Torrents

Torrents
Biographical information
Gender	Male
Hair color	Black
Died	1700s
Title(s)	Captain
Also known as	Captain Turnip Captain Torn Pants Captain Torniquet
Statistics
Weapon(s) owned	Cutlass Sword of Cortés Trident of Poseidon
Ship(s) captained or crewed	Monkeebutt Flying Dutchman
Battles	Incident on Isla Esquelética Dance of the Hours Battle for Poseidon's Trident
Affiliation	Crew of the Monkeebutt
Behind the scenes
First appearance	The Coming Storm
Last appearance	Bold New Horizons
Cause	Devoured by merfolk

"They cursed me. Rain and storm wherever I go—worse when I've grown angry. And, my dear boy, right now, I'm very very angry."

―Torrents on the heathen gods' curse

Torrents was a pirate captain during the Age of Piracy. By the early adventures of young Jack Sparrow, Captain Torrents was considered the infamous, dreaded, and most notorious pirate on the side of Hispaniola. He also encountered Davy Jones, the cursed captain of the Flying Dutchman, and was cursed by the heathen gods to be followed by rain and storm.

Biography

Service to Davy Jones

"Dock scum! If you don't fear me, which you'd be a fool not to—you will no doubt fear the power of the cursed Davy Jones!"
"Oh, yes, Davy Jones. My fine Tortsy, Davy Jones is only a legend."
"I've met Davy Jones. In the flesh. Consider yourself blessed that ye never had dealings with him who collects the souls of sailors and binds them to service before his ship."

―Torrents and Jack Sparrow

Torrents was press-ganged into service aboard the Flying Dutchman, but struck a bargain with Captain Davy Jones. Torrents agreed to search for the Sword of Cortés and bring it to Jones, in exchange for his freedom. To ensure Torrents kept to his word, Jones marked his chest with the symbol of Quetzalcoatl, found on the scabbard of the Sword itself. This angered the Aztec gods, who placed a curse on Torrents, who would be followed wherever he went by storms. Torrents inexplicably had the power to control these storms, which grew in intensity when he became angered.

Jack Sparrow

Torrents found the scabbard on and was having a drink at the Faithful Bride when it was stolen by Jack Sparrow. Torrents was able to track him to Isla Esquelética. He tried to get the scabbard back, but Jack was able to electrocute him with his own lightning.

Torrents later encounter Jack Sparrow when, in tinkering with the Timekeeper, ended up altering the timestream enough that the civilization on the island along with Stone-Eyed Sam had been revived, once again seeking to get the Sword of Cortes, though from it's wielder. In restoring the regular flow of time by giving the Timekeeper to Sam at the right moment, Torrents disappeared along with the other things brought throughout time.

Trident of Poseidon

Torrents holds the Trident of Poseidon.

Torrents would show up again, seizing the Trident of Poseidon and using it to bring merfolk under his control, forcing Jack and his reunited crew into helping free the mermaids. Torrents was eventually defeated, devoured by the merfolk and lost to the depths of Davy Jones' Locker.

Behind the scenes

• Torrents first appeared in the 2006 book Jack Sparrow: The Coming Storm by Rob Kidd.

Appearances

• Jack Sparrow: The Coming Storm (First appearance)
• Jack Sparrow: The Siren Song (Mentioned only)
• Jack Sparrow: Dance of the Hours
• Jack Sparrow: Poseidon's Peak
• Jack Sparrow: Bold New Horizons