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pirates of the caribbean + moonlight
pirates of the caribbean really introduced an eldritch octopus man who kills indiscriminately and torments the dead as their poster villain and then you watch the movies and it's like, "oh no, actually the worst villain in this series is a small white british man who functions as the herald of capitalism" and that was very very brave of them
#here is a man so heartless he has literally cut his own heart out of his chest #but he's still not as evil as the fucking east india trading company
I know every potc fan worth their salt knows this already but the maelstrom really is such a genius set piece and I love how it's utilised. like one thing I've been noticing during my most recent rewatches is how the battle starts out a lot more controlled with everyone waiting for orders before they fire the cannons and such but then as the ships go further into the forbidden ussy everything just gets more and more chaotic. I think mr mercer's death is a part of this because he represents the control beckett - ie the natural world - has over jones so having him be present for the start of the battle before eventually getting killed off as they go deeper into the chaos is really nifty
Okay. There's a few plot points I keep seeing people misunderstand about PotC, so I'm gonna be annoying and make a little list of them with their more canon explanations here. Obviously, feel free to re-interpret these things in fanfics and art etc. It's fun to go, "Well, in MY version, THIS is how it works." Unironically: great! Do that if you want!
But for the sake of fandom META, I gotta clarify these points:
Davy Jones did NOT cut his heart out because he loved Calypso "too much" and wanted to numb the pain of loving her
This is the story Will and the audience is told by Calypso as Tia Dalma in Dead Man's Chest--and is the story she apparently believes. It's the story Jones himself probably prefers people believe. It's poetic and sad and makes him look like a victim. But it is a false narrative, and we're shown that in the third movie. Will discovers what the truth is for the audience in At World's End when he meets with Jones and Beckett. He realizes Jones really cut his heart out, because he sold Calypso out to the Brethren Court in revenge and then wanted to numb the guilt of that betrayal, so he could move on without looking back, pretending he "did nothing wrong" even though he cognitively knows it was deeply wrong. Davy Jones didn't simply cut the love out of his chest, he cut his conscience out and buried it in the earth where he cannot go, because he was THAT committed to making her suffer the way he felt he was made to suffer. He would rather mutilate his own body and soul than free Calypso, he is that bitter.
The world isn't a flat earth in PotC
The most basic answer to this is this: it's PotC. The writers like to put intentional contradictions and paradoxes in there for the humor and funsies. "How do you find an island that cannot be found unless it already is?" (Shrug!) "How do you sail off the edge of a world shaped with no edges?" (Shrug!) Don't ask questions, get in the boat.
But if you want a more in-universe explanation, it's a little more complicated:
Earth is still a canonical globe. Beckett owns globes in his offices and is working on having the whole world charted, to force it open for consumption. Jack's sign out in CotBP is about exploring what's over the horizon. In a deleted bit of dialogue from their first scene together, Will questions Beckett why the East India company is in the Caribbean at all, and Beckett asserts, "We are east of India, just the long way around." This isn't something that's specified very well in the final cut of the movies, so this one makes sense for people to not totally get but: the charts they steal from Sao Feng are important because those rotating circles are meant to show seven plains of reality and how the movement of the stars guides access to them. We're never told what the other six plains of reality are, we only know they chart beyond the mortal world, including the world of the dead. People are only able to sail off the "edge of the world" after passing through the Farthest Gate into a new plain of reality. That's what that ice cave is that they sailed through, the Farthest Gate. Because it's a gate that moves with the stars, it might not always be a giant ice cave. Sailing over the Mirror Seas was meant to convey being in that new plain of reality. Whether the Mirror Seas are another whole world and a separate ring on the map or just a liminal space between realities is for us to decide. (I vote the latter.)
While there isn't a canon model of how the edge of the world "works," we know that the world is not flat. There's lots of other models you can play with: for example, I like to imagine it more like Saturn, with something of a spiritual "ring" of extended seas around it that moves, and that's what you have to find and sail over to make it to the Seas of the Dead without dying or needing the power of the Green Flash. Or MAYBE--if you like that post comparing Will and Legolas to each other--it could be compared to Middle-Earth, where the physical world has been bent into a sphere but there's like ... the path along the world's old, flat shape that can be found by elves following Earendil or whatever? The Silmarillion's hard to summarize succinctly, okay?
