Davy Jones offered him a deal: serve for a hundred years, forget the pain. But service on the Dutchman means slowly erasing everything you are. Bill’s greatest curse isn’t the drowning or the servitude—it’s that he
He’s not the flashiest character. He doesn’t have a compass that points to what he wants or a jar of dirt. But Bill Turner is the ghost at the feast, the original sinner whose single act of conscience doomed his son to a life of piracy and sacrifice. Born William Turner Sr., the man nicknamed “Bootstrap” earned his moniker for a dark reason: he was notorious for tying mutinous sailors to a cannon and throwing them overboard, where they would “bootstrap” themselves to the anchor cable to avoid drowning. It was brutal, efficient, and perfectly pirate. pirates of the caribbean will's dad
Meanwhile, Bootstrap Bill sank to the bottom of the ocean. Because the crew had already taken the gold and become immortal cursed skeletons, Bill couldn’t die. He spent years lying in the crushing pressure, drowning over and over, unable to escape. Davy Jones offered him a deal: serve for