They are the same. I hope Mary marries her tbh

Can’t wait for their wedding

I have a theory about ofmd season 2/the larger narrative, fueled by Wikipedia and my own ideas of what they could do with the story/a couple theories of why exactly Lucius can’t be dead. (Besides the fact that your honor, I love him, and no body=not dead)

First of all, I wholeheartedly believe that (if they use this) Lucius is the one who’s gonna publish/finish writing a general history of the pyrates, the book that contains most of what is known about golden age of piracy pirates like stede bonnet, Edward teach, Ann Bonny, Mary read and calico jack, several of these Lucius has met already, but if you look at the end of the list of names, there’s a Captain Spriggs, which is fun if this is used but it’s probably just that the last name was borrowed for Lucius, it’d be cool if he continued working with various other captains and writing for them. Also there’s a Captain Edward Low who could be used, he was an incredibly vicious short lived captain (active 1721-1724) that spriggs worked under, who used the exact same flag as blackbeard, then edited it later. (Improbable but I’m just sayin, Ed/blackbeard could swap names/Izzy could take on the persona and then swap later on, time matches up for blackbeard to “die” then later, take on a significantly more brutal persona, also Israel Hands drops off entirely after blackbeard is captured/killed with his crew, he got pardoned and sort of disappeared after that (Johnson says died a beggar in 1724 in London but it’s not confirmed by anything but his word). In short, captain Charles Johnson is Lucius and that’s the framing narrative of like all the pirates seen are written down, it’s Stede telling his kids or whatever the hell about his escapades at the end when he’s settled down with Ed, like using lucius’ published writings (the general history of pyrates, under the pen name, obviously, Captain Spriggs can’t oust himself for piracy, that’d be stupid!) I don’t know just imagine something adorable, I can’t carry the narrative on my back it’s hard having such a big brain (like titanic I think if one of them is like telling the kids about the story I’ve never seen the movie, I think there’s a bit at the end, it’s a common framing narrative)

Anyway this all to say season two goes one of two ways, the first like 3 episodes is stede and crew of the revenge trying to get back to blackbeard (like he does historically, cause they’re getting close to their respective “deaths” timewise, I insinuated earlier they survive, I ain’t killin anyone, they both fake their deaths etc etc) however real stede bonnet never finds him, I think it could mirror season 1 where Stede gets stabbed by the Spanish except blackbeard is in too deep and Stede finally finds him, a la blackbeard cutting stede down, but in reverse (I just like the parallel, it’s cute, I want to see blackbeard realize he’s in too deep and that Ed needs to come back again)

meanwhile, Lucius is serendipitously saved by two lesbian lady pirates (Ann Bonny and Mary read, I just think they’re neat) maybe following them to also meet up with Stede (I just wanna see them and it could sort of work cause they’re in general history of pyrates, also they’d know of blackbeard via calico jack because of the fudging of calico jack’s existence) Anne had a relationship with calico jack I think it’d be funny to do a like who threw you overboard you’re so nice??? Blackbeard???? Oh that bastard killed my convenience husband, god damn it type of deal where like Stede and remainders of the revenge meet up and go wtf Lucius????? And Lucius goes oh hey captain, your boyfriend/co captain threw me into the ocean, because you left him, thanks for that one

Or same thing but Lucius is fucking with blackbeard like Stede’s hallucinations, only living and pretending to not be real, inside the ship in a secret passage (Ed knows they’re there hypothetically, but who else would he assume Stede would tell? he killed Lucius, he drowned, he doesn’t know better, if he intended to drown him) I personally prefer him chilling with the lady pirates, but it makes the hold on thing from Ed make sense as to why he told Lucius (otherwise it’s for himself and he does a shit job of doing that one)

And now Izzy hands time, everyone’s favorite asshole! (He needs therapy so bad, he’s so terrible, only therapy or being put into a washing machine would fix him) Since he did exist, (was 16 and not a first mate sorta technically? Teach had a different first mate but Israel is designated as right hand of Blackbeard, but whatever, fuck major historical accuracy, I’ve shot history dead at this point, so has David Jenkins, it’s fiiiine) we know some of what he did, first of all, real blackbeard shot him in the knee, (cut off his toe and fed it to him within the show, which he was super down for, cool one horny little man) because “if he did not now and then kill one of them, they would forgot who he was” which matches what blackbeard post divorce would do/say if someone asked him directly wtf happened with Izzy’s foot, since Izzy said something like Blackbeard’s himself again when someone asked him. Interestingly enough Charles Johnson wrote that quote from blackbeard, having (I guess seen?) blackbeard shoot at someone else on the crew, hit Israel in the knee who said why’d you do that, which Lucius wasn’t visibly around for but fuck man it fits sort of otherwise also that moment was private and way more purposeful than Israel getting shot in the knee, blackbeard fired at someone, missed, hit Israel to likely scare them into submission after half the crew got marooned when stede and blackbeard split.

Also re remarking Izzy would make an excellent Edward Low, he’d be super brutal and torture people for fun, he matches really well, and it clicks with him using Blackbeard’s flag then swapping if he takes on the persona (then shifts it, because Jesus Christ Captain Low is brutal) after the real Blackbeard’s “death” to let Edward Teach have his calm peaceful not pirate life with his boyfriend who he loves very much and will forgive with only mild homoerotic sword combat and not grievously wound his boyfriend for his excellent fuckery that he’s gonna buy into (because Izzy would totally hear about Stede Bonnet, known terrible pirate who he doesn’t like, dying like an idiot, coincidentally in a similar way he tried to get Ed to fake his death, wearing his clothes, can’t tell it’s really him etc etc and be like oh captain, stede bonnet is dead, crushed by a piano after a jungle cat mildly mauled him, very Stede Bonnet death)

And I almost forgot the real Spriggs he was like super not notable, he worked with Lowther and Low, deserted low, and he also used the same general Blackbeard flag, but with edits, the real Spriggs was also brutal and tortured people, not quite as bad as Low but still bad, which I don’t think is gonna be used with Lucius, I think it’s neat that a dude with the last name Spriggs was in reference to captain Low and is in general history of pyrates