Character Info
NAME: Captain Jack Sparrow
FANDOM: Pirates of the Caribbean
TIMELINE PERIOD: Post-films

Character Background
They say that pirate's in the blood. Well, at least Jack says that, and he should know. Son of Captain Teague, the Keeper of the Pirate Code, himself, Jack never knew a time when life was not a game of wits to be played and won by cunning and flair. Jack means to win that game, and the occasional temporary setback aside, he has the uncanny tendency to come out on top.

There is no one Jack won't try to swindle if he believes it in his interest, a fact that has gotten him into some tight spots. His ship, the Black Pearl was a myth in her own time, long before she was sunk, and Jack, who always intended to be a myth of his own, saw an opportunity. He struck a bargain with Davy Jones, captain of the ghost ship the Flying Dutchman: he would give his own soul for a hundred years of servitude in exchange for thirteen years as captain of the raised Black Pearl.

But there were things he didn't bargain on, like the mutiny in which (two years in) he lost the Pearl to his then first mate Barbossa. Barbossa and the crew marooned Jack on an island, never expecting him to find his way off, but Jack is resourceful and resilient, and there were sea turtles. Or wild natives. Or rum runners. The story depends on the situation. Just ask, Jack will be happy to tell it to you.

One thing was certain though: when Jack got off that island, he was going to track down his mutinous first mate and get his ship back. As it turns out, Jack seems to have spent more of his adult life chasing the Pearl than actually captaining it. Small matter. The ship is his: he bought it with his soul.

Not that he ever made good on the payment.

After some creative misadventures with some cursed Aztec gold, a temporary alliance with the son of one of his old crew members, and a moonlighting stint in the business of maiden-in-distress rescuing, Jack set about outwitting Davy Jones. (He never did have the least intention of turning his soul over, of course.)

All he had to do was steal the chest that holds Davy Jones' heart and he'd be the one to call the shots. Easy, right? Except that there's the small matter of being captured by cannibals and the fact that everyone and their fiancé and disgraced former-commodore want to get their hands on the heart of Davy Jones too. Oh, and then there's the Kraken with a sweet tooth for Sparrow.

Getting swallowed whole by a sea monster can really put a crimp in one's day.

Especially when it's all the fault of that selfsame maiden-distinctly-not-in-distress. On the plus side, Jack got to learn first hand that Davy Jones Locker is not really the sort of place he'd choose for a summer home. And, really, there's nothing like being rescued from the land between life and death by your mutinous former first mate, the whelp whose soul you tried to strike a bargain with, the very not-distressed maiden who sent you there in the first place, and an angry goddess bound in human form.

Really, all that was left to do after that was to double cross the double crossers, install the not-the-slightest-bit-distressed maiden as King of the Pirate Lords, kill off Davy Jones and take his place as the immortal Captain Jack Sparrow at the Flying Dutchman's helm. Pity the damn whelp had to go and mess it all up by getting stabbed in the heart at the very least opportune moment possible.

So Jack gave up immortality: he gave it up to Will Turner, the whelp he couldn't watch die. At least he'd have the Pearl.

Except that Will got Elizabeth, Elizabeth got Will (or at least his heart in a chest), Barbossa got the Pearl, and all Jack got was a really keen map, a one man dinghy, and his trusty old compass that points to whatever his heart most desires.

So armed, he set out in search of the Fountain of Youth. And wound up on a ship headed for Rivelata.

Player: Skyler