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OOC Information;
Name; Jen
Personal Journal; Wuzzafuzzle
Contact; 017965@gmail.com, Wuzzafuzzle on Plurk & AIM
Other Characters; Alex Summers
Activity proof; http://asgarddawning.dreamwidth.org/750322.html?thread=14078194#cmt14078194


IC Information;
Character Name; Mary Read (James Kidd is the alias most people know her by (and think that it's him and not her))
Canon; Assassin's Creed - http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Assassin's_Creed_IV:_Black_Flag
Canon Point; About 6 months after leaving with Anne and Rackham
Age; 35

House; Heimdall
Power; Damage Drain

Personality;

"To a world full of rogues better than all the kings and queens that kick us about!"

The things Mary puts in highest regard, and is also sort of the paragon of within the game, and the core pieces of philosophy that Nassau, the pirate’s republic, is founded on, are liberty, freedom, and free living. It's the idea that men and women ought to live as free and unburdened as they were made to be. (Which is funny considering in this fandom they were made to be slaves but shhh). As the piracy lifestyle goes, she puts a lot of stock into adventure and fully living her life with as much joy and risk as she can. There’s a portion of Mary that’s kind of spiritual and kind of philosophical in a specific way - not in a religious sort of piety sense. More in a life code of how to live your life with purpose and put the most into that life. A lot of it is taken from the Assassin’s creed as well - nothing is true, everything is permitted. Freedom, but a wiseness in it, and an awareness of what you leave behind you. There’s a phrase that I have on this lame little visualosities fortune cookie image that reminds me of Mary, and that’s ‘a ship in a harbour is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for’. There a balance in how she lives her life - rough, loud, free and with no regrets, but at the same time conscious of the mayhem you leave in your wake and the ripples that it makes. As Mary tells Edward once, no honest life is an easy one, so her life philosophy is less of the reckless ‘fuck it all’ kind of attitude that most of the pirates of Nassau have, and more along the lines of make your time worth it. When you think of ‘no regrets’ with Mary, it’s not because she’s doing what she pleases and fuck the consequences, it’s because she’s feeling good about what she’s doing. Still, she is a measure more on the reckless and carefree side than most of the assassins you might find, but Mary was a pirate before she was an assassin - this is her chosen lifestyle. While she takes her cause very seriously, she doesn’t have the stern severity that Ah Tabai might.

MARY: You think maybe you owe them a bit of warning then? If you've got any kind of heart beating in that chest?
EDWARD: S'pose I could. If it leads me to the four other keys.
MARY: Bad excuse's better than none at all.

There’s a lot in Mary’s typical disposition that’s fun and light - most often seen relaxing back with friends, shooting the shit, getting drunk, teasing, snarking. Hitting Edward with a stick. She’s sharp tongued and brisque in common conversation and joking around as well, but there’s also a side of her that’s a little more wistful, and while she doesn’t go shoving her convictions in the faces of those around her, there’s some strong beliefs in her that’ll come up when appropriate. Integrity is a big deal to Mary, as is accountability and commitment. These values are part of the struggle she has with wanting to help Edward half the time and wanting to just shove him overboard the other half - she sees that potential in him and sees his honesty and good heart, but Christ does he suck at thinking anywhere past himself. Mary’s fiercely loyal - both to her friends and to her ideals and to the causes she commits herself to. She’ll defend each to the grave and go happily to the afterlife with it. For Mary, something pertinent is ‘if you don’t live for something, you’ll die for nothing’, and she believes that a life lived just trying to extend your own wealth, power and opportunities is a life wasted. Your actions should have worth and meaning and weight, and when you fight, it shouldn’t be for something as shallow as the riches you’ll have only until someone takes them from you at sword point. A life isn’t full to her without having more depth than that, and that’s what she’s trying to impress on Edward throughout the game.

MARY: If you see Prins before I do, kill him and there'll be a bit of coin in it for you. All right?
EDWARD: Damn, man. How is it you're a woman?
MARY: Christ, Edward, is that something that needs explaining? Now I'm here to do a job. I'll let you be amused later.

