Name: Josephine Dimas Aguilar
Age: 33
Occupation: Freelance thief/spy
Role: Carpenter
Nationality: Spain
Personality: As playful as she can be cruel, Josephine doesn’t anger easily and is rather difficult to startle until the lights go out. Miss Aguilar loves joking, dancing, and all around having a good time. She does her best to keep any crew from getting bored at sea without being physical.

With wonderful aim with a pistol, Josephine has little to no training in any other weapon. She has even been known to club someone over the back of their head with a pistol before stabbing anyone. Josephine has only been in two actual melees. Although, she has done a lot of practice to perfect her pistol whipping.

Josephine does become pretty serious when on a job though. Money is involved? Meh. Her reputation could be damaged? Never. Her reputation is her income, and nothing will get in the way of completing a job. She won’t accept a job without doing some research over what the client wants done. After all, why would Josephine want to walk into a trap?

Likes:
Carpentry: Building boats and repairing them has calmed Miss Aguilar’s mind since she first tried it out. The noises of all the tools used soothes her mind. Just don’t interrupt her while she is working or you may find yourself waking up to nails falling on your head.
Pistols: You can fire a devastating lead ball or flip it around and use it as a club. In Josephine’s opinion, not many weapons are as versatile, and none are as versatile while being as power and elegant.
Espionage: It thrills her. Finding out secrets that could have the power to bring nations to their knees. Learning the location of an object that holds a large part of a person's pride and then getting paid to tell someone that she found it just make Josephine all bubbly inside.
Parties: Fancy clothes, dancing, and pretty and/or fun music is entertaining to most people. Josephine enjoys all of those qualities. The music actually encouraged her to learn to play the violin. She tends to listen in on others’ conversations and find information on interesting characters. French parties are her favorite because there always seems to be two feuding men that don’t keep any of their quarrel quiet.

Dislikes:
Having to be honest: Being honest isn’t a problem to Josephine. Being forced to be honest is a problem, mostly because of what comes with it. Being held at gun(or sword)point makes anyone uncomfortable, but even being cornered into honest unsettles Josephine.
Darkness: Josephine knows damn well what can be lurking in the dark. She’s killed too many people in the dark to trust it anymore. She always carries a candle and some flint and steel. If Josephine wants light, by God she’ll get it.
Swords: For Josephine, swords are either too elegant and froo-froo or too barbaric, and people with swords are always resting their hands on the hilts as threats or pointing them around at each other.
Footwear: Feet can be as good a tool as hands sometimes. Most of the time Josephine is working on boats, she is barefoot, holding a tool with one or both feet. Josephine also loves the feeling of water and earth on her feet.

Appearance:
Hair: Josephine has long, straight brown hair that she nearly always wears in a bun held up by a piece of torn, red cloth.
Eyes: Green
Height: 5’ 5”
Weight: 118 lb.
Clothing: Tending towards light browns and white colors, Josephine usually wears a white long-sleeved shirt, but she keeps the sleeves pulled up to her elbows when she is working. She wears light brown trousers that are torn/cut off just below her knees, and she doesn’t wear shoes unless she must. When she must dress formally she tends towards grey or blue dresses. Josephine will never be seen with a poofy skirt, not even dead.

Bio: First born to a noble family in Spain, Josephine Dimas Aguilar was looked at simply as a way to get more for the family. Although her dad was softer on her and taught her things like how to shoot his dueling pistol, her mother thought that a lady shouldn’t act like that. Her mother spent a lot of time trying to get her to do “lady-like” things, but Josephine just went with her father to see things like court and other “noble” dealings.

Little, six year-old Josephine only saw the big game that was politics. She asked her dad why they were dancing “like faeries” around the questions, and she quickly learned to do the same. Her mother was furious about this new talent and bunish Josephine when she did it. Her father saw the use of the talent, and showed her to one of his friends in the Spainish Navy.

The man, Admiral Andre Cervantes, was impressed by the child's skill with words. He was even more impressed when her father had her show the him how well she could eavesdrop. At fifteen paces, Josephine could still hear them whispering and make out what the conversation was about. Cervantes knew that she had the makings of a spy. She would just need some training. So he taught her the basics of stealth that day, things like move when your sounds could be covered by other noises and how to step more quietly. Little Josephine picked up on these quite slowly at first, but she became amazing at stealth over the next ten years.

Josephine’s father didn’t take her back until she was sixteen, and, in those ten years, her mother was strangely kind to her. Well, more like her mother just ignored most of her existence aside from trying to command her to do household chores. After the ten years of practice and studying history, Josephine and her father met up with now General Admiral Cervantes. They discussed how Josephine would join the Navy to perform wonderful acts of espionage. Her father gave her his dueling pistol and wished her good luck.

From there, it was seven long years away from family and many people thinking that Cervantes had brought a bride for his son. The General Admiral granted her a comfortable living space while Josephine was training under many different men that treated her with disdain. They obviously didn't want to train her, but they were outranked. They wouldn’t be the last with this mindset.

Josephine was under the command of General Admiral Cervantes for six and a half years. She was unknown to be a girl to everyone that hadn’t trained her until her last year on the boat, The Sword’s Point. The crew disrespected her when they once refused to give her a second look for fear that their secrets would come to light.

The last night of her service on the Sword’s Point, one of the crew pursued Josephine and wouldn't stop. She panicked and did the only thing that came to mind: Josephine stabbed him. As the man fell to the ground sputtering blood and clutching new his chest wound.

Josephine began to panic even more and dove into the water because the ship was close to calm waters and the shore wasn’t far beyond that. She swam to land and walked until she found a town.

The town was Gibraltar in Spain. Josephine was lucky she had enough money to rent a room and find out what she was going to do. She decided she was going to start doing her espionage work for the highest bidder. She needed a front for it though. A thought crossed her mind.

Her only friend on the Sword’s Point was the carpenter, and she had picked up a few things from him. Josephine would have to start there. It took three and a half years to get it up and running beyond the simple carpentry that had become Josephine’s passion.

The first client Josephine got was a man named Richard, and he wanted her to find a way to get Captain Sellers a pardon. He recommended Josephine to Captain Sellers on the Acheron. She took up the job. If she not only got paid for getting the pardon, but was also kept on the ship, the espionage would be unneeded. Josephine could focus nearly solely on carpentry and still live comfortably.

Other: Josephine can fix any problem on a boat in about ¾ of the time the average carpenter does it, as long as she has the materials, time, tools, and the poor thing is docked.
Josephine also knows how to play relatively simple pieces on the violin.

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