Eleanor Guthrie [Black Sails] || Whispers

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Halsey's last album just inspire me a lot for Eleanor lol.

It's a very methaporical song and though you are free to interpet this edit like you want for Eleanor, this edit revolves a lot around the fact that Eleanor has long lied to herself from season 3, lie and illusion that are mainly Rogers or as Hannah New, the interpreter of Eleanor would say: “I think her biggest regrets would be that she’s constantly sublimated her own feelings for this bigger vision of the island and she’s done some disgusting things. On her death bed, I definitely know that she regrets the role that she played in the death of Charles Vane. She has this ability to be pragmatic about what she has to do to survive and override those emotions, but in her moment of death, herself, I think it brings to the forefront how incredibly scared she is. She doesn’t have a chance to really reflect on what she did to Vane, and what she was doing to herself, in that moment. I think she killed part of herself, in that act. Perhaps, in a way, that’s what killed her ability to achieve her end. She went to a place that was so brutal and extreme that she wasn’t leading in a way that was humane. She was using the same tactics as the pirates, and that clouds everything that she was fighting for. It definitely clouds her, as a character, and the way people see her. The beauty of the writing is that she is this complex character and she does have an ability to reflect, but the minute she has that opportunity, it’s taken away from her. It’s incredibly painful, in so many ways.”

0:31 : I interpret here that Eleanor is voluntarily numb inside after the death of her father, in order to harden herself to face the mourning but also to find the determination to face the war to come in particular against her former lover, Charles, and the "close the binds" ring here for me the fact that this is the exact moment when she said goodbye to piracy, as if it's goodbye just left her numb inside with no hope of return, even though she's lying to herself about it.
0:43 : "Camouflage so you can feed the lied that you're composed" with the arrival of Rogers in her life, which will help her build this lie.
1:34 : "Might have to trick her and treat her" with Rogers practicing joyful coercive manipulation with Eleanor, continuing to imply that whatever she did in the past, whatever she was, that it was vis-à-vis Nassau, moreover, was a mistake and something negative that she must continue to correct so as not to stray from the right path.
1:37 : "Seventy capsules" I am trying here to show that the prison cells are the "capsules" and the consequences of Rogers and of civilization on her, Charles having taken her place of prisoner, and the gestures of Eleanor who completely reproduce those of Rogers, we can also think of the plan of the steps before she enters the cell, then her entry into the cell, the two scenes where Rogers comes into Eleanor's cell and the one where Eleanor comes into the cell of Charles are literally a huge parralel, and in the end, Rogers brought death to Eleanor as much by coming to her cell as Eleanor brought it to Charles.
1:41 : "at least we could say that we died being traveled" and the "cultured and flattered" is an ironic way of saying that civilization or colonization in general is supposed to bring culture to "wild" people, but at in the end, what they basically brought was rape, death, and destruction, and that's what ultimately killed Eleanor, and Rogers get to "trap her" in this world.
1:58 : "these are the standards to which you could hold me" with Eleanor saying that she was thinking that she could be happy with a life far from civilization, far from Nassau, far from 'England, as long as she was with someone she loves, showing old scenes of Charles/Eleanor says here for me that Charles could have possibly brought her this life away from the world (Max too, maybe) but not Rogers, and that those were the standards she ultimately needed to be happy.

Fandom - Characters : Eleanor Guthrie, Black Sails (with Charles Vane, Max, Woodes Rogers).
Song : "Whispers" by Halsey.
Coloring "After Midnight" by LaurenMichelle.
Program : SVP14.

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