Thoughts of a pirate king
It was strange. When she was younger her greatest desire had been to see a pirate even though her father and everyone else around her had scolded her for it. Such wishes were impropriate for the daughter of a governor.
By lying and saying that her name was Turner she'd inadvertently started a chain of events. If she hadn't the pirates would probably just had either killed her or simply dumped her. Because she'd believed herself to be in danger if she hinted that she was the daughter of the governor she'd used the first the best surname which sprang to her mind "Turner" the name of the man she'd met while they were both on the verge of maturity.
He'd gotten after her, enlisting the help of the pirate who'd saved her from drowning only to end up in the dungeons. And when he'd been in mortal danger she'd realized that she'd fallen in love with him, sacrificing everything to ensure his rescue, even agreeing to marry rich, powerful but terrible boring commodore James Norrington.
After Will had stopped Jack's hanging both her father and Norrington had finally accepted that her heart lay with the blacksmith turned pirate.
They'd both thought the adventure to be over but then, on the day of their wedding, they'd been arrested for helping pirate Jack Sparrow to escape and once again they'd found themselves whirled up in events which in the end had forced her to doom Jack to death. Still, that hadn't been the end. After they'd freed Jack from Davy Jones' locker Sao Feng had claimed her as his prisoner, believing her to be the goddess Calypso. When he'd been killed he'd passed her his piece of eight and made her the new captain of the Empress as well as pirate lord over the South China Sea. Soon she'd found herself not only in the middle of the battle against the East Indian Trading Company but leading it as the newly elected king of the Brethren Court. There, while they battle was raging around them, Will had once again proposed and she'd turned to Barbossa, the man who'd taken her captive what now seemed so long ago, and asked him to marry them. It had been a strange wedding, so far from the ones she'd dreamt of as a young girl, yet it was the only one she could ever desire.
So that was what she was: King of the Brethren Court. Pirate Lord of the South China Sea. Captain of the Empress. Daughter of Governor Weatherby Swann. And, most of all, the wife of William Turner the younger.