“ - Where is he? Where’s Captain Jack and why is the rum gone?”
Lovely funny moments of Johnny and Mutaz Essa Barshim (Qatari track and field athlete) during a private meeting 3 years ago, on this day (March 28) at the Galeries Lafayette, in Doha, Qatar.
Hello again! Welcome to week six of my Through the Mist series. This is exciting because after this one we will start to get chapter two’s on all the stories. So yeah! Last time we dove into the world of marvel and for our final entry we dive into the world of The Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Universe: Pirates of the Caribbean
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I didn’t have time for this. I walked briskly through the busy streets. Even though the sun had barely set people had flooded the roads of the Island of Tortuga already drunk off their asses making mischief in the night. I ducked under a fist that had come flying my way not even bothering to see who threw it. I doubt it was meant for me anyway. I side stepped around a man who began retching up his last four drinks.
I seriously did not have time for this.
I slipped into a tavern scanning the bustling room in earnest. The awful stench of piss and ale filled my nose. A piano player was giving a sad attempt at a song and most of his notes were off key and mistimed. Probably because he was drunk off his ass.
“Hey love why don’t you try losing some of those layers.” A man leaned against me heavily, pawing at the neckline of my under shirt.
I smiled and laid my hand over his. “Where would you like me to lose my clothes?” I guided his hands down my throat and towards my breasts. “Here?”
His eyes were so wide I thought his head was going to explode.
I grabbed his other hand and placed it on my other breast. “Here?”
I thought his tongue was going to roll out of his mouth. I pushed him away from me and kicked him square in the chest sending him flying. I picked up a barstool and smashed it on him as hard as I could sending wood everywhere. I smiled at the bartender as I reached over grabbing a bottle of some expensive liquor. I walked over and as the man was starting to rise I smashed the bottle against the back of his head. I walked over the bar and licked the jagged edge of the bottle feeling the burn of the sweet alcohol against my lips. Then I set it down on the table.
“Put it on his tab.” I motioned to the unconscious bleeding man behind me.
“That was quite the entrance.” A man’s voice came from behind me.
“Well I do like to make my name memorable.” I smiled turning around.
He was an older gentlemen. His clothes were worn and stained with sweat. His shoulders were broad and his beard full and white. His thin hair was pulled into a ponytail against the back of his neck.
“And your name is?” He asked.
“Jesira.” I answered. “Yours?”
“Joshamee Gibbs, but folks call me Gibbs.” He stuck out his hand that was blackened with grime.
I took it anyway.
“What brings a fine lady like you to a place like Tortuga?” He asked.
“I’m looking for my first mate.” I said.
“You’re a captain, aye?” He said.
I shrugged. “I was, lost my ship, it’s a long story.”
He chuckled. “How about I buy you a drink and you can tell me all about how a woman captain lost her ship.”
I pushed off the bar and flashed him a smile. “Sorry mate I’m on a mission.”
“Fair enough.” He nodded. “See you around Jesira.”
I slipped past him and towards the back of the bar and sure enough there was my first mate. He was standing on a table with a woman on each arm singing to whatever shanty they were attempting to perform.
His dark black hair was the color of a raven’s feathers. His skin was tanned from spending hours in the sun. A fresh white scar marred the right side of his face. He was wearing a blood red bandana that hid his curls beneath it. His ears were adorned with dozens of gold hoops and jewels glittering in the weak light. His sapphire blue eyes were blurry from the amount of alcohol in his system.
“I’m proud to be an Islander; Here’s the reason why: I’m free as the wind and the waves that wash the sand. There’s no place I would rather be than here-” He sang before promptly slipping off the table and face planting on the floor.
The entire tavern erupted in laughter before going back to whatever they were doing. I rolled my eyes and walked over.
“That was really something.” I kneeled down and yanked him to his feet.
“Captain!” He slurred resting his arm around my shoulders. “I am so happy you are alive. After we lost the ship I had no clue.”
I pushed him into a booth. “So, instead of bothering to find out you caught a ride to Tortuga to get wasted?”
“I was honoring your memory.” He argued.
“Bullshit.” I sat down across from him.
“Jes,” He sighed rubbing his eyes. “The ship is gone, the crew is rotting beneath the waves as we speak, and I thought you were dead until about 2 minutes ago. It’s over.”
