<div class="floatright"><div align="center">(https://i368.photobucket.com/albums/oo122/grizzly/Royce-Closeup.jpg)<br/></div></div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Royce O'Malley</strong></span></span><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><br/><strong>Age:</strong> 22 <br/><strong>Gender:</strong> Female<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong> Bi-sexual<br/><strong>Face Claim:</strong> Not Applicable.<br/><strong>Position:</strong> Midshipman<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong> <br/>Royce can be bright and personable.  She enjoys whatever it is she is doing.  Skilled in many areas of seamanship, Royce is by no means an expert though she is enthusiastic.  Having spent the early part of her life thieving on the streets, she is comfortable with the reallocation of assets that her fingers might come upon, and surprisingly comfortable with illegal activities.  The exception to this would be her current and past crew.  She is loyal to her friends but is a little distrustful of strangers.  Having sailed all around Royce can come across as worldly but she is still naive when it comes to things other than crime and sailing.  <br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong><br/>Royce grew up an orphan on the streets of London.  Her parents had died of illness and she managed to run away before she could be sent to a workhouse.  Living on the streets, she learned thievery as a means of survival and was pretty good at it.  Too good.  She ran afoul of a rival gang and needed to leave the city before she was killed.  Desperate, she managed to finagle her way onto a Royal Navy frigate by pretending to be a boy.  She joined three other boys as Midshipmen on the vessel.  While serving on the frigate, she learned all about managing and maneuvering a ship; navigating by the stars, handling sails and crew, and learning how to read and maths.  <br/><br/>Life as a Midshipman was not easy, but Royce enjoyed it.  She had even impressed the Captain of the vessel during an action such that he mentioned her in his correspondence to the Admiralty.  Eventually her growing body made it harder and harder to impersonate a boy.  When the crew found out, they were conflicted.  They had grown to like Royce but, as a girl, she couldn't serve in the Royal Navy.  Given her admirable service record, it was decided to give her an honorable discharge and not speak of the matter again.<br/><br/>Having discovered a love for adventuring upon the high seas, and having been trained by the Royal Navy, Royce began to work on whatever ships she could find.  Learning her lesson from her Royal Navy days, she tended to not stay on a single ship for too long, or she just found her wanderlust pulling her in a different direction.  She spent most of the time pretending to be a man, which made things awkward when the crew decided to go wenching in port and dragged her along.  Eventually she just stopped pretending.<br/><br/>Royce was in the middle of a crisis of faith, unsure of where her life was going, when she heard about the Esperanza.  She'd heard stories about the ships famous captain and decided that was the sign she was looking for and sought to join her crew.  It might be the start of a grand adventure and things might be different serving under a female captain. <br/><br/><strong>Strengths:</strong> <br/>Royce is an able seaman, having studied the finer points of navigation, weather, gunnery, and sailing.  She has a bit of a reckless streak born from an over-confidence in her skills; swinging on ropes, diving from spars, picking pockets.  She learned how to fight from an early age and can hold her own in a scrap, especially with a blade or pistol.  She can read and swim.  She still corresponds with some of her old Midshipman colleagues, the more enlightened ones, from her Royal Navy days.<br/><br/><strong>Weaknesses:</strong> <br/>She has a soft spot for the Royal Navy, since they 'rescued' her and gave her a new life.  Everyone else is just business.  Royce can be a little naive at times, especially when it comes to being feminine.  Away from the discipline of the Navy, her thieving ways have begun to re-emerge, as has her rough, gutter trash upbringing.  She has trouble trusting people at times, but she has been tricked easily before.  Embarrassingly, she cannot hold her alcohol, despite repeated attempts to build up a tolerance.  Having come from a rough childhood, Royce has a weakness for children and sob stories, which has gotten her into trouble before.<br/><br/><strong>Ons &amp; Offs:</strong>  Offs would be scat and gore. <br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Notes</span></strong> Nothing else at the moment<br/></span>