Manifesto: Will and Elizabeth from Pirates of the Caribbean

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Title: The Blacksmith and the Governor’s Daughter
Author: ennyousai
Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean
Pairing: Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann
Spoilers: Most definitely, for the entire trilogy.
Word Count: About 2800 or so.
Notes: Thanks to everyone at willelizabeth who gave me feedback on this essay.


The Blacksmith and the Governor’s Daughter


The Blacksmith



I should have told you every day from the moment I met you. I love you.

Will seems to be the odd one out in the Pirates fandom. A lot of the time he is pushed aside as the boring, colorless one –when we first meet him he doesn’t have Jack’s flamboyant personality, Elizabeth’s eagerness to circumvent societal norms, or Barbossa’s rogueishness. However, Will’s sense of honor, justice, and sacrifice provide a much-needed balancing element. In the end, the dilemmas that face Will have the greatest consequences and require the greatest sacrifices on his part.

In order to understand Will we need to look at his background. Growing up, he is for all intents and purposes and orphan – and a member of the working class. Governor Swann might have brought him to Port Royal and presumably helped arrange his apprenticeship with the blacksmith along with giving him some form of education, but he is not allowed to forget that is of lower social status. As a result, when we first meet him as an adult he is very proper, very restrained, and also accustomed to setting his own desires aside. This is made apparent when he delivers Norrington’s sword to the Governor and he is careful to address her as befits her station, telling her that she must always tell him “one more time” to call her by her given name. This same self-abasement comes up yet again toward the end of the movie, before they go to rejoin the Navy ships. In this scene instead of declaring his own feelings for her, Will simply says that her fiancé will be glad to know she’s safe. This reveals that Will’s upbringing has instilled in him the idea that he needs to always be mindful of his place, and that it is no good reaching for what society says he cannot have.

It is telling that the initiative to step out of this box comes from his desire to save Elizabeth from Barbossa. Although we are not given any particulars about his childhood in Port Royal, it doesn’t seem as though he made any attempts to escape from the constraints of his life there whether he was happy with it or not. It takes Elizabeth’s capture to spur him into breaking out the constraints of Port Royal society and doing what he wants, for a change. It is also important to remember that doing so is risky for him – he doesn’t have much standing in Port Royal society, and by taking up with a wanted pirate he is putting himself in danger. This highlights a part of his personality that seems to be pushed to the side at times. Although Will is more uptight than other characters, he knows when to circumnavigate the rules and can act like a pirate with the best of them. When he rescues Jack from the gallows he is essentially saying that there is a time for a law, and a time when you need to transcend the law in order to do what is right. At this point Will has grown up, and no longer sees the world in black and white.

However, when it comes to matters of the heart Will still needs some outside help to get him to finally come clean. When he finally confesses his love for Elizabeth, the strength to do so comes from his belief that by helping a convicted pirate escape he is resigning himself to a less than favorable future. He doesn’t have the protection of coming from the upper echelons of society, and there is no one to save him from the full weight of the law. He knows that he might not have the chance to tell Elizabeth that he loves her ever again, and if he survives they won’t be able to have a future together. However, his sense of justice outweighs his fear for himself and he does the noble thing by saving Jack. Fortunately, Elizabeth steps in and provides the necessary leverage to give both men their freedom, and the last we see of the couple in CotBP is the two of them kissing atop the battlements.

The Will we meet in Dead Man’s Chest is an evolved character. In CotBP he was a young man just beginning to come outside of his shell. Now he is much more confident and much more outgoing, and it shows. He no longer gives authority the respect that he did in the first movie, as is shown in his meeting with Beckett. He refuses to observe all the small social niceties with him, and only agrees to go along with his plan because by doing so he can help Elizabeth. Once he is on the trail to find Jack, Will proves that he has outgrown his somewhat hesitant nature and is quite confident using some level of trickery and deception to achieve his ends – look at the Liar’s Dice scene. Furthermore, he has also learned the value of ruthlessness. When Jack asks him what his plan is once he’s onboard the Dutchman, Will replies that it is to kill anyone who gets in his way. This is a darker version of Will to be sure, but that underlying nobility that propelled his course of action in CotBP is still present here. His motivation comes from his twin desires to free Elizabeth and his father after their encounter on the Dutchman. I am not saying that every action he makes is absolutely upstanding, but his desires are still considerably less selfish than someone like Jack or Norrington. Will’s greatest strength is probably his ability to look beyond self-preservation and act for the benefit of others as well.

