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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Hawkins treats Maynard like trash, openly demeaning and abusing the man. Nobody minds due to what a scumbag Maynard is.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: What what becomes of a pirate captain who has a reputation as a murderous savage and throws treasure overboard? [[spoiler:Vane' crew mutinies at the end in favor of the more intelligent and measured Jack Rackham.]]
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* RealityEnsues: What what becomes of a pirate captain who has a reputation as a murderous savage and throws treasure overboard? [[spoiler:Vane' crew mutinies at the end in favor of the more intelligent and measured Jack Rackham.]]
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* KillItWithFire: The way to destroy the undead pirates? Fire.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Hornigold passes with a peaceful smile when he's dragged underneath the waves with his ship.]]
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Hornigold passes with a peaceful smile when he's dragged underneath the waves with his ship.]]
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* KillItWithFire: The way to destroy the undead pirates? Fire.
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''Over High Seas'' is a supernatural-horror [[WebOriginalFiction web novel]] by Lightysnake, and the eighth full-length entry in ''Literature/TheKindnessOfDevils'', functioning as a prequel to the main series. It can be read [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3344813/1/Over-High-Seas here]].
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''Over High Seas'' is a supernatural-horror [[WebOriginalFiction web novel]] by Lightysnake, [=VineLight=][[note]]Formerly Lightysnake[[/note]], and the eighth full-length entry in ''Literature/TheKindnessOfDevils'', functioning as a prequel to the main series. It can be read [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3344813/1/Over-High-Seas here]].
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* ActionGirl: Anne Bonney and Mary Read are tougher than almost any of the men they sail with and both have chances to throw down in battle.
* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Mary implies she's non-binary, not really caring much if she's male or female but she does prefer female pronouns and has no issue being referred to as a woman.
* CruelMercy: Hardestadt leaves both Robert Maynard and Woodes Rodgers, even though he could kill either or arrange their deaths at the hands of his family. Instead, he condemns the former to permanent obscurity and ruins the latter's governorship by having him default on his debts.
* KillItWithFire: The way to destroy the undead pirates? Fire.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Hawkins has a few moral standards to him and truly respects those who stick to their principles, while also caring about his men.
** Charles Vane disdains rape and while he contemplates betraying the other pirates, he ultimately refuses to double cross them, even forsaking treasure to keep on the path to avenge Thatch.
* FaceDeathWithDignity:
** Stede Bonnet, contrary to his historical counterpart, dies with a defiant shout of "long live the brotherhood" and his executioners alter the record to make it appear otherwise.
** Edward Thatch meets his end with flame and blood, not flinching once in the face of the end.
** Hawkins has a few moral standards to him and truly respects those who stick to their principles, while also caring about his men.
** Charles Vane disdains rape and while he contemplates betraying the other pirates, he ultimately refuses to double cross them, even forsaking treasure to keep on the path to avenge Thatch.
* FaceDeathWithDignity:
** Stede Bonnet, contrary to his historical counterpart, dies with a defiant shout of "long live the brotherhood" and his executioners alter the record to make it appear otherwise.
** Edward Thatch meets his end with flame and blood, not flinching once in the face of the end.
* FireForgedFriends: All they go through together brings Eliza extremely close to Anne Bonney and Mary Read both, firmly bonding with the latter.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:A mortally wounded Benjamin Hornigold pays with his life to seal a piece of the Leash and then pilots his ship, the ''Marianne'' to crash into and cripple Hawkins own ''Fancy''.]]
* KangarooCourt: Stede Bonnet is sentenced to death by Maynard with barely a trial, in violation of British law.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Hawkins treats Maynard like trash, openly demeaning and abusing the man. Nobody minds due to what a scumbag Maynard is.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Hawkins treats Maynard like trash, openly demeaning and abusing the man. Nobody minds due to what a scumbag Maynard is.
* TheNeidermeyer: Nobody likes the stodgy, stuck up Robert Maynard, who leads without any dignity or gentleness towards his men.
* RealityEnsues: What what becomes of a pirate captain who has a reputation as a murderous savage and throws treasure overboard? [[spoiler:Vane' crew mutinies at the end in favor of the more intelligent and measured Jack Rackham.]]
* SmallNameBigEgo: Maynard thinks he's a legend in waiting. Even if he does succeed in [[ForegoneConclusion killing Edward Thatch]], nobody gives him any true credit for it and he's left to languish in permanent obscurity without even a promotion.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: The group of pirates Hardestadt and Eliza settle in with are still ''pirates'', but of the LovableRogue type. Charles Vane, on the other hand, is a murderous scumbag whose murderous reputation is entirely correct.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: The group of pirates Hardestadt and Eliza settle in with are still ''pirates'', but of the LovableRogue type. Charles Vane, on the other hand, is a murderous scumbag whose murderous savage reputation is entirely correct.
