Bryson: Mr. Scott, you sided with his daughter against him. You forgot your duty. You must have known there would be consequences.

Madi: When you were told that my mother and I were dead, I have to believe that it affected you. You had just lost your mother.

Eleanor: And what? Now you think you can just waltz back in here and pick up from where we left off like nothing happened?

Mr. Scott: Where else would I go? I belong to you. Chattel property of the Guthrie estate.

Eleanor: You… you know I've never seen you that way.

Madi: But if things were as I remember, my mother and I were your family, too.

Eme: He says…

Mr. Scott: I know what he says. He says in Nassau a slave can be free, get a job and a wage. Maybe for him. He's strong. A few others. The rest of you, don't kid yourself. You are cargo, in Nassau or otherwise.

Madi: And yet, through all the years thereafter that my father cared for you… counseled you, labored for you… he never told you that we were alive.

Madi: I was there in Nassau, and she's there. Eleanor is there. She is one of them now. I stood in Nassau and I realized when this war begins, it will have many different meanings, but to you this war is a civil war. You will have people on both sides of it. You will have daughters on both sides of it. And I want you to know…

Mr. Scott: [whispers softly] Only… you.

Madi: It would have been so easy to lessen your suffering by divulging the secret. And yet, he never did. Have you yet asked yourself why that is?

Madi: The voice you hear in your head… I imagine I know who it sounds like, as I know Eleanor wanted those things. But I hear other voices. [clicking sound] A chorus of voices. Multitudes. They reach back centuries. Men and women…and children who'd lost their lives… to men like you. Men and women and children forced to wear your chains. I must answer to them and this war… their war… Flint's war… my war…it will not be bargained away to avoid a fight.

Madi: My father didn't mistrust Flint. My father mistrusted all of you.

(for @built-on-sand )

[dragonsinthedarkness]

"But I hear other voices. A chorus of voices. Multitudes. They reach back centuries. Men and women and children who lost their lives to men like you. Man and women and children forced to wear your chains. I must answer to them.

And this war, Flint’s war, my war, it will not be bargained away to avoid a fight. To save John Silver’s life, or his men’s, or mine.”

I’d like to start from this beautiful speech from Madi to explain why I think Madi is the war itself. Why she was exactly what Flint needed to start fighting it and why she couldn’t be further away from Silver as a person.

Just because I rewatched the final ep. today and I feel the need to honor the one who lost part of herself in this and to reason about the dynamics among the two persons who might have changed the world and the one who kicked that hope back into the dark corner of the untold.

As always, Flint and Silver’s conversation at the end of ep.XXXVIII made me think A LOT. First time I guess I was overwhelmed by emotions, but this time, between the bitterness of the betrayal and the desperation of Flint's loss, I think I started to see exactly what Silver couldn’t get about the war. Which basically is its meaning.

But let me begin with Flint, because is the character I think I know better by now and because I need to start from a warrior who is not the war itself.

Flint started by fighting a war, another one, an easier one, alongside Thomas. He found himself in that period of time, but he lost that war and the one he loved the most with it. Then he started to fight another kind of war, twisted himself in order to fit into its lines. That war was never about liberation, even if that was what he had been telling himself all along and maybe what he hoped he could eventually accomplish by fighting it: it was just about revenge and something to grab in order to stay afloat. It took him to lost every hope of happiness he had left (Miranda), the last possible meaning of his life and of the person he felt he really was deep inside to see the chance for yet another kind of war. A wider one, a harder one, a most fundamental one. It took him to meet Madi. Knowing her, someone completely different from anyone he had known and fought along in the past, someone who was somehow closer to him as a person than anyone he had ever known (except maybe Eleonor, I’m talking mainly about the pirates. Thomas and Miranda were close to him but not very similar in character I’d say and maybe this is why they got along together so well), he finally had the chance to understand that he was not alone in his misery. She had the courage to be what Flint didn’t even know he could become, the fight not for the fight’s sake but for the outcome, as much as he reputed himself already excluded from it, because however he couldn’t ever be part of anything again, not in the way he had been with Thomas and Miranda. But there’s a difference between fighting just to kill and fighting to save who the one you are killing would have been willing to kill, and Madi represented that change for him.

And the war represented the only meaning he was still able to give to his life.