At World’s End is the movie that really made me a Will fan. In this movie Will knows what he wants and goes after it with a vengeance – he makes his own plans and keeps them close, he’s more ruthless, he’s more of a pirate. However, he’s still on the noble end of the spectrum. His doesn’t want to become Captain of the Black Pearl for himself, but so that he can have the means to free his father from Davy Jones. Granted, his actions are not pure and outstanding in and of themselves (leaving a trail of corpses for Beckett to follow is decidedly not to the advantage of the rest of the pirates), but the point that I’m trying to emphasize is that Will’s Modus Operandi is still fighting for the safety of his loved ones.

For one of the noblest characters in the series, he has one of the most tragic endings. At the end of the trilogy, Will has become the new captain of the Dutchman, required to spend ten years at sea ferrying the dead and only one day at shore with his wife Elizabeth. While this arrangement does give him his life, it also traps him. Unlike Jack or Elizabeth, who still have the freedom to move through the land of the living, Will is bound to the ocean. He doesn’t have the choice of doing anything else, unless he wants to end up like Davy Jones (not likely).

The Governor’s Daughter



It was my burden to bear.

Elizabeth is a girl born into the upper class who wants desperately to escape the expectations and limitations that society has placed on her. Her father, although he loves her dearly, wants to see her settled in a respectable marriage in which she will become a responsible wife and mother. Ideally, he would like her to marry Commodore Norrington, and doesn’t even consider the blacksmith’s apprentice William Turner to be a possibility. Although Will is the man she loves and would like to be with, the gap in their standing makes this an impossibility with Port Royal’s regimented society. This leaves her with the prospect of a marriage that would hopefully result in a mutual respect and friendship, but could also leave her feeling unhappy and trapped, and either way she would have to live with the question of what it would have been like if she could have married Will.

Elizabeth is a smart, bold, passionate, and courageous woman, and all of these qualities come to the fore during the course of the first movie. When Pintel and Ragetti discover her hiding in the closet, she doesn’t panic and start screaming, instead she invokes parlay. Once she is taken aboard the Black Pearl she doesn’t lose her composure. She keeps her wits about her and plays Barbossa and the crew by threatening to drop the medallion. The first time we really see her in a state of helplessness is after her dinner with Barbossa when she comes face to face with the effects of the curse.

Elizabeth also has a manipulative streak that really comes to the fore after she and Will escape from the cave. When she is marooned on the island with Jack she uses her womanly wiles to hint at an interest in him, when she is really aiming to keep him off of his guard and get him drunk enough so that she can send up a smoke signal of epic proportions. When Will is left with Barbossa’s crew, Governor Swann and Norrington were willing to leave him for his fate and it is only on Elizabeth’s insistence (helped along with the promise of a marriage) that they agree to go back for him. At Jack’s hanging, she pretends to faint so that Norrington and her father will disregard the rescue attempt, then dares her father and the commodore to harm Jack and Will by aligning herself with them. The result is happy – her father and Norrington realize that her true love is Will and out of affection for her stand aside so that she can be with him.

The next two movies highlight the pirate in her. In Dead Man’s Chest Elizabeth sneaks off to Tortuga and joins up with the Black Pearl. The events that happen on the Pearl are among the most debated in the fandom, and I am going to provide my take on it. What happened between Jack and Elizabeth was, in my opinion, flirtation – the two of them were playing with each other, seeing how far the other would take it. It doesn’t mean that Elizabeth suddenly stopped loving Will. It means that Jack is attractive, Elizabeth is feeling a little lonely, and human nature happens. As for the compass, there are a couple of different explanations I have for it. One is that by pointing to Jack, it was responding to her desire to be like Jack, free of social expectation and able to do as she pleases. Another is that it’s simply responding to the heat of the moment. The compass points to what you want at the time, not your deepest desire. Remember, in the third movie it is revealed that Beckett couldn’t use the compass to discern the location of Shipwreck Cove because his more immediate desire to see Jack dead was interfering, while at the end the compass pointed pretty squarely toward rum. The compass pointing toward Jack isn’t a sure fire indication that they are meant to be, and it seems more likely that it is responding to a particularly intense moment between them.

