#i have never actually watched OFMD

[thistransient]

So my classmates and I went to an izakaya for our departing teacher's birthday. One girl had picked it because it had great reviews, but the service was a bit slow and they were out of so many things we tried to order that eventually they comped us a surprise flight of tequila shots in tiny mason jars.

After we were all a bit tipsy they proceeded to announce if everyone gave them a five star rating right here and now we'd get free dessert. Ah. 原來如此. Of course our morals were thrown to the alcohol-tinged wind as we unanimously desired deep-fried sweets.

Our middle-aged Japanese businesslady classmate was clearly in her element. At one point, as she was getting into the discussion of everyone's sexuality and dating habits, she ventured that she wanted to ask me a personal question. Oh god, I thought, she's gonna ask me if I'm trans. You can ask but I may not answer, I told her.

Her: 你是一還是零? (Are you a top or a bottom?)

Me, completely taken aback and also relieved it wasn't the other question:

She also got extremely huggy and I was glad I was on the other side of the table. I learned our teacher had been scared of me in the beginning because I was "too serious" and had been very proactive in the coup last semester. I actually liked this teacher all along! (This comes in a long line of people misinterpreting both my facial expressions and fashion choices, so at this point I may have to chalk it up to an ASD thing.) Japanese classmate sneakily paid for everything and then wanted to find another venue to continue the drinking, but we outvoted her in favour of not being hungover for class tomorrow, and went home. I took the bus (even though the MRT is faster) because I really like looking out the window at the lights on the way from Xinyi to Shilin. It's getting Christmassy, I feel like a moth to the fairy-light flame, even though it seems like mainly Christian churches that have extravagant displays. A good time though, a good time.

#my language exchange friend also picked a Japanese place for dinner last night #i greatly enjoy this aspect of taiwan #i have never actually watched OFMD

[idascurrentobsession]

So I finished 1670 like 10 minutes ago…

#maciej might actually make me think about something other than good omens for at least a couple of days #and i have never wanted to know polish so bad before #now i sort of get how people felt about swedish after watching young royals #and also this show is genius and i laughed out loud several times every episode #both the writing and the acting was great #it kind of has an ofmd feel to it #please watch it #1670 maciej #1670 #1670 netflix

[crownspeaksblog]

How the hell does ofmd manage to give me everything i love about tv shows, in one show?!!

It's funny, silly, stupid but somehow at the same time it's serious, deep and well thought out!

Characters change and develop in prominent ways, characters have arcs, what they go through affects them, things aren't stagnant. (1x01 stede is a coward who's trying to hide from the English, 2x08 stede throws himself over 2 soldiers, he's brave despite the fact he's out numbered. 1x04 ed wants to quit piracy but doesn't know how, 2x08 ed quits piracy a second time with stede even when the first time doesn't work out)

It's a beautiful romance, a queer romance between two people who have insane chemistry, a love story that has ups and downs, but in the end they're right there for eachother because what they have is True Love!

The show is shot so beautifully, it doesn't look boring, so many shows I've watched (although entertaining) are shot in the most boring/basic ways possible, ofmd has so many gorgeous still shots, a couple of fun one shots! (The bar fight one shot in 2x07 deserves more attention! Mer!stede and ed looking at eachother while floating in the water is genuinely one of the most beautiful shots I've ever seen!)

The outfits characters wear changes with their arcs and it makes sense story wise and the outfits are just so fun looking, it's interesting and different and so, so not basic. (Stede going from aristocratic silly little outfits to pirate shirts with deep neck openings and leather pants!! Hot! Also can't wait to see eds s3 outfit.)

The song choice is fun, the lyrics, beautifully add another layer to the story (I'm still not over the "I've loved him since he was born" lyric!)

The women in this show, although few and not main characters, they're interesting, different and not basic "normal" women, so many shows and movies I've watched, the men get to be weird, kooky and interesting while the women are just painfully normal, but in ofmd, the few women we got are either insane, wild, weird, violent or just not fucking "normal"! (the most "normal" woman we have is probably mary who was gonna stab her husband with a skewer through the earhole!! Also the addition of archie, former snake cult member is just amazing!)

