Jack Sparrow (The Swanns)

## Captain Jack Sparrow

### Personality

Shrewd, comical, handsome, calculating, noble, somewhat insecure, eccentric, heroic, brave, leader-ly

### Appearance

Slender, brown eyes, dark brown to black dreadlocked hair, goatee, red bandanna, boots

### Occupation

Captain
Pirate Lord of the Caribbean

### Goal

To achieve the freedom to sail the seven seas as a legendary pirate

### Relatives

Drew Sparrow (younger brother)
Aly Swann (sister-in-law)
Edward Teague (father)
Mum (mother)
Grandmama (grandmother)
Valerie (cousin)
Captain "Ace" Brannigan (uncle)
"Quick Draw" McFleming (second-aunt)
Patriarch (relative)
Mabeltrude (cousin twice removed)

### Allies

Hector Barbossa, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, Angelica (sometimes), Joshamee Gibbs, Pintel, Ragetti, Sora and his summons, Mickey and Friends

### Enemies

Hector Barbossa (formely), Pintel (formely), Ragetti (formely), James Norrington, Davy Jones, Cutler Beckett, Blackbeard, Angelica (sometimes), Pete, Luxord, Heartless, Nobodies

### Weapons

Sword
Flintlock Pistol
Musket

### Fate

Begins his search to return the *Black Pearl* to its original size

### Quote

"Savvy?"
"You will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!"
 "Did everyone see that? Because I will not be doing that again."
"What did the bird say?!"

“*It's a pirate's life for me. Savvy?*”
―Captain Jack Sparrow[src]
Captain **Jack Sparrow** is a Pirate lord and the deuteragonist of the *The Swanns* series. He is first introduced in the film *The Swanns: The Curse of the Black Pearl* and has appeared in the sequels *Dead Man's Chest*, *At World's End*, and *On Stranger Tides*.

## Background

***Personality and appearance taken from Jack Sparrow's page on the Disney Wiki.***

### Personality

Sailing a fine line between piratical genius and mercurial madness, Captain Jack Sparrow has an enemy on every port. Whether it's a silk headscarf from Singapore or a pistol belt from Port Royal, he hasn't paid for any of it. Born on a pirate ship during a typhoon, Jack Sparrow was noted for his unusual demeanor, characterized by a slightly drunken stagger and wild, flailing arm and hand gestures that made him appear unfocused. Jack's seemingly-perpetual drunkenness may have been the cause of his slurred speech.

One of the well-known things about Captain Jack Sparrow was his myth, having been known for having created, or at least contributed to, his own reputation. Sparrow considered himself sensitive to the opposite sex, explaining that he had a "tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature." However, he was not one to commit to intimate relationships, as he considered marriage to be "like a wager to see who will fall out of love first." After facing Davy Jones, Jack desired immortality, which he failed to achieve two times: aboard the *Flying Dutchman* and at the Fountain of Youth.

However, he is shown to care for family, mostly his sister-in-law, Aly, especially when she and Jennifer were pregnant at the same time.

Jack Sparrow was a skilled swordsman, but usually preferred to escape or negotiate rather than fight; however, when forced into combat, Jack held his own in duels by using a combination of swordplay, trickery, and using any available object as a weapon. One of the reasons he disliked combat is because he was frequently disarmed. However, being the Pirate Lord of the Caribbean and having the highest bounty on his head out of all other Pirate Lords might indicate that he was much more skilled in battle than he let on. It was known that he learned swordplay from an Italian fencing master in exchange for captured Chinese silk.

### Appearance

The distinctive look Jack Sparrow gave to himself is accentuated by dreadlocked dark brown to black hair and a goatee beard, though Jack sometimes wears a faded black tricorn hat. By Jack's later life, his hair is adorned with all manner of beads and trinkets gathered from his travels and adventures all over the world, each one having a story that reminded him of a previous adventure, and tied it in his hair or had someone else do it. Jack wears long sea boots and long, hard-wearing linen trousers. A knotted striped-red sash is tied around his waist, where he stows his pistol when not in use. On Jack's back is a long brown coat that he removes when the need arises to either swim or if the air gets too hot. A faded blue waistcoat with a shorter lightly-colored back area and a torn white undershirt makes up the rest of the ensemble. A red bandanna is always wrapped around his head, complemented by his piece of eight (a small, ancient Siamese coin woven into Moroccan beads) draped over his forehead. After his piece of eight was destroyed in the ritual to release Calypso, Jack replaced it with new trinkets. Jack wears two belts, one to which he attached some odd additions. Beneath the belt, Jack wears a sash.

Like most pirates, Jack Sparrow wears four rings, while also wearing a shredded wristband on his right wrist. Jack has two marks on his right forearm: the distinctive "P" brand marked on pirates by members of the East India Trading Company—this one in particular administered by Cutler Beckett—and a tattoo of a sparrow flying across a setting sun. This is a well-known identifying mark, signifying that the bearer has sailed all of the Seven Seas. Jack's back was also extensively tattooed with a 15th century poem called the 'Desiderata'.

Perhaps the most fantastic object Jack carries among his "effects" is his Compass. Obtained in a barter from Tia Dalma, Jack's compass does not point north, but rather towards the thing that the person holding the compass wants most. Since "the thing you want most in this world" is a fairly loose definition, it has been demonstrated to mean people (i.e.: Elizabeth wanting Jack or Will), objects (such as the *Black Pearl* or the Dead Man's Chest), or a place (Isle de Muerta or Shipwreck Cove, for example).

Jack's pistol remained with him for many years, after it was loaded with a single shot and carried with him to the desert island he was marooned on by Barbossa after being overthrown in a mutiny. Jack escaped, and for the next ten years carried the pistol with him, intent on killing Barbossa with the single bullet he had been left. Thus, Jack could not bring himself to fire his pistol on anyone else; although he drew his pistol on Will Turner in order to end a duel between them, he did not use his shot, and was thus ended up captured by the Royal Navy. Jack ultimately got his revenge on Barbossa, shooting him in the heart moments before Will reversed the curse that protected Barbossa. Jack was then free to load his pistol to capacity, and continued to use it years after.

## Credit

* http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Jack\_Sparrow