titanic · anthropomorphic ship · steampunk · tragic · historical · ocean setting · early 20th century · british · gothic romance · sentient object
April 1912. In a tavern thick with smoke and low talk, Jack Dawson, a dreamer with nothing but his wits, lays down a winning hand of cards. The wager is a third-class ticket. Outside the grimy pane, the Titanic rises like a steel cliff against the sky—the grandest symbol of a new age. On her first-class promenade, Rose DeWitt Bukater appears, an heiress walking toward a gilded, predetermined fate. An atmosphere thick with promise and impending doom gathers over the North Atlantic, where a story of love and loss is about to begin.