Seattle Coffee Pirates

[tealin]

My sister tried to get a sugar-free cinnamon dolce latte from Starbucks on Sunday only to discover that, according to the barista, there was no sugar-free cinnamon syrup in the entire city. Considering that the number of Starbuckses here would warrant a container ship specifically designated to keep this city stocked, that's quite something. We concluded that the syrup had been hijacked by the notoroius Seattle coffee pirates.

I think I'm going to go over this again and sort out some silhouette problems that I stumbled into when drawing them all separately. (That was a brilliant idea.)

Comments

[anathelen.livejournal.com]

I love that duality for Perc! I was thinking about locations last night and I can imagine Perc living in the loft above the boat garage (y'know, those shelters they build on docks that you can drive boats into to keep them from freezing). I figure his loud music playing habits might have gotten him booted out of the main ramshackle house, and this way he can have late-night jam sessions and also be close to the boat for tinkering with it. I wonder if Perc plays grunge pirate music, whatever it may be? (Some bizarre combination of electric guitars, fiddles, tinwhistles, and flannel)

Even if Frapp isn't the captain, a by-the-book authoritatian Coast Guard antagonist named Captain Black would be rather fantastic. I haven't read Interesting Times so I can't make the analogy, but I like the idea of an alternative lifestyle pirate group that doesn't have a pirate captain! It's beautifully contradictory, and I can imagine Frapp summoning his manager powers from his old exec days in pressing situations.

I have a few ideas for locations. I figure our pirate band lives on a small island with a dock and a collection of fishing boat, various sail boats (one of the characters could have been a sailing instructor?), rowboats, and a small rubber inflatable outboard motor boat. There's a boat garage by the water and a shed, and further up from the water is the main house, which was probably once a fishing shanty that's been greatly added onto. The best part is, since these are alternative lifestyle pirates they would probably have a good element of the back-to-nature and organic movements in them, and so their house can be old-fashioned without seeming out of place! So this means timber-framing, fireplaces, wood stoves, etc. if wanted.

Most of the island is wooded, but there's some sort of attempt at a garden and a hidden cellar/cave somewhere up the hill. The island must be reasonably close to a small inconspicious waterside town with a nice coffee shop and black market contacts, and also near to the shipping channels for raids and a big city for other business.

Puget Sound=perfect pirating fog. Bwahahaha.

I have a few episodic plot ideas if you're interested, though I don't actually work in the animation or television industry so I have no idea how to write them up.