anyway my prevailing thought remains i think it would be incredibly funny and possibly very fun if the mousecompanycorporation did in fact. reboot the carry-bean pirates. like it'd be a blatant cash grab and very likely not very good, but i think it'd be funny. and i want them to try. in fact i dare them.
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i lied i opened it anyway but this tells me a lot
but they get points back for acknowledging some actual problems (like salazar's curse being tangentially attached at best) and Yeah, actually
This does suck. A lot. i hate it.
questioning why poseidon "suddenly" exists ("instead of" calypso) when both names come out of greek myth to begin with (and the trident plotline comes directly from one of the original writers everyone loves to kiss the feet of when praising this franchise in its "original" form) is a little bit silly, though, imo. also he wrote the fourth one. a lot of people seem to forget that.
oh cool a new fandom blog i wonder-
oh ok.
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๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ธ๐ผ ๐๐พ๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐ด . . . ๐น๐พ๐ธ๐ฝ ๐ณ๐ด๐ณ๐๐ด๐ฒ. orion mugi , hacktivist , vigilante , terrorist . independent & extremely low activity watch dogs : legion oc . written by chey , she / they , 25+ . triggering content present , multiverse & au's available , primarily sci - fi based .
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Send one for Henry to tell your muse...
ฮฉ a myth; retelling of the gods or elevated mortals the world over
โง a folk tale; featuring magic, enchantments, or fanciful beings
๐ฏ a scary story; containing a ghost or monster of some sort
๐จ a legend; recounting something that's said to have really happened
โ a pirate yarn; might be more of a myth, or more of a legend, could even have ghosts or magic or curses or honestly just a few lies, but either way it'll contain at least one pirate (but likely a whole crew of them)
โซ a shanty or ballad; in a drabble that will probably be more action & setting than actual re-telling because reading words to a shanty just isn't very interesting but!! he will!!! sing for them!!!!!!! (and dance with them!!!!!!)
โ one of his own stories; he'll tell it as though he lived it, but you'll have to decide for yourself if he's being honest or not..
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HC question: what does Henry think of his name? His first one and last one. Does he think it suits him, or is it something he gradually grew into?
hmmmmmmmmmm neat question I haven't ever approached it from like, his ic opinion on it before I don't think?
I'm not sure... I don't really think he'd have a suits/doesn't suit opinion about being 'Henry' because it's like. One of those things he just is? One of my sources: just trust me headcanons about him is that he's not very prone at all to like... that thing people are capable of where they think of themselves and their body and their minds and their souls all as like, separate things? And that extends to like. Everything about him is him, and he's neither critical nor vain about himself, he just is. If that makes sense? To be like.... "I hate my hair" or even "I love myself" it too... self-removed? Whereas his approach to self is like. He is. And he trusts that he is. (Which isn't to say he's completely devoid of personal preference, obviously he has his shiny bits and his good luck totems and his tattoos and he prefers comfortable dress over fashionable dress but still has... it's definitely a personal style, anyway. Which prioritizes function but isn't exclusively function based. (Let's be honest there's nothing practical about the necklace. Noisy! Heavy! Capable of being grabbed in a fight or snagged in other situations!!)) I'm digressing but the point I'm trying to work on is: his name is just this sort of irrevocable part of his person, to him, and he no more likes or dislikes it than he likes or dislikes that he is a person. Which is to say, he has no opinion on being a person, he simply is one. If it had felt wrong, and he'd chosen some sort of moniker or ended up with some manner of nickname, I think it would still remain part of him. In a different way, but. I think this is just... some of the way he is. He has been given things, names and tools and treasures, that are simply just part of him. And it doesn't occur to him to really pick them apart into which he likes and dislikes, usually. He's not just called Henry, he is Henry.
.. I've thought it was because "Henry" as a name doesn't nickname easily (and like, with the established nicknames.... he's not a 'Harry' for Obvious reasons and he's definitely not a Hank holy shit scoob) but maybe that's why he doesn't lend to them so easily, actually? He picks up some endearments -and some insults- but nothing that's... especially derivative or unique, like something someone would call only him. And maybe that's why? Maybe we all agree, He's Henry. At least whenever he's not The (Turner) Boy.
[Which as a completely unrelated aside might also be. Part of my "if you're going to ignore dmtnt canon then just don't call the w!llabeth kid Henry then" pet-peeve when it comes to fanfic as well ;sdkfjg;ldkfgj like that is! a whole different child, then!! get 'em a new name with this new identity because that's for sure not Henry you have said so yourself. grrr snarl bark.]
