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A character study of Jim on the Revenge between the end of Season One and midway through Impossible Birds (S2E1) because their offscreen arc is fucking fascinating.
So it goes like that. Stories on okay nights, and sometimes also on the nights that are too dark. Sometimes it’s not stories, but reminiscing about when times were better. Archie is fascinated by how things used to be on the Revenge, is constantly asking to hear more about Stede Bonnet and his People-Positive Management Style, to the point that that becomes one of the stories in rotation. Jim half-expects Izzy to skip those nights but he stays, whittles something or fiddles with a hank of rope. He never contributes, but he stays.
Jim looks around the circle and thinks it helps, probably. Helps to escape for a while, to remember. To grieve. To be human together for an hour or so, before they have to go back to being demons. It might help in the way a stone helps divert the flow of a river, but it’s all they have. It's got to be enough.