Especially for Venus - playing cards

I think I found your playing cards at Books A Million tonight. The DMC deck, with CotBP art, right? Will as bishop, Elizabeth as queen, Jack as king? That's how the ranking goes in the chess set too, except that Will is a bishop and not the jack - but then again, I think of the bishop as closer to protecting the queen than the knight (which I've heard a jack compared to before). So that would make sense, actually - and when it comes to the seas, Jack *does* have rank on Will prior to the end of AWE. I don't see the ranks in the deck as a pairing thing (actually, I'm sure it's just some marketing department's logical usage of the older man for king and the younger for the next-up-in-rank, the jack, and the main woman as the queen), but more a power ranking.

I don't know if your bookstore has the AWE deck, but it's different - Jack is the ace, Barbossa is the jack (interesting), Elizabeth is queen, and Will is the king. And this, too, is correct, at least IMO - Will steps up in AWE to be in charge of himself and others instead of only protecting the queen, and by the end HE is the most powerful force on the seas besides Calypso. At any rate, he definitely outranks any other captain ... or commodore, admiral, whatever. Nothing is as powerful or as final as Death, after all. ;-)