get thee behind me
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mimesereAm taken with the strange urge to write fic in which Norrington's older brother and assorted female relatives descend upon Port Royal and he is both exasperated and fond. Because he is a romantic, and ridiculously honorable, and he likes Elizabeth's sassiness and is all sassy himself. So, in my mind, this of course means that there is an absurdly close and sharp and sassy family lurking in Norrington's closet.
It's kind of sad. I mean, not in the way where the fic in my head is sad, 'cause it's uh. Silly domestic comedy, really. But sad in that way where it is silly domestic comedy involving matchmaking mamas and perhaps a sister who is taken with Will, and another sister who is taken with Captain Jack, and the youngest sister who loves and adores her older, dashing Commodore of a brother and is all sad that he doesn't come visit them in England more often.
And there are lots of times when they all go to tea with Elizabeth and Will. And the Will-happy sister is all shy and smitten and keeps dropping things on him, and it makes Elizabeth hide smiles at his discomfort and bonds with the pro-James sister and maybe she is kind of wistful because he has a *nice* family (nice being a word I use to mean "witty and bitingly sarcastic and very proper, but also affectionate in a funny way). And Norrington and his older brother (the heir, because you have two or three brothers. The Heir, the Officer, and the Cleric.) are all, "dude, come visit some time." and "No, no, I have no time. Pirates to catch, you know." and then the Heir is all, "Yes, and you've caught them all." and Norrington is all, "Nope. There's still one out there." and the Heir is all, "haha! The infamous Captain Jack Sparrow, eh?" and then they play with shiny pointy sword type things a lot.
And then Jack shows up. Wackiness ensues.
shut up, I like cliches.
And if being an admiral means giving up sailing, I'm not sure Norrington would go for it. 'cause check it: for all that Will is the one who spends the most time with Jack, I don't think that he's the right parallel character. I mean, he's definitely a foil, but he's not...hm. He lies to Jack and doesn't do right by him (not really, I suspect little flutterings of guilt are the primary motivator behind the Swashbuckly Rescue at the end), at least by the standards that Jack would consider doing right. Plus, he kind of has not found himself yet, though he does by the end, and his self seems to be hopelessly out of date by like, a century. Ah well.
*Norrington*, on the other hand, is a fantastic parallel character to Jack. I mean, with the keeping of their word, and Norrington does right by Elizabeth in a huge, major way, and you can tell that he feels absolutely awful about hanging Jack but it's his duty and that's what he *is*. Norrington knows who he is and why he does everything. Just like Jack's motivation is always Get The Pearl Back, Norrington's primary motivator is his devotion to what he perceives to be right. And just like Jack can be detoured into things that are not All About the Pearl (i.e. saving Elizabeth), so too can Norrington detour into acts of less than legality (i.e., "I think we can afford to give him a day's head start.").
Plus, any two characters at extremes like Jack and Norrington automatically default into Compare And Contrast Right Now! Alert! because I really do engage my analytical brain on the lowest possible setting.
anyway. late night ramblings from a tired brain.
keytwirling!
It's kind of sad. I mean, not in the way where the fic in my head is sad, 'cause it's uh. Silly domestic comedy, really. But sad in that way where it is silly domestic comedy involving matchmaking mamas and perhaps a sister who is taken with Will, and another sister who is taken with Captain Jack, and the youngest sister who loves and adores her older, dashing Commodore of a brother and is all sad that he doesn't come visit them in England more often.
And there are lots of times when they all go to tea with Elizabeth and Will. And the Will-happy sister is all shy and smitten and keeps dropping things on him, and it makes Elizabeth hide smiles at his discomfort and bonds with the pro-James sister and maybe she is kind of wistful because he has a *nice* family (nice being a word I use to mean "witty and bitingly sarcastic and very proper, but also affectionate in a funny way). And Norrington and his older brother (the heir, because you have two or three brothers. The Heir, the Officer, and the Cleric.) are all, "dude, come visit some time." and "No, no, I have no time. Pirates to catch, you know." and then the Heir is all, "Yes, and you've caught them all." and Norrington is all, "Nope. There's still one out there." and the Heir is all, "haha! The infamous Captain Jack Sparrow, eh?" and then they play with shiny pointy sword type things a lot.