The action we get every once in a while is just so fun! I love a fight scene and for the most part, they look good, it looks well done (again the bar fight and ed killing motherfuckers left, right and center in 2x08 is just so goddamn fun to watch!)

I know so many other shows have most of these things, but the fact ofmd has all of these things, that i just fucking love in one show is amazing, it's appreciated and on top of all of this, the show just makes me happy whether I'm watching it or watching people's reactions to it or even just thinking about it! I love this show even with the criticisms i might have, i love it!

#just had to talk about what i love about this show maybe I'm forgetting some but I'm pretty sure I'm not #but like seriously how many shows actually have all of these things?! #alot of shows have most of these things except for the female characters being wild/not normal and the queer love story aspect. #recently i watched nope and a thought i had was why is the kooky crazy character thats gonna die to get the perfect show is never played #by a woman. why is the calm collected cowboy who saves the day is never played by a woman?!! why is it that most times men play them?!!! #anyways i love ofmd. it's unique and just so fucking fun! #ofmd #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #ofmd spoilers #blackbonnet #tv shows #👑

[lavender-phannie]

Dan and phil I need you to come back now cause they just cancelled ofmd and I need something to keep me sane through exam season god PLEASE

#the hope of ofmd renewal was the only thing keeping me happy #now I have nothing but dread for the future #cool cool cool #dan and phil #ofmd #I’ve never actually experienced a fave show being cancelled before cause they either get finished OR I arrive years after the cancellation #I’m fucking torn up man #gonna go cuddle my hot water bottle and watch some dnp to hopefully feel better…

[theofficialpresidentoftheusa]

I still continue to see criticism of season 2 of OFMD and I just. Find it so funny honestly. Like I get some of it, maybe, kinda. But for the most part I’m like ????? Nah don’t agree. Skill issue. I find it even funnier when people complain about the pacing being too fast because I honestly always felt the first season was too slow with its pacing. So season 2 was actually kinda perfect to me! I’m not the type to complain about what we were given and wish it was different though. I eat up every morsel they allow us to have, and to have jammed in so much content had me in paradise tbh. It is what it is, you know? I accept it all as just what we’ve got. And maybe that’s me just first and foremost loving the show as what it is- Ed and Stede’s story. Everything else is just a cherry on top for me. I’m here to have fun and if it can do that for me, I’m all good. And going into it with that mindset, guess what? I had a GREAT time. I sat down and rewatched the show in one day in its entirety two days after the finale with a friend who had never seen it. They loved it! I loved it, again! Id watch it again already!!! I parry criticisms of the show with great ease- who cares, it was fun, I loved it. That’s what mattered to me! Must suck to feel otherwise! :3 I’m kicking my feet n giggling over this little found family and my favorite boys in love. Teehee. Best show ever.

#this is cause I saw someone on tiktok saying the season sucked and specifically referencing Izzy stuff and I was like!!! #if you find yourself heavily criticizing it consider: they made it for me specifically and I loved it :))) #I’ve never watched a show that feels so much like a love letter to the fans in all the best ways #truly how many shows are doing it like them???? #you’re all far too critical of a show that’s so unique in what it offers #the queer joy and found family and just. everything man. it’s everything you wish for in a show. #ofmd #our flag means death #that reaction image is actually literally me when people criticize s2 and they ref Izzy dying as why they didn’t like it #if u try to come at me for this take I will block u real quick btw I do NOT care about what I have to say!! :3

[squirreledawayart]

So that 'oh naur' joke has definitely made me watch this show and I have no regrets

#h20 just add water #cleo h2o #h2O #mermaid #h20 fanart #fanart #i have covid so im just watching tv and drawing and sleeping #this is kinda what a cat life is #i think #if cats could draw #ive also done a lot of ofmd art #gotta post it tho #its easy to just let it sit in my computer and never show it to anyone #i doubt anyone will see this #so its easy to post it #and feel like: yeah see. no one wants to see my art #not even art #oh naur #Australian accent #this shoe is actually good #is that because covid has rotted my brain?

