Natacha  | The cursed slave

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FACE CLAIM : Young f.c .Madeleine Power, f.c Lily Cole
BACK-UP FACE CLAIM : Ellie Bamber
HEIGHT & WEIGHT : 179 cm & 42 kg

APPEARANCE : 

— Æsa has long red hair that falls past her chest and skin paler than normal. The skin on her hands and feet are thick and calloused and she has scars on her back and arms from being whipped. Her striking blue eyes gradually got lighter as she got older. On her wrists and ankles are scars from shackles, they were either too tight or she faught them and it dug into her skin so much. 
When she is having one of her visions or interacting with a spirit her eyes gloss over white and her body seems to stiffen. She can still be moved but it is more difficult to do so. She does seize anymore though. 

On the back of her right shoulder she has an ornate spiral tattoo. She's never seen it but people often point it out. She usually keeps it covered with her sleeve so random people dont ask her about it

FASHION STYLE :

— Æsa loves long sleeved, flowy dresses but she doesnt get a say. As a child her family would do everything to get her red or green dresses because those were her favorite colors. Her hair was usually twisted up into a braided updo.
She usually wears a white sack dress that is much too big for her and sandles that are also too big for her. The sandles are tied on her feet with extra straps of leather but the toes still drag on the ground occasionally. She still likes to briad her hair but she isnt very good at it. She can manage small, slightly sloppy braids but thats all. 

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PERSONALITY : - Careful, warm, agreeable, good natured
- Squeamish, timid, dependant, nervous

Æsa used to be a bright child that loved advetures and doing new things. She could make a day out of anything and loved discovery. She was bright, warm and kind to everyone she met and wanted to help people with anything she could. She wasn't afraid of anything or anyone. 
Natacha is the type of person who wont jump in feet first, she has to know things before she will do it, she thinks it's reckless to just go and not know. Not that she doesnt like new things, she does, she just likes to know about it in advanced so she can set a plan. She does her best to be as kind to people as she can be, she thinks there are enough bad people in this world, she can be one of the good ones. She is very easy to get along with and doesn't stir the pot. People tned to gravitate to her, but that makes her a bit uncomforatable being the center of attention. She often will do almost anything to shift the attentiont someone or something else. She likes people and getting along with people, she just has a hard time trusting them. Once she gets to know people then she opens up more and eases up around them. 
Natacha does not have a strong stomach, she is easily grossed out by things and when she is it is like she turns off. She cant function, she is too hyper focused on what made her squeamish in the first place. She does not do confrontation or yelling or fights or anything of the sort. If someone yells at her she will shrink back in her shell, avoid eye contact and do everything humanly possible to become part of the wall. She could be absolutly miserable but wouldn't say anything about it, she would just deal with it. She doesnt do things easily on her own, she hates going new places or doing new things by herself and would just shut herself in a room than go do something new. She always seems like she is a few seconds away from running and hiding, like she can't calm down