And then Jack shows up. Wackiness ensues.
shut up, I like cliches.
And if being an admiral means giving up sailing, I'm not sure Norrington would go for it. 'cause check it: for all that Will is the one who spends the most time with Jack, I don't think that he's the right parallel character. I mean, he's definitely a foil, but he's not...hm. He lies to Jack and doesn't do right by him (not really, I suspect little flutterings of guilt are the primary motivator behind the Swashbuckly Rescue at the end), at least by the standards that Jack would consider doing right. Plus, he kind of has not found himself yet, though he does by the end, and his self seems to be hopelessly out of date by like, a century. Ah well.
*Norrington*, on the other hand, is a fantastic parallel character to Jack. I mean, with the keeping of their word, and Norrington does right by Elizabeth in a huge, major way, and you can tell that he feels absolutely awful about hanging Jack but it's his duty and that's what he *is*. Norrington knows who he is and why he does everything. Just like Jack's motivation is always Get The Pearl Back, Norrington's primary motivator is his devotion to what he perceives to be right. And just like Jack can be detoured into things that are not All About the Pearl (i.e. saving Elizabeth), so too can Norrington detour into acts of less than legality (i.e., "I think we can afford to give him a day's head start.").
Plus, any two characters at extremes like Jack and Norrington automatically default into Compare And Contrast Right Now! Alert! because I really do engage my analytical brain on the lowest possible setting.
anyway. late night ramblings from a tired brain.
keytwirling!
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Date: 2003-10-30 01:07 am (UTC)2) I love when you make posts about things where I go 'yes! exactly what I was thinking!'... only obviously I wasn't, or at least didn't know that I was, because otherwise I would have posted it already, but. Anyway. Your thoughts are shiny and right and good and make me smile.
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Date: 2003-10-30 06:34 pm (UTC)2) Your Norrington love makes *me* smile quite a lot. So, yay! smiles all 'round, yeah?
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Date: 2003-10-30 04:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-10-30 06:28 pm (UTC)And yes to what you've said. It's very much an opposites attracting vibe, as well as a snarking one. The snark is very important.
randomly, I love that Norrington spends a good deal of the movie looking like he wants to smack the crap out of everyone around him for being a blockhead. It makes me chortle.
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Date: 2003-10-30 06:35 am (UTC)And so you're not writing this keen sounding tale because why?
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Date: 2003-10-30 06:26 pm (UTC)And uh...'cause...um. I'm busy? It's a silly little cliche of a fic?
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Date: 2003-10-30 07:37 pm (UTC)But, Norrington! The way he rounds on Will before they set off to rescue Elizabeth. "You are not the only one"
The way he refuses to be bribed until it's just too much.
The way he so wonderfully gives up Elizabeth to Will.
But most of all how he gives Jack a day's head start.
{{Norrington}}
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Date: 2003-10-30 11:14 pm (UTC)"By remembering that I serve others and not only myself." aaaah! I die. Die! because oh, with the pretty and the determined and the mmm.
*further contemplates norrington/jack fic*
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Date: 2003-10-30 09:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-10-30 06:22 pm (UTC)I just...why my Norrington love is growing like, exponentially, I do not know. But it is. And really, I look at Will and go, "Oh honey, you're a nice boy." And then I think that he'd not be able to stand up to Jack, let alone Elizabeth, and then I want Jack and Norrington to run off for kisstag.
or, barring that, I want everyone to be sassy and kissy. because I like that. yep.
*mwah*
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Date: 2003-10-31 04:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-10-31 04:12 pm (UTC)I pimp because I love.