Captain Mwovu

"Captain Mwovu, also known as Cutthroat, Headhanger, Blondebeard, Trimane and Skullface, is both the master, terror and the plague of the seas. An evil and cold-blooded pirate captain down to the core, with the miserable past and notorious, bloody career. Mwovu started his career as a pirate living as the "black sheep" in his own family, with whom he had a quite rough and strained relationship. His own mother and father never showed him much love, affection or respect. Instead, they treated him with unsympathic disregard and disrespect, never acknowledging his potentiality or any of his even slightly major achievements and even physically abused him for being a disgrace in their family. While pushing Mwovu aside, they favored more his older brother over him. Mwovu's brother was in life successful and happily married gallant lion,  an honest sailor and honorable captain of the vessel (ship-shaped giant driftwood or wooden raft) named Sea Lion Guard or simply Sea Guard (Based on the legend of the First Lion Guard), that was assigned to protect the animal kingdom's trading routes on the seas from the threat of the pirates, and also to hunt down the pirates and bring them before the justice. His flourishing career and succeeds have earned him the respect and favorism by many: His loving parents, his loyal and humble crew, all the inhabitants of his homeland in Eastern coast of Africa and even the king paid him his respect with various awards and titles, such as New Askari or Askari II, the Bane of the Piracy or King's Right Paw. So, feeling rejected and unwanted, and unable or unwilling to live in his brother's shadow, Mwovu left his family behind to live his life out on the seas, building his boat from the drifting wooden raft. However, while living on the seas, Mwovu was plagued by his memories and nightmares of his previous life: the years of living under his more successful and favored brother's shadow and his parents disregarding him, not loving him and even abusing him. However, in time, those memories and nightmares started to affect in him in negative way, causing him to become stone-hearted, incredibly bitter, jealously angry and disdainful towards his own family. The bitterness, envy, anger and disdain eventually poisoned his hardened heart and turned him to the dark side."In spite towards his more successful and honored brother and his double-faced abusive family, Mwovu then embraced the life of piracy and started to plot his revenge against them, thus allowing the creator of the piracy, the Evil Deity Shaitaan, to mark him with the mark of the pirate, and granting him with the ability to mark any other animal willing to embrace the piracy with the same mark. In the beginning of his originally one-pirate career, Mwovu sailed across the seas of the world, pillaging and plundering at first the smallest catches. In the way to survive on the seas (and driven by his own plaguing memories of his past abusive family life and his burning hatred towards his own family), Mwovu started to kill any marine mammal and sea bird, that were unfortunate enough to end up to the path of his rampage, in order to either steal their foods for himself or even eat them to survive."In time, Mwovu realized that in order to capture the bigger catches and further thrive in his career, he needed the crew of his own. And so, while still rampaging and killing anyone he ran across with in the seas, Mwovu met some animals, who have been in danger of drowning or have been lost at sea, have been shipwrecked, stranded on some deserted island or are drifting helplessly in the middle of the ocean. Some of these animals are on the run from the law, casted off from other ships or even previously captured by the law enforcers and sentenced to the lifetime imprisoment or even death for piracy and treason. From these animals Mwovu started to recruit the crew by "rescuing" them in his own twisted way from their fates and took them under his wings. However, Mwovu was unwilling to do anything of this without getting something in return, so he offered to the every animal he encountered and rescued or spared from his rampage a chance to both live and pay their debt to him by joining his crew of pirates and serve him as their captain for the rest of their lives.otherwise those ones who refuse will be immediately killed and eaten by him. While majority of the animals he rescued/spared refused to join him - and ended up getting eaten - but the other animals; some of whom were very grateful for being rescued from their terrible fates at the sea, the others who have lost everything they have, have failed in their lives or had no place to go or nothing to go back for, and the rest who were unable to resist the temptation of the second chance of freedom and to do once more a pirating stuff as their way of living, accepted Mwovu's offer to join him and were thus marked as pirates with the Mark of the Piracy by their new captain."With his crew of newly-recruited pirates, and commanding the giant ship-shaped driftwood/wooden raft named "Drifting Menace", a newly-appointed Captain Mwovu started to get more bolder in hunting down and capturing the bigger catches, almost