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Image description: digital painting of Rhys Darby as Stede Bonnet and Taika Waititi as Edward Teach/Blackbeard from the show Our Flag Means Death, set in an alternative universe where both characters are wytches. It is set at night with a large full moon and cloud cover with a shooting star behind them. They are in the middle of a valley full of rolling hills and blue and white flowers. The brim of his hat is decorated with chains and jewels laced around the brim. Stede is seated on his knees to the left of the frame. He is wearing a large wytches hat with a very wide brim and precise pointed cone in a purple colour, with a wreath of herbs circling the cone and spiraling up to the tip. On the brim of his hat is a grey and pink pigeon (this is meant to be his familiar, Lucius). He is wearing a white shirt with large sleeves and a purple waistcoat with golden stars on it and a gold pocket watch chain, and a lilac neckerchief. His shirt is unbuttoned to show the top of his chest under the neckerchief. He is wearing tan breeches and a large deep violet cloak slipping off of his shoulders. The cloak has a cream fur trim and covered in embroidered with golden constellations. He is wearing gold rings and has his nails painted turquoise. He has his right arm cupped around the head of a brown highland calf sitting next to him to his right, under his cloak. He is looking upwards with a joyful expression and holding his left arm up and out towards Ed. Around Stede is a burst of colourful wildflowers, gradienting from the blue of the field through purple, pink, red, orange and yellow closest to him. In front of him in the grass is a large ornate style lamp with a jewelled fridge and an elaborate stand, which is emitting a soft golden light. This light is illuminating Stede's expression, as well as his clothes, the flowers and the other objects in front of him. Next to the lamp is a stack of spellbooks and on top of these is a small glass gift box with two macaroons inside - one lilac and one violet - tied with a ribbon and with a small tag showing Blackbeard's red heart with three dots under it to indicate who it was from. Next to this is a small sentient footstool with ornate carved legs and corners and a golden brocade cushion. It has bright cyan eyes and a large amount of downy grey feathers bursting out between it's wooden legs, and is using two of it's large corner tassels to cover it's blushing expression as it appears flustered and looking up to the figures above it. On top of the footstool (which serves as Stede's magical transportation) is a white and floral teacup and saucer set, and a small bowl of sugar. Above these is the figure of Ed, who is reclining in a large velvet green sentient armchair which serves as his transportation. Ed is wearing a battered and mossy wytches hat that looks well worn, and has a large number of glow worms in it, forming trails and glowing pendants around his head. He has a large grey beard and grey hair, tanned and heavily tattooed skin which is also glowing under the lights, and bare feet. He is wearing a small violet crop top with his upper chest and a bulge of stomach showing (as well as a strap of his undergarments across his left hip). He is wearing black ripped trousers with gold buckles which have been ripped and patches multiple times with fraying edges, and the tears are showing more tattoos on his legs. He has spiders in webs tattooed on his feet, tentacles on his left arm and an eagle tattooed on his upper chest. He has multiple golden chain necklaces on, as well as many golden and pearl bracelets, golden rings and painted magenta nails. He has a tattoo of a heart on his left hand which is extended down from his chair above Stede to hand a glowing red rose to him in a small bouquet he had conjured for him. He is looking down and smiling, and both men are blushing (Ed's more visibly than than Stede as he has blush on his chest and stomach as well. Ed is laid in the chair in a nonchalant manner, with his legs hooked over the right armrest. His other hand is touching the edge of his wytch hat in greeting. The large green armchair has carved circular edges at the front of the arm rests, with ornate carving across the front of it, but the back area has grown uneven, twisted and spiralling like a kiwifruit tree or vines, resembling driftwood or roots, showing the wild nature of Ed's magic. On the very top twisted section of the knotted wood back piece is a perched grey and black shaggy cat with a short stump of a tail. It is standing with it's paws together and back arched, and glaring with golden angry eyes down towards the pigeon and Stede. The cat has a X marking in its fur (indicating that this is Izzy, Ed's familiar in this AU). Ed is ignoring his angry familiar and solely focused on Stede. His large sentient chair is angled in a sort of bow, with the creature's large orange eyes on the front legs focused on the shy little footstool. It has larger sleek black feather wings that extend down from under the base of the chair and are arranged around it's large scaly black legs. The feathers gleam blue and green in the lamplight. The creature's left leg is raised and it has picked up Stede's white floral teapot delicately between two claws and is pouring a cup of tea for him, as the other remains holding their balance behind them. As it pours it has the equivalent of it's pinky raised out of politeness. It's curved talons have been painted with the same magenta as Ed. End of description.