And Then They Made Him Their King.

[sparrbecuecook]

Title: And then they made him their king.
Author: sparrbecuecook
Pairing/characters: Jack Sparrow
Rating: Gen
Summary: Modern day AU: fictitious encyclopaedia entry on a fictitious kingdom
Warnings: If you are Hawaiian and/or a history geek, this might make you pull your hair out and gnaw on the desk.
Author's notes: written for prompt #69 at potcfest:

Comments

[dharma_slut]

I luff yew!

This made me grin from ear to ear, honest it did! I love Hawaii, and I'd gladly make a permanent move there-- aye with all me childer and chickens-- if I could move to this one, in this AU.

[sparrbecuecook]

Thank you for the kind words.

[sharklady35]

Gads, this is funny!

And even better if one does know a bit of Hawaiian history.

:D

[sparrbecuecook]

>even better if one does know a bit of Hawaiian history.

Of course. I worried both about "Are some jokes lost on those who are not into history?" and "Is this too much compiling PotC-unrelated facts?" Hopefully, I managed to stay close enough to the middle.

[keechakatt]

This was brilliant! I'm not aware of the history of Hawaii but now you have encouraged me to find out the "official" version.

You wrote:

Hawai'ian includes many loanwords and phrases from European languages, some of which have taken on a peculiar meaning, such as savvy (Understood?), bugger (an expletive), bloody (ditto), shiver me timbers (an expression of outrage), whelp (submissive lover), and arrr (untranslateable affirmative).

I laughed and laughed at this part.

This was very inventive fic that you put a lot of work into. Congratulations on something fun and different. :)

[sparrbecuecook]

Thank you kindly.
I'm happy to have kindled your interest in Hawaiian history. Polynesian people are sadly neglected in the history books, though they achieved a lot, destroyed a lot, and had stories as intersting as any people elsewhere.
For starters, I would recommend the AUped... Wikipedia entry with its links. That should be fairly comprehensive. I was personally taken, however, with the Polynesian chapters of Jared Diamond's books "Guns, Germs and Steel", and "Collapse".

[geekmama]

This was so funny and clever! I reallly enjoyed it. Saving to memories, and I'm going to rec it on my journal, too. Well done!

[sparrbecuecook]

Yay! My first recommendation, I believe. *pats own shoulders*

[penknife]

Hee! This is really funny.