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I got a bit off topic there but! You can see what I'm trying to say, right? Or at least get the vibes?

-Heathen

heathen! hello! that's a good question. I don't think about the council often, so give me a sec to think of something I'd want to change about them. Okay got it.

I think I'd want them to be adults, emotionally and behaviorally speaking. Physically, they are adults and have graduated and several of them are thousands of years old, but they don't act like it! And that irks me personally.

They are immortal leaders of an inhuman world and yet they act so childish! I hate it! I think the most obvious example is Councilor Alina, who seems to have a personal vendetta against the crew. When she was still Dame of Foxfire she literally complained about Keefe in his records, which is incredibly unprofessional in any setting but for someone who became a councilor??

There's also Oralie who couldn't stay resolute or sacrifice something for her position so she broke the law and had a child (that she had no contact with for 12 years) because she wanted to but couldn't give up her position. It's understandable to want a child to an extent, but I disagree with her actions and think they're naive.

There's Clarette who was stubborn against accepting her part in Fitz being stabbed in the chest if I'm remembering right. I'd have to look through the book to see exactly how she responded, but she wasn't exactly guilty over what happened.

Those are just a few examples. I've said it before and I'll say it again but the adults don't feel like adults in this series, not to me at least. And I think it's a shame when the council has so much potential to be intimidating and these powerful leaders!! Instead they're insolent school children who lower themselves down and engage in petty arguments and talk down to children. It's...not what I would've personally wanted.

You're right! They do sound like fun in theory. Like I said, they're an immortal group of leaders ruling an inhuman species for millennia with powers and control that's basically "what we say goes." That has so much potential to impact the world. They could be ruthless, see themselves as gods, exercise unfair control and be a fascinating government! They have so many rules I'd love to see them adhere to a strict moral code, follow it to a t, really become leaders instead of members of society.

And i think a great step towards that (because while it would be cool I don't know if it would fit the vibe that keeper has going on. would contradict a few guidelines they set and priorities of the council) would be taking them away from the petty, trifling, stubborn attitudes they have with the characters and turning them into responsible adults. People who understand that they're talking to children and as such try and keep them out of things, speak respectfully but firmly, things like that. They're elves !! Elves live forever!! They shouldn't be bothered with things as easily as they are and they shouldn't be treated children (especially ones thousands of years younger) the same as they treat adults.

I guess I might be saying I want to dehumanize them a little, make them more observant and detached. It's their interactions with the group that annoy me, so maybe I'm trying to take them away from that.

       rIGHT YES okay so the scene to which you’re referring, ingrid, is one of my favourites in the entire trilogy, because it’s really the only time in AWE we as the audience truly get to see just how much Jack’s time in the Locker has affected him ( there’s honestly a lot going on in this scene, and also important is the fact that Jack has this conversation with Barbossa, of all people. it’s this nuance to these two’s relationship that was completely thrown to the wayside in DMTNT but I digress before I get angry about it ). 

     Jack prior to his death in DMC would definitely not have uttered a line like ‘the world’s still the same, there’s just less in it.’ one thing that has, up until this point, defined Jack as a character is his thirst for life. he lives his life to the absolute fullest, is eager to experience as much as possible, and believes in the idea that there’s always more to explore and experience. this scene really turns that concept on its head and suggests that Jack has lost that sense of wonder about the world – and is also very lost in himself, as well.

      and it’s understandable, really, considering the trauma he’s been through. he’s seriously struggling at this point in AWE: he’s afraid of dying/returning to the Locker, thinks immortality and stabbing Jones’ heart might be the solution ( spoiler alert: it’s not ), but he’s also not sure what’s left to really live for at this point, particularly when faced with the pressing reality that piracy and his way of life is dying out. the mystery and mythicism of the world is being stripped away with every step Cutler Beckett and those like him take to ‘civilise’ the world ( it’s symbolic: Beckett is literally charting and defining the edges of the map in his office on Port Royal ). 

       you only have to look at how he reacts when he returns to the Pearl after escaping the Pelegostos, which is the first time since his ‘capture’ that he can finally let all of his anger and frustration out ( because he obviously had to act the part of the chieftain in order to survive ). his first instinct is to take out this anger on Jack the monkey, who has clearly functioned since the end of CotBP as an outlet for him. he actually says in the original DMC script that he does it to keep his aim sharp, which I’m sure is true, but it’s also an easy way for him to let that anger out without hurting anyone ( except the monkey lmfao ).

       contrast that to the Locker scene in AWE, where the ‘real’ Jack stalks around the deck taking out his anger ( because damn is he angry in that scene ) on the other versions of himself. he’s shifted from ‘violence towards inanimate objects and/or undead monkeys’ to literally imagining a scenario where he can be violent towards himself ( although his mind is actually producing those hallucinations in order to protect him and stop him from doing himself harm ).

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