He is defined by his past, absolutely and mainly, and this makes him both someone with valid reasons to fight and someone with reasons to stop fighting.

In the previous episode we see how Silver instead refuses to be defined by his past, which could be a good or a bad thing, depending on how one let that past influence themselves, but that in this specific situation is basically what makes him unable (just my point of view of course) to get the general meaning of that war.

He chooses to erase his experience in favor of the moment, of the future maybe, and this makes him unable (as much as he likes to affirm the contrary, which I had never agreed upon) to understand the minds of the ones who let that experience shape them. And even more, it makes him unable to understand the minds of the ones who don’t need to have cruel experiences behind them in order to feel the fight. That is, Madi.

To link with my previous post ( https://www.tumblr.com/dragonsinthedarkness/758840316125216768/from-the-moment-he-started-speaking-i-couldnt?source=share ), in that infamous conversation in the last ep. Silver confesses he felt the war only (or especially, but I’d say only) when he lost Madi, because he felt the need to honor her sacrifice, avenge her lost and everything Flint had been doing for years, and the point is that that war was EXACTLY that. It was answering to the multitudes of voices who had undergone all that suffering and that demanded justice for it. It was trying to accomplish that as few others as possible could undergo that same fate.

And the point I want to make is that Madi was not only a warrior but the war itself because she felt those voices and the need to answer to them EVEN IF she had never personally experienced such tragedies. She was raised with the Guthries, then in the camp, she had probably even had the chance to be happy in her childhood, but this didn’t prevent her from developing the knowledge of that evil or the responsibility to fight it as leader of her community and as sisters of all the ones who had suffered before and may suffer again.

She wasn’t defined by her own past, but she brought on her shoulders the most painful and important legacy and decided to honor it.

And one may ask for justice for what happened in their own lifetime with a single chance of succeeding, that can make a great warrior of them, but those voices REACHED BACK CENTURIES, as she said. Her justice, their justice, would have been hopeless as long as something bigger as that war started to change things, and this is exactly what Silver couldn’t understand.

Now of course I know changes don’t happen overnight because “the world is too strong for that”, but I’m talking about their reality in that age right now and I think that as much as a war couldn’t have probably changed things, it would have been a beginning at least. A scream echoing in the night of their existences who would have maybe be heard, and as long as even a single person was able to gain goodness from it, it wouldn’t have been in vain.

As I believe all their efforts had not been in vain, despite the outcome.

For one hour, a month or a year (to improperly quote Silver) of freedom.

For one single moment of victory, of light in the dark.

[maremote]

🏴‍☠️🦜MONOLOGUOLYMPICS THEE FINAL POLL. LETS GO🦜🏴‍☠️

1/1: Silver (409) vs Madi (409)

Silver, to Flint, in 409: "I have no story to tell. [...] Not unremarkable, just… without relevance. A long time ago, I absolved myself from the obligation of finding any. No need to account for all my life's events in the context of a story that somehow… defines me. Events, some of which, no one could divine any meaning from… other than that the world is a place of unending horrors. I've come to peace with the knowledge… that there is no storyteller imposing any coherence, nor sense, nor grace upon those events. Therefore, there's no duty on my part to search for it. You know of me all I can bear to be known. All that is relevant to be known. That is to say, you know my genuine friendship… and loyalty. Can that be enough and there still be trust between us?”

Madi, to Rogers, in 409: “The voice you hear in your head… I imagine I know who it sounds like, as I know Eleanor wanted those things. But I hear other voices. A chorus of voices. Multitudes. They reach back centuries. Men and women…and children who'd lost their lives… to men like you. Men and women and children forced to wear your chains. I must answer to them and this war… their war… Flint's war… my war…it will not be bargained away to avoid a fight, to save John Silver's life… or his men's… or mine. And you believe what you will, but it was neither I nor Flint… nor the Spanish raider who killed your wife. That, you did.”

