• RETURN
• MUSES
• MUN
• BLOG

• RETURN
• GUIDELINES
• MUSES
• BLOG

MUN

Calico | 30’s | He/Him | UK

Hi! I’m Calico, your friendly neighbourhood spider-nerd.When not working, I write, draw and lurk around the RPC. I swear far too much and hydrate far too little. Amongst a ton of things, I love wildlife, tattoos, deep-dive video essays on nostalgic/lost media, graphic novels and crafts! My interests are all over the shop so feel free to come say hi any time.Activity level: (Feb ‘25) Low. College is heading into the busiest time and my health is wonky so the will is strong but the brain is mush. Right now I’m trying to manage a few replies a week, if that, prioritising quickfire/memes.Can I IM you?: Absolutely. I reserve the right to not always respond, but try to reply as quickly as I can.
Do you use Discord?: Yes! It’s available for mutuals - just ask. I often appear offline but just spam me.

• RETURN
• GUIDELINES
• MUN
• BLOG

• RETURN
• GUIDELINES
• MUN
• BLOG

JADE SUMAYE

NAME	Jade Sumaye
BIRTH DATE	Jan. 21
AGE	30’s
GENDER/PRONOUNS	Female / She/Her
ORIENTATION	Bisexual
ALIGNMENT	Chaotic good
EYE COLOR	Brown
HAIR COLOR	Black
HEIGHT	5’3
FACE CLAIM	Ruth Negga

PHYSICAL - NOTEWORTHY TRAITS

- Pirate brand on left wrist, usually covered.
- Minor scarring on fingers; missing tip of left little finger.
- Easily identified by a bottle-green frock coat several sizes too big for her, repeatedly mended.
- Often wears a lapis pendant + a collection of rings she’s magpied.
- Flintlock / cutlass / dagger.
- Carries a satchel with her, rarely seen without.

PERSONALITY

Though gregarious by nature, there’s something guarded and cautious about Jade these days. She presents a friendly smile with anxious eyes, worn down by the rough edge of survival required for a life at sea. Making friends is rarely an issue, but forming intimate bonds where she lays her vulnerabilities bare proves a far tougher feat.Though survival instinct begs her to overthink, scheme and plan, Jade’s far too impulsive to listen. Her mouth works faster than her brain, particularly under stress, and a slightly more hedonistic take on life of late has pushed her towards risk-taking. Some have accused her of cowardice, but she would argue being one for self-preservation.Practically-minded, Jade tries to stick to her own moral code and enjoys keeping herself busy both physically and mentally - slowing down tends to lead to spiralling thoughts. She responds in kind to how she is treated: polite behaviour receives like, and she’s generally an affable sort, is prone to teasing and jokes. Jade can be quick to form opinions, holds a fierce loyalty to those she deems worth the risk, and will gladly speak out against injustices if she sees them (she won’t complain if she’s armed when she does, though). There's a wanderlust in her, and an appreciation for the smaller things in life. Jade doesn't seem too interested in power or the trappings of politics: rather she values what fleeting snatches of joy she can seize day by day.

BIO

Jade will often tell tales or outright lie to cover the fact that large swathes of her memories remain foggied, or left entirely blank. Parts have begun to filter back progressively as more experiences trigger connections.She recalls a content childhood and doting parents, siblings also, but could not describe them past a feeling. She remembers a sense of freedom and security, the sound of the ocean and cold waters. No childhood home comes to mind.What she does not recall, however, is falling hard and fast for a young sailor on a Royal Navy vessel, and a fairytale romance spiralling rapidly into disaster. As he rose in rank and position, he was offered a post overseas with an offer to bring his family – and, it was quietly discussed, to transport essential documents.The ship they set out on did not arrive. They were attacked and captured three weeks into the voyage – and from there things remain a haze.Jade’s first clear memory is of waking adrift at sea in a rowboat with a satchel tucked under her arm. Against all odds she was picked up by another British Navy vessel and taken to the nearest Caribbean island.Both herself and the documents found their way into the hands of Cutler Beckett. Unable to explain either what had transpired nor how she had come upon the satchel of documents, she was a pawn ready to be played. Jade was given a simple ultimatum: face trial for charges against the Company or work for a pardon by collecting and sending information on pirates.
The insurance to stop her simply disappearing was a pirate brand: to ensure her own continued safety she would have to earn her own pardon.Jade has little reason to believe that Beckett will uphold this impromptu bargain, and has reasoned that the safest place is as close as she can get to the eye of the hurricane: the rumoured Captain Jack Sparrow. She has since joined the crew of the Black Pearl after bungling her way into his presence and is taking to piracy surely enough. It’s as though the sea is in her blood.

IMPORTANT NOTES

- I try to keep Jade untethered from canon events (and don’t detail what her involvement would have been) to offer as much flexibility as possible, but EITC/Beckett links generally place her involvement beginning around the DMC period. I’m flexible to rearrange this to suit varying threads and AU’s.- Jade is a selkie, though whether or not she knows this and/or has recovered her skin is timeline dependent and down to whether or not a partner wants to engage with it. Following classic selkie folktale, Jade’s husband stole her skin from her once they were married. How she comes back across her skin is verse/thread dependent.- MULTIFANDOM: Jade can be worked into other fandoms as anything from a fandomless selkie to something more bespoke. She has a modern verse as a tattoo artist in London.- Jade is a revamped OC from over 14 years ago when I was a wee thing desperate for indulgent rp and fic. As such there are many elements of her personality and backstory which I’ll continue re-tooling as I try and keep the essence of her old character with new writing. If you’re wondering about obvious gaps or plotholes, it’s probably because I’m still working it out but was too eager to start writing her again! If you have specific qestions about her, what I see her dynamic as with canon POTC characters, or opinions on pre-established dynamics with said characters, please feel free to IM me to discuss!

