Lynette "Jack" Weaver, from Pirate's Play: To El Dorado!, a roleplay on RPG

Jack/Lynette.

Role: Spiteful's Sailing Master/Navigator

Name:Lynette "Jack" Weaver

Nickname: Jack

Age: 25

Written appearance: Jack's of impressive height for a woman, which is good considering that she's actively pretending to be a man. A solid 5'9", she's not the tallest person aboard, but not the shortest, either. Rangy, corded muscles help the illusion on a bit, as do the scars, earned in childhood and never really any good use until she needed to look more weatherbeaten. Her eyes are a bright cat-green with flecks of gold, and the long dark lashes that surround them irritate her to no end, since they make her look considerably more feminine than she wants to.

Still, her body type, with little in the way of curvature and much in the way of wiry strength, makes her a passable youth. She'd not fool anyone into thinking she was a grown man, but a boy of nineteen or so? Certainly, and that's all she needs. Her face often wears a ruthless, calculating look, as though she's expecting treachery from every corner, or at least vivisecting you with her gaze. Jack's hair is a dark brown, and she keeps it cut short and ragged to more resemble the male her brother is.

Make no mistake: she makes a pretty boy, but an indelicate woman. Should she for some reason slough off the disguises, she's comely enough, but that hard, brutal stare and the scowl upon her lips never go away, and it's a mar to the sort of delicacy expected in females. As are the blue tattoos inked just beneath her eyes, marks of her time as a crime lord's hired killer and of the life she came from. most people wouldn't recognize them as such, but a seasoned criminal or someone familiar with the underworld might.

Personality: Jack's as hard as nails, and won't let you forget it. Her time in the navy has tempered her will into fire-forged steel, and it shows. No movement is wasted, nothing is extraneous. She does everything with a purpose, and efficiency is her mantra. The soft don't make it aboard the Spiteful, and she's earned her place there no less than anyone else, much more than some. She acts quickly, and speaks little. Her voice, replete with Scottish brogue unless she consciously tries to tone it down, she roughs up intentionally, but it does get higher-pitched when she's surprised.

To prevent this, Jack makes sure she's never surprised. She grew up fighting for her life in the filthy slums of Glasgow, and she translates the low-down-and-dirty pragmatism of a Scottish street urchin to the decks of a ship: move like quicksilver, hit like a ton of bricks, and no strike is too dirty with lives on the line. She's analytical, ruthless, and never gives up, not when the Captain's given her an order. She's never been handed anything; forced to work for each and every rung she's climbed, Jack is tenacious beyond reason, and despises people who quit when things get too difficult.

Her anger sparks like fire, but she's learned to contain it for the most part. Her resentment stings like ice: hard, cold, and without mercy. If you earn Jack's enmity, you'll be hard-pressed to be rid of it. She does have a soft side, though, and can be fiercely protective of those few people she comes to care for and respect. If she's on your side, you have a stalwart friend till death. If you make an enemy of her... well, you'd best run in the other direction.

Motive/Goal: Jack wants nothing more than to serve her Captain, the first person she ever encountered who treated her like a human being. She looks up to him as something of a father-figure, and would follow him to the ends of the Earth itself.

History: Jack was born in the slums of Glasgow, one of the roughest urban areas in the world. It's eat or be eaten down there, and her prostitute mother was eaten pretty early on. Jack's younger brother, (whose name is actually Jack) would have been next, if it were not for her. Their father was a hard man, but ultimately a good parent; he taught them what they needed to know to survive in the rough-and-tumble world they lived in. Even he left them in the end though, and Lynette was forced to care for her brother from the age of twelve.

Knowing they needed protection, Lynette brokered a deal with a local small-time crime lord: she worked as a thief and then an enforcer for his burgeoning criminal empire, and he made sure nothing happened to Jack. The younger Weaver was stricken with a disease that made it impossible for him to survive on his own by finding work, and Jack needed to care for him. The arrangement was far from savory, but it worked.

Unfortunately, it was not to last. The crime lord decided that there was more to be had out of the siblings, and began demanding that Lynette pay a "tax" on her brother's safety. She could barely afford to keep them alive as it was, and refused. That was when her boss first sent his other enforcers against her. The ensuing fight was far from fair, and were it not for the timely intervention of a certain man, both Lynette and her brother would be dead. The man reminded them that nothing came for free, and told Lynette that the price of his deed was that she had to find some kind of honest work.

She had no skills besides fighting, though, and the man called himself a "sailor" and suggested that Jack join the navy. Apparently not intent on seeing his measure through, he left, but something about his idea stuck with Lynette. Jack could do no such thing, of course, because he was ill, but she could. Assuming his identity, she left her brother in the care of a family friend and enlisted as him the next day.

She was placed aboard a vessel on which Captain Hamilton was serving, and came to admire him greatly. She learned the seas and maps, and eventually became a proper Sailing Master and Navigator. When Hamilton was given command of the newly-commissioned HMS Spiteful, he requested that Jack come aboard with him, and she was only too happy to file the paperwork and get approval from the higher-ups. For the first time in her life, Jack was more than trash, or an expendable tool. She was a person, with a real use. It's too bad she also had to be a man.

Likes&Dislikes: She likes sailing, maps, tinkering with things, fights, the Navy, Captain Hamilton, and most of the Spiteful's crew. She dislikes noblemen, criminals, being looked down on, and women who can't stick up for themselves.

Theme Songs: Into The Fire (Thirteen Senses) | Hurricane (Thirty Seconds to Mars)

Lynette "Jack" Weaver

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a character in “Pirate's Play: To El Dorado!”, originally authored by Kurokiku, as played by RolePlayGateway

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Lynette "Jack" Weaver's Story