Fleet Admiral BC

## ***BACKSTORY***

BC served as Quartermaster aboard the Jörmungandr, under Captain Graybush. They were privateers for the British Navy, raiding Spanish caravans and settlements all along the Caribbean Coast. In one of these particular raids, they were assisting the crew of another vessel in torching a plantation near Tulum. When the captain of that other vessel began rounding up the villagers and herding them onto his ship to transport back to a British outpost as human livestock, both Graybush and BC gave voice to their protests at this practice. The captain overrode them, threatening both with court-martial if they did not leave the issue and comply with it, so they held their tongues.

At least until they got to sea. Once there, as night fell, they snuck aboard the slave barge and took the captain hostage, demanding that he order the crew to let the slaves go. The First Officer and Bosun were cruel, vicious men, however, and under a pretense of cooperation, they began to execute the bound and defenseless villagers right before them. This didn’t sit well with about half the crew, while the other half remained loyal to the Crown, and thus a great melee ensued on deck. The battle was deadlocked until one of the rebel sailors cut free a few of the slaves, and as they continued to free their brethren, the Royal sailors soon found themselves outnumbered. The raw fury of the captured villagers terrified their would-be captors, and they surrendered quickly.

Graybush had had to wound the captain to keep him out of the fighting, and he returned to holding him at swordpoint, demanding that the First Officer stand down. The First Officer was a stubborn one, however, and would not yield without a duel. BC eagerly stepped up to settle the matter. The fight was long and spectacular, as far as shipboard duels go, but as BC gained the upper hand, the treacherous Bosun broke loose and stabbed a dagger into his back. The First Mate, believing his victory assured, fell upon BC with a mighty slash, as his ally, the Bosun, was pierced like a pincushion by the sympathetic crew. BC was able to parry the first few blows, and in the midst of an epic clench, he yanked the dagger from his own back and thrust it into his opponent’s throat. Stumbling and bleeding, he barely heard the cheers of victory from the crew, and Graybush released the captain to see his Quartermaster off to Davy Jones.

But the Lord of the Deep had other plans for the doomed mate. Seeing the path of Fate that lay before him, Davy Jones healed BC in sight of the entire crew, and charged him to go forth as the outlaw he had become, to be a challenge to the Crown and all who would destroy freedom. So after setting the captain and crew who had resisted them out to sea on rowboats with provisions, BC took command of the now-unclaimed galleon, and he and Graybush sailed into the night side by side, refreshed with a whole new crew of eager and vengeful sailors.

It was at the first island on which they stopped that BC first conceived of what would become his Pirate Republic, and in time they found the Isla de Oro and established themselves as its masters, after ousting the British soldiers from it. It blossomed over time, and he and Graybush parted ways eventually, but BC’s vision remained true.

## ***APPEARANCE AND GEAR***

* The First Lord of Isla de Oro is an imposing man, tall and large, and faces down his foes with a steely eye and a terrifying grimace. Wearing the typical sharp gold-trimmed blues of a Commodore and an illustrious peaked black hat, he cuts a very impressive figure before friend and foe alike.

* When he must be terrifying, he accomplishes this with his bearing, as well as more typical pirate fare. He wields a massive curved cutlass like a demon, and has up to four flintlock pistols the size of blunderbusses strapped across his chest at any given time.

## ***PERSONALITY AND ABILITIES***

* On the Isle, amongst his men, he is as jolly as a man can be. He is boisterous and grandiose, and loves a good laugh with his crew. And he is never without a mango in at least one hand.

* Mangoes are the great love of his life, as evidenced by the state of his Hideaway on the Isle. It is sometimes whispered to be an obsession of his, though never within earshot. He frequently goes into rages and binges over the things, and has been known to become incredibly violent when one is threatened within his field of vision. The ruins of Starhawk’s Revenge are testament to this.

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