When I Was A Lad....

[rix_scaedu]

This is some backstory for one of my Reiassan fanfic characters. aldersprig owns the world and sauergeek selected this prompt.

Buldaveho was leaving home, forever. His brother was getting too bossy and there wasn’t benefit in him staying around for the younger brother to put up with being pushed around all the time. As Gocamo kept telling him, they were barely

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[aldersprig]

Eee! Those aren't pirates!

[rix_scaedu]

No, they're most certainly not!

Captain Lord Urrankanan would be most offended by the suggestion.

[aldersprig]

I realized I'd made a name that sounded suspiciously like "Ukrainian" after the fact but that's a good solid royal name.

[kelkyag]

Oh dear ...

And a very traditional and exceedingly irksome mode of recruiting, too.

[rix_scaedu]

Well, he could have actually found pirates and I question whether that would have been a good thing.

[kelkyag]

I wasn't sure if he was actually trying to sign on as a pirate, or if it just made a good, adventurous-sounding story for leaving home with ~no plan. I'm not sure whether being in the navy is more or less likely to pay him decently, but it seems less likely to get him hung. And it might partially explain his taking an interest in a Calenyen girl, or at least not fleeing from her color sense? :)

[sauergeek]

I wonder if the Navy had never gone, um, "recruiting" in his town, or they left the locals alone. Either way, he got quite thoroughly suckered into the Navy by a tried and true method. Now to see how he deals with the situation. He seems to have come out the other side at least willing to still work on the water...

That said, he may yet meet pirates. He'll just end up -- at least initially -- on the opposite side of things from them.

[rix_scaedu]

Maybe his home town's harbour can't take Naval vessels? too small perhaps?