YALL KNOW HOW PIRATES CALL EACH OTHER MATEY?
MATEY STEMS FROM AN ACTUAL WORD
MATELOTE
IN THE CARIBBEAN, CAPTAINS OF SHIPS WOULD USE 'MATELOTE' TO SIGNIFY A LIFE-TIME PARTNER
MATELOTES COULD INHERIT FROM EACH OTHER, SHARED SPACE, FOUGHT TOGETHER, COULD SPEAK FOR ONE ANOTHER WHEN SOMEONE WAS INCAPACITATED, AND MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, THE RELATIONSHIP WAS SEXUAL
AND (only) IN THE PIRATE SOCIETY, TWO MEN COULD MARRY. THEY WOULD EXCHANGE GOLD RINGS, AND FROM THEN ON, EVERYTHING WOULD BE SHARED
MATELOTAGE YO
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~MCD SHITPOSTS~
FanfictionI mean, I was going to call it headcanons 2, but let's be honest here
