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Prompt List

1. Jack/Will, post-AWE, using Will's headband
2. Jack/Will - post AWE - Jack visiting the Dutchman -collecting the key to the chest from Will
3. Jack/Will hurt/comfort claimed by captain_molly
4. Will/Jack, cumbersome and overload.
5. Jack/Elizabeth - the chest is stolen (or lost) and they have to get it back
6. Jack/Elizabeth, cross-dressing (by Jack, that is)
7. Jack/Elizabeth - post-AWE AU (or not), Lizzie being knowingly adulterous, dirty talk.
8. Jack/Elizabeth, earrings
9. Jack/Elizabeth, California, a potato.
10. Jack/Elizabeth, bathtub claimed by desiringpirates
11. Jack/Elizabeth, haze and chance.
12. Elizabeth/Jack, when they're stranded in CotBP (missing scene).
13. Jack/Will/Elizabeth - on the Dutchman
14. Jack/Elizabeth/Will - ten years and one week after the end of AWE, assuming Will is only captain for ten years
15. Jack/Will/Elizabeth, post-AWE, Jack as go-between
16. James/Jack/Elizabeth, AU in which Elizabeth is married to James
17. Jack/Elizabeth/Barbossa, use the phrase “anytime, anyplace.” claimed by piratemistress
18. Jack/Elizabeth/Barbossa, jealousy.
19. Giselle/Jack/Scarlet - why Jack's glad he can make port whenever he wants, girl talk claimed by argyleheir
20. Jack/Barbossa - ...improper use of words too long and too odd in hearing to be checked in the dictionary :P claimed by viva_gloria
21. Jack/Norrington -- card games and sea shanties
22. Post-DMC AU: Jack Sparrow is not stuck in the locker, he gets changed into a wer-octopus. Sparrington please!
23. Jack/Tia Dalma, "a wayward wind" claimed by weather_eyes
24. Jack/Calypso - Jack regaining the Black Pearl, with her help
25. Tia Dalma/Jack -- "Don't tell me you didn't enjoy it at the time." claimed by heatherlayne_n
26. Jack/Bootstrap, persuasion
27. Speckett backstory & crossover with the Harry Potter world: Jack "Sparrow"-Teague-whatever and not-yet-Lord Cutler Beckett both studied the ways of magic at Hogwarts, but left or were kicked out, for whatever reason(s).
28. Jack/Pearl, his first night aboard after he's rescued from the locker.
29. Jack doing something NC-17-rated with an unlikely and embarrassing partner.
30. Will/Elizabeth - ickle Will pwned by ickle Lizzie who actually finds pirates fascinating. While Will does not. claimed by nehi
31. Will/Elizabeth (Jack too, if you want!), the 'bucket of seawater' loophole to the 'no setting foot on land for ten years' rule. claimed by djarum99
32. Will/Elizabeth, Gov. Swann, AU. What if the dog with the keys had been present at the beginning of DMC, and the three of them escaped Port Royal together?
33. Will/Elizabeth, exotic pets and snow.
34. Will/Elizabeth, conjugal visits and pretense.
35. Will/Elizabeth/Calypso claimed by slashfairy


36. Will/Norrington -- called to serve under the new 'Dutchman' claimed by romanticalgirl
37. Will/Norrington -- it all came to pass because Elizabeth agreed to cover up for her friends' relationship.
38. Norrington/Will, palpitation and loss.
39. Will/James - canon compliant, AU, ANYTHING! prompt: “sword”
40. Will/Calypso, post-AWE claimed by faeritales
41. Will/Anamaria, either on the Dutchmen or AU where Will is alive (and no longer with Elizabeth)
42. Elizabeth/Barbossa - going to Singapore, getting to know each other, Elizabeth proves Hector that she's not the usual damsel in distress
