miss-m-calling:

captain-flint:

The empire survives in part because we believe its survival to be inevitable. But it isn’t. And they know that. That’s why they’re so terrified of you and I.

I like Silver/Madi as much as the next person, but I frickin’ LOVE Flint & Madi!

The show revolves so much around the idea of everyone needing a partner, and who all tried and in various ways failed at being Flint’s partner (poor Thomas – even with their reunion, so much has happened they’re in a way meeting for the first time and have to build their bond anew – poor Miranda, poor Mr. Gates, poor Silver too). And while Madi and Silver love each other, their worldviews and what they want from life and what kind of world they consider acceptable, are fundamentally incompatible (no, I don’t think they reconcile post-canon, not for very long or at all).

Madi was the only one who was Flint’s equal, whom he recognized as an equal, whom he respected without any quibbling or wobbling from their first meeting all the way through the end, who was the same kind of single-minded as he, and who could keep him in check when necessary.
He could never bully her or pull the wool over her eyes, nor was she a weak spot for him, even when she was captured and needed rescuing.

She didn’t always trust him, but once she started to that bond was unbreakable, even as every other important bond in their two lives crumbled. She was his truest partner, and he hers. (And this is why Silver betraying them both to save them hurts so good.)