Chip

> "Okay- alright! So we’re all captain!" – *Chip agreeing to Co-Captaining the Riptide Crew.*
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## Character Information

### Aliases

Chibo (signed name during Paramount tournament)
Bastard
Felix Liongold (at the Murder Mystery party at Grimm's manor)

### Languages

Common, Thieve's Cant, Giant, Abyssal, Celestial

### Location(s)

The Midnight Rose (former home)
Skullslice (former residence) The Big Chipper (former ship)
The Albatross (current ship)

### Family

Arlin James (parental figure)
Elizabeth Lafayette (sister figure)
Amanda Rinn (wife)

### Connections

Gillion Tidestrider (best friend & crewmate)
Jay Ferin (best friend & crewmate)
Oliver (temporary ward and friend)
Edyn Tidestrider (one-sided crush)
Captain Price (former gang leader, self proclaimed 'older brother')

### Affiliations

The Riptide Pirates (co-captain)
Black Rose Pirates (former crewmate)
Price Gang (former member)
Grandberry Pirates (allied)

## Status (spoiler warning)

### Causes of death

Removal of heart by Captain Widow

Chip is a human swashbuckler rogue and one of the three co-captains of the Riptide Pirates. He is played by Bizlychannel, aka Bizly.

## Description

### Appearance

Chip is a 19-year old male human rogue standing at 5'10", with short brown hair framing his slightly chiseled (and slightly smudged and dirty) face. He wears a puffy, white, open-collared shirt that is described as considerably fancy but evidently worn. Over his shoulders are a set of suspenders that attach to dark gray pinstripe trousers. On his left ear he wears a single golden axe earring and, after the events of the Loffinlot Arc (Episode 3-Episode 10), gains a scar that runs up his left cheek. He also has a few chipped teeth after biting into a sand dollar in Episode 5: The Curse of Loffinlot, and again from chains in Episode 30: Jack the Jolly Roger.

In Episode 19: The One, Chip shaves his hair, ending up with a buzz-cut that he decides to grow out in the following episodes.

During the events of Episode 44: Blossoming Trust, Gillion cuts off Chip's pinkie on behalf of Boss Blossom. This finger is then replaced with a black and gold mechanical prosthetic, also gifted to him by Boss Blossom in Episode 48: Shattered Kingdom.

In Episode 43: City of Steam, he buys a red silk bandana to put around his hair, also buying a matching one for Oliver. According to the thumbnail of Episode 47: What Binds Us, Chip also has wave tattoos up his left arm similar to the tattoos of Arlin. In Episode 58: The Tides Between Us, he gets further wave tattoos all over his body along with a tattoo of a coral crown and a tattoo of a little blue jay on his back.

   In Episode 85: A Loan at Sea, Chip gains a tattoo showing his debt to the tax collecting Gold Fish on his lower back, just above his ass, which reveals that his Niklaus tattoo is also located there.

In Episode 86: The Fish on My Shoulder, his wave tattoos changed into fire tattoos.

In Episode 87: Swimming in Circles his appearance changed. His hair is at shoulder length and is more tamed/fluffed out and has a bit of a chin stubble. He wears a red pirate hat with gold accents and is brown inside, along with a red, gold, silver, and brown pirate coat that matches the hat. He is shirtless so you can see his fire tattoos. He has a brown sash holding the coat closed at the waist and two sword sheaths and knives. He wears black pants with gold trinkets and chains. You can see scars from his past trauma.

In Episode 93: Legend Lore, the third part of the map that is on the backs of both Drey and Finn appeared on his back.

### Personality

   (WIP) Even though most of the time Chip is seen often joking around or trying to find a way to get something whether by stealing or coercion, Chip is a multifaceted person. He has his own codes and morals he lives by which is clearly shaped by his previous time with the Black Rose Pirates and his father figure Arlin, but also from other previous ties with people like Captain Price.

He cares deeply for his friends and crew mates (most notably his co-captains, Jay Ferin and Gillion Tidestrider) and would do anything to keep them safe. Being a self-sacrificial person, this means Chip will often hide things or attempt to keep his friends out of his problems (as evident in Chip's solo episode, *A Price to Be Paid).* Since the beginning of the campaign, this habit has somewhat improved but nonetheless he tends to be a closed book when it comes to his personal issues, despite it being apparent that he has them.

He is some kind of pacifist; while he will fight and help kill monsters, under no circumstances does he kill humanoids (the one exception to this being a goblin that downed Oliver in Episode 26: First Blood. This targeted pacifism likely stems from his experience with Captain Price making him kill as a child, but as of Episode 65: Dressed to the Nines, it's unknown whether it will stick, since Chip had his memory of this event modified by a fortune teller named Blangus Glarbius.