The entire underworld isn't all Davy Jones' Locker
The PotC underworld is basically an expanded, alternate version of the ancient Mediterranean underworlds--Greek, Egyptian etc--with us only getting glimpses of the oceans around the Pirate equivalents of Tartarus, Elysium and all that. But the Locker is one specific limbo-like space something like purgatory, and it prevents souls from making their journey to the afterlife. It also is supposed to look different to each person trapped there--for Jack it happened to appear like salt flats because that's his personal hell: unable to travel the seas, only having himself for company. (Which... the marooning of pre-CotBP. Just saying.) Once the Black Pearl sets sail on the seas of the dead, and the characters start seeing the spirits of the dead in and on the waters, they're not in the Locker anymore. They're wandering the wider underworld, looking for a way out.
Elizabeth and Will cannot just go meet at sea in the ten years after AWE
There's two problems/conditions with Will and Elizabeth's separation people seem to have not noticed in the movies--either because the dialog isn't an overt statement or people miss the explanations altogether.
Going back to some of what I've established with traveling to the edge of the world: Will is not in the same world/reality as Elizabeth while serving on the Dutchman. That's part of what is meant to be represented by him disappearing in a green flash--he's crossing the boundary into the other world. He sails the seas of the dead, the underworld that they spent the first third of the movie getting to. And while's he's not technically dead, functionally for Elizabeth, it's as though he is for those ten years--if he's doing the job as required, she's not gonna wander around the ocean and just come upon him around shipwrecks or whatever. Will cannot leave the underworld without breaking the terms of the contract. Davy Jones was sailing the seas of the living, because he very deliberately DID break the contract and abandoned his job as the psychopomp of the underworld's oceans. That's the whole reason he and the Dutchman's crew were cursed. He just... didn't care about that part anymore. Will can only do the same thing, wandering the world of the living, if he accepts becoming cursed and trapped as the Dutchman's captain until someone kills him.
I'm gonna self-reblog for my next points, because apparently I'm hitting a character limit on this post.
Elizabeth cannot just stay with Will on the Dutchman (without consequences they probably want to avoid)
She would die eventually--relatively quickly, actually--and it would trap Will on the Dutchman for much longer, which would separate them more permanently and/or possibly longer. This is a big part of what Bill means when he says to Will, "Where we are going, she cannot come." And I can guarantee they would have discussed this together before separating.
One thing people seem to miss: they very specifically but nonverbally demonstrate that there is there is no food or fresh water in the underworld, but people who are there without having died STILL NEED THOSE THINGS TO STAY ALIVE. This is the reason why they took time to put that very specific shot of Gibbs and Pintel not having anything to drink during the doldrums. It's the reason the Hai Peng is shown smashed to pieces in the fall over the edge of the world. The Black Pearl doesn't have provisions either--they blew up the rum in the fight against the kraken. And it's why their first order of business when returning to the land of the living is to look for fresh water.
The reason they were at risk of becoming trapped and doomed to sail the seas of the underworld "forever," as Tia Dalma warned Will, was not because of some magical time limit. It was because they were still mortal people, and were coming close to dying of dehydration. So, even if Elizabeth did make it to the underworld, she can only stay as long as she can feed and hydrate herself. That's problem one.
The other issue is that Elizabeth can't just enter and leave the underworld freely. It's an ordeal to achieve. Her only canon ways in are either through dying at sea or sailing over the edge of the world again... And that might sound like a good option at first. But in addition to the Farthest Gate being hard to find without the Charts or Jack's compass (remember, it moves around), the fall over the edge is dangerous enough it wrecks the vessels you sail in on. Not only would she would lose her transportation, food and water, without some kind of protection she would probably just straight up die in the fall. (Notice how, as they're being pulled over the edge of the world in At World's End, Tia Dalma casts an enchantment right before they fall. Pretty sure that's how they survive and land on the shores of Jack's part of Jones' locker, even though the ship is smashed to pieces.)
Dying is obviously not an option for her, unless you want to tread into tragic/dark fic territory (or again, come up with things that diverge from canon). Besides the obvious issue of how she shouldn't kill herself or let herself be killed "for love" because that's gross... If she dies, she cannot meet Will where they agreed in 10 years time, and he would never be freed from the Dutchman without someone stabbing his heart and killing him too, continuing the cycle of Jones' sabotage. It's also not clear if she could volunteer to serve on the crew for a period of time longer than the length of her natural life. There's a good chance she would only be able to be on the Dutchman--even dead--temporarily.
