Post by Cpt. Arthur Kirkland on Jun 6, 2011 16:37:14 GMT -5
!A rthur Kirkland¡
° N-ame || Arthur Kirkland. (Cpt.)
° A-liases || Captain, Kirkland, Artie, 'Brows'*, 'The Red Magician', 'Red Lion' (*something that would never be caught face to face. His other nicknames derive from the fact that he tends to be iconic with a red coat as a pirate, and that some people have /swore/ that his ship has flown without any crew before. These are just rumours, but they do spread)
° A-ge || 23
° G-ender || Male
° F-amily || None known (or admitted)
° S-ight || YES. As far as he's aware, no one knows about this though.
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° E-ye color || Green
° H-air color || Blonde
° H-eight || 5'7
° W-eight || 145 pounds
° S-kin tone || Generally rather pale.
° D-efining features || A few scars, a thin one against his back
° A-dditional features || He's a pirate and while he does enjoy dressing 'up' in treasures he gets ahold of, when he's onshore and within the cities of Atheros he may go in disguise or in very modest clothing in order to not be noticed. He's also incredibly handy with a bow and arrow, so the point it's almost a part of him, but a sword/gun is a lot easier to do the job usually.
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° J-ob || Pirate
° R-ank || Captain
° R-eason for current profession || See History~
° H-ome town || Nowhere. In the skies of Atheros?
° B-irth town || Forests of Adralma
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° P-ersonality ||
Arthur Kirkland is the most loud-mouthed, rude, impatient, dastardly person you will ever come across, but also the most polite gentleman there is on this side of Atheros' society. Elegant, rather graceful but rather blunt and to the point, Arthur Kirkland doesn't like to mess about. By reputation, rumour and general appearance The Captain is cunning and can manipulate you at will, if you're on the wrong side of him. He's feared by many, but if you ever get the chance to talk to him personally he can be incredibly polite, and almost seem gentle. Many people are wary for him of this, for they're not sure of what the man is truly like. That's rather the point of his actions.
On a more personal note, Arthur holds immense authority over people he manages to get in his favour; he does also have a more sensitive side, a side where he's aware no one knows about it. He has a soft spot for the mythical beasts that surround Atheros due to having the Sight and having spent his childhood surrounding them, and will sometimes take time to travel back to the forests and spend time surrounded by them. This is also backed up by the fact that he runs operations of the people he loots or ruins - a lot of the time the riches may be estowed to the families struck in poverty, in order to give them a chance to live. Just about all of his crew are unknown to these operations, and if any of them do know, then it's not known who they are or why they have access to this information. Arthur's reputation is greatly known throughout Atheros, and is one of the most feared figures across the lands, where both the Military and Ruthians are desperate to get him.
Upon meeting The Captain, he can come across as either two things: He can either be aggressive, rude, mean, cruel and overall someone you want to avoid or run away from - or, he could be polite, sympathetic and nothing but a gentleman. These sorts of differences cause people to have mixed opinions and rumours about him, which overall makes him more of a figure to be wary of, since no one is quite sure of his motives or his own desires, or even if he has any.
Arthur often hides in disguises or will wear modest clothing when he's in the cities in order to avoid being spotted, especially when he's out for a drink. He has an unbelievable amount of knowledge and sources, so he knows pretty much everyone in the slightest significant and about them.
People who have had the chance to meet him have called him rather erratic at times and unpredictable, especially when he's had a few drinks - that can be when he's best avoided.
° L-ikes ||
• Tea
• Manipulation
• Alcohol (particularly rum)
• The forests. (peculiarly to the people that know him)
• The dark
° D-islikes ||
• Ruthians
• Military
• Cowards
• Coffee
• Selfish Gits.
° F-ears ||
• Water. He's never been able to swim, but as a skilled pirate, he IS a skilled sailor.
• Being manipulated and humiliated, again. This is why he prefers to have a reputation where he's feared and hated. It at least means people can't manipulate him so easily.
• Losing his power. He'd gone through an awful lot to get to this stage, so to lose everything would be disastorous.
° L-esser known facts ||
• Arthur grew up with a unicorn. It grew up with him, and it's possibly the thing he's closest to, as they helped each other out in tight spots in the Forests. He doesn't get to see the unicorn that much anymore, though it's always waiting for him when he does return to the Forests. He understands that the unicorn doesn't want to leave his own, so he's never tried to force it on the ship.
• When he's been short of crew, the creatures that he can see have aided him.
• He does enjoy being away from the 'limelight', from time to time.
° G-oals ||
• To bring down the military and ruthians
• To RULE THE SKIES or something
• To help the people who once helped him.
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° H-istory ||
Arthur himself had a rather lonely childhood. He grew up in the vast Forests of Adralma. He was alone and he can't quite remember how he was brought up and looked after as just a very, very young child, though sometimes he may have dreams and flashbacks of a smiling woman, with long, flowing red hair...