[asgardian--angels]

you know it's bad when tumblr's being the more mature social media site when it comes to rancid takes on izzy's death

#ofmd #holy shit twitter's devolved into a battleground #what is WRONG with yall involving david jenkins in your beef #you dont have to like what happened but #how many fucking years in fandom does it take for people to learn to be civil #and not base their entire identities around characters so if anything happens to them it's a personal attack #that they then take straight to the creator #if a character dying causes you that much distress then that's a You problem and david fucking jenkins is not responsible #and he's not your therapist #and besides. just because something happened you didnt like doesnt mean it was a bad writing choice #but even if it were. you never have the right to make it anyone else's problem #i cant imagine having the gall #don't do this guys. the cast and crew are so lovely to us. don't make them stop interacting with us #people saying this show was a comfort show. or a safe space show or whatever. thats great for you #but it's not djenk's responsibility to cater to you and not his problem if the show doesn't meet your infinitely high expectations #he's telling a story. things will happen in those stories. #and it's actually p rare on tv that creators are getting to tell the story the way they want so personally im grateful #if you don't like his vision then don't watch it. you don't have the right to bully him. seriously whats wrong with you #cause yeah im sure con o'neill would love what youre doing huh #the fate of a fictional character is sliiiiiightly less important than being kind to people in the real world yknow #only tagging this so people can block for spoilers

[blog--witch]

Okay!!!!!!!!! I watched GO2!!!!!!!!! I’m once again feeling insane

#good omens #I’ve been busy but I finally watched the whole season #screaming and cheering at the end lmao mean!!!!!! I was like ok based on how everyone’s being they’re gonna be separated at the end #and Christine and I were like ok is aziraphale gonna be offered a job. and is he gonna take it. 🤨 #but I did NOT think there was also gonna be a whole ass Crowley confessing his feelings scene where he Kissed Him On The Mouth #they’re insane for this #Christine: well we are in a post-ofmd world. me: I forgot about that. I’m still trapped in spn mindset hell #what do u mean the two pale coconuts actually jumped together on screen #*bumped #anyways. I get it guys #also tho I’m so excited lol are they gonna be nemeses next season???????? that’s my dream!!! I always want to see friends etc that then #become foes bc of Circumstances #but also tell me aziraphale wasn’t already like Oh I Fucked Up by the end of the ep #how long until he tries to go back to Crowley and this time I think he’ll actually have to do any amt of work to earn Crowleys forgiveness #which he rly has never had to do before lol #but that man Fucked Up “I forgive you shut up!!!!! 😭 #also the blatant amount of dr who references. yeah I remember he’s the doctor thank you for reminding me!!!!!! #I saw a tiktok that was like all my teenage girls in their 20s rn are like BARK BARK BARK WOOF MEOW about David Tennant rn and it’s soo true #The Eternal Tumblr Sexyman #ANYWAYS AGAIN #I’m just dispensing all my thoughts here bc I don’t have time to scroll through a tag and feel insane and I don’t need to barf all these #onto someone else’s post #so here we are #I need to find something else to think about today bc every time I remember crowleys face as he was trying to eek out an I Love You I feel #physically nauseous #what am I supposed to do after that! #sorry to anyone who read all these tags I didn’t mean to

[xoxoemynn]

OFMD has such a chokehold on my entire identity now that I genuinely can’t remember if “earhole” was a word I used before watching the show or if I just accepted it because it was Queen Mary Bonnet’s stabbing location of choice.

#like it IS objectively a hole in your ear #but is that actually what we call it? #if I said it to someone who's never watched OFMD would they look at me funny? #just have Questions #ofmd

[coolauntlilith]

I had a really good discussion over actual reasons for different pov on OFMD...

And now we're back to stupid fucking takes. Please watch The Crown or something if you want a serious show. Please watch 90s Charmed if you want girl boss women.

I really enjoyed messy women characters. I like Ann and Mary. I liked that Archie is in the crew and she's a himbo. I like women who are not always socially correct, who are messy, who can't fucking cook lol, who are silly in whatever way.

Please pick a different show. Go away.