And that's all without factoring her having their son. Again, if you want to write fix-it fics that change all of it, go for it. Just be aware, even if you pretended she never got pregnant, all of the above has to be addressed or ignored for it to work.
The Flying Dutchman's captaincy is a position that comes with cool power(s) but it is not an empowering position
Again, I think people don't connect that Jones' getting to wander around the world's oceans and do whatever he wanted isn't the NORMAL thing. That's one of the main points of Will and Jack's conversation, where they plan Jones' final stabbing: Jack insists he intends to do as Jones did and wander the world freely, but Will points out if you abandon your post in the underworld, you become cursed.
The Captain of the Flying Dutchman is actually a position of almost no freedom--Will alone of the main cast is left with a list of things he cannot, must not do, places he cannot, must not go etc at the end of AWE. That's not freedom. The captain is functionally indentured as a servant to Dutchman and by extension Calypso. And sure, if you wanted to argue that he or Elizabeth could just do like Jones and ignore the job and just end up looking fishy, that'd be one thing. But the curse isn't only a cosmetic change, and it doesn't only affect the captain. The Dutchman's curse also affects the people who join your crew as well, to the point that they lose their sense of self, their humanity, and eventually fuse with the ship, becoming a part of her. It ends up a corruption of the mind and soul. That's part of the whole reason Will is so desperate to get his father free from the Dutchman. "You begin to forget" and eventually you come to a point of "oblivion"--either a mindless drone who isn't the same person anymore or fused into the ship's literal bones.
This is one of many reasons why I personally don't agree with somewhat popular posts that suggest swapping Will and Elizabeth's places at the end of the trilogy would have been better. Again it's fine if you do want to headcanon AUs where Elizabeth becomes captain of the Dutchman instead. BUT if you do, I hope you understand that unless you also completely change what being captain of the Flying Dutchman MEANS, you are sentencing Elizabeth to a decade trapped in a position that's only a few steps above slavery. If you don't see it that way, you're fundamentally misunderstanding what happens to both Will and Elizabeth, and why they ended up where they do in the end.
Elizabeth entire story arc is about her finding her freedom--the Dutchman would actually be the most miserable place for her to be. On a related note:
Elizabeth was not abandoned on some random beach and expected to stay there until Will came back
First off: P5 is garbage, don't listen to anything it says about Elizabeth and Will before they reunite. They're both OOC until that movie's ending.
Elizabeth and Will spend their honeymoon near Shipwreck Cove. The battle takes place to begin with because the East India Trading Company has discovered their hiding spot and is coming to meet them AT Shipwreck Cove for the final battle. It would have been the closest stretch of land, aside from maybe those sands they parlayed on. They just... apparently felt the beach was more preferable than going into Shipwreck town. (I've always personally assumed they felt it would be safer for the Chest and Will's heart. Pirates are still pirates.)
I think part of the confusion on this is ... well, first off, a lot of people didn't notice Shipwreck Cove is behind them in their final scene. I didn't notice it for... years. I like to joke it's because Keira and Orlando are very distracting, but I genuinely believe it is because audiences are either genuinely so wrapped up in their story that their eyes really are glued on the characters the entire time OR they've checked out of the movie and aren't watching the screen. (Also the limited color palette chosen for that moment might play into it as well.)
An additional point of confusion, I think, is that the place they seemed to have agreed to meet each other ten years later doesn't seem to still be Shipwreck Cove--and if so, that also makes sense if you think about it. But it doesn't have to mean that Elizabeth unwillingly gave up piracy to be a stuck-at-home mom. For example, consider: Shipwreck Cove is a fortress, yes, but part of its security also lay in its secrecy. Now that the EITC knows the location of the Cove, it's probably only a matter of time before a siege is made--and the British aren't the only empire in the world who would be interested in squashing nationless piracy. While Elizabeth probably would have lead its defense as best as she could, the pirates probably needed to ultimately move on to a new harbor.
