BRIGHT blue eyes, tall, broad shoulders and thicc arms from a life at sea. I said more about her in SH than I did in The Storyteller XD Anyway. I was planning on drawing them how they'll look in SH, which will be mid-40s, but came across this ref who looked too perfect to pass up, so here they are as they were in their own story, approaching 30.
NAME Captain Sen WHO IS THIS PERSON Captain of the Red Cacao, a Tsaythi bounty hunter ship. POV character from The Storyteller GENDER Female AGE 46
Man I loved writing this pirate story. Sen was the POV character but Tu, who I'll get to, was the main character, which was something I'd always wanted to do. Every chapter Sen gets a year older, starting with her birth and finishing at her 30th birthday. She's rescued as a baby by Tu and brought up by a family in a little fishing village on the coast, because apparently a village on-shore populated by bastards is a better life than on Tu's ship. The story is then her learning about who Tu is, from Tu herself, from her crew, from rumours and history and everything she can find.
Sen herself is hardened by her experiences with Tu and, by the time she gets her cameo in SH, she and her ship, the Red Cacao have earned a reputation as formidible pirate hunters. Sen, while 100% legitimate birth herself, makes a point of crewing her ship with bastards who don't get a chance anywhere else.
Comparatively tiny next to Sen's imposing figure, but you still don't want to mess with her. Particularly love how her face came out. Very pleased I've made the change to Aboriginal Australian look for the Tsaythis =3
NAME First Mate Kaiji WHO IS THIS PERSON First mate of the Red Cacao, a Tsaythi bounty hunter ship. Sen's wife GENDER Female AGE 46
Kaiji was the baby in the family who adopted Sen, and effectively the reason her parents took Sen in, because her mother was already breastfeeding. They grew up together, but in Tsaythi culture they're not sisters. When Kaiji, as a burgening teenager introduced to the concept of two women loving each other, recognises Sen as being frigging hot, it's therefore not at all weird that she gets romantically interested. Except that same sex relations are weird to Tsaythis anyway. Not forbidden or taboo, just weird and impractical.
Kaiji is more head-over-heart than her wife, often the voice of reason when Sen looks like reacting without thinking. They make a good pair.
