I had a good dream last night.
Or good to me anyway, considering it started with a "major character death" someone else might not think so. They might also be disturbed that I murdered the person with my bare hands. I was a little surprised I was that hands on. I've killed before, but I tend to use a weapon be it draconic breath weapon or gun. But I get ahead of myself. Set up first then dream content.
When fleta sent me off to bed last night I was worried I'd have a bad dream. I was very very worried about the state of Aeryn's mental health -- still am worried about it. Apparently however either my subconscious wasn't in the mood for torture, or it was no match for my mood.
It was another "any fandom jamboree" pirate dream with a smaller cast than the last one. There were no Oceans of Time characters -- no Aeryn, no Darien, nada. Not sure if it was my subconscious avoiding it all together, or that there was no Captain Jack Sparrow for Aeryn to argue with and both no Aeryn for Darien to be a voice of reason to and no Doyle for Darien to fight along side. Whatever the reason there were no OoT characters in the dream. There were Pirates of the Caribbean characters, only 2 and I murdered 1 of them, but they were there sort of. Captain Will Turner wasn't exactly Disney sweetness. He was dressed all in black like the Dread Pirate Roberts sans mask. He didn't just stand by while I rang the other PotC character's neck, being the Captain he gave the order to have them off his ship. Along with having a couple of the PotC characters back sort of in this dream I also had Rhys from the Merry Gentry series back, again with the sort of. In the previous "any fandom jamboree" piratical dream he wore an eye patch and sported a bare chest. This time he had both of his eyes and more clothes on. I think he was more serious because the dream was.
Digressing briefly, I haven't figured out what determines when my Rhys only has 1 eye and when he has 2. It could be his mood, could be my mood, or could be some combination of the 2. I don't mind him with only 1 eye. It's similar to Asher and his scars. I like the boys with or without their disfigurements. I just figure since they can be whole in my dreams why not?
The dream -- I only saw 4 other characters in the dream: the PotC characters, Rhys, and Wolverine. He wasn't the Hugh Jackman based pretty boy version. He was the 5'2" hairy comic book character of my youth. Will was Captain, I was First Mate, Wolverine was Bo'sun, and Rhys was the Representative for the rest of the ship's crew that I never actually saw. It all started in the Captain's quarters. Will, Wolverine, Rhys and I were there to decided what to do with Elizabeth Turner. Yes, you read that right, the extra baggage that was about to go off the ship dead weight wasn't just Elizabeth Swann she was Elizabeth Turner. Having already mentioned Will ordered her off his ship anyway I saw fit he definitely wanted a divorce.
Digressing again, when I'm thoroughly disgusted with a writer's or some writers' actions I don't dream of taking it out on them directly. I do cheerfully take it out on their "main character." Buffy Summers' severed and bronzed head sits on Salome Wright's desk. Anita Blake's head is in a snow globe on Asher's. The PotC writers have said Elizabeth was their main character.
The dream -- Will, Wolvie, Rhys and I sat around the Captain's table and discussed what if any value Elizabeth had still breathing. It was decided she'd outlived any usefulness, and rather than giving the order to Wolvie or Rhys Will gave me the order to dispatch her. To her credit she didn't bother trying to plead with any of us; probably knew it wouldn't help any. Elizabeth was dressed in the dress she passed out in at the beginning of Curse of the Black Pearl complete with the hat. Her hands were tied behind her back, and until I moved in for the kill she'd been quietly seated out of the way. Elizabeth wasn't gagged. She could've pleaded if she'd wanted to, but she stood there trying to look all stoic in the face of death. Elizabeth did have wide frightened eyes though. She knew I was going to kill her, and I was going to enjoy it. The first thing I did was wrap my hands around Elizabeth's throat and strangle the woman. I wasn't, however, so cold as to throw her into the sea without making certain she was truly dead rather than unconscious. I snapped Elizabeth's neck too.
Once she was nothing but a dead body Wolverine and Rhys opened the Captain's windows so the Captain and I could toss her out them. Will didn't just help throw the remains of his ex-wife off the boat, he took his wedding ring off and tossed it into the sea with her. I remember watching how the ring glinted in the moonlight before it quietly hit the water. After Will and I were done the boys closed the windows up, and went off about their business. With just the two of us in the cabin we talked about what was next for the widowed Captain, his faithful First Mate, and the ship since Will had taken possession of Elizabeth's piece of 8. It seemed the knowledge to bind Calypso had become Will's when he captained the Dutchman. I'm positive we weren't on the Dutchman, and I don't think we were on the Pearl either. It was some ship of Will's very own, neither the oft disputed Pearl or the cursed Dutchman. I saw more of it than just the Captain's quarters. For some reason the only just widowed Captain didn't want to discuss getting married again anytime soon, and I was not happy about that.