So where does she meet Will ten years later? We're never told what they decided. We get to fill that blank in. And that's the part that makes it weird to me that people choose to believe it's the same island, and/or a place she can never leave. The island Will and Elizabeth honeymooned on is very rocky and seems like it's a lower elevation, while the island she and their son are on is very tall, and doesn't seem to be the main caldera of Shipwreck Cove. But it could be. And if not, is it Tortuga? Port Royal? New Providence? Libertalia? Someplace new? Until P5, we're never told--and again P5 isn't worth considering IMO.
The one thing the writers BACK THEN wanted to make clear: she was not bound to that one place, just waiting around with their baby and doing nothing else like in Castaway or something. In fact, she in many ways gets the better end of the deal. She's still Pirate King until the war is over, and a Pirate Lord thereafter, if she wants to be. And if she decides she doesn't want to meet him in ten years, technically there are no consequences for her. Will is the one who's restricted in where he can and cannot go or what he can and cannot do etc.
As long as she meets Will somewhere in 10 years, anywhere, and obviously keeps his heart from getting stabbed, it doesn't matter very much what else she does or where else she goes in the 10 years while waiting for him. She can do almost whatever she wants.
She just needs to be there for him on that one, specific day. That's all.
(Spins around in office chair.)
At other people's request: Continuing my monologue dissecting what makes Will Turner tick, which I started here: boop.
TLDR; scenes up to and including the forge sword fight contextualize and reveal who Will is by informing and building on the his major struggles, ambitions and desires. And then there's setting up the other stuff that's obvious: establishing the tone for Will and Jack's relationship, his skills with sharp objects, etc.
Fair warning: I'm rambling--I'm not sure there's any structure to this.
Anyway! Moving on: there's another few aspects of Will's personality that are introduced for the first time in the forge but are important to to the rest of the story: Will is demonstrated to be observant and very quick on the uptake/adaptable, but also inexperienced, somewhat impulsive, emotional, stubborn and willing to put his life on the line when he believes something. We're also introduced to a concept that helps lay the groundwork a key dynamic between Jack and Will: in spite of his wit and silver tongue, Jack is actually really bad at getting out of sticky situations on his own--like to the point it was literally a writers rule that Jack cannot escape by himself. Again, this is largely not spelled out, it's laid out before us situationally, like in the way Will refuses to let Jack leave the smithy even when Jack points his pistol at him.
Let's fast forward to after the Black Pearl has attacked and left Port Royal. Will is essentially in a panic, barging into the commodore's planning meeting and insisting that Norrington, an accomplished naval officer for almost a decade by this point, doesn't know what he's doing. This is where we see the first cracks in his shell: he tried to put up a good image in front of the Governor the day before, but 24ish hours later he's openly insubordinate and even aggressive. Because of the work done setting up his character and relationships earlier, this outburst means something--appearances are clearly not important to Will now, which helps communicate just how much more important Elizabeth is to him and helps us buy into a lot of what comes next in the storyline from him.
Now, a quick question: why is Will so desperate that he doesn't just trust COMMODORE NORRINGTON, the Navy's Golden Boy with a literal fleet of ships-of-the-line at his disposal, to take care of things? Why is he choosing to side with Jack instead, just 'cause it's faster, when hours ago he wanted to kill him? I want to re-iterate this isn't just significant because of who Norrington is literally, but because it shows Will bucking against someone we're establishing as the representation of the social conventions Will has tried to adopt. Besides what I've mentioned about him being emotional, inexperienced and impulsive there's another factor in why he does this.
DID YOU GUESS?
Yep, this again. Remember Will experienced first hand the brutality of the Black Pearl, and it's already been made obvious that he never got over it--that traumatized aspect of his personality isn't just there to facilitate a cool swordfight, it helps provide a solid jumping off point for the whole story. He doesn't just imagine or hear through the grapevine how important it is to move quickly--he's seen it, lived it. With all the other factors we know about him, this helps make it so we're able to believe the dude is almost losing his mind from the get-go and is now ready to tear the world down with his bare hands. And this gives us a character who's going to push the plot forward in fun ways that the audience will buy... which is exactly what a character like Jack needs.
There are two more things I want to talk about before I continue with a part 3. I mentioned among Will's traits that he's observant and a fast learner--he's smart, which a lot of fandom jokes like to push aside because him being smart doesn't mean he's incapable of making errors. All of the characters in PotC are FAR from perfect, and it's part of what makes them fun.
