Story 10: Playing Characters

An opportunity arose to do a better job with the album this time.

A sort of fictionalized take on my parodying the Styx album Kilroy Was Here.

Chapter 1: Imagine all this

Buccaneer Blue looked back at her previous works. It was a study (and not as in the kind of room) of her old employee, Jack Spasm. He seemed so valiant in the name of his employer, their enemies repeatedly rid of thanks to him - but it never lasted. He wrote one parody after another about that, too, which had not stuck with her. So now, she was turning to an album he did with a fresh eye.

Chapter 2: Look well this time!

Blue disowned her first two attempts at Mr. Roboto now. Actually, they might make out as nothing other than spreading sickly feelings and provoking sword blows. Now she turned to Will Turner and the story he had to tell.

But Blue was sorry to tell Barbossa and the others, because changing thank to hate was what she did the first two times, her audience thought she would do it again.

Chapter 3: Jack sings what he is experiencing

There was this ship on which one might grow the tail of a fish anywhere on its body. Made Jack want to keep distance of a league or more than you could count. To this he sang.

I’ve got it, he decided fighting his way out of even the smallest barnacle’s presence. It was a Personal War - and, thankfully not one the readers thought was with the non-canon Squidbeard whom the parody of that first song was expected to be about. The crew had clenched that which they wanted.

Chapter 4: How should they know, and what should they care?

After writing Mr. Sparrow (which a reader would think must be about the dad of Jack) and Personal War, they broke free of the limitations of Jack Spasm, which said Don’t Let It End was not good enough to parody for reasons that were murky - one could even say misty - but had to do with Jack Spasm worrying too much about the sporadic tolerance his employer had for much slowness or sadness in a song. Oh, what a mistake. The skiffs would proceed, not having him to hold them back.

Chapter 5: Every parody up to now has ignored something!

Sea creatures were not the only enemy. There was another, who probably served as an obstacle to any pirates anywhere getting what they wanted.

Jack had certainly contended with the men in the curly wigs, all of them from an admiral to the lowest soldier.

But we’ve never sung about closing the door on the Navy, Will pointed out. Now they saw how well that would suit High Time, much better than singing about being crowded by things from the ocean depths.

Chapter 6: No Jack this time

Largely the spotlight focus, Jack stepped clear, along with Gibbs - hey, variety helped.

You do that song about heavy metal poisoning, while I take another, said some man who was funny and was not Barbossa. And so playing characters continued. Barbossa had the songs from the perspective of the villain of the album, so that the parodies would not be without the character of the original.

Chapter 7: Jack, away from his own world

The song about the night that moved as slow as a statue had a theoretical verse about having success at a film company and being friends to the cast and crew, or at least thankful for them. Jack needed some way to work with this.

Chapter 8: Staying in character

On the other side of the fourth wall (and in Jack’s dad’s absence, if that was not clear) Barbossa had another parody to make.

You are just leading an ugly life, he sang. It has to be wrong, don’t you know it’s not right?

Barbossa did this reasonably and did not destroy anything. It was a surprise, but not the way he intended - the audience would have guessed Troubled Life.

Chapter 9: I jump, oh boy!

The mention of hearts and keys in close proximity drew them all to Haven’t We Been Here Before. Back when the S.S. Imagination was overrun by Lego, this song was also out for being too slow. But with stronger will and weapons, the Crew proceeded.

Anachronistic as I won’t celebrate Valentine’s Day anymore was, it was too funny for anyone to be irritated. Only good would come when Jack had it as a sailor’s parody. This was what it was meant to be, and the crew had nothing to worry about - just the truth they needed to realize.

You saved everything, then, said Blue.

Chapter 10: Jack, you are sometimes with me, right?

With there still being no dad of his, Jack took to the last song on the album, singing the first verse, before passing the rest off to Will.

Tune in at the next place the compass leads to, readers!

Next story: Loose Concept

Jack once again will work with a Styx concept album.