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Name: Anne Bonny Door: Door pass (Dominant) Canon: Black Sails Canon Point: Post-S2 Age: Late 20s Appearance: Here History: Wiki Personality: CW for mentions of sexual and spousal abuse, underage marriage, and rape. - Unpredictable: Anne Bonny is a dangerous woman because she carries knives on her person and knows how to use them. She's also dangerous because she's entirely unpredictable – with one single exception in the form of her partner in all things, Jack Rackham, who knows her as well as he knows himself. Even then, there are times when even Jack can't control her. This unpredictability is a boon for her survivability – she's incredibly violent, as a byproduct of the place and time in which she was raised, and because she was treated as a disposable object from a very young age. Married to a violent, abusive man when she was just thirteen, Anne was conditioned as a child to view the world with suspicion – either her surroundings are hostile and must be dealt with violently, or they are a cage threatening to lock her away. As a result, she lashes out with violence as a first resort: for example, when she was sexually assaulted by a man on the crew when he puts his balls on her shoulder, she cut his balls off, and when she's rejected by a different crew she lets her rage sustain her through assaulting the man who rejected her and also murdering two other people. When Anne is angry, she's at her most threatening, because there's no telling what she might do with her anger. - Ruled by emotion: Though stoic and distant, skulking near Jack or in the corner of a room, Anne is by no means emotionless. In fact, she's entirely the opposite: under her grim, serious face is a bubbling inner turmoil that she's never been equipped to deal with. Mostly, this turmoil manifests as rage, and her other strong emotions – confusion, sadness, regret – are often filtered through rage too. Her emotions rule her because she doesn't know how to control them, and finds it difficult to express herself as a result. For example, when Anne is faced with her burgeoning attraction to Max and she begins to confront what this might mean about herself, she holds the truth very close to her chest, pushing Max away rather than opening up to her. She also allows her anger over the way Max is being treated by the remaining members of her and Jack's crew to dictate her actions – despite Jack's insistence that they need the men on the crew to make sure they can get by without being killed when their captain returns, Anne hatches a plan with Eleanor to kill all eight crew members just so she can save Max from a fate which she believes is worse than death. It's a deadly combination of traits – Anne runs on pure instinct, but that instinct is all emotion, and she's no good at being able to separate her emotional response to a situation from the practicalities. - Stubborn: It's probably no surprise that Anne is intensely stubborn. She holds onto her grudges like life rings, and even Jack isn't spared, if her frequent snarls of 'fuck you, Jack' are anything to go by. When Jack privileges Max over Anne, forcing Anne to stay off the ship at the behest of the crew, Anne is so betrayed and upset that she storms off, getting as far away from Nassau as Port Royal before she decides to come back, ultimately saving him from would-be assassins upon her return. With anyone else, she likely wouldn't have come back at all, but Jack is as always the one exception to Anne's rules. Anne also finds it difficult to admit when she was wrong or when she made a mistake; it's a survival instinct that's done her well for the most part, but it's also capable of leading to communication breakdown and frustration. + Principled: Despite all of this, Anne is not without principle. It may seem that way on first inspection, but Anne is deeply affected by seeing injustice, especially sexual abuse and assault, and will do as much as she can to protect someone from a fate like this, which she considers to be worse than death. When Max tries to escape, Anne hands her over to Captain Vane, though later is furious when Vane's men start to take advantage of Max, raping her repeatedly; when Max asks why she's angry about this when Anne was the one who handed her over, Anne replies, "I only thought they'd kill you." She's gentle when she wants to be, with people she wants to be gentle with, and she's resolutely loyal to Jack. Jack saved her from her abusive husband and she's been with him ever since, both because she's loyal to him and because she believes that she owes it to him to be by his side. "You and I are gonna be partners until they put us in the fucking ground," she says, and as far as she's concerned her word on the matter is gospel. Powers and Abilities: None, just a regular ol' early 1700s pirate with a penchant for stabbing. Inventory: Her two knives, which she keeps hanging on her belt. Samples: one, two |
canon update —
Season 3
- Jack and Anne are put in charge of rebuilding the fort on Nassau after taking the Urca gold at the end of S2. Anne is liaising between Jack and Max, who's now in charge of the brothel. Her and Max have entered a relationship, and in the timeskip between seasons have grown quite close. Anne is struggling with where she should put her loyalty, and her relationships with Max and Jack are strong but a little tenuous, as she dislikes being caught between them. She has begged Max not to try to force her to decide between her and Jack. Max persuades them to exchange the gold for pearls, which will be easier to transport.
