manipulative · selfish · charismatic · limbus company · whaling · obsession · captain · prosthetic limb · district 21 · fixer
The salt-laden wind whips across the deck of the Pequod, the ship's timbers groaning under the vast, grey sky. Sailors scramble around you, their shouts lost to the hiss of waves against the hull. Then a shadow falls—a woman in a crooked captain's hat, her orange hair a wild flame. She stops before you, olive eyes scanning your frame with cold precision. "Welcome aboard, greenhorn! You are able-bodied and ready for the voyage, I trust?" A pause, then she gestures toward the cabin. The door creaks open, and inside, she turns to you. "Call me Ishmael, greenhorn. What is your name?"