Zooey "Pigeon" Ansbacher

[pomelo]

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Name  Zooey "Pigeon" Ansbacher
Nickname  "Pidge," but she HATES this.
Age  Early 20s
Gender  Female
Species  Human(-ish)
Ethnicity  Mixed
Height  5'3" / 163 cm
Occupation  Smuggler Crew
Residence  The Cloud Skimmer

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Physical Description
Zooey's appearance reflects her mixed, whirlwind upbringing. Though she's clearly mostly human, her ethnicity is entirely unclear. And she couldn't tell you herself! Caramel skin, large brown eyes that are so dark they're nearly black but with flecks of gold and turquoise, and hair that is a mess of curls and coils making a mane that doesn't quite reach her shoulders and, though mostly a mix of dark browns, contains the odd turquoise curl. A tad shorter than average, Zooey has a fairly athletic build; after all, it's a lot of work crewing a ship! An odd feature about Zooey that suggest she might not be one-hundred percent human are her ears. Rather than normal ears, or even pointed elf-life ears, Zooey has what could only be described as "goat-like" ears. Long and covered in soft brown fur, they're angled back and downwards; only if Zooey is very surprised do they perk up in alarm. She's a bit sensitive about them, though, and they were a constant source of teasing when she was a child.

It could be said that Zooey looks like a bit of a tomboy, but this is more out of practicality than anything else. She wears boots, trousers, and either a tunic or shirt, maybe with a bodice. But Zooey tries to add a bit of a personal touch to it; she quite likes bright colors, and might add a green sash here, a purple belt there, a yellow scarf, etc. Furthermore, she wears at all times a set of gold cuff bracelets and a necklace with a simple oiled leather cord and a pendant of jade shaped like a fishing hook. The bracelets were a gift from her sister on her sixteenth birthday, and Zooey treasures them. The fishing hook she doesn't really know the meaning of; it was the only thing of worth she had on her when Uncle Joe picked her up. But she likes to tell herself that it's from her real parents, though.

Personality
A bit of a goof. She's also very superstitious. A side-effect of growing up alongside sailors. Also probably because she can be a bit naïve. Growing up a smuggler, her ethics might occasionally seem questionable to others, but she has a good heart, and acts sometimes as the conscience of the Cloud Skimmer.

Magic/Abilities
Unlike her "sister", Dolores, Zooey has no particular magic skills. However, she has a dead-on sense of direction that inspired her nickname and ship name,  "Pigeon."

Relationships
Cassiel - Cassiel is an odd mix. The size of a rather large cat, Cassiel can only be described as half-cat and half-dragon. His head and body are more cat-like than dragon-like, though his ears are webbed like a dragon's and his canines are rather too large, but his hind quarters become decidedly dragon-like, with a thick dragon's tail, a series of spikes down his spine, and bat-like dragon wings. His fur is an inky, purple-black that mixes into oily-black scales with a purple-green sheen. He has large cat's eyes of golden-yellow that are curious and intelligent. Indeed, Cassiel is at least as intelligent as Zooey, and fully capable of talking! Zooey found him as a "kitten" and he's been by her side ever since.

He looks like this!
Art Credit Eric Scales

"Uncle" Joe Ansbacher - A Yoreiqi sailor who picked up Zooey living as a sick orphan, left to starve on her own in port town after all the orphanages turned her away because of her "devil's mark." He took her in and raised her more or less as his own, alongside Zooey's "sister", Lo. Uncle Joe himself was adopted as a teenager by a Serenian sea captain, Joseph Conrad Ansbacher III and brought onto his ship to work as the cabin boy, slowly working his way up to first mate. "Old Joe Conrad", as the Serenian captain was always called, had passed away before Zooey came aboard the ship, but Lo and Zooey took his name, just as Uncle Joe had done.

Dolores "Hawkeye" Ansbacher - Zooey's "sister" and captain of the Cloud Skimmer. It's her air magic that keeps the Cloud Skimmer afloat, as it were. Zooey and Dolores, despite not actually being related, are pretty typical sisters: always at each other (and Zooey was always teased and dismissed by her big sister), but at the end of the day, they fiercely love each other. [More on Dolores here.]

History
She has one!

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