disregarding the risks the attacks may hold. However, he wasn't completely reckless, over-confident and foolhardy, but rather intelligent, calculating and cunning and planned his attacks carefully before launching them upon his victims in the destructive and merciless manner. In the following years, Captain Mwovu flourished in his pirate career, lording the piracy mostly at the Indian Ocean, and quickly becoming becoming a terror and a plague on both the less and most favorable trade routes at sea, capturing various merchant rafts, destroying them and stealing their cargoes (mostly food supplies). And at each captured raft, Mwovu offered their captured crews an passengers a chance to live by joining his crew or else end up killed and eaten. His career earned him a notorious reputation, and to further it, Mwovu has started to hang some of his victims' brutally decapitated heads in his black tricorn-shaped mane as a grotesque and indimidating trophies, which demonstrate to his next potential victims their possible fate. He also has his face painted with the white color, and his eye rims pitch black, which, along with his from his burning malice glowing yellow eyes, causes anyone looking upon him to think him as some demonic undead roaming the seas. hunting the living souls, intilling fear in his victims and other animals. To mock his potential prey before the actual take over, Mwovu has developed a habit to address his potential victims with a manipulatively charismatic, gentlemanish, aristocratic, well-manered and almost amiable and helpful facade, sometimes going so far as offering his help to deliver their cargo to its destination for them, before his addressing goes slowly over the facade and becomes less gentlemanish and more intimidating, demanding both the opposite side's immediate surrender and handing over their cargo with the threat of taking it by force and showing no mercy for anyone standing between of him and his prey."His evil, cruelty, heartlessness, merciless, bloodthirsty, aggressive, murderous and sadistic nature affected to his crew as well. The years of service under Mwuovu's command formed them into feared a band of vile and merciless cutthroats and cruel scoundrels, blindly loyal to their captain and his cause and willing to do his bidding either for his behalf or out of their own greedy interests. Despite that, they all fell in line before Mwovu either out of their blind devotion to him or fear of him, because even though Mwovu relied on them in capturing the larger and more wealthy catches, he cared about his crew as much as means to an end than as actual comrades, which he could easily dispose off whenever they either displeased/annoyed him, rebelled against his orders, fell behind from the crew or just for his own occasional entertainment or to vent his own rage on something. This meant that Mwovu wasn't above of or hand no qualms or remorse in killing and even eating some his own crewmembers occassionally. This is why majority of the crew tried their very best to remain in their captain's good side and follow his orders obediantly and without questioning. Only the most loyal and devoted members are mostly safe from his wrath. Mwovu has also declared that anyone marked with the Mark of the Piracy is therefore forbidden to leave his ship, meaning that the animals he has marked with the Mark are not just his crewmembers but also the prisoners of his ship, no matter if they've joined him willingly or because they have had no other choice."Captain Mwovu is a lion who only pursues his own goals and cares nothing of the others' interests. This is where his manipulative, dishonest, honorless and traitorous side is well demonstrated. Though he rarely takes prisoners, unless he wants them to join in his crew, is might sometimes be interested in taking "a pleasant" advantage in kidnapping the members of the important, noble, influential and even royal families, and then holding a negotations with his hostages' families about granting him his demands in exhange of the release of their imprisoned family members unharmed. In these kinds of situations, Mwovu uses his fair and honorable facade, charismatic manners and manipulative tongue as his advantage to make his hostages' families to think his seemingly honest terms of the bargain as fair and win-win to each side, and thus easily convincing them to accept them if they wanted their loved ones back. However, during the negotiations, Mwovu deliberately omits to mention some loose ends cunningly planted in the agreements, with the help of which Mwovu can turn the agreements made with his hostages' families to his own favor, thereby breaking his end of the bargain as soon as the unsuspecting counterparty has completed their own end. Once he has received the promised price or whatever he has demanded in exchange of his hostages' release, Mwovu will reveal his true colors and most likely have his hostages executed - and have their heads hanging from his mane as a trophies - while their families are 'silenced" literally, all the while cruelly mocking them for letting their worry for their 'brats'' safety to blind them to the point of failing to notice his well-hidden trap in