#;how else can we live except in the midst of ruin ( jack & angelica. )

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@mysticwrit​ submitted:

for angelica obvs <3 lmao

jack would argue that she can’t outwit him but she absolutely can lmao

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💏 angelica B))

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7. …to shut them up.

       He was convinced that he’d be able to tolerate her presence in his life a lot more if they weren’t allowed to speak to one another. Doing so always led to arguments, which always led to tempers flaring and always led to situations like these: where they were stood only inches apart and, rather than turn tail and storm off as Jack should have felt like doing, he wanted to do something else entirely. This was why I left, wasn’t it? To avoid falling in so deep with her that he couldn’t get out again, to protect himself. But in doing so he’d only made everything so much worse and so much more COMPLICATED ever since.

       She was yelling something at him in Spanish that he was too preoccupied to translate, his dark eyes raking over her features, taking in every curve and line that formed a face ever so eager to be angry at him, and that drew him in despite – and often, because of – that fact. Reaching out, he grabbed her arms and pushed her back a few steps, taking advantage of her momentary confusion to lean in for the kiss. He felt her tense at first, but as his lips moved eagerly, fervidly against her own, they BOTH relaxed into the embrace, relaxed into a pattern that held up whenever they crossed paths with one another, and didn’t appear to be going away any time soon.

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8. My muse wraps their hands tightly around your muse’s neck. 

      He’d been angry enough at it all. At the injustice of being taken against his will on board a ship to serve as a tool in the game of another, and even more so knowing who it was that had engineered this scheme in the first place. This was her most audacious stunt yet; Jack would have much preferred she try to kill him outright like she had that other time, not rob him of his freedom and leave him to pace the Queen Anne’s Revenge like some caged animal.

      But this was the final straw. His rage spilled over as he spotted her ahead of him, stood in a secluded corner of the lower decks. Silently he stalked up behind her, before roughly grabbing her arm with one hand and seizing her by the neck with the other, pushing her up against the nearest bulkhead. The pressure of his fingers against her throat didn’t last long, but it would succeed in quieting her for the moment, while he said his piece.

      ‟ This is going to get us both killed. ” Lowering his voice was necessary so that they weren’t overheard by Blackbeard’s ( undead ) men, but Jack took a strange kind of pleasure in speaking in a low growl, his face mere inches from hers, his breath hot on her face, his hand wrapped around her throat. In truth, his grip was firm enough to keep her in place but not with the intent to cause any real harm. Even now, he couldn’t bring himself to return the favour and make an attempt on her life in turn. Instead, he had to get it through her thick skull. Convince her of how reckless this road was. ‟ Do you really take Teach for such a fucking fool as this, Angelica? ”

      Blackbeard was not to be taken lightly. She had always chosen risky marks, in all the time that he had known her – but this was one step too far, an obstacle that he couldn’t and also didn’t wish to surmount. His mouth twitched into a sneer. ‟ And are you not aware that there’s now someone on board this ship who knows the truth of it all? Who knows you’re not really his daughter. And who could divulge as much, were he so inclined to save his own skin. ”

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*Can you tell me how toxic was the relationship between Jack and Angelica? And what made it very toxic? What did she do to Jack that made them end up not in good terms? (This pairing really confuses me sometimes; if only they showed their history but they didn't do it at all)

        okay so yeah, honestly in its canon form I find this pairing confusing as hell too ( and it’s also my notp ), which is mainly I think because the writers were pulling in two different directions when it came to Jack and Angelica ( and to top it off, Angelica was poorly written and existed solely as Jack Sparrow’s love interest, not as a character in her own right ). on one hand, they tried to pitch this relationship as ‘the only woman Jack has ever loved’ which is just not convincing in the least, but they also present it as this love/hate on/off toxic thing which ends up toned down because it’s a disney film and, if there’s one thing disney love, it’s a vanilla romance ( plus they had a bad enough time of it with sparra.beth, but I digress lmfao )

       @etchedinfire and I have rewritten it ( yes jen I’m tagging u in every single post like this as revenge FOR MAKING ME SHIP THIS ), removing the parts that I take Great Issue with ( such as the baby thing at the end and that fuckin voodoo doll deleted scene ) and making it more convincing on both sides, so I’m gonna range between both versions of the ship as I write this lmao.

      so, what made it toxic? honestly as far as canon goes, we don’t really know for sure because there’s this whole narrative of ‘he corrupted me’ ‘he left me’ yada yada yada ( and the corruption thing let’s just. not go there ). but essentially, they were initially on good terms when they first hooked up, but the catalyst for the deterioration of their relationship was when Jack left her for unknown reasons as far as canon goes. in terms of the au version that I write here, Jack and Angelica were partners in crime until he caught a case of the feelings ( and we do get hints of that in the scene between Jack and Gibbs in OST ) and, since we’ve set all of this post-mutiny when Jack’s abandonment/self-esteem issues are arguably at their peak, he leaves and takes all of the funds they’d accrued so far. and then loses all of the money later on because he’s an idiot 

      so it isn’t actually anything that Angelica did to Jack – at least initially, and as far as the au version is concerned, her anger at him is pretty damn justified and she does try to kill him the next time they meet. it’s then kind of hinted at in the movie, but again they don’t do a great job of this, that they have an on/off thing for years afterwards. sometimes they’re on good terms, more often they’re not but they can’t seem to escape each other or stay the hell away from each other. they’re like the trope of the exes who still sleep together because they’re still hung up on the other even though they’d swear to the person’s face that they hate them

      they don’t trust each other. there’s no wholesome, pure love there in their relationship and tbh this is plain even in the movie itself if it would just stop banging on about Angelica being Jack’s ‘match’ or whatever ( and this is why I take issue with how 98% of the fandom view their relationship ). it’s not healthy, and in its canon form it’s presented as incredibly one-sided which makes it difficult for me to like the Angelica that appears in that movie – and you’re right, I think the reason for that is because the movie doesn’t do a great job at establishing their history. we’re meant to believe that these two have some kind of connection, but we don’t really know what that is or why Jack grew to care about her and she him etc etc

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Hey there! It's me again! I'm not sure if someone asked this question already... But what are Jack's thoughts & feelings towards Angelica when they saw each other again (I am just curious about this even I am not a big fan of this pairing) I also love long answers so I don't mind if the answers are so long hehe

       okay so I’m honestly the same in regards to Jack and Angelica – it’s actually my NOTP as far as its canon incarnation in OST goes, but thanks to my one true ship partner in life Jen ( @etchedinfire ), we’ve managed to completely rewrite the shoddy backstory given to them by the writers, to the point where I actually kinda don’t mind them anymore???? which is weird and, let’s be honest, is ultimately down to how amazing Jen is at writing any muse she picks up. but also – these two did have potential to be something really interesting ( and I’ve thought this right from the moment I first watched the film ), but from the way it’s written it’s just a mess tbh

       but anyway, getting back to the point; so as far as we’ve constructed their backstory prior to OST ( which puts them in a similar position to canon in terms of their love-hate attitude towards one another ), I don’t think Jack was expecting to run into her in a London pub at all, but when he discovers that she’s the one impersonating him, he’s really not surprised. in terms of Jen’s backstory for Angelica, she starts off as a pirate/con artist before Jack even meets her, so to find out that she was exploiting his own name and reputation for her own ends was hugely frustrating ( and you can see just how annoyed at her he is in their first few lines of dialogue ), but ultimately something he’d expect her to do.

      I think the most important thing about this scene is that Jack is less antagonistic towards her ( aside from the fact that they’d just nearly killed each other multiple times during their swordfight lmfao ) in this scene than he is once she drugs and pressgangs him on board the QAR. until that point, Jack isn’t actively wishing her harm, but it’s quite telling that as soon as he finds out that she’s gone and trapped him, therefore giving him little choice but to ‘help’ her with her scheme with Blackbeard and the Fountain of Youth ( and in our canon-divergent OST, she’s not Blackbeard’s daughter and is only pretending to be ), he immediately goes to threaten her with the only weapon he has available, a hook.

      so yeah, this relationship is very much a toxic one ( and why people romanticise it, I do not know, because it’s just as toxic if not more so in canon ) because these two do not trust each other, and don’t even like each other a lot of the time. and while Jack did have feelings for her when they first hooked up, it’s mixed up with betrayals and double-crosses and a lot of emotional baggage over the years