Due to having the Sight, Arthur could see the mythical beasts around him and it was they who brought him up. He learnt how to fight for himself, how to cook for himself, how to build shelter and how to treat his own wounds, essentially all by the fey and other folklore. There were occasionally his 'brothers' who came along, violent as they were, and not so much looked after him but tested his skills against what he had learnt. All-in-all, he essentially grew up at a very early age.
As he grew up a little, he ventured further and further along the forest, and while there were only a few times when he was younger did he venture into the nearby town, Ghuthla, when he was starving during the winters and he tried to beg - and steal from food (it wasn't that hard, especially from some of the women he approached. This lead him onto having deep respect for femine figures alike, which still lasts to this day). This meant that he wasn't exactly unfamiliar with the place and the people, but he wasn't a common occurence. That changed at about age 12, when he headed into the town more often and started to work manually to earn his keep. He still visited the forest regularly and didn't quite leave it, but he started to stable himself with the town and the people.
However, Arthur had a taste for adventure and discovery, and he knew about the great airships and had heard about the stories and the history of the Pirates, Military and Ruthians. One day, when he was 14, one of the great airships came to land into Ghuthla, and on a spur of the moment Arthur stowed away on it.
He was discovered on the ship soon after, and the Captain dragged him in front of the rest of the crew and humiliated him, questioning what he should 'do' with the boy. The Captain himself was a well known pirate and known for being rather ruthless in his ways. After 'wondering' what to do with the boy, and nearly throwing him overboard at one point (aka hanging him over the side), the Captain decided to make Arthur his 'ship boy', and make him spent the next couple of years perform the most humiliating jobs possible, including, sometimes, sexual acts, when the Captain didn't have anyone to please him himself. In the meantime, though, it meant that Arthur learned the ropes of being a pirate, and since he was around the Captain and his headquarters he tended to hear things that no one else would really hear about, such as sources and rumours and reputations. He became skilled quickly, though he tended to not show much skill. However, he hated the man who essentially 'captured' him and put him to humiliation for years, and a horrible, horrible grudge built up over time.
It all came to a head one day when Arthur was about 17, and the ship got backed into a corner just over the capital, Granor. The ship was surrounded on all sides by Ruthians and the Military. The crew weren't sure why this was - the Ruthians had no reason to be against them, at least, and it wasn't until Arthur caught the Captain trying to abandon his own airship did he essentially launch himself at him and they broke into a fight. After all these years, Arthur prevailed and caught him, dragging him back to the crew. They soon found out that the Captain had got himself into some 'nasty' business that caused him to get into deep trouble with both ends of the 'parties', and was planning on just deserting his men and making a new crew for himself, leaving them to the Military and/or Ruthian's mercy.
Arthur didn't really wait for an answer or a plead for the Captain's own mercy at this point. He slit the Captain's throat, took off the hat and put it on himself, dumping the body overboard for the enemies they were surrounded by. He promptly turned around and started commanding the ship, and by the end of it there was one clean airship and two destroyed Militarian and Ruthian airships spiraling into the grounds of Granor.
From that day on, Arthur Kirkland became one of the most feared Pirates across the lands of Atheros.. and one of the most hated.
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° R-oleplay example ||
Oh, he couldn't believe this.
They were surrounded on all sides. Trapped in a corner, even. Shouts and gunshots and cries and orders were barelled into the air in a mess of violence, and yet the Captain was nowhere to be seen. Where was he? He was the one who gave the orders. He should be the one sorting out this bloody me--
Oh. Oh.
Growling, Arthur ripped one of the swords from the passing boys, and set off down the length of the ship, dodging and skipping around the other men, all hurling and shouting in their panic - some twisting as a flying piece of metal punched through their internal organs.
He found him. He found him in his headquarters, piling Gold and Papers into a jacket and trunk. He was abandoning them? Arthur, from his position, hissed.
"What do you think you're doing?!"
His Captain turned around, and he blinked at him as though he was stupid.
"Why, getting out of here, m'lad. This ship is no place for a man."
"You're going to leave your own crew to die?"
A smirk suddenly played on the older man's lips. His hand slipped into his jacket.
"Oh, Kirkland. We are pirates. There is no such thing as honour."
In the blink of a second, he'd pulled out a gun and fired it at Arthur.
There was a sudden clatter of swords and gun as Arthur dodged the shot and charged him, cries shouting out between the two as the clash of swords struck as desperately as the commotion going on above deck. The tussle went on for a few seconds. Both of them were skilled at this - in fact, Arthur couldn't quite believe he was managing to beat up the pussy of a man so easily. He wasn't aware he was so good until now.
Right until Arthur pinned the other against the cabin wall, and his expression turne dark. His sword pressed against his 'Captain's' throat, and his lips flickered up into a slow snarl. He growled.
"There is also no such thing as a coward..."
Beneath the sword, the man's eyes widened.
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° U-sername || Hihippy
° A-ge || 16
° T-ime zone || GMT
°W-hat is the secret word from the Rules? || Rose. ~
