Lady Scarlet
07-30-10, 06:25 PM
Name: Esmerelda “Scarlet” O’Hara
Age: 23
Sex: female
Race: human (as far as it appears and to her knowledge)
Hair: red
Eyes: green
Height: 5’6”
Weight: 130 lbs
Appearance: Esmerelda is typically clad in a white dress with a long back and short front (to allow easier leg movement) and white, skin-tight, cloth leggings. On her feet she wears knee-high black boots with a 3 inch heel. Around her waist she wears a wide black sword belt. Her long brilliant red hair is worn loose, only occasionally tied back. She wears a white bandana atop her head, though this is usually covered by large, black hat with a white, plumed feather sticking off of one side. Her green eyes are framed by long dark lashes. Her eyebrows are slightly arched and she wears no make-up, preferring to show off her natural beauty.
Personality: She thinks of herself as a free spirit. However, on the see she has little tolerance for fools and runs her ship in a very business-like manner. Drunkeness is not permitted at sea. In port she doesn’t care what her new does as long as they make it back to the ship in time to cast off. She is not always easy to get along with and has h short, fiery temper
Weapons:
4 foot steel , double-edged blade sword. Simple in design with plain, black leather bound hilt
2 steel daggers, each about 5” long, one tucked into the outside of each boot
Armor: none, though she’s saving up to fix that
Skills:
Fairly average with hand-held bladed weapons (knives & swords) of most lengths and designs. Polearms or things on lengths of chain or leather are not her forte in the slightest.
Navigation: Having grown up on or near the sea her entire life, Esme is very good at navigating by the stars alone. She does keep a good collection of maps though, to be absolutely certain she’s reading them correctly.
Acrobatics: very flexible, she can move around the rigging on a ship like a circus trapeze artist. This also comes in handy in battle as it allows her to move in ways not typically expected.
Extra Items:
a compass
a few skirts/changes of clothes
knapsack containing her hygienic necessities
History: Born to a seafaring man, Esme spent her early childhood roaming various ports and docks. Her mother died when she was scarcely a year old and thus was raised by her father and his crew. When she was about 12 years old, her father started teaching her navigation and other things about a ship’s daily operation. He also started teaching her how to fight and to otherwise pull her own weight on his ship.
Of course, not all the men on the ship thought that she should be there in the first place. They were certainly not happy about the girl getting lessons in how to operate the ship, fearful that she was getting such lessons because the captain was going to pass command over to her. However, they didn’t need to worry about that. When the lass was about 16 years old, they were attacked by pirates. Most of those who were not killed in the quick battle were executed at the end of it. Only four of her father’s crew lived to join the pirate’s galley crew, among them the only crewman to truly not have a problem with her presence, First Mate Nelson.
Captain James Gruen had personally ended the life of Esme’s father before her very eyes and would have killed her next. He was never able to explain why he did not kill the girl when he had the chance. Instead, he took her aboard his ship and made her his personal slave. None of his crew dared to oppose him on the matter of having a woman aboard, each figuring that the fates would take care of such folly.
Over the course of the next four years, Esme learned well the life of a pirate and found that she rather liked it. However, she could not stand to be a slave. Though he never touched her or let any of his men touch her, she still felt the lustful looks cast upon her by the crewmen. Now 20 years old, Esme laid her plans carefully and plotted and carried out her own revenge against the pirate captain.
Now in control of the ship, she found that her father’s first mate had managed to survive the last 4 years as a galley slave and quickly set him up as her first mate. Over the last 3 years, she did fairly well for herself.as much as the ten did not like having a woman captain, the fact that she somehow bested Green kept them in line When that seemed likely to fail Nelson took care of matters.
But Mother Nature is fickle and does not grant peaceful seas all the time. Just weeks ago a major storm sunk her ship and scattered her crew except for Nelson who remains at her side.
(Major NPC profile for Nelson is forthcoming)
Age: 23
Sex: female
Race: human (as far as it appears and to her knowledge)
Hair: red
Eyes: green
Height: 5’6”
Weight: 130 lbs
Appearance: Esmerelda is typically clad in a white dress with a long back and short front (to allow easier leg movement) and white, skin-tight, cloth leggings. On her feet she wears knee-high black boots with a 3 inch heel. Around her waist she wears a wide black sword belt. Her long brilliant red hair is worn loose, only occasionally tied back. She wears a white bandana atop her head, though this is usually covered by large, black hat with a white, plumed feather sticking off of one side. Her green eyes are framed by long dark lashes. Her eyebrows are slightly arched and she wears no make-up, preferring to show off her natural beauty.
Personality: She thinks of herself as a free spirit. However, on the see she has little tolerance for fools and runs her ship in a very business-like manner. Drunkeness is not permitted at sea. In port she doesn’t care what her new does as long as they make it back to the ship in time to cast off. She is not always easy to get along with and has h short, fiery temper
Weapons:
4 foot steel , double-edged blade sword. Simple in design with plain, black leather bound hilt
2 steel daggers, each about 5” long, one tucked into the outside of each boot
Armor: none, though she’s saving up to fix that
Skills:
Fairly average with hand-held bladed weapons (knives & swords) of most lengths and designs. Polearms or things on lengths of chain or leather are not her forte in the slightest.
Navigation: Having grown up on or near the sea her entire life, Esme is very good at navigating by the stars alone. She does keep a good collection of maps though, to be absolutely certain she’s reading them correctly.
Acrobatics: very flexible, she can move around the rigging on a ship like a circus trapeze artist. This also comes in handy in battle as it allows her to move in ways not typically expected.
Extra Items:
a compass
a few skirts/changes of clothes
knapsack containing her hygienic necessities
History: Born to a seafaring man, Esme spent her early childhood roaming various ports and docks. Her mother died when she was scarcely a year old and thus was raised by her father and his crew. When she was about 12 years old, her father started teaching her navigation and other things about a ship’s daily operation. He also started teaching her how to fight and to otherwise pull her own weight on his ship.
Of course, not all the men on the ship thought that she should be there in the first place. They were certainly not happy about the girl getting lessons in how to operate the ship, fearful that she was getting such lessons because the captain was going to pass command over to her. However, they didn’t need to worry about that. When the lass was about 16 years old, they were attacked by pirates. Most of those who were not killed in the quick battle were executed at the end of it. Only four of her father’s crew lived to join the pirate’s galley crew, among them the only crewman to truly not have a problem with her presence, First Mate Nelson.
Captain James Gruen had personally ended the life of Esme’s father before her very eyes and would have killed her next. He was never able to explain why he did not kill the girl when he had the chance. Instead, he took her aboard his ship and made her his personal slave. None of his crew dared to oppose him on the matter of having a woman aboard, each figuring that the fates would take care of such folly.
Over the course of the next four years, Esme learned well the life of a pirate and found that she rather liked it. However, she could not stand to be a slave. Though he never touched her or let any of his men touch her, she still felt the lustful looks cast upon her by the crewmen. Now 20 years old, Esme laid her plans carefully and plotted and carried out her own revenge against the pirate captain.
Now in control of the ship, she found that her father’s first mate had managed to survive the last 4 years as a galley slave and quickly set him up as her first mate. Over the last 3 years, she did fairly well for herself.as much as the ten did not like having a woman captain, the fact that she somehow bested Green kept them in line When that seemed likely to fail Nelson took care of matters.
But Mother Nature is fickle and does not grant peaceful seas all the time. Just weeks ago a major storm sunk her ship and scattered her crew except for Nelson who remains at her side.
(Major NPC profile for Nelson is forthcoming)