#the ed and izzy i loved you best i could

[non-bean-ary]

S2 premiere has me feeling like a rabid dog whos escaped from its cage!

[laniidae-passerine]

don’t understand izzy haters don’t understand ed haters they are intertwined they are broken into pieces they love each other but even the best they can do isn’t enough they are barbed wire they are a gold chain they are wrong for each other they were born to be side by side there is not one without the other and it’s terrible now but there’s a deep-seated need to fix it, they’re going to try fix it

[sunnibits]

they love each other they hate each other it’s unrequited it’s canon requited they know each other better than anyone else they never really knew each other at all they’re utterly deranged they tried to kill each other and laughed manically about it they drive each other to the very brink of suicide they were never meant to be they will always be together they want to kill each other they could never hurt each other they’ve known each other for years they’re both scarred by the same gun they’re mutually insane they’re stained with each other’s blood-

[natjennie]

can gay people ever be normal?

[dondalsy]

the ed/izzy/stede shippers are eating so well

[fruitybugboy]

When Ed said “i loved you,,, the best i could” i wanted to scream BUT IT WASNT GOOD ENOUGH, HE DESERVED BETTER AND YOU KNOW IT, YOU COULDVE LOVED HIM BETTER AND YOU KNOW IT

[lady-of-the-tambre]

IZZY’S TITS ARE OUT THIS IS NOT A DRILL HIS TITS ARE OUTTT

also his relationship with Stede now is so funny to me (yes i too casually walk into the man i fantasized about killing four episodes ago practicing swordsmanship half naked and brush it off with a casual comment about my candles)

[taievieu]

edizzy. starts crying

[who-the-fuck-knows-blog]

giggling bc its so fucking silly to me to have everything ed says to izzy be about stede. even lines about ed and izzys relationship are now about stede. everything ed does to izzy is about stede. these two dont have a relationship outside of stede and didnt know eachother before stede or anything like that i guess!

[izzy-b-hands]

"they're just coming up alongside us now."

"That seems...bad."

"I mean, they have to get close enough to us to do any damage, so it's fine."

Paraphrased quotes from the 5 hour long Sea of Thieves stream with Pat and Simone that sound like me writing dialogue between Ed and/or Izzy and Stede lmaooooo

[indestructiblelittlefuckers]

(I've clarified it before, but my Ed & Izzy were a couple at some point, they kissed, maybe more than that. maybe it meant more to Izzy than it did to Ed, but they were in love with each other, they loved each other in a very complicated way. they will always love each other romantically, even though maybe it can never really work out. but love was there and it wasn't familiar. okay? thank you)

[leatherbookmark]

a thing i have JUST realized, isn't the human brain amazing lol -- is that we talk about izzy's thoughts and feelings on ed, on blackbeard, about how he serves one but not the other, etc, etc, and how it means he never loved or even respected the True Man Underneath It All but rather the bloodthirsty legend of a pirate--

e x c e p t izzy is not the first person who makes the distinction between edward and blackbeard. it's ed himself, when he says "actually, i want to be called edward from now on".

before, when he was with stede, it didn't bother him at all that the crew called him blackbeard. that was his name! he was blackbeard, what else would they call him. only stede and izzy got to "ed" or "edward" him, because they were closer -- stede was his first close friend, izzy was his friend and first mate for decades. (note that fang was with ed the longest, but he doesn't call him by his name! you gotta deserve it.)

izzy doesn't do anything inappropriate or out of proportion when he snaps at the crew to call him blackbeard or captain -- that's who ed is, is supposed to be, to them. they're not friends! they even call stede captain, and have you seen that guy?

it's ed that makes the connection between his current state: draped in fuchsia robes, singing sad songs about how sad he is, showing his vulnerable and emotional state in front of people who are supposed to respect and trust his authority. and by that he splendidly loses that authority, to the point that wee john calls him ed, and when izzy snaps at him for disrespecting his captain, ed goes no, actually, yknow what, do call me edward! and then he goes on to encourage the crew to sing as well and hey, actually, why are we being pirates! we should do a talent show!

the distinction is clear here. before all that, in izzy's eyes, his boss was blackbeard, captain, ed/edward -- different names for different occasions, but one and the same guy. but now? this guy singing songs in a pink bathrobe doesn't want to be called blackbeard, he's edward! ed time now! we're going to eat marmalade and express our feelings in front of everyone! and hold talent shows! Ya Hoo !

yeah, it's no wonder izzy doesn't want that. he wants his competent captain back, and this current dude, edward? he's not him. so, uh,

[sunnibits]

just remembered edizzy mutual love confessions happened in canon

[dani474]

"killing off izzy after he went through all this growth and finally got to be happy means all that healing was for nothing"

goddamn that is a bleak way to look at life. we all die, man. healing is still worth the effort.

[just-spacetrash]

🏴‍☠️

[devotioncrater]

NAH NAH NAH IT'S JUST —

IZZY BEING BOTH ED AND STEDE'S PUNCHING BAG. HE ALLOWS STEDE TO PUNCH HIM AS HE VIEWS STEDE TO BE AN EXTENSION OF ED.

IZZY JUST TAKING THE HITS AS THEY ROLL. INDESTRUCTIBLE LITTLE FUCKER. BECAUSE HE'S BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS. FOR WHAT FEELS LIKE ALL HIS LIFE. TAKE HIS TOES, CURSE HIM OUT — IT'S ALL THE SAME SOUP, JUST REHEATED.

IZZY STILL PROTECTS EDWARD, PROTECTS EDWARD'S IMAGE TO STEDE. HE TELLS STEDE HE HIMSELF STABBED ALL THE PICTURES. SACRIFICIAL LAMB. "GO ON, BONNET, GIVE ME YOUR WORST."

"I HAVE LOVE FOR YOU." IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT. IZZY CALLS EDWARD "EDDY" IN A FRAUGHT TIME.

"I LOVED YOU AS BEST I COULD." IS AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION. EDWARD CALLS HIMSELF "EDDY" IN HIS PURGATORY LIMBO. EDWARD COULD HAVE LOVED IZZY MORE IF HE HATED HIMSELF LESS.

BOTH OF THEM FEEL THEMSELVES UNLOVEABLE, THEY ARE JUST ON TWO POLAR OPPOSITE SIDES OF ITS MANIFESTATION. EDWARD ON THE SIDE OF SELF-DESTRUCTION, AND IZZY ON THE SIDE OF BOTCHED ALTRUISM.

"YOU KNOW ME BETTER THAN ANYONE...I DARESAY THE SAME APPLIES TO ME WITH YOU." AND HOW DO TWO PEOPLE IN THEIR SELF-LOATHING RECONCILE THE QUIET VIOLENCE OF A LONGSTANDING RELATIONSHIP TO ONE ANOTHER?