Alexandra Piedrabuena

Being being lied to, deceived, disrespected, falsely accused, lectured, and tempted by darkness
Gretel Siegel-Schleissler
Bilge Water
Ilias in danger

### Weapons

Flintlock Pistol
Rapier

### Quote

"I'm Alexandra Piedrabuena, the Mightiest Pirate to Ever Sail the Celestial Seas!"

**Alexandra Piedrabuena** is the main deuteragonist of *Ilias and the Sanctuary of Swashbucklers*. She is a beautiful pirate captain who is the guardian of Ilias Katopodis. Upon learning that Ilias intentionally ran away and entered the portal to the Celestial Seas in the Ocean Realm, Alexandra promises to protect and care for Ilias and teach him to become a pirate, thus becoming his mentor.

## Appearance

### Body

Alexandra is a woman in her late thirties to early forties. She has a slim yet curvy figure and is somewhat tall compared to some other characters in the show. She has shiny olive-tan skin, blue eyes, and long black hair in a low ponytail that goes down to her hips, tied at her neck by a red ribbon in a bow, and also tied near the end of her hair by a thin maroon ribbon.

### Clothing

She wears a white shirt with long sleeves with frilly cuff ends and a jabot tied at the collar around her neck, tied at the front in a knot that exposes her midriff and belly button, a cropped brown leather waistcoat that ends just above so the front knot of her shirt is visible, a leather black tricorn hat on her head, a black leather belt-strap on her left thigh that holds her Flintlock pistol’s holster, a pair of crimson red breeches with thin black ribbons at the ends below her knees and black lace frills, white stockings, black low-block-heeled boots with gold square buckles, a very thick black leather belt with a gold buckle that holds a black scabbard that holds her rapier, and a crimson red slightly cropped frock coat with gold buttons and accents.

## Personality

Alexandra is precocious, intelligent, diligent, and proud. When Ilias calls her "one of the most beautiful people he has ever met", she proudly takes his compliment, and proclaims herself "deadly as she is beautiful". Her agility makes her seem a bit brash as she proudly declares her power in piracy and is seemingly devoid of anger, often simply scolding a crewmate for getting the navigations wrong and sending them to tidy the treasure hold as punishment for ten minutes unless one goes too far in terms of disobeying orders, like Gretel Siegel-Schleissler.

Unlike Alfred McCoy and Marge Cline, Alexandra is easily forgiving of small mistakes, and seems to have great understanding in Earth psychology and beliefs and perception about pirates in general. She refuses to follow the ideas that Gretel comes up with because she views them as crooked and for the extreme methods she has on piracy. She is also not a fan of the military and police for personal reasons, resenting its policies on "overemphasis on discipline" and "blindly following orders".

She is described as the sort of leader that would not only throw out one command after another but also say them clearly but simply; a mixture of pirate lingo and commoner's language. Alexandra has an odd view of how a good apprentice should act; she is very proud of Ilias for cleaning her quarters and polishing all the dishes without being asked and reacts the same way in a later episode when Ilias teaches her to act casually when on islands where people live. However, she is also open to suggestions from Diana, her first mate about Ilias' well-being on the ship, including giving him his own sleeping quarters in the cabin with some furniture while they are out in the water, and allowing Diana to look after him when Alexandra is busy.

She has a very caring side to her and she is willing to protect the people she holds most dear, such as when she protects Ilias multiple times, being the mother figure that Ilias needs, comforting Ilias when he has a bad dream or feels down in the dumps, and seeing to it that she has him by her side when going out with her crew into the open.

## Relationships

### Ilias Katopodis

Alexandra hugs and kisses Ilias
Ilias is Alexandra's cabin boy. Alexandra took an interest in Ilias upon seeing him in Stacey's boat. However, since he has been sailing with her and her crew, she has grown to accept him as not only part of her crew but also as an adopted son. Alexandra understands the pain that someone like Ilias would go through, would not only look up to her, but also possibly want to learn from her. In "The First Voyage," Alexandra seemed to have some interest in having Ilias tag along because he told her that adventure books were a part of his comfort zone on Earth, mostly pirate stories.

Alexandra is patient but can also get annoyed whenever Ilias continuously asks so many questions about the Celestial Seas, but she has calmly given in to Ilias' curiosity. It is soon revealed that there is a point to Alexandra's distance when in "The Stranger" she reveals the terrible pestilence on the land. While Alexandra takes advantage and occasionally pokes fun at Ilias, she soon realizes that she overdoes her jokes when one in particular makes him cry. She does care about him as she feels that she has a responsibility to look after him and considers him to be like a son to her and also supports the idea that Ilias may be in love when he tells her about a girl that he sees in his dream from looking at one in the distance through a spyglass one day. She begins to take her job as a teacher seriously and wants Ilias to be proud of her. In "Heart To Heart, Blade To Blade", Alexandra felt Ilias was not ready for sword combat training because he was still a child. However, because Ilias was fascinated with the lore behind the Sapphire Sword of Absolution, she eventually decided to work out her downtime so Ilias could be trained in it.

Alexandra is very proud of Ilias in her particular ways, glowing with pride upon seeing the first treasure he has found with her crew, and of how Ilias managed to keep all the dishes in the galley clean. She has shown that she cares for Ilias more than she cares for her crew, as in "The Boy Who Ran Away", Alexandra was enraged when she found that Gretel threatened to kill Ilias upon exploring the ship, and proceeded to lecture her, invoking Sections III and IV of the Code of Honor, and sent her back to the bilge after introductions were met. In "The First Voyage", the extent to which Alexandra loves Ilias is fully shown when he reaches out to the Kraken instead of attacking in order to save her and the crew, and realizing it wasn't dangerous but misunderstood as he was back on Earth, although she was initially annoyed with Ilias for not waiting in the cabin until the Kraken was destroyed or sent away before she fully comes back to her senses and gets the ship sailing again.

In Destiny Calls, She walks in on Ilias writing in his diary in his quarters. She says that she has had her crew create a pathway to escape the battle that Gretel started against them, she tries to convince him to go back to the cove and stay behind. When Ilias refuses to stay behind because he worries about losing her, Alexandra openly admits that she loves him before they join the battle. At the end of the Unconditional Love, after Gretel takes off and swears vengeance on the crew, and Ilias wakes up in his recovery bed, Alexandra warmly gives Ilias an abundant hug and a kiss say she looks forward to going on more adventures with him and his friends.

## Behind The Scenes

### Name and Basis

The name *Alexandra* is the female form of Alexandros, from *alexein*, meaning "to ward off, keep off, turn away, defend, protect" and *aner*, meaning "man". This could very well tie into her devotion to her promise to protect and care for Ilias. *Piedrabuena* is a spanish surname often associated with Spanish or Argentine people, and means "good stone", which could signify her heart being in the right place.

### Trivia

* According to Samuel Sturtridge, Alexandra would be of mixed descent, including Mexican, Native Hawaiian, Chinese, Filipino, Lebanese, and Thai descent in Earth heritage.