Character Concepts: The Jolly Roger's Daughter

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Kataryna Eleane, The Jolly Roger’s Daughter:

*Human. Female. 22yo.

*6’3. Long red hair usually tied back under a bandana. Red irises. Lean. Dress - captain’s tricorn cap, leather chest brace, sailor’s pants, leather knee boots and fingerless gloves. Tattoos - skull jaw on her lower jaw; strikes on her left arm for jobs completed; strikes on her right arm for kills; standing anchor on her back, with the flukes over the back of her shoulders and the staff down her spine.

*Acrobatic. Expert thief. Intelligent, cunning, charming and charismatic. An ace shot with her rifle and dual pistols. Uses two one-handed battle-anchors on fine chain for melee combat; they are balanced, so can be easily and accurately thrown, as an attack or for use as a grappling hooks. Strong survival instinct.

-Rifle (Serendipity): No need for ammo. Piercing shots that can pass through the initial target. When she utters the word ‘Serendipity’ the next shot hits the target regardless of obstacles or deflections, ricocheting and finding gaps as necessary to hit the target.

-Pistols (Sincerity and Honesty): Use elements as ammo; place water in the cup, balls of water; flame, fireballs; earth, bullets; blow into the cup, air gun; rub or strike the cup, bolts of lightning; ice of any sort, needles/ shards; cover the cup, balls of black smoke that burst and spread on contact. The elements are retained int the cups until replaced or holstered.

If fired at the same time in the same direction with the same elements, it causes additional effects; double water, freak wave; double fire, flamethrower; double earth, fires a cylindrical pillar; double air, shockwave; double shock, chain lightning; double ice, hailstorm; double shadow, instant and complete darkness for 2 miles around her.

Firing one pistol immediately after the other in the same direction with different elements causes additional effects; water+element, makes the element blue and grants it high mobility dictated by mental commands; fire+element, eruption of that element from the targeted point; earth +element, colours it green and makes it highly corrosive; air+element, colours it white and makes it’s effect a nova; shock+element, golem of that type (+shadow summons an undead soldier or raises a targeted body); ice+element, ice crystals containing the element that explode on impact (retainable as grenades); shadow+element, cloaking of that type (+water, mist; +air, small tornado; +fire, smoke; +shock, bright flash of light; +ice, snow; +earth, dust).

Can call them by name to summon them to her hands.

-Anchors (Plunder and Loot): Cannot be lifted by anyone but her. Whirling them builds up a strong magnetic field that is maintained for a little while after the spinning stops. The type of field (repulsive or attractive) is dependant on the direction the anchor is spinning relative to her, clockwise (repulsive) or anti-clockwise (attractive).

Can call them by name to magically anchor them to the next object they touch, not disconnecting until called again.

*Relies on her wit, charisma, feminine charm and guns to avoid conflict and complete her jobs. Avoids melee as much as possible, preferring to use her acrobatic skills and the magnetic capabilities of the anchors to stay at range for her pistol and rifle.

*The Lucky Barrel, Serendipity (rifle). The World Virtues, Sincerity and Honesty (pistols). The Ocean’s Rights, Plunder and Loot (chained anchors).

*See as much of as many worlds as possible, and to find a crew (adopted family).

*A natural born leader but emotionally scarred by her lover’s betrayal, she trusts no-one. Charming, charismatic and highly intelligent.

[Backstory: Kataryna Eleane was born into a a farming family a half day’s ride from the port city of Talar. She quickly showed her charismatic and intelligent personality, and when she outgrew the village she left for the big city.

There, she quickly found her place in the workings of the city as a thief, and became widely known and respected by all for her charm and skill at procuring supposedly impossible items.

However, she inevitably came to the attention of the City Governor and was set up through her female lover, framed for murder, and gaoled in the dungeons until a pirate crew under the command of her future mentor and patron, Captain Galeel Steelbeard.

Under Galeel, Kataryna learned to hone her existing strengths and develop a few more, most notably her incredible acrobatic skills.

When the captain finally passed on, he left her only the boat and his long sea chest, in which rested his pride and joy, the rifle Serendipity, known as the Lucky Barrel.

While exploring an unknown island in between two jobs, she found a large sea chest containing two blunderbuss pistols covered in intricate and unfamiliar designs. These were the World Virtues, Sincerity and Honesty, also known to the pirate world as the Element Twins and the Seaman’s Banes.

While evading a small group of government warships during a storm, her ship was wrecked against the cliff face of a young island. While underwater amid the wreckage of her ship, she saw the metals behaving strangely in the water, drifting against the current towards a rocky outcrop. There she found the Ocean’s Rights, Plunder and Loot, two chain-and-anchors with strange magnetic properties.

Since then, she has travelled over land and sea completing jobs, searching for more lost artefacts and desperately seeking a new family].

Author's Note

This concept was inspired by the personalised avatar of my younger brother within one of the video games we play. The weapons, personality and strengths/weaknesses are not related to this, but the workings of the dual pistols follow the method of spell casting within that game.
This character is highly versatile, suitable for almost any story in which vehicles are heavily featured and also simple in her identity, not too difficult to understand.
She is homosexual, though how that came about or why is not something I covered, it just seemed to fit her character.
The backstories of ALL character concepts are fully revisable or replaceable. They are simply examples.