awkward when you have a ship full of gay pirates encountering a puzzle with a heteronormative answer.
See I want to know Ragetti’s backstory because of lines like these. I wonder how a man who seems to have been a philosophy student ended up a pirate who plays down his book learning and tells Pintel he can’t read – or was his father the student, and as a boy he picked up big words like ‘dichotomy’ but couldn’t sign his name to save his life? The Ragetti who Barbossa chose as guardian of one of the Nine Pieces of Eight, who is perhaps more consistently loyal to Pintel than Will is to Elizabeth, who casually analyzes a three-way fight between pirates like someone who’s studied Shakespeare, who at one point speaks more gently and honestly to the goddess of the ocean than any other character (“you’re not saying it right, you have to say it right.”), whose first reaction to a ship capsizing is ‘tie ourselves to the mast upside down’ and who sailed to Davy Jones’ Locker just to see Jack again… what is his story?
A 14 year old Ragetti, standing at a dock wearing formal clothing: Father says pirates are the bane of civilization.
Barbossa, the then still beardless buckaneer: Pirates can be gay
Ragetti, looking back just for a second before smiling at the captain: Where do I sign up?!
Yeah, no, see, that’s actually a pretty damn good explanation.
