Post by jacksparrow on Oct 13, 2011 16:47:20 GMT -8
[/font]``Captain Jack Sparrow ~
[/center]yo, mete here.
i came here from the road seldom traveled
and i joined because i'm in need of companions
i've circled the sun 22 times
about 14 of them have been spent roleplaying
i have three other characters:
eirawen rohana, the tenth doctor & xyrapheriel
rules? of course I've read the rules; here's proof: glowsticks
i came here from the road seldom traveled
and i joined because i'm in need of companions
i've circled the sun 22 times
about 14 of them have been spent roleplaying
i have three other characters:
eirawen rohana, the tenth doctor & xyrapheriel
rules? of course I've read the rules; here's proof: glowsticks
WARNING!
This profile contains information taken from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide, as well as the Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow book series by Rob Kidd. Aside from his slight tending to men, all of the information below this point is completely canon.
If you haven't read any of the aforementioned books - then prepare yourself for epic spoilers. Though, I suggest reading them because this isn't just abridged, its minimized, tossed at a shrink ray and then abridged, so you're just getting supremely bare skeletons - made of spoiler bones.
birth name~ Jack Sparrow
nicknames~ Captain. Jack. Jackie, Jacky boy, Sparrow, Smith, Smithy, Justice Smith, and other et ceteras.
age && date of birth~ In his timeline, he's 40 or so.
gender~ Completely and unquestionably male.
species~ Debatably human. He's been an undead zombie-skeleton-thing, swallowed by the Kraken itself and - ah, to heck with it mates. He's human enough where it matters. When it matters - you know what, lets stick with debatably human.
sexuality~ Tending mostly toward the womenfolk, Jack's not entirely opposed to the odd tumble with a bloke. Like in most aspects of his life, the Captain's an equal opportunity offender when it comes to bedding folk.
occupation~ Pirate Lord of the Caribbean Seas, mate, there's a reason Captain's in the name.
face claim~ Johnny Depp
fandom~ Pirates of the Caribbean [PotC]
canon / original~ Canon
hair color~ A dark, almost black brown when its mostly clean. The longer he lets that sea salt cling to it, the lighter the brown gets.
eye color~ Brown.
height~ 5'9"
weight~ I'm not sure I'm inclined to answer that.
distinctive features~ Dreadlocks, bandana and a single weave bearing his mark of eight. Not to mention the sparrow tattooed on his arm specifically to identify himself to others as Captain Jack Sparrow. He also has a P scarred into him, branding him as a pirate in the eyes of the law.
general appearance~ Captain Jack Sparrow is a dashing man - never to be confused with a gentleman. His hair is formed of long, fairly well kept dreadlocks that do at times get a bit salt-caked and grimy, but that's life at sea for you. His bandana is static - he never loses that - though his hats do tend to go through a lot of changes. He doesn't have a lot of personal belongings, but that which he does own, he tends to wear somewhere on his person - including, oddly enough, the shrunken head of his mother. (What? Pirate.)
He has his mark of eight braided into his hair, generally has his sword, a flintlock pistol and occasionally a musket. His clothes tend to be anywhere from 'well worn' to downright shoddy tattered rags, but again - that's the sea for you. or maybe that's just Jack, because anyone who knows him will gladly tell you he's more adventure than he is worth some days, which accounts more often than not for the tears in his wardrobe.
likes~
So much more than just a ship, the Black Pearl is Jack's one truest love, his livelihood, his freedom, his home. She wasn't his first ship - no, that was the Barnacle - but she was and still is his greatest. Originally a merchant ship owned and operated by the East India Trading Company under the name Wicked Wench, this ship nearly cost Jack his life - and his soul - on many an occasion. She's been with him longer than anyone, seen more with him than anyone, and heaven help you if you take this ship from him, because by Jove, he'll get her back. Even if it means defying death and killing Davy Jones himself - no, really.
02. FREEDOM~
Born at sea in the middle of a storm and whisked away time and again by 'the man who might be father' led young Jack to a thirst for freedom that he could not quench until he read the Pirate Codex and found justification in running away from home. From that moment onward, he's been chasing that horizon.
03. IMMORTALITY ~
The one thing Jack has chased just as much as freedom is immortality. He has sought it out for years and come within inches of its grasp, but then there was that whole doing the spontaneous good deed problem. Its starting to become a habit, really. He sacrificed it not once, but twice for Will Turner, once for Elizabeth Swann and again for Angelica. Really, people, stop getting in the way would you?