I slammed my hand against the table. “It is not over! Amphitrite is still floating.”
“Yeah and it is in the hands of the East India Trading Company!” He groaned. “The only reason they aren’t after both of us is because they think we are dead. Let’s just stay dead alright?”
I ran my fingers through my short black hair. “You’re a coward, Killian.”
“Maybe, but I am an alive coward.” He sighed.
I twisted one of my rings around my index finger. “What if I told you there was a way to get it back? One that was full proof.”
He looked at me with those bright blue eyes. “Another one of your foolproof plans?”
“Yes.” I nodded leaning in closer.
“Your last full proof plan got us into this mess.” He pointed out.
I waved him off. “That wasn’t my fault. But this one has a 100 percent chance of succeeding.”
“Oh yeah and what does this plan involve?” He asked.
“We just need to steal the fastest ship in the Caribbean.” I smiled leaning back in my chair. “We need to steal the Black Pearl.”
POTC wiki says that the novels in which Jack commanders the Barnacle and has adventures with Arabella Smith, Fitzwilliam P. Dalton III, Tumen, Jean Magliore and Constance Magliore happens around 1706. Which means it happens 2 years before Jack defeats El Matador Del Mar - Armando Salazar by making him sail into the Devil’s Triangle. The issue with that conclusion is that if we take those two at face value, it creates a continuity error with naming as Jack is already referred to as Jack Sparrow in the first novel, not only by himself in the interlude, but also by other characters, which if we took Salazar’s naming as canon, would mean that the characters must have met Jack after he was already a Pirate Lord… which makes no sense, because then Arabella would know he was a pirate, unless we assume that nobody knew who exactly defeated the Spanish Pirate Hunter, only knowing that he was defeated. Which then works with the whole Fitzwilliam shit going on in those novels, but is still kinda fishy when it comes to timeline, which I will describe below.
The issue being again that he is referred to as Sparrow not only by the narrator, but by himself and other characters multiple times when he was not yet named. Which means that if we want to treat the novels as canon, we cannot take the fact that Armando named Jack “the Sparrow” at face value, because it then fucks up the whole timeline of his life. I could at best assume that defeating Armando gave Jack’s new name value and power on top of making him a Pirate Lord of the Caribbean, but Armando could not have named him unless we assumed that novels happened after he became the Pirate Lord, in those brief 2 year gap between him defeating the Salazar and “having to abandon pirate life and start working for Beckett” which would make no sense if he was already a pirate at the time as in the novels Jack stresses a lot how much he hates pirates, and he doesn’t consider himself a pirate despite doing pirate things like looking for treasures and having adventures and fighting other pirates.
[Novels “The Coming Storm” (1) and “The Siren Song” (2) were published a month before the Dead’s Man Chest was released. “The Pirate Chase” (3) and “The Sword of Cortez” (4) as well as “The Age of Bronze” (5) were published just after the movie. Which means that Armando Salazar “naming Jack” was a retcon of the novels.]
Another issue is that it is stated somewhere that Jack ran away from home when he was 12, because he hated being a pirate (and because his grandmama was abusive and nearly killed him again) and that information also kind of suits the whole setting of the novels, so they could as well happen when he was just 12 if narration of the first novel specifically didn’t state that Jack, Arabella and Fitzwilliam were a few years older than Tumen and Jean, who were described as being at most 13 the oldest, which then makes the rest of them 15-18yo.
So, we can either have the fifth movie random lore gotcha with Armando naming Jack “the Sparrow” as canon, or we can have novels as canon, but we cannot have both, because novels were written so much longer before 5th movie and set in a moment in time so inconvenient that treating both as canon will inevitably confuse the whole timeline. I dunno how you, but I think it is easier to erase one random fact from a movie made pretty long after the novels, than rewrite the novels to have no usage of word “sparrow” in it.
Once I promised on Instagram to draw Captain Jack Sparrow, a character who inspired me to start drawing over 15 years ago. I guess today is a great day to post this portrait
![“Captain Jack Sparrow” - Pirates of the Caribbean [x]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/418a13099916c482e8b451a7146ce90c/tumblr_ms9hs4bZxY1sff208o1_1280.png "“Captain Jack Sparrow” - Pirates of the Caribbean [x]")
