#literally the happiest ending silver could grant him was death and fantasy. I mean what was he supposed to do? not betray him? nooo no no
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that the biggest high seas bastard got a happy ending in this tragedy + all that is baked into that contradiction. the unreal/real nature of it truly matters less and less than the fact that, as narrator in that moment that we the audience sees it, silver gives flint his happy ending. real/unreal. that IS real. silver says it, and it is so - we get to watch the catharsis and relief and reunion. it’s not about if it happened it’s about silver needing that to be the final image for flint: a happy ending to a tragedy.
#we can’t even start to consider what is real. none of it is!!! all of it!!!#but it’s making me fucking bonkers to think about how firmly the story shifts out of flint’s hands after his speech about the empire.#it’s all long con silver from there. he’s in control until he too is consumed by his story as flint was.#black sails#john silver#silverflint#text post#fucking bastards. they love each other.#literally the happiest ending silver could grant him was death and fantasy. I mean what was he supposed to do? not betray him? nooo no no#they loved each other but never more than what they wanted. until flint does. until
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