So, something that should be covered - Mary is not a dude. Mary doesn’t consider herself a dude. But Mary does live the majority of her life as a dude. Historically, Mary Read was raised as male (her mother trying to get a stipend from her dead husband's mother etc etc you can wiki it), and that does change the societal perspective she's put into, and what’s been put on to her throughout life, so it’s something to keep in mind when you look at Mary. As well as considering how very strict the role of women in the 18th century was as well. The fact she walked around in pants alone would have been completely shocking. You can kind of see how this works when Mary’s talking to Anne, and Anne mentions how sailing isn’t womens’ work, to which Mary scoffs at. So, with her you don’t get all that huge roll of social conditioning and what she’s allowed to do and what she isn’t, and what she should be and what she isn’t. Along with that, there’s also differences in physical mannerisms - Mary doesn’t hold herself as poised as other women would, and when she sits, her legs are all sprawled out everywhere and taking space. There are things that would just physically be more comfortable for her, given that women’s bodies are shaped differently regardless of what clothes she wears, but those would be like center of gravity and how she balances better and etc, not really worth going into. The point of this is, that Mary’s a very interesting set between two gender roles in a very interesting time in history when those gender roles are vastly in contrast. Despite the fact she was raised as a boy and put off as a boy to everyone, Mary doesn’t actually identify as male - that’s the important thing to remember. She’s not transgender, at least in the sense of Female to Male, so there wouldn’t be he/him instead of she/her in her tags. You could make the argument for non-binary, though the philosophy didn't really exist at the time in such a specific way, and Mary never comments on it directly, so we can't say where her identity would really fall, as transgender refers to a mental self-image and all we see is what Mary physically presents as. Basically, Mary is Mary, and she makes the concept of gender her bitch, the end.

Talking about that presentation of gender, the changing from one to the other exhibits zero personality difference otherwise with her - between when she’s calling herself James Kidd and when she’s calling herself Mary Read, though she does know the advantages and disadvantages of each from the perspectives of others and it’s plainly seen in the game how she’ll exploit that as well. But Mary with her hair down and lipstick on (or blood pretending to be lipstick sob) is just as willing to chug down a pint of ale and arm wrestle some sailor in a tavern as Mary with no color on her lips and hair pulled back in her bandana looking like a legit dude would. Nothing of who Mary is, how she acts, how she talks to people and how she behaves changes - only the view that she’s taken in. Still, being raised as she was played off a boy, most of how she holds herself and how she acts is more on the masculine side. It’s in how she walks, talks, holds herself, etc - like I mentioned before, how when Mary sits, she more sprawls and lazes ungracefully. This is likely probably very much a pirate lifestyle thing as well - being more rough and unrefined and rugged. There's not much about her that's delicate or soft, and if she ever waxes philosophic, it’s usually short and to the point. And again, that’s not saying that these traits can’t be feminine at all - it’s considering the time period and what femininity would have been then. She's protective of people around her, she's a leader, she's domineering, she's assertive. That time period disconnect is seen as well when Edward is actually a little freaked out that she talks so easily about killing people immediately after the reveal that she's woman, not that able to process it. And he's definitely freaked out by her threatening to castrate him. Good chance he’s never had a lady holding a knife to his junk tbh. Or maybe holding a knife to him at all. Mary’s threatening, formidable and forceful in a way that women of the 18th century typical are not taught to be.

"To be blunt, we kill people."

And even with the values she has, Mary’s also unapologetically violent, and definitely gets some serious fun out of it, and out of all kinds of being rough. She’s a bit of an adrenaline junkie like any of the other pirates, and very boyish, in that sense, which passes off well considering she’s thought to be what’s probably a 18-21 year old young man. She’s not the least bit worried about peoples’ opinions on her, and she’s regularly honest, harsh and straight forward, regardless of if she’s talking to Jack Rackham or Blackbeard. If someone’s acting like a sad sack of shit, she’ll tell them. Maybe in a jeering manner, or in a blase, vaguely amused side comment, but she’ll let them know. She won’t often get incredibly confrontational about it, likes to instead just drop observations mildly, unless she’s getting to a point that she’s really frustrated.

EDWARD: I think you know more about that than you let on in Nassau.
MARY: You noticed that, did ya?

