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blackbeard marking Izzy with the tattoo is a romantic gesture in any case but in the particular setting if our flag means death, it takes on an additional dimension of romance and adventure: the whole narrative is about flags; flags as belonging, demarcating a fake but vitally important social group (the social grouin this story btw turns out to be a group that is so silly. they're so goofy and well meaning fools).

as the community is demarcated, so too is Izzy. he's at the vortex of the whole story of "identity definition" whirls around because he's the pirateyest pirate in the first narrative, "the pirate narrative" (ie the show). marking him oddly. defines him as the very center of the genre: and by this action, ed stakes a claim wit planting a flag like no other charActer dies with *any* other marker: im claiming it all. I'm claiming the vortex of piracy; I'm all if it, it is me. I control this all. which is, in this particular story, blackbeard marks Izzy. they're staking the meta narrative claim/control of the story.

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[schmirius]

all of which is to say
I with thee have fixt
by dissembler

https://archiveofourown.org/works/38180623

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I mean the thing about "the gentleman pirate": it's just an oxymoron that's the snfirs thesis of "he'll kill you... with /kindness!/" and in this universe,that's the kind of guy would show up a d kill you, worse luck

kill (pirate) with kindness! (gentlemen)

passive (gentleman) aggressive (pirate)


the show says it 50 times to remind you who Stede is/sees himself as. absurd, but adorably so. or insanely so, if you're reading him as a pirate
(rather than reading the title "gentlemen" and mentally filing the piece away as a regency style lords-you-dont-understand