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Blair Cairistine
Wed Sep 13, 2017 4:07 pmBlair Cairistine
Basic Character Information
Starting Bonus: Tough Guy | [Starting Bonus Roll]
First Name: Blair
Middle Name/Initial: N/A
Last Name: Cairistine
Epithet: N/A
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Faction: Marine
Profession: Sharpshooter, Navigator
Physical Appearance
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 135 lbs
Hair Style: Blair's hair takes on that of a off looking pink color--seeming to almost be desaturated, when compared to even the most plain of hair colors--with a length that travels all the way down to the middle of her thighs when left unbraided. However, this styling is very rare, typically only seen when she is just getting up for the day, or when she is winding down for the night. When braided, her hair only goes down to the center of her back.
Hair Color: Off Pink
Eye Color: Ruby Red
Scars: N/A
Clothing and Accessories: Typically, one would expect a marine to wear the clothes of one. However, as part of the fact that she is part of a crew that is constantly wandering the seas, Blair is not forced to such a standard. However, she is still expected to dress in a manner befitting a soldier.
As such, her 'standard' outfit consists of a long sleeved, red military style shirt with a black collar and cuffs, paired with a black skirt. As for footwear, she wears rather long, white boots, with stockings that have been specially treated to match her skin tone. For accessories, she is typically seen carrying multiple firearms, along with a small emergency first aid kit in a bag that is slung over her shoulder. This is considered her 'crew attire', which will also consist of a heavy, black coat when in inclement weather.
Her personal taste influenced her choice in outfit somewhat, but this outfit does not reflect her personal tastes fully. Truthfully, she seems to have a very prominent fondness for long, masculine coats worn atop more traditionally feminine attire, strangely enough. Her attire when not needing to present as a soldier that is ready for combat is typically filled with more feminine things, but with very scant amounts of accessories. Occasionally, she might be seen with earrings. Normally though, she is seen wearing none. A men's coat can be seen worn over her feminine attire with a good fifty/fifty chance of not being there. It seems to be done seemingly on a whim, really.
Description: Blair is in possession of a very obviously feminine figure, falling into the 'hourglass' body type. She also has features that would imply that she is a very cold, brutal type of woman at first glance. Of course, this can make someone of her very slightly above average height seem more imposing. Of course, paying more attention to her face would reveal to any that had known her before her incident at Loguetown that her eyes have taken on a bit of a sharper shape, becoming almost..birdlike in how they are set.
Even with that bit of oddness to her features however, Blair is very easily able to lay claim to being traditionally attractive. However, she seems to be either unaware of this fact, or rather dismissive of it, as she never seems to address the people who would gawk at her.
The Past
Main Traits:
- Calm
- Soft Spoken
- Organized
- Sadistic
Likes: Animals, Sweets, Spring Weather (Except for Rain), Sailing
Dislikes: Rain, Winter Weather, Bitter things, Spiders
Unique laugh: A very quiet "Nyeheheh", which always ends up sounding like a giggle.
Hometown: Ilusia
Personality: At an initial glance, Blair seems to be a very coldhearted person, her face seeming to have this cold air to it when she's not feeling any emotion particularly strongly. Truthfully though, she isn't all that scary in normal situations, always being the calm and levelheaded one. Usually, she can be 'heard' speaking softly so as not to worry any of the constituents of the marines. Of course, she has her bad side. She can be quite the sadist, if someone pushes her buttons enough. Strangely enough, she seems to disassociate herself from the sadistic actions she sometimes commits, acting as if she had never done them. Of course, she is a very demanding person towards those she is higher ranked than, always wanting to make sure that the people working under her do their level best. But at the end of the day, she does still value everyone as an individual.
However, in Combat she is entirely different, being someone who focuses fully on the combat, while also doing her best to apply the skills she learned in her training. Of course, more often than not, combat is started by her completely disassociating from the situation, due to someone pushing her buttons too heavily. This allows her sadistic tendencies to take center stage; making her fight in a surprisingly subdued way while also seeming rather unhinged, as she typically is seen with a crazed smile and eyes that seem vacant of all emotion. However, should she be forced into combat of her own volition she still retains her normal personality, and will more often than not go for incapacitation, rather than an execution.