Now depending on where you think the name came from I do also think it's really interesting that. He's potentially named something that -to Elizabeth- is a pirate name. I don't know if this is a me-thing or a fandom-thing (it's. almost definitely not a the-writers thing because he was Henry before he was even Turner so that means they didn't pick it based in these thoughts at all) but I maintain he's named after Henry Morgan, and some of that has to do with Elizabeth's childhood infatuation with pirate stories, and some of it has to do with her adult appreciation of the Code and captaining. And because she was not going to doom her child to whatever blatant curse my live on the name ".William Tu.rner" that consigns a man to be cursed and killed and claimed by the sea (though some things are at least somewhat inevitable, apparently). And so while Henry might not... well no he probably knows and has thoughts about that but like. While Henry wouldn't necessarily find a reason to like or dislike his name there, it is interesting to have his name tied to intentionally and specifically to piracy and infamy and the code itself.
And he's got a dead man's name for his middle name, Henry James. Which is pure and solidly headcanon (and let me tell you how often I run into 'Henry William' and 'Henry Jack' and, once, 'Henry Weatherby' which is very sweet but also immensely silly, as a name, and only slightly less unfortunate than 'William Weatherby') and I don't think he exactly likes or dislike that either but I do think it's. maybe a little heavy, sometimes. Maybe even a little uncomfortable? To be not just his family legacy but a legacy of shattered possibility. Not in a way that makes him resentful but that definitely makes him conscious of names and lines and loss.
And then like. Can a last name ..not suit you? It has very little to do with you, most of the time, if you think about it. And also everything to do with you, though. Nothing to be mad at or anything there for him, anyway. But I guess maybe it's also heavy in its own way but I don't know that that's purely because of the name he's really just sort of. going to pick that up even if he had always been called Swann. Which, I do think he is, also. And I think he gives it that way sometimes, when it bears being said out loud because someone did something stupid like forgot about it, or acted like it was irrelevant and not literally his largest influence and honest to god a big explanation about the way that he is. 'Look like your father' this and 'turner boy' that, why is everyone stupid he'll chain you to a sinking ship and let you get eaten by a literal sea monster for his loved ones. (Well. no probably not, he'd find a secret third way, this is his narrative function -to break the narrative rule, to flip a double bird at your catch 22 while he has his cake and eats it too- but if he wasn't an inherent system breaker he would. I stand by that.)
I think this is getting worse the longer I go on let me,,, try to bring it back.
I think his name, which if you ask me is H.enry James Swann-Turne,r with the occasional turn at donning Sparrow wings every now and then, is very. a lot. It's a lot. It carries legends and deaths and love and curses and wind and wildness. And sometimes I think it's a heavy thing to be carrying around, and now and then maybe even a frustrating thing. But I don't think... whether it suits him ever crosses his mind. Because I don't think... I don't think whether or not he "lives up to it" crosses his mind either? Which would maybe ultimately be the question here? Because you know for all the things he sits in the cross section of and all the cycles broken for him and by him, and all the history in all those names you could call him by, and all the sort of... thoughts that might invoke and places that leads him and doors it opens (and doors it closes) the thing about Henry is. He's going to do whatever it is he's going to do. What he decides to do.
And I know I've gone on some extended rant about this before so there is a post about it somewhere but I think part of the reason he's so able to be that way and have the confidence he has is directly because of the way he was raised, and the effort his parents went through not to slough all of their traumas and fears onto him, not to set some impossible standard for him to strive for or iron role for him to fit inside. There's this throughline in the franchise about freedom and love and freedom being love, and from that I think giving him freedom to just be whoever he was going to be is exactly the demonstrative love his parents would commit to. The fact that it leads him to grow into the kind of person who then dedicates himself directly to the madness of his family is just... who he is. Not who he felt he had to be โat least not in the way of Living Up To A Name. The conversation of ''only I will'' is a different one. It's an intense name, in some ways. And I think he's aware of the weight it contains, if only because of the way other people have reacted to it. But I don't think he feels... beholden to it? In the way of... something he can fail at being. It's not a thing to grow into it's him. Always has been.
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here is a thought the thought is. henry is not keen on substances in general ((except drinking because he's one of those people that considers drinking separate from drugs even though. it really isn't you know.)) but i do think,,,,, there is some situation in which. maybe. possibly. there are milder things he would try out of the sheer curiosity, the curiosity could potentially get him one (1) time and then never again.
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