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🪐 — INBOX CLEANUP.   @thecodekeeper​​  sent  a meme  :  hc + curse (calypso)

 ●  you  &  i have actually joked about this, ace, but i legitimately do stand by the headcanon that  calypso didn’t intentionally abandon jones  on that one day ashore when she was supposed to meet him.  let’s all remember that calypso is at least 3500 years old,  &  time simply hits different when you’re ageless !  to an immortal goddess, ten years really isn’t all that long,  &  the honest truth is that she just kinda... missed the date when she was supposed to meet him.  she was just off splashing around somewhere.  it was a genuine whoops moment.  &  i could do an entire separate meta post about my ideas on calypso’s relationship with jones, but it’s also important to remember that to her, mortal love is inherently fleeting. i don’t want to say that jones felt more intensely than she did, but he definitely took their love more seriously than her. she didn’t intend to hurt jones, but she also kinda figured that if she did, he would just... eventually get over it. she certainly didn’t expect him to go to the brethren court  &  curse her over it. ●  after being bound in her body, calypso moves to the shack in swamps of cuba because while as an ocean nymph, she needs to be in close proximity to saltwater to live, it also makes her too sad to be able to see or hear the ever-changing tides when she cannot change her own form with them. the saltwater from the sea that filters into the swamp is enough to keep her alive, without making her any more depressed than she already is. ●  calypso does have some subdued powers even when bound in her human body, such as premonitions  &  inexplicable intuition. she is also clearly capable of necromancy as seen with barbossa, as well as some very slight weather control,  &  communication with animals. she also learns hatian voodoo practices to supplement her own powers. it surprises her that human magic is real, too,  &  that it can even be used in combination with her goddess magic. ●  calypso does have some degree of premonition / intuition, which is particularly strong when it relates to her own powers. she is far less able to predict anything surrounding the magic that is used to bind her. for example, she knew upon her very first time seeing will that he would be the one to become the dutchman’s captain, because it was her power that had created the dutchman in the first place  ( this is what she meant by ‘a touch of destiny’ ).  however, she had no idea that it would ultimately be ragetti who broke the curse. honestly, she thought it would be barbossa after she resurrected him  &  all, or maybe even witty jack, who was actually one of her lovers. ●  the scene with calypso  &  jones when he comes to find her in the brig is the first  &  only time they speak after she gave him the dutchman  &  sent him on his mission. yes, including all the long decades she was cursed. in that scene, she tells him that when she is free, they will be together, always. this is a straight up lie, or at the very least, what she means by it is that he will be hers always because she is planning to fucking drown him in her storm lmao. she tells him that the last thing brethren court will learn in their lives is how cruel she can be. but literally the moment jones falls into the malestrom she’s created  &  dies, calypso’s storm calms  &  she departs the battle.  for these reasons, i think calypso never blamed the brethren court for her curse, only jones,  &  it’s him alone that she wants vengeance on. but she doesn’t want to tell him that to his face  —  she doesn’t want him to see her revenge coming.  &  it does seem to me like jones believes her, even going so far as to say that the malestrom won’t hurt the dutchman, which indicates that he believes calypso to be on his side, which she is actively not. ● bonus silly headcanon : it felt literally so good when she finally got to grow all giant before bursting out of her mortal bones take the form of a few hundred crabs  ( which has always been her preferred physical form ).  it was like, if you had a misaligned vertebrae for literally 80+ years  &  you’d been stretching it but you just couldn’t make it release the tension  &  then after decades of this you finally got to go to the chiropractor  &  they just popped your whole damn spine back into place  &  you suddenly realized you’d kinda forgotten what it felt like to stand up straight without back pain ?  it was just like that for her.  but even better, because then she got to go start a malestrom  &  drown her ex.  &  that’s some # girlboss behavior.