=Family & Crew=
Welcome to the good ship, Rambler, everyone! Roll call!
Father: Axle Pryor
Age: mid forties
Species: human
Occupation: airship pilot, legal (mostly) transporter
Mate: Ker Underbridge
Axle is steampunk. We're talking goggles and a long black leather trenchcoat, leather pants and button up boots, long white hair. He's tall and wiry, never having felt the need to develop muscle when it was easier to hire it. His white hair is bleached, not that he would ever admit to it.
When Axle was young, about eighteen, he joined the military, thinking it would get him out of his father's house. It got him out, alright, and right into the hellish situation that was ten times worse than his overbearing father. He waited until midnight to sneak out of boot camp and never looked back. He had only made a few friends at the time, anyway, one being Tyler Deakon. He hitchhiked onto a ship aimed for space and was caught quickly enough, then put to work as a cabin boy, cleaning toilets.
He still has a special talent for cleaning a stool, not that he would ever tell anyone that. He's lousy with mechanics, and tends to break anything he tries to fix, so when he had earned enough wages (going from ship to ship and working his way up the ladder) he went down on one of the planets they were docking on and started looking for a crew. The first one he found was a dwarf, Ker, who was working as a mechanic at the local shipbuilders.
He's not evil, but he's always one to think of profit, no matter what the cost. He didn't know Ker was female under all those clothes until he woke up in bed with her after a very long night of drinking.
Ker, a dwarf (in Pratchett fashion) tells him that "he" (they only have one pronoun) wants a family and will head back to the mines. Axle doesn't want to lose his very profitable first mate, so he convinces Ker that they can raise a kid and still keep up the business. Hence, why they're getting a cabbage.
Mother: Ker Underbridge
Age: almost 100
Species: dwarf
Occupation: first mate
Mate: Axle Pryor
Ker is a very pretty little dwarf. He wears his black beard parted into two braids. Yes, I did say beard. Yes, he's female. It's a dwarf thing, okay? Only one pronoun. She (to avoid confusion) has a love for metal boots, an axe almost as big as she is, and can chop a man down with a single swing. She stands only a bit taller than 3' and almost two feet broad at the shoulders, just like any good dwarf should.
Unlike the "true" dwarfs, Ker is a city born dwarf. The only time she was ever in a mine was when her parents took her home for a family visit as a baby. She doesn't remember much about it, but she does know all the important parts of being a dwarf, and being in space is definitely not part of them. She's pushing the limits already, and she knows it. If her family knew, she would be in serious trouble. She's been sending them emails about her job in town weekly, just like a good dwarf should. Shame she's lying.
Ker is, by nature, a very quiet little thing around strangers. She only really loses her temper when it comes to Axle. She's been known to chase after him often, bellowing about how stupid he's being. Then she's embarrassed out of her mind when she realizes that other people have heard her. She also has a jealous streak almost as wide as she is, and since Axle's a pervert she has plenty of opportunities to show it.
She knows it's not right to be with him, she's threatened to go home to the mines (which technically, she never lived in) and take the cabbage with her often enough. Unfortunately she believes that she'll be banned from being a dwarf the moment the elders find out about her fling and trips to space, and doesn't believe she's got somewhere to go.
But her biological clock is ticking. She's getting up there in years and is inordinately fond of Axle, even if he is a mere human. She knows it's not smart, of course. Humans live such short lives, so she's intent on going back to the mines and finding another dwarf to settle down with.
Then Axle brings up this strange idea and she can't help but give in. It's only a year or two, after all.
Nanny: Mortar
Species: Troll
Occupation: Intimidation Officer
Mate: None
Mortar is a typical troll, made of rock and dumb as rock, as well. Actually, though, the higher you get in the sky, the smarter Mortar gets. His brain is made of silicone, after all. It operates better in colder climates. He tends to turn into a rock during the day, but come twilight he's around to take care of things.
Unlike most trolls, Mortar's got nothing against dwarfs. But he and Ker still argue once in a while, just for the hell of it. As a nanny he comes in handy, and is quite fond of "da lil lichen."
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Name: Jordan Pryor Underbridge
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