And as the screenwriters point out in the DVD commentary, they did indeed find the chest, based on Elizabeth’s desire to use it in order to help Will.

DMC ends on an ambiguous note for Elizabeth. She has left Jack for the kraken in order to save everyone else, and done so with a kiss. It is worth noting that while she is enough of a pirate to trick him into staying on the Pearl, she is not hardened enough to feel no remorse. Her desire to right this wrong is what sends her on the quest to Davy Jones’ Locker to rescue Jack.

She really comes into her own in At World’s End. I will admit that I had some difficulty accepting her as Pirate King, but the point is that she’s on the top of her game here. She’s confident in her skills and her weapons (“And what makes you think I need protecting?”), she’s determined to stand for what she believes in, and she’s finally free of the constraints of her old life.

Will You Marry me?



I don’t think now is the best time!

Throughout all three movies Will’s devotion to Elizabeth is apparent. Elizabeth’s is less obvious, but that doesn’t mean her feelings are any weaker. She is consistent in her desire to help her beloved, beginning in the first movie and apparent all the way to the end.

In CotBP Elizabeth’s face lights up when she sees the adult Will, and she is visibly upset when he insists on calling her Miss Swann. Later in the film when Will strikes his deal with Barbossa aboard the Interceptor she reacts with horror when he threatens to kill himself, and when she and Jack are marooned she is insistent that they do something to save Will. She even goes so far as to agree to marry Norrington so that he will agree to continue the search, tantamount to sacrificing her own personal happiness for the possibility of saving Will’s life. In the final section when Will tells her he loves her, her expression is one of awed delight, and the film culminates with their kiss on the battlements.

DMC the most problematic for the couple, but that devotion is still there. Part of Elizabeth’s motivation for escaping Port Royal and fleeing to Tortuga is of course to save herself, but an equally important part is her desire to help Will. The Black Pearl’s heading comes from her desire to find the chest in order to help Will, and when Will arrives on Isla Cruces she immediately rushes to greet him with a kiss. She is shocked and angry when Will reveals that it was Jack who maneuvered him into going aboard the Dutchman, revealing that one of her main concerns is for Will’s safety. And finally, when she chains Jack to the mast one reason for her actions could be that she is sacrificing Jack in order to keep Will safe – out of the two of them, she chooses Will.

Still, the ending of the second movie leaves our pair in a rather difficult place. They no longer trust each other, and they act without letting the other know their plans. As a result misunderstandings pile on top of each other and they end up spending a large part of the film following separate storylines. That said, there are a couple of significant pieces of information that come up during the course of DMC that tell us that their relationship is more than simply Will worshipping his childhood idol. For one, sometime during the interval between the first two films Will has taught her how to use a sword, and given her level of skill we can assume that it was not a token favor (all right, honey, hold the handle and just slash around, that’s all you’ll eve need to know!); he respected her wishes and actually taught her how to fight. Furthermore, the film also shows us evidence that Will has faith in Elizabeth’s ability to take care of herself. On the DVD commentary during the scene when Will discovers her discarded dress on the Edinburgh Ted and Terry remark that this is the point when Will realizes that he can stop worrying about Elizabeth because she can take care of herself. This faith in her is further emphasized during the kraken attack when Will entrusts her with the job of shooting the gunpowder barrels. He is not trying to keep her out of the way of the action “where it’s safer” because he knows that she is a strong, capable woman who is a valuable member of the team.

So although their bond is strained by the end of the second movie, it is still present at the start of AWE. This is made apparent right when Will enters the film and Sao Feng threatens him – Elizabeth cannot hold back her horrified reaction, instinctively reacting to seeing someone she loves in danger. On the journey back from the Locker when she sees her father, Will pulls her back and she throws her arms around his neck, willing to accept comfort from him. Perhaps most significantly, when they are reunited on the small island for the parlay, Elizabeth makes a trade to get Will back. This tells the audience that between the two of them she rates Will higher than Jack, or at least wants to make sure that Will is close to her. Seeing Will’s father has given her a deeper look into what is motivating Will at this point, and has enabled her to look past the initial hurt at his betrayal to understand his dilemma. You can also say that she doesn’t Will to be the one to stab the heart and that that is why she trades him for Jack. She doesn’t want Will to end up as the CotFD because she knows that that would jeopardize their own chances for a life together, something that she still wants.

Then there is the wedding scene. When Will proposes to her in the midst of Calypso’s maelstrom, it is Elizabeth who runs with the moment and asks Barbossa to officiate. It is also she who initiates their nuptial kiss, reaching up to Will down to her when they inadvertently cross swords. And on the Dutchman when Will is stabbed in the heart, Elizabeth is clearly devastated. Jack has to drag her away from him, as she insists that she won’t leave him and implores her to stay with her. As they fly away from the sinking ship, Elizabeth is clearly heartbroken, believing that Will has been taken from her.

Keep a Weather Eye on the Horizon

Will you keep it safe?

Of course Will isn’t really dead. He’s the new captain of the Flying Dutchman, which has given him immortality, of a sort. The catch is that he can only spend one day on land for every decade at sea guiding the souls of the dead to the other side.

The nature of this curse has been debated quite a lot in fandom, and I’m going to offer my take on it. The final cut of the movie does not make any specific mention of the curse being broken if Elizabeth is faithful for ten years, but I believe that this interpretation is valid. For one thing, the story of the captain of the Flying Dutchman that the screenwriters are basing the story most heavily on is Wagner’s Der Fliegende Hollander, in which the captain spends his one day on land searching for a love who will be true to him. When he is successful, he will be free. The similarities between these two storylines are very strong, so I’m willing to accept the idea that Elizabeth (or someone else) being faithful to Will would release him. Furthermore, there’s the matter of the green flash. We are told quite specifically that the green flash heralds the return of a soul from the dead. While some people say that it is only a sign of the Dutchman arriving to make port, given the fact that in all the times we see the Dutchman surface without the green light, I think it’s safe to say that the flash at the ten year mark is of special significance, and indicates Will is free of his ship.

It is my belief that Elizabeth would not resent Will for this situation. He didn’t really have much of a say in it, after all, and it’s better than being dead. Furthermore, we don’t know that they never see each other during those ten years. Davy Jones met Calypso on the Black Pearl, after all. And even if they didn’t, Elizabeth is a strong enough woman that she wouldn’t just spend ten years sitting on a deserted island pining away. She is still the Pirate King, and she is still strong willed and resourceful, and while I believe that she would definitely miss Will, I don’t believe that her husband being forbidden to step on land for ten years would break her spirit. The fact of the matter is that Elizabeth chooses to wait for Will because of the love she bears for him.

And besides – this is a fantasy movie, and in fantasy movies true love conquers all.

So Why Do They Work?

It’s always belonged to you.

So why do Will and Elizabeth work, beyond “they are the couple that Disney intended?” I will admit that at the end of the first movie, it seems plausible that they might be together for a while, but then drift apart. At that point, their relationship is still very new, and has only just started to move away from the “longing from afar” stage. Fortunately, by the end of the series they their bond has faced enough challenges to mature into a love that is strong and enduring.

More than anything else, I believe that they work because they balance each other very nicely. By the end of the trilogy Will has evolved into enough of a pirate to satisfy Elizabeth’s desire for adventure, but he still has the same selfless nobility. Unlike Jack, whose first love will always be the sea and who will always go off following his own desires, Will can see beyond himself and put someone else first. This honorable streak appeals to Elizabeth, who for all that she is a pirate still values traits such as nobility, selflessness, and loyalty (illustrated by her speech to the pirate fleet). Will, on the other hand, is no longer as uptight and self-conscious as he was in the first movie, and has matured into a confident, capable, and more adventurous young man. Together they make a very nice mix of the best parts of the pirate lifestyle (living outside of societal rules and constraints, the freedom to go wherever they please) with the best aspects of the more “conventional” values (self-sacrifice, loyalty, honor). They are two halves of a whole, with the different aspects of their personality complementing each other. Elizabeth pushes Will to be more of a risk taker and to step outside of his comfort zone, while Will acts as the stabilizing force, providing a solid ground for them to come back to and to give them the comfort of family and home.

idle_curiosity has brought up a very important point regarding the Will and Elizabeth relationship; namely that by the time the third movie rolls around, neither of them really have these idealized views of each other anymore. They are no longer looking at an idealized version and not seeing the real thing. Instead, they have seen and come to terms with exactly what the other is capable of, and choose each other anyway. In the third movie Will discovers that Elizabeth essentially murdered Jack, which is a pretty extreme action that takes a lot of respect and understanding to come to terms with – as curiosity pointed out, how would you feel if you found at that your significant other had left someone to die? Will doesn’t scream at her in horror and denounce her as a fiend. He understands Elizabeth, understands the way her mind works, and is still wiling to be with her – but it’s unlikely that he’s still keeping her on a pedestal after that revelation.

