BPS Drabble Challenge: "Final Journey"

[luvvycat]

Title: "Final Journey"
Author:luvvycat
Characters: Will Turner, Bootstrap Bill Turner, Davy Jones
Rating: G
Prompt: Old Acquaintance
Word count: 100
Disclaimer: PotC is Disney's, not mine. *sniff*
A/N: Aaargh!  Still running a prompt behind... :-(

Comments

[luvvycat]

The Davy Jones character is like Sweeney Todd: evil, but commanding a certain sympathy 'cause you understand how he got that way.

Interesting POV, and I like your likening him to Sweeney Todd. Yes, he's done horrific, monstrous things -- to himself and to others -- all because of his being jilted by Calypso. A bit of an extreme backlash, taking it out on all those poor souls he's decided to forsake, or torture, over the years, but I guess that's the way of obsessive love -- reason and a sense of proportion have nothing to do with it! ;-)

And that's the double-edged nature of love, isn't it? It strips one of all defences, leaving one open to unspeakable pain, as well as to incredible joy. The potential is there for both.

I wouldn't have been so sympathetic to him, though, without that little glimpse of the real man we get in AWE. It's easy to hate the tentacly-faced monster, but it's the human in pain that stirs one's sympathies.

I always did hope his landing wasn't terribly hard.

Glad I was able to deliver him a somewhat gentler end! Whether he deserves it or not is open to debate. ;-)

Beckett and Mercer in the same brig... gads, that's better not thought about...

LOL! Yes, those two deserve one another, don't they? And Will's no fool. Best to have them secured, where they can do minimal harm (at least to the other souls, if not to one another!), and probably safer for them in the long run as well. I'm guessing there are plenty of souls aboard who might have a bone or two to pick with that pair! ;-)

Thank you so much for reading, and Commenting! :-)

-- Cat

[sharklady35]

> And that's the double-edged nature of love, isn't it? It strips one of all defences, leaving one open to unspeakable pain, as well as to incredible joy. The potential is there for both. <

Indeed. There's been realms of literature written on just that matter.