Everyone on the pirate ship North Wind has a secret. How do they present themselves to others? And who are they really?
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Rodrigo
Siobhan
Constanza
Ibrahim
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Rodrigo
Role: First Mate
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Home Port: San Juan
Skills: Sailing, fighting, overwhelming arrogance
Description: Your right-hand man since the beginning. He would absolutely take a bullet for you, and has. Twice. Too bad his judgment hasn’t caught up with his loyalty.
Backstory: When he was ten, his sailor father sailed off and never came back, leaving Rodrigo his lucky silver coin. He’s never forgiven him. At eighteen, he went to sea in the hopes of crossing paths with him. When he eventually came to accept that it would never happen, became determined to prove that he never needed him.
Barks:
“Fortune favors the bold!”
“I still say we could have taken that man-o’-war.”
“Redheads are bad luck. You let them on board and the next thing you know you’re having to wash your socks, pick up your things, wear pants…”
Siobhan
Role: Second Mate
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Home Port: Bridgetown
Skills: Sailing, common sense
Description: She’s the only reason anything gets done around here, and she may be slightly salty about it. Inherited Irish sarcasm without ever clapping eyes on the Emerald Isle. She keeps her wedding band and a locket with a bit of her kid’s hair on a cord around her neck.
Backstory: Of course there’s no husband. She only wears the ring to keep people from asking questions. Her older sister agreed to take in her baby on the condition that she never attempted to see him.
Barks:
“Yes, you’re God’s gift to women. Get back to work.”
“You break it, you buy it. That does include the entire ship.”
“I’m going to practice saying ‘I told you so’ in front of a mirror.”
Constanza
Role: Master-At-Arms
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Home Port: Cádiz
Skills: Fighting, impeccable manners
Description: A baron’s daughter in search of adventure, she brings a certain panache to the crew’s swordplay. The only member of your crew who has technically been dead.
Backstory: An indulged youngest daughter, she realized with despair that she knew exactly how the rest of her life was going to go. When she was thirty, she was on an ocean voyage when her boat was caught in a storm and she nearly drowned. When Ibrahim revived her, she realized with delight that she’d had no idea whether she was going to live or die. She’s been at sea chasing that high ever since.
Barks:
“Fourth position! …No, that’s sixth position, you Philistine.”
“Oh dear, that’s never coming out.”
“A storm on the horizon? Excellent.”
Ibrahim
Role: Surgeon
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Home Port: Cádiz, or at any rate that’s where you picked him up
Skills: Medicine, riddles
Description: Mild-mannered and kindhearted, maybe too kindhearted for his line of work. Doesn’t mind blood but detests the smell of gunpowder.
Backstory: He was an army doctor who served in one of the Ottoman Empire’s many wars against Russia. Overcome with the futility of trying to heal people in the midst of war, he fled to Cádiz, planning to stop practicing medicine–only to happen to be there at the right moment to save Constanza’s life. That moment made him realize he still wanted to be a doctor after all.
Barks:
“Please come back in one piece this time.”
“These boys have no idea what they’re getting themselves into.”
“Feeling all right, Captain? You look a little pale.”