- History:
Born and raised in Ilusia, Blair was constantly surrounded by seemingly good people. Unfortunately, her father was a gambler of sorts. However, he was a clever man in spite of that and was very easily able to keep his vice and shame hidden away, along with the debt that inevitably grew. To anyone both within and outside of the family, Blair and her parents seemed to live a fairly stable life. Her father worked as an armorer for the marines, and her mother worked part time in one of the many stores within the kingdom.
As she grew up, Blair was taught a handful of things. For one, she was taught how to fight, just in case she ever found herself within the less savory parts of the kingdom. For about ten years, things were very normal for Blair. Unfortunately, that all changed one day. Apparently, her father had taken a loan from the World Government in secret, and had been using that money to compete in various gambling circles. Normally, that wouldn't be much of a problem.
The only issue? Her father was a clever man..but an absolutely dreadful gambler. He made enough money working for the Marines to actually keep the family afloat, but he lost all of the money for the loan. The initial middlemen for the payment of this loan made a simple proclamation: Blair's father could resume work for the marines without pay, or he could go to trail to face his charges, and a potential execution.
Unfortunately, age was not kind to Blair's father. He was rapidly losing his sight, a trait shared among the men in his family. Without being able to pass a basic vision test, he would have been unable to actually become a marine and work off his debt.
Sadly, Blair's mother outright refused to take his place, saying that she would rather be a homeless widow than a soldier. These middlemen, along with the marines who had come to arrest Blair's father really didn't want to arrest him, or drag him away for certain death. He was destitute and slowly going blind. Really, they pitied the man. However..the debt still needed paid somehow. The adults looked uncertainly at each other..and then to Blair. Without a word a few nods were exchanged, and Blair was taken away from home to spend the rest of her childhood being raised as a marine.
Effectively, she was sold into the service, wiping her family's debt clean.
While harsh, Blair took her new situation in stride, even going so far as to take the very rare opportunities of days off from training to go home and visit her family. Unfortunately, the visits eventually took a depressing turn. Mentally scarred by the fact that he had been forced to essentially sell his child to the very organization he worked for, her father refused to stop working.
He had made it his goal to go without pay until he could buy his daughter's freedom with the money he asked for his superiors to withhold. Unfortunately, his eyes were still degrading, and the rate of this degradation was speeding up in conjunction with the emotional stress he was putting himself under. This eventually led to the permanent disfiguration of his hands.
His failing eyesight caused an accident in which he smashed one quite powerfully with a hammer, breaking the bones in a way that the hand could not be set properly, leading to the loss of several fingers. Another incident led to his other hand being burned to the point of having no sensation, resulting in an amputation. Without the use of his hands--and with eyes that were a half step above useless--he was essentially bedridden.
Over the years, Blair came home less and less, throwing herself more and more intensely into her training as a marine, and eventually coming to fully realize that she was not free. She was just another expendable cog that the Marines had simply paid for, rather than one that had come to them. This slowly warped Blair, creating a side of herself that she would come to pretend never existed in the first place.
By the time she was fourteen, she had all but completed her training, and was allowed to go out on patrols throughout the town. After a while, she showed enough navigational skill to be put on as a member of a ship. When she turned sixteen, Blair was transferred to a different island entirely. However, her crew made a stop in Loguetown, flying the banner of a mere merchant ship in order to get into the ruined marine base without incident.
Why Loguetown, a place where they would have to actively ignore crime and pretend to be in on it all to avoid being outright murdered in the streets? They had been given a tip that there were a handful of useful things leftover within the various rooms of the marine base..along with a cryptic note that there was something deep within it that would have been better off in the hands of the Marines than in the hands of Pirates.
Blair's crew split up almost immediately upon making it to the marine base. While other marines found useful things such as extra firearms, ammunition, maps that were thought to be lost to pirates, and other heavily things. Blair didn't get as lucky, finding room after dusty room of rotted wooden crates filled with rusted swords or waterlogged flintlocks.