[lichfucker]

[image description: gifs of various scenes in Black Sails, all showing groups of slaves and Maroons, some on plantations and some on ships. some of the gifs show them being controlled or intimidated or harmed by their white captors. the first gif is a close-up of Madi speaking, and the final gif shows her slowly blinking with a look of deep concern on her face. text across all the gifs spells out a single quote (the line that Madi says when speaking in the first gif) that says, "I hear other voices. A chorus of voices. Multitudes. They reach back centuries. Men and women and children who lost their lives to men like you. Men and women and children forced to wear your chains. I must answer to them." end id]

 “And this war. Their war. Flint’s war. My war. It will not be bargained away to avoid a fight, to save John Silver’s life, or his men’s, or mine.”

Black Sails Anniversary Week

Day 1 - Favourite Quote: Madi to Woodes Rogers, 4x09

[intolerablexsacrifice]

HEADCANON. (don’t r/b)

SO let’s talk about parallels for a second:

S2E2, to Hennessey: You might like him, sir. Actually, I went to one of those salons of his, the ones that half the Royal Society attend but most deny. Most of those men are pretenders, sir - attracted to his ideas because they make them feel like radicals, but Thomas... When he talks about the need to rethink things, systemic things, I think he truly believes what he’s saying. And what’s more, I’m afraid I might believe a good deal of it as well.

S3E1, to Silver: These days, any man who can sew a black flag and get ten fools to follow him can take a prize. They can take it because of the fear that I and men like me have instilled in their prey. But they can’t do what I can do. They’re not built for it. And sooner or later they’ll be exposed. Any fool who followed Hallendale deserves whatever end they got in his company. You were right. This war is getting more dangerous. The strong among us must stand together and face it. But the fools, and the pretenders? They were never truly among us to begin with.

The main point I want to make here is that Flint places a great deal of importance on what he sees as true believers, because he has experience with the reality of asking people to take risks in order to try and make a change. There’s a parallel between the men who sat in Thomas’ salon but left the moment they were asked to actually stand up and fight, leaving only Peter Ashe behind (who later became corrupt) and the pirates that have begun taking advantage of Flint’s notoriety. 

Flint knows there’s a difference. He knows that when the pirates of Nassau are called upon to fight against England or Spain (because there’s an alliance between various captains at this point, I believe, who are being bribed/paid with the Urca gold to ensure they defend the island if it comes under attack) that most of them will run rather than fight. He says something in either season 3 or 4 that calls back to this- I’m too damn lazy to find it, but it’s like “As soon as those men hit the beach, nine in ten of ours will run” or some shit when they’re about to come under attack. 

(And it’s also worth noting than in S3E1, he doesn’t see Silver as ‘one of us’, I don’t think, which is part of why that speech sounds like an accusation. He knows Silver has only been in this for the gold until now, and because his disability leaves him with few other options. Which is part of why Silver finally gains his respect after The Shark Scene, because Flint asks what he did with his share of the gold, and Silver says he gave it up because he saw no way to keep it and remain part of the crew. It isn’t just that Silver outsmarted him - it’s that Silver’s motives have changed to something that sets him apart from the ‘fools and pretenders’ (aka The Unbelievers) Flint refers to, and a little closer to Flint’s own ideals.)

Naturally, as much as this all sounds like it’s based on Flint looking down on unbelievers/people that aren’t willing to fight for a cause or stand up for what they believe in/etc, let’s... not forget that this is also sheer arrogance on his part. Flint believes himself smarter and more capable than most people (hence, part of why he’s so willing to go to extreme lengths for his goals- he believes No-One Else Can Or Will, So He Must), which again, is part of why Silver outsmarting him and giving up his claim to the gold leads Flint to start putting him on a... fucking pedestal or whatever by the time we hit S4. 

He does this to the point of eventually elevating Silver and Madi above himself, actually- hence his, “I think that you are the best of us. The two of you are the world in balance.” late in season 4, long after he’s conceded most of his power and influence and reputation to Silver. And it’s worth noting that in this equation, Madi is elevated because of her ideals above all else. She’s the ‘truest believer’ of them all to Flint, and the closest parallel to Thomas (and Flint is very aware of literary parallels within his own life- it’s why he starts paralleling Silver and Thomas throughout season 2, he knows literary tropes and is constantly applying them to his own life to try and make sense of his narrative and have some semblance of control over it), hence why he looks so damn Shook(TM) after she quotes Too much sanity may be madness; and maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be to him.

