#dearestmina

"Luck, she is but a fickle mistress, one in which I believe in whole heartedly, even though she often sways away from offering her favour to myself. I often find her making bed with my enemies rather than settling in my own, or that of my friends, but such is her nature I suppose. As for the matter of fate, I believe in none other than that of our own which we make. No predestined ideal led my person to come to work aboard the ship of Charles Vane and thus start a radical pursuit of a life of piracy; but singularly my own determination to make something of the shambles left after the debt collectors were done ravaging the carcass of my father’s life’s work and chasing any squandered threads of hope from my chest. There was no fate that led Woodes Rogers to Nassau’s shores, only England’s greed and desire to civilise what it can’t control. The only instance in which I could possibly even begin to conceive a moment of fate occurring was the day my path crossed with that of Anne Bonny, though I would argue - quite vehemently I might add - that it was one of the rare days instead that Lady Luck saw myself worthy of her favour...”

In terms of thinking of his actual death, he tends to think of it as a goalpost to avoid, and tries not to actively dwell on the notion.

“And what brings you seeking the shadows, it’s a long way to go without intention...”

Appearance in a wider sense is also incredibly important to him because he knows he cannot show weakness. Long bouts of weakness makes for short terms as captains.This is why he killed the surgeon who helped him after Pan cut his hand off, because that man had seen him near death from blood loss and agony. That is also why he cannot bring himself to immediately seek out Long John Silver, who helped him train to his full strength again with his right hand and saw the frustration, the weakness and the concern that he might not make it.

do she does not, she would rather have it happen naturally. i am guessing melody has past flings but nothing serious.

winter, because its cold and people rarely travel in the conditions of snow and ice making everyone a little more of a homebody. but that’s adam all of the time. he takes comfort in the company of his fire and a book.