Eventually, Blair got hungry. They weren't told how long that they were going to be in the ruin, but they all were convinced that they wouldn't be in for a very long time, so none of them brought any rations with them. She continued checking rooms, until her stomach eventually was growling loud enough to echo throughout the rubble of hallways and rooms that they were in. It had to have been hours since they had started, and she couldn't hear any of the members of her small team anymore.
Luckily for her, she eventually found something interesting. Something that appeared to be a massive orange, at least the size of both of her fists put together. Her instincts were telling her not to eat it, as it looked to have brown and white swirls across its flesh, and gave off a rather menacing feeling..but her hunger took over. Before she knew it, she had peeled and eaten the whole fruit. Her immense hunger gave her the ability to mentally push past the inherent wrongness that was a fruit that smelled sickly sweet, but was bitter to the core. She was famished, and needed food in her system.
After a few moments, she had to scream out in pain, as it felt like every nerve ending in her body was suddenly lit on fire. After a few seconds that felt like an eternity, the resulting pain eventually led her to pass out.
Luckily for her, the screams were loud enough to bring members of the crew she had been sailing with to her location. By the time she woke up, she was back on her ship. When she woke up, the captain himself came to the infirmary on the ship, explaining to her that they had found the remains of a bottle of poison that had been slowly injecting into the fruit she had eaten over time, and that the doctor had treated her for a simple poison that sent the nervous system into overdrive, potentially leading to death if not acted upon quickly. Of course, while he was thankful that she was indeed still alive, he berated her for not being diligent.
Eventually, she was given transfer to a different crew, as her previous crew were all older marines who wished to finally settle down and give up their sea legs. As such, she was tossed around from crew to crew for a short time before being given over to the care of Adrian Knight. Over time, the two built up a fair amount of rapport, and she was eventually promoted to his first mate, and given the title of "The Hanged Man". That was a year ago now. However, his recent passing has recently pushed her up in the ranks, leaving her to take over his ship, and the crew he created.
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Re: Blair Cairistine
Sat Sep 30, 2017 11:18 pmYou still have it saying that she has the "ability to create mirrors" in the history.
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Re: Blair Cairistine
Sun Oct 01, 2017 12:57 am
Blair Cairistine wrote:Blair Cairistine
Basic Character Information
Starting Bonus: Tough Guy | [Starting Bonus Roll]
First Name: Blair
Middle Name/Initial: N/A
Last Name: Cairistine
Epithet: Sunspot
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Faction: Marine
Profession: Swordswoman, Navigator
Physical Appearance
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 135 lbs
Hair Style: Blair has long, straight, raven colored hair, with her bangs hanging on each side of her face. Aside from that, she doesn't style her hair in any real way.
Hair Color: Raven Black
Eye Color: Sapphire Blue
Scars: N/A
Clothing and Accessories: Most of the time when Blair is seen, she's seen in her minorly modified Marine uniform, being bedecked entirely in a white top with several modifications. Unlike the typical marine uniform, which consists of a short sleeved or even occasionally a sleeveless shirt, Blair wears a long sleeved, button up white shirt, one that is very form fitting. However, the more heavy modifications come from the fact that it seems to be one piece of clothing, with a medium length skirt seemingly being part of it, as the golden designs that trail up the sides of the skirt are unbroken in their path up the sides of the top. She does keep the scarf that is part of the basic marine uniform. However, it has several different colors of fabric stitched into it that make the exposed parts in the front appear to be eyes. Her uniform also has tasseled shoulder pads, not as a denotation of ranking, but because the pads on the shoulders actually allow for some extra protection. When wearing her uniform, she wears a pair of heeled boots that go up to a few inches above her knees, with a flexible area providing the ability to actually bend the knees.
When not wearing her uniform however, Blair is usually seen in light colored dresses when the weather permits. Otherwise, she can usually be seen in a white dress shirt with a small yellow ribbon hanging from the collar, and a pale blue skirt.
Description: Having a rather slim appearance at an initial glance, Blair can be described as beautiful, even with her expression usually being rather neutral and stony. She is a very tall woman, standing at five feet and six inches tall. Unlike many women she has met, Blair isn't very curvy of a woman, her only real curves not being all that impressive to begin with. Of course, she doesn't mind this. Her raven colored hair trails down her back, ending at the small of her back, with two long strands of hair framing her face, going all the way down to her chest. Her skin tone is actually quite pale. Though for some reason, she never seems to burn or tan. However, the most strange part about her is her voice. Where most would expect to hear a harsh, cold tone from Blair, she does not in fact speak like this. In fact, she speaks rather softly and calmly, throwing many people for a loop.
