#allaboard!

Nurse

Sexworker

Ship’s cook

(Joining @welcome-to-avylon you heard about five seconds ago like...)

*Cornelia was born by the sea, her father a sailor and her mother a barkeep in a town close to the water.

* Cornelia always longed for water..... and a fight.

* Cornelia never understood why her hair was as black as it was or as curly. She just knew that it was and tried to have it away from her face.

* She was never allowed to the water by her mum because she clammed it was dangerous.

* Cornelia never believed her and snuck off anyway.

* One day when a ship came into harbour Cory had gotten some old clothes that was her dads once and she managed to sneak with them going under the name Cory.

* She was finally at water but she still longed for a fight.

* There was one thing she never took of tho. Her necklace.

* The necklace was one with a crystal in it, that was her only clue about her dad, who her mother told her was dead.

* Truth was he was dead.

*When Cory got face to face with the captain all she did was look at them.

*She got left on an island by that captain, the island wasn’t empty but she stayed by the ocean and waited till she saw a ship and people looking interesting.

*She saw Kit and just said to them “you own the ship?”

*She was in hope she could join them. She did.

*Her longing for a fight made her branded with bruises, scars and cuts but she didn’t care.

Lacina came from a small impoverish family, it was just her brother, mother and herself - her father had run away to the seas when she was still a babe - he was supposedly a frenchman and decided to abandon his family for his homeland

Her mother became gravely ill when she was 8, her brother turned to the seas and a life of piracy in the hopes of affording the medicine she needed. In his absence Lacina became a pickpocket, small and dainty she was unnoticeable in the big crowds of the city

Her brother would return twice a year with riches from his travels but when her mother died when she was 14 it had been a year since she’d last seen him. With the rest of her family gone, her life of crime had become her only way to feed herself and she enjoyed the thrill it gave her that the life of housewife could never

As the years went by she garnered a reputation for herself, she had broadened her horizons and collected information for those in need of her services, knowledge was priceless after all

▪a town upbringing as an only child with both parents; altogether a stable, ordinary childhood

▪but when your mom doesn't come home one day, you start to wish for things to be different

▪some call it "adolescence", others call it "rebel phase"; trouble after trouble, until one day a dagger finds its way to Jack's neck

▪hiding the wound out of embarrassment leaves it to fester, too late medical care leaves behind a gnarly scar

▪years later, when his father's been dead for a while, it wakes the desire to help others, leading Jack to becoming a nurse and tending to the wounded and the sick

▪all the while hiding the nasty scar, because who'd want their caretaker to look effed up?

▪the need for medical personal dwindles and Jack is to search for a new job

▪one night at the pub sets lose a chain of events, and at its end he's working for a woman that knows just what her customers want

▪it's a job that's frowned upon, but it lets Jack explore his own sexuality and gets him into contact with many different, interesting people, people longing for a warm night with an impeccable man

▪and who's to blame when he falls for one of them?

▪he's a pirate, and he promises the world and more to Jack if only he were to leave with him

▪the talk of freedom is mesmerising, and so it happens a few days later, at night, no goodbyes or tears left behind

▪it's a new beginning, away from bad memories and social stigma

▪aboard the ship, it takes a while, but a few scars and half a finger later, Jack is blooming, thriving in a world that takes him as he is

▪as the ship's cook and with his medical background, he gets to still take care of other people, while also living life at the limit

▪it's more than his teenage self could ever have dreamed of

Clara Brenton, innocent child