43. Elizabeth/Barbossa, unrequited.
44. Barbossa/Elizabeth, after AWE
45. Anamaria/Elizabeth, post-AWE claimed by versifico
46. Elizabeth/Tia Dalma - during AWE
47. Elizabeth/Calypso - whatever, it's just sexy :P claimed by captain_molly
48. Elizabeth/Calypso, after AWE claimed by bwinter
49. James/Elizabeth, AWE AU, James doesn't die.
50. Norrington/Elizabeth, sublimation claimed by rexluscus
51. Norrington/Elizabeth, halfway and springtime.
52. Beckett/Norrington, post-DMC through AWE -- leverage
53. James/Weatherby - any way you can make it happen
54. Post-AWE AU James/Barbossa - any way you can make it happen
55. James/Mercer - good son, bad son
56. Norrington/Anamaria, pre-COTBP and then post-COTBP
57. Norrington/Calypso, post AWE
58. Norrington/Calypso, after he dies claimed by bravenewcentury
59. Norrington/Tia Dalma - a gift (supernatural or otherwise)
60. Tia Dalma/Anamaria, discussing the qualms of a life at sea (you can read as much sex into that as you want)
61. Barbossa/Calypso - there's no such thing as one true love claimed by atraphoenix
62. Barbossa/Calypso -- how did he learn what she was?
63. Barbossa/Tia, when he's in her hut after she's brought him back from the dead. Gen or pairing-centric.
64. Gibbs/Estrella, beginnings
65. Teague/Jack's mother - who was she? claimed by woolymonkey
66. Teague/Jack's mother, birth claimed by p0wdermonkey
67. Teague/anyone, either backstory or set at Shipwreck Cove
68. Davy Jones/Bootstrap, post-DMC -- "What more can he do to me?"
69. Jack and his post-AWE adventures claimed by sparrbecuecook
70. Jack, bananas, rum, sand
71. Jack, custard, Will, legumes, hats
72. Jack, how he became a pirate lord
73. Jack, Very Small Turner, things that will make Elizabeth shout when she finds out
74. Jack playing hero to Elizabeth's son (from anyone's POV) claimed by geekmama
75. Jack coming to the Green Shores to talk with Elizabeth about Will.
76. Jack, Barbossa -- hats
77. Jack and Beckett. What mark did Jack leave? Not slash.
78. Jack and the Singapore twins, with pomegranates claimed by whatbigeyes
79. Jack amongst the pirates of the Barbary Coast - bonus if you relate it to that Tripoli reference in DMC (maybe somebody's written this - I don't read much gen *g*)
80. Jack meeting historical pirates (doesn't have to be shippy)
81. Part-of-the-ship!Bill talks to part-of-the-ship!Jack (real or delusional, either one of them)
82. Jack and Bootstrap, deception and disease.
83. Jack, fever, Norrington
84. Post-CoBP AU - Jack and James at the theatre
85. Norrington haunting Jack (and annoying the hell out of him) -- slash or not, either way claimed by lilfluffykitten
86. Jack reaches Fountain of Youth with Ghost!Norrington's help. Extra points for ghostly whoopie-making. ;D
87. Norrington and Jack, view and demonstration.
88. Teague and Jack discussing Elizabeth. claimed by glinda4thegood
89. Jack's mum and Young Jack, Jack's first time aboard a ship.
90. obscene pirate songs, Elizabeth
91. Elizabeth - reading about Jack Sparrow claimed by sage_laurel
92. Elizabeth before CotBP. How'd she become fascinated with Pirates?
93. Elizabeth between Will's arrival on board ship and eight years later. What was she reading, to know about the Code and all? Who was her mom/ were her grandparents?
94. Elizabeth - called into service as Pirate King claimed by stareyednight
95. Elizabeth - where does she take the Empress first, once she leaves Shipwreck Cove
96. Elizabeth, Very Small Turner, ships
97. Elizabeth, losing an eye in battle, and the physical and emotional consequences
98. Elizabeth, hands, red sky
99. Elizabeth, post-AWE - no Jack, no major canon characters, just her life (though it can include some insight into what the Pirate King actually *does*)
100. Elizabeth, Tai Huang, Post-AWE. How did Tai overcome his dislike of Elizabeth as his captain?
101. Elizabeth meeting Chinese pirate women, historically based
102. Gibbs and Norrington share a story aboard the Pearl, Elizabeth listens in claimed by desiringpirates
103. Will and Bootstrap - what, besides pirating, is in Will's blood? claimed by torn_eledhwen
104. Bootstrap Bill telling CotFD Will stories about Jack.
105. Bootstrap, Will - memories of Will's mother
106. Bootstrap when the Aztec gold curse breaks.
107. Bootstrap alone in the Flying Dutchman's brig.
108. Will dealing with being Captain of the Dutchman (getting to know his dad a plus) claimed by penknife
109. Beckett, Will - Will does not ferry Beckett to the other side and leaves him driftless claimed by bibliophile_42
110. Will, Very Small Turner, first meetings claimed by ceria_taliesin
111. Post-AWE. Captain Will Turner training his own massive aquatic creature to assist him in his duties.
112. Will, Post-AWE. Someone successfully uses a jar of dirt against him. claimed by rainne83
113. CotBP AU: Will wins the fight in the smithy. He captures Jack and, hating pirates as he still does at that point, decides to punish him for threatening Elizabeth. Torture, possibly rape, R to NC17
114. Will's thoughts during the three-way swordfight in DMC.
115. A moment between Will and Barbossa while the Black Pearl heads to Isla de Muerta. Gen.
116. Post AWE - as a gift or a favour to someone (himself, Elizabeth, Jack, James, someone wacky or obscure, whoever) Will gives James one more day.
