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A naval sniper from the North Blue, currently serving in SWORD
Exists in: All continuities
Relevant in: Blue Skies, Devil's Polycule, White Wings
Age: 32 (pre-timeskip)/34 (post-timeskip)
Height: 7'2"/220cm
Occupation: Marine, SWORD assassin-turned-spy, accidental Revolutionary Army supporter, First Mate/Quartermaster for the Drake Pirates
Abilities: Toro Tori no Mi, Model: Utahraptor, Observation Haki
Notable Physical Features: Pointed ear tips, scar over right
From the North Blue, the island Lind on lived as a child ended up one winter having a particular nasty famine. There is a reason he can't stand the smell of pork cooking nor will he eat it.
Lind is the youngest of three brothers and does not have a great relationship with either of his siblings. His father worked as a forester and game keeper for the nobles on the island they lived on, while his mother worked in the kitchens. His eldest brother would take over their father’s position, while Lind and his middle brother would go on to active military service.
He received the fruit from the military and they likely had no idea what it at the time of its consumption. He and Drake were paired in training due to their similar devil fruits and because Drake also accidentally swallowed a cadet during his first full transformation, making working with anyone smaller extremely difficult for safety reasons.
When originally inducted into SWORD, Lind served as an assassin and was forced to act solo for so long that it was damaging his and his zoan’s side mental health, as both are extremely social. When the director died, his replacement, aware of Lind's former friendship with Drake, asked Lind to serve under Drake's crew.
Lind shifts a lot between various traits of his raptor, human, and hybrid forms, and is very fluid in how he appears. Because he does have feathers, he unfortunately molts twice a year. Because no one likes seeing the raptor ear holes, he has to wear a snood (the tube-type intended for pets, not people) which also serves to keep him warm.
Lind is also incredibly doting on his lover/s. Because of the mix of his socialble personality, combined with the raptor’s own pack mentality, he likes to look after the others. He’s always bringing back interesting things he finds to whoever he considers his pack. (In Devil's Polycule, he finally managed to woo Smoker because he found a weird clay the man had been lusting over for ceramics.) He is very vocal and makes a lot of sounds associated with his zoan form, which ranges from the cough barks for warnings, to trills and clicks. The utahraptor is also a great mimic, so he can imitate voices and sounds.
Because of his raptor, he finds safety and ease in familiar scents. However (across multiple 'verses), this leads to a lengthy series of laundry thefts. If your dirty clothes are missing and you're important to Lind, it's very likely he's moved them into a hard-to-reach space where he's made himself a nest. Every 2-3 weeks, these nests have to be found and emptied to keep folks from having to go nude.
Devil's Polycule
Lind has signature call sounds for each of his lovers. Sabo’s, born of necessity in the field, is a nearly silent subsonic rumble. Drake’s is an imitation of the man's allosaur rumble. Law’s sounds are the barks and clicks of a leopard seal. Ace has a lot of loud quick clicks and trills. Smoker’s resembles Drake’s callsound, but is just a little higher in pitch. Koby’s are dolphin clicks. Page has a more breathy, crocodile-like hiss.
Third Corazon
the orders of the original director of SWORD, Lind was sent to investigate bandit activity in the North Blue a few years after the Minion Island incident, and to assassinate anyone he found. What he found was the son of Diez Barrels, working to rout out marine corruption from the shadows. Lind stopped answering calls shortly after and joined the man's efforts
White Wings
Overly-excited for their reunion on Zou, Lind got himself, Penguin, and Shachi all expelled from their sleeping accomodations for excessively loud activities.
Bonus Lore
- He's named for the Flemish privateer Jacob Collaart, and the mythological lindworm.
- His birthday is June 11th, the US release date for the movie Jurassic Park.
- Hobbies are bird watching and geology
- Favorite food is grilled eel. Least favorite food is pork.
- He's also terrified of octopuses and can't stand the way they move especially when one ends up on deck accidentally.
- Lind is a pervert, not a creep—there's a difference.
A naval rifleman from the North Blue, currently serving in SWORD
Exists in: All continuities
Relevant in: Devil's Polycule
Age: 35/37
Height:
Occupation: Marine rifleman, SWORD operative
Abilities:
Hobbies:
When Rear-Admiral Diez Drake accepted his position in SWORD, he was only able to convince his ship's navigator, cook, carpenter, three soldiers, and a young Seaman Recruit to follow him into the unknown. Lind joined the night of their staged defection...
Exists in: All continuities
Relevant in: Devil's Polycule
Avery
A young marine with little sailing experience doing his best
Age: 19/21
Height: 5'10"/178cm
Occupation: Marine, Drake Pirate crewman
Abilities:
Hobbies:
Valerian
A giant walking liability
Age:
Height: 5'7"/
Occupation: Marine, Drake Pirates' navigator
Abilities:
Hobbies:
The son of nobles, Valerian's career as a Marine would have been assured as a cakewalk...would it not been for his blood disorder. As a hemophiliac, no one could afford to post Valerian in a situation where he might see combat, as nobles aren't fond of their prized kin bleeding out over minor injuries. So instead, Valerian was brought to the officers' academy to find another focus for his skills. Here, with a sharp mind and sharper memory, he learned mapmaking and navigational skills that later found him a place on the crew of the then-Rear Admiral Diez Drake.
