#hartrambles

about Hercules 🔥🔥

i swear i am still alive i just have had work!! i'm so sorry im late about answering ur ask !!! so some headcanons about hercules....

his real name in my au is heracles kiladis, and most of his journeys in my lore are based off the real life hercules in san francisco.

he's from jersey, and is unapologetically greek. he grew up around big meals, shouting, and lots of stories. he carries komboloi on him as a good luck charm.

speaks greek and english. learned some french to help deal with the foreign ocean liners, and spanish from his time at the panama canal and in mexico.

he knows everyone’s business, and it’s all because you think he’s just making idle conversation with you. he always seems to know everything about everyone

herc def flirts like its a sport. he doesn’t really even mean to do it, it’s just something he does.

he's really calm (except when he’s not)… he doesn’t get bothered by little things, but if you threaten one of the star tugs or disrespect him? you’re done BUDDY!!!

hercules knows how to handle the thugs (ahem) the z-stacks. he’s got that type of smile that makes someone second guess everything they just said.

dresses well for a working class man. it’s probably all that commission money he gets from dealing with those ocean liners.

That is all

OH DUDE…… the lore isnt done at all (god forbid you get a history person into tugs bc i start trawling every website, article, book, and newspaper trying to base this off of real life) but this is what i have so far. just a general tw for ppl btw in the tags

cpt. star

name is ezekiel ‘zeke’ starmont iii, born and raised in the bigg city, and just like the others two ezekiel starmonts, he was expected to lead the business just like how his father and grandfather did.

he was raised around the docks and though not thoroughly educated, cpt. star had a insane amount of apprenticeships and work experience as a longshoreman. he’s fluent in maritime law, and even more fluent in politics. he even worked with capt. zero at another company before the baton was passed over to him.

the company itself has a very strong moral compass, because it was founded in a time where politics weren’t so cutthroat. so when money got tight, cpt. star was forced to adapt. since the company never allows its tugs to carry anything illegal, that is what made them respected by the authorities, and also feared by the criminal enterprises in bigg city. star tug & marine knew how to keep their hands clean, even if their intentions were not.

HOWEVER…. that does not mean he is a great guy. not really a great guy at all. he’s not cruel, but he’s definitely mean. he picks on some of his tugs and is vehemently anti union (i think this from was a scrapped story called strike i can’t remember)

something i really want to emphasize in this au is that both star tug and marine and zero marine deal with corruption, just different types of corruption if that makes sense. star tug influences contracts, pressures unions, gets shorter inspection times, etc. they always somehow gets around the red tape other companies can’t. they are too embedded in the history of bigg city to go kaput, and that’s why they have the power they have.

cpt zero.

nobody is really sure of cpt. zero’s legal name, or where he even came from. some people said he came over from the old world, which country though? nobody knows. the ledger says cpt. zero, so that’s what everyone calls him.

he originally worked for another tug company and worked briefly alongside cpt. star. (they have lore i swear i just don’t know how to handle it yet) cpt. zero would often do things ‘under the table’ (aka smuggling) for local criminals and gangs which eventually either had him caught and fired or gave him a criminal record you choose LOL

eventually, zero marine was founded. by the time the volstead act was passed, zero had started his own small, yet powerful fleet backed by all sorts of illegal money. many men that worked amongst star and zero at that previous company followed zero, because smuggling was where the money was.

his biggest benefactors are the handful of mobs in bigg city. he probably speaks a dozen different languages too. zero marine in my lore makes most of its money solely because the volstead act exists. however, even after the volstead act was repealed captain zero’s ‘shadier’ contracts def are where the income is. no liner contract will ever beat the money made from smuggling. drugs hidden in coal bunkers, guns hidden in crates, it all is a very serious operation, and lots of $$ is on the line. its why the z stacks freak out when something bad goes wrong— because often times it means the loss of money will have a gang or a mob boss all over their ass about it.

also yes we’re using tf2 mr red and mr blue for cpt star and cpt zero as placeholders bc im too lazy to make a design

as some of you already know i’m from boston and i thought it would be interesting to have the tugs all be “born” (aka built) in different parts of the US and then ‘come’ to the bigg city or bought by cpt star from other companies so i hope you can kind of see my love for boston through ten cents idk enough with the sappy shit

i’ve decided to go with the human name luca delaney for ten cents. still trying to figure out the timeline because i’m pretty much going in blind with tugboat history (though i have previous knowledge with ocean liner history etc) so i’m just kind of winging it atm. this stuff is subject to change.

- typical bostonian. fast talking, street smart, always ready with a comeback or a joke. a bit rough around the edges.

- has a crazyy boston accent. when he opens his mouth its just…110% boston. it’s like listening to scout from tf2 i swear to god

- loves baseball! has a ball he caught at fenway park (and signed by jack tobin) that he keeps in his cabin. he still reps boston proudly. when he has the chance, he listens to the baseball games on the radio (if cpt star isn’t on his ass about something)

- grew up in a puerto rican / irish household in boston’s south end.

- he’s incredibly protective of people. he’ll help lost kids at the pier, sneak extra food to feed the ships cats, and always looks out for those who are less fortunate than he is.

- he’s the type who acts all tough until he sees someone or something in distress. he’s a big softie, and even though some people tease him about it, they can’t help but feel like it’s one of his most endearing traits.

- good cook ? doesn’t know a lot of recipes, but the ones he does know how to make are delicious. soda bread for the fleet, arroz con gandules and a mish mash of things that he learned from his family back home. sometimes sunshine will ask him to make him some more, and ten cents simply replies, “i would sunshine, but i don’t got the money, and i ain’t yer ma.”

- he talks with his hands. he gestures with them, and he’s very animated especially when he’s annoyed.