#i actually am back to think yall have main character syndrome again #'this show didn't do what i like!!' stop watching. go away. holy shit why is this even a normal complaint #i didnt like star wars 8. you know what i didnt do? go see star wars 9. and ive never even fucking talked abou it here because i didn't #waste my time. i didn't like GoT after a while. you know what i didnt do? keep fucking watching it #jfc if you hated something so much. clearly you were seeing things that made you uncomfortable. you have the power at your fingertips to #just stop watching. turn it off. #i cant stand you all rn #aunt posting #anti - particular ofmd fans who dont have a grip on reality #anti izcourse believers now #anti whatever the fuck that one user is on about. like damn. women cant do anything except be pristine huh

[zevranunderstander]

remember that one post thats like "yeah there are gay characters in disco elysium. but if you want to play the game just because there are gay characters in it, this is not the game for you" and thats exactly how i feel about black sails

#myposts #disco elysium #black sails #like. a lot of people try to be like 'its JUST like ofmd! there are sooo many gay couples! there are bisexual characters!' #but like. sorry this show is too well written for yall to bait people with the fact that there are gay characters #like. this show is so profound and sad and a gigantic methaphor for discriminated people fighting a fight they cannot possibly win #and still finding meaning in doing it and yall wanna bait people because its shippable fhjdjsks #i dont have a problem with shipping i just think it does the show such a disservice #like its like saying 'yeah hamlet is good there are two gay guys in there' (i never read hamlet and im sure that's not actually true tho) #oh i need to add to this. one person who recommended it to ppl bc its was like ofmd was like #'trigger warning: blackbeard is not a uwu sad boi in it he has more of a toxic masculinity vibe' #and ok yeah i think trigger warnings are great and all but. blackbeard was a real life person who was NOT a good person #and like. if youre watching a show because 'there's also blackbeard in it' you can also watch. something else. idk. hes even in potc 4

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

This post is no shade to Izzy fans. (Obviously I'm sick of Izzy stans but the Izzy Jar guys and Izzy enjoyers are cool and can probably skip this post because I'm gonna complain about your boy) It's just my personal opinion.

Izzy is so boring dude. Like my initial impression of the show is like oh what a neurotic little villain, and the role he plays cross Ed is interesting. But to me Ed is what makes him interesting. Ed is an interesting character and Izzy plays a huge role in his story. Their relationship is interesting.

But Izzy on his own is like... So boring to me. And every time Ive said "idk what's interesting about him" I've gotten in trouble for it. I even had one person say "IDK what to tell you when we have so many wonderful interviews and panels from the creators" and I was just sitting there like... Yeah I've seen those. They make him even more boring. Like am I the only one without the Izzy wool over my eyes? Because like at the C2E2 panel for example I feel like Con said "he's got a lot of layers and all of them are bad" and everyone just stopped listening after the word layers.

Like in the interviews there's been a some of talk about Izzy's sword fighting, like that's his one skill, his signature weapon. And people are like 🥹 he likes sword fighting!!! And I'm like "oh... So there's no secret piano skill that he's hiding? His hobby is just violence?"

Like the most interesting thing about him is that he likes getting choked and force fed his own toe. Like the fact that he gets horny about depraved shit is my favorite thing about him. But also the depravity isn't even like fun it's about exerting power for him, which is like the most boring reason to be into it. It would be so much cooler if he was into erotic forced auto cannibalism for the love of the game rather than some 24/7 bdsm fantasy of being Blackbeard's dog he has. It's like I love it don't get me wrong, but also whip my balls is the superior masochistic flex. I'm being fed too well by this show to succumb to that

Ill admit that part of this is that I find people who are obsessed with power to be viscerally unappealing (I'm an anarchist politically so) and I think repression is the enemy and hedonism is like my favorite thing and I hate work. Like I'm predisposed to be a hater. Except despite all that I'm not actually a hater I just don't understand the hype.

And again, if you like Izzy that's fine. My brain decided to latch onto Calico Jack I do not sit on very solid judging ground here. But it seems like I'm the only one who's just like "yeah Izzy? Useful for causing problems, kinda mid."

