Elusia Eight: Constance Softeyes [@dragon_mind]

A sword's tip is only as deadly as its wielder's intentions.

Character Name: Constance Softeyes

Gender: Female

Age: 19

Birthplace: Galiesia

Physical Appearance: In a typical seafarer's style, Constance wears a seafoam green cloth strip across her forehead that tames her wild hair and several more cloth strips of varying color that wrap tightly along her belt with small double daggers and a sword scabbards. Her ebony, wind tousled locks have never seen better days; she was born with the sea salt in her blood and the ocean wind in her hair. An olive tone, the product of many years in the harsh sun out on the open sea, and strong, calloused, and scarred hands from pulling on ropes and gripping slabs of wood while tending to the ship's wellbeing are very much in her possesion. A thin scar runs down her face on the left side, slashing right beside her eye from an early training session while another thick, triangular scar clips one side of her chin. There's a barely noticeable nick in her ear and one small black hooped earring. Born to two fairly attractive parents, people who knew Trenton and Finn Softeyes would expect their child to look like a goddess. They were a little disappointed when the two extremely proud parents smugly introduced their first born with a bridged nose, prominent forehead and wide, bright and shining silver eyes that flow and froth and churn like liquid mercury.

Personality: Growing up in the environment she did had permanently installed in Constance the idea she should always be uptight and stiffly in control and cautious. It is difficult for her to relax around anyone and her immediate reaction to a commander walking in the proximity has given her the reputation of the "goody two-shoes" with a sour face. But that's only what the soldiers not in her unit think. They know Constance is a little bitter and cold on the outside and has the tendency to not talk either at all or loud enough to be heard. And theyknow Constance has the warmest, sweetest heart and she is the most reckless and loyal and hotheaded and that she, out of all of them, has the most fighting spirit in her. Constance smiles are rare —smirks are her usual go to— but they can make anyone stop and stare (though, that could be because they're shocked she could actually smile).

Background: When a single person decides they want to be a pirate, the first and most important lesson they learn is the discipline needed to survive and/or thrive aboard a ship. The pirates' code is not strict, nor is it unfair but the deliberate breaking is never, never tolerated. There is no bending, there are no loopholes. You follow the code or would you rather try your luck worming around the rules in Davy Jones' locker?

With two parents very familiar with the pirate discipline, you shouldn't be surprised when Constance tells you stories of her dad yelling at her from across the family ship when her body got too careless and comfortable as she slept. "GET YOUR LEG BACK ON THE BED!" Or when her mom threw a bucket of wash water on her for sleeping to late and told her to wipe the decks with her soaked bedclothes. That was fun.

The callouses on her hands are from tending to the ship and helping the crew hoist the sails or that one time her father left her in charge of the tiller during a raid.

The men in her parents' crew are mostly older and most of them are married to the women in the crew. But that's okay. Her thirst for action and adventure, carefully cultivated from years on a pirate ship, keeps her from settling down and really wishing for someone to make her life interesting again.

Skills: Constance is a quick thinker with several small tricks that help keep her head on her shoulders. Her unique, almost completely self-taught style of sword handling is hard to defend against and her fast, accurate predictions make her an effective fighter. The stress she puts on opponents with their frustration and the desperate way they have to defend breaks their mental focus and she can win. But just because Constance doesn't get stoked often doesn't mean she isn't tough. She can take a knife right in the shoulder and comtinue fighting twice as hard without so much as a cry.

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