04. WOMEN & RUM ~
The man's a pirate and you honestly think he doesn't succumb to their most basic vices? Well, you'd be right, because he doesn't succumb to them - they succumb to him, right up until they realize he doesn't love them and will probably never see them again until that unfortunate day when he does and they slap him - oh, but the rum is good. Rum is always good - except when its gone.
05. SOME PEOPLE~
Jack does like some people - you'd be hard pressed to believe it sometimes and even harder pressed to get him to admit it, but he does like some people and maybe he likes them more than he should. Like Gibbs, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, Angelica, and oddly enough, Norrington and Barbosa (only sometimes).
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dislikes~
Mutiny is not good - bad mutiny. Never mutinize your captain, its bad form, nevermind that the rules are just guidelines. Jack's been kicked off his own ship a few times - and he hasn't forgotten it, though he does forgive it. A wee, tiny little bit, sort of. not really. But a little bit. Maybe. Just, don't do this. Because its ever so much work to chase you down again and get the ship back - and he will, you know. Get the ship back, that is.
02. LOSING THE BLACK PEARL~
Taking the Black Pearl from Jack Sparrow is like taking a Horcrux from Voldemort, except Jack is generally more successful in noticing the fact you just stole his soul and now he has to get it back from you no matter what the cost. Unless the cost is some people - some very specific, stupid people - though even then, he'll still do whatever it takes for the Pearl. Even if it means pissing off some people.
03. THAT BLOODY MONKEY~
Undead monkeys are the devil. No, really, have you seen one? They ruin everything, and are a bit scary when they scream at you. Not to mention they're thieving little brats who - did I mention - ruin. everything. Oh sure he can act cute - but then, so can his namesake, Sparrow. Maybe not as cute as a monkey, but cute enough to get what he needs. Just like said forsaken undead monkey. Jack hates that bloody monkey.
04. DESERTS AND MAROONING ISLANDS~
When your life and soul are bound to the ocean, the worst possible places in the world are deserts and abandoned islands, and here is why. The desert is nothing but sand and never-ending really hot land with no ocean to be seen anywhere which is one of Jack's worst nightmares - which he lived through, thank you very much for asking. As for abandoned islands - that's even worse in a way, because you are completely surrounded by the ocean and unable to sail on it. Cabin fever, anyone?
05. A LOT OF PEOPLE~
Jack dislikes a lot of people, for a lot of really good reasons. Amusingly, all the people he likes are also on this list, though admittedly they don't even so much as touch people like Davy Jones, Tia Dalma, and Blackbeard - though Barbossa comes really close a lot of the time. Its only been really, really recently that he was even considered as a maybe once in a while okay person again.
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habits~
Jack tends to talk as much with his hands as with his mouth, and his hands are just as busy as his lips most of the time. Heck, some of the time they'll be dancing about saying who knows what when his lips aren't even moving. His hands always have something to say, some reason for waving or wiggling - or maybe there is no reason, and Jack's just that weird. Entirely possible, but its distinctive nevertheless.
02. ROCKING~
Either a side effect from all that drinking, or from being so used to rocky waters as to not recognize solid ground or smooth sailing when he's got it, Jack tends to rock a lot when he's talking to people. He'll lean forward as he speaks, or back when spoken to - or vice versa. Like the hands, the rocking is a bit like Jack's entire body talking to you, and its not a matter of whether or not you can interpret what he's saying with it, so much as whether or not you're comfortable with a likely drunken pirate ignoring any and all aspects of a possible personal space bubble.
03. AWKWARD GRINNING~
Bad times grinny McGee is our Captain Jack Sparrow. When faced with a really really bad situation, he tends to have a really quick grin, as though experiencing some sort of uncontrollable facial twitch or just in some vain attempt to make things seem less bad by laughing it off. Or, really, he may be grinning because he's crazy. Because he very well might be, just a wee, tiny little bit.
04. DRINKING~
Lots and lots of drinking - or at least as much as he can manage until either the rum runs out or he has to start running again. Or something bad happens, or something distracts him, or the rum runs out, or he passes out.
05. RUNNING~
Lots and lots of running, generally for his life, and generally with a whole swack of energy. Then again when you're being chased by a couple hundred hungry cannibals, energy is to be expected - adrenalin's a good drug, and maybe Jack's a bit of a junkie, because he is always having to run from something or other.
