Is Steed a Pirate?

Blackbeard was fascinated by this guy because he looked glorious in his outfits. Blackbeard must have gone, what the hell are you doing in this job? Because they were all desperate. They didn't want to become pirates. And so here's this guy who's like, I want to be part of this too. It kind of makes sense that something happened between the two of them, even if it was just a friendship. "I think maybe if you look at Blackbeard wanting to see the other side of how the other side lives, I could probably, a lot of people, dead back in those days"