jonsa pirates au

I think it is important that, aside from the scene where he's a kid and only conscious for long enough to say his name, the first thing we see Will Turner do is break something and then flounder about for a moment trying to hide the evidence

Jack Sparrow walks like That because he’s more accustomed to walking on ship decks.

Losing it over Barbossa and his apple obsession. You leave a trail of apples and by god he will follow it. He spends like half of the first movie trying to eat an apple and then dies. He comes back and immediately starts taking apples around with him. He tries to get Elizabeth to eat an apple on his behalf. Why apples. I mean they're tasty but why apples. What is wrong with him

He's a bad man

Love that Elizabeth Swann/Will Turner are just the bad ideas couple. They say ridiculous things and then go all heart eyes at each other. Conversely, Gibbs/Jack are the crafty bastards couple who get drunk and come up with vaguely workable ideas and love each other because they're know they're daft, but they're in it together.

I really feel like I’ve reached a new level of simp today. ✨✨

I am literally kicking my feet ‘n’ twirling my hair over a fictional man barfing.

AM I OKAY. AM I SANE. WHY AM I GIGGLING OVER A SILLY LITTLE SAD DRUNK MAN VOMITING. 😭

Sorry. I had to get this outta my system. 😩

humor me for a bit, y'all, while I ramble randomly, and of course feel free to add onto this, etc., but like.

name me any other media that did the 'I give you my heart, will you keep it safe?' trope better than Pirates of the fucking Caribbean did it.

you've got Will and Elizabeth established as childhood friends turned lovers in Curse of the Black Pearl. which like, yes. good way to start it off, of course. excellent way to start it off.

and then you have the complexity of their romance surviving the course of the second movie, Dead Man's Chest. then you've got Elizabeth's arc and Will's arc, both set apart from each other's. which, also excellent, you've got the two of them fleshed out individually outside of their romance.

and then. oh my god and then.

you have that one scene in At World's End. Will's proposal in the midst of combat. the "I made my choice. what's yours?" the Kiss™️, them sealing their marriage while quite literally surrounded by the enemy.

then afterwards, you have Will not only becoming captain of The Flying Dutchman, but giving his heart to Elizabeth in its chest, for her to hold onto for safekeeping. his literal, physical, beating heart. my god. the sheer amount of trust and love, the metaphor, in that gesture in and of itself. it's the kind of thing that goes over your head when you're a kid, but when you're an adult and you realize it upon rewatching these movies makes you go

like. just imagine that. imagine not only figuratively giving your heart to the person you love, but literally so to the point they could hold it in their hands if they wanted to.

it's symbolic and iconic on so many levels. and that alone, my friends, is just... chefs kiss. mwah. delicious. beautiful. I'm going to go fucking feral. Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, truly one of the canon couples of all time. your otp could never.

also a quick sidenote but I'd like to also make the observation that bisexual culture is having had a crush on them BOTH as a kid. don't @ me you know I'm right.

Imagine leaving a guy that you hate on an island in the middle of nowhere, than meeting him years after, leaving him on the same island and than a day later meeting him once again.

Really I could get a little annoyed as well, it may be a crime, but don't blame anyone for this.

throw a punch break your mind

Rewatched the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy for the 80th time and watched 4 and 5 for the first time

So...........

Atticus/Alexis/Chazz trio pirate au

Plot part 1....? 🤷‍♀️

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Chazz is a noble who was kidnapped during a pirate raid on his family's port, but a few days after before his father's ships can catch them, the pirate's ship is attacked by the infamous crew of the Obelisk Blue, a ship captained by a fiercesome young woman, said to be sailing the seas in search of her long-lost brother.

The crew of the Obelisk the J-Squad plunders the ship and coming across the valuable prisoner on board, they take him on board the Obelisk Blue where he comes face to face with Captain Alexis Rhodes, fiercest female pirate to fly her colors in the seas of the Academia Isles. She elects to keep Chazz on board since his value could bring them great fortune, which she could most certainly use to fund her long and arduous search for Atticus, who had gone missing at sea some years prior, though she refuses to believe he's gone. So long as Chazz can earn his keep, he will remain unharmed and be treated well until she and her crew can make a deal with his family to ensure their protection in their waters, and the resources needed to scour the seas until Atticus is found, or sell him to the highest bidder.

So Chazz is forced to either work amongst the crew or be locked up in the brig, and so he gets to work. Eventually, Alexis invites him to her cabin to have a discussion. She's very vague about her intentions with him when he asks, but even he's heard her sad story whispered on the winds of the Isles.

He recounts the tale of the female pirate's past. Of the beloved brother off to sea on a merchant vessel that never came back to port, save for one man. Disheveled and mad, half-drowned and muttering and raving about a phantom ship, the Shadow Rider. The legendary ship they say is captained by a man cursed by the very darkness itself, old and decrepit and long since dead, he sails the seas harvesting victims, taking revenge on still living sailors. Once a ship faces the Shadow Rider, you either die, or if your soul and will are strong enough, he steals you and makes you apart of his crew, and you become cursed by darkness too. A fate far worse than death, some say. Seldom does even a single man survive to tell the tale. He tells her of the young girl who ran away from home and single handedly commandeered a ship after stowing away, and put together her own crew to find her missing brother. Chazz doesn't believe in the tale of the phantom ship.

