#old cloudbeard

[thegoodmorningman]

Good Morning!!! Just wait until you see what I want to do to the Constitution!!!

[teethlabyrinth]

This grizzled seadog has lost since left the sailing life, but he’s still got plenty of tales to tell! Cloudberry Cookie, a transplant from the Hollyberry Kingdom, is famous in his corner of the Créme Republic for three things: his endless seafaring stories, his easygoing personality, and his immaculately fluffy beard. In his old age he mostly works with his young charge Blackstrap Cookie, who he met at sea many years ago — in the then-youngster’s first and last boat trip — in an encounter with pirates! He says he's happy to have left that life behind, but he occasionally looks at the old sunweathered bounty posters with a nostalgic glint in his eye.

behold mister cloudberry, humble one-armed merchant, mentor and father figure to blackstrap cookie, and DEFINITELY no relation to the dread pirate captain cloudbeard, who mysteriously vanished from the high seas one day...

Hohoho… would ye like to hear a story?

Have I ever told ye the tale of the time I met the Seaberry princess? Wait… I’ll tell ye when yer older. 

Have I ever told ye about meetin’ the Durianeers on the high seas? An’ livin’ to tell the tale!

Have I ever told ye of when a volcano erupted while I was passin’ it? Things heated up quick.

That reminds me of me old hunt for the lost city of Sugarteara... Never found it!

That reminds me of the time I accidentally shipped barrels of black powder instead of juice! Surprisin’ when I went for a drink, I’ll say that much. 

Let’s see this shippin’ manifest… Huh? That ain’t right. Where’re those darn sailors?!

Where’s young Blackstrap Cookie? I had a question about our latest shipment…

I prefer to avoid the docks, meself. What use is a one-armed old man to our strappin’ young employees?

I don’t regret losin’ me arm, ye know.

I actually used t��be quite handy with a sword! Heh, handy.

he sank the ship a young blackstrap and his family were immigrating to the créme republic on, and in a late-coming attack of conscience, saved who would become the only other survivor of the attack, losing his arm in the process. while recovering from that, young blackstrap (whose memories of the event are vague at best, due to being 5 years old and traumatized at the time) gradually grew close with the “sailor” who saved him, and the former captain cloudbeard’s black heart slowly thawed towards the good natured, easygoing boy.

he realized eventually that he seemed to have gotten away with it, as his bounty posters were all out of date and black-and-white to boot. he decided to fully embrace his new life as cloudberry cookie, helping to put blackstrap through school and eventually becoming co-founder of their mercantile company. he still avoids the docks, ostensibly because he can’t help the sailors as an elderly one-armed man, realistically because captain caviar and a few other navy sailors would definitely be able to identify him and threaten his much-enjoyed current way of life.

he’s 40 years older than blackstrap, and currently 65. there’s definitely a sword in his cane! and you can’t teach an old dog new tricks...