the agreement, which made this turn of the events possible so easily. All of this going back on their words is motivated by Mwovu's own disdain for the concept of family due to his own strained relationship with his own family."After Mwovu had reached to the invincible reputation, he set his for years well-planned revenge against his family in the motion. He first started it by personally hunting down his brother's ship and engaged him in the fierce sea battle that caused major casualties on both sides. However, though there have been stories, both based on facts and adapted ones, of Mwovu's brother being never defeated in the battle against the pirates before, somehow he did lost this battle against Mwovu and was killed by his own into piracy turned evil brother, much to the family's, his homeland's inhabitants and even the king's shock and disbelief. The evidence of his death lies in the form of the lion skin hanging on Mwovu's private hut's wall. After the fall of the pride of the king's navy, Mwovu attacked next to his former homeland and both pillaged and burned it to the ground, killing nearly all the animals living there and driving the survivors off from the coast. Once taking his former homeland over, Mwovu captured his entire family and proceed to put his parents through the same though much more torturous abuse he had endured as younger lion because of them. Both of them died by keelhauling and were left as sharkfood. After torturing his sister-in-law, he had her tied in the boulder and then thrown overboard. He also took one of his nieces and his nephew and brutally killed them via decapitation by their jaws, and hanging their heads from his mane. However, when it came for his nieces, Mia & Nya's turn to go through the horrible torture and then die, Mwovu changed his mind at the last second, deciding to show at least them some form of mercy in his own twisted way; He took the girls as part of his pirate crew and put them into a slave labor onboard his ship, forcing them to work harder if they wanted to survive. And if they didn't work hard enough and without taking the break, they were punished by starvation or five claw-lashes in their backs. Mwovu gave them 13 months-lasting test to see that did they have a makings to become a pure-blood pirates... just out of spite against his deceased brother, his nieces father, and his career as the Bane of the Piracy. And if Mia and Nya have proved themselves worthy to be a pirates, Mwovu will give them the Marks of their own, otherwise he will gladly welcome them to join their brother and sister to hang by their heads - just from their heads with nothing else attached - from his beard."Aside of being a pirate, Mwovu is also a mercenary, who will works for the other as greed and ruthless animals as him and he is ready to do even the most ruthless and despicable things in their behalf against the high payment for the price tasked to fetch and bring it to the payer. However, as true to his treacherous, selfish and greedy nature, Mwowu isn't afraid to stab his employers in the back and then to claim the price as his own if he finds it too valuable or useful to him to deliver it to his payer. And right at the moment, he is on one of such of jobs. An unknown source has let him know about the most precious artifact in the whole world, with the power to manipulate the elements of the Earth: The Heart of the Tree of Life itself, which is located in the heart of the kingdom called the Tree of Life. And that unknown source has promised to Mwovu and his grew a high reward if they manage to find the Heart of the Tree of Life and bring it back to him. Mwovu is very unable to resist the temptations to steal the most valuable things in the world or to refuse from the deal with his probable or potential employers if there is the promise of the good payment for the finished tasks and he will let nothing to stop him from getting what he wants. He is not interested with the lores, legends or even the warnings of his quests' potential risks and dangers as long as ge gets paid. He will indifferently go so far of committing even a mass murders upon the peoples, who possess the valuable artifacts he is looking for, in order to force the survivors to give him what he wants. Mwovu also understands the value of the hostages and will use the most well-picked and to his enemies and victims most precious animals (family members and living relatives) as hostages/leverages to trade them for what he wants or either to force his hostages' relatives to do what he wants... and he doesn't show hesitation in openly and in rather sadistic manner to toy with or even seriously injure his captives if his demands are not met. And, true to his nature, Mwovu keeps making an empty promises to his enemies about their captured relatives being returned to them safe and unharmed - as well as their peoples left alone -  as long as his demands are fulfilled and he has got what he has come to fetch... only for Mwovu to go then back on his word by returning his hostages tortured, spoiled and defiled and then inflict the mass murder upon the people anyway in order to keep his crimes are low as possible and the witnesses non-existed."