But Alexis does.

Her brother isn't dead, he has to be trapped on that ship. And she counters that if he knows the story of the Shadow Rider, he's not heard the whole story. Kagemaru, captain of the Shadow Rider, takes revenge on the living, yes. But his purpose is greater. He sails in search of seven keys that can break his curse, and restore him body and soul. And if that were to be true, the keys must also be able to free the crew. Atticus must be apart of the crew.

He asks her how she could possibly know that, and she reveals to him that she's seen it in her dreams. Every night she sees a man on a decrepit old ship. His face is distorted and he's chained to the deck, but she hears her brother's voice calling to her. It has to be a sign. And she reveals that she's already found four of the seven keys. She only needs three more. And so they make sail for a particularly dangerous port, where she just might find allies to lead them to one of the remaining keys.

Little do they know that there's even more to the legend than even Alexis knows. The seven keys alone can free the crew and captain of the Shadow Rider from darkness, yes, but to return the captain to life and youth as well, a toll must be paid. A sacrifice of the blood of a sovereign, more potent than any common base-born blood. And Chazz just so happens to fit the bill. He also requires the souls of the crew. And to make matters worse, two of the three keys are already in the possession of the phantom crew of the Shadow Rider, who are in pursuit of the remaining pieces, and know of the female pirate who has come into possession of four.... and the precious cargo aboard the Obelisk. And so, the phantom ship searches for the Obelisk Blue.

When the Obelisk makes port after a few more days, Alexis leaves Chazz locked up on board as he's still technically a prisoner, though he is admittedly starting to grow on her a little, and sets off to find her contacts, Sartorius and Sarina, a pair of mystic siblings well versed in the legends and curses of the sea. They give her a secret map they kept hidden even from her, that reveals the location of the final key. But before she can return to her ship, unbeknownst to them all, the Shadow Rider has found them.

Back on the Obelisk, the phantom ship is spotted out to sea, and the crew prepares to defend their ship and the keys without their captain, and Chazz remains locked up below. But as the crew prepares on deck for a fight, members of the phantom crew infiltrate the ship under their noses, and make for the four keys. The keys are kept in Alexis's cabin, so a fight brews up on deck, but there's still one enemy left down below. And with Chazz left unguarded in favor of the keys, and his unknown importance, the unknown man in the mask comes to collect the boy. All the while back on land, Sartorius and Sarina tell Alexis the truth of Kagemaru's ambitions. He has two of the keys already, and if he claims all seven, he will use them to break his curse and restore his life and youth. But to do that, he needs Chazz's blood. And if her brother really is apart of the crew, if Kagemaru's plan succeeds, she really will lose him forever. Alexis is horrified by this, and without having a second to breathe, Sarina gasps and reveals that the Shadow Rider is here. She senses the ship's presence. Alexis, more horrified, takes the map to the final piece and runs back to her ship!

Back in the ship, Chazz is face to face with the mysterious man in the mask as swords clash above them. The man says nothing, but Chazz, studying him, realizes he seems to resemble Alexis even with the mask obscuring his face. He interrogates him for a moment, asking if he knows who the captain of this ship is. Her name is Alexis Rhodes. ring any bells? And he asks if there's a man named Atticus on the ship, but still the man says nothing. But his head does begin to hurt at the mention of those names. And gripping his head in pain, he breathlessly calls for Alexis, but then from above deck, a voice calls down below, ordering the man, called Nightshroud, to secure the boy and return to the Shadow Rider as they've successfully stolen the keys. This seems to almost reactivate Nightshroud, and with great strength, he breaks open the cell and grabs Chazz, restraining him and throwing him over his shoulder, whisking him away from the Obelisk with the phantom crew and the keys. Alexis returns to the ship just in time to catch a glimpse of Nightshroud as he and the crew escape on a boat back to the Shadow Rider with Chazz and the keys in tow. She recignizes him as the man from her dreams, and desperately calls out to him. Atticus! She screams, and again his head begins to hurt and spin. But this confirms it for her.

Her brother is alive.

But now they've lost the keys and Chazz, so Kagemaru now has six keys and the blood sacrifice he needs. But Alexis has the map to the final key. And they can still recover the other keys and rescue Chazz and her brother. It can, and it will be done.

Also all this time they're still being pursued by Chazz's father's fleet of ships. So there's that problem too.

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That's all I've got atm and not sure if I'd actually fully write this out or not but like this is awesome????

It's INSANE how Pirates of the Caribbean is over a decade old and yet STILL has insane and amazing CGI

i had a dream i was watching pirates of the caribbean 3 with @waitineedaname and a character summoned a stampede of millions of mammoths coming from as far as new jersey

Rewatching a favorite childhood show/ movie is so wild, because like this piece of media was so important to me at one point and became an integral part of who I am, but it's been years since I last saw it. Maybe I even forgot it existed. Everything is familiar, yet unfamiliar, yet ingrained in my bones.

where is that post that’s like “pirates of the caribbean features murderous undead pirates and the kraken and the davy jones and says time and time again that none of them are as evil as the fucking east india company”

i should watch more pirate media.