PotC fic -- Dream Tides

[artaxastra]

Next in the Outlaws and Inlaws series, Dream Tides. In which Will Turner has a strange conversation with Calypso, and much is revealed. Gen, with background Will/Elizabeth, Will/Jack, Jack/Elizabeth, Jack/Calypso. SPOILERS FOR AWE LIKE WOAH!

The other stories in the series are here: Swan in Flight, Outlaws and Inlaws, Four Days of Advent and

Comments

[mayfair_mayfair]

I'm first! Although, this does come from constantly checking to see if you've posted something new. 8D. You bring up many theories about how Will can bend the rules and I like them very much. Will not realizing he could do that is very IC, I think. As always, the Jack/Elizabeth is sweet and awesome. Very lovely fic.

[artaxastra]

Thank you! I think Will wouldn't automatically start figuring out how to get around the rules. What's technically at sea? He really needs Jack for that! I'm glad you're enjoying it!

[artaxastra]

I'm glad you liked it! I think Will would not expect Elizabeth to mourn him for ten years, or want her to. And yes, wiser from his "on the job experiences." Lots of seeing people full of regrets. He doesn't want Elizabeth to have them.

[ladyofthesilent]

You updated - finally!

I was so anxious to read another chapter of this wonderful story - and today, it was there :)

I do have so many favourite lines and paragraphs I do not even know how or where to start, but I simply love your Will. You hardly find a well-written Will in fanfiction, but yours is completely in-character. The images you've created are amazing as well - them travelling beneath the waves, the conversation at the rail; just perfect! Also liked the glimpse we got at Will's past. You really made me feel for him; in fact, the entire chapter provided a window into his mind I wouldn't want to miss.

Great work!

[artaxastra]

Thank you!

I like the underwater travel myself -- it just seems like it would be so cool! And I can really see Will having had that kind of lonely childhood. Bill is not an ideal father.

[lady_di75]

“What?” Will swung around, almost taking her by the shoulders. “How?”

“In de usual way, I presume,” Calypso said, laughing. “You know how it’s done, no?”

“A baby?”

“Dey start that way, yes.”

LOL -- poor Will. Despite all protestations to the contrary, perhaps he is a bit of a simpleton... no, you write a very lovable Will, which is great -- much as I love J/E together, I have come to be rather fond of Will: “All de wonders of de deeps, and he say it pretty,” she laughed. “What den you call beautiful?”

“Elizabeth’s eyes,” he replied without thinking.

Beautifully IC -- and needless to say, Tia/Calypso is awesome here. This is just a great series -- I'm really loving your post-AWE 'verse!

[artaxastra]

LOL -- poor Will. Despite all protestations to the contrary, perhaps he is a bit of a simpleton... no, you write a very lovable Will, which is great -- much as I love J/E together, I have come to be rather fond of Will:

Poor Will is flabbergasted! He never even considered a baby!

Beautifully IC -- and needless to say, Tia/Calypso is awesome here. This is just a great series -- I'm really loving your post-AWE 'verse!

Thank you! Calypso needs something from him that she's beginning to wonder if he can really do. Not because she's cruel, but because the job demands a love of the sea she's not sure he can really feel, if he's actually that unmoved by the wonder of it.

[dharma_slut]

Oh, man, I am all for this! I foresee a happy-ever-after ending, and right now, that will be a lovely thing. :)

I love your Will's voice, as someone lese has mentioned.
"I never wanted to own Elizabeth. I never would have stopped her from anything."
And that is so true in the films. He never questions her, even when he knows he should.

[artaxastra]

I'm glad you like it! I want a happy ending!

"I never wanted to own Elizabeth. I never would have stopped her from anything."
And that is so true in the films. He never questions her, even when he knows he should.

Yep. And he should, sometimes. But he never does try to rein her in, and it's clear in the hoist the colors scene that he never will, I think.

[veronica_rich]

But he never does try to rein her in, and it's clear in the hoist the colors scene that he never will, I think.

I'm not sure why this earns him so much flak from fandom, but it really sort of does. There seems to be a dichotomy that he shouldn't try to control her, but that he's not a real man if he doesn't try to lay down the law. Sort of an impossible standard; I think he just tries to do what he feels is right, no matter what anyone else's opinion might be. (I like that about him, though. And it's shown well in the story.)

[artaxastra]

That's one of the things I like best about Will too. He just does what he thinks he should. And sometimes that's complicated. We see that from the end of CotBP all the way through the end of AWE.