Totally no worries, lol. I'm having to change quite a few things to make the fic work, anyway, so it's not going to be a 100% faithful adaption. Definitely more of a "spirit" than "letter" situation, and less gory because I don't care to write that sort of thing. Though things will probably still explode...

And yes! It absolutely does. I love a shipfic that's only two characters in a vacuum, don't get me wrong, but there's something so satisfying about seeing fully realized ensemble characters around them that make the world feel real and lived in. (One of the show's strengths, imo. Even the pirates, silly as they were, felt like real people.)