Can U Tell - Blog Posts

can we talk abt touya's medical trauma more please

quick smooch post crash

i wasn't gonna post this anywhere but igive up hello

So spend some time with me, I really like your company 🔥

Grim Reaper Casey AU ft. Raph!

and some doodles w most of everyone else that i'm not tagging lol

fair enough!

So I've been seeing a lot of theories n stuff floating around bc of the new OFMD trailer and teaser. One thing I couldn't stop thinking about was that Izzy seems to be somewhat protective (or at least tolerant) of Stede in the teaser.

It seems like maybe he's training Stede to fight properly. And theory I've seen most recently is that Izzy realises how badly Ed misses and needs Stede, and so is training Stede for the sake of Ed's mental and emotional health. And while I'm all for character development, this doesn't seem completely plausible for Izzy.

All that said, here's my theory for Izzy's reasons for training Stede and actually helping him:

So I realised- assuming that Ed really had been shipwrecked and ended up stranded somewhere- the crew no longer have a captain that they truly respect. Izzy may be incredibly intimidating, but we can see how resistant to following orders the Revenge crew was when Blackbeard wasn't around, and how willing they are when Stede or Ed are the ones giving the orders.

The Crew won't listen to Izzy. Only Ed and Stede. They don't like Izzy- they don't respect him. And if Ed is absent, and Stede manages to find the rest of his crew around the same time Ed goes missing, Izzy would have really no other choice than to secede the role of captain to Stede so Stede can lead the crew and pirate well enough to find Ed again and restablish him as captain.