Drabble: "Abandoned"

[veronica_rich]

Title: Abandoned
Rating: G
Character: Davy Jones
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters; I make no profit. Just exercise.
Summary: The captain of the Flying Dutchman goes to his Maker. For the prompt "Fool" at blackpearlsails.


A fool for love.

If only that was how history would paint me. He knew better than to expect reprieve from the surviving progeny of terrified seamen and damned ocean travelers, left behind scribbling on parchment and whispering fiercely into grimy ears on dark wharves the terrifying monstrosity of Davy Jones’s reign.

It wasn’t the sucking inward spiral of collapse in his breast making him shrink in pain. It was the lad, not unlike the once-young sailor David, also breathing his last. Turner had two who sacrificed for him.

Jones had been unable to rely upon only one.

“Calypso …”

Comments

[captsparrow4evr.livejournal.com]

Sorry I didn't comment before, love. I seem to have developed some cold-like thing that is currently ruining my life.

Anyway, this was very powerful as a short piece like this should be. Not a word was misplaced--which is probably the best compliment you can get for a drabble.;) IMO, Davy expected his goddess to live up to a human standard of perfection. Mythology is full of gods and goddesses demonstrating faithlessness and lies. Because she wasn't human, she couldn't be a perfect one.

Will, otoh, loves Elizabeth as she is, not for being perfect. With any luck, that will keep his fate from echoing Captain Jones'.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I seem to have developed some cold-like thing that is currently ruining my life.

Maybe that's where mine went after its two-week visit. Sorry!

Mythology is full of gods and goddesses demonstrating faithlessness and lies.

OT Question: What do you think would happen if one tried to be human and faithful? And then if that human were taken away after a while (death, whatever) and they couldn't go back to being a goddess? Just your own opinion ...

Will, otoh, loves Elizabeth as she is, not for being perfect.

Yeah, just as long as she doesn't blow him off and then tell him "It's my nature" with no apology. For me, that was the moment that Davy turning her over to the Brethren Court became justifiable; even trapped in human form and living among them, she still hasn't developed any discernible sympathy for or empathy with them.

[tiamary.livejournal.com]

Cool story!

As to your comment, this is a bit different because Elizabeth never made any bargains with Will about the ferryman issue as Calypso did. "Give up your life, ferry the dead, and in exchange I'll meet you in ten years. Oops. I was busy. Sorry." In Will's case it was a split second decision in which Jack was more instrumental. So even if Elizabeth did blow him off, which I don't think she would, there wouldn't be such a reason to feel betrayed. Really, if anyone is honor-bound to meet him every 10 years it's Jack, the one who stuck his hand into the heart. And Jack ain't chopped liver, so...

I think Davy provides a cautionary tale about putting all of your eggs in the love basket. You have to be enough unto yourself. I think Will is, so he won't end up like Jones, no matter what happens with Elizabeth. Also, he's got his dad with him, and his father issues seemed to drive him more in the second two films than his romantic issues did.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it!

No, there was certainly never any deal struck as far as the ferrying duties went for Will, between him and Elizabeth, except that she promised to keep the chest with his heart safe. They did, however, exchange marriage vows, and I personally believe at the very least, that binds her to make one day for him every ten years (I happen to believe in the promise of the marriage vow, which is why I'm looking at my late thirties and am still single - I don't want to take them). She said yes to a marriage proposal twice from the same man, even after she had the opportunity to be let out of the first one. To me, that implies some level of faithfulness. That can be interpreted sexually - in fanfic, I don't think that has to be the case - or it can simply be interpreted as "I'll be there for you when we can be together and I won't forget you."

Really, if anyone is honor-bound to meet him every 10 years it's Jack, the one who stuck his hand into the heart. And Jack ain't chopped liver, so...

He really isn't, LOL. But from a strict canon POV, he's also not who Will wants. (See how I can say that and still be a J/W 'shipper?)

You have to be enough unto yourself.

While this is true, I think it's also a shit excuse for betraying someone if you haven't first had a talk with them about it - I have nothing against divorce, but I do resent people who have affairs without telling the person to whom they made a promise that they want out of a permanent or semi-permanent partnership. That's just my Code and the only other person I would expect to honor it would be a man I lived with or married. Nobody else has to.*

*(That said, we are talking real life - not fiction or fanfic. In fanfic, I have no problem reading a well-written J/E or writing - as I am - a W/E-J/W, so long as somewhere in either is some sort of respectful explanation as to how they got to that point.)

[captsparrow4evr.livejournal.com]

I will get you, my pretty, and your little cat too!;)

In answer to your OT question: If, hypothetically, a god or goddess truly wanted to be faithful and human, it would probably result in that deity becoming human--and if their lover was taken from them? How would any other human react? I don't believe there would be any return to being a goddess/god.

I think that the curse of being human is that we suffer from guilt and regret. That's not a problem for mythological beings.:)

And, truthfully, I think tiamary has a very valid point below. Elizabeth didn't make the greatest sacrifice in the films for Will; it was Jack who did so. Even so, the "real" Elizabeth would wait for him.:)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I do agree Jack did the most directly for Will (whether it was a sacrifice, I don't know - I have always kind of doubted that Jack actually wanted that captaincy, so it wasn't like he was giving up his heart's greatest desire to save Will ... now if he had to hand over Pearl or sink her, THEN I would believe it was the ultimate sacrifice. But I still like to pretend he did it out of love for Will *G*). I'm just saying he's not who Will wanted to marry and be with, or chased all over the Caribbean trying to find in two movies. That should count for something with Elizabeth, I'd think.

As for the mythology question - I was just curious. I'm working on my outline for an original novel and that's sort of a key point to the beginning.