#I could yap about act of grace / wygtya for HOURS

[poison-into-positivity]

I’ve been thinking a LOT about “You really don’t have to do this” / “Yeah, I know I don’t”.

Because up until that point, when had anyone ever sacrificed anything for Stede? Let alone something so important as the entire image of Blackbeard? (It ended up being a necessary sacrifice for Ed, too, but neither of them knew that by this point.)

No wonder Stede was panicking — he’d never been shown love like that before. He didn’t know what to do with it.