Chip is very nostalgic of his time with the Black Rose Pirates and evidently desires his crew to be similar to them both in notoriety and in relational ties. He reveres them as some of the greatest, most knowledgeable people, viewing them just like how a young child would an adult they care about. He believes that they are capable of solving all of his problems. Additionally, *he* wants to be like them - Arlin in particular. This can be blatantly seen through his dressing similar to him, the addition of his wave tattoos that bear striking resemblance to Arlin's, and even through his swift "adoption" of Oliver, mirroring Arlin's relationship with Chip himself. He is clearly adamant on recreating his experience with them and/or going back to how things were before the Hole in the Sea. The Black Rose Pirates are his comfort, and he indulges in that comfort no matter how unhealthy it may be at times.

## Background/History

### Prior to the Events of Riptide

    An orphaned kid, Chip was taken aboard the Midnight Rose, the ship of the Black Rose Pirates, as the ward of Arlin James. He stayed there until he was about 9 years old when the pirate crew encountered a whirlpool in The Hole in the Sea.

Chip was one of the very few people to escape the destruction that came with the whirlpool and, to his knowledge, he, Elizabeth, Drey Ferin, Roofus, and Finn Tidestrider are the only ones who were able to escape; although, he holds hope the rest of the crew is still alive. Later, he was also made aware of Chey, the Black Rose Pirate's chef, who escaped with Elizabeth, but unfortunately passed not too long after their initial survival.

Nearly a decade later, Chip still searches for the Black Rose Pirates; however, he is no longer alone in this endeavor. Prior to the Island of Zero fiasco, Chip met and convinced Jay Ferin, a waitress at her mother's tavern at the time, to join him on the seas with promise to live her own life. The two would later rescue Gillion after they found him floating aimlessly in the water.

### All-Port Arc

**Episode 56: Mystery and Misery**

As of episode 56, Chip has made a deal with wish doctor Niklaus Hendrix. Originally, it was not meant to be a deal. Chip wished to find where Arlin was, and Niklaus agreed to give him hints and coordinates to follow, asking that Arlin be saved no matter the consequences that would follow. Niklaus also asked that when he calls upon Gillion Tidestrider's favor, Chip will not interfere in any way. Chip added an extra step by asking that Oliver would be returned to normal immediately, as Oliver had been cursed to suddenly grow in age and become obsessed with going home after he used the compass Niklaus had made for Alveros.

## Relationships

### Arlin James

Agreeing to travel with the man aboard the Midnight Rose, Chip sees Arlin as his primary father figure who looked out for him and taught him what it was like to be loved and cared for. Chip often states how his ultimate goal is to find Arlin and the rest of the Black Rose Pirates to be a 'proper pirate crew' again. He holds onto the hope that Arlin is still alive but as stated in Episode 47, "[he] wouldn't know what to do with himself if he was gone." Chip tends to imitate the mannerisms and aesthetic Arlin had, as seen by his striped pants, suspenders, and wave tattoos that cover his body.

### Drey Ferin

Another one of the Black Rose Pirates, Chip looks up to Drey as a hero figure and idealized version of a 'true pirate.' When Chip meets Drey once again for the first time since the Black Rose Crew's disappearance, Chip is quick to try and shield him as a means of potentially impressing him. Later, he often mentions how Drey could possibly captain the Riptide Pirates, much to the discontentment of Chip's fellow co-captains, Jay and Gillion.

### Edyn Tidestrider

Meeting Edyn during the All-Port arc, Chip is immediately infatuated by Gillion's older sister and frequently does his best to impress her in any way he can. His attempts often come with mixed or negative responses. Caspian notes that if he were to truly attempt to impress Edyn, he would have to prove himself to her and as well as fight Gillion.

### Elizabeth Lafayette

Chip met Lizzie, known at the time as simply Elizabeth, on the Black Rose Pirate ship, the Midnight Rose. As the two youngest members of the crew, it is heavily implied the two shared a close sibling relationship prior to the final voyage of the crew. After the wreck, the two are separated and assume each other dead for the next near decade,

By stroke of luck, however, the two end up meeting once again during the Paramount Tournament arc, albeit in more violent of circumstances, attempting to beat each other during the tournament game, Jack the Jolly Roger. Despite the unorthodox reunion, their sibling relationship has not changed. Lizzie, in a drunken conversation with Jay, refers to Chip as like a little brother to her; though she also mentions that she would never tell him this, ever, sober or not.

As part of two different pirate crews, Chip and Lizzie will often help each other as needed but still drift back to the respective paths they carved after their survival from the Hole in the Sea.

### Gillion Tidestrider

*For more information, see article: Relationship Between Chip and Gillion Tidestrider*

As fellow co-captain of the Riptide Pirates, Gillion is considered one of Chip's best friends that he cares for deeply. Despite their initial strained relationship with one another at the beginning of the campaign, the two have grown both as people and as comrades. The two take what many describe to be an "old married couple" dynamic that center primarily around Chip's effective but also incredibly stupid ideas that Gillion somehow makes both functional and radically worse. During the B.L.O.C.K Arc, Chip once referred to Gill as, quote, "the light of [his] life," further cementing their friendship.

In a conversation with Elizabeth during the Paramount Tournament Arc, Chip makes a comment about how he would undoubtedly sacrifice himself for Jay and Gillion, but is unsure if they would do the same.

