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Hehe, I could spend hours delving into my different pirates and why they are the way they are. Sure I cut it down drastically and now only have 28 (only... :P) Most of them are actually "borrowed" characters so I wouldn't go into them here anyway. There is one that is mine alone. My oldest, and first to not be deleted pirate, Kat O'hara.
Her name is from the list, sure. But I'm a big fan of the book Scarlett, the sequel to Gone With The Wind. I was thinking about Scarlet's cousin Kathleen O'Hara when I picked the name. Since then though she's become something entirely different.
Kat's an old body pirate, the middle girl cause I hated the others. Through the over a year that is her life she started with red hair. As soon as she went unlimited it became brown. Then black. Then white. Then blonde for a while. And then came St. Patricks, and she's had green hair ever since. Hey, she's Irish.
That also explains her permatattoo, the big Celtic knot she always wears. She has the Black Market Ink face tattoo, and that never changes either. At first it was cause a whole lotta pirates in the guild I was in at the time had it. I tried to change it after I left the guild, but she just doesn't look right without it. It's a part of her now, as permanent as if it were a real tattoo. Her other inkage, her jewelry, that changes as often as she changes her clothes. Which is to say quite frequently.
I've been told before that I'm "obsessed" with Kat, but like it or not she does have her own personality. Most of my pirates have their own personality or quirks. I have ones I play only in a bad mood. Pirates I go to when I want absolute silence. I have one I'm working into a bad guy image. Far and away Kat has the most pronounced personality.
Kat is a product of my now 15 months of pirating. She has been with me almost since the very start. She's a product of a disastrous first guild experience. Of a second guild that didn't end so well. She's my year of learning to make lasting friendships with other online players, because Pirates is my first true big MMO. She's learned in that year that some people simply can't be trusted. She's learned that online friends can and will turn on you for any reason, or no reason at all. And now she's gun shy. Kat is what she is. Frankly I don't care what other people think about that. Kat is, more than any of my other pirates, and extension of me. I don't give a hoot if that makes me obsessed. It's what makes Kat Kat, and that's all that matters to me.
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