OH NO. ORANGES
god i knew it was about love but it’s literally like. the thing that the crew needs to have on hand at all times to stay healthy. the thing that stede forgets to take into account and constantly avoids acknowledging the importance of. the thing that he previously used for only frivolous reasons. the thing that he ignores to take ed treasure hunting, to find something that will make him stay, but then it’s the thing that he finds. that he wouldn’t have even found without encouragement from ed and lucius. and then ed does stay. the loss of which turned jim into the untrustworthy person they are now. the thing which jim turns away before leaving at the pressure of their nana. but also the thing that stede gave ed a variation of the morning after they first met, and what started the wheels turning in ed’s head to stay with stede in the first place. the one thing stede took with him to the naval academy, the thing that kept him connected to ed while he was home, the thing he left half of behind when he left home, because this time he was leaving on good terms. the thing that stede will ultimately give to e-
i fucking forgot about ed being the one to wash off the orange and tell stede that’s what he’s found. because stede needed ed to verbalize what was happening before he understood