The Past
Main Traits:
- Calm
- Soft Spoken
- Organized
- Sadistic
Likes: Animals, Sweets, Spring Weather (Except for Rain), Sailing
Dislikes: Rain, Winter Weather, Bitter things, Spiders
Unique laugh: a very quiet "Nyeheheh", which always ends up sounding like a giggle.
Hometown: Ilusia
Personality: At an initial glance, Blair seems to be a very coldhearted person, her face seeming to have this cold air to it when she's not feeling any emotion particularly strongly. Truthfully though, she isn't all that scary in normal situations, always being the calm, levelheaded one in most all situations,speaking softly so as not to worry any of the constituents of the marines. Of course, she has her bad side. She can be quite the sadist, if someone pushes her buttons enough. Strangely enough, she seems to disassociate herself from the sadistic actions she sometimes commits, acting as if she had never done them. Of course, she is a very demanding person towards those she is higher ranked than, always wanting to make sure that the people working under her do their level best.
However, in Combat she is entirely different, being someone who focuses fully on the combat, while also doing her best to apply the skills she learned in her training, along with the powers she has acquired to make things much more useful than they would normally be. Of course, more often than not, combat is started by her completely disassociating from the situation, due to someone pushing her buttons too heavily, allowing her sadistic tendencies to take center stage, making her fight in a surprisingly subdued way, while also seeming rather unhinged, as she typically is seen with a crazed smile and eyes that seem vacant of all emotion. However, should she be forced into combat of her own volition, she still retains her normal personality, and will more often than not go for incapacitation, rather than an execution.
- History:
Born and raised in Ilusia, Blair was constantly surrounded by seemingly good people. Unfortunately, her father was a gambler of sorts. This was actually unknown to the family as a whole. To anyone within or without the family, Blair and her parents seemed to live a fairly stable life, as her father worked as an armorer for the marines, and her mother worked part time in one of the many stores within the kingdom. As she grew up, Blair was taught a handful of things. For one, she was taught how to fight, just in case she ever found herself within the less savory parts of the kingdom. For about ten years, things were alright for Blair. Unfortunately, that all changed one day. Apparently, her father had taken a loan from the World Government in secret, and had been using that money to compete in various gambling circles. Normally, that wouldn't be much of a problem.
The only issue? Her father was a terrible gambler. He made enough money working for the Marines to actually keep the family afloat, but he lost all of the money for the loan. The initial midpoint that the Marines who had come into their house to take Blair's father to prison offered was that he could work off his debt. Unfortunately, age was not kind to Blair's father. He was rapidly losing his sight, a trait shared among the men in his family. Without being able to pass a basic vision test, he would have been unable to actually become a marine and work off his debt.
Sadly, Blair's mother outright refused to take his place, saying that she would rather be homeless than have to become a soldier. The marines who had come to arrest Blair's father really didn't want to arrest him, as they had already pitied the man. So, without a word, Blair was taken away from home, and spent the rest of her childhood being raised as a marine. For a while, she took her days off to go home and visit her family. After a while though, the visits took a depressing turn, as her father refused to stop working, eventually leading to the permanent disfiguration of his hands, due to smashing one with a hammer, and another being burned to the point of having no sensation in them. Without the use of his hands, he was essentially bedridden. Over the years, Blair came home less and less, throwing herself more and more intensely into her training as a marine.
By the time she was fourteen, she had all but completed her training, and was allowed to go out on patrols throughout the town. After a while, she showed enough navigational skill to be put on as a member of a ship. When she turned sixteen, Blair was transferred to a different island entirely. However, her crew made a stop in Loguetown, flying the banner of a mere merchant ship in order to get into the ruined marine base. They had been given a tip that there were a handful of useful things leftover within the various rooms..along with a cryptic note that there was something that would have been better off in the hands of the Marines than in the hands of Pirates. Blair's crew split up almost immediately upon making it to the marine base. While other marines found useful things such as extra flintlocks, ammunition, maps that were thought to be lost to pirates, and other things, Blair didn't get as lucky, finding room after dusty room of rotted wooden crates filled with rusted swords or waterlogged flintlocks.