#Although since I mentioned Calico Jack #I once was like 'I don't get why everyone hates my beautiful boy(derrogitory) when Izzy is a fan favorite' #and I got a lot of comments that boiled down to 'well Izzy's an interesting character and Calico Jack is like a cartoon villain' #and I'm just like 'first of all being an interesting character and a cartoon villain are not mutually exclusive' #sorry that you're pissed that hes the funnier Ed villain but you might want to take that L #and second of all 'Izzy is an interesting character' show me where. #Like babe #I'm not on my high horse don't get on yours. #because i can get on mine and mines a fuckin clidesdale #thats the name for the huge draft horses with the leg warmers right? #ofmd #our flag means death #i really wish Con had never said 'hes trying to be better' because it doesn't make him any more interesting #and it gives people ammunition to be like actually you have to like him #girl i dont #i will be so apathetic about him just watch me #im actually izzy neutral its just that everyone is so insane about him for no reason that i have to be the kill joy

[izzy-b-hands]

My uncle is spouting anti vax shit while playing bloody knuckles with ppl who do not want to play, my cousins are playing tiktoks with transphobic jokes like. are they trying to speed run making this miserable, MORE miserable somehow

edibles pls kick in before i either get sick fully, or lose my little restraint and tell them all to fuck off and call myself a cab and leave

but then mum would follow me and scream at me for that so there's no escape 🙃 even home isn't fully safe 🙃 yaaaaayyyyy*

*wherein yay means jfc fucking kill me

#text post #i just want to cry i was planning to try and actually work hard to be good and out of everyone's way #like always and they claimed the same at thanksgiving for Xmas and they never do it #im the only one that ever fucking tries #will i miss u and i wish we were still watching ofmd together rn #im sending u all my love for ur family stuff it has GOT to go better than mine #one of us has to have a decent fuckin crimbbus

[devotedlystrangewizard]

i have such strong memories related to black sails like. it was my mom's birthday. during a weekend. think 2018/2019. we went away for the weekend to this. place. idk what its called in english but yk rent a tiny house for like a few days. whatever. i can remember what it looked like. i sat on that couch watching black sails. my sister and i had to share a room and i managed to break the bed (not permanently) i had to sleep on & because even after fixing it i didnt trust it, i slept on the floor. it was on that floor that i watched s2 of black sails. it was on that floor that i saw that fucking scene that fundamentally changed me as a person. because. listen. black sails was one of the first shows id watched with a queer story. with not one but two major plot threads revolving around queer people's relationships. i remember sitting in the car in the dark as the rest of my family was ordering fries for us and i remember my mom going "hey look gay couple!" in a restaurant. it doesnt feel real. that entire weekend is a fever dream. i thought i was just watching a pirate show. the pirates were gay. the pirates were fucking gay bro. i cried over that show. i wept at the end of it. i had to play boardgames for my mom's birthday and pretend like i wasnt going insane because the pirates were gay and i was just. ough. i was 14 or 15 and i was barely out and i was new to being queer in any capacity and it was such an experience.

#i really think my extreme reactions as like. a 14ish year old to stuff like 'is hannibal in love with me' & the wedding crashing #in shadowhunters and the kiss in black sails. #i really think that shouldve clued me in on the fact that i was trans & gay. earlier. #which doesnt make sense since im also aromantic but eh. yk. seeing people like yourself on a screen for the first time #even before you know? wild. insane #current 13 year olds doing discourse on tik tok have never experienced the utter surprise that was black sails. #they have never experienced growing up to 12 unaware lesbians even EXISTED because queer people barely existed in media #i really feel like ive grown up alongside queer media. #just. i remember tlok. & shera. & adventure time. all kids shows! #& then ofmd? last year? i spent the entire time convinced id get queerbaited #i started watching it when episode 4 had just aired and i. i thought it was queerbait. #it wasnt until they actually kissed that i sat there like. huh. spn really did fuck with my head #DO YOU KNOW. HOW FUCKIGN INSANE IT WAS. TO SEE A NONBINARY PERSON #criticize monster/robot nonbinary characters all you like but when i first saw double trouble i was just. #getting to witness o14's development since season of dawn in real time was also amazing #idk. #i think writing valerian has made me really really emotional about gay middleaged men again #also its late. and i miss black sails. i should rewatch black sails

[scarrletmoon]

okay i know the Discourse™️ has been going on for way too long at this point, but

i think some people outside of the OFMD fandom don’t actually get why we’re particularly annoying about this show

