VioletRockets

allison. 24. bi. philadelphia. my life is messy.

[shipwreckedwithcaptainmarrow]

On the 12th of August, 1710, Captain Smith of the HMS Enterprise would detail in a letter, the state of the Bahamas Islands after performing a survey of the region; and how it had become a land of pirates in the absence of the British Government. In his letter, he explained that the scattering of French settlements in the Bahamas were faring well, unscathed by the Spanish sailing from Havana, and that the defenseless people that still lived at Nassau and the rest of the Bahamas lived by the policy of “the strongest man carries the day, with every man only doing what’s right in his own eyes” since they had no government to rely on or answer to.

 He’d also come into the information that Fort Nassau still lay in ruins, with nine cannons having been stolen from it, and that any time raiders arrived on New Providence Island, the inhabitants would flee into the woods.

Nassau had been a refuge for pirates as far back as 1696, when pirate Henry Every called the place a safe port after bribing the governor with gold, silver and ivory stolen from Indian ships. After 1703, French and Spanish ships assaulted Nassau, with most colonists fleeing the settlement and England abandoning it, which allowed various pirates to use the ruins as a base of operations here and there. Three years after Captain Smith’s letter was written, the War of Spanish Succession would end, leaving hundreds of ex-privateers in the area without employment. Nassau would rise above and beyond Smith’s 1710 report, into a full blown pirate haven, not unlike St. Mary’s in Madagascar. (Pictured is the Out Islands of the Bahamas, a 1722 sea chart showing Old Providence Island and surrounding islands in the Bahamas, and Nassau as a pirate haven in 1715 [as depicted in Black Sails]) 

[giaffa]

x x x x x x x

[off-the-edge-ofthemap]

Pirate this or that

Sloops or Warships

Bandannas or Tricorn Hats

Swords or Axes

Flintlock Pistols or Muskets 

Black Sails or Pirates of the Caribbean

Brown pants rolled up with bare feet or Long black pants with boots

Yo ho ho or Shiver me timbers

Rum or Port

Nassau or Tortuga

Dutch merchants or Portugese shipping 

[nautikale]

Maritime Piracy: Resources

Ahoy! I’ve compiled a list of websites and YouTube channels that provide information about maritime piracy in the age of sail. There are both primary and secondary sources, so I hope this helps in your research!

Websites:

The Pirate Empire

A collection of blog articles about anything pirate.

The Pirate Surgeon’s Journal Main Page

Primary sources for piracy, highlighting surgeons at sea.

Pirates Library Reference

By a maritime historian, it’s full of primary sources from the government and pirates themselves.

British History Online (Colonial Series)

Provides government records about the Americas and piracy in the West Indies.

Pirates & Privateers

Articles about everything you want to know about piracy.

Rob Ossian’s Pirate’s Cove

A collection of over 1200 pages of pirate and nautical information

YouTube channels:

The Pirates Port

Gold and Gunpowder

[dailyhistoryposts]

Introduction to Pirates: Jobs Aboard the Ship

Captain: each ship had a singular captain. They were generally elected and their decisions could be overruled, especially by...

Quartermaster: the second in command. In charge of settling disputes and representing the crew against the captain, if need be.

Sailingmaster: in charge of navigation and steering the ship. Required an education, and was often filled by kidnapped hostages.

Boatswain (Bo'sun): runs the ship. In charge of general maintenance, keeping track of supplies, and other miscellaneous tasks to keep things running smoothly.

Master Gunner: in charge of the cannons and anything they might need. A large pirate ship would have dozens of cannons, so he functioned more as an overseer than someone personally firing the cannons.

Surgeon/Carpenter: often the same person, and typically more a carpenter who did amputations than a skilled surgeon. Medications were typically hard to come by, and usually were raided for.

Cooper: makes barrels. Very important, as this was the only way to store food, fresh water, or anything else and keep is fresh.

Mates: crew who might be apprenticed to or serving under the upper roles. A ship would have multiple, in charge of things like the ropes, sails, and anchors. They had a hierarchy of "first mate", "second mate", and so on.

