Crocobungo

Crocobungo has himself quite a wild tale, which begins like many do. He was born to poor parents, eking a meager living out to care for their three boys, the two elder of whom also worked as soon as they were able. Erick, as he was named, was just a child when even this desperate situation fell apart around him; his hometown was beset by a serial killer for a time, and each member of his family was unfortunate enough to fall victim to him one by one. Left only with his elder brother, the slasher ran them down late one night on a deserted street, and Erick’s brother threw him into the river with all his might just before he was cut down. The child wailed and struggled, but was helpless against the current, and was carried far downriver until he bumped into something solid and latched onto it. The thing turned out to be a massive crocodile, but instead of devouring him, the animal gently took him in his jaws and carried him back to its home, a much more sophisticated structure than any normal croc ought to be able to construct. He was no ordinary croc in many other ways as well; he had a family, and collected furnishings and baubles that people threw into the river. Thusly, the young lad who had been named Erick before was raised in a most unusual setting, in time replacing his humanity with a very different brand of survival.

The river he grew up on was frequented by raiders who would come to plunder the fishing villages periodically, and these intrigued him mightily. He saw men go about on land, with the same hunger he had learned from his adopted family, and one day decided to join them, forever abandoning his strange early life for a more conventional one (comparatively). Proving his ferocity was a matter of course, and he had been recruited immediately, revelling in the rampages they conducted. As usual, someone got it into their head that they would be better suited to lead than the current captain, and Croco (the name given to him by his mates) was swept up into a mutiny plot. After overthrowing the poor man, they locked him in the brig, and surprised Croco by naming him to replace the Captain. He accepted, of course, and led his mates on many profitable ventures.

But his time eventually came as well, following bogus directions to a purported treasure buried on a remote island. At least, that was what he tried to convince them happened, and almost got away with it, were it not for one mate who saw him hauling the chest across the island by himself. He had learned the gold was cursed, and was trying to protect his crew from it by hiding it, but that is a story no pirate is willing to believe when looking upon a chest overflowing with gold dubloons. They moved to take it from him, and a battle ensued, in which Croco took a mortal wound. The crew left him to die and took the chest, but he survived his wound through the sheer fortitude he had learned from his unusual family. Slowly but surely, the slash healed, and he came to his senses whole once again, his ship long gone. Stranded.

Not daunted by his estrangement, and chuckling at his foolish crew, he built a small dinghy in which to escape the island, and made his way north and east into the Caribbean. Landing at a shanty port, he was delighted to find the place friendly to drifters of all kinds, and sported a large population of pirates. Among them, he learned of a legendary phantom train, and the adventure of the seeking of it is something he does not like to recount. He lost someone very close to him, and that is all he will say on the matter.

After that adventure, he wound up sailing alone, again, and eventually found his way to land. The first to greet him from the shores of Isla de Oro was Dan Starhawk, who recognized his potential immediately and accepted him onto the crew of the Starhawk’s Revenge. Within no time, he found himself adopted into the Starhawk clan, and the Isle as a whole, and has no regrets for the steps that brought him there, save one.

These are the barest details of this lad’s complete legend. For further, more in-depth details on these events and more, he has chronicled his tale in the Library. But do not ask him about things he’d rather stay silent on; if you do not enrage him into beating you to a pulp, you will enrage every other inhabitant of the Isle, as he has become precious to all of them.

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