There’s no way Mary Read made it to being a founding member of the pirates’ republic on dumb luck alone, especially not while trying to fool her way through crew full of men, stuck on cramped ships with them for months on end. Mary’s smart, crafty, and she’s seen in a few missions using the sympathy she gets for being a lady when it suits her - using what she has available and being resourceful with things. She also plays Edward for a good long while, first with not fully admitting what she knows about the Observatory, and then having him follow her into the Assassin’s camp and trail around after her everywhere else. And beyond that, she keeps trying to prod and nudge and guide him to being less of a shit than he naturally is. It’s part of what makes her a good assassin, that she can adapt so well and she can find uses in what she has. It’s also probably partly how those values of hers end up worming their way gradually into Edward’s heart as well. Typical, she doesn't like to push people into things, but hints and nudges and does the mom thing of I AM DISAPPOINT SON rather than slapping people around and forcing them into doing what's right. She never explicitly makes Edward do what she wants him to.

"You lout! Always tearing down when you could be building things up. Or building yourself up, if nothing else!
Change course, Edward! Change your bloody course before it’s too late!"

Granted, she does lose her patience with all this sometimes and get to the point of outright confrontational and mean, but it usually takes Mary getting to a point that she’s just frustrated first. She doesn’t say any more than she thinks you need to know, gets sort of teasing when she has things she doesn't want to explicitly state. It may be that she thinks people understand things better when they learn them themselves, or maybe she’s just contrary as fuck. Probably a mix of both. Mary’s very perceptive of people throughout the game, and spends a while trying to figure Edward out, and decide what makes him do the dumbass shit he does when he does have the ability to be so much better. Dynamics come easily understood by her, and she reads situations and tensions well. She has great faith in people and in their potential, which inspires that great commitment and loyalty to them. She’ll go out of her way to put people (Edward) through tough shit and believe they'll pull through - when they make it through and bitch at her, she smiles and gives some sign she’s proud. When they don’t, she rolls her eyes and tells them to stop bitching and get better. The attitude she has towards Edward comes to a sort of ‘ilu but can you stop being a shit for 2 seconds’.

MARY: For Christ's sake, Edward. Don't anything but the stink of riches wrinkle your nose?
EDWARD: What's got into you, man?
MARY: Reality, mate. Reality. [ to Ade ] See that you ain't pulled into the drink by this drowning rat.

All that said, Mary’s also not a saint. Sometimes she gets pissed, gets frustrated, wants to punch people for just being damn stupid and cocking everything up (which Edward does a whole gd lot). The moment that she outright tears people (Edward) up over things are few and short, and usually forgotten and unremarked upon the next time she sees that person, but when her temper flares, holy shit does it flare. She can be vicious and cutting when she’s tired of being patient. She comes very close to wanting to slap the shit out of Edward several times, but she has more faith in his potential. Or wants to, at least. She comes pretty close to giving up on his sad ass a couple times, but luckily, she can leave him at his lame pirate hideout and let him drink himself stupid for a few months, and then come back to check on him in Nassau later, hoping he pulled himself out of being gross and lame.

"No one honest has an easy life, Edward.
And it's aching for one that causes the most pain."

Mary’s a person of no excuses. Your life is what you make it, and there’s no easy shortcut to making things wonderful, and there’s no absolute and perfect paradise. There’s what you have and what you can do with it, and sometimes, in some cases at certain times, that’s nothing, and that’s just tough shit. You work with what you have. To Mary, squandering your time over agonizing on trying to meet that shiny goal of riches and luxury and power is wasting time you might not have much left of, and that’s why you don’t see her being so madly dedicated to acquiring shiny baubles and gold as the other pirates in the game. Instead, she’s working for a cause with the assassin’s, and when not doing that, she’s having fun. She’s living bold and big and free, running around the West Indies with Anne and Rackham’s drunk ass causing mayhem, etc. Sure, finding shiny baubles and getting money is fun, but it’s not a life commitment.

"You have to want it, and work for it. There's no stumbling into true success."

And on top of everything, Mary is stalwart in her belief that if you want something, you have to earn it. Even if it’s just something like respect or the right to hold your head high, that’s something you have to work for. Again, your life is what you make it, and you are who you make yourself. Edward is as much a victim of himself as anything else, and Anne can be a total badass Quarter Master if she decides she wants to be and summons up the balls to get shit done. Mary has an immense amount of respect for people capable and willing to put forth dedication and commitment - to see the value in something and not try to cheat their way around paying the price of what it’s worth.

