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 Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 9:33 am
Name: Esperanza
Guardian: Eshaa Cooper [Silverah]
Spirit: Betrayed and drowned pirate captain
Vessel: Blue and gold macaw
Season: Winter
Powers: Able to glide short distances.
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:27 am
 -Introduction-"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates." - Life on the Mississippi ----------------------------------------- -Rules-Please only post here if you are affiliated with Hiccups or dropping off a gift
Don't steal any of the content of this journal or the art
Don't attempt to buy Esperanza from me
Don't ask for Esperanza's children
----------------------------------------- -Chapters-The Pirate's Code || In which we receive a map and bearing The Captain || In which we meet our heroine, Esperanza Cooper The First Mate || In which we meet our heroine's mother, Eshaa Cooper The Ship || In which we become aquainted with our heroine's home and family The Crew || In which we meet our heroine's motley assortment of comrades The Treasure || In which we examine our heroine's belongings The Gallery || In which we display portraits of our heroine The Legend || In which we make light of our heroine's past The Log || In which we record our heroine's present The Reserved Posts || In which we speculate our heroine's future The Credits || In which we recognize those who are owed thanks
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:59 am
Name: Esperanza Cooper
Pronounced: Es-pe-RAN-za Coop-er
Otherwise known as: Ranza
Gender: Female
Soul: A drowned & betrayed pirate captain
Vessel: Blue-and-gold macaw
Seasonal traits: Loyal and competitive
Hopes: To have an adventure. To own her own boat (Check!). To stick it to the man.
Fears: Ranza is irrationally terrified of deep water and the possibility of drowning. She suffers from occasional vertigo and claustrophobia.
<3: Reading, working on her boat, clubbing, music with a beat/sea shanties/weird as ******** folk rock.
THE MAN
A curious specimen - bold and brash, with a reckless streak. Fiercely independent, developing some anti-authoritarian sentiments. A bookworm.
She will wreck you.
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:04 am
Name: Eshaa Cooper
Nicknames: None she actually lets people call to her face
Age: Mid-to-late twenties. Want to guess?
Occupation: Xeno-Anthropologist employed by an off-world cultural institute
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Brown
Family: Parents, grandfather, and a younger sister who live off-Gaia, Nahuel Cooper (son), Orli and Esperanza Cooper (daughters)
Special Abilities: Mild empathy, telepathy and telekinesis
Distinguishing Marks: ridged nose, purple tinge beneath eyes, very, very thin eyebrows
Personality: Sarcastic to a fault, naturally intuitive, and highly intelligent. Eshaa has the ability to be endearing and aggravating at the same time, and has displayed perfectionistic traits, neurotic pride, and a strong dislike of any ideas that don't agree with her own.
Likes: Her mother's cooking, rabbits, space travel, ancient cultures, good looking men, children, driving fast, cameras
Dislikes: racists, speciesists, snakes, speeding tickets, bitter food, root vegetables, public bathhouses, environmental wastelands
Vices: drives too fast, swears too much, drinks more coffee than reasonably healthy
Image Song: Maria, Green Day
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:13 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:28 am
Dalal - Smart girl! The closest thing Ranza has to a best friend.
Luc - Wussy boy! Ranza doesn't particularly like him.
Aaron - Stupid boy! Ranza isn't fond of him, either.
Sabina - Awesome girl! Ranza made friends with her.
Taig - A++ would ******** again 100%. Still hasn't figured out where she knows him from.
Quincy - Potentially useful boy? The first person of the male gender outside her family who Ranza doesn't irrationally hate.
Absinthe - Drool machine. His brother's kinda cool, though.
Jack - Shows promise. We're gonna have an adventure.
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:40 am
exipotic A basket arrives just a few days short of Christmas, in the same manner as the basket that had originally arrived with the request to be filled. Many goodies are inside! Esperanza's Basket  The size of the chest is about the length of a twin sized bed mattress and the chest's height is a bout knee height (for size comparison: 6'2 person). The treasure and coins within seem to be real though when you reach in the gold seems to disappear. On the back of the chest is a small bit of writing carved in a golden plate:
This is a Chest of Holding
What you see can be used but if you come at me with greed you will never be able to touch the treasure within. Come at me with charity in mind and I will give you riches. Come to me with need and I will give you enough. Whatever you put within my endless depths you can always retrieve and only you may retrieve them...I will keep your treasures safe from harm so long as you take care of me. Happy holidays!
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:43 am
February 20th 2008 - May 29th 2008
May 29th 2008 - May 16th 2009
May 16th 2009 - ???
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:44 am
Once upon a time, there was a fearsome pirate captain. This pirate was the scourge of the Gaian seas, and ruled them with an iron fist. But, the pirate wasn't all bad, for all the men they killed were evil, and where they found a deserving young girl with a yearning for adventure and a brave heart there was always room in the crew for one more. The pirate was a woman, and she kept a mixed, hardworking crew.
But as good as she was at sniffing out undeserving men, she missed one.
The captain's first mate had long loved her, but she continually refused his advances. After many years of this humiliation, the first mate had grown bitter. He staged a mutiny and, in his first official act as the new captain, drowned the old captain who had spurned him.
That's how the story goes.
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:46 am
IC
Jan 24, 2008 - Eshaa Cooper and her son Nahuel find a parrot in the snow, an encounter with a maintenance man turns frightening. Eshaa finds a baby in the snow.
May 29, 2008 - Ranza receives a treasure map. She and Nahuel embark on an adventure and retrieve the treasure - a pirate hat. She grows into a child.
May 10th, 2008 - Ranza heads down to the beach to try to fight the pirate threat. Her adventure goes badly and she walks away from the experience a bit wiser. Not long after, she grows into a teen.
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OOC
Jan 19, 2008 - Silverah wins a slot in the first flatsale.
Feb 20, 2008 - Ranza arrives!
May 29, 2008 - Ranza grows into a child!
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Growth Requirements
Preparatory of Vessel meeting Spirit -> Toddler
[done]
Toddler -> Child
RPs: [x x x]
GJs: [x x x]
HJs: [x]
Child -> Adolescent
RPs: [x x x x x x x x]
HJs: [x x x x x]
Adolescent -> Adult
RPs: [x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x]
HJs: [x x x x x x x]
Possessions: [boat] [Val] []
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:47 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:50 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:53 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:54 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:57 am
 Hiccups and Esperanza's official Art are both (c) Quietsnooze
Esperanza's concept, Eshaa, and the rest of the family are all (c) Silverah
Journal Layout lovingly ripped off and adapted from Ieeko
Ranza's siblings' journals:
Orli | Nahuel
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