#i am sorry but stede was not overconfident here

[sherlockig]

[mypreciousdream968]

Finally a reason for not believing he got so full of himself at this time, because it didn't look like something realistic: he was bullied his whole life and almost no one loved him before, so he got "used to it" in some way. Example: it takes some time for his "explosion" when Nigel spends probably hours mocking him, and he didn't mean to kill him, just let a "mark", some "smooth" kind of revenge. I've been thinking about the theory of him "masking" for Edward (trying to be "better" for him, a demonstration of lack of confidence in his true self, the "baby Bonnet, the one Edward wouldn't like [in Stede's perspective]; that's even a good reason for trying to fight against the queen, like a tentative for showing himself he can turn into it= something he thinks he wants to be, but actually is just doing for someone else)