They took everything from us. And then they called me a monster. The moment I sign that pardon, the moment I ask for one, I proclaim to the world that they were right. This ends when I grant them my forgiveness, not the other way around.
#oh my god okay i dont know if this makes sense#i dont know if my thoughts translated all that well onto screen#but here it is anyway#the point of this gifset is that their story was very much similar to silver and flint’s story#james and miranda both went through a drastic change in the past ten years#they both became monsters in their own way#flint was the villian in the story the world has been writing and she the cheating wife before they named her the devil’s accomplice#(thomas was the tragic character; the victim of their monstrosity)#like silver and flint they were on the brink of a major change.. they stumbled upon a chance for absolution and justice#and they failed because someone else wanted to continue writing their life in a way they did not want it to go#but what breaks my heart the most is that miranda was so close to something resembling a life again#(she didn’t even know just HOW CLOSE.. literally.. thomas was just a few days ride away and peter knew)#she had long ago made peace with being the victim of scrutiny and rumors#but in that one and only moment when letting go and forgiving those who hurt her mattered the most.. she couldn’t#because she loved too much; cared too much; hurt and witnessed her loved one get hurt too much#for that one fleeting moment she took back control of her life and soared before they silenced her for good#when the same thing happened months later.. flint facing another betrayal from a friend threatening with a gun aimed at his chest#flint chose peace#but at the cost of everything else he stood for#in the end neither he nor she got justice for the accusations thrown at them for all those years; no apology#they both went down in history as the false characters the civilization had created#and while in the end flint got some measure of peace.. there is still a tragedy underlying his journey towards that end#anyway im dead (via @captain-flint)