Gunners: The men who aimed guns and cannons, something that took years of practice. They took orders from the Master Gunner.

Powder Monkeys: The young boys (often aged 12 to 14) who moved powder from storage to the cannons. They tended to be orphans or from poor families.

Cabin boys: young servants who did dirty work and didn't have chance for a promotion.

Musicians: life on sea could have long stretches of boredom, where nothing happened. Musicians were oftentimes captives or hostages, but they received special privileges like less work, more time off, and increased pay.

[absolxguardian]

-The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodhard

[dailypiratefacts]

Fact #4

A merchant sailor's income in the 18th century was about 28 pounds a year, and for every share sailors received the captain received around 40 more. But among pirates, a captain only received 2 shares for each share one of the sailors received. Other important roles, such as quartermaster, boatswain, and master gunner, received 1.5 shares. This would have seemed like extremely generous and fair payment to pirates, who were used to received 1/40th of what their superiors got.

[necrophagesaint]

shout out to every kind of curry dish ..... indian curry....thai curry.......japanese curry ... the kind with coconut milk and the kind without.......from the light yellow curry to the bodacious red to the rich brown ....... to the ones more soup like and the ones more gravy like.... to the ones with potatoes and to the ones with chickpeas.........this post is for you

[abdullahr97]

ⓘ This user needs a long break from everything.

[seafoam-icecream]

“That be a cruel thing you did captain, lying to the wee lass like that.”

[transgressionsunmoonwizzard]

• A pirate crew that has no freaking idea how to do things but still succeeds to survive and thrive in the sea.

• Each member of it is a wreck but in different ways so they balance each other out without even noticing.

• They all aware that if they loose one member they'll have to re adapt their routines to function properly again and no one wants that so they're clasped at each other for dear life.

• Crews ship is called "Doom Sardine 2" .

• Once sardines kidnaped a royal fleet Capitan purely by accident, released him later, honestly he was a great dude.

• Literally a day later after that they single-handedly dealt a massive damage to "mermaid hunt" greatly reducing amount of hunters and still continued to find the ones that hasn't perished yet.

• At the same time sardines got a new crew mate: a face stealing siren that took on appearance of a cabin boy and was infiltrating the hunter ranks. Some crew mates are still unaware of "face stealing" part.

• Doom Sardines 2 Capitan is actually a sea witch.

• Everyone in the crew are queer in one way or another, this is an important requirement for becoming a pirate fyi /hj

• You know how in some pirate media there's a secret pirate island? Well there's actually two like these one is an actual pirate island and the other one is island for run aways that's covered by multiple pirate crews and "Doom Sardine 2"s crew is actively providing supplies for them.

(I'll add more later I think I'll need some help with the rest of Doom Sardines so uh *side eyes everyone who reads that*)

[creativepromptsforwriting]

Do you have any prompts for a bunch of people living on a pirate ship? They’re like roomates but on a big ass boat and stuck in close proximity to eachother for months at a time.

Hi :)

Here are some prompts for people on a pirate ship:

Pirate Prompts

They truly were a ragtag group of people. All with different backgrounds and reasons for why they ended up here on this ship.

Living at close quarters turns this crew soon into a real family. A family that fights daily about food rationing and distribution of work.

Pirates are known for sailing the seven seas, always looking for treasure. And sometimes the treasure they search for are helpless people trying to escape their lives and find their happiness at sea.

They might seem like a bunch of jokesters, but when push comes to shove they all know what to do to keep the ship afloat.

Establishing democracy on a pirate ship doesn’t actually make things easier.

Historians will later tell the gruesome story of the queen’s abduction by barbaric pirates. What they don’t tell is the story of the queen of the land escaping abuse and becoming the queen of the sea.

I hope you like them!

- Jana

[the-burning-sea]

The protagonist curled themself tighter against the splintered wood of the cargo crate they were tucked behind, eyes shut and head down to avoid notice.

When the cannons of the other ship started firing, this was where the captain had asked them to go. When they’d refused, insisting that they wanted to fight too, that ask turned into an order.

It didn’t seem to be going well. There was shouting, and the sound of clashing metal above them. Had they been boarded, then? Were they losing? Was the captain dead already?

