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Black Cat: Table of Contents

[info]wicked_jade
6/6/07 10:12 am
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Title: Black Cat
Author:  [info]wicked_jade
Summary: James Norrington tells his story, beginning with his first fateful encounter with pirates - the dreaded Viper, captained by Black Cat Brigger.  Along they way we're introduced to young Jamie's family and a mysterious boy named Jack.  In Part 2, James must decide how to rebuild his life after it has been cruelly torn apart.
Genre: Gen, adventure.
Characters: Part One features Norrington, Jack, and various OCs.
Pairings: None, but there is a bit of Pre-Sparrington
Rating: From PG-13 to NC-17, depending on the chapter.  Please read the warnings for each chapter first.
Warnings: WARNING!!!  Noncon and Abuse involving minors.  No, I don't condone it, but my pirates are NOT Disney pirates, and they act accordingly.  Their actions are reprehesible, as most actions by real pirates were.  Character deaths.  Yes, several.  And lots of violence.  And hurt/comfort.  Do I even need to tell you there's angst?  But despite all of that, it has its fluffier moments.
Disclaimer: PotC and it's characters, including Norrington, do not belong to me.  Sadly, they are currently owned by a shirtless, talking rat.  The OCs belong to me, but I'm a bit disgusted to admit to owning Black Cat Brigger.  This is a work of fiction, and I do not profit from it.

For the sake of convinience, here are all of the links to Black Cat. : )

Part One:
 
 Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine

Part Two:

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven
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  • OMG

    (Anonymous)
    6/13/07 01:27 pm (UTC)
    I just read "black cat" and I really loved it! Please post soon. :D

  • [info]smithkingsley
    7/16/09 04:48 pm (UTC)
    I read the first four chapters, and this is such a devastating beginning. Poor, poor, poor James. Poor kid. God. What hell to go through. I'm terrified to go on because the end of this chapter really killed me, and I'm mortally afraid of what might come next. I *will* read on though because I know James's backstory is important to whatever happens next, and I want to see how he copes with these nightmarish experiences. This is really very powerful writing that draws the reader in and 'feels' so real throughout.

    • [info]wicked_jade
      7/17/09 08:27 am (UTC)
      Thank you for taking the time to read those chapters. They're not particularly easy to get through, even for me, especially chapters four and five. And they're certainly not enjoyable, but that was the whole point. They definately weren't enjoyable for me to write, and I hope that comes across in the writing. With some writers, you can tell just from their tone that they enjoy torturing their characters. I probably would have deleted the whole story if someone told me they actually enjoyed those parts, because I would have known I had missed my mark. I never set out to write torture!porn or anything like that. My goal was to depict the devastating horror of a pirate attack through the eyes of a victim, but hopefully without being exploitative or romanticizing it in any way.

      What I think makes it even more horrifying because Brigger is just a man...he's not a walking skeleton or a squid-man. But despite his lack of tentacles, he's still a bigger monster than Barbossa and Davy Jones, because they at least still had a tiny bit of humanity left in them.

      What inspired this whole backstory for James was that first scene in CotBP with Little Elizabeth and Lieutenant Norrington. When she said she thought it would be exciting to meet a pirate, he had this fleeting, world-weary smirk on his face, as if he was remembering a time when he was that young and naive. Which got me wondering what destroyed that naivety in James, and how did he survive to become the honorable, brave man we met in the first movie. *shrug* It's always been my intention to eventually write CotBP from Jamie's POV, using this backstory to color his perspective.

      Anyway, thanks again for reading. :) Jack plays a large part from the end of Chapter 5 until the end of Chapter 9, if that helps any. *hugs*

      • [info]smithkingsley
        7/17/09 08:58 am (UTC)
        I know you'd never deliberately set out to hurt a character for the 'fun' of it. *hugs* What makes these chapters so difficult to read is precisely that one knows that what's happening is horrendous and traumatic for everyone involved. There's no way it could be construed as enjoyable in any way.

        James's assertion about pirates deserving 'a short drop and a sudden stop' definitely seems to merit an explanation such as this one. He is definitely honourable and fair by nature, but something in his past must have instilled in him the certainty that pirates must unequivocally be condemned. That's one reason I find it fascinating to explore the bond between him and Jack, because Jack represents everything that James has probably opposed all his life, and yet he's hardly the stereotypical pirate. He defies easy definitions, and I think that would be greatly intriguing (at the very least) to James. :-)
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