BACKGROUND : Æsa grew up in a village on the norther side of Wintaberg. Their village was more like a viking village than anything, they were farmers and occasial raiders. They very much believed in the supernatural and often would hold those with abilities in high regard. 
Æsa first started having 'visions' when she was six. She was playing with the other kids when her eyes rolled back in her head and she started seizing. She started calling out the name of an elder that died years before and soon everyone in the village knew about her. That she could see the dead. 
For Æsa it was horrible, everything was dark and the people she was seeing looked dead too but they were still coming for her, calling out her name. Everyone was screaming and it was so loud, she couldn't even hear her own screaming over it all. Her body seemed to be frozen, she couldn't get away from them and once they got to her they were clawing their way up her body, she was sure they were going to kill her but they were ripped away and a familiar face was standing over her, talking calmly to her and standing a few feet away until she woke back up. 
After that she and her family moved into the main longhouse so she could be close to the cheif. He had a shamen come in to try to teach her to control it but it never worked, over the years she was able to communicate with the dead elders but she got nightmares from what she saw. She hated it and wanted to stop but the cheif wouldn't let her. 
Late one night after her fourteenth birthday the screams started. Another village raided the village and was plundering everything, most of the villagers died and the entire place was burned to the ground. The raiders wanted the three gifted people that lived in Withall, Æsa included. They took 47 people as captors and sold most of them off as slaves but they were keeping the three for someone special. A powerful gang in Spenia was willing to pay top dollar for gifted people and the raiders have been going from village to village taking them to sell. 
Æsa was sold to a man named Naezrog, he was a vile and ruthless man who was known for his lust for blood and desire for madness. Naezrog had an army behind him that relyed on information often occumulated by the gifteds he had in his cells, Æsa now included. 
In the compound where they were being held there was a very clear rank. Naezrog was at the top, obviously, below him was Xugar. He was the only one Æsa would say is more blood thirsty than Naezrog, he was the one who did the exicutions and he enjoyed it, there was no question. Afer him was Yanira, she was Naezrog most trusted confidant and they were in a very close relationship. She was cruel and enjoyed hurting the gifted people that were prisoners there, Æsa included. 
Below her was anyone else who was apart of the gang and they often had free reign to do what ever they wanted to the prisoners and they often did. With in the prison cells there were three types of people; untouchables, enforcers and everyone else. The untouchables were the top dogs in the comound, they were the one who seemed to have all the control and got to do almost anything they wanted. The enforcers were the mean ones, they liked hurting people and often did. Naezrog used them to keep the others in line and have the others rise up or something. Everyone else was most of them in the compound, they were the gifted ones who wouldnt fight back or that could be kept in line, often by the enforcers. Æsa was at the bottom of the totem pole, other gifted would often push her around too, anything to make them look tougher and keep the enforcers off them. 
One enforcer in particular took an interest in Æsa, Ibai. He was build like a tank and had exceptional strength along with anger issues. He was two years older than her and from the day she got to the compound he started digging at her and it eventually lead to hurting her. The worst thing he did to her was fracture her arm in 3 places and cracked her nose. No one lifted a finger to defend or help her, just told her to listen better next time. She started just keeping her head down, not meeting people's eyes and if people started yelling she did her best to shrik down and not be noticed. It was never enough to keep Ibai at bay, when he noticed her trying to not be noticed he would call her out and either try to embarris her with the others or would physically put her in others way. 
Æsa was forced to leave her old life behind, if she ever spoke about it she was punished and she was forbiddened to speak the language. She was renamed Natacha, as everyone was renamed, and if anyone spoke her old name she was punshied for it. Ibai found out her old name and often called it out to her in order for her to be punished. 
For the next two years Natacha was brutilized by the others in the compund and she was slowly loosing her value. She had only had two of her 'vizions' since she got there and Naezrog was getting impatient. He told her she either tells him something worthwhile or he will find someone elsewho wants to waist their time on her. She couldn't make the vizions happen so obviously it didnt happen. 
Natacha was brought to the slave market in Soreno where she was sold to a merchant looking for work. She along with eight others were sold to him, all rather beautiful women. Natacha didn't think about it until they got to their new home, a brothel. She faught back and did everything she could to excape but nothing worked. She ended up being chained to the bed in her room but she still faught back, she was known for bighting anyone who came near her and she started getting a reputation for it. 
A few months after she got there a familiar face walked in the door. Ibai had a group of guys with him and he was determined to make her listen to him. She was able to hurt two of them, but there was just too many of them. The others help her down and Ibai got to do what he has been wanting to do since them met. After that she hardly responded to anyone or anything, she stopped eating entierly and no one showed any interest in her. 
Four months after she was sold she went back on to the slave trade and she was there for months. No one had any interest in a small, frail shell of a girl. There were others there who tried to help her and she eventually started coming out of her shell. She was eventually sold to a woman looking for a house slave, someone to clean up and help cook. She didnt do every well there though, the man of the house expected her to be a specific way and she was not living up to his expectations. He started getting a habbit of beating and whipping her when she didnt do what he wanted, which was often. He took her back to the slave trade and insisted he get his money back, that she was defective an no one would want someone as useless as her. He was really when Natacha started loosing her self worth. 
Natacha had her first vision in years that night. Seven men were standing around her, all in chains, none speaking or even looking at her. One woman appeared in the middle of them and she was looking directly at her. didnt move but a soft voice entered Natacha's head. She talked about the prison, its strengths, weaknesses and the best way to get out. The woman kept on with saying she had watched many people get out but it is difficult and she has seen people not make it out while trying. She also told Natacha that if she worked on it more she would be able to communicate with spirits while awake and functioning. 
Over the next two weeks Natacha worked with the woman, training. The woman, Iruka, walked her though the escape every night, making Natacha recite back to her how to get out. She also told Natacha her story, she was in the slave maket jail years ago, she was sold by her husband for not giving him a male heir. The men that were often around her were the ones that killed her. She was able to reach back through the veil and kill them and keep them trapped there with her until she decided to let them go. She insisted Natacha would be able to do the same if she just kept practicing. 
