And in the Vesper Light...A Siren's Call:
On that initial sailing trip with Dave and Feet, Bruce had a memorable experience that would change the course of their lives. As the sun began to set, Dave spotted a green flash in the distance [what Bruce had offhandedly dubbed a Vesper Light], a rare phenomenon that occurs when a specific combination of atmospheric conditions align perfectly...but for Dave, that green flash was an inspiration. For the rest of that night, and even as they sailed back to shore, the image slowly engrained itself deeper and deeper into his memory, even as the tale slowly patched itself together from various tales, before slowly solidifying into
a grand cacophony of narrative and music.
Days turned into weeks, and those weeks slowly became a month as Dave dedicated himself to refining and perfecting his story. It was a tale of adventure, romance, and swashbuckling action, set against a backdrop of pirates and the high seas, and from that simple framework slowly sprung forth a vast and epic Naval Opera that grew around that original core of a forbidden romance, that between a simple man finding his way in the world (essentially a pirate) and a governor's daughter:
The Curse of the Black Pearl.
But even as he worked tirelessly on his script, something felt incomplete. The characters were still little more than caricatures, lacking the depth and nuance that he knew the story deserved. Still, he continued to work, pouring his heart and soul into the script. And with each passing day, the
first notes of a melody began to grow more insistent, calling out to him in the quiet of the night, slowly growing a magnum opus of his own without end.
Near the end of that August, even with the very much rough draft, he felt his script had the potential to resonate with audiences around the world, as he knew that from that simple note, the first notes he had heard what felt like so long ago, that had inspired it all. And as he gazed out at the sea, searching for the Vesper Light to appear once more, he knew that it was that elusive spark of creativity that had led him to this.
"That was the moment that lit the fire," Dave had said to Bruce and Feet eventually, showing them the very much incomplete draft. "It was like something inside me just clicked, and the rest is history."
As the sun began to slowly set once more over the Pacific, he gently whispered into salt-heavy breeze the words that now had finally formed.
~
Cruel and cold like winds on the sea
Will you ever return to me?
Hear my voice sing with the tide
My love will never die.~
Once more the vesper light flashed, and once more its siren's song called from beyond the sea.
Curse of the Black Pearl:
by Dave Alistair ( Rough Draft '75 )
In it, we learn the story of The Flying Dutchman and its captain, Davy Jones, who had made a deal with Hades to give up his heart in exchange for immortality.
The main story followed the adventures of a young sailor named Jack Sparrow, who had been forced into a life of piracy after being betrayed by his own crew. Jack was a man of many talents - a master swordsman, a skilled navigator, and a charismatic leader. But he also had a secret - he was cursed to spend eternity as a ghost, unable to die but also unable to be seen by anyone except his crew. As the story progressed, we were introduced to a young governor's daughter named Elizabeth Swann, who had been kidnapped by the notorious pirate Blackbeard and his crew. Jack and his crew of cursed sailors embarked on a mission to rescue her, navigating treacherous waters and fighting off deadly foes at every turn.
But the true twist of the story came when Jack met Elizabeth and realized that she was, in fact, the reincarnation of Persephone. With that revelation, the story began to take on a deeper, darker tone, as their love becomes forbidden and their union challenged by the punishments of Hades and a jealous group of gods.
A/N: I blame this version of Davy Jones Lullaby for this, but...yeah. Don't plan on having this be on Dave's backburner for...the next twenty years, so that each script gets tighter and tighter before getting a slightly more refined version of what we get in OTL, so Jack's gonna be the problem child something fierce until Johnny Depp.
