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Song: Beggin’ by Måneskin
“—fuck’s sake,” Anne whispers under her breath. Ed sits like a marionette with his strings cut, slumped and lifeless, in the gloom of the captain’s quarters. He hasn’t moved in hours, knowing him—just sitting, staring. “Disassociating,” as she’s heard it called. She wants to be gentle. Tactful. Their relationship is in its infancy and she doesn’t want to throttle it, or him, unless she has to.
But he can’t sit about mourning the dead ‘less he plans to increase their stock.
If Ed were Jack, Anne would march over to him, cuff his ear and shake him violently back into the swing—but Jack’s gone, abandoned her with an “old friend,” and Ed isn’t Jack, besides. He’s been churlish and mopey but not as hopelessly inept as Jack, even without his…mate. So Anne approaches him both more gently and less patiently than she otherwise would. She drops a small pouch of rings, gems, and other previous things into Ed’s lap before seating herself with all the comfort and cheek in the world on his chair’s arm. She has a part to play here, one helped by audacity and rage: he’s got one, too, if he ever gets off his arse to play it.
“Why’ve we got good shit, but don’ embrace it?” Anne is careful to give the man the illusion of privacy by staring at the window rather than him—watching his reflection closely, keenly, while seeming only to watch the listless ocean waves outside. “Dwellin on the dead and gone’s only goin t’get us killed,” she continues, speaking not only to Ed now. “Broken men,” and women, “don’t stand e’en the devil’s chance if gettin int’ Heaven—an’ we’re well behind e’en that. May’s well meet up later again in Hell with a good story and no sad endins.
“But that only happens when ye get off yer arse an’ start makin stories.”
Lore Dump Incoming
So! History lesson first. Port Royale—yeah, like the one from the PotC movies—was actually a bustling port city under the British Empire. Of particular importance to our story here is that Port Royale also had a very important role to play in the real history of the pirates of the Caribbean! As in, like…the real ones, not Disney’s fanfiction ones. (I love them but—come on!)
Port Royale served as judge, jury, executioner, and gravesite for many of the most famous pirates we know of. They would famously leave the pirates’ bodies out to rot on the gallows near the water, as a warning to all pirates as to the fate that awaited them there. Port Royale saw to the execution of “Calico” Jack Rackham, Mary* Read, Charles Vane, but famously not Anne Bonny. (IYKYK 😉)
*blah blah blah, I prefer to refer to them as Read or M. Read because they were at the least transmasc and at the most fully a transman, ask me about it some time
So now we’re getting into what’s only for this blog, thanks for reading along if you were reading for the fun history facts! You’re welcome to read the rest of this. Just please know, it’s all headcanon and bullshit from this paragraph forward.
Port Royale is one of two ports Anne, in any verse that’ll let me have it, will do her best to never visit. The other being a smaller port near Havana, Cuba, for more personal and complicated reasons that I won’t be getting into in this post. Anne’s oath against Port Royale is far less personal: she doesn’t usually willing go where pirates get murdered. Crazy, right?
What I like about this oath is the ways in which it really adds to the drama when you remember the capture of the Ranger in Negril, Jamaica, a.k.a. Anne Bonny and M. Read hold the deck of their ship alone. (History says there might have been one more guy with them holding the deck, but that he went down fast. It was actually his death that set off Read’s famous incident—if there’s a man among ye, ye’ll come up and fight like the man ye are to be!—but I digress.) When they are captured, all of them are taken to trial in Port Royale, and all of them are found guilty of the crime of piracy.
Anne and Read can’t ethically be hung at the moment, so for the next six to nine months they sit in jail in Port Royale. Jack and the rest of the gang are promptly hung to death, but not until Anne’s famous incident (if ye would have fought like a man, ye need not have been hang’d like a dog). Read and their child die of fever. Anne and her child disappear before she can be executed. Blah blah blah blah, you guys know the drill by now. (Anne Bonny was NEVERHANGD!)
Basically any time I get to torture her by sending her echoes of the future I’m in, but I wanna build up to that shit!
I think a lot of people underestimate what Steph has gone through because of Black Mask.
First, he kidnaps and tortures her:
When she's unconcious, he leaves to cause more trouble. But while he's gone Steph wakes up and frees herself as seen up top.
She then takes cover and waits for Black Mask to come back. When he does, she catches him by surprise and beats the shit out of him:
She eventually gets a hold of his gun and points it at him, with killing intentions. But she stops herself because she remembers Bruce's teachings. Black Mask then takes back his gun and shoots her on the shoulder:
Black Mask tells her to go back to Batman and tells her to send his regards:
Later on Batman finds her and gets her to a hospital. They have an emotional conversation about her role as Robin. Steph asks him whether she was just a tool to get Tim back as his Robin. Batman does not deny that. Steph explains to him that it meant so much for her to be Robin, to be apart of the Legend. She then tells him that she is tired. Sadly, later on, she passes on:
