#captain opera beard and the bumbling brigands of toilet water bay

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Captain Opera Beard testing the waters in a new port in his "living" form.

It didn't go very well.

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Not exactly an AU, but lately I've been thinking a lot about Phantom's "Captain Opera-Beard and the Bumbling Brigands of Toilet Water Bay" and how it would play.

I have some ideas •̀ ω •́

If you could Create an AU for Sparks of Hope, What would you put?

I don't know, that's usually the department of my mutuals @hostess-of-horror, @randomrabbidramblings and @pastelprince18(@altermentality too but she's not online as much these days)

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What would The Spark Hunters do if they were in Captain Opera-Beard and the Bumbling Brigands of Toilet Water Bay? Would they be pirates? or sea creatures?

(I'm talking about Midnite, Bedrock, Daphne and Kanya here)

They're still going after the Sparks, but not under Cursa's control. They think Sparks will make them the most powerful bandits of the seas, so they teamed up to go search for them together. The probelm is: without a guide each one of them calls herself "Captain" and tries to make the others follow her orders, eventually failing. Kanya is supposedly the most inclined to be the leader, but she always goes ahead of the others and leaves them behind.

No to mention, the only thing they ever managed to steal was this tiny lifeboat from a merchant ship (maybe Orion's, I still don't know where to fit him in this).

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you said in your captain opera-beard post that he avoids close contact so he doesnt give away his secret... but what about this? 😳

Glad that someone noticed the incongruence!

Somehow Opera beard's secret had to come out. And this is exactly what's happening here.

The cursed captain's heart is sought after by a lot of seafarers, as finding such legendary item would give them a "legendary" status too. And Woodrow's crewmates aren't the exception! Since they noticed Opera Beard had a fondness for the poor poet when he was first caught and wasn't harmed in any way, they thought he could be the perfect mole to scout out where the heart is. And thus they let Opera Beard capture him again.

Here Opera Beard just snatched up the poor Woodrow and is taunting the poet's ship by showing him off. A bit too enthusiastically as Woodrow's in the perfect position to hear the Captain's heart. He's not making that face just because an handsome rugged pirate is holding him in a chokehold!

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"He's not making that face just because an handsome rugged pirate is holding him in a chokehold!"

is. is phandrow in this au 👀

Yes.

As well as some PhantomxPeach (not really reciprocated on Peach's part though, lmao).

Then there's implied past PhantomxDahlia (@hostess-of-horror's Rabbid-bat OC, in this she's one of the victims of Phantom's lies about his heart) and maybe some light PhantomxAlabaster (still haven't thought about this).

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Phantom's "Captain Opera-Beard and the Bumbling Brigands of Toilet Water Bay"

[Opera Beard's design is bound to change, I'm still not sure about his coat and especially his hat]

I've thought about this for a couple of weeks now and it's time to share some things I thought of! There's no real plot and I don't know if I will ever evolve it further than this, but I hope you enjoy it! (if you don't, it's Phantom's fault he wrote it lol)

Opera Beard is said to have lost his heart after some kind of love story and that's why he's seemingly invincible. Voices say to defeat him, you have to put his heart back, so he can become vulnerable again. However, he holds a secret...

Opera Beard isn't properly "dead". He was cursed by one of his past lovers to be a ghost before he lost the heart.

The Pirates under Opera Beard's command aren't cursed. They were some of his old theater crew that stuck with him. Hovever, even if they were around since the beginning of their piracy era and witnessed him getting cursed to his spectral form, even they don't know what happened to the Captain's heart.

Speaking of the heart, it's not really clear what happened to it. Some stories say he lost it because one of his lovers was a witch and she stole it, some others say he purposefully threw it away because of a terrible breakup and some even say it whithered away for the overuse. Without his heart the Captain is said to be invulnerable, so it needs to be put back to defeat him.

One of the Captain's goals is to find a soulmate. He spent his life witnessing all of his lovers drift away from him, be it his fault or the lovers'. He always justifies himself saying he has too much love to give and all of his past flings were too overwhelmed by his affection.

Opera Beard can take a smaller form and manfest legs to disguise himself as a living being, but only during the day. He's still very recognizable though, so to prove he's not the cursed pirate, he can mimic a heartbeat. It's in this form that he will go around on land in search of his soulmate.

In his usual specral form he's interestingly very wary of personal space, however in his "living" disguise he's pretty tactile and physically affectionate. He justifies it as not liking his spectral form and not wanting anyone feel how cold he is.

The Pirates's way to attack other ships is tostalk them in rocky or foggy places, often in the night when the other ship is busy manouvering or finding their way. You know they're right behind you when your sailors stop singing but the song doesn't.

The Pirates are attracted to music even when they're not stalking anyone. It's one of the Captain's only weaknesses.

The Pirates kidnapped Princess Peach of the near Kingdom once. The Captain thought the lady whose pure heart was known around the world, would be the perfect soulmate. What he didn't think was that she had a whole army ready to fight him including a seemingly worthless sailor who was able to kick his ass. Opera Beard wrote a loooong song about this sailor drowining as "revenge".

And lastly the Captain's secret: his heart was never lost. He made up the whole thing as to give himself more of a "cursed pirate" look and to deter people to try and defeat him just after he was cursed with his specral form. His insistence on personal space is an excuse to not let anyone hear his heartbeat while he's a ghost and his "fake heartbeat" of his living disguise it's his actual heartbeat.

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Captain Opera-Beard and his lovely pal~💜🩵💙

I just love how you put Phantom and woodrow here

Poor Woodrow is getting grabbed by him he wants to keep him all for himself

(BTW i need to know what Woodrow would do in Captain Opera-Beard and the Bumbling Brigands of Toilet Water Bay, just askin)

Aww thank you! Opera Beard loves to show off his kidnapped prisoners to taunt their allies, lol.

Woodrow has quite the unfortunate beginning to the story as he somehow ended up on a ship with a crew that despises his poems. As everyone else who isn't his crew, Woodrow is terrified of Opera Beard and he wrote various poems on him, eventually leading to the pirate attacking the poet's ship. However, Opera Beard attacking them isn't due to the bad luck from the poem, but because the pirate heard his name in (what he thinks is) a beautiful poem. Is because of this that Opera Beard first kidnaps him and later Woodrow's crew find out that the pirate really likes him and "accidentally" serves him to the pirate with the mission to find out where the legendary heart is.

I still have to think more about how some other things will play out, this is what I'm sure will be the gist of it.

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Have any plans for "Captain Opera-Beard and the Bumbling Brigands of Toilet Water Bay" I'd like to hear them!

It's all in the process of being written! I hope for sometime next week I can finish it.

Lil' tease for the moment •̀ ω •́