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PLAYER INFO

Name: Kait
Age: 32
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Current Characters: -

CHARACTER INFO

Name: Anne Bonny
Journal: bonnylass
Age: Mid-20s
Appearance: Beautiful, disgusting, and threatening

Canon: Black Sails
Canon Point: Post series

History: Wiki

Abilities:

Anne is an extremely talented and efficient hand-to-hand killer. She doesn't make a big show of it, she merely dispatches lives as quickly and effectively as possible and feels absolutely nothing other than a twinge (or a surge) of sick enjoyment of the power she can wield. Swords, knives, pistols, broken glass, she's well-versed in all the popular weapons from her time and location.

She is also an accomplished sailor and swimmer, though she's never been a navigator and she lacks the tact to interact with or run a crew. Anne has been on the sea and pirating since she was thirteen but has often struggled with fully integrating into crews because of her gender and temperament.

Questionnaire:

1. What do they care deeply about? What kind of loyalties, commitments, moral codes, life philosophies, passions, callings or spirituality and faith do they have? How do these tend to be expressed?

Above all, Anne has spent her whole life just trying to figure out who she is. She was cruelly denied that chance early on by her family and her husband and it wasn't until much later in life that Anne realized being rescued by Jack had, in a way, further denied her the ability to forge her own sense of self. This is exactly what piracy has offered her. With no one to answer to but her chosen captain (and sometimes, not even him), Anne has been able to cultivate a certain kind of independence that very few women of her time have been able to experience. She has no interest in marrying a second time and resents the concept of flowery romance, but she is a lover consumed by her passions just as much as she is a fighter doomed to follow her rages. While she is completely devoted to her two lovers, this, unfortunately, has not created the comforting atmosphere of feeling safe and loved that one might expect. Instead, Anne is often tossed about on the intensity of her emotions like a ship in a deadly storm (often with equally deadly results), and love as much as anger can bring her dangerously close to the psychotic breaks she occasionally experiences.

Anne's morality is questionable and ever-changing but she is capable of acts of great compassion and forgiveness, few though they are. She saw a part of her old self in Max when she was being abused by the crew on the beach and that compassionate part of her was kindled, much to her own surprise. Still, Anne is willing to reach for the violent or deadly answer to her problems at any turn and feels absolutely no shame in doing so. Every murder she commits, every cut and shot, is a strike back against the life of trauma she'd been subjected to before Jack slit her husband's throat, and Anne still sees the world as existing in that dichomy. Strike first, or you'll be the one getting hit.

As far as loyalties go, she has only one that is unshakeable: Jack Rackham. Her lover, partner, and captain, Anne knows herself best when she's sailing and fighting at his side. She is his protection now as much as he'd been her's at first, and when she doubts herself, his clear and vibrant vision of the world and its possibilities is there to provide clarity for her. Theirs is a partnership of equal understanding almost never seen in the world at that time, and while Anne has the penchant for drifting when she feels lost, Jack is the star she will always navigate by. She will never be owned or controlled or bought again, whatever the price, and will always choose to fight and die on her terms rather than be sentenced, but a life without him is not one she can imagine. She does not bow to any authority that is not her own, but she sure will give him a listen.

2. What kind of person could they become in the future? What are some developmental paths that they could take: best, worst, most likely?

Anne is very much still finding herself and growing as she discovers her own potential, so encountering a ship (thank god it was a ship) full of different people with wildly different life experiences will open up her mind to all new ways of existing as a woman and a warrior that she's never in her life considered, or even been exposed to. The best version of Anne would learn with an open mind and find all-new ways to improve her existing skills by meeting others and giving them a chance, while the worst version of her would jealousy take these things to heart and bitterly regret that she hasn't had the opportunities that others from other worlds have had - and treat them accordingly.

Anne can be very defensive and resists being told what to do at every opportunity, so some difficulty working in groups is almost guaranteed - especially if she is ever separated from Jack, who is historically the only one who can talk her down and convince her that sucking it up and being amenable is the only reasonable course of action. She's also extremely quick to violence and takes slights against her extremely seriously, and if pushed to the brink, she's been known to enter a state of near-psychosis where any hope of speaking to her reasonably is laughably out of the question.

Anne is at her best when she's protecting those she's loyal to, and luckily, this is also when she feels the most like herself, so finding like-minded people will be first on her to-do list despite how anti-social she's known to be.

3. How do they behave within a group? What role(s) do they take? Does this differ if they know and trust the group, versus finding themselves in a group of strangers? Why?

Despite being distinctly unsuited to group work, Anne has also been an integral part of several pirate crews in the past and knows how and when to make it work with the right people when it counts. She intimately knows how difficult it is to survive on your own (or in her case, in a group of two) and thus knows the value of having a place to belong and multiple people watching your back, even if you don't particularly care for them. She is an enforcer and a warrior, happy to take orders in battle and able and willing to lead parties of her own to victories if the plan is provided for her, but she does not have any aspirations to lead or captain. In this, she is happy to defer to Jack's judgment, and lacking him, in whatever competent person she trusts to take up the flag.