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strengths~
The most terrifying cockroach to ever sail the Seven Seas, Jack Sparrow gets knocked down, and he gets up again faster than you can say Chumbawumba - which is a horrible 90's metaphor for a wonderful 17th century pirate, but there you have it. He's been sold into slavery, set on fire, sentenced to death multiple times, stabbed, shot, eaten by the bloody Kraken, and who knows what else - and folks? For a man still looking for immortality - he's getting pretty darn close just with his consistent survival revival reflexes.
02. ESCAPING~
The only thing Jack does better than surviving is escaping - which actually ties into surviving, so technically he does survive better than he escapes, but I digress. Note that he has been sold to slavery, imprisoned, captured, abandoned on tiny islands in the middle of nowhere, eaten by a Kraken and disposed into Davy Jones' locker and he's still free. There's actually a bit of pride to be had in being able to say that today was the day you almost caught Jack Sparrow.
03. DECEIVING~
Jack is a master of lies and deceit, and will gladly use anything at his disposal to secure what he wants, when he wants it. If he doesn't know you or happens to dislike you, he will gladly offer you up as a human sacrifice to save his black soul, along with a hundred or so other people just like you. No, really, he would. When it comes to those nobody type people and those I don't like you type people, Jack has absolutely no guilt in tricking you to your death, or just robbing you blind. (WHAT? PIRATE!)
04. MANIPULATING~
Not as bad as deceiving and more like using someone else's needs to meet his own ends, Jack tends to manipulate the people he likes, because deceiving them is sort of rude. He knows what makes these people tick and so he uses that against them in order to get something he wants - and in the end they get what they want too, so he doesn't see anything too wrong with it. They do though, almost always. Ungrateful sods.
05. SPONTANEOUS GOOD DEEDS~
While Jack would probably tell you himself that this is his greatest weakness, the truth is its one of his better strengths. It proves that every truth about Jack is a lie - and that's a fact. If that confuses you - well, good, because its meant to. These spontaneous good deeds can be small sometimes - but generally, they're on pretty big scales. Like giving up immortality to save the lives of those people he might consider friends if he wasn't so busy being Captain Jack Sparrow.
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weaknesses~
The whole running thing really ties into this well. Ever since he was a kid, jack was getting into all sorts of trouble. From nearly having his hand cut off, to getting sold to slavery, to running away from home and losing his every little worldly possession in Tortuga - yeah, kid Jack had it rough. Adult Jack? Well, adult Jack has had his ship burned for being a pirate, sold his soul to Davy Jones - killed Davy Jones - been an undead zombie, been chased by undead zombies, been the Chief of the Pelegostos up until they tried to eat him - yeah, trouble? Jack attracts it like Don Juan attracts the womenfolk.
02. DYING~
He does this a lot for a guy who isn't immortal. First he survived the burning of the Wicked Wench and had her returned to him by Davy Jones himself, then he stole a piece of Cortes' treasure and became Jack Skeleton (Yes, I went there) then he was swallowed by the Kraken, and survived Davy Jones' locker (though he may have gone a bit loopy, he's still kicking). Not bad for a guy still looking for a way to live forever.
03. ELIZABETH SWANN~
There's always a girl, isn't there? Miss Swann is quite the troublesome lass for our Captain. Their first meeting had him saving her life, then using her as a hostage - and the love hate sort of built on from there. He had a bit of a thing for her - of course he did, you know how those hard to get girls are - and she pulled a Jack on him: She used his feelings for her to get him killed by the Kraken. Lovely lass - greater good desires aside, she still killed him. Bloody woman. But could he hate her for it? Of course not. But don't tell her, or she'll get annoying.
04. WILL TURNER~
05. WOMEN & RUM~
The rum is always gone and the women are always hitting him! Its ridiculously unfair, because rum is delicious and its not his fault he forgot her name. She looks like at least six other bosom broads from Tortuga - he can't be expected to remember all of them.
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goals~ To sail on to that horizon, immortal and free.
secrets~ May like people more than he lets on. May forgive more than you'd guess. May be a bit lonely. May be a bit protective of certain not-enemy idiots. Or not. Maybe not.
overall personality~ With his wild hand gestures and somewhat drunken swagger, the Lord of the Caribbean Seas has the sort of personality you never forget. Because despite his seemingly-perpetual drunkenness, the man is bloody brilliant - which could leave one to wonder just how much of his rocking, arm-flailing way's is genuine drunkenness and heatstroke - and how much of it is just deception. His way with words is at times incredibly confusing, but that in and of itself can at times be genius at work. He can talk his enemies around the bend, and wiggle his way out of a tricky situation with just a couple of mind-boggling comments.
