🦀🌊 Dasya

Captain of the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything Red Coursers

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Personality: Proud, Fierce, Stoic, Image-conscious, Committed to Her Aesthetic

Likes: Being In Charge, Pirate Aesthetics, The Color Red, The Ocean, Craft Fairs, Her Family

Dislikes: Being Told She's not a Real Pirate, Public Displays of Affection, Ruben

Design Notes:

• Lean, muscular build with a bit of a saggy belly
• Mane and tufts are super soft and silky
• Prominent chin scruff
• "Stick" style antennae resemble branching red seaweed (like Gelidium or Gracilaria)
• Paw pads match nose
• Usually wears a pewter labrys pendant (pls draw her with it)

Character Notes:

• What she wants everyone to think she is: a ruthless and infamous pirate captain.
• What she actually is: a slightly inept sailor and occasional petty criminal who spends a lot of time at craft fairs with her wife.
• She loves her family and crew more than anything. Yes, even more than her Aesthetic^TM. The easiest way to offend Dasya is by insulting her loved ones -- only she's allowed to do that!
• She carries a knife, but it's purely for show. She's never hurt anyone more sapient than a fish with it.
• She loves a good sea shanty! And will be gravely offended if you don't sing along with her.
• For most of her life she didn't think she liked kids... now she has a kitten of her own and a young teen on her crew and she adores them both (not that she would admit that to strangers or acquaintances, of course).
• Identified as a trans man for several years when she was younger but then decided butch woman was a better identity fit. Now she exists in a nebulous "not quite trans but not quite cis either" identity pocket and she's okay with that. She's not ashamed of her past and doesn't consider transitioning a mistake, just a step along her gender journey.