Eventually, Blair got hungry. They weren't told how long that they were going to be in the ruin, but they all were convinced that they wouldn't be in for a very long time, so none of them brought any rations with them. She continued checking rooms, until her stomach eventually was growling loud enough to echo throughout the rubble of hallways and rooms that they were in. Luckily for her, she eventually found something interesting. Something that appeared to be a dragonfruit. Her instincts were telling her not to eat it, as it looked to have swirl designs across the various parts..but her hunger took over, and before she knew it, she ate the whole fruit, her hunger allowing her to push past the inherent wrongness that was a spicy, crunchy fruit. After a few moments, she had to scream out in pain, as she felt her whole body start to heat up to a rather painful degree, eventually leading her to pass out from the sudden amount of pain.
Luckily for her, the screams brought members of the crew she had been sailing with to her, and by the time she woke up, she was back on her ship. When she woke up, the captain himself came to the infirmary on the ship, explaining to her that what she had eaten was a devil fruit, and that they had found her, but were unable to touch her due to the degree of heat that was coming off of her body. After the explanation though, he berated her for not being diligent. Of course, she has remained with this crew, even to this day. Over the years, her ability to manipulate the heat of her body as well as its hardness has led to her being known as "Sunspot Cairistine". Where her journey goes from here remains to be seen, however.
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Name : Gray
Epithet : "The Conqueror"; "Black Fist"
Age : 49
Height : 10'2" (310 cm)
Weight : 1043 lbs (473 kg)
Species/Tribe : Cyborg Human
Faction : Pirate
World Position : Lurking Legend (Former Yonkou)
Crew : Black Fist Pirates (Destroyed)
Ship : Sangria's Vane (Destroyed)
Crew Role : Captain (Former)
Devil Fruit : Pressure-Pressure Fruit
Bounty : [ber=r] 5,000,000,000
EXP Bonus : +0.20 (to all allies)
Income Bonus : +0.20
Shop Discount : -30%
Balance : [bel] 25,000,000,000
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Posts : 3991
Re: Blair Cairistine
Sat Jul 27, 2019 5:27 amDamn. What's with your characters and daddy issues? XD
Approved!
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Blair Cairistine wrote:Blair Cairistine
Basic Character Information
Starting Bonus: Tough Guy | [Starting Bonus Roll]
First Name: Blair
Middle Name/Initial: N/A
Last Name: Cairistine
Epithet: N/A
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Faction: Marine
Profession: Sharpshooter, Navigator
Physical Appearance
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 135 lbs
Hair Style: Blair's hair takes on that of a off looking pink color--seeming to almost be desaturated, when compared to even the most plain of hair colors--with a length that travels all the way down to the middle of her thighs when left unbraided. However, this styling is very rare, typically only seen when she is just getting up for the day, or when she is winding down for the night. When braided, her hair only goes down to the center of her back.
Hair Color: Off Pink
Eye Color: Ruby Red
Scars: N/A
Clothing and Accessories: Typically, one would expect a marine to wear the clothes of one. However, as part of the fact that she is part of a crew that is constantly wandering the seas, Blair is not forced to such a standard. However, she is still expected to dress in a manner befitting a soldier.
As such, her 'standard' outfit consists of a long sleeved, red military style shirt with a black collar and cuffs, paired with a black skirt. As for footwear, she wears rather long, white boots, with stockings that have been specially treated to match her skin tone. For accessories, she is typically seen carrying multiple firearms, along with a small emergency first aid kit in a bag that is slung over her shoulder. This is considered her 'crew attire', which will also consist of a heavy, black coat when in inclement weather.