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* AffablyEvil: Hawkins is extremely pleasant and polite, genuinely considering Benjamin Hornigold his friend, even while being a ruthless necromancer who thinks nothing of enslaving the souls of his victims.
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* BuriedTreasure: Mark Read mocks such an idea saying that pirates spend the loot they steal and don't have enough leftover to bury.
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* BuriedTreasure: Mark Read mocks such an idea saying that pirates spend the loot they steal and don't have enough leftover to bury. [[spoiler:Turns out they find the stash Captain Henry Morgan buried.]]
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* DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler:Anne Bonney names her daughter Mary after her best friend Mary Read.]]
* TheDragon: Alijah Marsh is Avery's right-hand man, and being the least human of his crew; a Deep One hybrid capable of assuming a very nasty form.
* TheDragon: Alijah Marsh is Avery's right-hand man, and being the least human of his crew; a Deep One hybrid capable of assuming a very nasty form.
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* DuelToTheDeath: [[spoiler:The final duel is not between Avery/Hawkins and Hardestadt but between him and Mary in an old fashioned swordfight aboard his ship, the ''Fancy.'']]
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* OutlawCouple: Jack Rackham and Anne Bonney are lovers, true to history, with both being pirates. Hardestadt and Mary Read are lovers as well, all but openly. [[spoiler:Hardestadt and Anne Bonney have a brief relationship before giving up piracy, before going their own ways.]]
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* RetiredBadass: [[spoiler:The epilogue features an older, retired Anne Bonney raising her daughter Mary.]]
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Deliberately [[InvokedTrope invoked]] for the sake of the story, such as the date of [[spoiler:Edward Thatch's]] historical death actually differing from history.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Avery falls into the maw of the Cthonis, the very creature he'd enslaved through the Leashes.]]
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* LeaveNoSurvivors: Charles Vane has earned himself a--not inaccurate--reputation for this to ships he scuttles.
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* BigBad: Enigmatic blackguard Sebastian Hawkins, [[spoiler:actually the "Arch Pirate" Henry Avery who vanished mysteriously in history]], who exploits an artifact called the Leash to enslave a beast called the Cthonis in order to conquer all he sees.
* TheCameo: [[spoiler:Mammon, Hardestadt's aunt, pops up right at the end to fuss over her nephew in the epilogue.]]
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Thatch's death--a ForegoneConclusion--is one of the most epic in historical record and it's carried over just as awesome into Chapter 7.]]
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Hornigold passes with a peaceful smile when he's dragged underneath the waves with his ship.]]
* FieryRedhead: Anne Bonney, a fierce Irish PirateGirl who remains passionate even when her brilliant red hair has started to grey.
* FieryRedhead: Anne Bonney, a fierce Irish PirateGirl who remains passionate even when her brilliant red hair has started to grey.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Several pirates, such as Edward Thatch, Mary "Mark" Read, Charles Vane, Anne Bonney, Rackham, and Samuel Bellamy are based off real pirates.
* PirateGirl: Anne Bonney is an openly female pirate.
* PirateGirl: Anne Bonney is an openly female pirate.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Several pirates, such as Edward Thatch, Mary "Mark" Read, Charles Vane, Anne Bonney, Rackham, and Samuel Bellamy are based off real pirates. [[spoiler:Sebastian Hawkins is also secretly Henry Avery, who historically vanished uncertainly.]]
* TheLastDance: [[spoiler:Edward Thatch expires as he did in real life; fighting the British to the end and having the time of his life while doing so. Hardestadt can only see the man go down a roaring beast to the end.]]
* LovableRogue: Virtually the entire cast, from Hardestadt himself, to "Blackbeard" Edward Thatch and the other pirates Hardestadt settles with, is comprised of this. The two major excepts are the brutish Charles Vane and the blackguard villain Sebastian Hawkins/[[spoiler:Henry Avery]]; even the AffablyEvil Benjamin Hornigold is pretty sympathetic.
* PirateGirl: Anne Bonney is an openly female pirate. and "Mark Read" is actually ''Mary'' Read.
* PirateKing: [[spoiler:Henry Avery aspires to be a ''literal'' pirate king, turning his informal RedBaron title into actual nobility. Avery intends to establish a literal pirate kingdom over the world, over which he'll rule supreme.]]
* TheLastDance: [[spoiler:Edward Thatch expires as he did in real life; fighting the British to the end and having the time of his life while doing so. Hardestadt can only see the man go down a roaring beast to the end.]]
