Kaephei Sorkhghtani is along for the journey } The Captain's daughter

Leisteia | The captian's daughter

BIRTHNAME : Kaephei Sorkhaghtani
NICKNAMES :

— Leisteia, no one ever calls her Kaephei, not even her father, she was named after her mother, who died in childbirth

— Steia, what the crew calls her

— Pirate Mistress, she can be a bit loose sometimes and, while no one would dare to call her this to her face, she is often called this at Piranah Isle

— Captian, she often will take over for her father and she demands the respect of the title

— Land siren, she is charming and can get most people to do things she wants. People often joke that she must be a siren

DATE OF BIRTH : 16th of Highsun, 1291
BIRTHPLACE : Jiā-La
ETHNICITY : Jiā
NATIONALITY : Jiāyuán, Pirate
LANGUAGES SPOKEN :

— La, fluent

— Common tonge, fluent

— Boldihr, conversational

— Savetsu, conversational

— Thari, conversational

— Melic, basic, enough to haggle

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FACE CLAIM : Tugs Saruul
BACK-UP FACE CLAIM : Ayu Lestari Putri Gani
HEIGHT & WEIGHT : 180 cm & 52 kg

APPEARANCE :

— Steia has long brown hair that she always has braided out of her face. She always has a bit of a smokey eye look going, she got the idea from other female pirates shes met. She takes long strides and walks heavier on her left side where her sword hangs. Her skin is rough and calloused in most places, its tanned and there is more than a few scars on her body. She is strong and has a runners figure. She does have all her teeth but there is one on the right side of that is cracked and may have to come out one day.

FASHION STYLE :

— Steia has taken to stealing the most expesive clothes she can. She doesn't often wear them, she usually wears black pants, a black tank tok with a black coat over top it. Hoever she has a habit of wearing more revealing clothes to sleep in and she'll walk around the ship in it but no one will say or do anything to her. She has different boots but their all the same style with a slight heel knee high leather black boots.
She has chests of differant style clothes so if she has to go to shore she can blend in with the locals if need be. She also secretly hopes to one day get to wear her ball gowns at a real ball, but she wouldn't wear heels.

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PERSONALITY :
POSITIVE: Motivated, adaptable, charming, dairing
NEGATIVE: Frank, indifferant, disloyal, rebel

Steia is going to be rememberd, she is going to be sure of it, there is little she wont do to make sure of it. She keeps pushing herself harder and harder to make sure she is the best she can be and more than others expect her to be. She is quick on her feet and able to take things as they are, roll with the punches. She has yet to meet a challenge she cant find a way to over come or beat down. She often will convince people to help her along the way, she just has that about her; people want to be around her or friends with her. She has been able to charm pirates off their ship before with hardly any words, its a gift she has had her entire life. She doesnt ever say no to a challenge or something other people are afraid of doing, the more of a risk the more of a reward.
Steia will tell it like it is, she has no point in sugar coating things for people, just rip the bandaid off. She isnt affected by people crying, life is hard, just accept it and move on. Some people have hard lives but she cant fix the world, she isnt going to stop any worry about everyone else. She just doesnt really care about other people besides those on her ship. She is not affraid of stepping on people to get to the top, she will get there and if she has to get there on a pile of bodies then so be it. She is not the one you should rely on to have your back in a tight spot, there is very few that she would be there for and if your not a part of her crew then it really wont happen. She goes against the grain, if you tell her not to do something she will do it just to break the rules. The military hates her because she continues to defy them, breaking all their laws and being very public about it.

