#john silver is bi and theres nothing you can do about it

[trappper-johnathan]

John Silver may not have two feet but he sure as hell has two hands

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What if we have it all wrong? What if Flint's feelings for Silver are completely platonic and Silver's feelings are the ones that are romantic/sexual???

sorry i just dont see how this is possible lmao flint is a gayman thats been in sexual relationships with men before thomas (people think hewas a one off and that it was the first time he’d been with a man /no/ it was the first time he’d been in love witha man) so saying that his feelings for silver are ‘platonic’ makes no sensewhatsoever not when he flirts with him, shows nervous behaviour like fidgeting with his hands whenever they’re alone together, gives him the same ‘im undressing youwith my eyes’ look that he gave thomas and the same ‘eyes drop to mouth’ lookhe gives miranda right before they kiss in the carriage. literally all the signsare there but people are either too blind to see them or just refuse to acknowledgethem.

another thing that bugs me (and I think people forget this becausehes always so focused on the war hes fighting) is that Flint is like any otherperson when it comes to sexual desire, like its always been there he just doesn’t give into itbecause of his past with thomas. Its entirely possible that flint was sexuallyattracted to silver from the start but of course then it meant nothing. silver didn’tmean anything to him. but now hedoes. where we are now in season 4 he is his partner and his closest friend,and comparing the two of them with james and thomas in the flashbacks, you cansee that flint is actually at the point of being in love with silver romantically. I think the cabin scene wasfinal proof of this just by how terrifiedhe was about losing john in that moment. He was trembling, his voice wascracking, he was in the same emotional state as he was talking to miranda abouthow he didn’t do anything to save thomas, only this time the reason he was so distraughtwas because he feared he’d lose john. So yeah, if this doesn’t prove to youthat flint is in love with silver aka ‘the love of his life’ romantically then igive up lmao

silver is much harder to read i think because unlike james we don’tactually know his sexuality, everything we know and think is based on observationof how he interacts with both men and women as well as the existingrelationships he has with madi and flint. we know he loves madi romantically butthis still doesn’t tell us if he is straight, bi, or pan. Its completely up to interpretationuntil its confirmed by john himself or luke or the writers. all this being saidI’ve never believed silver’s feelings for flint to be platonic. first of all bcI don’t read silver as the sort of person that would be so obsessed and devotedto someone that he just loves as a friend (like billy is his friend and lookwhat he did to him lmao). what we /do/ know is that his romantic relationshipwith madi has made him vulnerable, we also know that the only other person thathas ever made him vulnerable and has done from the beginning is flint.

another thing that’s been made apparent recently is that he putsmadi and flint on the same level, saying he is committed to both of them. he considers them both tobe irreplaceable people in his life. and the scene in 406 where ben says to him“If it’s Madi that concerns you…” to which silver immediately replies “Madi and Flint…” makes its pretty obvious he isconcerned for them both equally in away people are yet to acknowledge. Then theres the cabin scene again whichI could literally talk about for hours.. like I wrote a bit about it here butalso the parallel of this scene with him sitting at his desk in 405 getting allteary thinking about losing flint is literally !!!! fruit fruit and that was him knowing flint wasn’t dead lmao can u imagine if he thought flint was actually dead haha HAHA

anyway yeah silverflint is canon