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

[pearlseed]

You are some kind of wonderful! Great use of prompt and showing a certain sweetness that makes the whole gruesome sad situation somehow right itself even though there was a horrible broach. Truly unusual pairing, though I like the idea of Jones getting a break finally.

[luvvycat]

You are some kind of wonderful!

Gee, thanks! :-)

Great use of prompt and showing a certain sweetness that makes the whole gruesome sad situation somehow right itself even though there was a horrible broach.

Truly unusual pairing, though I like the idea of Jones getting a break finally.I kept thinking about that moment in AWE, when Tia Dalma/Calypso touches Jones, and he reverts briefly to the man he was before he was betrayed by Calypso, and buried his pain by becoming a (literally) heartless monster. There seems such a disconnect there, between the man he was--the human man with such pain, love and longing in his eyes--and the infinitely cruel creature he allowed himself to become, capable of harvesting lives with such malicious, remorseless glee. After Will stabbed the heart (with considerable help from Jack, of course), you could practically see that humanity flooding back into his eyes: pain, disbelief, regret, and even relief and acceptance of his fate, just before he pitches into the heart of the maelstrom. I like to

[veronica_rich]

I've always wondered how kind and empathic Jones may have been before Calypso jilted him and he dwelled on it. (Just as a side item. Your remark is not the first to make me wonder that, but it did remind me.) There's every indication that he did his job well for that first ten years - that would require at least some measure of goodness in his soul, right?

[veronica_rich]

That's better than thinking Jones is suffereing under the waves. Yes, he took the wrong path, but he did have some provocation at the beginning at least, from Calypso. (Or lack of her, rather.)

Good job!

[luvvycat]

That's better than thinking Jones is suffereing under the waves.

Yes, it's satisfying to think that, in death, he found some peace and "closure" at last. (Of course, his victims, over the years, might think otherwise!) ;-)

Yes, he took the wrong path, but he did have some provocation at the beginning at least, from Calypso. (Or lack of her, rather.)The only reason he accepted immortality and the Ferryman's duties was for love of Calypso, and the privilege of being able to be with her, as her lover, once every ten years. Once Calypso betrayed that pact and denied him his reward, after ten faithful years of ferrying the dead, Jones was in essence stuck with the immortality and his duty, but without hope of attaining the prize he'd sought to claim--an empty existence for him, to be certain. One could hardly blame him for being pissed off about that, and feeling that, since she didn't live up to her end of the bargain, why should he live up to his

[geekmama]

That's a satisfying twist to the tale. Well done!

[luvvycat]

That's a satisfying twist to the tale. Well done!

Thank you so much! I'm so glad you liked it! :-)

I know it's a bit of stretch, that Will would forgive his murderer, and offer him peace (but then again, Will might be the only one with empathy enough to do so).

But I kept thinking of the scene in the Pearl's brig, when Calypso touches Jones, and we see him as he was before becoming a monster. I wanted to take him back to that, to give him back the humanity he had lost due to Calypso's betrayal, and his own misdeeds. I think he has been a soul in torment, and would be grateful for the end of his own suffering, and attainment of peace, after so long a time in a hell partly of his own, and partly of Calypso's making.

Thank you again for giving this a read, and Commenting! :-)

-- Cat

[luvvycat]

This is amazing! Such an original idea. Great drabble.

Thank you so much! It just highlights what a different "brand" of Ferryman Will's going to be, and how seriously he takes his new responsibilities--that he'd ferry all dead, without prejudice, regardless of whether they're friend, or foe. Very magnanimous of him, don't you think? ;-)

Thanks again for the kind comments! They're much appreciated! :-)

-- Cat

[sharklady35]

The Davy Jones character is like Sweeney Todd: evil, but commanding a certain sympathy 'cause you understand how he got that way. I always did hope his landing wasn't terribly hard.

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

[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

[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.