“Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.”
[ID: Sketch in dark reddish brown of Siegfried Farnon and Audrey Hall from All Creatures Great and Small (2020). Both are sitting on a sofa, and Audrey has pulled Siegfried in, hugging him with one arm behind his back and the other around his neck, her head tilted town against him. His face is partially hidden behind her arm, and he is turned towards her, one hand, which is bandaged in gauze, resting on her waist. End ID]
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First attempt at drawing Audrey and Siegfried. One I'll hopefully revisit when art is working better than atm and try to tidy up/correct/generally improve
He was a villain, a hero, a traitor, a father. But above all—he was free.
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Hector Barbossa began as a mutineer. Once first mate to Jack Sparrow aboard the Black Pearl, he led a rebellion, seized the ship, and claimed the cursed treasure of Isla de Muerta. That curse—Aztec gold, blood-bound and cruel—turned him and his crew into the undead: fleshless, joyless, unable to taste, feel, or die. He spent ten years chasing the last coin and the blood to break the curse. When he found it, he died.
And then he came back.
Resurrected by Tia Dalma for reasons of her own, Barbossa returned not as a villain, but as a necessary evil. He helped rescue Jack from Davy Jones’ Locker, stood with the Brethren Court as Pirate Lord of the Caspian Sea, and even brokered uneasy alliances to fight the East India Trading Company. He was cunning, theatrical, and utterly self-serving—but when the world needed a pirate who could outwit gods and kings, it was Barbossa who stepped forward.
He became a privateer under King George II, hunting Blackbeard not for justice, but for revenge. He lost a leg. He gained a fleet. And when the seas grew stranger still, he became something more than a pirate—he became a power.
But beneath the gold and bravado, there was a secret. A daughter, Carina Smyth, raised without knowledge of her bloodline. When they met, it was not as father and child, but as adversaries. And when the truth came, Barbossa did not weep. He acted. He gave his life to save hers—diving into the abyss to destroy Salazar, the ghost of a past he could not outrun.
Barbossa died as he lived: on his own terms, with a smirk and a sword, defying fate one last time.
He was not a good man. But he was a great pirate. And in the end, that was enough.
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