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💓 dear diary how do i give thomas palpitations. i swear i’m going to sleep now

{ Learn To Make A Heart Flutter }

One thing Thomas does not experience a lot of is people rising up to challenge the fucking patriarchy to its goddamn face and then proceed to kick it out of it’s own damn house, so that’s most assuredly an extreme case of the goddamn’s.

That said – standing up for him and his ideals, and doing so in a manner that is both passionate and provocative – is a surefire way to enrapture him. You will have his whole and undivided attention, and if he forgets to breathe then surely that is a testament to the intensity of the performance itself. 

Thomas is taken by grand displays of emotion quite easily, especially when they are made with intellectually based passion – but when that same force and wit is used on his behalf it is difficult for him not to be made weak by the idea he could inspire such ferocity, and ache to reward it. 

💓💓💓 for Gilette!

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  1. Have a heart of gold. Full disclosure, in all the time I have written Gillette, he has only shipped five times – and of those times only once has it been spur of the moment – and that was with @seafaired‘s Archie Kennedy. His others have been Theodore Groves ( as I write him, they have on occasion come as a unit in poly pairings ) a pre-DMC James Norrington who broke it off with him for puritan reasons, a pre-DMC Will Turner who ultimately swung back for Elizabeth, and the original incarnation of Howard Wilson who was an OC on the forum I was on at the time and we see how that fucking went.

    Needless to say he is probably my most circumspect and closed off muse in regard to shipping because it has never gone well for him – and unlike Theodore who bounces back from that shit like it is water off a duck’s back, Gillette never forgets and holds on to his hurts. It takes me trusting the mun a great deal to convince him to trust one of their characters, honestly.

    Generally speaking the safest approach is if he is with Theodore – like the other side of a coin, Theodore keeps Gillette balanced and helps him brave things better just as Gillette will root Theodore back into reality when it is needed. Which of course leads to – 

  2. Be open to polyamory. Gillette as Theodore’s lover is generally protective – he’s a secretive man by nature, and he won’t stand for Theodore’s abundance of good nature and forgiveness to be abused. If he sees that you’re good to Theodore and that Theodore is interested, it is generally Gillette who will initiate the invitation, as he does enjoy giving Theodore that which pleases him. He is rarely interested on his own, but as Archie has proven, being a veritable ball of fucking sunshine is a big attraction for this melancholic puppy. 

  3. Show passion. Gillette is attracted to passionate people. Theodore lives for the moment, Archie is poetic and theatrical – James was ambitious, William was a spitfire, Howard was intellectually engaging – being someone who stimulates Gillette is one of the fastest and surest ways to catch his attention and capture his heart. 

💓 for Abigail!

{ Learn To Make A Heart Flutter }

Abigail is not used to flirtations and generally considers passes at her to be distinctly uncomfortable. She spent the whole of her life expecting to be arranged into a marriage with an older gentleman to further her father’s ambitions – she was not upset by this fate, because she had never considered romance to be particularly interesting. It simply wasn’t something that was in her sphere of understanding. 

Indeed, when it comes to maneuvering men, Abigail is unintentionally adept. Her mother taught her many methods to placate tempers and redirect frustrations, that she employs rather frequently regardless of verse. In her surgeon storyline, Abigail is far more aware of these manipulations and utilizes them with the same precision as she does a scalpel. In her author storyline, she utilizes them out of habit and a need to escape the situation as easily as possible. 

To make surgeon Abigail flutter, it takes honesty. Being honest with her and yourself and the world around you – the more true a person is to themselves, the more likely she is to like them. Their truth doesn’t have to be a good kind, either – for example, surgeon!Abigail would adore John Silver because he is always bluntly in it for himself and never denies it. He’s selfish, self serving, and an outright snake – but he does it in a way that is queerly truthful and so, she would be liable to respect him a great deal more than she would Flint, who lies to the world about his motives, even if his intentions are a great deal purer than that of Silver. 

Author Abigail is not so stringent or angry – she responds well to honesty, but she accepts a world that is more grey than her angel of mercy counterpart. She reacts to close proximity – the longer she is near to someone, the more likely she is to find herself leaning on them. The more time spent leaning on them, the more time spent examining them – until eventually, it may dawn on her that they are attractive – at which point, she may have more trouble than usual with speaking, because Abigail has a hard time talking to people she thinks are handsome.

💓 y’know what give me another one for gates and i’ll consider it adequate compensation for the loss of my fUCKING LUNGS EARLIER

{ Learn To Make A Heart Flutter }

Another surefire way to make your bear purr is by helping him work oil into his hands, which are riddled with arthritic symptoms and can at times cause him a lot of pain. He cramps up badly, to the point he can’t even bend his fingers without a hot, searing pain, so having someone who is patient enough to work his hands for him until they ease up – without commenting on his age while they’re at it, is bound to win a happy Hal. 

