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...Which would've been connected to how I would've done Blackbeard...:

**The contents of this post are a continuation of/are in the same canon as my post on Davy Jones above.

Seeing as Blackbeard's an upcoming character, I thought I'd write out how I've imagined him to be on the show...

Name (self explanatory... I hope!): Edward Teach/Blackbeard Origin (either the story they come from, or if they're an original creation): Blackbeard, duh! :P Description (this can range from their appearance, to their personality, to their character flaws): A tall, imposing, intimidating, gruff, hairy man with a mane of a very, very black, beard. He wears a HUUUUUUUUGE hat, too. He is fearless, having survived a very traumatic experience, he fears nothing anymore.

Background (where they fall in the story... what happened to them? How are they incorporated into the story? Where are they now? Who are they/will they associat(ed) with?): Edward Teach was born in the Land Without Color, to a very rich, very prominent family that lived in a big castle. He was a very happy boy, who had everythin he could possibly ever want.

However, when he was three, a common thug broke in, armed with stolen magic. He used it to slaughter Edward's entire family in front of him. However, the thief claimed enough honor not to murder a child, and so he shoved Edward through a portal, warning him never to return, for if he did he would kill him.

The thief claimed all of the Teach family's riches as his own, as well as their castle.

Edward landed in the Enchanted Forest, and, with no name or money to call his own, suddenly found himself very, very, poor, and very traumatized by what he had just experienced. He couldn't sleep, and barely made it by, until a family took him in.

They were poor and humble, but very kind to little Edward. He struggled not having everything he wanted, and the family saw this, and chose to pamper Edward over their older son, Felix, with the excuse that Felix could be happy without riches, as he always had been, but Edward could not, plus, Edward was much younger, and therefore didn't understand things the way Felix did. They just wanted everyone to be happy.

Sooner or later, Felix grew to resent his family greatly, and one night, disappeared, never to be seen again by his parents. Only Edward saw Felix as he was taken by the hand by a dark figure, and whisked away into the night sky. However, his new parents didn't believe his story, told him it was impossible, and dismissed it, forever to sulk in their depression, seeing the error of their ways.

One day, they asked Edward to go into town and buy some groceries, and when he returned, he found them both dead, hung from the ceiling of their own home. Mortified and, once again, alone, Edward, now eight, ran away from the house, and never went back.

Branded insane by the village where he lived for his story about Felix, he was cast out, made fun of, and tortured by everyone until he grew to a teenager and learned to fend for himself, by which point he had become hardened, and cruel, convinced there was no good left in the world.

Around when he was 18 or 19, he met a woman, a pirate captain. He was dazzled by her beauty, and quickly joined her ranks, admiting her "take what you can, give nothing back" attitude and manner. Not long after that, the two became lovers, and she shared everything with him. Enjoying his newfound riches and reminiscing of times past, he was, for the first time in many, many years, genuinely very happy with what he was doing.

After some years sailing together, the two were docked at a port where they met Davy Jones. Davy challenged Edward's captain to a duel, the only duel Davy ever came close to losing. Just as he was about to lose his head, Davy pulled out a bit of magic, some he had saved away for a rainy day, just in case he was ever close to dying, and "cheated" in his duel with the captainess, murdering her, so he could add her head to his collection, to his locker (To understand this part, you have to have read my imagining of Davy Jones on OUaT above). The magic Davy used was the same used by the thug that murdered Edward's parents all those years ago.

Realizing he couldn't win in a duel against Davy, he ran from the ship and was branded a coward by all pirates in the realm, taking with him some magic beans that he and his captain had plundered together from a royal vessel (Remember, this was during the time that magic beans were abundant!).

He cursed himself and all magic for using one, magic having been what took everything away from him, and traveled to the land without magic, a knew place where nobody knew him, where he could lay low and calculate his revenge.

The year he arrived in was about 1700.

<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:22px;">A long time passed before he traveled back to the EF, in fact, it wasn't until he heard that Davy had had a son, Killian, who had also become a pirate. Having heard this, he returned, with one of the beans he had proceeded to stash away, and hunted down Killian Jones, captain of the Jolly Roger.

<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:22px;">Edward chased Killian, now Captain Hook, to Neverland, and the magic there scared him. He was conflicted for a long time, before he finally decided to return to the Land Without Magic, and give up his quest for the son of Davy Jones. However, before he could leave, Killian sunk his ship and his crew, leaving him to die on Neverland's waters.

<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:22px;">Unbeknownst to Killian, Teach had one bean left, a bean he used to return to the Land Without Magic.

<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:22px;">That was when he joined the crew of Benjamin Hornigold, and the part of the story that our world is familiar with, takes place.

<p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:22px;margin-bottom:0px!important;">Portrayed by (the actor/actress you would cast for the role): Michael Weston