Her personal taste influenced her choice in outfit somewhat, but this outfit does not reflect her personal tastes fully. Truthfully, she seems to have a very prominent fondness for long, masculine coats worn atop more traditionally feminine attire, strangely enough. Her attire when not needing to present as a soldier that is ready for combat is typically filled with more feminine things, but with very scant amounts of accessories. Occasionally, she might be seen with earrings. Normally though, she is seen wearing none. A men's coat can be seen worn over her feminine attire with a good fifty/fifty chance of not being there. It seems to be done seemingly on a whim, really.
Description: Blair is in possession of a very obviously feminine figure, falling into the 'hourglass' body type. She also has features that would imply that she is a very cold, brutal type of woman at first glance. Of course, this can make someone of her very slightly above average height seem more imposing. Of course, paying more attention to her face would reveal to any that had known her before her incident at Loguetown that her eyes have taken on a bit of a sharper shape, becoming almost..birdlike in how they are set.
Even with that bit of oddness to her features however, Blair is very easily able to lay claim to being traditionally attractive. However, she seems to be either unaware of this fact, or rather dismissive of it, as she never seems to address the people who would gawk at her.
The Past
Main Traits:
- Calm
- Soft Spoken
- Organized
- Sadistic
Likes: Animals, Sweets, Spring Weather (Except for Rain), Sailing
Dislikes: Rain, Winter Weather, Bitter things, Spiders
Unique laugh: A very quiet "Nyeheheh", which always ends up sounding like a giggle.
Hometown: Ilusia
Personality: At an initial glance, Blair seems to be a very coldhearted person, her face seeming to have this cold air to it when she's not feeling any emotion particularly strongly. Truthfully though, she isn't all that scary in normal situations, always being the calm and levelheaded one. Usually, she can be 'heard' speaking softly so as not to worry any of the constituents of the marines. Of course, she has her bad side. She can be quite the sadist, if someone pushes her buttons enough. Strangely enough, she seems to disassociate herself from the sadistic actions she sometimes commits, acting as if she had never done them. Of course, she is a very demanding person towards those she is higher ranked than, always wanting to make sure that the people working under her do their level best. But at the end of the day, she does still value everyone as an individual.
However, in Combat she is entirely different, being someone who focuses fully on the combat, while also doing her best to apply the skills she learned in her training. Of course, more often than not, combat is started by her completely disassociating from the situation, due to someone pushing her buttons too heavily. This allows her sadistic tendencies to take center stage; making her fight in a surprisingly subdued way while also seeming rather unhinged, as she typically is seen with a crazed smile and eyes that seem vacant of all emotion. However, should she be forced into combat of her own volition she still retains her normal personality, and will more often than not go for incapacitation, rather than an execution.
- History:
Born and raised in Ilusia, Blair was constantly surrounded by seemingly good people. Unfortunately, her father was a gambler of sorts. However, he was a clever man in spite of that and was very easily able to keep his vice and shame hidden away, along with the debt that inevitably grew. To anyone both within and outside of the family, Blair and her parents seemed to live a fairly stable life. Her father worked as an armorer for the marines, and her mother worked part time in one of the many stores within the kingdom.
As she grew up, Blair was taught a handful of things. For one, she was taught how to fight, just in case she ever found herself within the less savory parts of the kingdom. For about ten years, things were very normal for Blair. Unfortunately, that all changed one day. Apparently, her father had taken a loan from the World Government in secret, and had been using that money to compete in various gambling circles. Normally, that wouldn't be much of a problem.
The only issue? Her father was a clever man..but an absolutely dreadful gambler. He made enough money working for the Marines to actually keep the family afloat, but he lost all of the money for the loan. The initial middlemen for the payment of this loan made a simple proclamation: Blair's father could resume work for the marines without pay, or he could go to trail to face his charges, and a potential execution.
Unfortunately, age was not kind to Blair's father. He was rapidly losing his sight, a trait shared among the men in his family. Without being able to pass a basic vision test, he would have been unable to actually become a marine and work off his debt.
Sadly, Blair's mother outright refused to take his place, saying that she would rather be a homeless widow than a soldier. These middlemen, along with the marines who had come to arrest Blair's father really didn't want to arrest him, or drag him away for certain death. He was destitute and slowly going blind. Really, they pitied the man. However..the debt still needed paid somehow. The adults looked uncertainly at each other..and then to Blair. Without a word a few nods were exchanged, and Blair was taken away from home to spend the rest of her childhood being raised as a marine.