I stormed out of the Captain's quarters onto the deck. Wolverine was out there on watch, and while he didn't say anything to me he did nod. If I'd been angry at the world even that might've been dangerous, but I was just disgusted with Turners. I asked him who was in the crow's nest, and he told me Rhys was. I climbed up the rigging to the crow's nest. Rhys, even if he was feeling paranoid enough to have both eyes and less bare skin, greeted me cheerfully enough when I got up to the nest. I did feel better having made the climb in the salt sea air on a ship under full sail, but I told him I wanted to be alone. He said a few sympathetic words, and then went on down leaving me my solitary perch atop the ship. I spent the better part of the night alone up there. I remember hearing Wolverine pipe down the crew who'd been on watch when I went up.
But, before the moon set, Will did come up after me. I never heard him speak to anyone so I don't know if he was told where I was or guessed it on his own. Either way he came into the Crow's Nest silently, not saying a word to me. We sat there quietly side by side for a while, watching the water as the ship cut through it, and feeling the ship's movement beneath us. Eventually Will did speak up. At first it was shop talk, whether the water seemed a particular way, whether the ship felt a certain way. Then somewhere in there his words turned to how he felt about Elizabeth, and about me. For the record the crow's nest didn't just have railings, it was a basket that you couldn't see a person sitting in when they were sitting. That's why I had to ask who was up there, and why I'm not sure how Will knew I was up there. I state this now because once Will started talking about us we got into doing things that we should've saved for doing in his cabin.
Will Turner, any version of Will Turner, is not on my short list. I can't claim it wasn't me. He called me Becca. I can say it was only a dream, but it was still "lusting in my heart." I feel guilty now, but it felt right then. Will needed me to kill Elizabeth for him, and he needed me to show him she wasn't the only woman in the world for him. I hope Darien will forgive me. I don't think I'd even have had a good dream if he hadn't agreed to keep Mel and me company. And, thinking about it, I think it was a response to my worrying about Aeryn. It was just instead of spending the night watching Aeryn get hurt or killed I spent the night helping someone I was sure I could help feel better about their life.
The Captain Will Turner in my dream was an interesting one. I'm not sure how AU he was. That is the dream was set well after At World's End so we were off the map by being into the future without the question of whether or not canon Will could ever become my dream one. He was hard, scarred, and as I've mentioned dressed all in black, but he still had that need of me.
I'm embarrassed to say, while I didn't care for Orlando Bloom in the Lord of the Rings films, didn't care for him in Troy and didn't realize until At World's End was released that I cared for him in the Pirates movies, I am glad I got the Will Turner poster I liked best from Amazon and I will watch other films with Orlando Bloom in them for Orlando Bloom.
When fleta sent me off to bed last night I was worried I'd have a bad dream. I was very very worried about the state of Aeryn's mental health -- still am worried about it. Apparently however either my subconscious wasn't in the mood for torture, or it was no match for my mood.
It was another "any fandom jamboree" pirate dream with a smaller cast than the last one. There were no Oceans of Time characters -- no Aeryn, no Darien, nada. Not sure if it was my subconscious avoiding it all together, or that there was no Captain Jack Sparrow for Aeryn to argue with and both no Aeryn for Darien to be a voice of reason to and no Doyle for Darien to fight along side. Whatever the reason there were no OoT characters in the dream. There were Pirates of the Caribbean characters, only 2 and I murdered 1 of them, but they were there sort of. Captain Will Turner wasn't exactly Disney sweetness. He was dressed all in black like the Dread Pirate Roberts sans mask. He didn't just stand by while I rang the other PotC character's neck, being the Captain he gave the order to have them off his ship. Along with having a couple of the PotC characters back sort of in this dream I also had Rhys from the Merry Gentry series back, again with the sort of. In the previous "any fandom jamboree" piratical dream he wore an eye patch and sported a bare chest. This time he had both of his eyes and more clothes on. I think he was more serious because the dream was.
Digressing briefly, I haven't figured out what determines when my Rhys only has 1 eye and when he has 2. It could be his mood, could be my mood, or could be some combination of the 2. I don't mind him with only 1 eye. It's similar to Asher and his scars. I like the boys with or without their disfigurements. I just figure since they can be whole in my dreams why not?
The dream -- I only saw 4 other characters in the dream: the PotC characters, Rhys, and Wolverine. He wasn't the Hugh Jackman based pretty boy version. He was the 5'2" hairy comic book character of my youth. Will was Captain, I was First Mate, Wolverine was Bo'sun, and Rhys was the Representative for the rest of the ship's crew that I never actually saw. It all started in the Captain's quarters. Will, Wolverine, Rhys and I were there to decided what to do with Elizabeth Turner. Yes, you read that right, the extra baggage that was about to go off the ship dead weight wasn't just Elizabeth Swann she was Elizabeth Turner. Having already mentioned Will ordered her off his ship anyway I saw fit he definitely wanted a divorce.
