16 Works in Stede Bonnet Character Study
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What if Stede Bonnet didn't wait so long to pursue the life he truly wanted? When a business trip to London goes astray, Stede ends up on the docks with a mysterious boy his age who has just killed his father.
Basically, What if Stede went with Edward when he joined Hornigold's crew?
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"He’s alone. No one expected to wake for hours. No one to see him crack open and throw himself into the sea of his own feelings. He only has himself, and the version of Ed that comes to him in his dreams."
Stranded in the Republic of Pirates in the middle of a thunderstorm, Stede entertains a fantasy he's not sure he's allowed to have.
The Tortured Pirates Department Day 9: Guilty as Sin? / "I keep recalling things we never did"
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“Like a mermaid. Or a merman. Or a merperson.”
As soon as the words had left Ed’s mouth, they’d slammed into Stede with such force that he couldn’t help smiling. It’s the best he’s felt— ever, maybe, when someone was talking to him, and he doesn’t even have the words for why. Hearing Ed describe him in his vision this way— it really just felt like he saw him. Moreso, even, than the first time Ed met him— Stede felt seen, felt perceived, felt— felt known.
“Wow,” Stede had breathed, and he still remembers the surging bolts of incredible, burning feeling that had coursed through him as he processed it all. Merperson. Person. Just a person. He really couldn’t suppress his smile; it had been years in coming. “How’d I look?”
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this mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon by KiaraSayre
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
20 Sep 2023
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Stede learns to be a sailor, a pirate, a Captain, and, just maybe, the kind of person he wants to be, all on the way to finding Ed.
(The kind of person he wants to be will end up committing mild insurance fraud, exploding a ship, doing some light indirect murder, and making some truly questionable choices while on laudanum, but that will come later.)
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- Part 2 of let what is broken so remain
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Once, there was a boy named Stede. He was just like all the other boys, except for one thing. He always wore a green cravat around his neck.
For the OFMD Reverse Big Bang 2023. Additional stories posted every Tuesday and Thursday.
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Another Lonely Tear by StedeBonnit for Blakbonnet (Meowbowwow)
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
16 Apr 2023
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Stede had spent his entire life crying lonely tears, until one day it hits him that, for the first time in his life, he isn't lonely anymore.
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On Stede’s birthday, he picks a bouquet of flowers and visits his favourite tree.
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A rewrite of the scene where Chauncey tries to kill Stede.
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Finns det hjärterum så finns det stjärterum by PhantomEllie
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
07 Mar 2023
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Think of it as an adventure, he had told them, covered in sand and sun-blistered skin. He threw his arms out in confidence and boasted a well-practiced mask of a smile. Adventure, a treasure hunt, whatever you want to call it!
Stede Bonnet was chasing his love, it is true. Grasping forward towards a happiness he had never dreamed of having. But he was looking back, as well. The peaceful meadow of his childhood is still there, after all. It is his happiness, though gone. So as the crew sets upon the ports, pretending that they are certainly on an adventure and not struggling for survival, because we all have our own meadow inside us, whatever form it takes. And Stede keeps a corner of his eye at least for flashes of pretty things to grow in it.
For OFMD Motivation March Try-it Tuesday. Prompt: A meadow, Stede, The Swede, Adventure.
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When Stede Bonnet was carefully carved out of bits of the finest enchanted Brazilian cherry wood, he allowed Geppetto to put on a show with him, dress him up and parade him about a bit, dangling from bits of string and lace, tottering about the world in a perverse imitation of a real boy. And when that stupid fucking cricket that lived in the walls of his Barbados estate whispered to him and told him to behave, to smile through his pathetic (pathetic) puppet life, what did Stede Bonnet do? Why, he took a hammer and smashed the fuck out of that cricket. Cricket annihilated. Bonnet out.
The story hasn’t ended though. It’s time for him to be swallowed by that great sea-beast, only to be spit out into a new life with the only person who can break the spell. The first problem now is that the only one who can allow him to feel a real human heartbeat thudding in his no-longer wooden chest is more likely to stop that beating forever. The second problem is that for the first time in his life, he knows exactly what he is.
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Doug and Stede have a chat and a beer. Stede realizes he needs to go back to Ed and a fuckery plan brews
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- Part 1 of Shoo Shoo Baby
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Stede doesn't miss his books that Edward threw out. He's honestly just extremely happy to be with Ed, and his crew, and he doesn't need anything else, least of all his old luxuries.
Ed thinks that that doesn't mean he shouldn't get to have them anyway.Series
- Part 3 of Hire Me to Write OFMD S2
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a tale of wilted flowers and stormy nights by naeya for Neigezz
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
05 May 2022
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"You look beautiful," The wretched words roll out of Stede's mouth before he thinks to stop them. It is not the appropriate thing to say - it is not what he is expected to say, either. It doesn’t make it any less of a universally acknowledged truth of the world. To Stede Bonnet, Ed is beautiful is as true and obvious a statement as the sky is blue.
Ed’s eyes widen imperceptibly and his blade digs deeper into Stede’s skin. It might leave a pretty bad cut, this time. "I’ll slit your throat," He spits. Venom seeps into his words and spills out of his gash of a mouth. "That’ll shut you up."
Stede is a hurricane in the shape of a man. He destroys and ruins. That's all he does. That's all he thought he’d do forever and ever - until he stumbled upon Edward Teach and realized he could be something better.
Or, Stede goes back to the Revenge. It does not exactly go as planned.
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"To Oluwande, Captain Stede Bonnet is a naïve fool."
Everyone's favorite crewmate describes his experience on The Revenge with Captain Stede Bonnet.
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The last few nights, after their excursion on St. Augustine, Ed had been more… noticeable. It seemed every time Stede turned, Ed was there. At first, Stede thought it was simply Ed finally becoming comfortable aboard the Revenge but he knew this was something different.
Something more complicated.
Something worth journaling about.
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Stede may have taken Ed’s comment about lighthouses a little too literally.
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I set a course for a new shore / It looked the same as the one before / And I forgot what I'd been sailing for / And why I thought this time would be different
A Stede Bonnet character study.
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- Part 5 of BNL Sitcom Vids
- Part 1 of Barenaked Breakup Duology: An OFMD Fanvid Series