zenyattasperceptrons:

most heartbreaking scene

there’s a fuckin wealth of options here isn’t there but THIS ONE’S BEEN ON MY MIND LATELY. just like. the entire thing of watching james become such a happy and determined person and getting glimpses of how important Hennessey is to him and having that taken away in one fell swoop and knowing what becomes of him? i hurt

kiwimidnight:

James Flint in every episode:
XXII.  Earlier I told you that I was certain that the pardons would eliminate
all resistance in Nassau and you asked me how I was so certain.
It’s because I helped build them.
Peter Ashe, Miranda, her husband, and I,
we worked to obtain a universal pardon and introduce it to Nassau
to eliminate piracy and restore colonial rule there.
I moved away from those things.
Inch by inch, I forgot it all.
And now, in this cage, in the belly of this thing
that has swallowed us whole… I wonder…
if the civilization of Nassau
isn’t exactly what I tried to achieve all those years ago.

If resisting it doesn’t set me in opposition
to everything I once understood to be good and right.
To forgive. To make order of chaos.
I wonder if the pardons are the victory
and that the most enlightened thing that I can do is sit still.
Accept what appears to be inevitable and let this be the end of Captain Flint.

kiwimidnight:

James Flint in every episode:
XXV.  
Thomas Hamilton fought to introduce the pardons to make a point.
To seek to change England. And he was killed for it.
His wife and I went to Charles Town to argue for the pardons,
to make peace with England, and she was killed for it.
England has shown herself to me. Gnarled and gray…
and spiteful of anyone who would find happiness under her rule.

I’m through seeking anything from England except her departure from my island.