PotC drabble: Skeptic [Barbossa, general]
Title: Skeptic Author: celandineb Fandom: PotC Character: Hector Barbossa Rating: general Length: 100 words Summary: Hector feels he has good reason to doubt the utility of prayer. Note: For knavishspright, who asked for Barbossa, with the prompt "Sunday best."
As a boy in Portsmouth, Hector went weekly to church services with his mother and siblings. Their Sunday best might be little better than their daily garments, yet to wear it encouraged the mind to reverence and prayer, or so his mother claimed.
Prayer, however, was in Hector's view fruitless. It had failed to bring his father back, nor did it improve the family fortunes. Once he had run off to sea, therefore, Hector treated the Sabbath as just another day. Even after being struck by the curse of the Aztec gold, it did not occur to him to pray.