My main character, but not my avatar - some may know him already from FA.
A sly, cunning, ruthless, romantic, badass and definately not kind pirate fox.
Jaquard duSang. A short biography.
- Born in the late 17th century in the Kingdom of France, province Roussillon close to the Spanish border.
- His father was a mere Spanish soldier and married into a French family of craftsmen after the War of Devolution, turning a gunsmith.
- During the persecution of the Huguenots in 1689, Michel de Grammont (my old main character), in his function of a Musketeers’ commander, burned down the whole village and killed nearly all the population. He was told that they had stolen from the near count – to see it was just bread ruined both his life and psychics. Before he realized that, he smashed Jaquard’s father’s head in and let his mother raped by his Dragoons. During the confuse escape of several children out of their hides, de Grammont hunted the young fox for fun and managed to strike him once with his saber – a drawbar blocked most of the impact, but the cut went to the bone and left a badly healed, broad scar all over the left cheek. Jaquard escaped in the cold winter.
- Next years are not so well documented. Found and adopted by traveling artists, moving around in an area bordered by Carcassone and Marseilles, he lived of performing tricks and stealing. It is said he killed his first man (accidentally, though) with twelve years.
- Aged fourteen, he went to sea as a cabin boy, course New World. The ship was boarded by Michel the Grammont, who became a privateer to escape or at least to forget about his profane hell. He recognized the boy immediately, and kept him aboard his ship. Jaquard stays ignorant about this, and so Michel and his men taught him basic fighting, navigation and seamanship.
- Aged eighteen, Jaquard was handed over to Dwight Blackspell (Coyotero’s character), a pirate hunter and insanely good sword master of the Spanish Circles. Michel planned that Jaquard should become a master of his own, and then be informed about who de Grammont was, being able to have his revenge Grammont thinks he owed him. FInding the truth finally, Jaqard leaves Grammont and joins the crew of Murdstone, another wolfish pirate.
- Years later, Jaquard is age 22-23 now and rather undefeatable in direct combat, Michel was killed by Sri Names Singh (not so important who this tiger is), Jaqard takes over the crew.
- Later on, Jaquard boards the "Malice” and burns down half of Port Drake during that occasion. The 26 guns frigate is one of the newest and most modern ships of the Royal Navy – with this prize, Jaquard belongs to the big league of pirates.
Abilities:
Traditional swordmanship with Rapier or Sabre
Two blades sword fighting style (martial arts)
outstanding gunslinger
Has experts for comouflage and disguise in his crew and got some talent for acting
cunning and ruthless
excellent dancer and womanizer
Swashbuckler par excellence
Character:
- Because of his biography, he is a deeply traumatized personality – he got a very low inhibition threshold to hurt people badly, and to kill someone is nothing with bothers him in any way. Yet, he knows what is good and what is wrong, a friend described him rightly: He had got good features, but a dark marrow. Personally, I think he is quite a good Anti-hero.
- No general knowledge except nauticalia and weaponary. No interest in intellectual things either.
- His appearance is very dashing, handsome, with a demonic aura –sexual attractive, yet to fear. Athletic built. Very gifted “below”.
- Turned out to be bisexual, yet he is hardly feminine in any way.
- Got problems when he falls in love with someone – he was mistrusted once, so he is afraid that it might happen again. Actually, he got two “mates”, a boyish wildcat called Leufreuy and Carmen, a black rat (sic!)
The stairs are photographed in Saint-Malo and belong to the maison Magon, a museum dedicated to Magon de la Lande, local shipowner and merchant.
This pose is dedicated to the great Patrice Pellerin, France's and Europe's leading maritime artist and comic book author, and his character Jean Kermeur. ",
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