Oh, honey, don't you remember your Disney relationship code? It's just like in "Beauty and the Beast" or "Lady and the Tramp"--love at first sight! I would even hazard the guess that she might have read a couple of pirate stories before she met Will but was absolutely obsessed with them after their first encounter, always putting Will into the main character. Probably part of the reason why she seemed so knowledgeable about Jack's reputation because she wanted Will to be a pirate just like him.
As for the coin thing, she was probably too embarrassed to admit to him that she'd taken it (even if she did fear for his safety, it was also a neat little souvenir from her little pirate-boy). If they only saw each other at church, say, she could easily have this huge fantasy built up about him while he was just living an ordinary life of hard work. On the Dauntless, she'd appeared to him like an angel so he would idolize her but obviously they had little contact socially--no matter what some fan-fic writers would have you believe.
As for Will's apprenticeship being dead-end, I would have to disagree. Most boys were bound into apprenticeship at 14 years (or a little younger) for seven years. Will would become a journeyman at 21 (part of the reason that I think he's a year or three older than Elizabeth) which would keep him in the smithy until (IIRC) 3 local masters certified him as a master. How soon that would have happened is hard to say.
All in all, though, I think the whole idea of the kiss of doom, the incredible ship-sinking boy, and the sword of "destiny" would make a great fic. Now for somebody to write it.:)
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As for the coin thing, she was probably too embarrassed to admit to him that she'd taken it (even if she did fear for his safety, it was also a neat little souvenir from her little pirate-boy). If they only saw each other at church, say, she could easily have this huge fantasy built up about him while he was just living an ordinary life of hard work. On the Dauntless, she'd appeared to him like an angel so he would idolize her but obviously they had little contact socially--no matter what some fan-fic writers would have you believe.
As for Will's apprenticeship being dead-end, I would have to disagree. Most boys were bound into apprenticeship at 14 years (or a little younger) for seven years. Will would become a journeyman at 21 (part of the reason that I think he's a year or three older than Elizabeth) which would keep him in the smithy until (IIRC) 3 local masters certified him as a master. How soon that would have happened is hard to say.
All in all, though, I think the whole idea of the kiss of doom, the incredible ship-sinking boy, and the sword of "destiny" would make a great fic. Now for somebody to write it.:)