Over the course of the next hour, the sounds of fighting faded. Could they smell blood, or was it just in their head?

A commanding tone boomed above them, loud enough to be heard all the way down in the hold.

It was not their captain.

Only after a moment of this mystery voice issuing orders did the footsteps come down the stairs. They were looting, likely. Here to take the gunpowder and ale and rum and leave the men to drown.

Whoever it was began counting the boxes under their breath, by twos, getting progressively closer. Their hand came to rest on the box the protagonist was tucked behind. The protagonist held their breath.

“Well then. You certainly ain’t cargo. Or are ya?” The protagonist scrambled in place as the sailor grabbed their shirt by the back of the collar and pulled them out of their hiding spot.

They couldn’t see much in the dim light, but they could tell the sailor was looking them up and down. “Bit scrawny, aren’tcha? Too cleaned-up to be cargo. Where ye headin, stowaway?”

“I’m a cabin boy.” They coughed out, throat dry and lungs heavy with the scent- oh, that was definitely blood. “My captain don’t deal in that trade anyway.”

“Well, you’re a captive now. C’mon, up you get with the rest of ‘em.” The sailor set them down, nudging them none too gently in the back to herd them toward the deck.

The ship was chaos. More of the crew was dead than alive, and those that still lived were either covered in others’ blood or their own.

The captain was dead. Hanging from the mast, sword still embedded in their chest.

“Found this one hidin’, cap.”

The enemy captain turned toward them and caught the protagonist’s gaze. They wanted to go back to their nook, suddenly.

“Don’t appreciate cowards. What’ve you got to say for yourself?”

Despite their fear, the protagonist found their cheeks turning pink. “Just… following captain’s orders. They told me to.”

“Look at me.”

The protagonist did.

“How old are you?”

“Fifteen. Tomorrow.”

“Change of plans, then. Kill the rest of ‘em. This one’s with me.”

[daily-dose-of-writing]

#362

A great pirate captain dies, he leaves his ship and control of his crew in the hands of his fourteen year old cabin boy. Only the first mate knows why and he won’t tell them

[multiverse-irondad-july]

・ﾟ:* Prompts *:・ﾟ

Welcome back into the fray! This time, you’ll need a ship and a crew to survive this adventure! Here are the prompts for this year’s Multiverse July extra early so you have plenty of time to get your crew assembled and sea-ready!✨ 16 main ones and 15 alternate, they don’t have to posted in any specific order and they can be posted at any point in July. You can combine or exclude any prompts you’d like, we set it up so that you could write as much or as little as you want :) Check the blog for prize information, rules, FAQ, and more!

They’re also set up like a checklist so you can check them off as you go! We’re so excited for another year and we hope you have fun <3000

(Written Prompt list below the cut):

Keep reading

[alesuggestprompts]

Retelling of overused historical periods (part 1)

There are some historical periods that are so much used in stories to become boring, like, there's no more something interesting about them, right?

Wrong

Lucky (or unfortunately, depends on the point of view) stories tend to focus only on some aspects of history, leaving out all the rest.

But "the rest" is so fascinating!

Here are some prompts on how you can make overused historical times interesting again.

Ancient Rome

Especially last years of Republican period and first century of Imperial period

Tell the stories of women. This is going to be a recurrent advice but here I mean it with all my heart: talk about women, properly. Roman women between I century bc and II century ad had to face a lot and did it with great force and pride: they fought to be educated (and some of them started to work in law), some of them became writers (often uncredited, like Sulpicia), they had to face a law that punished sexual behavior outside of marriage (even for unmarried girls) and fought against them united, they obtained divorce (and divorced women started to be common after I century bc) and in imperial periods they obtained more civil rights. Some historians say that what they did was a feminist movement ante litteram. If you want a nice reality based prompt: when Augustus imposed a law stating that every woman (married and unmarried) that had sex with a person that wasn't her husband would be punished- apart from prostitutes, lots aristocrat women decided to go all together to sing up as prostitutes (even if they weren't) as a protest. They won.