Anne is generally bad at 'friends' but she's considerably better at 'co-workers'... until she decides that they deserve to die for a slight or an action they've taken. When she isn't overwhelmed with her emotions she's an extremely practical thinker and isn't blinded by pride or ideals the way many of the men she's known have been, and this is the valuable perspective she's always willing to supply when she hears a lot of pie-in-the-sky talk from someone in charge. Get the essentials and then get out, and don't feel bad about killing anyone in your way.

4. What do they need and want out of relationships, and how do they go about getting it?

If only Anne knew. Her relationship with Jack is as much a part of herself as her limbs and is as difficult to separate from her personhood as any physical part of her, but there is also a sliver of her that resents how cellular their connection is. Her relationship with Max has always been too confusing and primal for her to quantify and has made her feel desire and pain to degrees that nearly drove her to abandon her own sense of herself. Anne is a person of big feelings and fierce attachments, but she takes people as they are and expects no different of them than what they show her.

Loyal but not trusting, she is expecting to be betrayed at any moment and for any reason, both because it is what she's experienced for much of her life, and also because it's what she will do in most cases (and with only the one or two notable exceptions that have been mentioned) if backed into a corner. Even Jack is not completely free of this type of suspicion as he's let her down more than once before in the recent past, and while she's discovered that she has the ability to forgive Max's great betrayals, it has by no means left her feeling safe. As much as she and Jack share a soul, Anne also believes she is, at her core, alone in the world in a way no one else is, though a part of her is desperate to be proved wrong.

5. How do they understand the world–what kind of worldview and thought processes do they have? Why?

Anne sees half of the world as enemies and the other half as a cage. She rejects everything England has to offer and has chosen to make her life on the seas as a completely untamed individual. She is easily threatened despite how threatening she tries to look (and, quite honestly, is), because she sees every new person, place, or situation as a threat to be dealt with. She can hardly be faulted for this worldview, given the life she survived before being granted a real one, and because of this she hates England, most men, and anyone with the power to deny her what she wants or tell her what to do. In a similar vein, she hates to see sexual violence happen and will make it her personal mission to see that the perpetrators are eventually dealt with.

Anne's refusal to appear weak in the face of the world's abuse has everything to do with how much she hates herself for how weak she once was - weak enough that it took someone else to save her from the life she was trapped in. Because of this, she refuses to rely on anyone for protection and more often than not resents the weak and the abused, just like she does her past self, for being unable to rise above their own situations. She is willing to help those that need it in some situations that evoke her small reserve of empathy, but she's sure to give them a dressing down about standing up for themselves and taking back their own life while she does so. Anne has kindness in her but there's little to spare and she herself is not a gentle person, so her kindnesses often feel almost like cruelty.

6. How much do they rely on their minds and intellect, versus other approaches like relying on instinct, intuition, faith and spirituality, or emotions?

Anne is mostly made up of overwhelming emotions and murder. She has very good (if incredibly suspicious) instincts and she trusts her own judgment about people until she's been proven wrong several times. Still, she is not without blind spots, the most obvious of which has been Max. Anne's attraction to beautiful, clever women has the potential to be her downfall if those women have agendas that run counter to Anne's best interests, as even when she'd identified that Max was likely not to be trusted, she admitted to Jack that she was powerless to stay away from her and was even willing to risk their longstanding partnership to explore her blooming sexuality. Though she's a logical thinker when she isn't lost in her feelings, it's very easy to send Anne over the edge and into a quagmire of emotions that cloud her thinking to the point of violently irrational or suspicious behavior.

For clarity, again, she often relies on Jack. If Anne is the brawn, it goes without saying that witty, clever Jack is the brains, and it's one of the reasons their partnership is as successful as it is. She is willing to defer to the smarter party in most situations if she sees the benefit of it, much like she was willing to take Eleanor's advice when it came to making plans to dispatch the eight members of her own crew that Anne saw fit to kill, yet it remains very unlikely that a wily or clever character could manipulate or out-smart Anne's suspicious nature if her overwhelming emotions aren't somehow involved. Shrewd and wary, Anne expects the worst of the world and has been proven right many times.

7. What is something others might find intolerable about them?

How dangerous and unpredictable she can be. If she's been slighted or betrayed, prepare to be attacked without preamble or conversation. Anne is not about solving problems with words, so if you've wronged her (or are merely standing in between her and the person who has), prepare to defend yourself to the death. Put your balls on her shoulder for a laugh? You'll never see them again, buddy.

Anne's single-mindedness and stubbornness can also be a lot for those close to her to handle, and if she doesn't get the answer she wants, there's every chance that she'll storm off to avoid any further conversation - and proceed to do the thing anyway. A lot of your intricately laid plans could be ruined in a heartbeat if Anne is on your side and having a notably bad day. So watch out for knives.

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Why are you interested in this game?

Anne is a sailor and an explorer and post-series has just set out to begin pirating again, so the game setting is particularly appealing as something that would both challenge and surprise her, but also have a note of familiarity to it that would help her thrive instead of driving her further into her shell (like shooting her into space would, for example). Anne is also sorely in need of making new friendships and other connections that will enrich her understanding of the world and its possibilities, something that is nearly impossible for her in her own world but which could remarkably change her as a person in a setting (and with characters) that doesn't hold the same beliefs and restrictions of her time period. Let Anne be Anne (but maybe with less murder) 2021!