I have Gathered some Data
@skysofrey and I recently got into a discussion about names in OFMD. Specifically, how many times does Ed actually call Stede by his name in the show? We could only think of a few examples each and that didn't seem right. And because I'm insane, I decided to rewatch and note down every time a name was used, who used it, and who was being spoken to. Here are my findings!
Before you proceed, please know that this is strictly for fun and because I was curious. There are likely errors in the data (I'm sure I missed some things, I'm just one person.) but! I still think that what's been gathered is very interesting.
Here are some other fun/important/miserable things that I found in my travels:
There is one more time where Stede calls Ed “Edward,” and the only time it isn’t said to him directly. This is when Stede is addressing the petrified orange.
Of the five times that Stede is called “The Gentleman Pirate,” two of them are from Ed.
Ed calls Stede by his name only twelve times in the series. Only two of these instances are spoken to someone else. There are two others when Ed is looking for him at the pier, and therefore spoken to no one.
There are only ten instances of other characters calling Ed something other than his name or “Blackbeard.” Two of these are from Izzy, during the scene in Spanish Jackie’s bar, where he’s informing Stede that Ed would like to meet with him. During this scene, he only uses “my captain” and “my boss.” This is one of the very few times he doesn’t refer to Ed to other people as “Blackbeard” and it’s at the time that is arguably the most important. (He’s an idiot.)
Out of the twenty times that Ed refers to himself, fourteen of those are as “Blackbeard/The Kraken.” He refers to himself with names other than “Ed/Edward” 70% of the time. 50% of the times he refers to himself by his name are during the beach scene in episode nine, and there is only one instance where he uses his name that is not in Stede’s company. ("Actually, I do want to be called 'Ed' from now on.")
Izzy only refers to Ed as "Edward" to other people four times in the show. Two of those times are when he's marooning Stede's crew, and each time he uses his name in that scene, he takes on a mocking tone. Meaning that 50% of every instance he's referred to Ed as "Edward" to other people, he's been mocking his name.
Ed calls Stede "mate" as often as he calls him by his name, but he only calls him "mate" directly.
Stede calls Ed by his name only once more than Izzy does.
80% of the times Ed refers to himself by name happen in episode nine.
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Headcanon time:
Jason still smokes post-resurrection. It's not super frequent, but when he's feeling exceptionally stressed, he takes a break and smokes. Mostly only when someone dies, when a mission has tested his last nerve, or when he's had a particularly rough time adjusting to being social that day. So, once a day, a few times a week. But he's not the guy that smokes two packs a day, not at all.
Something everyone picks up on is how Jason behaves while he smokes. He looks lost, whether in thought or otherwise. His hands tremble, his breath shakes, and his jaw is tense. His attention is anywhere but present, his mind floating off to some far corner of the world behind his eyes until he's stamping the cigarette butt out and tossing it in the ashtray or in a trashcan.
Everyone picks up on how Jason behaves after he smokes. He makes jokes, but they feel tense. He rolls his shoulders as if he'd just gotten done sparring. He feels... off. And if they're in one of Jason's many hole-in-the-wall safe places, he sprays himself and the room down with a bottle of fabreeze. He even has a bottle of it in his car, god forbid.
He can't kick the habit. He hates the smell of smoke because it triggers something inside his head, something deep down. Something, they think, is akin to a primal fear. And yet, he still does it. Nobody can figure out why.
Jason doesn't tell them it's because sometimes, triggering himself is the only way he can prevent a worse episode down the line. He'd rather shake and struggle through it now than be tucked away like he'd been jabbed with fear-toxin later.
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how do people know what they wanna do honestly ? like even if they don’t know for certain what they wanna do they’re like.. oh I like doing X so I’ll do that for now.. or it’s like oh I’m interested in Y so I’m gonna do that !! like.. how do you know what the X and the Y is.. ??? for real ????
I feel like.. idk. I’ve always changed my mind too quickly to pick something and then in school/when I was a teenager when they were like right ok what’s everyone gonna do I was just alarmed because damn. I didn’t think about that ? I guess ??? and then I saw everyone else had some vague idea of something they might want.. but I didn’t have any clue.. and then because I was a teenager with bad anxiety and shit I just began to overthink and overthink and overthink
and here I am at my big adult age still overthinking it and telling thousands of people on my little blog because I’m scared that I still don’t know what to do,, and I’m scared I’ll never ‘figure it out’ or whatever and I feel like I can’t talk to anyone else about this because they just don’t get it. but I know sooo so many people can relate like I know it’s not just me !!!! but I still can’t help but feel lonely with these feelings and it still eats away at me constantly.
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