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Meet Lady Chatwyn of Port Wulworth, an ex privateer who, unlike many, managed to escape a life of piracy by the skin of her teeth and settled down in England with her wealth. Recent events have called her back on deck, this time at the helm. That's Captain Chatwyn to you.
Name: Lady Daisy Chatwyn (neé Wright) of Wulworth
Titles: Lady Chatwyn, Captain Cháset, cabin 'boy'
Sexuality: A christian woman coming to terms with desire for her own sex.
Status: Married on paper.
Residence: The marital home she has in England. Her ship "The Fairweather" and by extension, anywhere she wishes to sail.
Family: Martin and Charlotte Wright (parents, deceased), William Wright (only living sibling, older brother), Harland Chatwyn (husband), Charlotte, Briar and Dahlia Chatwyn (son and daughters)
Pet: St Bernard named Darling
Looks: A rather tall woman at 5'9, Chatwyn is an imposing figure, though shapely and feminine even at her age, helped along by era-appropriate shapewear. Perfect faux hourglass. Round, dark brown almost black eyes and rear-length medium brown tresses in commonly intricate hairstyles. Pale, though weather-beaten, sun-spotted and often makeup'd skin, bearing faint scarring from early teenhood scurvy. Her style is still wealthy even in the midst of her late piracy. Once upon a time she treated herself to the best regalia her husband's money could afford. Now she's matured into her preferred sturdy fabrics and personally designed gowns in bold reds, blacks and richly saturated blues.
Lady Chatwyn was once a young scallywag in training on a privateer ship. She went by Wright as a surname back then, had lost her parents and a few siblings to the white plague, as one does, and had boarded 'The Gunman' alongside her older brother William not much later. He was a very useful part of the crew and she, by extention, was tolerated.
They lead a surprisingly wealthy life by targeting foreign merchant ships, then selling at unmapped docks to undocumented buyers, often officiated by government commission. When you worked with the wealthy dogs up top, you enjoyed a bit of immunity from head hunters and navy fleets, so the pirate life was quite jolly for Ms Wright. Between getting to keep some trinkets, fine silks, even enjoying a bit of formal education and passing it down to her favourite crewmates Kimball and Mr Birdie, she remembers those years as the best of her life.
The Gunman's biggest plunder came some 3 years into the girl's 'pirate' career and involved a french schooner rig carrying gold, silver and uncut precious stones. They cornered the ship in a shallow rock gully, walked some 2 dozen frenchmen down the plank and took the fortune for themselves. It was worth thousands. And thousands they would've gotten, if only the merchant ship's late flotilla accompaniment hadn't caught up to them in a few days. Some were killed, others taken prisoner, most escaped by boat. The last thing Daisy remembers before the scuffle is Mr Birdie bidding her hide as her brother was taken away, a clutch of uncut pearl and diamond heavy in her pockets.
From then on it's history: Ms Wright and Mr Birdie manage the week-long trip to a dock, succed in escaping before the ship gets sold and have to survive in late 17th century France for a decade or so before they part ways. They covertly sell their plunder during the great inflations and, in true pirate fashion, bury their wealth and live humbly until there was need for it. This is where they become Mr and Ms Barillier, father and daughter of a wealthy background. Both receive a decent education, buy land and settle for a few years while keeping their ear to the grapevine for their old crew. They part ways in time. Daisy alone makes her way to England in search for her brother, never quite having let go of the ghost, while Birdie, sorry, Mr John Barillier, stays behind and immerses himself in the french age of enlightenment.
In England Daisy meets a wealthy man and marries.
Trivia
- Still has the poor mentality despite her wealth. A bit too into collecting nonsensical things and borderline hoarding. Hasn't risen above stealing even after all these years either. She likes something small enough to stick in her bustier?; she's unceremoniously smuggling it out.
- Boasts an impressive ability with the rapier and some proficiency with a pistol. Keyword 'boasts'. She can do neither, only having a rudiment of a skill in shooting. Tall tales of her abilities have been carefully manufactured.. by her.
- She had no education up until 19 when she surrounded herself with well-paid personal tutors to substantiate her future fame as an obscure french socialite with a tragic past.
