"Ay, that's the name.. Who's asking?"
Away, you rollin' river
Oh, Shenandoah, I long to see thee
Away, we're bound to go
Across the Wide Missouri"
Age || 24
Sexuality || Homosexual
Face Claim || Clara Paget
Hex Code || #54002a
| Rolling Down to Old Maui | Shenandoah | Sarah |
Away, you rollin' river
Oh, Shenandoah, I love your daughter
Away, we're bound to go
Across the wide Missouri
It's been seven long years since last I see thee
Away, you rollin' river
Oh, seven long years since last I see thee
Away, we're bound to go
Across the wide Missouri"
Weight || 130 lbs
Eyes || As clear and blue as the sea
Hair || Dark ginger in color, like a good, deep, rich rum. She also tends to have beads and gems braided into her hair, however her hair is so wild it's mighty hard to notice.
Oddities || Has a kraken heart tattooed on her chest over her heart as well as a kraken skull covering her upper back/shoulder blades. She also has three earrings; one in her right earlobe, two in her left.
Appearance || Though average in height, Miss Tessa Locke packs a punch with how muscular she is. It's hard to tell when she's in full attire, wearing her long trench coat, boats, and hat.[1][2] It effectively hides her figure which also allows her to blend in to crowds easier and not be spotted. As for without her hat and coat, she'd wear something like this, being a simple shirt, vest, and pants. The drawbacks of this though is her cutlass and dagger being in full view. But that'd make them easier to draw I suppose. On board, she'd opt to forgo her hat and coat just to make it easier to do her job managing the rigging. This also means she'd have part of her hair tied back as well.
â The rain â Windy days
â Being up in the rigging â The sea
â Listening to sea shanties â Participating/Singing sea shanties
â Finding treasure â Seeing the world
â Seeing new places â Being places no ones been before
â Drinking â Pirates tales
â Folk tales â Watching the waves ripple beneath the ship
â Her trusted cutlass
â Being attacked â Being interrupted
â Being cheated â Liars
â Red haring's â Optimistic people
â Idiots â Dumb people
â Not having a plan â Meeting new people
â Most people â Overly happy people
â People who smile too much
â People not knowing what they're doing
- Tends to swear.. a lot.. especially when meeting new people
- Opens her mouth slightly, narrows her eyes,
and furrows her brow when confused
- Sings various shanties while aboard the ship quietly
to herself going between singing and humming. Swears
at someone when they point it out if she's not warmed
to them
- Can only sleep on her back with her hat covering
her face
- Dying by gun wound during one of their fights
- Losing what little she has left
- Her past catching up with her
- Knot Tying - Tessa didn't earn the name "Riggknot"
nor earn her job as Master Rigger without knowing how to tie a good knot!
- Combat - Any and every pirate needs to know some once of combat
to survive the seven seas. Tessa is know exception, specializing in sword fighting.
- Evasion - Whether is being chased on shore, fighting, or simply avoiding
a conversation, Tessa's able to get out of it. Whether is be a quick dash into
an uncommon hiding spot, a fast dodge, or an uttered swear, she'll find a way out.
She could also threaten - and then follow threw - with lethally injuring someone.
"I'd just say kill because that'd what I'd do."
- Very Cold - Tessa is colder than the icy seas of Antarctica. And she
may have a little bit of an anger problem. This also causes her to take a
really long time to warm up to.. If that's even possible.
- Innocence - Say what you will, Tessa has a soft spot for innocent parties.
Which could lead to her excusing a poor orphan from stealing. This leaves
her with a moral dilemma if she was faced with needing to kill anyone who's innocent.
- Very One-Track-Minded - When Tessa gets her mind on something, she
wont stop. This could be a blessing or a curse, as she may not be able to stop.
"It's been seven long years since last I see thee
Away, you rollin' river
Oh, seven long years since last I see thee
Away, we're bound to go
Across the wide Missouri
Oh, Shenandoah, I took a notion
Away, you rollin' river
To sell across the worst a'notion
Away, I'm bound to go
Across the wide Missouri"
| Reserved | Aloof | Quick Witted | Lonely |
Tessa is someone who, on approach, is very reserved and aloof. She doesn't seem to care much about anyone and doesn't show her feelings. And when someone does try to get close to her, she blocks them out, usually coming up with some quick line and a swear to turn them away. If someone approaches her who she's never talked to before, she'll be suspicious and hostile. It's hard to tell, or maybe easy if you're used to this and get to know her, but she has a lot of walls up. It's as if she has one rule she lives by: don't get close to people. Of course this means it takes an extremely long time to get close to her. This also means she tends to be lonely. She doesn't show it around anyone of course nor would she ever admit it. She's too "strong" for that, or at least that's what she tells herself. In her eyes, the only person you can truly trust is yourself.
