I feel like the most strangely profound resonance I have from my life as Vriska is our shared pirate/Peter Pan obsession. Its not something I would have expected to share with one of my past lives. Hell, I don;t really share any important fandoms with Ken, and we both had access to most of the same media.
But Pirates, and Peter Pan have always been more than just a fandom for me. The story of Peter Pan is one of the first stories I remember, and one of the ones that had the most effect on me, the one that resonated with me most.
You know how a lot of kids have one tape they watch over and over? for me that was the Mary Martin production of Peter Pan, with Cyril Richard as Captain Hook. I had the whole thing memorized before I’d even seen Labyrinth (my next favorite childhood movie). Hell, I even had all the commercial breaks from my copy of the movie memorized.
I dreamed about Neverland, and Peter, and Hook, more and more vividly than any other story I knew. In my dreams, I was always a pirate, never a lost boy.
I have seen every version of Peter Pan that I know exists. I even recently watched a Peter Pan porno (it was terribly, and hilarious).
When Pirates of the Caribbean in 2003, I was in high school, and I was mad. I remember telling someone why I was pissed, too. And it was because pirates were MY thing, and now everyone would like pirates and no one would believe me I was a fan before the movie.
I’ve always had this particular image of Hook in my mind, too, that doesn’t quite match up with any particular depiction. I have this feeling of pride and admiration for the captain that’s… probably misplaced? I don’t know, he;s my hero, and I kind of want to be him, and I kind of feel a lot like him. (The word fiction-hearted probably fits here if I really wanted to claim the label.
There’s a book written by the author of the screenplay of Hook, about him as a schoolboy at Eton that I’m absilutely in love with. Its probably the closest to my image of him, an funny enough he’s 14 in it and has a lot in common with Vriska and Ken, and this life when I was 14.
I don’t really know where I’m going with this besides Vriska. Pirates. Hook. Pupa Pan. Two lifetimes of 14 year old scribbles of pirate girls in blue coats.
*rambles about pirates and vanishes into the distance*