The slavers set up a sort of slave fair. They had all the slaves as clean as possible and gave some newer clothing to make them look as desirable as possible and they took away a lot of the womens clothes. They were chained to podiums around the square with their information on little plaques and prospective buyers could mark down who they were interested in. In two weeks there was going to be a huge slave auction and if buyers wanted in they had to put their names down now. Natacha's list was long and she didn't like that. 
Iruka and Natacha had a time line set, she was going to leave in just over a month, that would be plenty of time to memorize the way out and have trained enough to be able to communicate while awake. Unfortuntaly that time line was thrown off. Ibai walked in one day with a rich man followng close behind him, a man that Natacha recignised from the fair. He had been eyeing her and came over to her many times to check her out. Ibai was dressed similarly to the man and Natacha assumed he now worked for the man. All the control Natacha had dissapeared, Iruka included. There was a loud roaring in her ears, her breathing started rising, her vision narrowed and all she could see was Ibai's smirking face looking down on her. Faintly she heard the man saying something and Ibai responding but she couldnt take her eyes off Ibai. 
When the two men left the woman in the cell got Natacha to calm down and they had to repeat what the man said a few times before she understood. Ibai told the man, Willibald Ottfriend, one of the most wealthy men in Spenia, that Natacha would be a great addition to his house, that she would be one of the better women to have near him when he needed it. 
That night Iruka was able to get back and they agreed the timeline needed to be bumped up by a lot. Three days later Natacha was ready, absolutly terrified but ready. 
The back wall of the toilet pit was weak, a few good kicks and it would crumble. Behind the wall was a huge drop into a cavern and if she fell she would not survive. There were support beams holding up that part of the slave jail and Natacha could jump from one to the next. They were a meter and a half apart so it would be a long jump but Iruka has seen many people do it so Natacha could do it as well. 
After the support beams she would have to crawl down the cavern walls and take a cold swim, this was where most people died. She had to swim through an underwater cave that came out in the port next to the jail. It would take a few minutes and she needed to make it or they wouldnt find her body, there may even be a few bodies down there as is. Iruka could be waiting for her on the out side but she has never been able to get very far from the prison. 
Natacha almost died four times whlie getting to the underwater cave. She was not excited for this but Iruka said this was a good place for her to take a break before going. She did pause but not for long because she thought she would loose her nerve. She almost did but she did get in the water. Half way though she started to panic but Iruka popped up and it gave her all she needed to keep going. 
When she got to the surface she was in need of air so badly she out for a minute but she floated at the surface. When she came to she was caught on a broken board from the dock and she was able to get to shore. Iruka wasnt there but Natacha didn't expect her to be, she was thankfully far away from the jail by now. 
The next morning she was able to get to her feet and wandered to the market, there was people there and she thought she would be able to blend in while coming up with a plan. Before she had an idea a heavy hand landed on her shoulder and she knew they found her and was going to be sold.  When she turned around a yougn man was standing there, looking concerened. He didnt say anything, just put his jacket over her shoulders and walked her out of the market. She went along with it because she had nothing else to do, what was she going to do? Make a fuss and get the attention of everyone? 
They ended up going to a ship and stashing her in the gun decks for now and the man said he would be back later. Much later he came back for her and led her up to the deck. It was late at night and they were far from shore, she couldn't even see it anymore. On the deck was a fuming mad man who was clearly in charge. He was screaming in a language she didnt know so she just kinda stood there with her head down, trying to ignore the number of men standing around her. She only took comfort in the man standing beside her and she slowly moved so he was standing more in front of her. 
After a while the shouting man turned to her but she had no idea what he had been saying so she just stood there looking absolutly lost and scared. Her heart rate started going up and she felt like she was covered in a cold sweat instantly. She was shivering so she crossed her arms over her chest to pull the jacket closer but nothing seemed to make her warmer, the deck seemed to sway and lurch more than it was and suddenly she was looking up at the sails. A man was over her with his hand on her wrist and watching her face. He didnt seem suprised or alarmed at all the she was on the ground, he only seemed concerened for her. The other man had her head in his lap and did look worried. The first kept insisting it was an anxiety attack and that it was no worry. She learned that his name was Malax as well. 
The captian eventually apologized for scaring her and insisted she would be safe on the Nightinggale until they reached Piranah Isle. She spend most of the trip on the gun decks, no one was there unless they were passing by but they ignored her for the most part. Malax was the only one who spent time with her, he insisted on keeping her company, he was the reason she was there after all. 
They spent almost the entire time talking and Natacha started telling him about where she was from and what she went through. She showed him her scars and the stories behind them, the ones she could remember. When he saw her tattoo he didnt ask, assuming she would tell him but when she didnt he didnt press. 
When they docked at Piranah Isle Natach didn't want to leave, she felt safe and comfortable on the ship and not safe elsewhere. Malax brought her to the saloon and he paid for a room for her but she didnt want to be alone, she didnt want anything, she just didnt want to be alone. He spent the night in the room, in the chair away from her, but she wasn't alone. 
That night Natach had one of her visions excpet it was about the captian, he was on the ship and it was full of spirits but this time they were different, they looked different. They were usually human looking at least but these all werent. Their skin was black, like they were burned but from head to toe, their teeth were also black and very sharp. Each one had long talons on the end of their fingers and one by one they were slashing the captian but he couldn't see them. He kept swinging at them but he didnt connect, everytime it did seem like he was going to his sword just went right through them. Eventually he fell to the ground and the spirits started screeching so loudly it hurt Natacha's ears. They started fading away and she could see the captian, dead in a pool of blood. 
Natacha bolted out of bead, screaming bloody murder. Her ears were in fact bleeding from the spirits screams and she had long scratches up her arms but they were just raised, not bleeding. Malax fell from his chair and jumped to his feet, looking for someone to fight but there was no one, just Natacha screaming and bleeding.
It took a while to calm her down but eventually Malax got her to explain what she saw and he took her to the captian immediatly. He insisted she come along with them because she clearly can see things they cant and something bad was coming for them. The captian didnt really believe but there was enough random people joining the Nightingale that he said sure, why not. 