OFMD is not the first queer show to ever exist. if anything, it's a late entry in decades of queer media. over a year and a half since the first few episodes aired, everyone knows that OFMD is queer. that doesn't make it particularly special

but back in March? this is the trailer that dropped in February of 2022, 2 weeks before the premier. if you're used to seeing queer chemistry in shows that aren't intended to be queer, you might see the hints between Ed and Stede here. but to most people? it's just a silly little pirate comedy. just guys being dudes. the trailer doesn't even hint at the other 2 canonical queer relationships in the show -- the closest it gets suggesting romance is the music and the pink in the poster

so when people watched this show in March 2022, they went into it expecting subtext and nothing else. to them, it was like watching Sherlock or Supernatural or Merlin in the 2010s. if you were in any of those fandoms -- especially Sherlock and Supernatural -- you know what it was like; constant jokes at our expense, being mocked for creating explicit fanwork, made fun of by the creators and within the show itself. if we saw queer subtext, that was our problem. this was a time when you pretended NOT to be in fandom, for fear of ridicule. we kept our fanwork to ourselves, we DID NOT share it with the cast, and we accepted that our favourite ships would probably never be canon. maybe one day, if we were lucky, we'd have a show where the subtext wasn't mockery as much as deliberate foreshadowing -- but that had to be YEARS away

right?

OFMD was never billed as a queer show, not in the beginning. there was no LGBTQ+ tag on (HBO) Max, it wasn't on anyone's list of upcoming queer shows in 2022, it flew under the radar through most of its first season. this was a show about pirates, and sure, some of them were queer. but not the LEADS. if you think they're romantically involved, that's must be fandom brain poisoning

except the 9th episode aired, and they kissed. and the show said "you're not crazy for thinking they have chemistry because they really do. it's been a romance this whole time". and in the 10th episode, Stede realizes that he's in love

(not mandating you watch this clip if you don't care for the show, but there's something that feels particularly earth shattering about no one saying the word gay but knowing that Stede's realizing he is, that it's completely unambiguous and explicit in a way that only straight romances are usually allowed to be)

this is why people freaked out about this show. no one knew. even the creator, David Jenkins, was surprised when WE were surprised that it was gay for real -- he set out to write a love story, using all the tried and true beats of a rom com. he'd never even heard of the term queerbaiting. he looked at historical Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet and thought "oh, there's something here" and just...wrote that, with very little fanfare, like it was inevitable. like it was obvious. of course Jim and Pam end up together. of course Buttercup and Westley end up together. what kind of disappointing ending would it be if You've Got Mail ended with the main characters just going their separate ways?

so of course Ed and Stede are in love

look, i get it. we're annoying and won't shut the fuck up about this show that seems mediocre at best. i watched the whole thing back in march, thought "huh, that was cool" and was sure that i'd forget about it in a few days

an hour after looking at fanart on twitter, i was lost in the fucking sauce

there's just so much to unpack from a mere 10 episodes. it covers racism, toxic masculinity, gender expression, sexuality, trauma and abuse. and i don't think we should overlook the fact that the non-white characters in this show get to be fully human in a way i haven't seen in my favourite shows in recent memory

additionally, most OFMD are 25 or older. we're not people who've been spoiled by queer rep, who don't get how hard it used to be, how you'd have to grovel for scraps, how shipping and fanfiction was a way to find queer rep where we thought there never would be. we've been here. we're annoying about this show because for a lot of us, it's the first time we've been treated like our queerness isn't an anomaly that needs to be relegated to its own section, that needs to be praised for the bare minimum of acknowledging that we exist. it's not pulling punches to avoid scaring away a straight audience. it just is.

OFMD for me is like when i watched Black Panther for the first time and realized that this is what white people felt all the time. have there been other black superhero movies? of course! does Disney fucking suck? BOY does it. but that was the first time i got to sit in a movie theater and watch a mainstream film that looked at Africa and said "look at how beautiful you are, exactly as you are"

and idk. i think that's really cool

#scarrlet rambles #ofmd #cant wait for all 5 notes on this post #and dont be fucking mean i'm not trying to start shit #anon is off btw if you want to try that #we're going to have a productive conversation or none at all we're adults here #for some reason tumblr didn't save my links and stuff THANKS TUMBLR #anyway the typo version is floating around now i guess 🥲

[weathertheraine]

Pirate AU!! Thank you @stringofturtles for watching OFMD S1 with me and re-igniting my Pirate Emotions so I had the motivation to finish this. The first sketches have been sitting in my files for months so please forgive the fact that they look different skdfjh.

