a sea change, by ladybee (PG)

[anenko.livejournal.com]

Fandom: Pirates of the Carribean
Pairing: Gen
Author on LJ: d_r_o_n_e
Author Website: Fiction: Ladybee
Why this must be read:

While most of PoTC fandom is enchanted by Teh Pretty (and I certainly understand *that*), ladybee took a different direction with most of her fics. Her stories were always original, thoughtful, and intriguing, and this story is no exception.

The concept of this story--what if Jack began life as a female?--is enough to give one pause. However, ladybee has a real talent for mood and magic and as much as I like her Jack, it is her vision of the sea itself that I most enjoy.

She didn't understand this life, with its rough edges and hard fists and sorrow and hunger and strange desperation. Sometimes her mind felt scrambled and messy, like the innards cast rotting in heaps by the fishmarket. The only thing soothing were the sea. On calm clear nights when the galleon moon sailed her star tides slow and careful, she'd give herself up to the gentle hands of the surf. Stretched out in the sand, she smiled as the waves fussed at her clothes like the mother she never knew and the seafoam plaited her hair like a sister, solicitous.

Comments

[lainy122.livejournal.com]

Oooh - I remember this story. I was greatly intrigued by the concept. Thanks for the reminder; it made me want to read it again :)

[anenko.livejournal.com]

I was greatly intrigued by the concept.

Same here. I'd love to see what the Jack Sparrow we met in canon remembers of and thinks about his previous life.