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Strife is good. Strife makes a man strong. For if a man is capable of confronting death daily, functioning in the face of it, there’s no telling what else that man can do, and a man whose limits cannot be known is a very hard man to defeat in battle
Black Sails (XX.)
as long as his name is written into history,
they will take and take and take,
and it will never be enoughachilles heel, hero, legacy; for anonymous | e.k.
“What a cunning bastard you are. Squarely in the captain’s pocket, yet you still got the crew believing you’re their advocate. Shrewdest q u a r t e r m a s t e r I’ve ever come across.”
All this will be for nothing. We will have been for nothing. Defined by their histories, distorted to fit into their narrative until all that is left of us are the monsters in the stories they tell their children.
Because I don’t want to be a pirate. I’m not interested in the life. Not interested in the fighting, not interested in the ships. I don’t care much for the sea while we’re on the subject. But being a pirate on this crew for a little while longer, it offers me an opportunity I don’t believe I can find anywhere else on Earth… one big prize. And with it, freedom. From water, from Randall, from hunger, from wages…from you.
Miranda: *uses clarity and logic to present a concern to her husband*
Thomas: I stopping thinking with my big head after that first sentence ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )
— five plus one senses of love ( j.p. )
— heroes are only heroes until it takes its toll // p.s.