Samples;

Network Sample;
There's a couple thread samples here that were done on Asgard's test drive and on Beastly Roses, but I'll write up an original network sample as well.
✯ Asgard TDM Thread
✯ Beastly Roses TDM Thread
✯ Dear-Mun Post

Just an fyi, the small text is going to have he/him for a bit, just to work as description alone. There'd be an ooc note at the bottom of the post to mention that Kidd's actually a woman and small text after will have she/her, for the sake of being actually introspective. OKAY HERE IS SAMPLE.

How do you lot get on like this so long? I've barely been walking the streets here for a day and already I'm feeling cramped outta my damned mind.

[ There's a thick accent in the young man's voice - some mash-up of nothern English, pushing on Yorkshire, but with a distinct character to it that people from modern Earth, familiar enough with pop culture, would recgnizes as pirate-y. Piratey fits his look too, given that he's got scars here and there on his face, beads in the loose pieces of hair that hang down, and a red bandana wrapped around his forehead. Clothes are either light linen or a worn leather that's seen many better days. ]

It's captivity is what it is. You're men, not cattle, aren't you? It may be a nicely trussed up corral, but still a corral.

[ It appears he's laid out on the bank of the lake in Gefion Park, looking particularly put out as he pushes himself up on his elbows, surveying out over the rowboats. ]

All we've got in the way of water's this bloody puddle, and it's ratty little dingheys.

[ The man shakes his head, a laugh coming but with a touch of incredulity in it. This is ridiculous. ]

Do they at least take you out've the gates for a walk every now and again, if you've minded real well and not messed on the carpets?

[[ ooc; so big spoiler, james kidd is actually a woman named mary read. she's been dressed up as a boy since childhood and passes as a man amongst a fuck ton of pirates and on board various ships, so there shouldn't be anything apparent making her seem like anything but a young man, however she does still identify as a woman, so pronouns here-after are going to be 'she/her'. i put him/he in here manly just to get accuracy of description. but yeah, it'll be 'mary' and 'she', but as a heads up, for all intents and purposes, she'd be pretty obviously a dude /o/ ]]

