#like can quote the whole thing
Y’all know the one scene in At World’s End where Tia Dalma threatens Barbossa by withering his hand away and delivering a vague threat right?? Bc I’ve always interpreted that as her threatening to re-curse him because that feels like something she’d be able to do, but what I’ve heard from everyone else discussing it is that the intention was that she was just threatening to kill him. Which, yeah, is a fine threat, but I feel like the notion of him being cursed again (only this time without a way to really break it unless he were to somehow beg her long enough to earn himself pity points or something) would be arguably worse? Maybe I’m alone in this but I’ve always imagined that the curse would’ve left him with a considerable amount of psychological damage and the idea of having it return hanging over his head feels worse than a “do what I want or I’ll kill you” because after years of pirating that sort of threat has gotta feel kinda hollow, especially to someone like Barbossa who’s probably killed a whole lotta adversaries over the course of his life. I dunno maybe I’m the weird one but I like to think that Calypso would have the power to curse a mortal person, especially considering that the Aztec gold was cursed by “heathen gods” and Calypso is later referred to as a “heathen god” by Davy Jones. Just food for thought I guess
