Bastiaan (jongen) wrote in off_the_map, @ 2008-03-16 21:44:00 |
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Current mood: | devious |
To Steal A Ship ((Open to Maria de la Luca))
Bastiaan has decided to steal a ship. It wasn't a sudden thought to just cross his mind one morning. It happened about mid day. While he ate a stale biscuit he'd taken off someone else's plate at the Jolly Roger... they were done with it (see: passed out from drink.) He sat beside the snoring smelly sailor, munching thoughtfully. He started watching the docks once again, same as he did a year before when looking for work as a cabin boy.
Bastiaan was raised on Tortuga and has the same history as (probably) all of the other children there. Mother is a prostitute. Not many honest women on the island with no honest men. If being a bastard and having a 'working' mother was ever pointed out to Bastiaan as something to be ashamed of he'd laugh. He's never been off Tortuga and though he's heard a lot of stories even most pirates feel no need to bring up that most children around the world can put a face to their father. Because most of the pirates can;t either. The children that get off the island will figure that out and the ones that don't- just don't. Besides the yelling and accusation of 'whoreson', 'bastard', or 'cockstain' being thrown out in drunken anger the kids are clueless. Bastiaan especially, being the king of only hearing what he wants to hear.
His life was the same as all the other kids. Not different in any way. He's never been to school. His mother is busy working and he runs wild.
Though at a wizened 36, mom is one dried up dutch whore. Bastiaan has to think about how he's going to take care of himself after she dies. He wont have the shelter of the room she pays for if he can't make his own money. And while most mothers tried their best to shove their sons into the arms of blacksmiths, sailors, and the like (while their daughters went to the only three professions open to them) Bastiaan's mother thought the best route for him was in her own line of work. She was hopeless for a better life for him and he seemed suited to it with his smooth delicate face and the way he took things. Nothing touched him so the little bit of her that could still care hoped this wouldn't either.
Bastiaan didn't take well to such things at the age of 11 and ran off. Since then he came home only when he knew his mother was passed out from drink or working so he could curl up in his corner of the room without being pestered to bring money home. He has his own plans of a career. And since pleading, begging, and demanding to be let onto a ship as a cabin boy only turned into more of the same he's come back to the island (never left technically. He was never let off the damn ship in the one port they sailed to) and ready with a new plan.
He finally saw his chance. A Dutch ship. The Zeven Rob docks and off that ships sways and lilts Captain Jack Sparrow. Bastiaan races back to the Jolly Roger and grabs Maria de la Luca, a woman that he can often score meals from with the promise that he'll leave her the hell alone afterward. The boy crawls under a table, waiting for the waitress to come close enough and then grabs her wrist, yanking her down with him.