### Jay Ferin

Being the first crew member to join him on the seas, Chip initially met Jay at her mother's tavern where she reluctantly served as a waitress there. He convinced her to come with him on the seas and has since grown to become akin to a little brother to her. The two often argue and bicker, poking fun at one another constantly.

That being said, Chip cares deeply for Jay, as seen in his response to certain revelations during the B.L.O.C.K arc. He stands up for her and pushes her to be her own person, regardless of her past and familiar ties.

In a conversation with Elizabeth during the Paramount Tournament Arc, Chip makes a comment about how he would undoubtedly sacrifice himself for both Jay and Gillion, but is unsure if they would do the same.

### Captain Price

Throughout Riptide, especially its early beginning, Chip expresses morals, rules, and traits that can easily be labeled as mirror images of what he's learned through his childhood relationships. Although much of who he is can be attributed to Arlin James and the Black Rose Pirates, his principles have also been taken from his time on Skullslice, with his former brother and now haunting shadow, Captain Price.

Chip and he met in Skullslice after the sinking of the Midnight Rose, when he and Captain Price- or, at the time, Reuben Price- were presumably quite young. Things had certainly not been good from the start, although in Episode 67 Chip mentions that Price "had his moments" of being okay. Much of their relationship is left up to interpretation, but it can be inferred that it was generally toxic, and controlling (which aligns with their onscreen interactions, and the way Chip speaks about him.) During their time in Skullslice, they had both been involved in a gang that Price was the leader of, and Chip also mentions that he had learned sign language during his time with the crew (Episode 84).

Price immediately takes on the role of haunting shadow in his and Chip's first on-screen interaction in Episode 60. Here, contempt is already established as Price uses the lives of Chip's crew against him to force him into a 'deal', focused around a magic eye. But before being given to Captain Price, the eye was cursed. Thus, after it was used for the first time to turn a man to dust, it promptly sent him into a state of full paralysis. This hatred was vaguely mentioned in the previous episode, where Chip reveals he had "burned his [Price's] house down". In Episode 65, this is further expanded on in a memory that involved the murder of a chained man. Here, Price had referred to Chip as "little brother" and essentially manipulated/convinced him to kill the man. After the murder, Chip was overcome with guilt and anger, and set his and Price's home on fire, leaving the wreckage and his former brother behind.

After losing the memory in Episode 65, Chip experiences a lapse of his morals as he forgets the initial incident behind his refusal to kill. Even despite the loss of this memory, Price remains a frightening figure in his subconscious, appearing even in a vivid nightmare in Episode 97.

## Notable Items

### Pirate Bandana of Disguise

This red bandana allows him the ability to transform his features to fit whoever and however he wants to be. This can be used to either present as a different character (such as becoming Tay Ferin in Episode 50: The Block) or to improve his general appearance (seen in Episode 61: Super Savvy Sleuthing Slugs trying to impress Edyn).

### Chipped Necklace

A gift made by Aslana, this black and red-colored sea glass pendant necklace wrapped in brass and other metals gives Chip a +1 to his AC and on Wisdom saves. It represents sensitivity, willpower, leadership, and mystery.

### (Spraying) Philter of Love

A Philter of Love causes the drinker to become Charmed by the first creature they look at for an hour and, if the target is of a species and gender the drinker is ordinarily attracted to, they regard them as their true love for that time. Chip ordered the Philter of Love from Braxton Brady at Calico Mists in Episode 27: The Pirate Code, and he later received it in Episode 32: Breaking the Ice. It is worth noting he paid extra in order to be able to spray the potion, instead of having a person drink it. At one point, it had appeared that he was intending on using it on Gillion, having stealthily removed his "Necklace of Tidestrider" from Aslana that protects him against being Charmed. It was also confirmed by Bizly on Twitter that he had attempted to use the potion on Jayson Ferin in their confrontation with him in Episode 53: Not Ferin Well, however neither plan came to fruition. As of now, the potion has not been used in Riptide and was only vaguely mentioned again in Episode 57: The Hull of the World - but did make an appearance in the non-canon JRWI What If: Otherworldly Summoning, where Chip used it on the King to prevent him from attacking himself and Dakota Cole. He ended up losing it in Episode 85: A Loan at Sea when dumping his bag into the stomach contents of the Loan Shark.

## Trivia

* According to his character sheet, Chip has the Haunted One background.
* Chip first appeared in the Black Rose Pirates One-shot as an NPC played by GrizzlyPlays.
* Chip does not, in fact, like being called a "bastard" and it is apparently an actual point of self-consciousness for him, as mentioned by himself in the JRWI What If: Otherworldly Summoning. While not canon in events, his feelings can be regarded as true.
* Chip's favorite color is yellow.

## References

1. ↑ Information on the item "Philter of Love"
2. ↑ Tweet from Bizly

## Art References

1. ↑ Official art of Chip by Renrooked
2. ↑ Official thumbnail art from Episode 1
3. ↑ Official thumbnail art for Episode 20
4. ↑ Fanart of Chip by Fresaqu
5. ↑ Official thumbnail art for Episode 58