BACKGROUND : For as long as she can remember Steia has been armed. Her father had a tiny little dagger strapped to her leg when she was five and she knew how to use it. She had to, growing up on a pirate ship isn't all love and flowers, it is deadly, expecially for a young girl. She wasn't let off the ship until she was thirteen so she would spend her alone time practicing with her dad's sword, she didn't have her own yet. There always had to be someone from the crew stay behind with the ship so she always had a practice dummy too. By the time she got to shore she was very skilled with a blade.
The first time she went to shore she acutally had to stay for almost a week. She got violently ill, as did most of the crew, so they packed themsleves into two rooms in the brothel until they got over the sickness that plauged them. Turns out the food they were eating had spoiled and the cook didn't notice. He was killed for that. Steia associated that time with land with land in general. After she recovered the only thing she wanted to do was get back to the ship, once she did she started feeling better. Every time she went to shore now she would start to feel ill all over again, the longer she was there the worse it got.
Steia killed for the first time when she was 16. A rival ship tried to take theirs and they faught, hard. More than half the crew was killed and they were forced to take prisoners to work the sails. Soon following, the Windjammer was the undisputed master of the seas and Steia was often at the helm. For years they had wealth, food and anything they needed.
A young pirate captian started rising and threatening the balance of the seas. Steia's father was always talking about him and how the young upstart was going to ruin everything for him. Her father had been making plans for years on how to become the next Pirate King. He has been doing the currant King's bidding for years and was not going to let a snot nosed brat get in the way. However it seemed nothing he did would work to deter the younger pirate. In the more recient years he has started playing with the idea of a new one.
Steia was to get close to the other pirate, gain his trust and his ship. She wasn't to kill him, that would be too obvious. It had to be someone else so that she would be there to take over the ship and crew so that her father could still rule the seas. Steia wasn't fully on board with the plan but with enough pestering from her father she even tually agreed.

The first time Steia met Captian Faeoff she was less than impressed. He seemed like a pretty boy playing dress up to play pirates with his friends. She was less than impressed with him and she made it well known. Her father wanted her to get close to him though so she did, by challenging him to a sword fight. She smoked him in minutes but she didn't hold it against him, just made him by drinks. He took that as an invitation, which is exactly how Steia planned it.
For the next few months Steia would plan to 'accidently' meet up with Lir and have drinks together, usually on him. She could tell he was starting to get more invested in their meet ups than she and she offered to go on a tip together, after all two ships is better than one.
The Windjammer and the Nightingale set out together and were for months, pilaging and taking whatever they wished. Steia's father stayed at the port so she had control of the ship. Some nights Lir would come to the Windjammer and Steia went to the Nightingale getting to know eachother better but her father sent word that he was gettign restless and needed the ship back. Steia sent it back to Pirannah Isle and started riding with Lir and his crew.
The time came for Steia to send Lir to her father but she couldn't do it, she just couldn't

TRIVIA :

— Her mother's dagger is her most prised posession and keeps it on her at all times
While she doesnt like to be on land she wants to go to every country
She loves baths
She does not want children nor does she like tham but she is good with them
She can hold her breath for almost 8 minutes, her goal is ten
Night is her favorite time of day
She loves jewelry
She follows no real religion, just respect nature and dont piss off the ocean
She knows how to ride a horse, it doesnt make her sick to be riding one on land
She is an excilent swimmer
She likes practicing her swordsmanship
She has a pheonix tattoo on her back
She loves seafood, crab expecially
She is a heavy weight and likes playing drinking games
She likes to wrestle
Black is her favorite color
She doesnt like bland food like bread
She makes her bed every morning
She has some of the nexests blankets most pirates have scene
She will climb the sails as high as she can and sit up there to watch the sun rise
She thinks smoking is disgusting, get a better hobby

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CONNECTIONS :

— Father : Barbaros Sorkhaghtani / Pirate / Blood thirsty, smart, calculating, unnerving / 9/10
Steia knows her father would sell her off to the highest bidder for the right amount of gold but she also knows that he will always be the one standing behind her back when ever she needs him.

— Friend : Mnemes Aruas / ex pirate / Soft, freidnly, fighter / 9/10
Steia and Mnemes were together for years, they were thick as theives and did everything together. Three years ago Mnemes took a hit to the knee and hasnt been the same since. She cant hardly swing a sord or put up a fight in battle so she had to put the sword down and instead take up the coin. She runs an inn that is a cover for a pirates den. Pirates use it as a smuggling port

— Friend : Hedonem Argiar / Blacksmith / Tsunder, straight forward / 6/10
Hed does not like pirates, she thinks they are cheeky theives and refuses to work with them, for the most part. Hed owed Barbaros a favor and Steia took her up on it and Steia started going to her for anything and everything. She has gotten Hed out of a few sticky situations so now she will work with the Windjammer, she often vocalised how much she didnt like it but they were her best costomers.

— Panthea Dimitriou / Captor / 7/10
When Steia first saw Panthea she was about to fight some of the pirates. She was too young and soft looking to be a pirate slave. She took Panthea and was taking her off the ship but Panthea insisted she was alright. The first mate came flying out from the bowls of the ship, sword in hand and was ready to fight, as was Steia. It took a lot of people to talk them down and convinced Steia that Panthea was safe.

