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Posted: Jul 18th, 2006 at 07:01 pm
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Character name: Jack Sparrow
Country of origin: Unknown
Country of loyalty: n/a
Rank and standing: Captain of the black pearl(though currently suffering a slight case of death.)
Common items: Jack's personal affects include: His tricorne, pistol, sword, coat, and his magic compass. This compass does not point north, rather, it points to whatever a person most desires. However, it would seem his hat is particularly special to him, as he is often not seen without it. When ordering to leave it at one point his crew stands motionless and mute.
Specialty: Jack is an especially witty, charming and charismatic (or so he'd claim) individual, especially in comparison to the company he keeps, ie the vast majority of pirates. Jack believes himself to be an excellent ladies' man explaining that he has an "intuitive sense of the female creature." He is also none too lax a duelist, having a lifetime of swordplay knowledge to draw from
Ship: The black pearl
Breif backstory:
Knowing the life and times of Captain Jack Sparrow is much like looking into the face of a shattered mirror, although one can attempt to peice the shards togather, the actual view may never well be able to be seen. What is known is a plethora of heresay and rumor, His early life cannot be well established, though there are rumors that he was born into a poor, but honest family, and was involved in piracy in his early teens. It is beleived in this time that he was either brought into a family buisness of, or at least schooled in Cartography, and that his inexorable sense of and about the seas was enhanced by this education, which allowed him to find several lost treasures. It was after this education that he may have been involved with both pirating figures "Black Bart" Bartholomew Roberts and Henry Morgan, having served as crewman on both of their ships at some point, and having gleaned knowledge and experiance in the pirating life while under their command.
Reguardless, the only creditable account of Captain Jack Sparrow thereafter is his work with the East India Trading Company, in which he performed various odd jobs for Culter Beckett. However he refused to be part of the slave trade and was branded as a pirate subsequently, his ship sunken as well. He petitioned Davy Jones to raise his ship and allow him captaincy for 13 years in exchange for crewmanship for a century on the Flying Dutchman. Jones raised the ship from the seas, with his extensive knowledge he threw his lot in with pirates fully, commanding the Black Pearl, he disappeared from under the noses of seven or so agents of the EITC and began a pirating career some have said rivals the legends of his two mentors. Highlights of this were his escapades not only in the carribbean, in which he sacked Nassau Port without firing a shot, but also, on a broader range, his misadventures in the Far East, which, though he will not mention particularly why, have him wanted by the Japanese Government for high crimes against the imperial family.
The most well documented time of the life of Captain Jack Sprarrow was his fated attempt at the treasure of the dreaded Isla De Muerta, wherein his mutinious first mate, Hector Barbossa, 180'ed the captain and left him marooned on an island, wherein Jack waited to kill himself with his single shot pistol, or starve to death depending on the hand of fate. As fate would have it, Jack was saved by rum runners not long after and began a 10 year crusade to get back his lost vessel, his last vestige of freedom.
Said quest brought him to the shores of Port Royal, wherein he was incarcerated after a moment of altruism, saving a drowning overdressed strumpet from Davy Jones' locker. In the mean of his incarceration he met the local blacksmith apprentice, a one William Turner, who was also quite smitten with said strumpet; also, lo and behold, the prodical son of one Bill "Bootstraps" Turner, the single man aboard the Pearl who had spoken in Jack's favor against the mutinous masses headed by Barbossa. The two then escaped and were able to oust the plans of his now cursed former crewmates, only to find himself abandoned by his current crew. He found himself then facing the hangman's noose, only to again be saved by a Turner, where he regained his captaincy of the Pearl.
It was some time later when his pact with Davy Jones came due, and he was given the black mark, looking to find a way out of said debt he sent Will Turner aboard the Flying Dutchman as payment, and capsized the ship on an island of cannibal natives who wished to make Captain Jack their meal. In his final confrontation with Jones he was yet again betrayed, this time by Elizabeth Swann, and shackled to his own ship to be a meal for Davy's pet beastie, the Kraken. To this day, The whereabouts of Captain Jack Sparrow remain unknown...
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