#billy was Foundational to silver opening himself up to the crew and actually Caring enough that he lost a LEG for them | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

naivety · 4 months ago

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the thing about silver is that he does not give a shit about other people until flint and then madi convince him to first through the crew and then through a wider liberation movement. they convinced him there was some good to be found in connecting with people and something to fight for, and Then. And Then!!! they ask him to sacrifice this very same newfound connection to these people for the greater good!!! and it Kills him but he does it because more than they've convinced him to love People, they've convinced him to love Them, and that maybe even he, John Silver, who isn't even real btw, can be loved By them, so he does it, but it fractures him and he can't pick up the pieces as fast as they shatter and it all falls apart so so quickly in his hands because it was all built on conditional trust and he Could not commit to it in the end, a house of cards built on. sand.

#j rewatched black sails #like not to billygirl on main but silver's betrayal of him is just as haunting to me as his betrayal of flint and madi #my first rewatch of that episode rewrote everything in my brain because.#he would not even give a shit about this guy in the first place! if not for flint! and to some degree madi #s1 silver Would Not Give A Single Fuck!! about billy bones!#but now he does Because of them and it's for them that he shatters that friendship #billy was Foundational to silver opening himself up to the crew and actually Caring enough that he lost a LEG for them #and he betrays him For flint and madi #and you can see it kill him but he still thinks he can do it and not face so much dissonance than it'd shatter him like an opera singer's #wine glass #like he tried so hard to be both the kind and ruthless person he thought they wanted and he was simply not cut out for it #i feel. fine 👍#need to rewatch this episode again i about lost my mind next to my sister who was watching it for the first time and could not comprehend.#The Agony

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