Price Of Freedom (

1714-1715, age 25-26 )

This is the core of Jack Sparrow for me, this is the piece that defines him best and has influenced the better majority of my work involving him. My headcanons on his relationships with most of the Brethren Court comes from Crispin as opposed to the Brethren Court series, as her ideas corresponded a great deal better with my own than the later stories did.

It is not essential to read this work to understand my Jack; any time explicit influence from the Price of Freedom is remarked upon on my blog outside of headcanon matters, it will be discussed beforehand or will have canonical evidence in the first three films ( which again, comprise Jack’s core canon, as my interactions with Jack through the fourth and fifth films differ greatly from what was shown on screen. Covered, of course, in their sections. )

What is important to note here are the following matters;

• Jack was friends with a French pirate named Christophe who inspired him to learn the language, and whose charming nature was so affable that when he was accused of breaking the Pirate Code, Jack refused to believe it and broke him out of prison – only to be assaulted and dragged aboard Christophe’s ship Requin and thus, forced into being outed for breaking the Code himself.

  Jack was badly treated aboard the Requin and eventually cast off in a dinghy with no food or water. Robby Greene dove off the Requin with supplies for both of them, and the two allied together and joined the EITC, where they served side by side for five years.  

• Cutler Beckett made Jack captain of a vessel he owned, called the Wicked Wench, when Jack did something nobody had ever done to him before. Cutler was not used to hearing the word no, nor to seeing men walk away from positions of power – Jack did both, in refusing to captain a slave vessel, and so Cutler quickly changed the offer, feeling he could make use of a man like Jack.

  The Wench caused Jack to wax poetic for two entire pages that honestly leave the reader thinking he is describing his love for a woman before we are granted full understanding. She was everything to Jack, and he personalized her by painting her cabin periwinkle and pink. Boy has 0 regrets, not even when the owner of an escaped slave insults it ( Baby blue and pink?! It’s periwinkle, sir. )

  Freeing slaves becomes something of a habit for Jack when Cutler asks him to find the mythical land of Kerma. Long story short, when Jack refuses to deliver Kerma to Cutler, the man punishes Jack by forcing him to use the Wench to ferry slaves. In the end, Jack cannot do it, and he releases the slaves in Kerma.

  Outraged, Cutler personally withdrew a red hot iron with which to brand Jack a pirate for this action ( which, in fact, put Cutler at odds with a Lord Penwallow, who had in fact once rescued Cutler from pirates and was, in every way Cutler’s golden ticket to a title of his own; the ‘mark’ Jack left upon him, if you will ) and saw fit to punish Jack further by burning his own ship and forcing Jack to watch.

  Jack, instead, threw Cutler off the ship they were standing on and swam to the Wench – Robby followed and Jack sent him off ( thus leading into Robby’s story aboard this blog ) and went down with the Wench – but not before summoning Davy Jones as he had seen the Brethren Court do, and striking the deal that would turn the Wicked Wench into the supernaturally fast Black Pearl.