117. Mr. Midshipman Norrington: an adventure in which vile pirates are encountered.
118. Norrington, through all three movies: letters home about life in the Caribbean.
119. Norrington, pre-COTBP -- why did he join the Navy, his ambitions etc. claimed by rexluscus
120. Norrington's career - how did he rise up so far so fast?
121. Norrington, forty stripes claimed by commodore_lydia
122. James and Weatherby's first meeting after James returns to Port Royal with the heart.
123. James & Weatherby in the afterlife.
124. James haunting Elizabeth. claimed by atraphoenix
125. James lost in Shipwreck Cove (AU optional)
126. James at his promotion ceremony (to Adrmiral or Commodore).
127. Barbossa, large amounts of gold, willing wenches, improbable events
128. Barbossa, shipwreck, mermaids.
129. Barbossa, Ain True Love.
130. Calypso, anything about the years she spent bound in human form
131. Calypso's soliloquy (go about that however you choose)
132. Calypso, Will Turner the Third (at any age), Post-AWE. Two half-immortals find comfort in each other.
133. Teague's guitar
134. Bootstrap and Teague meet, not necessarily post AWE.
135. AU, Teague and Weatherby Swann claimed by the_dala
136. Weatherby Swann in his youth
137. Weatherby Swann, while in jail.
138. Weatherby survives AWE, somehow.
139. Weatherby Swann -- someone he left behind in England
140. How did Beckett and Weatherby Swann first meet?
141. Weatherby, Mrs. Swann, Bill, and Mrs. Turner wait around for the birth of wee Turner the 3
142. Backstory for any other pirate lord claimed by minoriko
143. Sao Feng - anything that fills out his backstory.
144. backstory on any of the other Brethren, and/or their adventures with our heroes
145. Pre-mutiny backstory, any of the Pearl crew,preferably including Ragetti and Pintel. claimed by manikaitwing
146. Marty's backstory
147. Anamaria, pre-COTBP
148. Post-AWE Gibbs
149. Gibbs, before the main events of COTBP. How did he get from the navy to Tortuga?
150. Gibbs, CJS Spin Doctor
151. The Black Pearl - give her a better backstory than the quasi-canon one on the POTC wiki
152. Baby Turner and his pirate hat.
153. Will Turner III and his piratey exploits, 20 years post-AWE claimed by artaxastra
154. conversely, Will Turner III turns his back on piracy and goes respectable, 20 years post-AWE
155. Beckett -- power, vanity, secrets
156. Davy Jones, pre-squidface, back when he still ferried souls properly
157. The chest with Davy Jones' heart also contained some letters. What might they be about?
158. Davy Jones, perception and polygons.
159. Jimmeylegs, under command of Davy Jones. How he perfects cleaving flesh from bone.
160. Backstory for any of the Dutchman's crew
161. The kraken's last moments
162. Teague, Dog with the Keys, Norrington. Pre-CotBp. How a dog with a single mission goes from piracy to navy.
163. That dog with the keys
164. The POTC canon universe - we all know it's anachronistic, so figure out the alternate history that explains it all (heh, nobody's going to pick this)
165. A modern day AU, located in a place where piracy activity is high these days; for instance Indonesia or the Philippines. Elizabeth and/or Will as a tourist, aidworker, embassy employee, oildrilling engineer or whatever get(s) kidnapped by Sparrow's or Barbossa's modern day counterpart. Extra kudos for Murtogg&Mullroy either as local policemen, private detectives, or the worst Interpol employees ever.
166. The Dauntless finding Jack and Elizabeth on the Rumrunners' Island, from the POV of anyone on that ship.
167. Sea-turtles.
168. Cross-dressing and/or gender confusion. claimed by st_minority
169. Headscarves
170. Beckett/Mercer/Norrington - vying for attention
171. Will/Beckett - what else did they discuss over tea?

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