WELCOME to The Briar
and The Rose, a series of stories based on and inspired by the Disney
films, Pirates of the Carribean.
When complete, it will be a full set of thirteen chapters, with a prologue and an epilogue, and will take place over the thirteen years preceding the events of Curse of The Black Pearl.
Captain Hector Barbossa, when we meet him in Curse of The Black Pearl, is a haunted man - a hedonist and villain who once drank deeply of life and let nothing stand between him and what he desired - who finds himself cursed. Unable to feel anything - to taste, to smell, to touch - he is consumed by desire for the sensuous world he once reveled in.
A vividly portrayed character who intrigues, frightens and impresses, there is little that is revealed of him in the film. He is a roughened man of the sea - commentary on the film reveals he was educated, had a sword on his belt from age 13, is a formidable swordsman (better than Jack Sparrow even), that he is a dandy with his clothes and sailed for ten years with 'The Pirate King', Morgan. In a time where a pirate crew was a democracy, he all too clearly leads his crew and they are afraid of him. He is described as 'so evil that Hell itself spat him back out'. Yet he relishes all pleasure - the simple, the decadent and the erotic - and yearns once again for life.
So what of him before the Curse? What sort of man was he? How did the Curse change him? Imagine, if you will, there was a whore upon Isla Tortuga whom he visited on a regular occasion and who observes him over the years as she herself matures and changes. What does she learn of this man and what does he reveal to her of the world?
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When complete, it will be a full set of thirteen chapters, with a prologue and an epilogue, and will take place over the thirteen years preceding the events of Curse of The Black Pearl.
Captain Hector Barbossa, when we meet him in Curse of The Black Pearl, is a haunted man - a hedonist and villain who once drank deeply of life and let nothing stand between him and what he desired - who finds himself cursed. Unable to feel anything - to taste, to smell, to touch - he is consumed by desire for the sensuous world he once reveled in.
A vividly portrayed character who intrigues, frightens and impresses, there is little that is revealed of him in the film. He is a roughened man of the sea - commentary on the film reveals he was educated, had a sword on his belt from age 13, is a formidable swordsman (better than Jack Sparrow even), that he is a dandy with his clothes and sailed for ten years with 'The Pirate King', Morgan. In a time where a pirate crew was a democracy, he all too clearly leads his crew and they are afraid of him. He is described as 'so evil that Hell itself spat him back out'. Yet he relishes all pleasure - the simple, the decadent and the erotic - and yearns once again for life.
So what of him before the Curse? What sort of man was he? How did the Curse change him? Imagine, if you will, there was a whore upon Isla Tortuga whom he visited on a regular occasion and who observes him over the years as she herself matures and changes. What does she learn of this man and what does he reveal to her of the world?
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Warnings: None. |
Rating: R Timeline: Thirteen years before Curse of the Black Pearl Warnings: Sexual references, some language, allusions to pedophilia NB: Barbossa does not appear at all in the Prologue |
Captain Barbossa makes berth at Tortuga Rating: NC17 Timeline: Two months after Prologue Warnings: Sexual references, language, reasonably explicit het sex scene |
A mysterious box is acquired and Barbossa speaks of love once known. Rating: R Timeline: 9-11 months after Chapter One Warnings: Sexual references/scenes, language |
How a whore and a pirate came to their lot Rating: R Timeline: 3 months after Chapter Two Warnings: Sexual references/scenes, murder, language |
On board Barbossa's ship, The Scarlet Siren Rating: NC17 Timeline: 6 months after Chapter Three Warnings: Sexual references/scenes, language |
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