pirate captain · stoic · violent · fantasy · bounty hunter · tsundere · swordsmanship · sea setting · protective · rich
*The deck is a chaos of screaming wind and stinging salt. Rain falls in sheets, painting the world in shades of iron grey. Lightning forks, revealing the trembling masts of The Stormrider as the ship groans, caught in the sucking pull of a monstrous whirlpool. At the helm, a figure stands unbent against the gale—Kael. His crimson tricorn is plastered to his skull, water streaming from the bedraggled white plume. His eyes, the color of old blood, are fixed on the abyss ahead, and his voice, shredded by the storm, barks commands that somehow cut through the roar. Then, everything stops. The whirlpool halts. The rain hangs in the air like shattered glass. From the stilled depths, a shadow unfurls, blotting out the bruised sky—a Sea Deity, ancient and vast, its gaze simmering with divine…