Greek slaves. Romans had different levels of slavery and usually slaves from Greece were classified familia urbana: they had to work in the family of their owner/patron but had greater respect than other kind of slaves. They had to manage the family patrimony, educate the young members of the family (greek culture was fashionable) and help their patron at work. Usually after years of work they became libertus: freed people.

People who decided to put otium (making of art, literature, poetry and philosophy) before negotium (working in law or in commerce). It wasn't a lot encouraged and young people who did so were the "wasted youth" or the unproductive. Culture was seen as good only if it had a second mean like propaganda. Art for art's sake wasn't acceptable, and lots of young people fought for that. If you want a reality based prompt: Catullus and neoteros.

Bisexuality. Lots of historical fictions forget how much bisexuality was common in ancient rome. It wasn't seen as completely good (there were a lot of prejudices) but many of important figures were bisexuals (I'm looking at you, Cesar). Take this as an invite to make queer representation.

Victorian London

Talk about women (this is going to be a leitmotiv) in a different way. On one hand we have the Victorian idea of women (very oppressive) and on the other we have the rise of feminism with its different ramifications. Highlight this opposition and talk about women who had the courage to stand out.

Poor people and working class. Usually Victorian based fiction is about aristocrats or rich borgueis class but poor people had a more interesting story: the protests, police brutality, the rising of socialism, strikes, the first trade unions and the fight to make them legal, chartism and other attempts to be important in politics.

Queer people. Homosexuality (and other queer identities) was forbidden and punished with prison. Still, queer culture in the Victorian England is huge. This aspect can't go forgotten in history and fiction.

Immigrants. According to Wikipedia

there were about 2 339 000 immigrants in Victorian Britain, mostly from Ireland, Belgium, Germany and lots of them were Jews, but there were lots of immigrants from South Asia, China, the African continent and West India too. Telling their stories would be original and much needed.

The Golden Age of Piracy

You know what I'm going to suggest, right? Women! Yeah you saw it coming. Women pirates were a thing and we need to talk about them more often. Lots of them used male names and identities in order to be safe and revealed themselves only later (and often when killing their enemies as a way to state "you've been defeated by a woman, you sexist idiot") . Sometimes they were desperate and looking for a way of surviving that wasn't prostitution but I really hope that their story won't be only filled with trauma and suffering: they were badass, powerful and free. Celebrate them. Anyway, some of them could have been transmen and transmasc people and it's really important to not put a cisheteronormative gaze on them. Queer and trans pirates were a thing as well as women pirates.

Matelogate and queerness in pirates. Matelogate was similar to modern civil unions and stipulated between men: they promised to share everything and had legal (in the law pirates recognized) protection as a couple, and benefits too. Matelogate wasn't exclusively an agreement between lovers but it has been reported that almost all pirates who decided to matelogate had a romantic and/or sexual bond with the people they decided to commit to. I'm saying people because apparently (I still have to do deep researches about it) polyamorous pirates were a thing too.

Black pirates. Seriously, lots of people think that pirates were only white but actually there were plenty of nonwhite pirates and especially black pirates. Usually they chose piracy as a way to escape slavery but as I said with women pirates before: even of history is filled with pain, try to not focus only on trauma and portrait your characters in a non triggering way. Empower them as a way of giving them the justice history denied.

As you can see in this first part of my "retelling history posts" acknowledging parts of history that have been erased in mainstream storytellings is a powerful tool for creativity but it's especially a way of protecting part of history from the process of erasing who didn't have privileges.

[palettes-and-prompts]

hey!!! could you do some prompts on a pirate x royal au? thanks :)

Fuck yeah you can! A pirate and a royal falling in love? That is my shit, dude!