Effectively, she was sold into the service, wiping her family's debt clean.
While harsh, Blair took her new situation in stride, even going so far as to take the very rare opportunities of days off from training to go home and visit her family. Unfortunately, the visits eventually took a depressing turn. Mentally scarred by the fact that he had been forced to essentially sell his child to the very organization he worked for, her father refused to stop working.
He had made it his goal to go without pay until he could buy his daughter's freedom with the money he asked for his superiors to withhold. Unfortunately, his eyes were still degrading, and the rate of this degradation was speeding up in conjunction with the emotional stress he was putting himself under. This eventually led to the permanent disfiguration of his hands.
His failing eyesight caused an accident in which he smashed one quite powerfully with a hammer, breaking the bones in a way that the hand could not be set properly, leading to the loss of several fingers. Another incident led to his other hand being burned to the point of having no sensation, resulting in an amputation. Without the use of his hands--and with eyes that were a half step above useless--he was essentially bedridden.
Over the years, Blair came home less and less, throwing herself more and more intensely into her training as a marine, and eventually coming to fully realize that she was not free. She was just another expendable cog that the Marines had simply paid for, rather than one that had come to them. This slowly warped Blair, creating a side of herself that she would come to pretend never existed in the first place.
By the time she was fourteen, she had all but completed her training, and was allowed to go out on patrols throughout the town. After a while, she showed enough navigational skill to be put on as a member of a ship. When she turned sixteen, Blair was transferred to a different island entirely. However, her crew made a stop in Loguetown, flying the banner of a mere merchant ship in order to get into the ruined marine base without incident.
Why Loguetown, a place where they would have to actively ignore crime and pretend to be in on it all to avoid being outright murdered in the streets? They had been given a tip that there were a handful of useful things leftover within the various rooms of the marine base..along with a cryptic note that there was something deep within it that would have been better off in the hands of the Marines than in the hands of Pirates.
Blair's crew split up almost immediately upon making it to the marine base. While other marines found useful things such as extra firearms, ammunition, maps that were thought to be lost to pirates, and other heavily things. Blair didn't get as lucky, finding room after dusty room of rotted wooden crates filled with rusted swords or waterlogged flintlocks.
Eventually, Blair got hungry. They weren't told how long that they were going to be in the ruin, but they all were convinced that they wouldn't be in for a very long time, so none of them brought any rations with them. She continued checking rooms, until her stomach eventually was growling loud enough to echo throughout the rubble of hallways and rooms that they were in. It had to have been hours since they had started, and she couldn't hear any of the members of her small team anymore.
Luckily for her, she eventually found something interesting. Something that appeared to be a massive orange, at least the size of both of her fists put together. Her instincts were telling her not to eat it, as it looked to have brown and white swirls across its flesh, and gave off a rather menacing feeling..but her hunger took over. Before she knew it, she had peeled and eaten the whole fruit. Her immense hunger gave her the ability to mentally push past the inherent wrongness that was a fruit that smelled sickly sweet, but was bitter to the core. She was famished, and needed food in her system.
After a few moments, she had to scream out in pain, as it felt like every nerve ending in her body was suddenly lit on fire. After a few seconds that felt like an eternity, the resulting pain eventually led her to pass out.
Luckily for her, the screams were loud enough to bring members of the crew she had been sailing with to her location. By the time she woke up, she was back on her ship. When she woke up, the captain himself came to the infirmary on the ship, explaining to her that they had found the remains of a bottle of poison that had been slowly injecting into the fruit she had eaten over time, and that the doctor had treated her for a simple poison that sent the nervous system into overdrive, potentially leading to death if not acted upon quickly. Of course, while he was thankful that she was indeed still alive, he berated her for not being diligent.
Eventually, she was given transfer to a different crew, as her previous crew were all older marines who wished to finally settle down and give up their sea legs. As such, she was tossed around from crew to crew for a short time before being given over to the care of Adrian Knight. Over time, the two built up a fair amount of rapport, and she was eventually promoted to his first mate, and given the title of "The Hanged Man". That was a year ago now.
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