When he's not relying on his wit, Jack has a cat-like agility that also belies his drunken swaying. He can keep his balance while running on a wheel, or sword fighting on the back of a galloping carriage, or sword fighting on a balancing beam - which is incredible considering he always appears to be three-quarters of his way through a keg.
While he is not above manipulating and outright lying to friend and foe alike, when push comes to shove Jack shows that he means what he once told Will Turner in an effort to comfort the highly morale lad. Pirates can be good men too, and when given the option to serve himself or save a friend who, in truth, acts like one about as often as Jack does, he will invariably save his friend.
home town~ The ocean, mate.
current residence~ The Black Pearl, you scurvy dog! Where else?
parents~ Captain Edward Teague and an hitherto unnamed woman whose shrunken head hangs on Jack's belt with his effects.
siblings~ None, unless you count his cousin Valerie, but that's a cousin not a sibling, aye?
pets~
family~ The Black Pearl, really.
history~
Born onboard a ship caught in the middle of a typhoon just off the coast of India, Jack was literally born at sea, which is perhaps just one of the many contributing factors to why he lives for his ship, for the horizon and for the sea. As for his pirate ways, well - we can probably attribute that to both nature and nurture.
Jack grew up surrounded by outlaws at Shipwreck Cove and was mostly unsure as to whether or not Captain Edward Teague was really his Dad. That said, when bad things happened the Captain was generally around to scoop him out of the worst of it, like when Rusty Knickers just about cut off his hand, or when Captain Lucille Graven tried to sell him into slavery. He became determined to follow in the footsteps of his 'maybe Father', and become a captain of his own ship rather than just any old pirate like the rest of their relatives.
His Grandmama Teague, a former Pirate Lord of the Atlantic Ocean and a witness to the first writing of the Pirate Code was a vicious woman who thrashed him so severely that she nearly beat him to death three times, and her incessant torturing of him was what eventually led to him running away from home, once he confirmed with the Pirate Code that his desire for freedom served as the perfect justification for leaving home.
Jack crept out his window and made for Tortuga, where he was promptly relieved of his very limited possessions. In an attempt to reclaim what he lost, he stole something he shouldn't have from a pirate captain named Torrents, who could control storms. He then met with a woman who gave him command of his first ship - the Barnacle - and over the course of some misadventures including treasure taken from a now-dead pirate king, managed to secure his first crew - which included a cat named Constance who had actually been a woman (and the sister of one of the crewmates) before Tia Dalma transformed her.
Then Captain Jackie enjoyed the adventures of sirens, getting dragged underwater to parlay with mermaids and strike a deal for a magical sword which later takes control of Jack and causes him to start abandoning his friends in favor of figuring out how to master said sword and battling more sirens and monsters. People die, and are revived by Jack and the sword - and Jack gave himself his first dreadlock braid.
Then there's missing amulets and metal people, which actually happens to be how Jack got some of his bronze teeth (Nothing like a smack in the mouth by a magic amulet, right?) Mutiny, a gem that turns a bronze tooth silver, then gems that turn the bronze ones gold and Davy Jones wants a pocket watch. To say Jack had a busy childhood would probably be putting things rather mildly.
Getting a bit older, Jack learns one of his crew mates is actually a spy from the Royal Navy and has led Admiral Lawrence Norrington and the whole Royal Navy, to Jack and his father, Captain Teague (Keeper of the Code), and aboard the ship is good old Joshamee Gibbs, an old friend of Grandmama and Captain Teague, who promptly frees Jack, Teague and their crew. Fights happen, and Teague eventually manages to successfully knock down Lawrence. His son, James Norrington, becomes so frightened by this that he stumbles back overboard and has to be rescued by Teague - and then chastised by his father for needing rescue from a pirate.
After this, Jack meets a man with amnesia by the name of Bill and is given a quest from some mermaids in exchange for his freedom from entrapment in a cavern. Like all good quests, its a bit of a doozy - he's enlisted to keep Poseidon's trident and chariot away from Davy Jones, who would use them to nefarious means against the merpeople - and who happens to have said items but that good old Captain Torrents we mentioned back when Jackie was just a tyke. Of course, its Jack, so things go well in the most wild ways imaginable.
