weasleyzs:

when the king brands us pirates, he doesn’t mean to make us adversaries. he doesn’t mean to make us criminals. he means to make us monsters. for that’s the only way his god-fearing, tax-paying subjects can make sense of men who keep what is theirs and fear no one. when i say there’s a war coming, i don’t mean with the scarborough, i don’t mean with king george or england. civilization is coming. and it means to exterminate us.