Quinn Ross

**Quinn Ross** is a deckhand of The Midnight Valiant, portrayed by Vee. A prominent member of the Chaos Crew.

Quinn was born in 080 AGF in Oakland Harbor in Whitbreak. Her parents were the captains of the cargo ship *The Glass Mirage*, and would often leave the harbor for work. This left her with her aunt and uncle, who took care of her while her parents were gone, and acted as a second pair of parents. Whenever *The Glass Mirage* was docked, Quinn’s parents would show her around the ship, and train her to become a captain like them. She learned the ship head to toe, and was always curious about how everything worked. Sometimes, on short trips, she was even allowed to leave Whitbreak and sail with them. Through storms and beasts, she always looked up to and admired her parents, wanting to be just like them.

In January of 094 AGF, her parents accepted a job. It was merely a run to deliver supplies to a factory district off the island, meant to be two weeks at most. In February of the same year, representatives of the company that had employed *The Glass Mirage* showed up at their front door. The ship had gotten caught in a storm, and had been taken down. There were few survivors who had escaped on lifeboats, but Quinn’s parents had not been among them.

For weeks she was inconsolable, and she isolated herself from her aunt and uncle. In her isolation, she began to doubt. Her parents couldn’t have gone down in a storm - they were too skilled to let that happen. Let alone let most of the crew perish. The conspiracy grew in her mind - there had been a traitor on the ship. They had caused a malfunction and the ship had, indeed, gone down, but her parents had escaped. They were still out there, and she had to find them. she convinced herself this was her job. She needed to find her parents, and she would stop at nothing to do so. For three months she planned her trip, pulling together every scrap of information she could about her parents, their ship, and the crew. She took everything important to her, including the pocket watch her parents had given her the last time she had seen them.

For a month she was stuck evading the police on the islands. She hadn’t thought through actually getting onto a ship to where she needed to be. Luckily for her, she managed to bribe an unlicensed pilot into letting her aboard. In July, she finally made her first voyage.

On the first two ships she had boarded, being *The Augustus* and *The Fairlight Archer* respectively, she had to help run the janky airships. Each ship barely had half a crew, and only a quarter of the knowledge needed to keep the ships in shape. She helped in the engines, with navigation, storage, financing - anywhere that something was needed, she fulfilled.

In early 095 AGF *The Fairlight Archer* docked in New Moon Harbor in Mayar for repairs and resupplies. The ship needed many repairs, which left them stranded for a bit. During this time, the captain decided it was a good time to go off and get drunk off his ass every day. Feeling responsible for keeping the crew together at the ripe age of 13, she went off and tried to find him. On her journey, she met Morgan DeLune. At first sight, Morgan was already a person she wanted to trust. They made her feel safe. After their first meeting where Morgan saved Quinn from the horrors of the nights in New Moon, they agreed to meet again.

Eventually, through years of ship hopping, Quinn found her way onto the Valiant, where she agreed to exchange labor for a place to stay, and she’s been there ever since.