LOVE INTEREST : Lirdoth Feaenhoff (f.c Kanawut Traipipattanapong)
BACK UP LOVE INTEREST : here

PLOTLINE : The Captian

PERSONALITY:

— Steadfast, dependable, bit of a softie, self hatered, cut off, unforgiving
Lir is the guy you want in your courner. He will keep his word and stand by you unless you turn your back on him. If there is some reason he can't do what he has said he will find another way to help, he can't just let it go. He is dedicated to his goals and will help people if he can. He doesn't show it to strangers but he has his soft side, expecially with kids. He was robbed of his childhood so he often will do things to make kids feel safe and keep their childhoods.
Lir has a lot of negative feelings for himself. He grew up thinking no one would want him, that he wasn't good enough and that he shouldn't even want himself. That has followed through into his adult life. When he is having his bad days he will lock himself in his quarters under the ruse of a hangover or planning their next raid, he just cant handle being with himself. He doesn't feel very connected to the world, his country is the Nightingale and once in a while he will find reason to go to others but he likes his ship. He doesnt really care about politics of others and wont get involved. While he will back his people, if you turn your back on him or scorn him in any way he will turn his back on you and others will follow his lead.

BACKGROUND:

— Lirdoth started his piracy off against his will. He was shainghaied into service and was never able to see his family again, he was twelve. The ship he was put on was a bad ship, most pirates even avoided it, there were rumors going around that the captian, first mate and ships master would do things to the cabin boys they aquired. The rumors were in fact true, they also were able to manupulate the boys into believing their family wouldn't want them anymore, that they were only going to be accepted on the ship. Almost all of them eventually started believing it too, Lir as well.
On the ship is was a kill or be killed situation where it was over petty things like he got more food than I did, I'm going to kill him and take it. The best thing for the younger boys to do was just keep their head down and not get in the way, Lir did not learn they quickly. He got into tons of fights, got his kicked even more times and slowly started winning some fights. He was small, scrappy and quick so he was good with a dagger. He won by making tons of small slices on his enemy and slowly bleeding them. It was brutal but it worked.
When he was 16 a plauge discended on the ship and killed many, the rest got sick as well but some survived. Lir thought he was going to die as well, the crew thought he was dead, so they put him up on the deck, away from the living. He thinks that is what saved him, the fresh air. It took days but he managed to survive. Out of the 68 men on their ship only 19 survived. The captian ordered the ship scrubbed clean and to look nice, he was going to start hunting.
They were able to pick up 10 boys by lying and saying they were a part of the Anglian Royal navy, 3 criminals looking for a quick exit and 2 pirates looking for a new ship but they still needed many more. Captain wanted 30 more, at least so they were set to start trolling the bars and saloons for uncontious young men to steal. It still wasn't wnough though, they needed more. The first mate said they should pilage an orphanage, just as a joke but the captian took that as a plan. They got 37 boys, 3 girls and two of the female staff but killed the rest. It was a massecre and Lir couldn't have anything to do with it, it made him sick seeing what the others were doing. Because of his unwillingness to participate he was responcible for watching the new boys to make sure they didn't run before they got back to the ship. Two ran but Lir didn't even try to stop them.
Once they got back to the ship Lir was lashed for insubordination and forced to watch the captian start to break in the new boys. It was the last strike for him though, Lir was going to change it. He ended up killing the captian, the first mate and one of the children, the child was an accident and he still hasn't forgiven himself for it. He walked before the crew, covered in blood with his sword, demanding to know if there was anyone who was going to challenge him. One of the criminals tried to fight but it was a joke. Lir cut him down faster than the first two.

Lir ordered the ship cleaned, the name chiseled off and the figure head changed. He was going to be done with everything that made this ship what it was. Most of the old captian, first mate and ship masters things were sold or burned and everyone was given the option to leave the ship if they wanted to, most stayed. The Nightingale became a new ship with new everything, they were still going to be pirates but not raid those who couldn't afford it, he took on the Robin Hood mentality.
Because of Lir and the Nightingale things at Priannah Isle started getting better. The money flow was increasing, which brought more revanue to the people living there which made everyone's lives better.
Illness fell apon Pirannah Isle, more than half the port was quarentined and no one could figure out why. Physicians of all kinds were brought in to figure out what the ilness was and the Pirate King offered a massive reward to one that could cure it. Nothing was working and everyone was dying, Lir kept brining physicians to have them try to solve the problem. One had an idea of how to cure it and she needed medicines from far away, the Nightingale left everything it could spare and went as fast as possible to get everything. When it returned even the King was ill and all hope seemed lost.
The physician's idea worked though and everyone celebrated the Nightingale for saving them. The Pirate King honored Lir so he made the young captian an ambassador. Lir didn't know how to respond so he thanked the King and left, he didn't like staying in one place very long.
The name of the Nightingale started becoming known in the pirate world, some looked upon them in disgust, other looked upon them in favor for their actions but Lir didn't care, he was doing what he wanted to do.

