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The Flying Dutchman Discussion Thread
This is where we discuss the events in the story. I am also going to have the profiles in here if any of you need references. to them. Please use this forum to keep the clutter from the actual Storybook.

--> The Great Fortune Crew:
Cap'n Quinn Bellamy
Skylar Berggs

-->The Rising Sun Crew:
Cap'n Bailey Jones
Morgana Havisham
Jack Rogue

-->The Great Fortune Profiles:

Name: Cap'n Quinn Bellamy
Gender: Male
Age: 45
Appearance:
Quinn
He is incredibly tall and heavily built. He had watery blue eyes and dark black hair, streaked with black. His skin is weathered and tanned, but surprisingly smooth, there is little wrinkles on his face. He wields a silver sword and usually wears a bandana on his head, but he does have an elaborate captains hat he sometimes wears.
Personality:Friendly and kind, he doesn't want his crew to get angry at him or become mutinous. He is kind to every one of them, though he barely gives his crew members a break before he barks another order. He is fond of sailing, and loves nothing more than to be on the sea.
History: The boat was given to him by his father. He lives for little more than the boat. His wife and child had died from a Plague which has left him is mourning since. He was ready to get rid of the boat after their death, but he kept it because his daughter loved nothing more than to be sailing on the boat with him.
He is looking for the Dutchman because he heard that it could bring his wife and child back. He doesn't care about anything else.
Likes/Dislikes:He loves to sail, and be on the open seas. He loves nothing more than a challenge. Though he doesn't like questions and lazy crew members. He is not afraid to yell at them if he has to.
Other: Not up for love.

Name: Skylar Berggs (Sky)
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Crew Member of: The Great Fortune
Appearance: Loose, wavy black hair and green eyes. She's about 5'6 and slim and curvy. She weilds two blades. She does have obvious muscle.
http://eonn.deviantart.com/art/Pirate-l%20...%20I-64396170
Personality: Sky has a very huge passion for sailing. She's very fun-loving and she also loves to avoid daily duties at all costs. She rarely gets in trouble for doing so, since she's hardly ever caught, but when she is caught consequences are sure to follow, even if her father was Cap'n Quinn's best mate. She's got a spit fire personality.
History: Her mother and father were both crew mates on the Great Fortune, and that's when they met, when Captain Quinn inherited his ship from his father, and he and Sky's father decided to start sailing. Her mother died from the same plague that killed Captain Quinn's wife and daughter, who was also Sky's best friend at the time. Immediately after her mother died, she began sailing with her father. At first, she hated it since she was always sea sick, but it gradually became her passion. Her father died when she was twelve from a poisoning, and she's looked up to Quinn and a father and captain, even though he sees her as part of the crew.
Likes: Sailing, talking to Captain Quinn, making fun of aristocratic people, her pet and bantering with the crew, especially the chef.
Dislikes: CHORES, the fact her family's gone, sea sickness after being docked at a town for a couple of days, drunken crew members, touchy feely crew members, and the rat stew the chef makes when they're low on food.
Other: Up for love

-->The Rising Sun Profiles

Name: Cap'n Bailey Jones
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Appearance:
Bailey.
She looks like that.
The kind of get-up she would wear.
She is around 5"5 and beautiful for certain. She has fiery curly hair that she wears freely. She actually wears a captains hat, and demands authority from her crew. She is a petite thing and incredibly elegant.
Personality:She is very tempermental, and some people even think she is mad. She loves fire, so she always sets things on fire, and she always has a pocket watch which she frequently checks, though it had stopped since two years back. She is merciless, and quick to judge. She jumps into things on first impression rather then look into it further.
History:Bailey has no recollection of her past. All she remembers is being captain of this boat, and always having a pocket watch with her. That pocket watch is inscribed with Jones, on the back and that is the only thing connecting her to her past. She is greedy, and is only after the treasure from the Dutchman.
The reason why she has found a rival in Quinn is because he was the only one who has escaped when her boat attacked their boat. They got away, and she vowed to sink their ship the neck time she saw him.
Likes/Dislikes:She loves fire and seeing people beg for their lives. She dislikes when people talk back to her and when she doesn't get her way.
Other: She is very flirtatious, so if she meets one of your male characters, she may come off as... well... yah. She is up for love.

