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anklesalltheway · 3 years

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Captain Charles Gibbs: Blinded by the dark side of ambition

Why, still, should the lust for ascension

Seem, in itself, so close to madness?

Drawing me ceaselessly up

To heights far, far above the human?

Nothing is that can satify me;

Earthly novelty is too soon dulled;

I am drawn higher and higher, more unstable,

Closer and closer to the sun's effulgence.

Why do these rays of reason destroy me?

- Yukio Mishima, Sun and Steel

Tribute collage to Captain Charles “Icarus” Gibbs, husband of Julia Gibbs and father of Joshamee & Margaret Gibbs, a rags-to-riches respectable Royal Navy Captain with a secret trade of piracy, and who endlessly chased the white whale of his vast ambitions into oblivious blindness to even the consequences that affected those around him brought by his own choices...

#my edit #;; headcanons #;; mama swann #;; gibbs #I know Papa Gibb’s faceclaim #is napoleonic/Victorian era and not exactly 18th century #but Gregory Peck as Horatio Hornblower & Captain Ahab is SO FITTING

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