A few ways Will's quick thinking is introduced and reinforced to us: when brokering his deal with Jack, Will picks up readily on how Jack is only interested in him because of his father. Lack of experience means he doesn't know what to do with information, so he just confronts Jack directly (I'll touch on why he's Like That in a bit), and ultimately just gets schooled.
BUT. He actually allows himself to learn something in that moment--not only from what Jack's saying but from what he's doing. So when he eavesdrops on Jack in Tortuga and learns that he is essentially a bargaining chip for Jack, his "leverage," he actually shuts up and starts to play Jack's game--to point that he manages to get the drop on Jack before Jack can get the drop on him. Not only is this exchange reinforcing things we saw in Will earlier in the movie, but this tells even more new things about him: his father's absence affected him, he has a history of going to great lengths for people loves.
This is where's I'd like to take a minute to talk about a key aspect to Will that kind of defines him for a lot of people, and you'll have to forgive me, both because I want to move backwards in the story for a bit and also because this section isn't so much based in pure readings of the character's film presentation, but also involves some headcanon while I'm at it.
I mentioned in my prior post how Will has a second driving motivation in him, which is to be Noticed. I want to peel this back for a bit, because this to me is actually key to a lot of the direction his character is taken in 2 and 3, and even explains a lot of the more bonkers behavior he has in 1. So I like to ask: why? Why's it initially so important for Will to get Society's attention, that he's even initially willing to essentially push Elizabeth away, in spite of his obvious infatuation with her?
This is the headcanon part: I've always interpreted Will's character as suffering from attachment issues, and by extension has somewhat internalized a sense that he's not worth much compared to other people. Why do I think this? Let's review his canon track record with guardians and people of authority in his life:
His father abandoned him as a child
His mother died
Governor Swann--who I've always headcanoned temporarily took Will in, if only as a servant, and then sponsored his apprenticeship--is dismissive of him at best
Norrington likewise doesn't care about him
Gibbs didn't stick around even as a friendly face
Brown, while I've headcanoned was a good mentor at first, is canonically a tapped-out drunkard at least by CotBP
Will Turner's been "pushed away" or "left behind" by every person in his life who could or should have been taking care of him somewhat, since he was a child. He consistently just isn't wanted--not enough that anyone will stick around for him.
And so I feel that by the time we meet 19-year-old Will, he internalizes the idea that he doesn't actually matter in the greater scheme of things... but he desperately wants to matter. And not only matter in the, "Hey World, I'm Somebody!" type of way. Will is honestly STARVING for a meaningful bond with someone--to Really Matter to just one person in his life, enough that they'll stay with him for once.
This is how the core that drives Will Turner more fundamentally than anything else is his desire to love and be loved, even if it kills him. It's why when Jack asks how far he'd go for Elizabeth, he without hesitation declares he'd die for her, and makes good on it by immediately committing crimes that were punishable by death at the time (which in turn is why he's so cool with turning that navy vessel they stole into a bargaining chip in Tortuga--he's already got a death sentence as it is, might as well place all the chips on the table).
It's why Will does... anything and everything, and how his goals evolve across the series the way they do. Not that it's hard, with where his story goes, but remember that.
Anyway! I was talking about Will's brain before I was theorizing about his heart. So let's take a hard turn back onto that topic.
Will's response after his confrontation with Jack over his father isn't the only example of how Will adapts quickly to get out of a snags. He sucks up everything Jack and Gibbs tell him, but is obviously skeptical of the parts that sound like bullshit. He learns a lot from Jack, but doesn't copy him exactly--he applies what works for him, and keeps pushing with his own style of problem solving. Jack assembles the candidates for their crew in Tortuga, but it's Will's proposal that they offer the Interceptor as payment that actually secures the crew and Anamaria and enables the two of them to make it to Isla de Muerte.
And it's established that he often only needs to see something one time to internalize and turn it around to his advantage later. Take a look at what happens when the Black Pearl starts to chase and catch up to the Interceptor: before Will comes up from below decks, the crew is determined to try and outrun the Pearl, and it's who Elizabeth helps them establish a strategy that makes it at least temporarily feasible, by lightening the ship and taking it into shallower waters. But when Will comes above, overturns this decision and starts pushing the crew to fight with literally "anything, everything" they've got. Why does he do this, when they pretty much know they're going to lose? Just 'cause he's reckless? 'Cause he's magically turning into a capable sailor overnight?
