Neko of the Nen
Alias Water Tyrant Species Water Genasi Gender Female Affiliation Weastern Pirates Occupation Elemental Archer, Chef
Neko of the Nen, dubbed “Water Tyrant” by the Commonwealth of Tormenta Navy and known simply as Neko to her crewmates, is the elemental archer and chef of the Weastern Pirates. Born on Stellar Glaive Isle on Aigora, Neko left her home to find her fiancé who had vanished without explanation the day before their wedding — a search that led her into the hands of slavers, through the Thieves’ Guild of Tormenta, and eventually onto the deck of the Wind of the Weast. She has sailed with the Weastern Pirates ever since, and has made no indication of slowing down.
Overview
Aliases: Water Tyrant, Starry Eyed Child, Neko Species: Water Genasi Gender: Female Eye Color: Blue Date of Birth: 17th of Aquarius Place of Birth: Stellar Glaive Isle, Aigora Marital Status: Engaged Affiliation: Weastern Pirates Occupation: Elemental Archer, Chef, Pirate
History
Stellar Glaive Isle
Neko was born and raised on Stellar Glaive Isle, a place to the south of the Aigoran Sea. As a Water Genasi her connection to the element was innate, and she cultivated it into something considerably more dangerous than most of her kind — a precision with a bow that drew on the same fluid, relentless quality as the water she commanded. She also learned to cook, which the crew would later agree was an equally formidable skill.
She had a life on the Isle. She had a partner. She had a wedding day set.
The morning before that day, her fiancé was gone. No warning, no note, no explanation that made any sense. Neko left Stellar Glaive Isle to find them.
Captured
The search did not go as intended. Neko was captured by slavers and sold to Xavier Squall, guildmaster of the Thieves’ Guild of Tormenta — a man with a use for capable people and no interest in whether those people consented to being useful. What happened between her capture and her rescue has not been spoken of in great detail.
The Weastern Pirates
The Weastern Pirates found her, or she found them — accounts differ, as they tend to with the crew. Either way, she was freed, and when the opportunity to join them arose she took it. The Weastern Pirates were heading in directions that Neko’s search required, and she had already demonstrated that she was not someone who needed looking after.
Khemmis described her without much elaboration: tough, graceful, and entirely capable of drowning someone who got on the wrong side of her. He meant it as a compliment.
She remains engaged. The search for her fiancé has not been abandoned.
Personality
Neko carries her history without making a display of it. She is warm to the people she trusts and entirely unbothered by those she doesn’t. Her crewmates know her for her cooking as readily as for her bow — she treats both with the same unhurried precision, the same sense that she has done this before and will do it again and sees no reason to rush.
The title of Water Tyrant, bestowed by a navy that learned what she was capable of under pressure, amuses her more than it unsettles her. She has never corrected anyone who used it.
The question of her fiancé sits somewhere beneath everything else — present but not consuming. She is patient. She has crossed enough of Aigora to understand that some answers take time, and she is not willing to be diminished by the waiting.
Relationships
-
- Her captain. Neko’s loyalty to the crew runs through him — she trusted his leadership enough to join a group of strangers on the strength of what they stood for, and that trust has not been misplaced.
-
- Mutual respect between two people who do not require much from each other and both appreciate that. Khemmis trusts her shot in a fight without having to say so. She trusts his instincts the same way.
-
Xavier Squall (former captor)
- The guildmaster of the Thieves’ Guild of Tormenta who purchased and held her. The details of that time are hers to keep. The outcome of any future encounter with Squall is not something she has left ambiguous.
-
Her Fiancé (whereabouts unknown)
- The reason she left home. The reason she is still moving. No name has been offered to those who ask, and most of the crew have learned not to press. What is clear is that the search is not symbolic — it is the thread she follows, through slavers and pirates and whatever else the Aigoran Sea puts in front of her, until she finds them.