the saddest line in the trailer
at first I was too distracted by Stede's plunging neckline and gold earring to fully realize why this kept nagging at me but:
"I've been a failure my whole life."
and the way he says it:
as a matter of fact, because he fully believes it – it's an integrated part of his self-image
to comfort someone else (presumably), meaning that even though it is sort of similar to Ed's "I'm not a good person" from s1e6, this scene doesn't seem to be about Stede getting comforted – he is just throwing that line in there
with the follow-up line of "It's not so bad once you get used to it," because he is used to being called a failure by everyone around him, even when he was a kid, so much that he doesn't question it
and yeah, Stede fucks up a lot and can be a bit air-headed/naive and overestimates his abilities (Stede's super high confidence vs. shit self-esteem is a central part of his character), often to the detriment of himself and everyone around him, but his biggest "crime" growing up was simply that he was different and didn't live up to the norms of masculinity. and this is what caused him to be made to feel like a failure by the world around him.
(putting the rest under the cut because I have a lot to say apparently lmao ⬇️)
idk it is just so sad that after everything that happened at the end of season 1, he still echoes his father's and the Badmintons' words when talking about himself (and his own "I'm not a pirate, I'm an idiot" from s1e1). he still has a lot of growth to do.
and while it's good that he embraces his own shortcomings (and I hope he stays a loser in many ways <3) and the show reinforces that you don't have to be perfect to be worthy of love/that you are worthy of love just as you are, it is just. idk SO SAD to hear him say that about himself so earnestly
but do you know who doesn't let Stede self-deprecate?
THIS GUY, FROM THEIR VERY FIRST DAY TOGETHER
from telling Stede he isn't such a terrible pirate (at least he's alive), to not letting Stede call his own ideas stupid, Ed likes Stede for who he is WHILE not letting him talk bad about himself like that.
now we can't know who Stede is talking to in the scene in the trailer, just that it is someone with long dark hair:
and it could be someone else (to me it doesn't look quite like Ed's hair, but the quality/lighting makes it difficult to tell), but if it IS Ed, it has the potential for him to (once again) go against Stede's negative self-talk 😌
I am so interested to see how this scene plays out and I REALLY hope we get a scene mirroring the bathtub scene (even if it's not this one) but with the roles switched ✌️
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my crack headcanon about why abuela is at the madney wedding is because somewhere around 2A, she insisted on meeting eddie's team and had them over for dinner or something and she took a special liking to chimney and they really bonded and she asked eddie to bring him over often and they got really close—and so did chim and eddie—and he did so now of course chim had to send her an invite to the wedding and of course isabel couldn't miss it.
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unpopular opinion but Susie and Berdly should be best friends and play Dragon Blazers together and talk about cute girls they like and eat worms and Susie should remind him that he doesn't have to be perfect and Berdly should encourage her to try harder in school and they should make fun of Ralsei and write love poems to Noelle and Kris.
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you made the bad omens au??? In my head you're the apollo justice guy and I cannot ever look at usernames apparently
i'm full of complexities, anon 🤗
asksks but in all seriousness, i love swap aus sm that it's kind of inevitable that i make one for the current thing i'm into, and the way i draw real men in their 50's vs 22 y.o. anime lawyers look pretty different so i can understand why a connection wasn't made as quickly pfttt
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