Log Sample; already in game with alex summers /o/

OOC Information; Name; Jen Personal Journal; Wuzzafuzzle Contact; 017965@gmail.com, Wuzzafuzzle on Plurk & AIM Other Characters; Alex Summers Activity proof; http://asgarddawning.dreamwidth.org/750322.html?thread=14078194#cmt14078194 IC Information; Character Name; Mary Read (James Kidd is the alias most people know her by (and think that it's him and not her)) Canon; Assassin's Creed - http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/Assassin's_Creed_IV:_Black_Flag Canon Point; About 6 months after leaving with Anne and Rackham Age; 35 House; Heimdall Power; Damage Drain Personality; "To a world full of rogues better than all the kings and queens that kick us about!" The things Mary puts in highest regard, and is also sort of the paragon of within the game, and the core pieces of philosophy that Nassau, the pirate’s republic, is founded on, are liberty, freedom, and free living. It's the idea that men and women ought to live as free and unburdened as they were made to be. (Which is funny considering in this fandom they were made to be slaves but shhh). As the piracy lifestyle goes, she puts a lot of stock into adventure and fully living her life with as much joy and risk as she can. There’s a portion of Mary that’s kind of spiritual and kind of philosophical in a specific way - not in a religious sort of piety sense. More in a life code of how to live your life with purpose and put the most into that life. A lot of it is taken from the Assassin’s creed as well - nothing is true, everything is permitted. Freedom, but a wiseness in it, and an awareness of what you leave behind you. There’s a phrase that I have on this lame little visualosities fortune cookie image that reminds me of Mary, and that’s ‘a ship in a harbour is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for’. There a balance in how she lives her life - rough, loud, free and with no regrets, but at the same time conscious of the mayhem you leave in your wake and the ripples that it makes. As Mary tells Edward once, no honest life is an easy one, so her life philosophy is less of the reckless ‘fuck it all’ kind of attitude that most of the pirates of Nassau have, and more along the lines of <i>make your time worth it</i>. When you think of ‘no regrets’ with Mary, it’s not because she’s doing what she pleases and fuck the consequences, it’s because she’s feeling good about what she’s doing. Still, she is a measure more on the reckless and carefree side than most of the assassins you might find, but Mary was a pirate before she was an assassin - this is her chosen lifestyle. While she takes her cause very seriously, she doesn’t have the stern severity that Ah Tabai might. MARY: You think maybe you owe them a bit of warning then? If you've got any kind of heart beating in that chest? EDWARD: S'pose I could. If it leads me to the four other keys. MARY: Bad excuse's better than none at all. There’s a lot in Mary’s typical disposition that’s fun and light - most often seen relaxing back with friends, shooting the shit, getting drunk, teasing, snarking. Hitting Edward with a stick. She’s sharp tongued and brisque in common conversation and joking around as well, but there’s also a side of her that’s a little more wistful, and while she doesn’t go shoving her convictions in the faces of those around her, there’s some strong beliefs in her that’ll come up when appropriate. Integrity is a big deal to Mary, as is accountability and commitment. These values are part of the struggle she has with wanting to help Edward half the time and wanting to just shove him overboard the other half - she sees that potential in him and sees his honesty and good heart, but <i>Christ</i> does he suck at thinking anywhere past himself. Mary’s fiercely loyal - both to her friends and to her ideals and to the causes she commits herself to. She’ll defend each to the grave and go happily to the afterlife with it. For Mary, something pertinent is ‘if you don’t live for something, you’ll die for nothing’, and she believes that a life lived just trying to extend your own wealth, power and opportunities is a life wasted. Your actions should have worth and meaning and weight, and when you fight, it shouldn’t be for something as shallow as the riches you’ll have only until someone takes them from you at sword point. A life isn’t full to her without having more depth than that, and that’s what she’s trying to impress on Edward throughout the game. “MARY: If you see Prins before I do, kill him and there'll be a bit of coin in it for you. All right? EDWARD: Damn, man. How is it you're a woman? MARY: Christ, Edward, is that something that needs explaining? Now I'm here to do a job. I'll let you be amused later.” So, something that should be covered - Mary is not a dude. Mary doesn’t consider herself a dude. But Mary does live the majority of her life <i>as</i> a dude. Historically, Mary Read was raised as male (her mother trying to get a stipend from her dead husband's mother etc etc you can wiki it), and that does change the societal perspective she's put into, and what’s been put on to her throughout life, so it’s something to keep in mind when you look at Mary. As well as considering how very strict the role of women in the 18th century was as well. The fact she walked around in pants alone would have been completely shocking. You can kind of see how this works when Mary’s talking to Anne, and Anne mentions how sailing isn’t womens’ work, to which Mary scoffs at. So, with her you don’t get all that huge roll of social conditioning and what she’s allowed to do and what she isn’t, and what she should be and what she isn’t. Along with that, there’s also differences in physical mannerisms - Mary doesn’t hold herself as poised as other women would, and when she sits, her legs are all sprawled out everywhere and taking space. There are things that would just physically