• RETURN
• GUIDELINES
• MUN
• BLOG

NATHANIEL BLAKE

NAME	Nathaniel "Nate" Blake
BIRTH DATE	Dec. 3 1697
AGE	30's when killed, 300's by mordern standards
GENDER/PRONOUNS	Male / He/Him
ORIENTATION	Bisexual (closeted)
ALIGNMENT	Chaotic neutral / Lawful evil
EYE COLOR	Yellow (prev. brown)
HAIR COLOR	Brown
HEIGHT	6’1
FACE CLAIM	Henry Cavill

PHYSICAL - NOTEWORTHY TRAITS

- Visible injuries to throat. Always wears loose scarf to cover this.
- Scars and burn marks on hands.
- Tattoo on right forearm.
- As grim: Immense black dog with yellow eyes. Can appear ghostly or spectral.

PERSONALITY

Once a vivacious, charismatic man with a violent streak and penchant for instant gratification – always leading to trouble – time and duty has left Nate jaded with the living. Years of isolation have reduced his capacity for kindness or manners: he's abrasive and short-tempered, finding amusement only in antagonising with the promise of a fight. He's always ready with a quip or comment, but one couldn't call him the smartest man.If you can tolerate his gruff attitude one might, after a while, tease back out some of his original sense of humour and passion for adventure. Further encouraged, he has a penchant for the dramatic, love of a good story, and might one day admit that his short temper goes hand-in-hand with competitive pride.There have been attempts from the man to adapt with changing times, but the results have been mixed – as evidenced in his wardrobe and speech mannerisms. He freely mixes long-dead colloquialisms with the new; repairs his old coat but prefers steel-toed boots and sunglasses. He's particularly fond of horse riding and music.

BIO

(CW: Death; hanging mention).Born and raised in a small village in the south of England around the turn of the century, Nathaniel grew up a simple farmhand with a zest for life and decent work ethic - albeit one forcibly instilled by his father.He had never been particularly aspirational, though Nathaniel was good with his words and charismatic even at his young age.Around the age of 13, this landed him in the company of several young men looking to recruit more youngsters for their work. Increasingly disillusioned with both home life and the crown, they had begun to form a loose band of highwaymen. Nathaniel at first only gave aid when he felt the need, but was eventually coerced into joining their escapades. After the disappearence of his father forced his uncle to take control of the smallholding, tensions had been brewing and he was all too happy to leave.The farm fell into disrepair in the years which followed and he does not know what became of his mother or sisters.With Nate joining the small band of rogues, they quickly began to grow in scale and reputation. Where once he had been ambivalent to money and material gains, Nate became as avaricious as he was hateful of figures of authority.The profits they made over the years were of course greater when they worked in greater numbers, but as he grew older and increasingly violent the highwaymen began to fracture. The band dissolved and Nate departed, convinced that he would fare better operating alone.Without anyone to check him, Nate became notoriously vicious and his schemes more elaborate. Capitalising upon the romantic reputation highwaymen had begun to gain with the general population, he balanced charming manipulation with acts of extreme violence. This earned something of a mixed reputation - a notoriety which would eventually lead to his capture and arrest.Nathaniel was sentenced to be hung by the neck until dead and his body was left in a gibbet at a crossroads. If you ask him where it was he was executed, he couldn't tell you. That week is a hazy blur.He also doesn't speak of what he saw in death. Suffice to say it was enough that, when faced with the option to prolong his fate and stand a chance of redemption to a better afterlife, he seized the chance. In order to atone, he was to do as bid.With no physical body left, his soul was tied to that of a churchyard dog and Nathaniel became the grim for which he is now known. Duties vary between the protection and defense of sites such as graveyards; escorting errant souls to their afterlife; and hunting down those his ‘masters’ have deemed wicked – anything from dangerous, wild supernatural beings to graverobbers and murderers.Protection and justice are the name of the game, albeit violently delivered and for reasons he should not question. It's a laughable fate - he is to hunt down the very men he once was and destroy being similar to what he has become.Hundreds of years since, and Nathaniel has patiently endured every passing fad, new invention and fresh horror the times have wrought. As the world changes, so his duties have shifted and the pattern become slower. He has grown restless and bored, unable to abandon duty but finding less and less to do as modern technology continues to encroach on his life.

POWERS/ABILITIES

SHAPESHIFTING
- Nate switches between his human and canine ‘grim’ forms at will. All powers and abilities are amplified as a grim, as are his weaknesses.GRIM
- Can commune with recently deceased souls.
- Can sense when someone is close to death.
- Enhanced durability.
- Enhanced senses - can track the targets given to him.GENERAL
- Is affected by pain/cold/heat but not killable by conventional means.WEAKNESSES
- Nathaniel might be resilient to means of death but pain is still pain - he can be harmed or restrained. (in some more modern verses he may be able to become temporarily intangible).
- Silver - even tiny quantities if pure - burns. Stabbing him with silver could potentially kill him again.
- Bright sunlight easily dazzles or makes him uncomfortable, especially in his grim form.
- He gets seasick very easily, has a general aversion to swimming and water.