TRIVIA:

— He goes by Captian Faeoff
— He has a pet falcon that is often the night watch
— He usually wears black and silver
— He hates the cold months
— He is a good painter and has some of his paintings up in the ship but people dont know their his
— He is a heavy drinker and likes getting drunk
— He hasn't been back to Sebkhlah since he was taken
— He still can speak Thari
— While he doesn't activly want to die he doesn't fear it at all
— He hates having facial hair
— He quite enjoys reading
— He has three swords and all are ornaite
— His favorite color is red
— He enjoys fishing
— He doesn't sleep well or often
— He can't ride a horse
— He can read and write but not very well
— He does smoke but only a pipe and not often

LOVE STORY:

— Lir had heard stories of the Pirate Mistress, everyone has. He never thought in a million years that he would end up meeting her though. She was a storm from the moment she walked in, it seemed like the air was from his lungs and he couldn't even breathe in her presence. He was smitten but by all things holy he wasn't going to show it.
The first time Steia spoke to Lir he was drunk so able to process his words better and actually held out a conversation with her. His best friend endlessly after wards but he was proud he didn't make a fool of himself.
Truthfully he looked forward to running into her, she was fresh and slightly intimidating. Of course he fantisised about them being together but she was the sea, there was no way she would want to be with him, he was just a captian, she was a goddess.
Steia offered to travel with the Nightingale and Lir scrambled to say yes but still try to act normal. Again, his best friend laughed at him once Steia had left but Lir was too giddy to care, the girl he liked wanted to be around him.
Everything just seemed to work with Steia, he didn't ahve to pretend to be this ruthless pirate, he could be himself. He lived to spar with her, she didn't hold back like so many others did with him. He's beaten her once but they were both drunk so it wasn't exactly fair.
When Steia joined Lir on the Nightingale words couldn't explain his happiness. He had a few memories of his family and he knew they loved him but he had never felt this emotion for another person. Yes he loved his best friend, but it wasn't the same. Steia knew everything about him, all his dark past and she still cared about him.

ENDING:

— When Steia got the order to have Lir killed that was all he heard. Everything between them was a lie, she was just faking it for her father, who wanted him dead. She was just like all the others and only out for herself.
*Beyond that you can play with it, if Lir still wanted to be with Steia, if she forsakes her father and stands by Lir, if she still has Lir killed, of she has Lir and her father killed so she can become the king. Its all up to you, just make it dramatic*

INTERVIEW

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF PIRATES? I’M SURE YOU’VE HEARD A TALE OR TWO :

— *Song song voice* Yo ho, yo ho, a pirates life for me. *Normal voice* I've heard tales, told tales and been in tales, thats all they are though, stories. Everyone always makes their advetures larger than life, the fisherman's trawler that was destroyed suddenly becomes a royal ship that was taken down. EVerybody lies.

WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE FOR MEETING OUR CAPTAIN? HE IS A BUSY MAN :

— My business is my business, but if you listen carefully you might be able to hear what it is. Also, he'll stop what he's doing for me, if you catch my drift. WIll you hurry it up, I'm not going to sit here patiently waiting

IT’S A KNOWN SUPERSTITION THAT WOMEN ARE BAD LUCK ON SHIPS, SO WHAT MAKES YOU WORTHY TO TAG ALONG? :

— Oh that's cute, you think I believe your superstitions? Ok fine, as your superstitions go if a woman's bare is shown then the sea will stay calm, so does that mean that all women should go around without a top on just so that you should feel safe? The sea is a woman, she decides who remains safe in her waters, not your pathetic superstitions

WHAT LENGTHS ARE YOU WILLING TO GO ON THIS JOURNEY? :

— That for me to know and for you to find out, well I guess its for your captian to find out. You too if your lucky enough.

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