Captain Annabelle Cheddar

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## CaptainAnnabelle Cheddar

* Character Art
* Battle Mini

* Front
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## Ability Scores

### CON

+4
+4

### Languages

Fructerano, Lacra

> "*Your highness, my thighs ARE weapons.*"
> ― Captain Annabelle Cheddar[source]
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**Captain Annabelle Cheddar** is captain of her ship the Colby, which she inherited from her father.  She is the previous heir to House Cheddar and the Dairy Islands, and cousin to the current Duchess, Primsy Coldbottle.

## Featured Episodes

* Episode 4: The Grand Tournament
* Episode 5: Lapin's Big Day
* Episode 7: Escape from the Bulb Creeps
* Episode 8: Deep Bleu Sea
* Episode 9: Safe Harbor
* Episode 15: The Two Balls
* Episode 16: For Candia! (Part 1)

## Description

### Appearance

Annabelle is the most stunning woman Ruby has ever seen. She has short cut, swept back, princely hair. She wears a long captain's jacket  and wields a saber.  She's incredibly athletic, capable of doing leaps and flips with relative ease.

### Personality

She is a very independent and strong-willed woman who values her freedom from the responsibilities and limitations that come with being royalty. However, she still puts the best interests of her family and her country before her own. She tries her best to do what's right in the eyes of the law, but when an ally is in need, she'll do whatever she can to aid and protect them.

It's possible that she may be somewhat jealous of her cousin Primsy and her position as Duchess of Lacramor, though she definitely does not regret not getting married.

## Background

Annabelle was born sometime before or near the start of the Ravening War. She mentions being about four years old when she witnessed Duke Joren Jawbreaker's impressive fighting skills.

As the daughter of Prince Tarthur Cheddar, Annabelle was set to inherit the throne to the Dairy Islands as Princess. After her father died, however, she refused to marry and produce an heir, and was therefore stripped of her title and position. She considers this her greatest shame, but also thinks it was a pretty badass thing to do.

Instead, the throne went to her cousin, Duchess Primsy Coldbottle. She's sailed the open waters of the Dairy Sea on her ship, the Colby, with her crew ever since.

## History

### Keep Sharp

Annabelle is first introduced as the party exits their carriages in Comida for the first time. Princess Ruby Rocks spots her laughing among a group of women soldiers from the Dairy Islands who all have swords and bows and arrows at their sides, wearing very light naval armor. She has one leg up on the lip of a carriage and has an air about her that just screams "freedom" in a way that Princesses Jet and Ruby could never achieve in their stints at running away.

Ruby approaches and awkwardly introduces herself, and they chat briefly. Annabelle tells her that she plans to enter the melee tournament and asks if Ruby plans to enter the archery tournament, noting Sour Scratch on her back. She calls it the Puckering Bow, lest she end up on the wrong side of it, and Ruby embarrassingly assures she won't, then quickly excuses herself.

Later, a drunken Liam Wilhelmina falls into her, but she gracefully twirls him around to put him back on his feet. She talks with him briefly about his fearsome warrior of a father, Duke Joren Jawbreaker, whom she saw fight once when she was little. Liam also talks to her about his seed collection before she suggests to Sir Theobald Gumbar they get him some water and lay him down.

### The Grand Tournament

Like she had told Ruby the night before, Annabelle signs up for and participates in the melee portion of the Grand Tournament. She is set to compete alongside Princess Jet Rocks, Commander Constano Grissini, and Sir Bonathan Flashfry. At the beginning of the tournament, following King Amethar's example, Jet proposes an alliance between them, as two unwed heirs. Annabelle is shocked and awed by Jet's bravery at bringing up her greatest shame, but is deeply touched by her camaraderie.

As combat progresses and King Amethar is stabbed with a watersteel dagger and poisoned, he attempts to escape the melee pen to safety. Scravoya Myaso follows him to keep attacking, and Jet offers to forfeit the tournament's reward of a boon to convince Annabelle to help her father. Annabelle steps in and tries to disarm Scravoya, but fails. After Princess Ruby identifies that Sir Keradin Deeproot still has two daggers on his person, Annabelle leaps from her pen and tackles him to the ground where Ruby successfully lifts the dagger from him as proof of his guilt.

The tournament is shut down as first aid is administered to Amethar, and Sir Keradin is escorted to the dungeons. Even though Jet airing Annabelle's dirty laundry is largely forgotten in the face of an assassination attempt, Jet approaches her to apologize. Annabelle later formally introduces herself to Amethar, and they exchange compliments about her father, Prince Tarthur Cheddar. She escorts a shaken Primsy out of the tournament.

### Lapin's Big Day

Before the Taste Buds see Concordant Emperor Gustavo Uvano to claim their prizes for winning their respective tournaments, they discuss who Theo could potentially nominate as a candidate to become emperor. Ruby suggests nominating Annabelle, but the group ultimately decides against it, as they are unsure who in the Dairy Islands may be an enemy.

Amethar, Liam, and Theo meet up with Annabelle outside the emperor's room as they prepare to receive their prizes. Annabelle explains that everyone in the second melee had left the ring before the match was called, and since Grassini had dropped his weapon, and Jet verbally conceded the match, that left her as the winner. It's the most humiliating victory she's ever had, but she'll take it, as the Dairy Islands don't have much.