1) "Return me to my castle at once!" "We're pirates, sweetheart. We have a reputation for not following the rules." 2) "I was attacked!" "By?" "A beast, you must slay it! It's over there!" "It's a spider." "I know what it is, slay it!" "Of course, Your Highness." 3) "Why did you save me? I'm just a royal pain in your ass, remember? Why go through the trouble of stealing me back?" "A good pirate never lets someone get away with their treasure." 4) "I'll never bow to someone beneath me." "Then I guess you'll just have to stay in those clothes. It's a shame too, I even got you a bath ready. But if you don't want it I wouldn't mind a bath." "Wait! Fine, you win. I'll bow." 5) "I told you from the start my family would never pay to get me back. This trip was a waste of your time." "I'll never consider getting to know you a waste of my time." 6) "Ugh! My outfit is all dirty. You must find me something suitable to wear and get a bath ready for me." "No chance in Hell that's happening. I'm a captain, not your servant." "If you refuse then I'll scream." "Go ahead, we're in the middle of the ocean. No one will hear but the crew and, if I'm honest sweetheart, they'll just think I'm showing you a good time if you do it loud enough." 7) "You're impossible to deal with." "Yeah, well, once I bring you back to your castle you'll never have to see me again." 8) "I'm useless to you, they'll never buy me back, they got rid of me in the first place! They kicked me out." "Then why don't you stay with us? We'll help you get back at them for kicking you out." "How?" "You know how to get into the safe with all the jewels, don't you?" 9) "I'd do anything to not go back to my kingdom." "Anything?" "Anything." "Would you become a pirate for me?" "Yes." 10) "How did you know I'm royalty?" "You think other pirates have pretty hair like yours?" "You think my hair's pretty?" 11) "So your the little royal who set out to be a pirate. That's cute. Where'd you get the boat?" "I...I stole it." "How very pirate-like, Your Highness. Where do you plan on going?" "Wherever the wind takes me." 12) "Go away, I don't associate with miscreants." "I don't associate with people who use words I can't spell. But I've been hired by the ruler of your kingdom to bring back their heir so we can do this the easy way or the hard way." 13) "Your boat looks like it's going to fall apart, Your Highness. Why don't you join me and my crew instead?" "And let you take me and sell me back to my kingdom? I'd rather die at sea." 14) "How did you see through me? How did you know I was royalty?" "Your fighting pattern. It's similar to a lot of the royals I've fucked." "That's disgusting!" "You asked." 15) "Your boat is going to crash, okay? Please join me and my crew." "Is the most infamous pirate in the world begging?" "I'm on my knees, Your Highness. Please join me?" "Fine, but only because I don't want to die." 16) "You could always stay with me and my crew." "How long would you allow me to stay? "Forever. If you want." 17) "Put me down! I will not be carried like a child!" "Then stop acting like one and get on my ship and let me take you back to your kingdom." 18) "Ow, you bit me!" "You touched my butt!" "It was an accident, don't flatter yourself, Your Highness. You're not my type. God I hope this doesn't get infected. If I lose my arm because of you I'm gonna be so pissed off." 19) "I like you, join my crew, Your Highness." "I don't like you, leave me alone, Pirate." "God you're pretty when you're mean to me."   20) "Here." "A book?" "Read it to me." "No, read it yourself." "I never learned how to read." “Fine. But I’ll only read you one story!”