💓 for Thomas!

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Be a careless whisper.

I hate myself for writing that more than you hate yourself for reading it I promise, but it’s absolutely true. Thomas is very much the kind of man who eyezooms and decides this is it, this is my person very quickly and there’s no real fucking criteria for it or I would tell you. 

That said, once he nyooms in on someone he immediately sets to testing them, pushing their limits and boundaries and honestly doing personal social experiments on them constantly until he feels he knows them and all the extremes they are capable of. It is once he comes to these particular conclusions that he decides whether or not to truly pursue someone as a lover, or maintain them as a platonic and deeply valued associate. 

💓 for Silver! i knew i’d fuckin forgotten someone, figures it’d be the poodle

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Silver guards his heart jealously, obscuring it as surely as he obscures everything about his past. It takes about two years before he fully starts thinking of himself as Silver, so letting someone close before he’s fully established who he wants to be – who he needs to become – is incredibly difficult to manage. 

It would be a lie to claim he does not have a weakness for Spanish songs, and for the sound of his mother tongue in prose and prayer. He pretends not to notice it, or to be moved – but in those rare times when he hears native speakers he feels more whole and at ease in existence than he does at any other point. 

Those who have learned the language, but have no mastery of the accent, make him uneasy and even angry, to the point he revealed his own fluency aboard the Walrus simply to avoid hearing his language be chopped and butchered so bitterly. 

💓 for Vane!

{ Learn To Make A Heart Flutter }

Alright well first off the big trick you have to pull off is getting this giant triangle of a jungle cat to trust you enough to even get close enough to do this. At present the grand total of people who can tame Charles with this particular method amounts to three and all of whom manage it on a purely platonic level – that said, it can work on a romantic one shockingly well if the romance in question is not based in mutual destruction and manipulation. That’s a whole other headcanon though.

The thing is, getting Charles to melt requires trust inherently because he doesn’t like to be vulnerable – and if he knows he is manipulating you or you are manipulating him or you are both manipulating one another he is obviously not going to let you into his orbit where softness comes into play. He is capable of incredible softness if that trust exists but without it – without that trust, seeing Charles Vane at rest and in a completely gentle state of being is simply not in the cards for you.

That said, those with the power at present ( Jack Rackham, Anne Bonny and Edward Teach ) really need only stroke his hair to get him to grow still. He’ll remain wary depending on the situation at hand, but eventually he will sink into it and possibly even fall asleep with his head on their lap or shoulder. It is a gesture of extreme trust for him which is why, again, it is mostly a platonic matter because he straight up has no lovers he trusts that implicitly with that kind of control. 

It is possible to earn that level of trust though, and it is also possible for it to gain a romantic angle that will result in him being fairly snuggly, which is honestly hilarious because he is a very big man who often thinks he is smaller than he is at such points. Like a giant dog that thinks it still belongs on the couch and in your lap when really it could probably serve as a pony for small children.

💓💓💓 for Theodore bc he deserves nice things ;v;

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  1. Acts of pure selflessness. Theodore is an observant man – and he knows that kindness in this world is something that is seen as unfashionable the higher one gets in society. He notices, therefore, every time someone in a position of power acts in a manner that does not befit their station.

    For example, a lieutenant who purchased his commission and yet, wraps his perfectly pressed uniform coat around the shoulders of a shaking midshipman and goes about his duties is far more likely to melt Theodore’s heart than one who passes that same midshipman with nothing more than an order, or complete indifference. 

  2. Softness toward animals. Theodore loves animals and is of the belief that anyone who sneaks their victuals to a ship cat, or goes above and beyond to help a stray dog, is absolutely incapable of being a wholly terrible person. He has been known to stand rather staunchly beside people many would consider monstrous, simply due to the fact their care toward animals has shown him there is more to them – and by looking toward that more, has come to find in them reasons for loyalty.

    ( See, his perfect contentment toward loyalty for Barbossa despite knowing full well the man is a pirate, and an undead one once, at that! ) 

  3. A nice smile. Theodore is – not a picky person, exactly, but he does have a thing about smiles. Certain kinds of smiles can turn him off quickly – generally speaking the more false the smile the less likely it is Theodore will trust you, let alone grow attracted to you. 

    The unfortunate drawback to this one is that often times, he is attracted to wilder smiles because he is so pained by the painted ones so common in upper crust society. This often leads him to being attracted to rakish and boisterous men, and more often than not, that doesn’t end well for him. 

    Sometimes though, it is the complete opposite. A small almost hidden smile, fleeting and shy, can also tug at his heartstrings real good. Or repressed ones – those hints of pure joy swiftly shuttered – can attract him like a moth to the flame, eager to coax that smile into the light.Â