Charles Picaroon

**Charles Picaroon** was a legendary pirate captain, oftentimes considered to be one of the greatest pirates of all time.

## Description

### Personality

Charles Picaroon was an extremely ambitious and charismatic pirate. As a captain, he possessed unmatched leadership abilities, oftentimes giving incredibly inspiring speeches which drew new recruits from across the world. His crew and his fans, which he had many of, admired and respected him for not only his skills in combat, but also his unique way with words. As a fighter, Charles was extremely brave, never shying away from a seemingly perilous combat encounter, and becoming a master at one on one dueling combat. Legend has it that he'd never lost a duel.

To his family, Charles was a loving and caring individual who never neglected his duties as a father or as a lover. He tended to be quite protective of his children, especially his youngest son Boucan, who joined his crew for the last 7 years of Charles' life. Charles was also a very playful and mischievous guy. He enjoyed a good prank or a clever jest and would often use humor to defuse tense situations.

### Appearance

Charles was a 3'6" goblin, who also wore a tricorn hat and a pirate's tailcoat. He was bald and always had a dark green beard which turned grey near the end of his life.

Charles was always duel wielding a rapier and a flintlock pistol, often using his proficiency in two weapon fighting to get the best of his opponents.

## Biography

### Early life

Charles was born on the small island of Maritima, a notorious haven for pirates. He was born into a family of fishers who struggled to make ends meet on the island, and were often the targets of robberies. Whilst his family tried raising him to become a fisherman, he knew from a young age that his true calling was piracy.

At the young age of 5, Boucan was nabbed off the streets and forced to work for the tyrannical pirate captain Tentaclebeard. After 2 years of hard fighting and deck-swabbing, Boucan led a mutiny against Tentaclebeard, using his conversational skills to turn almost the entire crew against him. He served as the new captain of the Black Kraken, until he retired to return to Maritima. However, one he returned, he discovered his family had been killed in a tropical storm, which had devastated the island a year earlier. From the wreckage, Boucan discovered the hull of the S.S. Hithole, which he restored, and began his new life as a new pirate captain.

### Captaining of the S.S. Hithole

Charles sailed on the S.S. Hithole for 5 years, during which he met and recruited dozens of companions with his unmatched charisma. During his time sailing the Hithole, he gained quite a bit of sailing and combat experience, becoming a master at two weapon fighting. He quickly gained notoriety amongst pirates across the seven seas, and many captains would travel to the West Goblin Sea just to duel him.

Whilst sailing the Hithole, Charles felled the great leviathan Jonoates, bringing even more prestige to the Picaroon name. He also met the love of his life, Meryl Globlin, whomst he soon married and had 6 children with over 12 years.

Being the ambitious pirate he was, Charles soon hatched a plan to heist the battleship turned floating museum known as the Soggy Saga, and use it as his own personal plundering ship. One night, Boucan and around 20 of his crewmates snuck aboard the museum, silently took out the security team, and commandeered the ship, steering it out of the massive port outside of Aine's crossing. This feat garnered massive attention from commonfolk across the world, and Charles amassed a cult following-esque fanbase.

### Captaining of the Soggy Saga & Death

Charles sailed the remainder of his pirate career captaining the Soggy Saga, which at its peak had just over 500 crew members all under Charles' command. At the same time, he was helping raise his six kids, his favorite of which were his oldest child Maraud, and his youngest child Boucan.

Charles accomplished many feats upon the Soggy Saga, cementing his name in the history books as one of the greatest pirates of all time. Unfortunately, at the old age of 44, he contracted Tuberculosis, and he died on his 45th birthday. In his will, he left a majority of his riches to Meryl and Maraud, giving the Soggy Saga to Maraud and his on-shore properties to Meryl. He evenly distributed the rest of his wealth and belongings amongst the rest of his children, apart from Boucan, to whom he only gave the S.S. Hithole, and the wish that Boucan follows in his footsteps and becomes a self-made pirate legend, as he once had.