The same can be said in reverse. In AWE Will commits mutiny, which is no light sin in nautical circles. Elizabeth’s first reaction is shock and some anger, but by the end of the film she has come to realize just why Will would resort to such desperate measures. She can see beyond his actions to his heart. To quote idle_curiosity again, “By the end of AWE, the blinders are off and Elizabeth and Will see each other clearly. And they choose each other. Will made his choice, and Elizabeth made hers. I don't their choices were for the idealized versions of each other, but the real deal.”

The romance between Will and Elizabeth is one of the central themes of the franchise. Throughout all three movies we can see how their actions revolve around each other, trying to protect each other and return to each other. While the end of their story is more bittersweet than happy, there is no question that they are devoted to each other and that the love between them is stronger than the curse.

Fandom
For some reason it seems that canon pairings are often the pairings that it most difficult to find decent fanfiction for. Fortunately for us, after the release of AWE there seems to be increased interest in the pairing. I'll admit that I'm a sucker for stories that deal with their separation (it's such good dramatic material...) so that's going to comprise a large portion of these recs.

Four Hundred Years by thegranddewru is beautiful and sad, dealing with immortality and reincarnation.

turn your sail(never say we die) by mercurial_wit is one of my favorite portrayals of Will and Elizabeth post AWE. It's a very believable end for them, and very well written.

Ten-Year Century by hikari_cyhan is another lovely "Will coming home" fic that deals with the ten year interim.

Keeping Faith by the_dala is an excellent post-AWE fic that deals with Elizabeth living alone with her son, and without Will. There is also J/E the fic, but it's well-written and believable. Still a WIP, but let's hope there's more soon!

You can also go through the_dala's memories to find more Will/Elizabeth stories. The writing is fantastic and you won't be disappointed.

bibliophile_42 has some great W/E fics, including Oceans and Thorns, an AU WIP that I sincerely hope will be continued soon. ;)

In addition, there's also the willelizabeth community. You can also find Will/Elizabeth fics on pirategasm.

The Captains Turner is a Will/Elizabeth fanfiction archive that has some nice stuff. Good for browsing.

Comments

[janegray.livejournal.com]

Lovely manifest, gotta love Will/Liz :D

It doesn’t mean that Elizabeth suddenly stopped loving Will. It means that Jack is attractive, Elizabeth is feeling a little lonely, and human nature happens.

Another is that it’s simply responding to the heat of the moment. The compass points to what you want at the time, not your deepest desire. Remember, in the third movie it is revealed that Beckett couldn’t use the compass to discern the location of Shipwreck Cove because his more immediate desire to see Jack dead was interfering, while at the end the compass pointed pretty squarely toward rum. The compass pointing toward Jack isn’t a sure fire indication that they are meant to be, and it seems more likely that it is responding to a particularly intense moment between them.

Agee 100% ^_^

I'm just really, really annoyed that all the important scenes that explained that Will's Curse was broken were edited out, whereas a lot of dumb and unnecessary scenes were kept. What was the director on?

[chavalah.livejournal.com]

Been looking forward to a Will/Elizabeth essay for awhile; thank you! Am looking forward to the release of AWE so I can cap an icon. :D

My one (general) question about the theory of Will coming back for good after 10 years is...won't he still be immortal? He still has a vital organ locked in a chest unless Elizabeth adds "heart surgeon" to her arsenal of talents. :P Which, hee, I think she'd be capable of, though the writers just might disagree with me.

Again, great essay and thank you!

[ennyousai.livejournal.com]

My take on that is that once the curse is ended Will will just revert back to a human state, logical organ replacement be damned. Fairy tale and all. ;)

Glad you liked!

[shiegra.livejournal.com]

So, so beautiful. I supported the pairing beforehand but you wrote...you told the story of their relationship with consummate and complete perfection. The way you fleshed out the characters was awesome, and I eternally adore you for it.

