potc100 Drabble Challenge: "Tarnished Idol"

[luvvycat]

Title: "Tarnished Idol"
Author:luvvycat   
Characters: Elizabeth Swann, Jack Sparrow
Rating: PG13/Soft R
Prompt(s): Vulgar and Liar
Word count: 100
Disclaimer: PotC is Disney's, not mine. *sniff*

Comments

[luvvycat]

You have managed to write all my secret dark fantasy's about this moment between these two

Yours and mine, both! ;-D

and in a hundred words. :D

Believe me (like a certain part of Jack's anatomy) this drabble wanted to grow larger, too! Had to run it through the writer's equivalent of a "cold shower" to keep it relatively small and manageable! ;-)

Great job!

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

-- Cat

Praise from Willofthewisp

[anonymous]

Ah, the ride home. I can just see Elizabeth, looking like a drowned rat, seething with rage. I know, I know, she still has a lot to learn about Jack, but I'm with her that he sort of undid that daring rescue. From her point of view, of course he's a "dirty, vulgar, self-serving liar and common thief." She has every right to be so furious. Disillusionment often hits hard.

It's so true to life that she wouldn't really catch onto the sexual undertones in that scene until later. The adrenaline, being in the moment itself, would blind her to it. But now that she can reflect? Bam! Don't be so hard on yourself, Elizabeth. There aren't too many refined ladies who don't want a scoundrel at least once in a while.

I LOVE this! It makes all interactions after this that much more spectacular. Good job.

Re: Praise from Willofthewisp

[pearlseed]

That's all true and it's sorta like drugs...one's too many, hundreds not enough--You'd be wanting that 'taste' if you had it everyday and twice on Sunday, cos it's sooooo addicting!lol

Re: Praise from Willofthewisp

[luvvycat]

Ah, the ride home. I can just see Elizabeth, looking like a drowned rat, seething with rage.

Not only rage, but embarrassment, too. To suffer the indignity of appearing in her underthings, being manhandled by a pirate in front of her father and James and half the Royal Navy (particularly after she's just spoken out in said pirate's defence), must have been a supremely humiliating experience for her!

I know, I know, she still has a lot to learn about Jack, but I'm with her that he sort of undid that daring rescue.

Yes, it must have been quite a letdown for her, personally! Her rescue by Jack would have played so perfectly into her "pirate hero" image she'd held of him since childhood, so to have him suddenly wrap a manacle chain around her neck and threaten the life he'd just saved, it had to have come as quite an unpleasant shock!

From her point of view, of course he's a "dirty, vulgar, self-serving liar and common thief." She has every right to be so furious. Disillusionment often hits hard.Absolutely! Childhood illusions don't

[whensheflies]

That scene from the first movie remains one of my favorite Sparrabeth moments in the whole series. I think that scene is what made me a J/E shipper. This little drabble added great depth and extra insight into that scene. Lovely job!

[luvvycat]

That scene from the first movie remains one of my favorite Sparrabeth moments in the whole series.

Ditto! It's a sentimental favourite of mine, and one I love to revisit, time and time again, in my fics! :-)

I think that scene is what made me a J/E shipper.

Me, too! I didn't see the movie until a few years after it came out, when I caught it on cable (about the time that DMC had just made the rounds in the theatres). Up until then, I didn't really have an interest in seeing the PotC films (Hey, how good can a film based on a Disney theme park ride be, right?). But from the moment Jack jumped in and plucked Elizabeth from the sea, I was a PotC fan! Those initial interactions between J/E on the docks definitely hooked me as a die-hard Sparrabether from the very first, and the rum-runner's island scene later only confirmed my devotion to this 'ship! I mean, the chemistry between the two of them is absolutely amazing (IMHO)! :-)

This little drabble added great depth and extra insight into that scene. Lovely job!Thank you very much

[luvvycat]

This is fantastic.

Thank you! :-) :-) :-)

How do you ALWAYS manage to express so much in a short drabble??

There's just something about the PotC characters that inspires me, and just wants me to explore those characters' feelings and "connections" with one another (J/E especially). ;-)

And, believe me, each drabble I write starts off way past the 100-word limit! I just have to find the "meat" of the scene, and trim away the "fat" until I reach the requisite 100 words! ;-) I'm glad it's been working out so far, and that the reader is still able to enjoy what's "left over" after the slicing and dicing! ;-)

AMAZING ♥

Again, thank you so, so much for reading, and for your more than kind words! Hope you enjoy the rest of your "summer hiatus"! I look forward to your return in September, and reading more of your own fantastically wonderful "Thunderhearts"!

-- Cat

[just_a_dram]

I'm smiling. :D

Loved it!

[luvvycat]

I'm smiling. :D

So glad to have provided the smile! (Of course, there's a lot about J/E that is so very smile-inducing, IMHO!) ;-)

Loved it!

Thank you so much, both for reading, and for taking the time to let me know how much you liked the drabble! Much appreciated! :-)

-- Cat