When he was 25 years old, Jack was employed by the East India Trading Company. He sailed aboard the Fair Wind as the First Mate under Captain Nathaniel Bainbridge, who was later killed by pirates led by an old flame of Jack's who was now a Pirate Lord herself. Jack took command of the Fair Wind and managed to salvage her from Esmerelda and her band of buccaneers, and was offered another ship by Cutler Beckett, which he refused due to the fact it was a slave transport and he wanted nothing to do with that noise. So instead, he was granted the Wicked Wench, and was virtually unbeatable with her.
That was until Beckett had a snit fit, tried to make Jack do something Jack didn't want to do, and sent out some bounty hunters. When Jack was finally caught, Beckett tossed him in prison, then branded his arm with a P to forever mark him as a pirate. The Wicked Wench was set aflame, and Jack broke free to go after her. He went down with his ship, unable to save her and eventually realized he had found himself in the Land of the Dead. Summoning Davy Jones, Jack struck a bargain - 13 years of captaining the Wicked Wench, and he would give Davy a hundred years on the Flying Dutchman. Jones brought her back in perfect condition but for the charring on her prow, so Jack painted her black and renamed her the Black Pearl.
As for the rest my dears, well. Its all here, somewhere in the profile, and if its missing, it will be shown in rp. Or you know, you could go watch the movies.
rp sample~
Jack was hovering, lurking about in the doorway and leaning in to look at himself in the highly expensive mirror that he often told people he had secured while he had been impersonating an officer of the Spanish Royal Navy, the truth was he had nicked it from Captain Nathaniel Bainbridge's cabin after he traded the Fair Wind for the Wicked Wench. Not that he was thinking back on any of that just now, of course. What he was doing was a bit more inelegant, as there was something clinging to one of his teeth, and he couldn't recall the last time he'd eaten something that particular shade of green.
Frowning slightly, Jack tilted his head a bit with his teeth bared, attempting to identify the mysterious chunk of food when the familiar sound of Norrington's exasperated sigh reached him. Reaching up to pick the piece away quickly before turning around, Jack's hand bumped the mirror a bit jarringly, and for a moment Jack just stared as the thing started to tilt dangerously to the side.
Realizing only a moment before it was too late that he was seconds from seven years of bad luck he most certainly could not afford, Jack sprung forward and flattened himself against the mirror just as Norrington looked up from his writing to reprimand him for his hovering. Or at least he assumed that was what Norrington had been about to reprimand him for, but he'd never know, because the man had something else to complain about now.
"Jack, what in heaven's name are you doing?"
Frowning slightly, Jack tilted his head a bit with his teeth bared, attempting to identify the mysterious chunk of food when the familiar sound of Norrington's exasperated sigh reached him. Reaching up to pick the piece away quickly before turning around, Jack's hand bumped the mirror a bit jarringly, and for a moment Jack just stared as the thing started to tilt dangerously to the side.
Realizing only a moment before it was too late that he was seconds from seven years of bad luck he most certainly could not afford, Jack sprung forward and flattened himself against the mirror just as Norrington looked up from his writing to reprimand him for his hovering. Or at least he assumed that was what Norrington had been about to reprimand him for, but he'd never know, because the man had something else to complain about now.
"Jack, what in heaven's name are you doing?"
"Oh for goodness sake," Clearly annoyed beyond his limits - a rather common occurrence, Jack was coming to learn - Norrington saw fit to set aside whatever it was he was writing just long enough to help the pirate - or try to, in any case. He had taken hold of one end and allowed Jack to better grasp the other, and things would have gone well if it hadn't been for the unexpected canon fire on the coast.
Pushing the mirror at Norrington, who quickly found himself in Jack's former position, the Captain of the Black Pearl dashed out on deck, clasping the rail and shielding his eyes with one hand. It didn't take a genius to figure out what was happening just a few miles ahead of the Pearl, as a tattered black banner and a proud red-blue-and white flickered in the wind amid the shots.
Making to dash up to the wheel, Jack heard an almighty crash come from his cabin. Taking a quick pit-stop to peak in on Norrington, Jack rocked back a bit on his heels at the sight of the horrified ex-Commodore seated amongst the broken glass.
Lifting his left hand, Jack rose his index finger to his lips and muttered a small "Ah,", before pointing a bit at Norrington, "I'd say you have to pay for that, but I didn't so you shouldn't have to." bringing his hand back to his lips, Jack had a momentary fiddle with his fingers before he added, "Pity about the bad luck though, mate," and quickly darted out of the range of tossed glass for the helm, in order to steer out of the way of battle.[/color][/quote][/size][/blockquote]