be more comfortable for her, given that women’s bodies are shaped differently regardless of what clothes she wears, but those would be like center of gravity and how she balances better and etc, not really worth going into. The point of this is, that Mary’s a very interesting set between two gender roles in a very interesting time in history when those gender roles are vastly in contrast. Despite the fact she was raised as a boy and put off as a boy to everyone, Mary doesn’t actually identify as male - that’s the important thing to remember. She’s not any kind of transgender, so there wouldn’t be he/him instead of she/her in her tags. The fun thing about her is that Mary kind of makes her own gender - she’s really neither here nor there, and there’s zero personality difference between when she’s calling herself James Kidd and when she’s calling herself Mary Read, though she <i>does</i> know the advantages and disadvantages of each from the perspectives of others and it’s plainly seen in the game how she’ll exploit that as well. But Mary with her hair down and lipstick on (or blood pretending to be lipstick sob) is just as willing to chug down a pint of ale and arm wrestle some sailor in a tavern as Mary with no color on her lips and hair pulled back in her bandana looking like a legit dude would. Nothing of who Mary is, how she acts, how she talks to people and how she behaves changes - only the view that she’s taken in. Still, being raised as she was played off a boy, most of how she holds herself and how she acts is more on the masculine side. It’s in how she walks, talks, holds herself, etc - like I mentioned before, how when Mary sits, she more sprawls and lazes ungracefully. This is likely probably very much a pirate lifestyle thing as well - being more rough and unrefined and rugged. There's not much about her that's delicate or soft, and if she ever waxes philosophic, it’s usually short and to the point. And again, that’s not saying that these traits can’t be feminine at all - it’s considering the time period and what femininity would have been then. She's protective of people around her, she's a leader, she's domineering, she's assertive. That time period disconnect is seen as well when Edward is actually a little freaked out that she talks so easily about killing people immediately after the reveal that she's woman, not that able to process it. And he's definitely freaked out by her threatening to castrate him. Good chance he’s never had a lady holding a knife to his junk tbh. Or maybe holding a knife to him at all. Mary’s threatening, formidable and forceful in a way that women of the 18th century typical are not taught to be. “To be blunt, we kill people.” And even with the values she has, Mary’s also unapologetically violent, and definitely gets some serious fun out of it, and out of all kinds of being rough. She’s a bit of an adrenaline junkie like any of the other pirates, and very boyish, in that sense, which passes off well considering she’s thought to be what’s probably a 18-21 year old young man. She’s not the least bit worried about peoples’ opinions on her, and she’s regularly honest, harsh and straight forward, regardless of if she’s talking to Jack Rackham or Blackbeard. If someone’s acting like a sad sack of shit, she’ll tell them. Maybe in a jeering manner, or in a blase, vaguely amused side comment, but she’ll let them know. She won’t often get incredibly confrontational about it, likes to instead just drop observations mildly, unless she’s getting to a point that she’s really frustrated. EDWARD: I think you know more about that than you let on in Nassau. MARY: You noticed that, did ya? There’s no way Mary Read made it to being a founding member of the pirates’ republic on dumb luck alone, especially not while trying to fool her way through crew full of men, stuck on cramped ships with them for months on end. Mary’s smart, crafty, and she’s seen in a few missions using the sympathy she gets for being a lady when it suits her - using what she has available and being resourceful with things. She also plays Edward for a good long while, first with not fully admitting what she knows about the Observatory, and then having him follow her into the Assassin’s camp and trail around after her everywhere else. And beyond that, she keeps trying to prod and nudge and guide him to being less of a shit than he naturally is. It’s part of what makes her a good assassin, that she can adapt so well and she can find uses in what she has. It’s also probably partly how those values of hers end up worming their way gradually into Edward’s heart as well. Typical, she doesn't like to push people into things, but hints and nudges and does the mom thing of I AM DISAPPOINT SON rather than slapping people around and forcing them into doing what's right. She never explicitly <i>makes</i> Edward do what she wants him to. “You lout! Always tearing down when you could be building things up. Or building yourself up, if nothing else! Change course, Edward! Change your bloody course before it’s too late!” Granted, she does lose her patience with all this sometimes and get to the point of outright confrontational and mean, but it usually takes Mary getting to a point that she’s just frustrated first. She doesn’t say any more than she thinks you need to know, gets sort of teasing when she has things she doesn't want to explicitly state. It may be that she thinks people understand things better when they learn them themselves, or maybe she’s just contrary as fuck. Probably a mix of both. Mary’s very perceptive of people throughout the game, and spends a while trying to figure Edward out, and decide what makes him do the dumbass shit he does when he does have the ability to be so much <i>better</i>. Dynamics come easily understood by her, and she reads situations and tensions well. She has great faith in people and in their potential, which inspires that great