#last i’ll say is that the truest silver we see is with flint

[sleevebuscemii]

I love your black sails opinions but I want to add, in a lot of ways, black sails IS the backstory for silver because unlike most characters in black sails, he will live on and become the main antagonist of treasure island, so in many ways looking at him in black sails is asking if it was worth everything in treasure island

It’s a paradox. He is both a character existing in here in the present but he’s also a character from a children’s adventure novel from the 1800’s who has a animal side kick and says shit like shiver me Timbers.

I don’t think I’m making sense but it drives me crazy to think Flint and Madi ask the same questions about silver that a young Jim Hawkins will ask and we still never get answers.

you are definitely making sense and are so correct. what’s crazy is that there will always be something missing without an origin. and you are so correct to say that black sails acts as an origin but can we take that at face value when we’ll never know who silver actually was? and im not actually asking, it’s kind of just the feeling you’re left with. the shift between silver in the first two seasons and the last two seasons is so drastic in that yes we can ascribe so much of it to everything that happened but it’s insane to see how little of the old silver is there. the jokey smirky sarcastic charm becomes a hardened sailor in the blink of an eye, and it’s not to say that version of silver was just (totally) an act but you can’t say it’s a real person. in the same way we see pieces of flint from before he was Captain Flint in him all the time, as in ‘this person was one thing and life changed him into this’. silver’s comes off like he took one suit off and donned another completely. and it almost makes the shiver me timbers parrot pirate more believable, another suit donned that strips the old one completely. but it’s still to say. i dont think all of it was pretend and i dont think none of it was true. i just think silver is so disillusioned from personhood and identity that he doesn’t see and doesn’t conduct his changes as growth, it’s more of a replacement which is to say there IS a real silver there and we see it in moments and fragments but it’s not enough to make whole and it’s not enough to make him known