Completely unprompted, Liam asks why Annabelle isn't married, and she explains to him that there is a social order to conversations. She advises him that when he meets new people, he should pick a detail that isn't part of their appearance to compliment them on, like something they've made, or are wearing.

When they are invited inside the emperor's chambers, Annabelle is given her boon. She contemplates choosing something for herself, or something for her country, and settles on the latter; for Lord Stilton Curdeau to be released from his vows with the Bulbian Church, so that he may marry his sweetheart, the Duchess Primsy Coldbottle, and they can be happy. Gustavo agrees to fulfill this request. Annabelle tells Liam and Theo more about this arrangement once they leave the room, which causes Theo to become even more suspicious of Stilton than he already was. He not so subtly implies that Stilton could be bad news, and that Annabelle has just put Primsy in danger by allowing him to marry her (and thus giving the church more power). This angers Annabelle, and she quietly threatens him if he dares to question her honor again.

### Escape from the Bulb Creeps

Annabelle is next seen at the harbor in Comida. The Taste Buds flee from the Cathedral of Saint Arugula, searching for a safe way out of the city when they see the Colby docked in the Pulp Bay. Next to it is another Dairy Island ship, aboard which are Primsy and Stilton, in the middle of their wedding ceremony, which Annabelle is officiating. Before the ceremony ends, the party stows away in crates of drinking milk, which are soon carried aboard the Colby.

After a stretch of time, Annabelle is anxious about setting setting sail without Manta Ray Jack and Sir Morris Brie when a messenger arrives with news of the recent catastrophe: the emperor is dead, there's no one to replace him, and Candia has left the Concord and declared war. She receives what appears to be a blood-stained letter from Sir Morris Brie, and upon reading it, orders her crew to set sail immediately. Approximately half an hour after they leave the harbor, the ship is boarded by Imperial soldiers looking for the escaped Rocks Family. When they demand the milk crates be searched, Annabelle assures them that they are impossible to open, and the soldiers leave.

Another half hour goes by before Ruby decides to Message someone to call below decks before they emerge from their crates. There is some debate between whether to contact Primsy and Annabelle, they ultimately contact Primsy, as it's probably more likely that she'd have a positive reaction. Scared to go below decks at the call of a spirit in her mind, she asks to bring Annabelle with her, but Ruby refuses. After hearing Primsy's scream, Annabelle joins the group below deck. Eventually she agrees to help the Rock family get to the Dairy islands but but cannot offer much else in support do to the precarious political situation they have put her and Primsy in. She offers them a cabin and to stay in and heads back up to the helm. After a while Liam goes up to her an attempts to give her a compliment and initially succeeds but then proceeds to insult her. As she goes to slap Liam in the face she is distracted as she notices that the Colby is being followed. They attempt to sail away but finds that their sails have been sabotaged. The approaching ships gain on them and then grapple the Colby on both sides and half the ship submerges into the sea.

### Deep Bleu Sea

As the Colby is attacked and boarded by House Bleu marauders, Captain Annabelle is the only one keeping the ship from sinking before her crew can escape. Amethar asks how long they can stay afloat to which she replies over the storm the ship will go down no matter what and their best best is to get everyone to another ship. Amethar agrees and jumps over the nearest ship and attacks the marauders in his path while yelling for the Colby crew to join. As captain, Annabelle refuses to leave till everyone else has deserted the ship. With one crew member carrying a fallen away Annabelle runs up to the crow's nest with Theobald and attacks the marauder in front of him. Theobald shove the guy into the sea and says to her, "Hope we're good now," before jumping down into the boat below.

Without her stabalizing the Colby, the ship sink further into the sea and she falls into the tangy sea under the waves. Amethar see the trouble his family is in and jumps back onto the Colby and gets the last crew member to swing the ship towards the smaller boats. Anabelle manages to swim up and keep her head above the water. Ruby falls overboard but is able to climb back aboard where Liam has killed the remaining marauders with them and steered the ship partially over the sunken Colby. Annabelle is finally able to climb to safety aboard and she take the wheel from Liam. The last Cheddar crew mate on the Colby along with their fallen friend also make it aboard. In the distance they see the farthest House Bleu marauder ship sail away without a captain. All injured Chedder crew are able to be stabilized except for the one the last crew mate drug on to the deck.

On the rowboat, Theobald, Jet, Amethar, and Cumulous are left with two marauders who promptly kneel and surrender. Cumulous kills one marauders and Jet kills the other. Primsy is brought onto the rowboat with the group and then they all board their new ship.

## Skills and Abilities

* Three attacks
* Cunning Action
* Sneak Attack

## Quotes

### The Grand Tournament

* "I would ask that in the future, if you respect someone, you will keep their honor by keeping their business on the other side of your mouth."

## Trivia

* Annabelle's page is the 500th page to be added to the *Dimension 20* wiki! It's what she deserves.
* She is canonically a lesbian.
* Annabelle’s first name may be a reference to Edgar Allen Poe’s poem: Annabelle Lee
* Her mini was sold as part of the Dimension 20 A Crown Of Candy Auction for $3,702

## References

1. ↑ Episode 4: The Grand Tournament; Annabelle takes a bonus action Disengage and Sneak Attack during combat
2. ↑ Episode 3: Keep Sharp; Annabelle mentions being 4 years old during the Ravening War.
3. ↑ Episode 7: Escape from the Bulb Creeps
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Episode 3: Keep Sharp
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Episode 4: The Grand Tournament
6. ↑ Instagram Live Pre-show, 17 June 2020