More fleshed out AU details under the cut !! :D

- The kids are a little older than canon - the third years in their early 20s - but the story still starts with the second and third years as an established crew who then pick up the first years and the coaches.

- Daichi as a Captain is of course very much like he is in canon. He works very hard to take care of his crew and takes on a huge responsibility for providing for them (as well as making sure they don’t die in idiotic ways). Suga is First Mate so it’s his job to make sure DAICHI is okay and not worrying himself to death. He also has a good handle on morale/the emotional state of the crew.

- Asahi is the first line of offence when dealing with other ships. He doesn’t like actually hurting people, but he’s good at breaking ranks and barrelling through defences to get hold of whatever Karasuno needs. He was ‘off the team’ and out of commission for a little while after he lost his hand (not seeing combat while he was in recovery, and needing to build up his courage again). Noya played a huge part in helping him back onto his feet, and has been kind of protective ever since.

- Noya’s job is to make sure the ship isn’t boarded, so he very rarely leaves it.

- Ennoshita and Kiyoko work together as navigators and managing the little money the crew has. Ennoshita is the only crew member in the beginning who can kind-of read (Kiyoko can only read a little), and they work a lot with maps and planning out journeys.

- Tanaka is great at intimidating opponents. His eyepatch is totally for show - he thinks it makes him look cooler and scarier. His parrot doesn’t often co-operate with him.

- Narita and Kinoshita take care of maintenance and supplies and making sure there isn’t gunpowder anywhere there shouldn’t be, as well as things like fraying rigging and rotting boards/canons secure and the like. Of course, things like that are everyone’s responsibility, but these two consider is theirs particularly. It’s thankless work but the boat would definitely have burned down by now if not for them.

- Enter the first years!

- Kageyama is a prodigy swordsman with a huge reputation as a lethal pirate, although most people who spread those rumours don’t realise he’s as young as he is. He was marooned by his previous crew for being a controlling Captain (who should never have been captain in the first place, having only his fighting talent as the real reason).

- Hinata recently ran away from home to “become a pirate” without much of an idea what that actually entailed, and ran into Kageyama without knowing his reputation. All he knew was that this guy was incredible fighter, and he demanded that he teach him to fight! He now won’t leave him alone.

- Tsukishima ran away as a very young child in an attempt to find Akiteru, whose sailing ship was attacked and lost at sea. He fell in with pirates along with Yamaguchi (who was picked up after surviving a shipwreck), and the pair ended up sticking together as they bounced from ship to ship, ready to run whenever it seemed like tensions were getting high. They (read: tsukki) are going to need to break this habit, if they’re going to be a real part of this new crew.

- Tsukishima and Yamaguchi can’t sleep if they’re not in the same hammock. Embarrassing. The reason Yamaguchi was so tiny as a little kid is that he didn’t get enough food. Tsukishima still tries to sneak him extra (and gets in trouble with Daichi).

- Tadashi ends up as a sharpshooter, one of the few kids who’s confident using a pistol

- Hinata and Kageyama spar together all the time. It’s GOING to end in a make-out the first time Hinata successfully beats him.

- Neither of them have noticed that Tanaka’s eyepatch switches sides.

- Yachi is picked up when the crew stop in a bar in her town. She’s a better-off girl, about to be talked into an politically advantageous marriage, and desperately wants to get out of her situation. “Running away with pirates” was admittedly pretty drastic, but anything sounds like a good idea when Hinata suggests it so sincerely!!

- Ukai is a washed up older pirate, without a crew. Takeda is a very unlucky literature teacher who just happened to be on a sea voyage. They both ended up taken as hostages by the same (meaner) pirate crew, who were then stolen by the Karasuno kids. Although, it’s kind of unclear at this point whether they’re actually prisoners… They’re being treated very nicely (especially Sensei) and are in danger of getting attached…

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