Name: Morgana Havisham
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Crew Member of: Rising Sun
Appearance: long, wavy black hair; very tan skin; teal colored eyes; slender; about 5'3" (she's the shortest member on the ship).
Personality: She's very independent, smart and strong. She has a fiery temper but she's a good fighter. She's funny and well- loved on the ship for being as tough as the men. She loves her pirate family and, although she teases them constantly, she would probably do anything for them.
History: Her father was a pirate on the Rising Sun and when she was 13 she joined him on the boat because her mother died. She loved the pirate life and her father, but he fell overboard one night while she was sleeping and drowned. She almost left the boat then, but for some unknown reason, she changed her mind and stayed to become a true pirate.
Likes: fighting, sailing, sleeping in, plunder, her pirate family, the Rising Sun, being free
Dislikes: manners, dressing up like a girl, kitchen duty, chores, the Great Fortune
Other: has a pet monkey. Up for love

Name: Jack Rogue
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Crew Member of: Rising Sun
Appearance: http://emi-hotaru.deviantart.com/art/Pirate-15751407
He's very tall, with a mass of shaggy, matted, greasy dark brown hair. His eyes are mismatched, and he has the marks of many a feirce battle on his face. He has terrible hygene, and there always seems to be grit under his nails. He has the build of an acrobat, and is a talented climber, swinger, and jumper.
Personality: When he first came aboard, he was deranged and insane in every sense of the word. Now, however, he has calmed down and become very cold and calculating. He follows orders usually, but will sometimes add his own small comment to them. He has a dry sense of humor. Every now and then, however, his insanity returns and he will become just as deranged as he ever was.
History: Jack snuck aboard the Sun one night when it had laid anchor not far from a small port town. He hide himself well until the ship was far out at sea again. Jack revealed himself, and did not get a warm welcome in the slightest. There was a large fight, where Jack took control of the Crow's Nest on the mast. He defended the Nest until he worked out an agreement with Cap'n Bailey Jones that he would sail with their crew. Jack is both part and apart of the crew of the Sun. He pulls his own weight in helping with the daily running of the ship, and he has proved to be an excellent fighter and pillager when it was needed. However, Jack seems to have very little trust in the crew (Not surprisingly, as he to this day is still not very well liked.) and refuses to sleep in the crew's quarters. Jack can be found on the deck, rain or shine, every night. He only seems to be asleep half the time as well, and always awakes to any slight noise. Jack's past before he came onto the Rising Sun is largely unknown. I'm not sure if it will play a part in the story, really, but if you are curious (Jack has never told anyone this)
Jack's birth name was Benjamen Mackley. He, until very recently, was a high-stanging officer in the naval forces, and commanded his own crew the Bradley. His crew were some of the front-line forces in a long and fierce territory war against an enemy country. As the war ran on, Ben noticed a slight change in himself. He began isolating himself from his crew, spending more and more time locked away in his cabin. Ben blamed it on the war. As the months of almost persistant combat wore on, Ben grew more and more deranged. His crew began to whisper after his sanity. During one particularly long battle, the Bradley was destroyed, and most of the crew killed. Another of their navy's ships, the Truth picked up the few survivors, along with Ben. Ben's crew quietly told the Truth's captain what had happened, how Ben had refused to retreat when there was a clear way out of the battle and it was apparent the Bradley would not make it through the fight. They told of Ben's growing madness, and of how he forced members of the crew to cut the lifeboats off of the Bradley to prevent any type of mutiny. Ben was taken into custody, and dropped off in the first port city the Truth came to. Ben was put into the city's jail for holding until he could be properly tried. Somehow, Ben escaped the prison. After stealing some weapons from the prison's armory, Ben quickly returned to the only thing he knew: the sea. Ben saw the Rising Sun in the distance, stole a rowboat, and quickly sailed to the Sun. He sank the rowboat once he reached the Rising Sun's side, and climbed aboard. He now awaits the chance to get revenge on his old crew, and the crew of the Truth, who he blames for his imprisonment.
Likes/Dislikes: He likes the sea wind on his face and the feel of old wood, and dislikes very loud, obnoxious people.
Other: Up for love. He can be very obsessive.