#writing this i convinced myself that i actually like dufresne's character development whatever

[tomateblack]

I know they unfortunately had to change actors but what I’m about to say is besides that. Dufresne has lost all his personality during s2, which is sad cause he was so compelling in s1. The fact that he intended to keep being a pirate without engaging in any violence was interesting, I was intrigued, like he really thought that just by his smarts he could manage to be in a ship and never pick up a gun or a sword. And the fact that for a while that worked for him. Like, the majority of pirates are illiterate, there are “jokes” mentioning how some of them can’t count. But Dufresne is very good at accounting, and he was so nervous during his first raid that I’m led to believe that that was his first use of violence. he became a pirate (a profession synonymous with violence) and expected to avoid using it: what happened, what led him here?? But then he became quartermaster, and S2 made it apparent how interchangeable he is now, they could have given the actor playing him now any other name and it wouldn’t change anything. He is now one more pirate. Or maybe that’s the point: to show that to be a pirate was to be demonized, ostracized. You are first and outcast of society and then no matter how much effort you put into not doing so following the path of violence is inevitable. You are an enemy not because of your own moral failing but because they needed one. You were labeled an animal and then you were made into one, not the other way around.