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1. In Vain I Have Struggled by LordAlligator

   Fandoms: Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   20 May 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Cutler Beckett/Original Female Character(s)
   • James Norrington/Original Female Character(s)
   • Cutler Beckett
   • Jack Sparrow
   • James Norrington
   • Capitaine Chevalle
   • Armand Lefevre
   • Weatherby Swann
   • Ian Mercer (Pirates of the Caribbean)
   • Period-Typical Sexism
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Slavery
   • dark themes
   • Abuse
   • Drinking
   • Manipulation
   • Sexual Content
   • Horror beneath the humor
   • Survival
   • he stays evil
   • Not a Love Story

   Summary

   “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune is dangerous only once he learns how to weaponize it.”

   When the naive, awkward daughter of a barber-surgeon strikes an unlikely friendship with the notoriously disagreeable Lord Beckett during her time aboard the HMS Endeavour, her tale darkens as she’s suddenly drawn deeper into his world of ambition and betrayal.

   **

   Starts off pre TCBP, and ends AWE.
   Follows the events from The Price of Freedom with an eventual, adult-oriented twist.
   Partial Cutler Beckett backstory, partial coming-of-age trope for an 18th century woman.

   Series

   • Part 1 of La Fantaisie

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   15,945

   Chapters:

   5/?

   Comments:

   19

   Kudos:

   14

   Bookmarks:

   6

   Hits:

   153