Name: Antony Bartholomew/Captain Anthony
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Rank: Captain
Appearance:
Antony has green eyes and brown hair with blond bangs. On his chin is a small tuft of facial hair, and his ears are pierced. He wears a green longcoat with the inner parts being red. A leather belt holding three throwing knives is strapped across his torso, his coat is always open to reveal a wrinkled white undershirt and a necklace of shark teeth.
He wears brown pants and a pair of black boots with a clasp, he has a duo of flintlock pistols strapped to one hip and a leather strap holds his cutlass in a scabbard behind his back. He has a gold dagger sheathed and hidden within his coat's lining, a trophy from the captain of a navy vessel where he was held as a cabin boy.
Ship description: Poseidon's Scream
Character History:
Antony was once a pitiful cabin boy of sixteen on a Navy vessel called the Challenger. Having pirate lineage, he was treated horribly by the sailors and his family mocked as disgusting reprobates. Given that the ship's cook had recently contracted some illness and died...the chef duties fell to the young teenager. Much to the crew and captain's surprise....the boy knew how to cook quite well.
One day he was caught sneaking food out of the kitchens, when caught it was discovered he had adopted a rat as a pet and had been feeding it, naming it Henry. Disgusted, the crew made the poor boy watch as they brutally killed the rat by stomping on it repeatedly.
It was then that Antony decided he'd had enough, and that night put an odorless and lethal poison into the crew's food. Unfortunately, the captain dined in his cabin...so he'd have to hope they didn't make any noise in their death throes.
Once the deed was done, the cabin boy went up to the captain's quarters with the last bowl.
But he tripped and dropped the bowl, causing it to shatter all over the deck and ruin it's contents!
He was panicked but not deterred, he was in too deep now anyway....Sneaking ever so quietly up to the captain's cabin, he found to his surprise that the cruel leader of his tormentors was laying on the bed...snoring! A pistol lay secured in a belt nearby, taking it out and placing a pillow over his lead tormentor's face..he fired a single shot through the pillow.
He took all the riches he could carry into sacks and a particularly nice golden dagger out of the captain's quarters. Deciding if anyone came across the vessel and found everyone dead but the cabin boy...it would prove disastrous, he lowered a lifeboat into the sea and detonated the explosive barrels before jumping just in time!
Several days and endless rowing later, he found he was starving! He'd ran out of food some time ago....that was when he saw the shark.
It was dipping it's top fin out of the water, thankfully this boat was normally used for whaling....and came equipped with a harpoon cannon.
He fired..he missed.
He fired again...and missed again.
Deciding to try one last time with a harpoon attached to a rope...he fired...and hit the shark!
He grabbed his end of the rope and was nearly pulled out into the water..that would be bad. He felt his hands burning from the rope sliding through them and he gripped it tighter...praying the harpoon wouldn't come out and let the shark get away.
The shark swam close enough and he buried a large sword into it's flesh.
The shark went limp and he began to carve away.
Shark meat and shark fins especially were not only said to be good meat but also went for quite the price on the market. He would just hope he would find land soon to sell them.
He dug the shark's teeth out of it's mouth with the knife as well....it wasn't everyday someone could prove they killed a shark!
He let the rest of the shark sink to the bottom of the ocean and cut the harpoon line. It was then with disgust he realized he'd have to eat the meat raw.
He managed to choke down bloody mouthfuls of shark meat and the next day miraculously ended up in Tortuga.
With all the riches he had stolen along with the shark fins and meat..he made a fortune enough to purchase a ship and enlist a crew....who were quite skeptical of his abilities given that he was so young...but nonetheless...he had to be pretty tough and resilient to take down a shark and an entire navy crew!
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