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Ocean's Heart

Ocean's Heart -- a wip intro

↳ "I will see you again," she decides, because mortals as a species change so much in little time and she is curious about this one.

Placeholder Title: Ocean’s Heart

Genre -> Greek Myth Retelling

POV -> Third Person Limited, Potential Multiple POV

Themes -> Love (ruins or conquers), Trust, Divinity, Duty and Devotion, Life and Death, Corruption, Betrayal, Sacrifice, Estrangement, Isolation, Cruelty.

Status -> Outlining/First Draft

Blurb -> A goddess looking for entertainment in a mortal she finds interesting, a sailor seeking time with a goddess whose smile he can’t get out of his head. A love that sneaks up on them both and casts their hearts where they cannot reach.

Tags to follow -> wip ocean’s heart, wip oceans heart

More info under cut. This ended up being longer than I thought and I don’t want to clog up anyone’s dash.

Synopsis vers 1:

Calypso exists freely. She does what she wishes, fulfilling her whims as they come. Mortals try to give her homage and she rejects it. She has little need for a temple on land, little need for statues made poorly in her visage, little need for burnt rejection cast to fire in her name. She is a sea goddess and all who dare embark in her domain are under her rule. That means she is free to rise in her nastier form, Kraken, and take whomever she pleases. No one ever lives to tell the tale.

Then comes Davy Jones.

He is amusing in a way she has never found a mortal to be before. It is fashion for gods to take playthings to amuse themselves with as time passes and Calypso has never seen the point. Mortals are all too fleeting. How could they be worth her attention for longer than a moment?

Davy Jones is, she thinks, worth it. He’s interesting at least and that alone is a feat. It’s difficult for a god to earn that, but a mortal? That was unheard of. This one seems full of impossibilities and she is intrigued. If any mortal is worth her while, it is this one.

And if she is truly taking a mortal, he will be more than a bedmate or means of amusement. She will make him to be more. Davy Jones is just another sailor, his only moment of note written by circumstance. When she is done with him, his name will be whispered as hers is. She will make him earn enough starlight to make a constellation in his image.

If she is taking a mortal, it will be one that will be remembered.

Synopsis vers 2:

Davy Jones is an ordinary sailor. There is nothing differentiating him from his fellow crew, no divinity in his veins or blessings laid on his skin. He is utterly unremarkable. Then, inevitably, the Kraken rises to swallow his ship and all of his fellow sailors. It is a hazard to all who cross the sea.

Except he does not die, is not consumed by the great beast that skulks around the ocean floor biding time until the next vessel passes over its head. He lives.

He wakes to a woman hovering over him. She is unfathomably beautiful. She laughs at his misfortune and something draws him closer. Her eyes glint when she asks him what her name is. It is Calypso, sea patron of ruin. That should turn him away — what good is there in making nice with a goddess of consumption? — but it does not.

Something bids him closer. She converses with him and makes him forget the tragedy of the blood soaked water around them. He makes her laugh and it sparks something fierce in his chest. He wants to see her again.

He’s never sworn himself to one patron before, has not seen the point in slighting half a dozen gods just to make one a little more happy, has seen no point in devoting himself to one aspect of the sea when he loves the whole of it with all of his heart. But, if this one — Calypso — if she was to ask, he does not think he would refuse.

He does not think he would refuse her anything. But what would a goddess ask for or want with a mortal? He had nothing, was nothing, but he would give whatever she asked if it meant he could drown in the strength of her presence again.

He learns that Calypso is a demanding goddess with high expectations. He wishes to please her anyway.

Extra Note -> This may (I am 1000% a pantser, outlining is a very gentle way of putting it) end up as a dual-series thing, one from each of their POVs, hence the double synopsis.

Author Note -> I will eventually make some character intros too. All info here is softly put, aka not in stone. I kind of guessed the themes. I am 100% willing to have you guys drop by to talk and/or ask questions about this. I am big excite for this and I will talk your ears off if you ask. Updates may be sporadic, but that’s a given with me.

To Be Tagged -> I’ll make a separate post where I’ll put all of my tag lists that I'll keep updated as people come/go. Just ask me in a comment/reblog/in the tags/in an ask and you’ll be added!

#wip intro #wip introduction #wip #writeblr #greek mythology #greek myth retellings #wip ocean’s heart #wip oceans heart #my wip #hope some of you are excited for this #because i am #also i STRUGGLED with the themes #feel like im missing something but. i tried to give off vibes.

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