Remeny Gratz

Official image of Remeny, drawn by @grace.pptx on Instagram

### Cause of Death

Hit with a longsword by the ice statues around Glaceria (unconscious), weather effect (dead)

## Connections

### Family

* Her pirate crew
* Beryl Hatebad (girlfriend)

## In Podcast

### Episodes

* Arc 6
* Sky Pirate Beach Day
* Battle Royale

Captain Remeny Gratz is a Player Character of Arc 6 and played by Jenny. She is level 9.

## Description

Remeny is a Human Oath of Treachery Paladin in her 50s with long, dark, curly red hair. She is faithful only to herself and her freedom. Her character comes close to the "wine aunt" trope.

Her freedom is very important to Remeny, and for her, this freedom means saying "No" to things and nobody being able to tell her what to do, which lead to complications before, since working in a crew means taking responsibility for things. Remeny's solution for this issue was just becoming the person in charge herself, in her case, captain. This title does not necessarily make her competent, though, and she has a thing going on with Beryl where she will point in a direction to go, and Beryl will grab her shoulders and turn her a bit so that she is pointing in a different direction before agreeing.

Her sometimes reckless decision making when she doesn't listen to Beryl has put the party in danger before, specifically at the beginning of Arc 6.

She carries with her, apart from starting equipment, some mithral armour, a +1 weapon, and as many different standard weapons as she could carry, including two sets of darts, another set of daggers, and a hand axe. Additionally, she has some flowers, and a lot of kits, none of which she is proficient in, she just likes to collect things.

Remeny is not particularly good in social situations, or at "reading a room", i.e. understanding the current mood of the people around her. She is a perfectionist that does not like to be corrected and cannot handle being wrong, but at the same time, she rejects responsibility for her actions as well as for others. She is not used to love and care, and can have a hard time understanding them, and how they work for different people in different contexts.

## Backstory

Remeny has been a pirate for a long time. Originally, she started out as a sea pirate in her 20s, when she tried to get away from land, because people were telling her what to do. This did not really change on a boat, though, and so she became a sky pirate soon after.

She has changed crews a lot, not because she saw all of them fall, but because she wanted to, or sometimes because she was kicked out by her old crew who did not like her not doing what she was supposed to do. That way, Remeny has seen a lot of action and adventuring.

When she had been a sky pirate for about 5 years, she met Beryl Hatebad, and they got along so well that they continued hopping sky pirate crews together afterwards.

Approximately 5-10 years prior to Arc 6, Remeny and Beryl joined the crew of Arc 6.

## Character Arc

After episode 1 and the deaths of Airyc and Kipp, the crew makes it unmistakeably clear to Remeny that they believe that she is responsible for this, which Remeny is noteably uncomfortable with. She has a problem seeing herself at fault for anything, and the thought that they could be right about it, that it was her fault, lies heavy on her, even when her crewmates try to be nice to her in order to get through the Upnorth alive. Later, she openly admits that she doesn't think that she can live with the idea of ever being wrong, or being responsible for the death of someone. So, instead, she completely rejects any kind of responsibility or accountability for her actions. In her view of things, and based off of her experiences, being at fault for something means loosing the trust of her crew, and thus loosing her right to be captain. Because of this, she makes herself believe that Kipp died because they were not strong enough.

In her vulnerable moments, when she considers admitting her mistakes, it is shown that Remeny does not really believe that they have a chance of getting out of the Upnorth alive. If she has to admit that she is responsible for the situation they are in, for her that means that she has doomed, and thus failed, and to an extension even killed, all of them.

The idea of death generally doesn't upset her, but the idea of it not being something glorious and heroic very much does. She wanted to have a legacy, and be legendary, and death being gritty and cruel and untimely does not fit to that plan of hers. Especially Airyc's death distressed her a lot, and when Airycorse, who she named in their legacy, "died", she is shaken again, even though she can simply summon him again.

Airycorse and her have a difficult relationship. Airycorse cannot disobey her in any way, and is not supposed to develop own opinions, but also makes it clear to her that they are not happy with being left out in the cold all the time, and dying regularly. Remeny is not happy with him doing that, but also does not try to see why a creature that was summoned from her magic might be mean to her, even though her crewmembers tell her that it might have something to do with her own inner monologue. In this relationship, and especially when she looks at the very casual relationship Kix has with his summoned animals, Remeny shows her difficulties actually solving problems by working on their root. Instead, she recognises the problems, and then is just angry at them, and jealous at everyone without them, without ever efficiently trying to change anything.

As Remeny sees another chance of getting to Mount Ornament, she hopes to be able to find glory after all. Kix and Beryl suspect her plan, and Kix tells her that they are on her side, as long as she keeps them in on things. Unbeknown to her, Kix kind of acts as a double agent and tells Beryl about her plans.

While walking through Mount Ornament, Remeny is reminded of a mutiny against her when an old sky pirate crew couldn't handle her anymore. She remembers her old crew screaming at her, and asking her to fight them if that is the only thing that makes her captain. That was the moment she decided to reject closeness and looking out for others in order to prevent herself from feeling responsible for them. This hurtful memory plants the idea in her head that her current crew doesn't trust her either, and will turn against her at any given moment.

Shortly after, Remeny decides to go for the treasure of the mountain directly, without waiting to rest or check for traps. As Beryl and Kix try to get her to wait until they can go safely together, she attempts to use *Charm Person* on them in order to make them let her go. The spell fails, but in the following argument with Beryl, during which she accuses her of mutiny, she lashes out and even attacks Beryl once. After that, she lets herself be talked down again by her crew, and after being convinced by them that they love and trust her, and would not have a mutiny against her, she tries to redeem herself by staying closer to them, and by being more open about her thoughts, ideas, and plans, waiting for the approval of the people involved before proceeding with them.

Following this argument and the talk after it, Remeny starts trying to take more responsibility for the crew. She throws a coin at the teleportation circle to make sure it's not trapped, and actively decides against casting Find Steed again to let Airycorse carry as many riches as he can, instead saving the spell slot for whatever might expect them on the other side. As they have to continue travelling, and Beryl seems distressed by all of them suddenly being without power, she holds her hand to give her some physical reassurance, despite being scared herself.

While travelling through the storm around Glaceria, she drops her backpack, which contains everything she owns, including the gold from the mountain, to make sure they can get through. She stays back with Lottie, as to not leave her alone, and defends her with her own body even though Lottie herself had no chance of surviving the storm, either. They both become ghosts, and decide - together, as Beryl taught her - to not move on to the afterlife just yet, but go on ghost adventures to see the world, just for the sake of seeing it.

## Trivia

* Jenny was given a range of 7-9 to choose a level for Remeny, she chose level 9.
* Remeny has always felt safe in the sky.
* In reference to the ghosts, Remeny says that she doesn't like the idea of the past following her. In the context of the conversation she is having with Lottie, about death and responsibility, this could also be seen as being about the consequences of her decisions.
* Remeny assigns a lot of nostalgic significance to objects.
* Her favourite sky shanty is a song about drinking.
* Blind Fighting is Remeny's fighting style