Na, man.
ONE MORE TIME FOR OLD TIME'S SAKE:
But this time let's compare this to what happens to the Interceptor:
Will helps take charge in the Interceptor's escape attempt, because he already went through this the last time. He knows you can't outrun the Pearl, knows what's gonna happen when they get caught, remembers Barbossa's preferred tactics and responding to that knowledge with his own knowledge--and it's when he and Elizabeth team up on their strategies that they get a bit of a fighting chance. We see this trend repeat itself in Dead Man's Chest and BOY HOWDY!
Look, I get the jokes about Will being the Dumb One in the group, and by some measurements he is comparatively. For every situation where he busts open new paths for himself and the others, he also royally screws up and puts them into worse situations, especially when he's desperate--like the way he mistimes the revelation of his lineage to try and save Elizabeth. But to quote him, he's "not a simpleton." Textually, Will is actually pretty clever and even capable of being cunning.
What Will is, is divergent from the other leads, because he has a mechanical/practical mind, while everyone else is more... let's say "scholarly." Based their known backgrounds and their vocabularies, it's safe to infer that all the other major players--Jack, Barbossa, Elizabeth, Norrington--are educated people, who all clearly read books and think in terms of political strategy and gaming. All. Of. Them. Will alone among the leads is not like this. I actually can't recall if there's any canon indication that he's even literate--he might not be. He is a blacksmith, a craftsmen, which also involves strategy and problem-solving, but on a completely different level. He makes physical things at the expense of his body for a living, and so he has to manage his own time and energy instead of other's. Therefore his type of planning he's trained to have is, "what's the shortest, most efficient method to get things done and still produce an acceptable result, to save me time and labor." It also involves a lot of, "Welp, don't know if we don't try it, so here we go," experimentation.
It's why when Gibbs is spinning a yarn, he asks questions like this:
And this is part of why Jack calls Will "stupid": Will's approach is so out of left field compared to everyone else's that it screws EVERYONE'S plans up. He's basically bringing a sword to a chess match, and demanding they duel instead. Everyone else involved in these movies, most especially CotBP, is trying to strategize in a way that accounts for all possible outcomes, but Will starts out just caring about taking the most direct path to getting things done. This means that he doesn't often think as far ahead as the rest of the cast, but he does think up completely different solutions. Sometimes it's to their advantage, and sometimes it's very much to their detriment. It makes him simultaneously easy to manipulate but not to the extent that he's easy to predict once he's set off. People like to make out Jack to be some god of chaos--but the angry teenager holding a gun to his own head, makes him sometimes incapable of controlling the chaos, and that's part of what makes them a hilarious duo.
Anyway. Maybe I'll keep going and actually break down actual scenes, idk. We'll see how I feel about it later--I was surprised anyone was even into the first post enough to want more.
i think it’s very sweet that jack and barbossa are undeniably the two worst pirate lords just like in terms of meeting their job expectations
the other seven of them all have full fleets that they command from the sprawling luxury of their estates where they sit atop amassed decades of wealth these two assholes have spent fifteen years fighting over the same oversized dinghy
#and yet you’ve heard of them. do these other guys have movies (via @beatriceportinari)
jack sparrow at his annual review
Having rewatched Pirates of the Carribean several times, I have noticed something interesting. Will Turner is often the only survivor of massive shipwrecks, like the one that killed his mother or the one with the kraken. Other times even when hes alone he survives drowning in ways he really has no right to, like the destruction of the Interceptor. He just often conveniently finds a perfect sized piece of driftwood or something. Remember what Calypso said? About him having a “touch of destiny?” I think that the sea could never kill him, will always cradle him and protect him, because all along he was destined to be the captain of the Flying Dutchman. The sea could no more kill him than a human could cut off their own arm.
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At the jail, it was only after you learnt my name that you agreed to help. Since that’s all I wanted, I didn’t press the matter. I’m not a simpleton, Jack. You knew my father. I knew him. Good man, good pirate. I swear you look just like him.
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↳ Elizabeth, will you marry me? I don’t think now is the best time! Now may be the only time. I love you. I’ve made my choice. What’s yours?