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Jul. 20th, 2006 03:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
veronica_richYes, more DMC discussion. But instead of bitching and moaning this time, I actually come bearing grand insight for writers on my f-list.
Let's start with a simple link - Jack Sparrow's supposed official, possible-canon history:
http://community.livejournal.com/potc_discussion/7277.html
(You can post comments to that list all you like, obviously, but I'd really love to see some discussion in this journal, as well.)
Some follow-up discussion at: http://xylodemon.livejournal.com/356621.html on the same topic, speculation, etc.
In short for you who are link-a-phobic: Someone found a spot on the official DMC site that references a possible backstory for Jack. He worked for Beckett and the East India Trading Company, and Pearl was a ship of its fleet. Jack defied a direct order/assignment and it was of such nature that it got the Pearl sunk/abandoned and Jack branded for piracy. Fan speculation includes Jack refusing something having to do with slaves; MY taking that further says that Jack delivered some slaves - only not to where he was supposed to, to collect money. Instead, he left them in someone's humane, free care (such as Tia Dalma's). It would explain why everyone in her bayou mourned his passing, why he was allowed there (even if she spooked Jack personally). It would also explain why Beckett would take his ship and brand him for piracy - Jack basically had embezzled from the company, taken cargo that was not his and denied his employers their coinage and the customers their shipment.
Again, remember that I'm just going off what someone else said they found on the site, and then adding other people's and then my own speculation on top of that. (For some perverse reason, this all makes my fiction-writer-plotter heart very joyous. You've gotta be a writer - and several of you are - to understand it.)
Remember Norrington's line to Gibbs: "My story is exactly the same as yours, just one chapter behind"? (Paraphrased.) Now, think about what drives Will Turner - right and good, but conscience above all else. If what I typed above about Jack turns out to be true, it would prove Jack also puts conscience above all else. And can't you imagine that if Will knew this real backstory on Jack, that it might be the hairsbreadth Will would need to turn HIM completely to a life of piracy - like Jack, to thwart the EITC?
I'll just write it out: Will Turner is Jack Sparrow, one chapter behind.
Oh, PLEASE, tell me what you think.
Let's start with a simple link - Jack Sparrow's supposed official, possible-canon history:
http://community.livejournal.com/potc_discussion/7277.html
(You can post comments to that list all you like, obviously, but I'd really love to see some discussion in this journal, as well.)
Some follow-up discussion at: http://xylodemon.livejournal.com/356621.html on the same topic, speculation, etc.
In short for you who are link-a-phobic: Someone found a spot on the official DMC site that references a possible backstory for Jack. He worked for Beckett and the East India Trading Company, and Pearl was a ship of its fleet. Jack defied a direct order/assignment and it was of such nature that it got the Pearl sunk/abandoned and Jack branded for piracy. Fan speculation includes Jack refusing something having to do with slaves; MY taking that further says that Jack delivered some slaves - only not to where he was supposed to, to collect money. Instead, he left them in someone's humane, free care (such as Tia Dalma's). It would explain why everyone in her bayou mourned his passing, why he was allowed there (even if she spooked Jack personally). It would also explain why Beckett would take his ship and brand him for piracy - Jack basically had embezzled from the company, taken cargo that was not his and denied his employers their coinage and the customers their shipment.
Again, remember that I'm just going off what someone else said they found on the site, and then adding other people's and then my own speculation on top of that. (For some perverse reason, this all makes my fiction-writer-plotter heart very joyous. You've gotta be a writer - and several of you are - to understand it.)
Remember Norrington's line to Gibbs: "My story is exactly the same as yours, just one chapter behind"? (Paraphrased.) Now, think about what drives Will Turner - right and good, but conscience above all else. If what I typed above about Jack turns out to be true, it would prove Jack also puts conscience above all else. And can't you imagine that if Will knew this real backstory on Jack, that it might be the hairsbreadth Will would need to turn HIM completely to a life of piracy - like Jack, to thwart the EITC?
I'll just write it out: Will Turner is Jack Sparrow, one chapter behind.
Oh, PLEASE, tell me what you think.