* LovableRogue: Virtually the entire cast, from Hardestadt himself, to "Blackbeard" Edward Thatch and the other pirates Hardestadt settles with, is comprised of this. The two major excepts are the brutish Charles Vane and the blackguard villain Sebastian Hawkins/[[spoiler:Henry Avery]]; even the AffablyEvil Benjamin Hornigold is pretty sympathetic.
* PirateGirl: Anne Bonney is an openly female pirate. and "Mark Read" is actually ''Mary'' Read.
* PirateKing: [[spoiler:Henry Avery aspires to be a ''literal'' pirate king, turning his informal RedBaron title into actual nobility. Avery intends to establish a literal pirate kingdom over the world, over which he'll rule supreme.]]
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* TokenEvilTeammate: The group of pirates Hardestadt and Eliza settle in with are still ''pirates'', but of the LovableRogue type. Charles Vane, on the other hand, is a murderous scumbag whose murderous reputation is entirely correct.
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''Over High Seas'' is a supernatural-horror [[WebOriginalFiction web novel]] by Lightysnake, and the eighth full-length entry in ''Literature/TheKindnessOfDevils'', functioning as a prequel to the main series. It can be read [[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3344813/1/Over-High-Seas here]].
1718, the Golden Age of Piracy. Hardestadt Delac, captain of the Shrike, is drawn into a chase across the wave that threatens the entire Caribbean alongside his comrades. Racing to uncover an ancient secret, the pirates find themselves hunted across the waves by their enemies, and below the waves by creatures they may never have imagined.
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* BuriedTreasure: Mark Read mocks such an idea saying that pirates spend the loot they steal and don't have enough leftover to bury.
* TheDreaded:
** Blackbeard is a very feared pirate, though he deliberately cultivates such an image.
** Charles Vane on the other hand is as brutal as his reputation suggests.
* EldritchAbomination: The Cthonis is an ancient massive sea monster that is able to control the seas. It is able to create storms that can sink ships, islands, and even tear apart continents. There are three artifacts that are together capable of controlling the Cthonis, one of them being the Leash.
* HatesBeingTouched: Eliza avoids all contact due to the Consultant having killed people for simply brushing by her. She is reluctant to touch Read even to provide medical care.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Several pirates, such as Edward Thatch, Mary "Mark" Read, Charles Vane, Anne Bonney, Rackham, and Samuel Bellamy are based off real pirates.
* PirateGirl: Anne Bonney is an openly female pirate.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Eliza gets the pirate crews to help her by promising to use her status as a noblewomen to get them pardons.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Captain Samuel Bellamy is introduced in the very beginning of the story only for his ship to be destroyed by a sea monster killing everyone on board.
* SweetPollyOliver:
** Mark Read is actually Mary in disguise. Eliza discovers this when she is impaled in the chest and she needs to cut off her shirt.
** Anne Bonney was stated to have disguised herself as a man in the past.
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1718, the Golden Age of Piracy. Hardestadt Delac, captain of the Shrike, is drawn into a chase across the wave that threatens the entire Caribbean alongside his comrades. Racing to uncover an ancient secret, the pirates find themselves hunted across the waves by their enemies, and below the waves by creatures they may never have imagined.
!!Tropes:
* BuriedTreasure: Mark Read mocks such an idea saying that pirates spend the loot they steal and don't have enough leftover to bury.
* TheDreaded:
** Blackbeard is a very feared pirate, though he deliberately cultivates such an image.
** Charles Vane on the other hand is as brutal as his reputation suggests.
* EldritchAbomination: The Cthonis is an ancient massive sea monster that is able to control the seas. It is able to create storms that can sink ships, islands, and even tear apart continents. There are three artifacts that are together capable of controlling the Cthonis, one of them being the Leash.
* HatesBeingTouched: Eliza avoids all contact due to the Consultant having killed people for simply brushing by her. She is reluctant to touch Read even to provide medical care.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Several pirates, such as Edward Thatch, Mary "Mark" Read, Charles Vane, Anne Bonney, Rackham, and Samuel Bellamy are based off real pirates.
* PirateGirl: Anne Bonney is an openly female pirate.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Eliza gets the pirate crews to help her by promising to use her status as a noblewomen to get them pardons.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: Captain Samuel Bellamy is introduced in the very beginning of the story only for his ship to be destroyed by a sea monster killing everyone on board.
* SweetPollyOliver:
** Mark Read is actually Mary in disguise. Eliza discovers this when she is impaled in the chest and she needs to cut off her shirt.
** Anne Bonney was stated to have disguised herself as a man in the past.
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