- Governor Woodes Rogers is bringing a Royal Navy fleet to the island to take it over. With no sign of Flint, Jack tries to persuade the pirates to defend the island against the Navy, with Captain Blackbeard in charge. Their resistance doesn't last long after Rogers offers the pirates of Nassau pardons, which most except for the hardened loyalists to the pirate cause accept. Jack and Anne help Vane escape and plan to flee with their pearls, while Max decides to stay and try to build a new life under English rule, ending her relationship with Anne, who is heartbroken. Jack and Anne leave, but Jack goes back to take pardons for both of them so they can live without being on the run, leaving Anne with the cache of riches to wait until he comes back. He's caught and apprehended by Rogers, who needs him to give up the Urca gold to give back to the Spanish.
- Jack is told to write a letter to Anne asking her to hand over the cache when Rogers' man finds her, but secretly tells her to take it and run. She does, killing Rogers' man when he approaches. Later, Max finds her to speak to her alone, lying to her and claiming that Jack is being tortured and will continue to be tortured until the cache is found and returned. At first, Anne refuses to give up the cache, but after talking to Vane she agrees as he promises he and Flint will help her free Jack before he can be taken to be executed.
- They free Jack but lose Vane, who is executed – not directly by Eleanor Guthrie, but she was responsible. Together Anne and Jack help Flint defend Maroon Island, persuading Blackbeard to join the cause. Anne leads a vanguard aboard an English ship and is successful in capturing it.
Season 4
- On the run from Rogers' forces on Nassau, Anne and Jack, aboard Blackbeard's ship, are reeling from the death of Vane. Jack insists on fighting in the vanguard and putting his life at risk as a result; Anne is furious, telling him that his determination to prove himself as worthy isn't going to curry favour with Vane's father-figure Blackbeard, nor is it going to retroactively gain the approval or respect of Vane, since he's dead and buried.
- Blackbeard tries to order Anne to sneak into Nassau to kidnap Eleanor as revenge for Vane's execution, but Anne refuses, because she has no interest in seeking vengeance on Eleanor. She also doesn't particularly want to see Max – despite the fact that she's extremely angry with her because of the lie Max told to attempt to get Anne to give up the cache, Anne no longer feels the need to want to kill her, and is unsettled by the feeling of not needing vengeance.
- Blackbeard, Jack and Anne go after Rogers instead of Eleanor, and though at first their battle with Rogers' ship goes well, he eventually springs a trap and captures them all. Rogers plans to kill all of Blackbeard's crew; Blackbeard is gruesomely keelhauled three times yet doesn't die, and Rogers finally shoots him in the head. Jack would have been next in line for keelhauling if Blackbeard hadn't survived as long as he did. Blackbeard's unexpected longevity frustrates Rogers, who gives up on his plan of keelhauling all the pirates and instead instructs that they are to be sent to Port Royal to hang under the command of his lieutenant.
- Rogers' lieutenant wants to punish some of the pirates before they arrive at Port Royal, and in the hold of the ship he has Mr Milton, a huge, muscular man with a mallet, bludgeon pirates to death, asking Jack to name pirates to be chosen as if it would in any way be a fair fight. Anne persuades Jack to let her fight the man herself, since she has an upper hand since she's bound to be underestimated. The fight is brutal, but Anne manages to grab some shards of glass (digging them into her palms as she does) and stabs the man enough to get enough of an advantage to grab the keys to their chains. The rest of the crew is freed and overwhelms Rogers' crew, but Anne is incapacitated, severely beaten and on the verge of death.
Personality changes
- Broadly speaking Anne is the same person she's always been, and her main negative trait (unpredictability) will stay the same. She's a little more jaded by the world after Vane's death, and has seen some newly horrific things after Blackbeard's keelhauling. Also, coming close to losing Jack multiple times has made her more protective than ever over him.
- The biggest change is the deepening of her relationship with Max. She's gone from loving her deeply to feeling broken-hearted by her to feeling betrayed by her, after her lie about Jack itself almost got Jack killed. Max didn't know that handing over the cache would result in Jack's execution, but Anne doesn't care; lying to her was a fundamental wrong in her eyes, and she's struggling with overcoming that. Despite that, she still loves her, and is dealing with complicated feelings regarding her betrayal.
- On her app I also mentioned that one of her major traits is that she's ruled by her emotions. This still stands, and she's still capable of letting her emotions lead her and pressing her towards senseless violence – what really has changed, though, is that her emotions themselves have mellowed a little in very small, very specific areas. She's become a little jaded by the world, rather than angry at it, and as a result she's perhaps slightly less likely to kill someone for a relatively minor infraction. Really, she's just had more time to take stock of what matters in her life, and is better able to ignore intensely negative emotions about people she otherwise doesn't care about. No sense wasting her anger on people that don't matter.