TRIVIA :

— Likes
sweet bread
mornings
sunrise

dogs
a calm sea
cinamon
winter
— Dislikes
spiced food
snakes
rough sea
tomatoes
groups of men she doesnt know
swimming, she can she just doesnt like it
tea
— Habits
when she boils water she will boil it, let it cool a little and boil it again because that is how her mother did it, she usually just forgot about it so it cooled down and needed to be reboiled but Natacha didnt know that
when she is happy she will sing quietly to herself
she talking in her sleep when she has nightmares
when she gets worked up, like with an anxiety attack, she will change languages
when she sees a dog she has no choice but to call it out and ask to pet it
when she has nightmares she will get a cold sweat, kick her blankets off and call out her dream
— Fears

Ibai
men
sword fighting
loud sounds
— Dreams
she wants to learn to whittle
she wants to go back to her village one day
she wants to learn to farm

she wants to learn Prieçian 
— Fun facts
she has rather bad anxiety
she gets panick attacks
she is a horrible cook
she loves black tea
is she sleeps with Malax she will end up curled in a ball either under one arm or behind him clinging to his back
she is in love with the ship's cat
she doesnt want to learn to fight but everyone is insisting she learn
she knows how to ice skate but hasnt in years
she likes sleeping with an open window when she can
she loves storms but not while on the ship
she reciently discovered she is an excillent climber and loves heights
she grew up in the Catharrow faith but Naezrog didnt allow worship of any kind at the compound
when she finds out mermaids exist she is so excited
she found an incence store and bought so much of it so it is usually burning somewhere on the ship
she likes plants but she kills them a lot
She knows how to read
She can write but not very well, she hasnt had to write anything in years. 

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CONNECTIONS : 

— Tormentor : Ibai / Slave speciality / Charming, smart, cruel, sadist / -10/10 / fc César Domboy
Natacha has nightmares about Ibai, he has hurt her in so many ways that for the longest time she couldn't even open her eyes without seeing him or reliving one of the many things he did to her. She is terrified he is going to findher somehow and hurt her again

— n/a : Willibald Ottfriend/ aristocrat / charming, narcisits, selfish, good with money / 0/10  / fc Yon González
With their interactions very bref he still left his mark on Natacha. She keeps imagining all the things he would do to her and how he would have Ibai help. People talk about how he wasn't good to his slaves and thats why he was always looking for more

— Mentor : Iruka / spirit / vengeful, kind, still a bit angry / 7/10 / fc Q'orianka Kilcher
Natacha learned so much from Iruka, she wants to find a way to help Iruka, probably by moving on or something. Iruka taught her so much and she is why Natacha is free, there is nothing Natacha can do to repay her. 

— friend : Panthea Dimitriou / lost princess / Idealistic, Impracticle / 6/10
One night Natacha woke from a nightmare and Malax wasn't there but somehow Pan heard her and came to her. She sat with Natacha the rest of the night and shared horror stories of being kidnapped and sold. Natacha wasn't 100% sure about being friends with a royal but she liked that she was finally able to start making friends

— friend : Gatita Rao / diceased / kind, soft, quiet / 9/10 / fc Madina Mehmet 
Tita was in the compund with Natacha but she had a fighting gift. She could control the cold so she was often used against Naezrog's enemys. She got close to Natacha because she hated seeing anyone be alone, even though that cause tons of issues with the enforcers for her. Eventhough she was peacefull she would still use her gifts if people got in her way. She refused to outright kill someone at the compund one day, she was actually arguing with Naezrog about it and he killed her for it, out in front of everyone. He slashed her open from her waist to her shoulder. Natacha couldn't go to her so she had to just watch her die. 

INTERVIEW

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

— Growing up with raiders you dont think much of pirates, their just people trying to get by same as we were. My father used to say pirates were raider want to bes.

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

— I need to warn him, something bad is going to happen but I'm not sure what though, I just need to warn him. 

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

— What? I'm bad luck? I didn't know pirates were that superstitious.

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

— I...what? Where are we going? Is Malax going too? 

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