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Koby ([personal profile] kobes) wrote2024-06-09 04:14 pm

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calicoat: (i'll lend an ear ya cunt)

[personal profile] calicoat 2024-08-29 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
That isn't mine, but I wasn't brought here to deny you your truth.

An innkeeper. Not a captain. This was on dry land.

I don't regret a single minute.
calicoat: (i'm a pretty boy i'm stunnin)

cw, SA and DV

[personal profile] calicoat 2024-08-29 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
We were at the end of our shore leave, posted up at this inn for a few days before sailing out. We were to be running soldiers to the new world, simple ferrying business. The ship was rather aptly named the Carcass.

I didn't kill the man for kicks. I killed him because the walls were thin, and every night we were there, we could hear him beating on his young - very young - wife. Breaking things, forcing her. Nobody else was going to do a damn thing about it, so when I heard it continue for a third straight night, I slit his throat. We hid the body, and when it was through, she had no place to go, so she came with me. A stow away. Couldn't keep that charade up long-term, so we had to escape to the Caribbean straight away, rather than bide our time.

That's what the navy is, piglet. They don't care about injustice for me or for you or for anyone else but those who already have power and influence. There was nothing we could do for her, it was so very important that we transport these soldiers to subjugate the natives, right away.

As a pirate, insults are answered, and problems are seen to. It's harsh, but so is the rest of the world. We're just refusing to play make-believe. I'd rather live like that than smile politely under someone's heel.

Introspective enough for you?
Edited 2024-08-29 14:35 (UTC)
calicoat: (i'm in the fast lane)

[personal profile] calicoat 2024-08-29 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Stowed her away on the Carcass, and when we got to Savannah, we deserted. We cut her hair, I passed her off as my kid brother for a while and taught her how to defend herself. It sounds laughable, since she’s surpassed me in strength several times over by now. In my estimation, Anne is the fiercest pirate in Nassau, better than any five men put together. We've been partners ever since.

Until the last place sent her back, at least.

I won't pretend that the profession doesn't attract its share of brutes. But at least they're disgusting because that's what they are, and not because they've got a boss breathing down their neck to keep them from making waves. It's more honest.
calicoat: (i'm not crying you're crying)

cannibalism, the plot of AMC's the terror??? sorry.

[personal profile] calicoat 2024-08-29 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
That’s right. We arrived together, but she departed before I did.

There are honest, noble men in the Navy. They become warped by their circumstances. Or they maintain that goodness and pay the price for it.

I knew a man
[ loved a man, settled down for a man, killed for a man, died for a man ] in that place who had been a lieutenant in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy. He was a good man. More loyal and true than anyone you’ve ever met, and a damn good navigator, too. But soft spoken, and from modest means. Passed up for promotion endlessly. Sent on a suicide mission to the Arctic to find a new trade route that might make a few rich men more money and faster. They got trapped in the ice for years, as supplies dwindled. Ravaged by scurvy and lead poisoning from cheaply soldered tins, waiting for help that never came because the Navy deemed it less expensive to simply cut their losses. When things got desperate, the bad men ate the good ones, but it didn’t buy them much time. Two entire ships full of men, dead on the ice because the ones in charge, thousands of miles away, deemed it so.

If the building has been rotted out, it doesn’t matter if there are a few good planks left in it. It’s still got to be torn down. And there's the difference. "Pirates" are not an organization, there is no power structure enforcing everyone's misery. We elect our captains, we are free to leave without the threat of prison, and we stay in the sun, for God's sake.
calicoat: (just a peek)

[personal profile] calicoat 2024-08-30 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Lovers. Partners, in everything.

[ He's not ashamed of that one bit, despite the best efforts from pirates and navy men alike. And if koby hasn't gathered, he loves to talk about himself. Ask away. ]

You weren't crew, then. A slave?

You can't. Many many men have tried, who were stronger, wiser, better connected, and luckier than you. You can't, my partner couldn't, nobody can. It's the nature of these things. Centralized power doesn't stay well-intentioned for long.
calicoat: (keep to the shadows)

[personal profile] calicoat 2024-08-30 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
How long has it been since I was brought here from Duplicity, a couple weeks? I'd say we're still in the present tense.

[ Actually let's not examine that any further okay! ]

It already is unchecked. Do you think the English navy will face any consequences for leaving John and 128 other men to die? Do you think the Balfours will be punished for this elaborate kidnapping scheme? If the pirates who mistreated you go down to your marines, it won't be for that, it'll be because someone important lost too much money to their prize hunting.
calicoat: (just like this)

[personal profile] calicoat 2024-08-30 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
If you'd like to get technical about it, the last time he sailed was with me, and he did it under the black. We built a ship and tried to escape. Didn't work.

But yes. I am not railing against them out of ignorance or taking it on faith, piglet. We were members of the same institution, over a century between us, and nothing changed.

You're young, smart, and curious. Those traits will serve you well if you don't make yourself the next victim of the powers that be.
calicoat: (licks)

[personal profile] calicoat 2024-08-31 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
I believe that's been established, yes.

You are. On both counts. I've done my research, combed through the network history. Roughly half these idiots seem to think they're on vacation, but not you.
calicoat: (listen up Chaz)

[personal profile] calicoat 2024-08-31 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Yes yes I know, make your stupid comments, I've heard every one under the sun about it.

And why didn't you take me for a researching type?
calicoat: (maybe not)

[personal profile] calicoat 2024-08-31 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Hold your sonnets for when he gets here.

[ Yes, he knows this is exceedingly unlikely. ]

Because, when you haven't the muscle to pull yourself to the top, you find power in other ways. Information is the big one.
calicoat: (no good very bad news)

[personal profile] calicoat 2024-09-01 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
3rd Lieutenant John Irving. Blue-grey eyes, like the sky before a storm. He wears a full beard. If he's taken from his original home instead of the one we shared, he'll be rail-thin.

I would be very interested. People reveal too much on these networks, but not everything. I'm sure you know more than what's been made public.
Edited 2024-09-01 00:55 (UTC)
calicoat: (no one on the deck who can help you)

[personal profile] calicoat 2024-09-01 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ Only he's allowed to! No one else! ]

I'd owe you one.

The nightclub? Just awful. The music is too damn loud, I don't see how you could hear a thing.
calicoat: (now tell me what is over yonder)

[personal profile] calicoat 2024-09-02 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
The last place had a lot of those kinds of establishments. I never warmed up to them.

The piano bar is nice.

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