Digressing again, when I'm thoroughly disgusted with a writer's or some writers' actions I don't dream of taking it out on them directly. I do cheerfully take it out on their "main character." Buffy Summers' severed and bronzed head sits on Salome Wright's desk. Anita Blake's head is in a snow globe on Asher's. The PotC writers have said Elizabeth was their main character.
The dream -- Will, Wolvie, Rhys and I sat around the Captain's table and discussed what if any value Elizabeth had still breathing. It was decided she'd outlived any usefulness, and rather than giving the order to Wolvie or Rhys Will gave me the order to dispatch her. To her credit she didn't bother trying to plead with any of us; probably knew it wouldn't help any. Elizabeth was dressed in the dress she passed out in at the beginning of Curse of the Black Pearl complete with the hat. Her hands were tied behind her back, and until I moved in for the kill she'd been quietly seated out of the way. Elizabeth wasn't gagged. She could've pleaded if she'd wanted to, but she stood there trying to look all stoic in the face of death. Elizabeth did have wide frightened eyes though. She knew I was going to kill her, and I was going to enjoy it. The first thing I did was wrap my hands around Elizabeth's throat and strangle the woman. I wasn't, however, so cold as to throw her into the sea without making certain she was truly dead rather than unconscious. I snapped Elizabeth's neck too.
Once she was nothing but a dead body Wolverine and Rhys opened the Captain's windows so the Captain and I could toss her out them. Will didn't just help throw the remains of his ex-wife off the boat, he took his wedding ring off and tossed it into the sea with her. I remember watching how the ring glinted in the moonlight before it quietly hit the water. After Will and I were done the boys closed the windows up, and went off about their business. With just the two of us in the cabin we talked about what was next for the widowed Captain, his faithful First Mate, and the ship since Will had taken possession of Elizabeth's piece of 8. It seemed the knowledge to bind Calypso had become Will's when he captained the Dutchman. I'm positive we weren't on the Dutchman, and I don't think we were on the Pearl either. It was some ship of Will's very own, neither the oft disputed Pearl or the cursed Dutchman. I saw more of it than just the Captain's quarters. For some reason the only just widowed Captain didn't want to discuss getting married again anytime soon, and I was not happy about that.
I stormed out of the Captain's quarters onto the deck. Wolverine was out there on watch, and while he didn't say anything to me he did nod. If I'd been angry at the world even that might've been dangerous, but I was just disgusted with Turners. I asked him who was in the crow's nest, and he told me Rhys was. I climbed up the rigging to the crow's nest. Rhys, even if he was feeling paranoid enough to have both eyes and less bare skin, greeted me cheerfully enough when I got up to the nest. I did feel better having made the climb in the salt sea air on a ship under full sail, but I told him I wanted to be alone. He said a few sympathetic words, and then went on down leaving me my solitary perch atop the ship. I spent the better part of the night alone up there. I remember hearing Wolverine pipe down the crew who'd been on watch when I went up.
But, before the moon set, Will did come up after me. I never heard him speak to anyone so I don't know if he was told where I was or guessed it on his own. Either way he came into the Crow's Nest silently, not saying a word to me. We sat there quietly side by side for a while, watching the water as the ship cut through it, and feeling the ship's movement beneath us. Eventually Will did speak up. At first it was shop talk, whether the water seemed a particular way, whether the ship felt a certain way. Then somewhere in there his words turned to how he felt about Elizabeth, and about me. For the record the crow's nest didn't just have railings, it was a basket that you couldn't see a person sitting in when they were sitting. That's why I had to ask who was up there, and why I'm not sure how Will knew I was up there. I state this now because once Will started talking about us we got into doing things that we should've saved for doing in his cabin.
Will Turner, any version of Will Turner, is not on my short list. I can't claim it wasn't me. He called me Becca. I can say it was only a dream, but it was still "lusting in my heart." I feel guilty now, but it felt right then. Will needed me to kill Elizabeth for him, and he needed me to show him she wasn't the only woman in the world for him. I hope Darien will forgive me. I don't think I'd even have had a good dream if he hadn't agreed to keep Mel and me company. And, thinking about it, I think it was a response to my worrying about Aeryn. It was just instead of spending the night watching Aeryn get hurt or killed I spent the night helping someone I was sure I could help feel better about their life.
The Captain Will Turner in my dream was an interesting one. I'm not sure how AU he was. That is the dream was set well after At World's End so we were off the map by being into the future without the question of whether or not canon Will could ever become my dream one. He was hard, scarred, and as I've mentioned dressed all in black, but he still had that need of me.
I'm embarrassed to say, while I didn't care for Orlando Bloom in the Lord of the Rings films, didn't care for him in Troy and didn't realize until At World's End was released that I cared for him in the Pirates movies, I am glad I got the Will Turner poster I liked best from Amazon and I will watch other films with Orlando Bloom in them for Orlando Bloom.