1) Person A is a royal who disguises their self as a pirate. While they're successfully able to fool everyone on the ship and get invited to join. The captain, Person B, makes them do the worst jobs available. A thinks maybe they've done something wrong and try to bond by sword fighting with them for practice. The captain accepts and the two duel alone. B easily wins each time and A can't figure out why. B knocks them on their ass and points their sword at their throat,  A then demands to know how Person B saw through them. B admits they're fighting pattern is similar to a lot of royals they've fought. A lies, saying royals taught them but B tells them they knew what they were the moment they saw them. Asking why B let them on their ship if they knew the whole time, Person B tells them they found A amusing and making them do the worst jobs funny. A ends up knocking B on their ass and B happily accepts defeat offering to train them for real. The two of them fall for one another and end up sailing the world together. 2) Person A is a royal who escapes their arranged marriage. Person B is the world's most notorious pirate who's being paid to deliver A back to their family. A makes B's job harder by being as insufferable as they can, even telling B to throw them overboard. B finds A funny and is the only one who doesn't find A annoying or insufferable. B spends more time with them and A finally admits why they ran. They ask B politely to not bring them back. That they'll do anything to never go back. B asks if A means it when they say anything and A admits they'll do anything. Person B then asks if they'd become a pirate in their crew in front of the others. The crew is opposed, begging the captain not to accept A. B uses their position to silence them and tell them they weren't asking the crew, they were asking A. A accepts the offer, pledging their life and loyalty. B tells them their first mission is to go to A's kingdom saying they'll give A back while the crew sneaks in and robs them blind. And for the first time on the ship A laughs and tells them they've never liked a plan more. 3) Person A is a snobby heir to a throne. Person B, a infamous pirate captain, has kidnapped them in order to get their family to pay for them back. A spends the entire story telling B that their family wont pay a dime for them but B insists that family will always protect family. When they arrive in the kingdom after spending the trip half bonding with A, B is debating whether they want to sell A or not. The ruler of the kingdom, Person C, meets them at the docks before they can land and tells them that they'd never pay for someone they got rid of in the first place. C begins to tell them A's a useless heir that means nothing to them and that they might as well throw them overboard as it would save them the embarrassment of people finding out their child was kidnapped. A tells B they told them so while trying to hold back tears. As they leave, A expects to die but B asks where A wants to be dropped off. When A replies they don't know B suggests they could join them, that if they don't have family anymore B could be their family if they wanted to be. (This doesn’t have to be a romantic relationship, this can just be a friendship/found family situation.) 4) Person A is the heir to the throne. Person B is the pirate who saves their life when Person C, the next in line to the throne after A, tries to kill them by having pirates attack them so they can push A overboard. Thinking A is dead, C returns to the kingdom to take the throne and hold a funeral for A. B is ready to go with A to the kingdom for revenge but A informs them they knew the plan all along and wanted to leave the kingdom anyway. A asks if they can join their crew for a while. B agrees and notices that their ship feels more like a home with A around. A reads to the younger crew members and listens to their stories. When the two are alone B asks if A can teach them how to read and write. A agrees, spending more time with them. B falls for A and when the two are out shopping for more food B asks if A would join their crew permanently. A asks what they'd be to B, to which B gets flustered and replies their first mate. A happily agrees and the two sail off together. 5) Person A, a royal, finds Person B washed up on shore. B has no recollection of who they are but they're dressed like a pirate when A finds them. A takes them to a cottage they have in the woods away from their castle and tends to Person B's wounds. B changes into the clothes A brought them and A begins trying to jog their memory. Unable to remember a thing A decides to read to them stories of pirates. The two grow closer and share a kiss. After a certain story before bed, a particular part of it unlocks B's memories. They then remember that they planned to jump ship and lure A to their ship to hold them for ransom with their crew. They go to the docks, meeting with their crew and telling them the plan is off. A follows them and asks if they're leaving. B explains everything to A, waiting for A to tell them they never want to see them again. Instead A tells them they don't want them to go. B decides to stay a while and introduce their crew to A. The crew quickly takes a liking to A and grow fond of them. A year later A leaves with B to travel to the places in the stories A read to them. 6) Person A is the heir to the royal throne who's being forced to marry Person B, someone they don't love. Person C is a pirate captain who came to crash the wedding, steal jewels and gifts and eat the food. When C leans in to steal something off A's neck, A quietly begs for C to steal them away from the wedding. C scoops them up, telling everyone that A belongs to them now and that they'll be taking them along with whatever else they want. B tries to stop them but C beats them in a duel and claims A as their prize. When they get back to the ship C asks why A asked them to steal them away. They explain their situation and admit that they never wanted to be the next ruler. They wanted to be free of rule and live an exciting life beyond castle walls. While A tries to figure out where they want to go, A and C bond and A gets along with the crew mates. Unable to let A go, C tells A they're technically C's treasure and can't leave. They demand A be a part of the crew and never speak of going away again. Person A laughs, embarrassing C before agreeing to become their crew mate. But things get complicated when Person B decides they wont let A be taken away that easily. 