[perioddramasource]

Zethu Dlomo as Madi in BLACK SAILS (2014 - 2017) Season 4, Episode 9

But I hear other voices. A chorus of voices. Multitudes. They reach back centuries. Men and women...and children who'd lost their lives... to men like you. Men and women and children forced to wear your chains. I must answer to them and this war... their war... Flint's war... my war...it will not be bargained away to avoid a fight, to save John Silver's life... or his men's... or mine.

[mobydyke]

But I hear other voices. A chorus of voices. Multitudes. They reach back centuries.

[video description: a black sails fanvid set to the song blood // water by grandson. it includes dialogue cuts of anti-imperialism and pro-revolution speeches from the show, including Flint's "England takes whatever, whenever, and however she wants" and Vane's "we are many, they are few... they can't hang us all" and Madi's "it will be difficult but since when did we think it would be anything else?" lots of the footage shows the building of the pirate/maroon coalition and their battles with the empire.]

[john-silvers]

MADI, BLACK SAILS, EPISODE XXXVII I hear other voices. A chorus of voices, multitudes. They reach back centuries. Men and women and children who’ve lost their lives to men like you, men and women forced to wear your chains. I must answer to them, and this war, their war, Flint’s war, my war...it will not be bargained away to avoid a fight, to save John Silver’s life, or his men’s, or mine.

[bring-it-all-down]

Much has been said about the Black Sails finale and its statement of the show’s themes, so I’d like to focus instead on the penultimate episode, specifically the following speech Jack gives as he’s headed back to Nassau with the goal of killing Flint:

The result ahead of us promises to be a victory of a different sort. A true victory. Freedom...in every sense of the word. How many men in the history of the world have ever known it? How remarkable a moment is this? How fortunate are we to be standing on the threshold of it?

I think this speech really gets to the heart of the show: it’s ultimately about what it means to be truly free. While this notion of freedom is discussed in Flint’s unparalleled final speech about dragons, it’s perhaps in 4.09 that we get the fullest exploration of freedom.

There has obviously been a lot written on the subject of freedom throughout human history, and rather than foolishly attempt to summarize thousands of years of philosophy, I’m going to refer to one of my favorite understandings, written by W.E.B. DuBois:

I dream of a world of infinitive and valuable variety; not in the laws of gravity or atomic weights, but in human variety in height and weight, color and skin, hair and nose and lip. But more especially and far above and beyond this, is a realm of true freedom: in thought and dream, fantasy and imagination; in gift, aptitude, and genius—all possible manner of difference, topped with freedom of soul to do and be, and freedom of thought to give to a world and build into it, all wealth of inborn individuality. Each effort to stop this freedom of being is a blow at democracy—that real democracy which is reservoir and opportunity” (The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part Which Africa Has Played in World History, pg. 165.)

DuBois here notes three central elements of freedom: the physical (“to do and be”), the mental (“thought and dream, fantasy and imagination”), and the generational (“give to a world and build into it”). The first two components of freedom are understood by much of Western political philosophy through the terms “negative liberty” and “positive liberty” (coined by Isaiah Berlin), freedom from external threats and freedom to engage in philosophic activity. To these conceptions, DuBois adds a third that all the white dudes who conceived of the other two wouldn’t be concerned with: central to achieving them is the recognition that every individual owes prior and future generations their efforts to maintain liberty, that liberty is not just a theoretical principle but an action.

Turning now to episode 4.09, I think we can begin to understand how each of these three types of freedom overlap.

To start, the conflict of the episode deals with negative liberty. Silver and Flint to some degree know that if one catches the other with the chest, there is a chance they will be killed, and Silver wants the chest to ensure that Woodes Rogers does not kill Madi. In short, they are fighting for their survival, their physical freedom.

Moving on to the flashbacks between Flint and Silver, we begin to see the connection between negative liberty and positive liberty. First, because Silver and Flint are equals without the same political obligations to each other as they have to the crew, the people who serve them and who they serve in turn, they can be honest with each other. Silver recognizes this in telling Flint: “The men...I have to manage how they see me...But for pride to be an issue between you and I, well, I think we’re playing past that by now.” Because they, at that point, have physical/negative liberty with each other, they are then allowed to pursue mental/positive liberty, that being the revelation of their true selves. 

