PotC Big Bang Fic: "Liberties" (2/7)

[luvvycat]

Title:  "Liberties" (2/7)
Author:  Luvvycat
Art: shytan 
Characters/Pairings: Young Will Turner/Young Elizabeth Swann, Weatherby Swann; Elizabeth Swann Turner/Jack Sparrow (epilogue)
Rating: PG13/Soft R (at most!)
Warnings: Flashbacks to violent events in Prologue; minor sexual suggestiveness in Epilogue; everything else in-between is fairly mild.
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[luvvycat]

the sight of a crown-appointed Governor carrying his sleeping daughter cradled in his arms like a particularly well-dressed sack of grain

Love, love, love that line.

Thank you! :-D

Weatherby's just perfect in this. I can hear him saying these things, and you capture his affection for his daughter so beautifully. How he might have let the attachment grow if only for the benefit it did his daughter. And yet, he's still the somewhat stiff governor we know.

I love the character of Weatherby Swann (and his portrayer, Jonathan Pryce) to bits! He has such a distinctive voice--it's one of the ones I can hear most clearly in my head as I'm writing him, and it's sort of fun trying to capture the vocabulary, the cadence, and particular phrasing that's such an essential part of Swann.

Father/daughter bonds are very special, and the way the relationship between Swann and Elizabeth is depicted--sweet and tender and caring, the bond of affection strengthened by the mutual loss they share, and Swann having to serve, in a way, as both father and mother to Elizabeth--is definitely one of the most attractive aspects, emotionally, of the series, for me.

What an adorable scene with Will playacting. I particularly liked that bit.

Again, a rather fun scene for me to write! Since Elizabeth is a girl with a quite active curiosity and imagination (hence, her fascination with pirates), I could see her and Will engaging in a bit of playacting for amusement.

TPTB don't really give us any scenes of young Will and Elizabeth simply being children -- we have young Elizabeth being rebuked by her father, Gibbs, and Norrington, then a mostly-unconscious Will being saved from the sea, and placed in Elizabeth's care, and the very brief verbal exchange between them -- but one doesn't actually see them in a less "formal" setting: becoming friends, being playfellows, growing closer, developing those first (secret) romantic feelings for one another that is so clearly there at their re-meeting as adults in CotBP, and by this story I thought to rectify that oversight, and provide some of this essential "history" for them. There must have been a reason for them falling in love with one another, besides just that first meeting on the Dauntless.

Thank you so much for reading, and for your Comments! I hope you enjoy the rest of the story! :-)

-- Cat