If however someone wanted to get close to her, they'd just have to show their tongue and wits work fast enough. She's a quick thinking and quick witted individual. In a moment if provoked she could go from minding her own business to spitting a curse filled insult at someone. If someone even happened to do something dumb unknowingly or without meaning to, she'd have to said something about it, usually insulting said person. If someone was to shoot one back at her that just as witty and quick as her own, she'd be rather intrigued and may even find it fun. There's been times where participating in a little swearing and insult contest left her in stitches.
Like any person, Tessa is a complicated individual. She has a front, the side she wears in public. The part of her that's foul mouthed and hostile most of the time. The part that's uncaring in personal matters unless it interferes with her. Then there's the part that sings those mournful filled sea shanties as she works and goes about her day. Then the part that threatens to kill anyone if they so much as comment on her singing whether it be good or bad. There's the part that threatens someone if she catches them looking at her funny and the part of her that stays up later than the rest of the crew to watch the reflection of the moon dance on the ocean waves. The part who she is around people and who she is when alone.
"Oh, Shenandoah, were bound to leave thee
Away, you rollin' river
Oh, but Shenandoah I will not deceive thee
Away, we we're bound to go
Across the wide Missouri"
From a young age, Tessa was an orphan. She doesn't really remember much before the very brief time she lived in a children's home. Well, she hardly lived at the home. She'd be the lass to get up at dawn and leave through an open window. Spending her days causing havoc and stealing, of course. One day she was on the docks watching the ships pull into harbor. She marveled at them and wished that one day she could be aboard one of them and travel the seven seas. As she looked over all the ships, one in particular caught her eye. She remembers the vision of that ship vividly. With it's dark red oak and mighty tall sails. She was a beautiful ship in Tessa's eyes. But she wasn't ready to stole away just yet. But she was hungry.
This tale Tessa tells with a humorous tone. She had thought it a smart idea to steal a freshly cooked fish from an old fisherman. The fisherman was cooking it up for some old seadogs as his wife poured them some ale. While they weren't looking, Tessa has made her way over as stealthily as the young Tessa could and grabbed the fish right off the cooker. Of course, the fish was as hot as can be and caused her to yelp. Instead of dropping the fish, however, she had wrapped it in her shirt and sprinted off, the old man chasing after her yelling things like "Thief! Catch that lass! She stole my fish!" She had ran back into town and hide in a small ally thinking for a moment she had lost the old man. But as she had turned to make her way down the ally, the old fisherman was standing there with a furrowed brow and very angry expression. Before she could run away, he grabbed her arm and put his hand out, demanding the fish be given back. She put it in his hand and he dragged her back to apologize to the seadogs. This ended with the fisherman's wife offering Tessa food and shelter if she worked for them. And so she did. The wife treated her like a daughter, and the fisherman treated her like a son, teaching her all he knows about ships from his old days at sea.
Tessa stayed with the old fisherman and his wife until she was fifteen. Then one night, as the moon hung high in the sky, she packed her bags and left, leaving only a letter thanking the old couple but saying she had to go off and discover the world. That night, after she left the home, she stole away on the dark red oak ship she had seen many years before. She was able to stay hidden until they were off at sea, no land to be seen. That was when the cook and some other crew found her. She was dragged off to the captain and, thanks to some luck, the captain was more amused than anything. He especially found her strength in not showing fear amusing. And so he offered her work aboard the vessel. He had even personally showed her about the rigging and other duties on the ship. She worked aboard that ship for about a year before the crew decided they didn't want her aboard anymore. As Tessa herself doesn't particularly like going into detail on this, she tells it as part of the crew taking her and drinking her dry at a trading port they had stopped at. They then took her off just past the tree line of the surrounding woods and tied her to a tree. She was too incumbered that she couldn't undo the simple knot they had tied her with until morning, when the ship was already far gone, leaving her abandoned.
Luckily after this she was able to get work on other ships. Tessa would say everything past this was more or less uneventful until she got a job upon a ship called The Misery.. Which Tessa would say was a misery staying aboard and she greatly regrets all of the circumstances she got in while aboard. All of the crew were men who drank the most illful rum all day. The captain was a hard old scurvy dog who thought it was a smart idea to have his daughter aboard who was just a year younger than Tessa. This part of the story, Tessa would cut, but she and the captains daughter had became close. Tessa then ends this story saying that it ended with the crew finding her in the cabin with the captains daughter. Tessa says this didn't end well for her, but we know she made it out alive. But it's easy to see at surface level why she regretted decisions made aboard.
Eventually she found her way aboard The Stardust. Being much closer in age with everyone now, she rather likes it. And now they're on their way to find Arimathea and its treasure. Rest be assured, Tessa is up for the adventure.
Your cork me loose
Your rum be spiced
And your compass be true
For to find the treasure you do seek
Take to the waves
And sail to the salty seas"