XD I had forgotten how much I liked Saethos' character sheet ^_^
EDIT- I am finished with my CS! *cheers*
Also, I just realized there be lots of females ^_^'
Name: Rinata Sojourn
Age: 31
Gender: Female
Race: Human/Elf hybrid, though there is more human in her than elf.
Position: Cook
Your wish: She wishes to discover new places, meet new people. Nothing too fancy, just a breath of fresh air, really, and freedom.
Appearance:
Rinata's about 5'5 and weighs around 125 lbs. She doesn't actually have the bow and arrows portrayed in the picture.
Personality: Rinata is what one could call easy going and down to earth. She is easy to get along with and can make friends with pretty much anyone, trying to see the best in others. Key word here being 'try'. While she gives the benefit of the doubt, she is more of a realist than an idealist. She values kindness and helpfulness, but she may be a little strict with whom she extends it toward. Cross her too many times or hurt any of her friends, she will have that person in her bad books. She's hardworking and loyal, and if she makes a promise, she will keep it unless forced otherwise.
She has a sense of humour and enjoys listening to jokes, music, random banter of her companions. However, when it's time to be serious, she is focused on the task at hand. She can become somewhat annoyed if someone is being stupidly stubborn or making light of a serious situation. In the same way, she also finds it rather tedious when someone is making a mountain out of a molehill. She won't be outrightly upset about it, but her tone becomes a little sarcastic.
Weapon: Rinata doesn't really have any weapons per say. Since she grew up with brothers, she's used to roughhousing with them. As such, she tends to use her fists and feet quite a bit. However, she does keep a couple of paring knives on her person, and a cleaver at her waist, much like others keep their swords.
Magic: Rin has the ability to understand animals, and animals can understand her. This was something she discovered from a very young age, from listening to chirping birds, meowing cats, barking dogs and other such animal life. At first, her family believed she had a wild imagination, perhaps from listening to tales of their ancestor who could do the same. As she grew older, however, the ability remained and grew stronger.
Also like her ancestor, Rin sometimes has dreams that depict events that may take place in the future. These dreams are not necessarily the hard truth, as the future can always be changed by the paths that are taken. However, all of her dreams with premonitions have so far come true.
Skills: Rin's quite a good fisherwoman, seeing it's something she's been around as a child. Whether with nets, a fishing pole, or a knife with a rope tied to it.
She can cook decently, which is a good thing since that's what she's considered on the ship. She's no gourmet chef, but she can make do with little ingredients and concoct something that's edible and tasty (or at least doesn't taste bad).
It's not much of a useful skill, but she's rather good at playing darts as well. At least,
she considers it a skill, especially when bets are placed and she wins.
History: Rinata was born to a rather normal family of two parents and four brothers. One could call their family boring, in fact. Her father, Elan, had been a man of the sea, a privateer who fell in love with a young lass named Sima, who lived in a coastal village known for its fishing. It was one of those sickly and sappy 'love at first sight' stories, though the fact of the matter was that Elan was a lonely man and Sima was somewhat rebellious and wished for a little adventure of the mature kind. As it were, however, they did indeed fall in love, enough that Elan bravely ventured forth to ask Sima's father for his daughter's hand in marriage. Naturally, he rejected the proposal, as any normal father would have. However, he wasn't so callous and cold-hearted. Eventually, he grudgingly permitted them to marry, as long as Elan stayed in the village, learning the way of the fisherman. This was perfectly fine for the now ex-privateer, and Sima, while a little dampened since she wouldn't have any sea adventures, was agreeable as well. Her being pregnant was probably what had convinced her.
So the two settled down in the village, where in the next ten years the family grew drastically. Elan and Sima now had five children, and Rinata was the youngest of them all. As such, she was rather over protected, kept in the sights of her mother's eyes, who for that matter had grown into a rather strong and mature mother, the sort who had eyes on the back of her head. While Rinata's brothers were under the watchful eyes of her father, she was the sole child who had her mother on her back. Now, it wasn't as if she was under lock and key, or on a leash, but there were limitations to whatever she could do.
As Rinata grew older, she quickly discovered that she could talk to animals, much like how she talked to her brothers and parents. She would head out to the nearby tidepools, playing among the dangerous craggy rocks, talking to the various strange creatures that would find their way there from the seas. When her brothers noticed her, they thought she was simply playing with her imaginary friends. However, as she reached her teens and was more vocal about how she could understand the animals both on land and sea, her family came to the realization that this was no phase that would simply disappear one day. She was like her ancestor from her mother's side, who could speak to animals and used their friendship to her advantage. With this knowledge, however, her parents and brothers became even more protective of Rinata. They didn't wish for anyone to know the truth about her. It was too dangerous. Men were greedy and would use any tool they could find at their disposal.
It was when she reached her late teens that Rinata began to realize that some of her dreams were coming to pass. Not only that, she could now tell which dream was a premonition, and which wasn't. There was the one time that she had seen her brother losing a finger to an accident with an axe. She didn't believe it would actually happen until he came back home with a rather bloody handkerchief around his hand. From them onward she began paying more attention to her dreams. One dream in particular she would see from time to time was with herself on a ship that was headed... somewhere. She never knew
where. She did know there were others there... just not her family.
Once she had finally reached adulthood, Rinata was introduced to a fellow villager that her parents considered a good fellow, with the intent that they should marry. It wasn't too great of a deal to her, as that was the norm of where they lived. However, unlike the loving relationship her parents had, it certainly wasn't the same for Rinata and the man she married. While he showed one face outside the house, inside he was a rather crude and brutal man. She was patient for a couple of years, not wanting to disappoint her parents too much, and she did have her animals to talk to. However, there came one day where the not so ideal marriage came to an end. A fight broke out in the house which ended up with bruises on Rin and a knife in her husband.
For the first time since she could remember, Rinata panicked, at least inwardly. She grabbed necessary items, tied, dumped them in a satchel, and then wrote a short letter to her parents that she was leaving on a trip. After sneaking out of the house and leaving the letter under her parents' door, she headed to the docks. She had taken all of the money from her house, so buying passage on a ship wasn't a great ship. From here onward, Rinata discovered that she quite liked life at sea. Not only did it help her get over what she had run away from, but she was also realizing how shielded she had spent most of her life. She also realized that this was her dream... literally speaking. She was on a ship with people who weren't her family.
Rin moved from ship to ship, staying as a passenger for a few trips until her money ran out. After that, she began working, at first simply sweeping and mopping the deck as well as other menial tasks. Soon she started cooking, however, and she was good enough at it that it became her sole job, or at least what she would claim when searching for work. By age 25, Rinata came across the crew called the Daydream Raiders. She found the name amusing and deciding to give it a try. Six years later, she finds herself still with this crew, and quite satisfied to simply stay here.
I agree to the rules my captain has set forth.
