Tag: james and madi

lukearnold:

That’s the last one. According to the men who just landed, that is the last longboat. I heard the same. I’m told they saw an injured man pulled aboard from out of the water, almost drowned. I heard the same.

Here I must be careful. I have well over two hundred men unaccounted for. Those who remain, it would be very hard to explain to them why, with all I have to tend to, I choose to stand here… hanging onto the fate of just one of them.

newtkins:

Well, that’s the trick, isn’t it? If no one remembers a time before there was an England, then no one can imagine a time after it. 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. If we were able to take Nassau, if we are able to expose the illusion that England is not inevitable, if we are able to incite a revolt that spreads across the New World… then, yeah… I imagine people are gonna notice.

ellelan:

Black Sails Rarepair appreciation week: platonic rarepair – Flint & Madi. 

Thank you. What for? Last night. You did not have to side with me.It was costly for you to do so.Well, it would have cost far more for me not to have done so.We might be able to take Nassau alone,but there will be no greater victory,no widespread revolution unless we can somehow keep our alliance together. You truly believe it is possible?That as disadvantaged and disabled as we are,that anything we do here is going to make the least bit of difference to the men in London? Well,that’s the trick, isn’t it? If no one remembers a time before there was an England, then no one can imagine a time after it. 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.

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.)