<div class="floatright"><div align="center">(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5zA9G_HrMvY/S9Hh8O3MKnI/AAAAAAAALG8/iuvKDQl0Siw/s1600/brandon_stoughton8.jpg)<br/></div></div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><br/>Arvad Cree</strong></span></span><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><br/><strong>Age:</strong>  28<br/><strong>Gender:</strong> Male<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong> Straight<br/><strong>Face Claim:</strong> Brandon Stoughton<br/><strong>Position:</strong> Navigator/Cartographer<br/><strong>Personality:</strong> Observant and calculative. He speaks freely only to those he is familiar and comfortable with. He also tries to avoid fighting that he sees as pointless, but refuses to back down if he believes the pros outways the cons.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong> Arvad was born to a father who was in the Royal Navy. The man was very strict and rigid, wanting his son to follow in his footsteps. He seemed to believe that since the Navy had been good for him, it would be good for Arvad. However, Arvad never liked the sound of it. Sure, he would like to travel and see other places and live on the sea, but the Navy sounded like he wouldn't even have time to enjoy it until he rose high enough in the ranks and that could take a decade. <br/><br/>     His father was incredibly persistent and forced Arvad to learn various things about the Royal Navy. Such as ranks, insignias, and flags. He always had a good memory for things he had seen but never really thought much of it until he was being taught to read maps. When he got home, he would draw any new maps he had seen to near perfection as a way to study at home. When his teacher found out he was ecstatic. <br/><br/>     In secret, the two began a plan for him to become a cartographer. If he could get good enough to be apprenticed to a master, he could at least buy himself some years before his father could force him into the Navy. The teacher had told his father it was to make him more valuable to the Navy to keep him in safer areas. His father agreed that that would be for the best, not realizing the true goal.<br/><br/>     When he was 20, he finished his apprenticeship. However, before his father could induct him into the Navy, Arvad ran away, escaping the city. He used his former master's contacts to take ships around the coast, helping to draw current maps for use by sailors and fishermen. However, when he was 28, his father, somehow, found him and intended to drag him back home. Arvad eluded him by sneaking onto a ship in the middle of the night, intent on slipping out before dawn, not knowing that this was The Esperanza. Nor did he know he had snuck onto a pirate ship.<br/><br/><strong>Strengths:</strong> photographic memory, strong work ethic<br/><strong>Weaknesses:</strong> weak vision, semi-nonconfrontational<br/><strong>Ons &amp; Offs:</strong> Same as personal. Has some but not much experience.<br/></span>