annevbonny:

“In terms of Rackham and Bonny, I think that was another thing that I assumed for a long time could never go away. That they were essentially, you know, that they were married. You know not legally, but they were functionally married. And then this story happened in Season 2 with Bonny, that I think with like with a gun to my head of things that I’m proud of with the show, probably at the top is this story of this woman coming out and understanding that she’s gay. Especially given the life she’s led, that was something we had to fight for. I think it was something that people were really weirded out by like “wait a minute, she kicks ass and she’s awesome why is she in a dress?” And so when we got to a point where it was like… I think she’s gay? Like I don’t think this is something we want to be wishy-washy about. It required getting over that hump with Rackham of Well like what am I going to do with this relationship? I don’t want to split them up? And I think it became something way more interesting, it became I think what they probably…yeah they’re twins essentially. I mean I think they are in the mythological sense they’re the twins in the story who are essentially two halves of the same person.”

— Jon Steinberg (xx)