Raven "BlackThorn"

Before coming to the Isle, the creature called Raven had the unfortunate origins of being a test subject for a mad scientist. He had designs to build himself a golem, and the poor lad was his human stock for the venture. Metal plates were grafted to Raven’s chest and left forearm, causing him unconscionable pain which burned out all memories of what had come before, including that of his own name. In this thusly mad state, he escaped his bonds and brained the scientist, ensuring that he would never apply such tortures to anyone again.

He made his way to England, and rediscovered an innate love of and talent for music while there. Finding himself gifted enough in all instruments, he had a particular predilection for the violin and the drum, and used them to acquire a ship and crew for himself to sail the seas on. Freedom was his tireless driving force, and he enjoyed six years of it beside his mates, taking to piracy with ease. His metal plates were most useful in this regard; they instilled terror in his victims on sight, and those who proved braver were smashed by his brute juggernaut force. So gifted was he that he drew the attention of the Council, who dispatched Vaporwave Queen to hunt him down and recruit him, and after an amicable parley he agreed.

The Nightwatch had eyes on him the instant he landed, and wasted no time espousing the virtues of their company. Upon learning of the Deal, Raven became immediately intrigued, seeing a way out of the constant pain to which his metal plates subjected him. He agreed to be sent to the Locker on the instant, despite Vaporwave’s entreaties for him to remain among the living. The blackness took him as the bullet sheared his brains, and he found himself standing before the Lord of the Deep and offering his service, in exchange for a reversal of his deformities. Davy Jones agreed with a smile, and stripped his flesh from his body, once again subjecting him to pain his mind could not fathom. He reformed the steel around his newly exposed skeleton, reinforcing them to unbreakability, and returned him to the Isle, a vision of fear.

He served gratefully aboard the Graveyard Galleon for a good stretch, but when Snapper pulled the Bleeding Rose into port, the Council called for volunteers to form up a new crew for the seventh vessel in the Fleet. Raven volunteered himself, answering the call and excited at the prospect of serving aboard a brand new ship. Jane Barnaby agreed to release him from her service, and told him that he could keep his current form and gifts, but that Davy needed to grant to him extra protections to serve in daylight again. So she led him to the cliff at the heights of the Siren Caves - and unceremoniously shoved him off the edge. Just as he struck the rocks, black thorny vines burst from the earth and wrapped him up, fusing to his joints and the curling into the blank spaces between his plates. Once he was fully cocooned, the creepers withered away, leaving him with a fresh form of steel plates, but his skeleton beneath was now bound and interlaced by those same thorny vines, with black roses blooming from them where they may.

Thusly fortified, he took his place as Snapper’s Navigator, as well as adding "Blackthorn" to his name, and remains an integral part of the Bleeding Rose, and the Isle as a whole.

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