[damalur]

Absolutely wonderful - it's about time that we had a Will x Elizabeth manifesto, and you did an excellent job. And thank you for the rec! ^^

[commander30.livejournal.com]

That was really nicely done. :D (And that's coming from a Jack/Liz fan, mind you!) I really like how you mentioned that by the end, the idealism from the first movie is completely gone, yet they still accept each other. XD

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

This was delightful; thank you for putting this together. I'm definitely going to check out some of your recs; I've been craving good fic since the epilogue of AWE!

[supersyncspaz7.livejournal.com]

Great, great work! I tend to lean more towards the Jack/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Norrington teams, but after AWE, I felt like their story was complete and they were really great together. And the fighting in the middle of a storm while getting married thing was great too.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

This is really quite good. You should advertise it on some POTC communities; I just happened to find it here by chance when I was checking the community for new essays.

[compassrose7577.livejournal.com]

It's refreshing to see someone stand up, finally, and demand the respect that Will deserves. On too many ocassions, he has been treated like the ugly prom date. What's to do with poor Will?

Of all, I think Will was the most evolved of the main characters, he made the biggest changes the fastest of any. He may have been naive at the beginning, but his eyes are wide open by the end of AWE, in may respects.

I don't see the CotFD as a curse for him, but more of an additional coming of age, the responsibility which he will take with full seriousness. Nor will he be willing (contrary to many popular thoughts) to offer off his new wife to the scourge of his life: Jack. Will would no doubt be fully sympathetic to the loneliness Elizabeth would be experiencing, and might be willing to forgive a few indescretions (technicalities of the curse, notwithstanding), there would be a fine line of the unforgiveable.

A wonderful and refreshing treatise, that does, indeed, deserve wider acknowledgement.

[ladylavinia.livejournal.com]

We are told quite specifically that the green flash heralds the return of a soul from the dead. While some people say that it is only a sign of the Dutchman arriving to make port, given the fact that in all the times we see the Dutchman surface without the green light, I think it’s safe to say that the flash at the ten year mark is of special significance, and indicates Will is free of his ship.


According to Rossio and Elliot, Will IS FREE from his ship after ten years, due to Elizabeth's faithfulness. The same would have happened for Davy Jones, but he had the bad fortune to either fall in love with the embodiment of the sea (Calypso) or failed to understand the nature of whom he had fallen in love with.

[ennyousai.livejournal.com]

The reason I didn't include this is that it's still being debated in fandom due to the fact that those scenes were not included for whatever reason, and it is never explicitly stated. Therefore, I wanted to point out ways in which we can still accept it as truth without explicit confirmation.

I labeled it as tragic because that is the way I see it - they have a happy ending, after a fashion, but Will was still stabbed through the heart and after that one day he's off to ferry the dead instead of being with his wife. Earlier in the film Will expressed hesitation and unwillingness to stab the heart of Jones, but in the end that choice was taken away from him. For me, that necessary separation and the ban against stepping on land for a decade is tragic - he can't be with his wife and child as much as he'd want to be through a series of events that were partially out of his control.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Not to mention, with the best outcome he doesn't get to spend the first nine years of his first child's life with him. No matter how many good things Mom tells him about Dad, the fact is that Dad being gone during those formative years will affect how Junior relates to him - and perhaps even to male authority figures - the rest of his life. He might also harbor some jealousy that any younger children will have full childhoods with Dad in the picture.

[enchantedteacup.livejournal.com]

Great essay! I really liked the structure too; the analyses of the characters separately were effective. Great job!

♣ enchantedteacup

[keechakatt.livejournal.com]

This was a brilliant essay! You really don't see too many so well written on Will and Elizabeth.

Would you object to my posting a link on hidetherum.net? This is of course a total pro-Will and Elizabeth site. I think they would enjoy your essay as well. I would make sure you have full credit for your essay. :)

[ennyousai.livejournal.com]

Not a problem. Glad you liked it. :)

[llivla.livejournal.com]

Amazing, brilliant essay. I love Will/Elizabeth so much and can't understand why it's so bashed. BRILLIANT add in about the green flash- - I knew there was something extra dramatic than seeing Will at the end, but I thought it was just credit jitters. What a ...wow, great interpretation. And I couldn't agree with you more on the compass. :) This was great, thank you for taking this on and posting it!

[angelicmousegrl.livejournal.com]

This is one of my biggest and most romantic OTP's, I love it truely and don't understand the bashing and hate against it. This essay was fantastic, brilliant and awesome, great job! ^_^