<div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/kgGom.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name</strong>: Elfi, no last name<br/><br/><strong>Age</strong>: 19<br/><br/><strong>Position</strong>: Ship's slave.  Aboard ship Elfi cleans, mends, shines, fetches, carries, sews, cooks, serves, waits, makes beds, bunks and biscuits, polishes, and will even empty the ship's cat's litter box without being told to.  She also does whatever else Master Captain says to.<br/><br/><strong>Background</strong>: Elfi, born Elfriede, is from a Norwegian group of colonist from Earth That Was.  They settled on St. Albans and eked out their existence mining in the harsh, bitterly cold climate.  How Elfi came to be in the Captain's possession and utterly removed from the close-knit bonds of family and community is not known and she becomes very frightened if questioned about it.<br/><br/><strong>Personality</strong>: Skittish, especially around people whom are upset, intoxicated or rough acting.  Keeps largely to herself and rarely makes eye contact.  Elfi works hard and keeps her mouth shut as much as possible.  She's learned that people prefer not to notice her just as they prefer not to notice furniture.  It's safer that way for their sensibilities and her personal welfare.  The Captain doesn't like too much attention paid to his belongings.  Elfi works hard, comes running when called, but she's not a sexual slave writhing in the ecstasy  of her chains.  She's held very much against her will, though her volition to escape diminishes daily.  She refers to her betters as Master and Mistis unless instructed otherwise and speaks the Captain's name as one might an Old Testament vengeful God.  She's not stupid but she is illiterate and has been described as 'pig ignorant'.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button"> Player Information</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Scenes I’d like to see my character participate in:</strong>  <br/><br/>I'd like to read the opinions of characters on both sides of the slavery issue and, more specifically, how they view and treat Elfi in the light of it.  I would very much like a chance to write with someone who wants her to be free, and with someone who casually cuffs her and treats her like property.  Also, pretty dresses.<br/><br/><strong>Are you familiar with the works of Shan’Yu?</strong><br/><br/>Master Captain has a lot of books.  Some of them are really old and the pages crumble all to dust when you touch them.  I don't know if he has a book about Shan'Yu.  I don't have the gift of letters.<br/><br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button"> Attributes &amp; Skills</div><div class="spoiler_body"><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Physical</strong></td><td><strong>Social</strong></td><td><strong>Mental</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Strength 2</td><td>Presence 2</td><td>Knowledge 1</td></tr><tr><td>Dexterity 3</td><td>Manipulation 1</td><td>Wits 1</td></tr><tr><td>Stamina 4</td><td>Composure 2</td><td>Perception 2</td></tr></tbody></table><br/>Brawl 1  Dodge 1  Stealth 2<br/>Empathy 2  Subterfuge 1<br/>Medic 1  <br/>Domestic 3<br/>Sewing 3<br/>Cooking 2<br/>Massage 2<br/>Scrounging 1<br/>Survival (Cold Weather Only) 2<br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Relationships With Other Characters</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong><br/>The Line</strong> (Ship)  Elfi belongs to the ship, much like a tool or the shuttles.  She's been aboard 8 months and knows the interior intimately from having cleaned it all multiple times.<br/><br/><strong>Braxton Early</strong>(Captain / Master)  Master Captain talks shiny and smart.  He talks about all sorts of things.  Things common folk don't right have the knack of knowing much about.  Things like the government and books with letters all in them and politics and money.  He talks about everything to every person he knows.  Master doesn't talk to me.  That's because I'm not a person, I'm his property.  He likes Master Daniels, even though they powerfully disagree about politics.  He also has a fine big hankering for Mistis Mya, like he can't wait to bend her over the table in the galley and rut on her all fancy like.  I think she'd like that too.  You'd think a man as powerful as Master Captain, as rich as him, would want the best, like Mistis Serenity, but she riles him something fierce.<br/><br/><strong>Richard Dawson</strong> (First Mate)<br/><br/><strong>Lance Daniels </strong>(Engineer)  Master Daniels?  Ain't nothing got bolts or wires he don't know how to tinker with.  Don't know so much about women I reckon.  Mistis Serenity won't play his game of checkers and he's like a moon struck dog around her sometimes.  Makes those eyes of his.  Real pretty if you ask me, but Mistis Serenity ain't having it.  He don't notice me much, less I get in his way or try to go into the engine room.  <br/><br/><strong>Keridwyn "Keri" Jones </strong>(Pilot)  I like Mistis Jones.  She can fly the Line anywhere, even through the eye of a needle in a deep hole at midnight.  When she laughs, I know something powerful bad is going on.  It's how she deals with it, or maybe she just don't fear the Bone Man none.  Don't like me much though, like no matter what I'm doing or not doing it's the wrong thing.  Won't let me see after her bunk and if she ever caught me around the controls I think she'd skin me.  She's smart, wicked smart, but don't have as much book learning as she'd like and that makes her sad sometimes.<br/><br/><strong>Mya Richone</strong> (Ships’s surgeon)  That girl ain't right.  No, sir.  One time, when Master Captain saw me break a plate and was touching me up, I saw her watching.  Watching with heavy eyes and she started putting her hand down 'twixt her nethers.  I don't like to let her touch me or find me alone, even if she is the best sawbones I've ever seen.  She ain't right.  Ain't right at all.<br/><br/><strong>Girias "Cookie" Bomban</strong> (Grunt)   He don't sleep too good, just kind of lays real still but he's still awake.  Got a nasty temper and ain't afraid to let go of it neither.  Likes him some shooting irons.<br/><br/><strong>Sue</strong> (Cook &amp; Grunt)  That man can cook.  Someone ought to get him an apron and take him to wife.<br/><br/><strong>Philemon "Phil" Adricus</strong> (Scoundrel)  Master Phil is the best teacher I never had.  If I'd had him for schoolin' me when I was little, I'd be all fancy now and wearing dresses with lots of silk and lace.  He knows his letters and is learning 'em to me, but I don't get them so good.  He don't get riled much at no one no how.  Spends a lot of time with Mistis Serenity and they ain't making no babies I reckon.  Don't know what they do, but sometimes Master Captain looks towards where they are and I see him frown.<br/><br/><strong>Elfi</strong> (Ship’s slave)  That's me.  I'm Elfi.  Ma named me Elfreide, Says it's the old tongue from Earth That Was and means elf strength.  Don't know what an elf is.  Might be some sort of engine part maybe.<br/><br/><strong>Isobel Smith</strong> (passenger)  Mistis Smith is quiet like, so's you don't notice her.  I know how to do that too, but she's better at it.  People don't see me cus'n they don't want to.  They don't see her cus'n she don't want them to.  She sees plenty though with them dark eyes a' hers.  Sees right into you and weighs your soul in her hand.  Pokes a lot of mean hearted funning at you, but she don't really mean to do no harm.  It's like them spines on a porky-pine.  Got the patience of a spider too.  Saw her one day down by my doss with'n a pair of shackles on the Master uses on me in port.  Locked tight.  Next thing I seed, she had 'em off but I know she didn't have no key.  How'd she do that?<br/><br/><strong>Serenity Sun Kwan</strong> (Companion)  Mistis Serenity?  Oh, she's fine!  She's fancy and fine and shiny and she's so pretty it makes me feel grubby just looking her way.  And smart!  She's always going on about things I don't reckon nothing about, but she don't ever make you feel dumb.  Fact is, Mistis Serenity don't make you feel nothing by accident.  It's all purpose on her part.  Master Captain and Cookie and the others carry around their hog legs and make people feel scared and afeared for their hide being ventilated.  Well, Mistis Serenity has her own six shooter, and it don't sling no lead.  No sir, it slings feelings and them's way more powerful.  Hard to be killing someone when they make you want them, or to cheat them when they make you believe they believe that you're always in church and doing the work of a Shepherd.  If Mistis Serenity wants something, she can have it.  She's right nice too, and her hair is so pretty.  Everything about her is pretty. Her face and her hair and her smile and her dresses.  Dresses!  She has dresses she ain't even wore yet, and frilly underthings and the little umbrellas that don't do no good in the rain.  Gosh.  She's sunshine all wrapped up in nice.  And don't you be calling her a whore neither.  Whores ain't nothing like Mistis Serenity, and she ain't one of them.  She's a lady, proper and fancy and maybe sometimes I think she'd have angel wings if you looked close enough.<br/><br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Equipment</div><div class="spoiler_body">Elfi has the clothes on her back and a few, a very few, more.  They are generally low class, picked for durability and not for style, and not all of them fit properly  She does not own shoes or a warm weather jacket.  She has a heavy wool blanket, an apron, and several bits of cloth to tie her hair back.  A metal collar with a clunky box on one side adorns her neck.  Her only other possession is a small rag doll, carefully hidden away near where she usually sleeps.  It is her most prized possession.<br/><br/><div align="center">(http://i.imgur.com/CuDix.jpg)</div><br/></div></div><br/><br/><br/><br/>