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Hey, Roen, I have a question; what do you think of vampires as a whole? (That includes Jek as well)

Vampires as a whole? They’re a nuisance, but honestly no match for us demons. Personally, if they leave me alone, then I can exist with them, but if they harm or go after something I truly care for, all bets are off. 

As for Jek…I don’t think he and I could ever get along. Plus his laugh makes me cringe-it it extremely high pitched and quite annoying. 

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Did Jack ever give up hope? Or did he ever have the feeling of hopelessness especially during some point in his life? Like he wanted to give up already? If so how did he deal with it? (Sorry for bothering you with these random questions but i am sure you don't mind at all)

        he definitely has had those moments in his life, with the two most important examples of that being immediately after the mutiny, and post-locker – and these are two moments in Jack’s life which are symbolised by a period of intensive isolation from everyone else ( his three days spent marooned on the island after Barbossa mutinies, and his time spent in the Locker ). also heat is an important theme to note here as well, since it is during his time marooned that Jack supposedly suffered heatstroke, and the heat in the Locker causes Jack to blackout too – Johnny always talks about heat in regards to Jack, not only in the more literal sense of the word ( the Caribbean climate is hot ), but he also mentions the heat of thinking, and we all know that Jack is very much a thinker and there’s always a lot going on inside of his head

       but anyway I digress lmfao. Jack definitely wanted to give up after the mutiny, without a shadow of a doubt, because at that point he had lost everything that had ever mattered to him – not just his ship, although the Black Pearl is obviously his true love, but he’d lost his captaincy and his title and any respect he’d managed to build during those two years after he’d turned pirate. I think it says a lot about Jack’s character that he didn’t let something so traumatic and crushing actually defeat him and instead kept going, but it was an incredibly tough period of his life. as for how he dealt with it and got through it, I think it was a combination of his strength of character ( because he has this whole indomitable spirit thing going on lbr ), and also Gibbs’ influence, since it was after the mutiny that he became a very central figure and anchor in Jack’s life

      and then there’s post-Locker, which is the most obvious canon example of Jack struggling with melancholy and hopelessness. the whole ‘the world’s still the same, there’s just less in it’ scene absolutely epitomises that struggle for him – and the way in which he deals with it, as we see in AWE, is in a very unhealthy way, by forming a fixation on this idea that becoming immortal and avoiding death will somehow fix the way that he’s feeling, which isn’t the case at all and would in fact have made him worse

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Hey there! What's your own version on what should be in the locker scene aside of Jack killing his 'good self' to make it far more darker than it was? (Because I am so curious about it especially it is one of my favorite scenes in AWE)

      yES okay so I have a few different answers to this question tbh

      firstly, I needed what was in the original script:

       and this is where I think, sometime between the script originally being written and the scene being filmed, the whole thing became significantly tamer and more comedic. the whole idea is that each individual Jack clone represents an ‘extreme’ ( either of emotion, or feeling, or some kind of motif or theme important to Jack ) – this is what Johnny says in the bts when he talks about ‘splitting Captain Jack up like a pie.’ it’s taking him apart and giving us an insight into his psyche, but then it ends up being padded out with the really obscure stuff like the whole chicken thing ( which I believe is a Johnny and Gore inside joke ), the peanut ( which is actually a Johnny thing and is pretty deep - ‘to a person who has nothing, a peanut becomes everything’ ), and the goat ( which I’m not gonna get into here but does have thematic significance ).

      but my whole point is, with the idea of extremes and splitting up Jack’s psyche, there was so much fucking potential here. and we know full well that Johnny can act ‘suffering a nervous breakdown’ extremely well from Secret Window ( I can only assume he toned it down in AWE because disney film ) and honestly they could have easily borrowed anything from that clip and put it into the Locker scene and I would have been very happy ( obviously taking out the whole ‘he’s the serial killer’ plot twist lmfao ). there are definitely ways in which they could have delved even deeper into how Jack works and shown the extent of the anger and helplessness and fear during his time in the Locker. a scene where his doppelgangers pushed Jack into a position where he completely broke down would have been A+++, but honestly I’m not surprised that they didn’t push the character that far

      also, tonally, it could have been very different. this is Jack’s personal hell, and considering how dark the opening of AWE is, they could have easily brought that into the Locker scene as well ( they wouldn’t have done this, but it could have been filmed much more like a horror/psychological thriller set piece because, effectively, it’s one of the main characters being psychologically tortured ). I think part of the problem with the way the Locker scene is presented is that we don’t get to see the endless weeks Jack spends there after he first arrives. when the camera first shows us to him in this film, he’s already been in the Locker for such a length of time that all of his clones are completely normalised to him, and we are encouraged to laugh at him because ‘he’s talking to himself lol he’s completely lost it this time.’ 

      and this is where AWE should have been split into two parts, because that way they would have had the time to show Jack’s descent into madness, and overall could have gone far deeper with his character in this movie, particularly his process of clawing himself back as the movie(s) goes on. the deeper stuff is only ever subtextual in the Locker scene, and honestly I would have loved for it all to be more overt and obvious to the casual audience

      as for the other thing I would have loved to see, it would involve changing the Locker scene completely and isn’t my own idea, but one that comes from this fanfic, but I’m so attached and in love with the entire concept that I have to mention it here. the actual chapter itself is Jack/Elizabeth heavy, but honestly the entire thing works even without the ship context because it takes the Captain Jack Sparrow featured on the Disneyland ride – you know, that part where he’s sat atop a golden throne and surrounded by treasure.

      in summary, Elizabeth is tasked with searching the Locker for Jack, and comes face to face with that glorious specimen of pirate we see on the potc ride: the facade. he’s exactly as he should be, seemingly unaffected by his time in the Locker, and Elizabeth has to both resist and look beyond the Jack standing in front of her and approach another door, inside of which is the real Jack, bloodied and broken after everything he’s gone through. I just think th=hat whole scene symbolic of how much Jack is at war between the pirate and the good man, the facade and the human, the selfish and the selfless, and I adore it tbh

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What was Jack feeling when he finally faces the Kraken in the end..? (Of DMC)

      I really think he was resigned to it as soon as he realised Elizabeth had shackled him to the mast of the Pearl tbh. deep in the back of his mind, I think Jack always knew that it would come to this – not necessarily the betrayal, but there’s only so far you can run when both sea ( the kraken ) and land ( the eitc ) are no longer safe for you. plus, his whole gambit since the beginning of the film ( using the chest and heart as leverage ) blew up in his face when the jar of dirt smashed and he saw that the heart had been taken from it lbr. so from that point onwards, I do believe he knew deep down that there would finally come a moment like this – it just took Elizabeth to force him to confront it.

      but the first thing that he does as soon as she has left? he frees himself from the shackle, and I just asdfkjsd the whole scene proves that, when it comes down to it, Jack is capable of a huge amount of bravery. he could have faced his death like a coward, he could have tried to escape and jump off the ship, but instead he looks the creature in the eye ( kind of ) and goes down fighting, even though there’s nobody watching him that he need impress ( except the audience of course ). in that moment we get the true measure of Jack, especially since he has been evading us for the entire movies, seeing as DMC pushes him far more into anti-hero territory than CotBP ever did. 

       I don’t doubt that he was absolutely terrified of what came next, of where he would end up and what ‘death’ would be like, but he has that same defiance that he showed Cutler in TPOF when he got branded, and that he has in the face of everyone who has tried to crush his spirit. and that’s why I think it makes everything all the more heartbreaking when we do see him next in AWE. his introduction scene is completely at odds to those in the previous two movies, instead revealing to us a severely damaged, conflicted Jack Sparrow ranting and raving to himself on the deck of his own ship. the Locker scene could have been made more powerful than it was, but the stark contrast is definitely there 

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I'm not sure if this was asked before, but what was Jack's reaction and feeling when he first saw Barbossa in the locker with the rest of the crew? After all it had been years since COTBP...

      I think annoyed is probably the first thing he felt lmfao – at least once he’d snapped out of his hallucinatory state and realised that the crew standing in front of him were real. it hasn’t actually been all that long since CotBP – there’s a year between the first movie and DMC, and then I tend to factor in another year or so for the events of DMC and AWE, so Jack shooting Barbossa in the caves of Isla de Muerta would still be pretty fresh in his memory ( even though he feigns ignorance to it when he first encounters Barbossa, still thinking him a delusion )

      tbh Barbossa’s presence in the Locker is probably second only to Elizabeth in terms of how frustrating and difficult it is for Jack to reconcile with, because to find out that his mutinous first mate is alive is also to find out that the ten years he spent trying to enact vengeance for the mutiny has all gone to waste, because the man hasn’t stayed dead like he was supposed to. and it’s incredibly threatening to Jack on a personal level too, because he’s now no longer the uncontested captain of the Black Pearl and has to fight Barbossa for the title ( hence why, whenever Jack is in Barbossa’s presence he pretty much turns into the fight me emoji lmfao ). I’m gonna mention that scene where they are all pointing their pistols at each other because I think it shows just how angry Jack is deep down at the whole thing – out of everyone, Jack is the first person to try shooting his pistol ( at Barbossa ), and is therefore the one to start off the chain reaction of everyone firing their weapons. and then he gives Barbossa this complete and utter dirty look as he walks away lmfao. he’s really not happy about it.

      I think the only reason why Jack doesn’t try to kill Barbossa again is because it’s not really a viable option for him without facing consequences – Barbossa is in league with the Brethren Court, and he later figures out that he’s in cahoots with Tia Dalma as well, so in terms of power play, he may loathe it, but he has to keep his former first mate on the proverbial chess board while he’s trying to manipulate everyone else. plus I think a subtle shift occurs in their relationship after their kraken beach discussion, because Jack’s anger definitely diminishes a little after that. but yeah, long story short, I think it’s impossible to overstate how frustrating and difficult it is for Jack to have his revenge suddenly reversed like that tbh

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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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What about Jack crying or letting his pain out? (Did it ever happen?) also I don't mind if there is a thread about this topic)

       okay so the closest Jack ever gets to crying ( that we know of ) in canon is during TPOF when, you guessed it, the Wicked Wench is on fire lmfao. there’s an offhand piece of narration where Jack is said to choke back a sob as he heads towards his cabin, and another where he ‘dashes tears from his eyes’ – although this of course could be due to the smoke rather than any actual emotion, but considering how Emo he gets about his ship, it’s probably a mixture of both.

      but aside from that one time, Jack just doesn’t cry. in my three years of writing him he’s only broken down in tears like three times in total, and that has only been in front of muses that he trusts completely. it just doesn’t happen because he sees it as absolute weakness, so in those rare cases where he does let his emotions out in that way, he’ll always get incredibly angry and frustrated with himself, usually making it worse. also, I think this is one of the only aspects of his character where gender plays a role; Jack might not be your traditionally masculine character ( and he plays around with stereotypical gender roles ), but I think as a man, particularly in that century, it is ingrained in him not to show emotion in that way, and a part of that sticks

       plus, in all of the situations where he has cried in threads etc, it has never been due to another person upsetting him, but the result of an incredibly stressful/traumatic/painful situation getting the better of him. on the whole, people don’t make him cry but his own coping mechanisms ( or lack thereof ) do

       Jack bottles up his emotions, and he can only do that to a certain point before they spill over, and while in a lot of cases this will manifest itself as anger, it can also just cause him to completely break down. I imagine the amount of times he has cried when on his own is probably a lot higher than the times he’s cried in front of others. it’s something he’s much more likely to do when there is nobody around to witness it, but obviously he is never going to admit that things get to him or that he might be suffering; growing up with no supportive parental figure forced him to deal with his own emotions and feelings alone from a very young age, so even the concept of opening up to others is completely foreign to him

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What about Jack's reaction to some hugs? (I am still thinking for more questions)

      yesss okay so nobody ever actually hugs Jack in the entire franchise which is very sad ( the closest is when Elizabeth kinda leans into him/snuggles him during the campfire scene in CotBP – but even then Jack is remarkably careful about how he touches her. you only have to look at that shot where he tentatively puts his hand on her shoulder ), but I think this also says a lot about how averse Jack is to that kind of casual physical intimacy? honestly, the only person I could ever see him accepting a hug from in the movies is Gibbs, and even then he wouldn’t really know how to react to it if it did happen. he clearly comes across to us in the trilogy as an individual who is very closed off to others, and he actually very rarely displays any open body language ( if you notice, Jack likes to get up in other people’s faces when he’s trying to convince them of something or manipulate them, but never does he reach out to anyone when he’s in need of comfort or reassurance )

      the only circumstances where Jack will happily accept that kind of closeness is with his romantic partners – I think for him there’s something about being romantically or sexually intimate with someone that lowers his guard, and reveals the part of him that is extremely touch starved and craves being hugged and touched, even in a purely platonic way

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Hey there!! I'm not sure if people ever asked about this before.. But what was Jack's reaction when he first became the Pirate Lord of Caribbean? And why did he become some sort of a pariah among his fellow Pirate Lords?

       sooo I’ve covered exactly how Jack received his piece of eight and the title of Pirate Lord of the Caribbean here for the uninitiated, but I guess the important thing really to state is that Jack never wanted the title, and given the circumstances in which he received it ( being given to him after the death of his first love, Esmeralda ), I think the only reason Jack accepted it was because that was her dying wish. Jack has always been a bit of a pariah where the Brethren Court is concerned, and he’s never really liked it or how it was run, so I personally don’t think becoming one of its fabled members was ever one of his ambitions ( plus he probably thought that Teague’s prejudice against him would make it an impossibility anyway ).

       once he got that title, I honestly cannot see him actually using any of his newfound powers and responsibilities ( since it’s detailed in TPOF that Pirate Lords often attend meetings at the Cove etc ). given his reluctance to step foot in Shipwreck Cove in AWE, I think Jack rarely visited it at all during that time, and then there’s the fact that he has canonically pissed off the majority of the other members in his time lmfao. I think the only Pirate Lord he actually has a good relationship with is Gentleman Jocard, and that’s because he used to serve as Jack’s cook in one of the Legends of the Brethren Court series of books, but he’s really not bothered about the others

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Hey there!! I'm not sure if people ever asked about this before.. But did Jack ever experience being sick (like fever, cough and colds) due to being always exposed to the nature of the sun and to the sea? Or from any of his injuries he sustained from the battles etc?

      great question! so as far as canon goes, Jack outwardly proclaims that he’s never been sick in his life in TPOF:

“You never been sick, Cap’n?” The youth seemed incredulous.

Jack ruminated for a moment. “Certainly not seasick,” he said, finally. “And I can’t remember being any other kind of sick, either.” He paused, thinking. “Do hangovers count? I suppose not; they’re self-inflicted.”

       and tbh I really do think he’s telling the truth until I write a thread with Jen where he comes down with typhoid fever. on the whole he’s a very healthy individual, in spite of his fondness for alcohol and the fact that he should have liver problems if we were in the real world lmfao; he would be very physically fit from working on board a ship, and also just generally lucky considering how deadly illness could be if it did strike a ship’s crew down. he’s also unnerved by sick people and really doesn’t like being around them lmfao. but saying that, I’m sure he’s caught the common cold and other minor ailments in his time, but he’s the kind of person who would work through that kind of illness without really complaining about it ( well, he might complain in the way a five year old man child might complain, but he isn’t going to let it stop him from carrying out his responsibilities as captain )

      there is a good chance that he’s suffered fever as a result of wounds, however; considering that the quality of medical care in the 18th century was a far cry from what we know in the present, and that medical care on board a cramped ship would likely be even worse, I think there’s a good chance that he would have suffered a fever at least once, considering how many scars and wounds we know he’s sustained over the years. but again, he’s a very lucky person in that regard ( and also a disney character ), so he has recovered from it without any serious health implications

