Ed's Emerald Ring, a love story
I am going to repost this with a few new ideas and some pictures that are actually decent.
This is Part 1: The Proof
The Emerald ring Ed wears in season 2 of OFMD is Stede's ring.
- The emerald ring is too big for Ed. Stede's rings are canonically too big for Ed. In 1x4 when they change clothes, Stede's rings on Ed's hands are lopsided the entire time. Ed's usual rings fit him well. The Emerald ring is also lopsided nearly the entire time. There is NO reason for Gypsy Taylor to make Taika Waititi wear a ring that doesn't fit unless there was a specific reason that it needed to be too big.
Stede's rings on Ed, too big for him:
The Emerald ring on Ed, also too big
- If the ring was part of his plunder Ed would have gotten rid of it in 2x6 when he called his plunder poison. He got rid of most or all of his plunder, but he kept the emerald ring, why? Because it isn't tied to piracy. Even if he did keep some of his plunder, we know he considers it to be poison, so why would he keep something that was stolen so close to him? on his body all the time? I simply don't believe that he would keep something close to his heart that came from the thing he is trying to escape.
- When Ed drops his leathers overboard in 2x7 he still keeps the emerald ring. If the ring had some attachment to the leathers he would have sunk it with the rest of his stuff.
- The ring is Stede's color. Stede spends a majority of his time in green/sea green clothing, Stede's main ring is sea green. The captain's cabin has a lot of green elements. Nearly every outfit he wears has at least a trace of green in it, even before he leaves his wife. The "exquisite cashmere" that Ed rubs on his face has a lot of green in it. Stede's bed sheets also have green in them. Most of the time we see Stede's daughter she is also in green, not sure what to make of that other then connecting them to each other.
- Interestingly, the first non green outfit that we see Stede wear after meeting Ed is Purple, Ed's color
- Ed has a history of keeping stuff that signifies Stede close to him. We see this when he wears Stede's black scarf for most of season 1 and puts it back on right before he sails into the storm in season 2.
- The only reason for Ed to keep a piece of jewelry THAT DOESN'T FIT is if the meaning was divorced from piracy and special to him, and the only thing in his life that comes close to that is Stede.
thus ends part 1. I'll be back with part 2 in a bit
