meme 001 ✽ the pirate au meme

[ditz]

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH - okay, who finished the rum?
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ღ Meme originally from amuse_box but I did add #13 for a wild card. 
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1. Boarded: Your ship has been boarded, and as captain you've been captured! Better hope the other captain gives quarter. Alternatively, it's a nice warm day for a swim. That plank was made for walking.

2. Victory: You've captured another ship! You knew those extra cannons would come in handy. And let's hope they've got lots of swag! Where's the captain? Are you the decent sort, or are you going to rub their face in it for a bit?

3. Swab the decks: You're a cabin boy! It's a good thing you don't mind doing all the dirty work, right? Anyway, the captain's calling; better see what they want.

4. Marooned: For a bit there you'd thought you were in Davy's Jones' grip, but somehow you've washed ashore with the driftwood. As you stare dazedly up from the surf, you have questions. Where are you? And who's that already on the shore?

5. Buried Treasure: Sink me! You've really found the mother lode. . . but you're not the only one. Who gets to take the treasure back to their ship? Better make sure it's you.

6. Rum: Rum, everywhere.

7. Swordfight: It's that person you can't stand! And they've taken your most valuable possession, that one of a kind thing you just can't live without! Better get that trinket back before it and your nemesis are gone over the side forever. Let's hear some swashes buckling.

8. Mutiny: The tack is full of maggots and this drinking water may as well have come from the gutter. There's one person to blame for this, and you're here to make especially sure that they pay for it. The captain does always seem to take the best treasure before everybody else.

9. Kidnapping: Don't they look rather peaceful, innocent even, sleeping so soundly there with their fancy nightclothes and pillows. Brings a tear to your eye, it does. Better take them aboard and send for a ransom.

10. Take a Gamble: Gotta spend your loot somehow, but it must have been the rum that had you bettin' everything at once! You've lost to your hornswagglin' shipmate; what did you lose, and what will they make you do now?

11. Under the Sea: You are now a Mermaid/Merman! That sailor over there sure looks appealing; let's see if you can lure them in with your charms. Don't forget that they can't breathe under water! You do seem to always forget, don't you. . .

12. The Doldrums: Can you say cabin fever? The sails haven't moved in weeks. You're about seeing if your mates can relieve this awful boredom.

13. Wild card. What do. Your choice. It doesn't even have to be here - wait why am I even explaining this to you YOU KNOW HOW THIS WORKS.

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[promisekept]

[Cloud stares at the bucket for a full few seconds, torn between acknowledging it and not. At last, he decides to say something, even though there's clearly no need for manners in this situation:] Thanks.

[But he still won't let himself be sick. He may not be the strongest or smartest or the most successful of the guards, but he's one of the most stubborn.

Of the three things she mentions, he's probably a fool, if those are his only options. Is this where he's supposed to beg for his life? Isn't that what pirates make you do? In stories anyway. Of course he doesn't want to die, he's afraid of dying, but he doesn't want to beg, either, especially if it's not going to do any good. He might be afraid, his heart beating fast and strong, but he realizes he's angry, too, at the unfairness and absurdity of it.]

Don't think it'll help. You're a pirate. But it's wrong. That's why you shouldn't. [Even he doesn't quite know where this moral courage comes from, and he can hear his voice shake as he says it, but he says it all the same.]

I was trying to help somebody. That's all. [Story of his life, always trying to help against his better judgment and having it go wrong. It sounds like a pathetic excuse, even to him--help someone by dressing up in a girls' nightgown? At least he has regular men's underclothes on under it, but that's hardly the point right now.] I'm not gonna cause you a problem.

[Really, he doesn't approve of piracy, but what danger could he possibly hold for a ship full of cutthroats? Not much, on a good day, and this was a very, very bad day.]

[fogofwar]

[She appreciates the manners. They're important on her ship because she believes they're a sign of control and awareness. Being thanked by a prisoner is new though and he earns points for that. He earns points for not lying as well, because no one lies that badly. As arguments for living go, he could have done better but again, she can appreciate that at least he's being honest. She'd have had a hard time believing him if he'd claimed he could ransom himself, though that was more due to his lack of aristocratic airs than the lacy nighty. She'd seen aristocrats in stranger outfits.]

Sounds like you were a fool then. [No sense in blunting the assessment.] And I'd guess it was for a pretty girl. You wouldn't be the first. [Men did all kinds of stupid things to end up in a pretty girl's bed, something Lin had never understood even if she understood its apparent power.] But you're right. Killing you pointlessly would be wrong. So until I find a point, looks like we're stuck. [her eyes traveled very thoroughly up and down the entire course of him, pointedly taking in the lace before she stood up.] And since I'm not the type of corsair to ravish my captives, no matter how enticingly frilly they're dressed - you any good with any ship's work?