#chauncey is slug reaction confirmed

[shiplessoceans]

Um...yep. Chauncey knows. He's RIGHT THERE WHEN ED DOES THE BOOT TOUCH LOOKING DOWN AT THEM.

Rewatching Episode 9 "Act of Grace" (because life is hard and I deserve joy on occasion) and noticed something.

Chauncey has clocked Blackbeard and Stede. He's aware they share a relationship or the least, a deep connection.

We know because he uses it against Stede to force his confession.

"Blackbeard confessed to the crime moments ago."

"He did? (Insert Ed confessing)....But that's not true..."

"Why would he lie?"

And that's the question isn't it?

Stede and Ed shared a little moment on deck with the boot touch, maybe Chauncey noticed, maybe he heard them reassure each other or noticed their inability to take their eyes off each other before Blackbeard was hauled down to the cells and Stede was taken off for questioning.

Stede is told Ed confessed to spare him. But he won't let Ed take the fall and Chauncey is counting on that fact. Why else would he still be questioning Stede if he already had the culprit?

After the Act of Grace I remember thinking it was strange that Chauncey says:

"WHY?! Why do you all show such loyalty to this....nothing?!"

He addresses the question to Stede's crew, not to the most feared pirate on the sea. I was actually expecting him to ask Blackbeard "Why? Why would you give up your life to save him?"

But he never asks and on top of that, doesn't seem shocked when Ed yells "ACT OF GRACE!". He mostly seems pissed off that Ed exercised that loophole.

Chauncey suspects. He knows something is going on between them.

Which makes his accusation that Stede brought history's greatest pirate to ruin all the more devastating.

[shiplessoceans]

Rewatching Episode 9 "Act of Grace" (because life is hard and I deserve joy on occasion) and noticed something.

Chauncey has clocked Blackbeard and Stede. He's aware they share a relationship or the least, a deep connection.

We know because he uses it against Stede to force his confession.

"Blackbeard confessed to the crime moments ago."

"He did? (Insert Ed confessing)....But that's not true..."

"Why would he lie?"

And that's the question isn't it?

Stede and Ed shared a little moment on deck with the boot touch, maybe Chauncey noticed, maybe he heard them reassure each other or noticed their inability to take their eyes off each other before Blackbeard was hauled down to the cells and Stede was taken off for questioning.

Stede is told Ed confessed to spare him. But he won't let Ed take the fall and Chauncey is counting on that fact. Why else would he still be questioning Stede if he already had the culprit?

After the Act of Grace I remember thinking it was strange that Chauncey says:

"WHY?! Why do you all show such loyalty to this....nothing?!"

He addresses the question to Stede's crew, not to the most feared pirate on the sea. I was actually expecting him to ask Blackbeard "Why? Why would you give up your life to save him?"

But he never asks and on top of that, doesn't seem shocked when Ed yells "ACT OF GRACE!". He mostly seems pissed off that Ed exercised that loophole.

Chauncey suspects. He knows something is going on between them.

Which makes his accusation that Stede brought history's greatest pirate to ruin all the more devastating.