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As my kids get older I live in fear of them eventually making tumblr accounts and finding me

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@avrorean // starter call

THERE WAS A TIME PROPRIETY would have stilled his tongue. It was not the place of a blacksmith's apprentice to question an arlessa, a hero, even if he was her elder. He should have said nothing at all beyond: "How may I serve?" Or the ever reliable, "Yes, my lady." There was value in knowing one's place. He didn't have to like it. He didn't have to resign himself to it. He could make every plan in sight of the Stone to change it. But, there was value in understanding things as they stood and acting accordingly.

And as things stood, he had not been an apprentice for over two decades. Perhaps there was always a place for propriety, but that place was greatly diminished under a curse's lash. He'd been a captain these twenty years, and a captain he may well be eternally. For any sailor, be they captain or crew, a moment such as this — the quiet between ports, when duty was done til the next day — called for a story. Surely an arlessa could afford to spare one or two.

❝I was born on the island of Brandel's Reach.❞ Probably. He had no intention of admitting this, but the place of his birth was one of the details muddied by the curse. Details that hadn't been unmuddied with its breaking. He knew he'd started in Ferelden and ended in Hercinia. Precisely which town had birthed him was . . . unimportant now.

He had drifted for a moment with his thoughts — but only a moment. ❝I never visited Amaranthine, but we used to hear stories. A dragon graveyard, a forest with trees that walk. Even heard of moths as tall as willows drawn to the campfires of careless travelers.❞

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I do think body modification (perhaps especially scarification) is big among the Dutchman’s crew as a way of maintaining identity against the ravages of the curse, and in a similar vein, storytelling is extremely important. Storytelling and music are big among sailors anyway as a way to pass the time, but for the Dutchman’s crew, it becomes a way to hold onto memories the curse would take from them — to help each other hold onto memories. Your shipmate might recall something the curse has taken from you and thereby prevent you from losing it entirely.

This isn’t foolproof, of course. Memory still fades or becomes muddled and is always subjective. Crew members can become agitated when reminded of something they’ve forgotten or when it’s pointed out the story was different last time they told it. Crew members will also confuse a tale someone’s told with their own memories. This is a strong indicator they’re nearing the final stages of becoming “part of the ship, part of the crew”.

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Oo-hoo I can give Will a weird little hobby

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Once more wishing I was not afflicted of the need to provide Context

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I need to do more writing. How about a starter call? Open to all verses.

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I just realized Will's vest mysteriously disappears in the whipping scene

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I love this book

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The house is so quiet with the kids at school. What do you mean it’s only 9 and I’ve already taken care of the pets, washed the dog, swept, done laundry, made breakfast, washed dishes, cleaned the microwave—

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Might just make a Treasure Island (book) ask meme

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BITHAND. And the People raised the blades of the fallen soldiers to the heavens and rejoiced. And Shartan said to them: “No longer are we hunted! We shall never again be prey, waiting to be struck down! Let us take up the blades of our enemies and carve a place for ourselves in this world!” The People heard him, and girded themselves in the armor of the dead and sharpened their blades and arrows and prepared for war. // Vauquelin, Independent Original Character, Primarily Based in DA:TV, Written by Holly

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I am sitting bolt upright in bed asking what happens if Will drinks from the Fountain of Youth? It gives the years of one person to another, so what happens when someone cursed with immortality as he is drinks? Does the other person take his place and he becomes mortal? Or does it create some sort of loophole where their life becomes bound to his?

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It is 2 AM. I have hardly slept. My dog won’t let me

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Referencing Will's fight with Jack is hard because Jack scrutinizes Will's face and says: "You seem familiar. Have I threatened you before?" And I lose it over Bill haunting Will's narrative.

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WHAT ARE YOU THE GOD OF?

TAGGED: @avrorean TAGGING: @rookfang, @prideofthesea, @mournlost, @capswann, @weptpride, @dinglhoppr, and anyone who wants to do it!

PATRON OF REUNIONS.

humanity delights you, and for all their troubles and hardships, you decide that sometimes, you will let them win. thus, you grant them the blessing of reunion. think of harbours lined with people, each one waiting for a sailor to come ashore. think of chance encounters, of suspiciously serendipitous days where souls gone astray finally orbit one another and collide again. you are the god of finding courage, of conceding and asking for help. the god of setting broken things to mend, of starting the healing process and seeing it through to completion. god of long overdue embraces, giver of clear eyesight used to navigate a sea of people. protector of those who lie awake at night in dreamless, fitful sleep, praying for a return. god of leaving a light on and unlocking the door, physically and symbolically. you pave the way home in smooth stone, serving as cushions for blistered, wandering feet. you set the banquet and rehearse the orchestra: you bless the home anticipating the wayward, whether it is a castle or a hovel. the herald of arrival, the one who guides the lost to where they can finally be found.

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Jones: You are a desperate man. You are the one who hopes to get married. But your fate is to be married to this ship. Will: I choose my own fate. Jones: Then it wouldn't be fate, would it?

The way they just summed up Will's story in one exchange

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Before realizing every ship he's been on has sunk, I was honestly thinking he ended up a blacksmith instead of aboard another ship in Port Royal partly because so many sailors saw him as bad luck being the only survivor of an attack that sank his ship