However, Flint becomes aware that this physical liberty is an illusion because Silver is unwilling to meet him equally in their pursuit of positive liberty: 

You know my story. Thomas, Miranda, all of it. Know the role it played in motivating me to do the things that I've done, the things I will do. It has made me transparent to you. Not only that, but when I told you this story, you insinuated yourself into it. The latest in a line of ill-fated partners, situating yourself such that...were you and I ever to come to blows, I'd be forced to hesitate before doing you any harm.

Thus Silver actually has a physical advantage over Flint, negating any semblance of Flint’s physical liberty in their relationship. Through Silver’s attempts to kill Flint in this episode and in the finale, we see that without both physical/mental (or negative/positive) liberty present in any relationship, neither will exist; you cannot have one without the other.

This brings us to what I’ve decided to call generational freedom, though I suppose it could also be called communal freedom. In this episode, the concept of generational freedom is brought up in relation to both Jack and Madi. First, we see it in Jack’s conversation with the man he chose to navigate him to Skeleton Island:

Jack: You sailed with Avery.

Old man: Long time ago.

Jack: 20 years? More, even, maybe?

Old man: More, aye.

Jack: Mm-hmm. You do know where you're going, yes? No, seriously, I've got quite a lot riding on this.

Old man: One day, you'll leave the account. Take a wife, father children. See less and less of the sea until she becomes like a painting hanging on the wall, static and irrelevant to your daily existence. But she'll keep on calling you. And when she does, you'll step into that painting and feel the swell beneath your feet. It'll all come back as if it were like yesterday.

Jack: Is that so?

Old man: I've watched you and yours handle the account since I and mine left it. Accomplish things that no one I ever sailed with could dream of. From what I've overheard, if you reach Skeleton Island, might mean the end of the governor. Maybe keep the account alive a little while longer. Is that so?

Jack: That and more.

Old man: Then I'll take you to it. Hold on to this for as long as you can, for all of us who once had it...and walked away.

In this conversation, we see the generational connections within piracy. The old man sailed with Henry Avery, the person most responsible for establishing the current status of piracy in Nassau, and he is conversing with the person who will usher Nassau into a new era. He is careful to remind Jack of this link and of how unseverable it is; no matter how far away Jack gets from piracy, he will never be able to leave it fully behind. There is some sense of owing his existence in this world to Avery and all those who came before him, a debt he must repay with his actions (namely, removing Woodes Rogers and continuing the life of piracy in Nassau).

Immediately after this conversation, we get Woodes Rogers’ bargaining with Madi. He offers her an ultimatum: accept his treaty or he will kill Silver and all of Silver’s crew, which includes many of Madi’s people. Madi rejects his ultimatum with one of the most poignant speeches in the show:

The voice you hear in your head, I imagine I know who it sounds like, as I know Eleanor wanted those things. But I hear other voices. A chorus of voices. Multitudes. They reach back centuries. Men and women and children who'd lost their lives to men like you. Men and women and children forced to wear your chains. I must answer to them and this war, their war, Flint's war, my war, it will not be bargained away to avoid a fight, to save John Silver's life or his men's or mine. And you believe what you will, but it was neither I nor Flint, nor the Spanish raider who killed your wife. That, you did.

Because of her existence as a former slave who had lived in hiding for most of her life, Madi most fully understands generational freedom. She knows that the supposed freedom Rogers’ treaty offers her and her people is not actual freedom because it fails to address the unfreedom of her ancestors, of the rest of the enslaved people in the Caribbean, because she knows that freedom will never be achieved on the terms of the oppressor. She knows that she owes this war to every victim of England’s empire and that it is the only way to achieve what DuBois calls the opportunity to “give to a world and build into it.” 

This episode thus introduces the idea that “freedom every sense of the word” depends on one recognizing one’s duty to one’s community that consists of not just its current members, but its past and future members. Complete freedom is achieved when one begins to fight to protect the freedom of those who do not yet exist. Madi understands this about freedom, as does Flint, but despite Silver’s insistence that he and Flint are true friends and equals, he is incapable of grasping the generational component of freedom and he therefore ensures that physical and mental freedom, too, will fall outside of his grasp.

