another category defying one here

[cimorene]

• ridged streak of manners


• you were invalidated in hospital


• "I hope you shall not miss out tomorrow morning's banquette"


• admiral in his pursuit of the plight of those less fortunate


• reigning in the panic

Comments

[cimorene]

Who do you osmose is an admiral in this scenario, and what constitutes pursuit of a plight?

[krait]

I have osmosed that there's a character from a well-to-do background who decides to run away and become a pirate, which sounds like 'pursuing the plight of the less fortunate' to me. :D I doubt his actual rank is Admiral, but hey, there's only 2 (?) seasons so far, so it might be in his future!

[cimorene]

Ah, I see, you could construe an attempt to live as a pirate to be pursuing (in order to inhabit) the plight of pirates (who are less fortunate than him). MOST pirates were fairly marginalized before taking up piracy - as it's sort of an extreme measure - so certainly they had some plight. After becoming a pirate you acquire a plight, presumably, in that the British navy would like to kill and/or hang you, so he's also pursued outlaw status...

[krait]

Yep, "I'm actively departing from a situation where I have a wealthy family and comfortable lifestyle to live on a shipful of criminals despite having no actual need to do so" sounds like pursuit to me. :D And for all those who ended up criminals becase they had no better option, that presumably means that some kind of unfortunate plight struck them, which resulted in their turning to piracy. So compared to Mr. "I'm just doing this for fun" their plight is much less fortunate; he had many choices, including social status and legal protections, that they never had, or once had but lost through unpleasant circumstances.

(Hmmm, I need a pirate icon.)