Post by spender on Mar 28, 2011 16:48:01 GMT -5
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Species: Pine marten
Rank: Seajack
Description:
Regular pine marteny goodness, with perhaps a little more orange in his bib than the usual Cadbury creme yellow. Content to wear the purser's slops, although he has his own collection of clothing for other occasions. Wears a ragged top hat whenever he can get away with it. Missing a toe on his right footpaw, but otherwise no physical blemishes. Is a bit taller and wider than usual, and has the muscle and strength to make his size worthwhile to the Agamemnon.
History:
Marten Pyne was never really good at anything. He drifted from job to job in his wild youth, never learning his trades enough to be very competent or skilled, but picking up enough to have a smidgen of know-how about nearly anything, from shoe-making to policework. However, he has never learned to read or write. While he can count and subtract and add, properly advanced mathematics is simply beyond him.
He married young, he and his wife eloping to Muggidrear from the countryside. She came from a wealthy family, and after a few years they returned and made amends, and Marten was given her father's blessing and an allowance to support her. They had three kits, a female now 15, and two males, 10 and 7.
Marten continued to have job troubles.
And then drinking troubles.
And then marriage troubles.
Rather than be divorced, kicked out of the house and left on his own, he pulled himself together in a valiant effort, and bid his family farewell: he was off to join the Navy, to discipline himself, to help Welkin in the war, and see if he could last in a job longer than a year.
He applied and was picked by Captain Ladorak Fugate, and placed on the first Starboard watch. Several months later, when young Seajack Volunteer Class I Willard Waters transferred watches, Marten was picked to replace him in the other watch schedule, filling the gap in Ocean, Spender and Peskers' Mess.
Personality:
Marten is a troubled soul. While kindhearted and (he would like to think) rather wise, he is superstitious as a result of infrequent "visions" or dreams he has—which, while infrequent, are still more frequent than those who never experience them. He is awkwardly paranoid about certain things, (never really able to decide what, though) and is convinced that he is somewhat cursed and being taunted by a wretched spirit of some kind.
Apart from that, he is as happy as happy can be with his life. A tinge of regret regarding his family, but an optimistic outlook on the future guides him through life.
Marten loves kits. As a father, he was excellent with them, playful and fun-loving, and even managed to teach them. To their credit, they learned reading and writing and math beyond his own abilities. Now removed from his own children, he feels obligated to look out for the younger crewbeasts on the ship, and finds he is better able to get along with them than most of the adult crew.
At times clumsy and forgetful, he shows promise and eagerness in his work on the ship, and for once in his life seems to have a skillset that refines itself over time: as the months roll by, he makes less and less mistakes. He is an excellent climber, and within minutes at a task falls into a focused trance that sees it through with quality work.
Despite this, he has no real motivation to proceed up the ranks in the Navy, and it content to remain a Seajack (or Able Seajack, someday) for the rest of his time.
Age: 38
Species: Pine marten
Rank: Seajack
Description:
Regular pine marteny goodness, with perhaps a little more orange in his bib than the usual Cadbury creme yellow. Content to wear the purser's slops, although he has his own collection of clothing for other occasions. Wears a ragged top hat whenever he can get away with it. Missing a toe on his right footpaw, but otherwise no physical blemishes. Is a bit taller and wider than usual, and has the muscle and strength to make his size worthwhile to the Agamemnon.
History:
Marten Pyne was never really good at anything. He drifted from job to job in his wild youth, never learning his trades enough to be very competent or skilled, but picking up enough to have a smidgen of know-how about nearly anything, from shoe-making to policework. However, he has never learned to read or write. While he can count and subtract and add, properly advanced mathematics is simply beyond him.
He married young, he and his wife eloping to Muggidrear from the countryside. She came from a wealthy family, and after a few years they returned and made amends, and Marten was given her father's blessing and an allowance to support her. They had three kits, a female now 15, and two males, 10 and 7.
Marten continued to have job troubles.
And then drinking troubles.
And then marriage troubles.
Rather than be divorced, kicked out of the house and left on his own, he pulled himself together in a valiant effort, and bid his family farewell: he was off to join the Navy, to discipline himself, to help Welkin in the war, and see if he could last in a job longer than a year.
He applied and was picked by Captain Ladorak Fugate, and placed on the first Starboard watch. Several months later, when young Seajack Volunteer Class I Willard Waters transferred watches, Marten was picked to replace him in the other watch schedule, filling the gap in Ocean, Spender and Peskers' Mess.
Personality:
Marten is a troubled soul. While kindhearted and (he would like to think) rather wise, he is superstitious as a result of infrequent "visions" or dreams he has—which, while infrequent, are still more frequent than those who never experience them. He is awkwardly paranoid about certain things, (never really able to decide what, though) and is convinced that he is somewhat cursed and being taunted by a wretched spirit of some kind.
Apart from that, he is as happy as happy can be with his life. A tinge of regret regarding his family, but an optimistic outlook on the future guides him through life.
Marten loves kits. As a father, he was excellent with them, playful and fun-loving, and even managed to teach them. To their credit, they learned reading and writing and math beyond his own abilities. Now removed from his own children, he feels obligated to look out for the younger crewbeasts on the ship, and finds he is better able to get along with them than most of the adult crew.
At times clumsy and forgetful, he shows promise and eagerness in his work on the ship, and for once in his life seems to have a skillset that refines itself over time: as the months roll by, he makes less and less mistakes. He is an excellent climber, and within minutes at a task falls into a focused trance that sees it through with quality work.
Despite this, he has no real motivation to proceed up the ranks in the Navy, and it content to remain a Seajack (or Able Seajack, someday) for the rest of his time.
