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Ok I'm lazy and I refuse to rewrite any of this today so this is a copy-paste from my multi where I talked about it. I rewatched PoTC today and I forgot how fucking funny Calypso's explanation to Jones was as to why didn't meet up with him after ten years like my girl basically went I didn't feel like it. "Its in my nature". A'right queen and he literally never emotionally recovered from that, BUT THE POINT OF THIS is to say that yeah its explicitly stated in canon that it was ten years that Davy did the whole ferrying the souls thing but after doing much reading around ( The Wiki, lol ) and THINKING about it, I believe there is an implication that he "waited" for her to show for longer than 10 years which would make the most sense, imo.

For me its like... You pull up after 10 years for your one day together and she's not there so you're like oh this is the worst thing ever but maybe shes just doing goddess things she didn't tell me about ok this blows but we'll try again in another 10 and it just... Went on like that for a while.

Cos the whole situation has always left me with so many questions like A) Calypso couldn't you have just, idk, rescheduled or something and B) Ten years was a long time for a mortal but Davy hasn't been a mortal since he struck that "deal" so technically ten years is feeling SMALL in the grand scheme of things and it leaves me to wonder other stuff like A) Why didn't he look for her at sea and B) why couldn't an all powerful sea goddess just go to the sea and find him, y'know like neither of y'all are bound to mortal chains anymore, excluding Davy not being able to go on land for ten year periods... Like it makes a little more sense if Calypso was bound to land but that shouldn't have been the case given she didn't get trapped in a mortal form utill well after the whole ghosting Davy thing which was actually the direct result of the ghosting, so. ( Which is another part of where my head is here, there was so much deep hurt / heartbreak festering there that I feel like that had more than a single failed ten year rendezvous to build up )

SO TO MAKE A LITTLE MORE SENSE OF THAT I'm gonna say that while the initial ten years was like a huge factor in the "betrayal" it wasn't just the first ten year period. Given Calypso's a goddess and Jones, at that point , was also some functioning type of immortal It was multiple ten year periods after that. For A LONG TIME Jones would go to wherever it was he and Calypso were meant to meet again and every time she wasn't there. I'm gonna say the time was closer to 30-40ish years this went on.

Which would have been the entire remainder of Davy's mortal life-span and I THINK kind of further echoes tragic romance tropes along the lines of someone who loses a loved one at sea and spends their life waiting for them to return / visiting a place they last saw them ashore and also things like runaway bride / abandoned at the alter, etc which has always felt very true to the aesthetic here bonus the supernatural twist

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