7) Person A, the heir to the throne posing as a pirate, tries to rob Person B. B allow A to steal their money without a fight. A, thinking they've won leaves to buy themselves a ship. Before they can they're kidnapped by the most infamous pirate crew in the world. Person B introduces themselves properly to A as the captain. A, embarrassed, apologizes over and over to B, begging B not to kill them. When left alone together B tells A it's fine and decides they'll make A their personal servant. They make A cook, clean and do all the jobs they don't want to do. A informs B they're royalty and that B could get their parents to parents to buy them back. B insists they knew who A was when they met them. Despite the gross jobs A finds themselves enjoying being out at sea. After robbing a rich kingdom they all decide to celebrate. B doesn't let A leave their sight. After a long talk the two share a night together. B admits they knew A was royalty the minute they saw how beautiful they were. Flustered A admits they don't hate being B's. B asks if A would still be on the ship if they didn't have to be. A admits they wouldn't want to be anywhere else. 8) Person A is a pirate who tries to blend in with royal society in an unfamiliar kingdom. While they're not exactly royal material they are charismatic and charming. A happily charms those around them, stealing jewelry and other expensive items right under the noses of the royals they speak to. Person B is a royal who lives an unexciting life in a castle. B catches A stealing and asks A to show them how they did it without the people noticing. A shows them, not knowing who Person B is. Thinking they're just some noble two have a flirty conversation but A ultimately leaves early so they're not caught stealing. When B returns to their kingdom they're thrown a ball to find a potential candidate for marriage. A shows up, stealing B's attention from another royal, dancing with them. B asks if they can help be A's distraction. A agrees and the two work as a team helping A take treasures off of everyone around them. When A finds out who B is and figures out B knew what A was from the beginning they and ask why B would choose to be around someone like them. B admits they can't remember a time where they've had that much fun. A asks if they'd like to run away with them, have more fun before they have to come back and settle down, living a boring life in a castle. B agrees but things get complicated when B's kingdom is searching for them and B realizes they love A and don't want to go back. 9) Person A is a royal who's kidnapped by bandits and told they'll be sold to the highest bidder. Person B is a pirate captain who robs the bandits and happens to find A. B frees them and gives them enough gold to get home. But when other sailors find out A's an important royal A doesn't trust anyone but B. They insist B take them home to their kingdom. B refuses, insisting they're not a shipping company and that they're a pirate who a lot of people want dead. A insists they don't feel safe with anyone else. B reluctantly agrees when A mentions they'll pay them for their services. The crew takes an instant interest in A, finding them kind and nice to be around. A begins acting as a parent would to the younger members, cooking for them and making more clothes for them. B tells them that they shouldn't speak with them anymore and A asks if they've done something wrong. B insists they don't want them getting attached to A and that they're orphans B took in, that it would be cruel to be so nice to them only to disappear on them. A agrees but as the two spend more time together and their journey comes to an end A isn't sure if they want to return. The crew spend the night begging A to stay but B silences them and tells them they'll drop A off the next day. When the next day arrives and they're all teary eyed as A says their goodbyes, Person B is the one to grab A’s hand and ask them to stay forever. (Bonus if the crew teases B about it once A agrees.) 10) Person A, a royal stumbles onto a pirate ship while it’s docked. Person B, the pirate captain is on the ship while they’re crew is robbing a nearby village. They recognize A's clothes as something a person who's prim and proper would wear. A apologizes for just coming aboard but says they've never been on a real pirate ship before and they wanted to see if it felt like it did in the stories they've read. B shamelessly flirts with them, asking if they'd like to visit the sea with them. A, thinking they'd like to get whatever lust they feel for B out of their system agree. When the crew arrives A stays with B in their quarters. The two spend the trip to the next kingdom attached at the lips. Planning on just dropping A off and robbing another village they arrive at the next kingdom, only to find that A's instantly recognized as the heir of the throne. The crew takes what they can as they're chased out of the village and B grabs A, getting them back on the ship. B asks why A didn't say who they were but A insists B never asked. B tells them they're taking A back home before they cause more trouble for them. But when A bats their eyes and says please, B goes weak and instead finds a disguise for A. (Bonus if the crew's always mentioning to A that B is never this nice to anyone and tells A that Person B must consider them really special to them.)

Sorry these took forever, I hope you enjoy them though!