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.

Comments

[truthsnomiracle]

Anyway, I've since reconsidered my ways. Pirates deserve fair trials and sentences like anyone else; I realize that now.

[yatagarasu]

...

I can't take you prisoner...you helped me years ago.

[truthsnomiracle]

Then what do you intend to do now?

[yatagarasu]

...I could tell the crew I'm traveling with that I wasn't able to find you?

[truthsnomiracle]

Would they be satisfied by this answer?

[yatagarasu]

[She frowns in thought.]

I dunno...but I owed you one, so consider this payback.

I could always try to find a map to some hidden treasure or something to take their mind off it.

[truthsnomiracle]

Hm. So long as "or something" likewise falls under salvage rather than robbery, I suppose that I have no reason to object.

[yatagarasu]

O-Of course it does! We may be pirates, but we wouldn't rob another ship!

[truthsnomiracle]

(That remains to be seen, but I suppose given the events both then and now, there isn't sufficient cause to deny her the benefit of the doubt.)

Then provided you're as good as your word, I won't press charges for this incident.

[yatagarasu]

[Sure, let the pirate who initially had plans for revenge and kidnapping go free.]

C'mon, you can trust me! I'm sure there's an unexplored island out there, or maybe a cave full of gold...

[truthsnomiracle]

You're loitering.

[AKA "go before I change my mind".]

[yatagarasu]

You sure you don't wanna come? You could color your hair or wear a hat so they don't recognize you...

...Or, I could find my own ship, and we'll be our own crew!

[truthsnomiracle]

Wh-what makes you think that I would have any interest in pursuing such a life?!

[yatagarasu]

You look like the kind of guy who needs a little excitement in his life.

[truthsnomiracle]

Rest assured that I already have more than my share of it.

[yatagarasu]

Oh, really?

...Then maybe I should be the one considering a career change! But I still have to find that ship...

[truthsnomiracle]

(Is she serious? The opportunity to reform a pirate is rare indeed...)

It's a more intellectual sort of adventure than you'd be used to most of the time, but if the truth is the treasure you seek, few careers compare.

[yatagarasu]

I do want to find the truth! The truth behind what happened to my dad and the ship!

...but to do that, I'd still have to be a pirate.

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth sighs and crosses his arms.] (Perhaps I allowed my hopes to rise too easily.)

Why would that particular occupation be necessary to finding that particular truth?