BASICS
Xerxes Caspian Gaspari
{ AGE }
25
{ MONKIER }
The Exiled Prince
{ CLASS }
Pirate, Exiled Prince
{ SHIP }
The Dancing Flame
WHAT DO YOU LOOK LIKE?
5"9, 160 lbs
{ APPEARANCE }
Despite years of rough living, Xerxes cannot hide the aristocratic features of his family. Thus, he has chosen to embrace it. When he has a choice, he dresses in practical, but well-made clothes and strives to keep his facial hair well-groomed. Standing at a respectable 5"9, Xerxes greets friend and foe alike with a graceful smile and soulful brown eyes framed by long jet black hair. However, where as a child, his eyes blazed with a curious naivete, his eyes are dimmed by a his experiences and knowledge of the darkness within the world.
Althought he dislikes more ornate clothes, Xerxes is more comfortable than others of his profession wearing fine aristocratic outfits and will do so when the need arises. Nonetheless, he prefers to wear a brown leather jerkin, white shirt, dark trousers, and a pair of black boots more than anything else. Naturally, he has his sword and pistol sheathed and holstered at his side respectively.
WHO ARE YOU?
Heterosexual
{FAMILY }
The Gaspari Family of Vicanto
{ PERSONALITY }
You can say that Xerxes is remarkably soft-hearted for a pirate. Of course, you would be immediately challenged to a duel of blades or pistols and Xerxes will not take no for an answer, but you can say it and it would not be necessarily untrue. Xerxes did not choose to become a pirate. Rather, he felt that he did not have a choice. As a pirate, Xerxes does not join crews who prey upon the weak and innocent. Instead, he would much rather hunt for the lost treasures of the ancient Sirens whom he utterly fascinated with, but he will settle for the treasure fleets of the great powers from the Old World if he must. He despises those in his profession who are nothing but slavers and murderers, though he has come to accept that more pirates tend to fill these roles than the roles pirates fill in storybooks.
Xerxes believes in honor and passion in the pursuit of one's goals. He is restless and always dreamed of being the captain of his own ship and is at peace with the way his life has turned out. He is quite happy to operate outside of all authority but his own, but he still retains a bit of the naivety of his youth. He trusts his own crew with his life and does not expect anyone to plot against him. This has rendered him blind to a faction of his crew's growing discontent and the envy in his first mate's eyes...
WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL WHAT?
- Alcohol
- Women
- Swordsmanship
- Combat}
- Honor
- Books
- Freedom
- Sarcasm
{ DISLIKES }
- Slavery
- Dishonor
- His father's murderer
- Tyrants
{ FEARS }
Xerxes fears dying alone and forgotten.
[font=]{ GOOD HABITS }
- He will not harm the innocent
- He does not tolerate slavery
- He will help those who are too weak to help themselves
- He does not go back on his word.
{ BAD HABITS }
- He can make foolish decisions rather than compromise his ideals.
- He is reckless with his own life
History
Xerxes was born into a life of wealth of privilege in the rich city state of Vicanto. Although it has already begun to be eclipsed by the larger empires establishing colonies in the new world, wealthy merchant clans like the Gaspari Family managed to forge connections and sponsor great trade expeditio into the new world, particularly to the Sea of Garacia. Xerxes was thus afforded the best education money could buy with the expectation that he would take over his family's business when he was ready.
When he was a young adult, he began accompanying his father who had partnered with the Albion Company, a commercial enterprise given authority by the Albion Empire to establish trade posts and enforce Albion hegemony in key parts of the world. During one of these journeys, an ambitious young officer attacked Xerxes' and his father's small trading fleet in an attempt to capture the ships and kill them to the last man. Xerexes only escaped due to the quick thinking of his father, who sent him out to sea on one of the few lifeboats with three loyal crewmen. By chance, he arrived at Nassau where he heard the news. His father had been accused of piracy and months later, he learned that his family's assets had been seized thanks to the Albion Company's interference in Vicanto where his family's rivals soon helped themselves to his family's fortune and attained political power with the understanding that they would follow orders from the company for now on.
Xerxes swore vengeance. He joined a pirate crew with the goal of attaining his own ship and going after the young officer who had orchestrated this plot. For five long years, Xerxes toiled at sea, squashing guilt for harming those who might have been innocent for his captain was a brute of a man who cared only for lining his pockets. Finally, he could not take it anymore and he managed to get the captain drunk enough to wager the ship itself against a lifetime of servitude on Xerxes' part. Thankfully, Xerxes did not play fair and he won the card game easily, but in a rage, the captain moved to kill him only to be stabbed in the chest by Xerxes before he could reach his pistol.
Xerxes then began plundering the ships of the Albion Company, even offering his services as a privateer to Albion's rivals until he learned that the young officer had been made a commodore. Killing him was anticlimactic however. He frequently paid visits to the brothels under the control of his company and it was there that Xerxes met him and killed him, fleeing in the chaos that followed, his ship just barely losing the ships that pursued them into a storm.
Xerxes had gotten his vengeance then, but he felt empty afterwards. It did not make him feel better and he could never go back to the life he knew as a boy. Searching for purpose, Xerxes renewed his boyhood interest in the Sirens and their treasures and decided that he would be the one who would have the glory of unraveling their mysteries.
OTHER
{ FACE CLAIM }
Luke Pasqualino
{ COLOR }
#0000BF
{ THEME SONGS }
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