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escritorzuela ([personal profile] queenslayerbee) wrote2026-04-27 07:26 pm

FANFIC: to build and to endure (Black Sails)

A drabble I wrote for [personal profile] greetingsfrommaars during Snowflake Challenge 2025.

Title: to build and to endure.
Fandom: Black Sails.
Character/Pairing: Max.
Rating/Warnings: T, none.
Summary: For the prompt: "Black Sails + Invincible."
Word count: 100.

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Max was a builder. A web of lies, a house of cards, a castle of sand. Everyone starts somewhere, from hay to twigs to brick, chasing after the safety of locked doors and solid stone.

Hiding within a fortress will make you feel invincible, and invincibility is an illusion, a delusion; if the wind blows the wrong way, it comes tumbling down.

Yet it can be a shared delusion. True power needs a sturdy base, but if it gets taken away, you can stand upright for long enough to brave the rain by reputation alone.

And that, Max could craft.