[redflagsandbanners]

okay but when Madi said "I hear other voices. a chorus of voices. multitudes. they reach back centuries. men and women and children who lost their lives to men like you. men and women and children forced to wear your chains. I must answer to them and this war, their war, Flint's war, my war, it will not be bargained away to avoid a fight to save John Silver's life or his men's or mine." she actually reached in my chest and ripped my heart out.

[daeneryssansa]

But I hear other voices. A chorus of voices, multitudes. They reach back centuries. Men and women and children who’ve lost their lives to men like you, men and women forced to wear your chains. I must answer to them, and this war - their war, Flint’s war, my war - it will not be bargained away to avoid a fight, to save John Silver’s life, or his men’s, or mine. (Madi Scott, Season 4)

[zutaralesbian]

Top 20 female characters (as voted)

#20 ~ Madi (Black Sails)

The voice you hear in your head I imagine I know who it sounds like, as I know Eleanor wanted those things. But I hear other voices. A chorus of voices. Multitudes. They reach back centuries. Men and women and children who'd lost their lives to men like you. Men and women and children forced to wear your chains. I must answer to them and this war. Their war. Flint's war. My war will not be bargained away to avoid a fight, to save John Silver's life or his men's or mine.

[visenyatargaryn]

jenn’s 1.6k celebration: madi for @sonyarebecchi

The voice you hear in your head I imagine I know who it sounds like, as I know Eleanor wanted those things. But I hear other voices. A chorus of voices. Multitudes. They reach back centuries. Men and women and children who'd lost their lives to men like you. Men and women and children forced to wear your chains. I must answer to them and this war, their war, Flint's war, my war it will not be bargained away to avoid a fight, to save John Silver's life or his men's or mine.

[maremote]

🏴‍☠️🦜MONOLOGUOLYMPICS FINAL ROUND🦜🏴‍☠️ semi finals

2/2: Madi vs Flint

Madi, to Rogers, in 409: “The voice you hear in your head… I imagine I know who it sounds like, as I know Eleanor wanted those things. But I hear other voices. A chorus of voices. Multitudes. They reach back centuries. Men and women…and children who'd lost their lives… to men like you. Men and women and children forced to wear your chains. I must answer to them and this war… their war… Flint's war… my war…it will not be bargained away to avoid a fight, to save John Silver's life… or his men's… or mine. And you believe what you will, but it was neither I nor Flint… nor the Spanish raider who killed your wife. That, you did.”

Flint, to Silver, in 410: “This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows… and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it. And who has been so close to doing it as we are right now?”

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[nastasyafilippovnas]

Black Sails :)

thanks for asking, hun!

black sails

Favorite Male Character: Vane, I guess. 

Favorite Female Character: Maaadiii. But I love all the women on this show.

Least Favorite Character: Rogers. I HATE HIM. i think everyone is entitled to like whatever they want, but how anyone could like him puzzles me to this day. 

Favorite Ship: Silver x Madi x Flint. OT3 feels. 

Favorite Friendship: Madi and Eleanor. Just give more of their complicated family feels, love and resentment.

Favorite Quote: it's almost criminal to ask me to choose, because this show has one of the better writings EVER, but I have to go with "I hear other voices. A chorus of voices. Multitudes. They reach back centuries. Men and women and children who lost their lives to men like you. Men and women and children forced to wear your chains. I must answer to them and this war. Their war. Flint's war. My war. It will not be bargained away to avoid a fight, to save John Silver's life or his men's or mine." Have you ever heard anything more POWERFUL? It gives me chills to this day. 

Worst Character Death (if any): Eleanor, brb crying.

This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: Madi and Silver's reunion and kiss after she thinks he is dead.

Saddest Moment: besides Eleanor's death, when Silver admitted to Madi what he did to Flint/to end the war.

Favorite Location: madi's island.

give me a fandom and i’ll tell you

[justastoryteller]

“But I hear other voices. A chorus of voices. Multitudes. They reach back centuries. Men and women and children who lost their lives to men like you. Men and women and children forced to wear your chains. I must answer to them. And this war, their war, Flint’s war, my war--it will not be bargained away to avoid a fight, to save John Silver’s life, or his mens’, or mine. 

And you believe what you will. But it was neither I, nor Flint, nor the Spanish raider who killed your wife. That, you did.”

MADI YOU’RE THE ONLY PERSON I CAN TRUST