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Sparrow's Nest Masterlist

Summary: But the most terrifying thing? Now that her auburn hair is pulled back into a low ponytail, Will can see the glint of dark hooped earrings, dark kohl around her eyes in a style reminiscent of Jack’s, and better make out the shining, puckered scar just below her left ear.

The skin is pulled taut over the burn, stretched and raw. It doesn’t look particularly recent, but painful nonetheless, and in any case it’s clear that Lillian has the pirate’s brand.

Word Count: 20k (ongoing)

Warnings: graphic depictions of violence, sexism, lack of hygiene, mentions of rape, death threats, chapter specific warnings noted at the beginning of each chapter

Author’s Note: Sparrow's Nest is in the works. I'm focusing on my Tolkien fanfiction at the moment, and when my head clears of that then I'll be back! In the meantime, here's the first chapter as a teaser! Read and enjoy!

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Chapter 1: Port Royal

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Aragorn: we should probably go over protocol for what happens when i die

Legolas: bold of you to assume i would ever let that happen

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Lillian Thomas

Name: Lillian Thomas (known as Lilly to her close friends, known as Captain Thomas by her crew)

Age/Date of Birth: 35, born 1694 to a noble Irish family

Gender/Pronouns/Sexual Orientation: female, she/her/hers, bisexual

Timeline: Pirates of the Caribbean

Physical Description

Lilly is a true Irish lass—she has pale skin, green eyes, and reddish brown hair. When living in Port Royal she spends the brightest parts of the day inside, so her skin remains pale. On the open ocean, however, she’s tanner and develops freckles on her face and arms. She’s neither short nor tall, and is slightly too skinny due to long working hours and few calorie-rich meals. In Port Royal she wears long, loose skirts and light-colored shirts to combat the heat. At sea and away from the expectations of society, she’s in pants, and loves every moment of it.

Personality Description

She’s loyal toward those she loves. The nickname sparrow’s nest was given to her due to the fact that she never gives up on Jack—they will always drift back to each other. She’s witty and can hold her own in a fight, be it verbally or physically. Unfortunately, life isn’t all kind and she’s slow to trust newcomers, preferring the company of familiar faces. As crew of a ship she heeds commands and performs admirably. As captain she’s stern but not unforgiving, and finds that insulting her crew to the depths of Davy Jones’ locker doesn’t exactly boost morale. She’ll leave the insults to Barbossa, preferring to call her crew by what they are: strong women.

Significant Other (if any):

She has had a longstanding romantic relationship with Jack Sparrow, but has been known to enter casual relationships with some women that crew her ship.

Family

Lord Thomas (father)

Unnamed mother

Unknown number of brothers

Ships

Wicked Wench (crew)

Black Pearl (crew)

Interceptor (crew, briefly)

Dragon's Bane (captain)

Backstory (content warning: mention of sexual assault)

Lillian’s father was a successful sailor and influential lord before the Prostetant Ascendency took control of Ireland in the 1690s. Ousted from his position on the grounds of being Catholic, her father still managed to pull some strings and get work for Lillian and her brothers on ships of the British East India Company. Her brothers were true and (mostly) honest sailors. Lilly was a low-ranking cook, but even that slight taste of life on the high seas solidified her fate. She was eventually assigned to the Wicked Wench under the young Captain Jack Sparrow, who quickly noticed her aptitude for sailing and put her in the crow’s nest as barrelman. When Jack refused to carry slaves and his ship was sunk as a result, Lilly refused to return to proper society and joined him in piracy. Lilly remained barrelman and the pair sailed free, pillaging and causing trouble with a loyal crew on the ship rechristened the Black Pearl.

A few years later the consequences of Jack’s actions caught up with him, and his former employer Cutler Beckett cornered and fired upon the Pearl and took Lilly captive for what would become nearly six months. Sitting in a damp, dingy cell, she was given the pirate’s brand on the neck and raped by Beckett and some other high officials of the BEIC. In a procedure that should have killed her, Beckett ordered her forcibly sterilized so as to prevent her and Jack from having any baby birds. It would be more painful for Jack to live with the knowledge that his bloodline would end if he stayed with Lilly than to kill her outright.

After six frantic months Jack found her, and Beckett willingly gave her up, assuming he would want nothing to do with her anymore due to her ruined body. Beckett was wrong, and Jack took her back to the Caribbean in the repaired Black Pearl. It was there, in Jack’s arms on the deck of the Pearl, that Lilly vowed to kill Beckett herself, no matter what it took.

Lilly was in Cuba, healing in the care of the witch Tia Dalma (Lilly had done her a favor before her capture and the witch was happy to repay her debt to the pirate lass) when Barbossa mutinied, and for the next five years she and Jack drifted, sometimes together and sometimes separate. Lilly eventually ended up in Port Royal, taking permanent root as the chymist’s apprentice, and for the next five years she and Will Turner would build an easy friendship based on trust, wit, and the woes of the working class.

That is, until Jack Sparrow arrives one morning and ruins everything, revealing Lilly’s pirate background and true loyalties.

Read the rest of Lillian’s story in Sparrow’s Nest!

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Character development 👌

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Hottest pirate lords 🏴‍☠️

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I love the conical ones in the top right corner! My first thought was that they were some species of ammonite (perhaps a baculite) but I'm no expert on extinct marine organisms.

A shell collection I found in a bag at a thrift store, this collection had the coral pieces I showed in another post included in it. It’s mostly shells, but there are also some rocks, a piece of wood and what I believe to be some ceramic pieces. 

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Thanks for the tag, @daughter-of-arda!

Barbossa is Hungry // Klaus Badelt (the best song on the POTC:COTBP soundtrack. I will duel anyone who claims otherwise)

Like a Dog Chasing Cars // Hans Zimmer and James Newton (from the movie The Dark Knight. Anything by Hans Zimmer is a masterpiece and this is no exception)

Petrichor // Ludovico Einaudi (another one of my depression songs. daughter-of-arda and I are two accounts under the same person so I share my music tastes with myself. Unless of course I am the Tolkien account and the pirate account is another version of me, in which case I am taking inspiration from a different version of myself. Savvy?)

And one more because I feel the need to include a song with words:

I Will Survive // Gloria Gaynor (another song to hype me up in the morning)

If it's not obvious by now, my music taste is mostly soundtracks, and mostly unpredictable.

Tagging @evelynnreynolds, my only follower besides my Tolkien account. I wouldn't presume to tag any non-followers. There is a code to follow, after all, even if they be more like guidelines.

Starting a new post for this because I can!! Thank you so much for the tag @purplevatican!! Music tags are absolutely my favorite!!!

🎶 new tag game put your 3 favorite songs at the moment and tag 5 people 🎶

Let’s Kill Tonight // Panic! At The Disco

The Devil’s Bleeding Crown // Volbeat

All the King’s Men // The Rigs

Non-obligatory tags for @stardryad-random @dimdiamond @mysandwichranaway @king-thranduil @reshirement and @i-did-not-mean-to

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Salt and sweat

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