ABOUT

full name: adeola okafor nicknames: ade gender/pronouns: cis female, she/her age: 37 sexual orientation: pansexual hometown: tortuga occupation: barkeep at the devils cask family:  josiah okafor ( husband - deceased ) , enzi okafor ( son - deceased )

HISTORY death, child death, infidelity tw

adeola married young. at 16, she thought that she knew everything that was to come in her life. she was excited to spend it with a man that she thought that she loved. things became even more perfect when, a year later, adeola and josiah welcomed their son - enzi. the couple worked the tavern that had been in josiahs family for decades and life was good. they were happy ...

but josiah was reckless.

he was unsatisfied with the life he had been given. he would often be found in the sirens nest or dead mans bluff. he would fritter their money away and - unbeknownst to adeola - found himself in mountains of debt. debt that he had no plans to pay off.

that was, until the price was decided for him. their son was to pay for the debts of his father.

two years ago, a commotion outside the tavern alerted her to something going on. the scene that adeola arrived to was one that has haunted her nightmares ever since. her son, on the floor, covered in blood. all she could do was hold him close as he took his final breath.

she knew who was to blame for the death of her child - her husband. from that moment on, she hated the man that she had sworn she would always love.

adeola continued to work in the tavern, continued to lay by his side night after night but she was biding her time. working in the tavern, adeola had never been short of temptation. there were people who would flirt up a storm with her when they'd had a little too much to drink - some when they were still stone cold sober. she had never taken anyone up on an offer ... not until after her son was gone and there was nothing keeping her loyal to the man that she had married.

the affair was just supposed to keep her mind off of everything that had happened. a distraction that made her feel wanted again. until, one night, talk turned to her husband ... and about what might happen if their lover was to dispose of him. it was an idea that she latched onto. the hatred that she held for him was enough to spur her lover on and within a year, adeola lost her child and the man that she was supposed to grow old with. one was the ruin of her, the other the making.

the tavern was her husbands and once he was gone, it fell onto her shoulders to look after the place. it was a position that she threw herself into. it was the very distraction that she needed. her life had been turned upside down but she could escape inside the walls of the tavern. she could dive into the stories of those who passed through the doors. it was exactly what she needed.

a year has gone by since her husbands passing and the tavern is as strong as can be. it is her pride and joy and those who work there are the closest things that adeola has to family.

HEADCANONS

for those that she knows and cares about, adeola has an open door policy. if they find themselves on hard times, she has made it clear that they come to her. she often has a person or two staying with her while they find their feet. it's a way for her to keep her home busy and full of noise - so she doesn't have to focus too much on what is missing.

adeola is not one to mess with and most who go to the tavern know that. she has been known to hold her own against even the most burly of men and is not afraid to kick a patron out on their ass if needed.

she avoids the dead man bluff like the plague. in part, she blames the place for all of her troubles.

ABOUT

full name: khalid chatterjee pirate name: the silence ship: widows wake gender/pronouns: cis male, he/him age: 33 sexual orientation: pansexual hometown: tortuga family:  khalid chatterjee sr ( father - deceased ) , keya chatterjee ( mother ) , estranged wife ( wanted connection )

HISTORY abuse, murder, death tw

born to a mother who was too soft for this world and a father who was too hard - it was never going to be easy for their child. torn between wanting to escape into the world his mother had created and the reality his father made sure that he always saw. as a child, it was often that khalid would be awoken by the shouts of his father and the cries of his mother. he never saw the older man lay a hand on his wife but khalid knew.

things started to change when khalid grew a little older, when he started to stand up to his father. he finally got his confirmation of the kind of man his father was when he started to push him around as well. bruises across his skin was a common occurrence for khalid - but he would take it all if it meant that his mother would be saved.

'you need to become a man' his father would tell him when he was barely thirteen years old. his father taught khalid to be tough. his father taught him how to fight. in turn, his father was the first man to die by khalids hands.

it was the eve of his seventeenth birthday when khalid had decided he had, had enough. his father had been drinking at the tavern all day, his mother had sent him to find him. when he found a woman sat in his lap and the sheer state his father was in, a red mist settled across khalid. his father had taught him never to go anywhere on the island without a weapon - tortuga was a dangerous place, after all - and that night, the dagger his father had given became the one to end his life.

once the deed was done, khalid didn't wait around. he knew that he needed to get out of tortuga and - after working at the docks for some time - knew some of the ships and their men. he found himself a place on a pirate ship that left that next morning. he gave his mother a kiss, promised her that he would be back and left the island for the first time in his life.

it was on one of his trips home - a decade later - where khalid met the woman that would change his life for good. a market seller who seemed to command an audience with anyone who would look her way. the most breath taking person he had ever seen. he fell head over heels in love from the very moment that he saw her. luckily, she seemed to feel the very same.

a whirlwind romance followed. they were married within two months and when she asked, khalid left the ship. they got a small place together on the island and they were happy.

but that happiness wasn't destined to last for long. within a year of their marriage, the sea called him back to her. the life of a pirate suited him and khalid couldn't get used to being back on solid ground.

he is not a cowardly man but the night that he left for the widows wake, he was certainly a coward. his wife was asleep and khalid left only a letter for her to find once she awoke. he loved her but he loved the sea more. he couldn't stay.

since that night, khalid has spent as little time on tortuga as possible. when on island he would by typically found with his mother or at the dead mans bluff - unless the captain had asked him to do something. the life as the widows wakes mirror suits him just fine. to transform, to disappear, to be underestimated are skills he has perfected over the years and use to his advantage.

HEADCANONS

khalid is bilingual. he can speak four languages - english, french, spanish and bengali. his mother would often speak only bengali around the house to ensure her son would know it.

his mother was a poet and, as such, taught her son the importance of writing. it's something that no one other than the woman he married knows but khalid has a small book of poetry that he carries everywhere with him. he also writes his own poetry though not even his wife has seen that.

piracy was never a life that he had thought he would find himself in. in fact, growing up on tortuga, khalid had been afraid of pirates and everything they could do. he never thought that he would be just as bad as them one day.

khalids biggest vice is gambling. if he has any downtime on the island, he will be found in dead mans bluff. he considers himself quite lucky, too!