Sawbones
A cook-turned-surgeon-turned cook, who'd rather be left to his own devices
Age:
Height:
Occupation: Former line cook, former surgeon, Drake Pirates' cook (two of two)
Abilities: Remembering three ships worth of food allergies
Hobbies:
While not a Marine himself, Sawbones had seen time working in the kitchens across multiple bases. Contacted by the director of SWORD, he agreed to join Drake, though was not able to meet up with the ship until well after the staged defection. However, upon joining, finding that the crew already had a cook, was relegated to the position of surgeon instead.
When the joint charter with the Heart Pirates was drawn up and Law became the defacto all-in-one for all tasks medical, Sawbones eagerly and happily abandoned his position and resumed cooking, allowing for a fuller kitchen staff.
By the end of their second month, after multiple snags and false-starts, Drake and Lind managed to round up a slew of extra bodies to round out the struggling skeleton crew...
Jessica
Age: Unknown (likely 4-5 years)
Height: +5ft/152cm in length
Occupation: Ratcatcher
Abilities: Shredding Drake's leathers when she decides to climb him like a tree
Hobbies: Lounging in the sun
After a successful raid on another pirate vessel, Drake found the hold full of trafficked animals. While many of the creatures were safe to release on local islands, one specifically would have been considered invasive: a monitor lizard. Instead of putting it out of its misery, Drake brought it along, building an enclosure for it in his room to sleep in, and weather permitting, allowing it the run of the entire ship.
Named "Jessica" by Blackpol, she enjoys her new life on the high seas and is loved universally by the crew.
Mayweather Blackpol
A man looking for smoother sailing
Age: 44/46
Height:
Occupation: Former drug runner, Drake Pirates' helmsman
Abilities: Reverse Mountain bitch-maker
Hobbies: playing guitar, cards
A former drug runner with multiple successful trips over Reverse Mountain under his belt, when contacted by Lind with a potential job opening, Blackpol, looking for a more stable life far away from less savory parties, agreed to meet with the pair. After they allowed him a brief chance to see how the Hind handled on the sea, agreed to become their full-time helmsman, taking the responsibility off Valerian's shoulders.
After over two decades of high-stress work done under the watchful eyes of crime lords, Blackpol is exhausted. He often comes off as extremely disinterested and emotionally flattened, but despite that, he genuinely enjoys time off spent with the rest of the joined crews and often joins in to play cards and gossip with them.
To the surprise of most, nearly two years after the fact, it's revealed he's been in a relationship with Hakugan of the Heart Pirates. The only reason this became public knowledge was that during a span of shore leave, Hakugan's citrus allergy reared up during a date between the pair, resulting in Blackpol rushing the younger man back to the Tang ASAP for care.
Mallie
A boistrous gunner ready to light some fuses
Age:
Height: 7'2"/220cm
Occupation: Former freelance pirate, Drake Pirates' Master Gunner
Abilities: Indestructible liver, able to parse high level math in her head
Hobbies: Day drinking, explosives enthusiast
Recruited early on, Mallie curbed their expectations swiftly by firmly refusing to share in responsibility of ANY task, but the care and use of the ship's cannons. However, boasting excellent reaction time, unmatched explosives knowledge that included how to make gunpowder from scratch,and an understanding of physics that rivaled Drake's own mathematical skills, the pair acquiesced and thus gained their gunner.
Emmerich
Absolutely creepy
Age: 55/57
Height: 6'2"/189cm
Occupation: Drake Pirates' shipwright
Abilities: self-proclaimed spirit medium
Hobbies: reading, getting high with the Heart Pirates
Recruited early on by Drake and Lind, they sniped Emmerich out from under the nose of Basil Hawkins with a slightly better paying offer. He might not fit the group vibe with the Drakes, but he doesn't care about such things. Anti-social, grumpy, and generally standoffish, he makes exceptions for the Hearts, based solely upon the fruits of their hydroponics lab. He doesn't particularly enjoy the company and would rather disappear somewhere quieter, but the weed is good so he endures.
Contrary to the suspicions of thers, Emmerich CAN see otherplanar entities and isn't limited strictly to the dead. Sensitive to the energies that ships have accumulated through years of service at sea, Emmerich can see and communicate with klabautermann. One of the reasons he agreed to joining the Drakes was due to the overall health and temperament of the Liberal Hind's resident klabautermann.
Despite the fact that Emmerich tends to spend as much time as possible away from others in the dark, partially sedated, the man is jacked and in excellent health, capable of outlasting the majority of younger crewmen in physical labor.
Cassian
The walking liability's guard dog
Age: 29/31
Height:
Occupation: Mercenary, Drake Pirate crewman
Abilities:
Hobbies:
Hired on for his brute strength, he quickly found himself tasked with making sure an extra pair of eyes could be on the accident-prone Valerian in times of chaos, be it the loading of cargo, or a full on sea battle.
SWORD operative from the North Blue and mother of Diez Drake
Exists in: All continuities
Relevant in: Third Corazon
Age:
Height:
Occupation: SWORD assassin
Abilities:
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A hyena Mink serving as a doctor for the Revolutionary forces
Exists in: All continuities
Relevant in: Devil's Polycule
Age:
Height: 8'3"/251cm
Occupation: Former slave, doctor
Abilities: Sulong form, booboo kissing
Hobbies: