🔥 for Black Sails

medusinestories:

I am sick and tired of people depicting Thomas as The Pure Soft Perfect Gay Who Needs To Be Protected uwu. Thomas has flaws. He has big ugly flaws. They’re what make him an interesting character. Here are some of Thomas’ canon traits that fanon tends to skip over:

1. Thomas is a Privileged Little Shit. He might have had the shittiest dad in the world, but he’s a rich man of noble birth with an Etonian education and he behaves like it. He speaks his mind, talks back to his father in company, doesn’t care about appearances, supports colonisation, disregards his wife’s opinion and points out Flint’s modest origins within five seconds of meeting him in order to upset/destabilise him

(a particularly Little Shit move imo).

2. Thomas is Reckless. A direct consequence of the above, in London Thomas didn’t believe that anything bad could ever happen to him, in spite of many warnings to the contrary. He proposed scandalous to the Parliament, got into a nasty argument with his father in front of company and struggled to be discreet about his relationship with a man.

3. Thomas is Stubborn and Domineering. He is uncompromising, wants to have things his way and the last word in any argument. It’s why Miranda gives Flint the Don Quixote, because she can see Thomas is driving Flint nuts.

4. Thomas is Strong. All the evidence in the show, right up to the ending where he’s just standing there smiling serenely when Flint arrives, points to the fact that Thomas is incredibly resilient even when he’s imprisoned. Miranda said that Thomas was destined to be a great man. You don’t get that without being really strong and charismatic.

Granted, some of these aspects might have changed somewhat while Thomas was imprisoned, but they make up the bulk of his adult personality, and even 10 years being locked up can’t have erased those traits entirely.