And that's why all the funner Norrington ideas have to be AUs or crossovers, because it's hard to keep him in the Pirates universe and yet in-character with the better stuff, ya know?
...you could always write the Norrington who became a bold lonely man of the sea in Hong Kong. You could.
I am trying to think of five ways he became a pirate and utterly failing. Apparently, I am *totally okay* with time traveling hijinks and his having random sex with comic book characters, but making him a pirate makes my brain break.
compromise and make him a privateer? it's just like piracy, except he'd only be allowed to take prizes other than English merchant ships? I'm sure England was still at war with either France or Spain in The Year of Our Mouse 17mumblemumble.
Or there could be a wacky case of mistaken identity involving his look-alike cousin Nigel from Virginia?
he could have got drummed out of the navy as a midshipman, took a gig on a merchant ship what got attacked by pirates, and he could have been press ganged into joining their crew and got elected captain?
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Date: 2006-09-04 04:55 am (UTC)...you could always write the Norrington who became a bold lonely man of the sea in Hong Kong. You could.
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Date: 2006-09-04 05:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-04 05:22 am (UTC)Or there could be a wacky case of mistaken identity involving his look-alike cousin Nigel from Virginia?
Or ninjas.
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Date: 2006-09-04 05:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-09-04 05:36 am (UTC)(I'm still pulling for the ninjas)