commitment and loyalty to them. She’ll go out of her way to put people (Edward) through tough shit and believe they'll pull through - when they make it through and bitch at her, she smiles and gives some sign she’s proud. When they don’t, she rolls her eyes and tells them to stop bitching and get better. The attitude she has towards Edward comes to a sort of ‘ilu but can you stop being a shit for 2 seconds’. MARY: For Christ's sake, Edward. Don't anything but the stink of riches wrinkle your nose? EDWARD: What's got into you, man? MARY: Reality, mate. Reality. <small>[ to Ade ]</small> See that you ain't pulled into the drink by this drowning rat. All that said, Mary’s also not a saint. Sometimes she gets pissed, gets frustrated, wants to punch people for just being damn stupid and cocking everything up (which Edward does a whole gd lot). The moment that she outright tears people (Edward) up over things are few and short, and usually forgotten and unremarked upon the next time she sees that person, but when her temper flares, holy shit does it flare. She can be vicious and cutting when she’s tired of being patient. She comes very close to wanting to slap the shit out of Edward several times, but she has more faith in his potential. Or wants to, at least. She comes pretty close to giving up on his sad ass a couple times, but luckily, she can leave him at his lame pirate hideout and let him drink himself stupid for a few months, and then come back to check on him in Nassau later, hoping he pulled himself out of being gross and lame. "No one honest has an easy life, Edward. And it's aching for one that causes the most pain." Mary’s a person of no excuses. Your life is what you make it, and there’s no easy shortcut to making things wonderful, and there’s no absolute and perfect paradise. There’s what you have and what you can do with it, and sometimes, in some cases at certain times, that’s nothing, and that’s just tough shit. You work with what you have. To Mary, squandering your time over agonizing on trying to meet that shiny goal of riches and luxury and power is wasting time you might not have much left of, and that’s why you don’t see her being so madly dedicated to acquiring shiny baubles and gold as the other pirates in the game. Instead, she’s working for a cause with the assassin’s, and when not doing that, she’s having <i>fun</i>. She’s living bold and big and free, running around the West Indies with Anne and Rackham’s drunk ass causing mayhem, etc. Sure, finding shiny baubles and getting money is fun, but it’s not a life commitment. "You have to want it, and work for it. there's no stumbling into true success.” And on top of everything, Mary is stalwart in her belief that if you want something, you have to <i>earn</i> it. Even if it’s just something like respect or the right to hold your head high, that’s something you have to work for. Again, your life is what you make it, and you are who you make yourself. Edward is as much a victim of himself as anything else, and Anne can be a total badass Quarter Master if she decides she wants to be and summons up the balls to get shit done. Mary has an immense amount of respect for people capable and willing to put forth dedication and commitment - to see the value in something and not try to cheat their way around paying the price of what it’s worth. Samples; Network Sample; There's a couple thread samples here that were done on Asgard's test drive and on Beastly Roses, but I'll write up an original network sample as well. Asgard TDM Thread: http://assguardians.dreamwidth.org/40366.html?thread=17543598#cmt17543598 Beastly Roses TDM Thread: http://spindlepricked.dreamwidth.org/1452.html?thread=495532#cmt495532 Dear-Mun Post: http://dear-mun.dreamwidth.org/9989510.html Just an fyi, the small text is going to have he/him for a bit, just to work as description alone. There'd be an ooc note at the bottom of the post to mention that Kidd's actually a woman and small text after will have she/her, for the sake of being actually introspective. OKAY HERE IS SAMPLE. How do you lot get on like this so long? I've barely been walking the streets here for a day and already I'm feeling cramped outta my damned mind. [ There's a thick accent in the young man's voice - some mash-up of nothern English, pushing on Yorkshire, but with a distinct character to it that people from modern Earth, familiar enough with pop culture, would recgnizes as pirate-y. Piratey fits his look too, given that he's got scars here and there on his face, beads in the loose pieces of hair that hang down, and a red bandana wrapped around his forehead. Clothes are either light linen or a worn leather that's seen many better days. ] It's damned captivity is what it is. You're men, not cattle, aren't you? It may be a nicely trussed up corral, but still a corral. [ It appears he's laid out on the bank of the lake in Gefion Park, looking particularly put out as he pushes himself up on his elbows, surveying out over the rowboats. ] All we've got in the way of water's this bloody puddle, and it's ratty little dingheys. [ The man shakes his head, a laugh coming but with a touch of incredulity in it. This is ridiculous. ] Do they at least take you out've the gates for a walk every now and again, if you've minded real well and not messed on the carpets? [[ ooc; so big spoiler, james kidd is actually a woman named mary read. she's been dressed up as a boy since childhood and passes as a man amongst a fuck ton of pirates and on board various ships, so there shouldn't be anything apparent making her seem like anything but a young man, however she does still identify as a woman, so pronouns here-after are going to be 'she/her'. i put him/he in here manly just to get accuracy of description. but yeah, it'll be 'mary' and 'she', but as a heads up, for all intents and purposes, she'd be pretty obviously a dude /o/ ]] Log Sample; already in game with alex summers /o/