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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

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I'm curious about Jack's thoughts towards Bullying & Bullies

       short answer: he hates ‘em. honestly, it’s a trait of Jack’s that I’m so in love with: he cannot abide a bully, and he is the sort of person who would stand up to one, too – and he does, in a beautiful example from TPOF where he defends a slave boy, Chamba, against the violence of his master ( this is literally one of my favourite passages from the entire novel ):

Hearing what appeared to be the slave’s denial, Blount finally showed some emotion. His pinched features tightened with rage, then he drew back his arm and backhanded the lad across the face, hard enough to drive him to his knees. As the young slave cowered on the ground, both hands raised to shield his head from more blows, Jack’s hands tightened into fists. Stepping forward, he grabbed the portmaster’s arm before the man could deliver another blow, turning him around so he could see the man’s face. “Just a minute, Mr. Blount,” Jack said. “What did you ask him? I don’t speak the local lingo, mate.”

        Jack had absolutely no reason to step in and defend Chamba, but he did anyway, and this is why I love him. he stands up for the underdogs and the misfits and outcasts of the world primarily because he is one. of course, this particular example brings in the slavery element but, setting that aside for a moment, on a more generalised level Jack is more sensitive to the idea of defending those who are unfairly treated because he’s been bullied, beaten and made to feel inferior by his own father ( and grandmother ) throughout his childhood. with the amount of ridicule that Jack has been forced to endure over the course of his life, he has had to develop incredibly thick skin, but it has also given him a great deal of empathy as well. along with his very pure, untainted sense of justice, I think he can’t help but step in and defend those who are unable to defend themselves. he doesn’t even think about it – it’s purely instinctual, like when he jumps in to save Elizabeth at the start of CotBP.

       now, that’s not to say that Jack is perfect – he insults people aplenty and does not hold back on his opinion, but he’s not the sort of person who would individually victimise someone unless they’d done something serious to him first.

       also, it should be said that after this passage, Chamba escaped his master and tried to stowaway aboard Jack’s ship, and while Jack literally had to ask himself, ‘Why do these kind of things always happen to me?” he did take the boy in and let him serve as a cabin boy on board the Wicked Wench ( he also hid him from his master when he came to search the ship for a runaway slave ), and their relationship is actually my favourite in the whole of TPOF tbh.

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Hey there! I am not sure if this was asked before but was there a time that Jack wanted to disappear for awhile just to think or something? (Like he doesnt want people to find him or to bother him with things)

        oh yeah, definitely. Jack is a very extroverted individual but he’s simultaneously outgoing and a loner, so there are times when he wants to be on his own and not disturbed ( I think the fact that in DMC we see him on his own in his cabin pouring over his charts at the very start of the movie says a lot tbh ). plus it’s also one of his go-to coping mechanisms to push people away and isolate himself, which we see in AWE but I think is most obviously shown in TPOF after he finds out from Beckett that he has no legal choice but to transport slaves across the Atlantic to Lord Penwallow:

Jack spent the next four days trying to crawl into a bottle of rum. He was so surly that even Robby stopped talking to him, but the first mate refused to leave him alone, either. Thanks to Robby, Jack usually passed out in his own cabin each night, rather than on the streets of Calabar.

Each day, when the teams of carpenters came aboard his ship, Jack left before they could walk up the gangplank.

        obviously this is an extreme example because of just how aware Jack is that his hands are tied in this situation and he can’t do anything about those slaves without sacrificing everything he’d spent five years trying to achieve, but the principle is the same. on the whole, Jack isn’t very good at taking care of his own wellbeing, so when he does try to get away or escape from a situation for a while to clear his head, he tends to do so rather self-destructively, either by turning to alcohol or emotionally shutting down on people.