#seaofthieves

[jeremywhitley]

Canonically trans pirate: Alister St. Marina

So, when we first started the Sea of Thieves comics, the game was still in alpha testing. I got the incredibly cool privilege of rolling up on the Golden Shores before other people even had access, because we were basically launching simultaneously. One of the really cool things about the set up was that we got to create our own crew from scratch and tell a story on the sea when it only had a few legends in it, so we were given free reign. I knew we had a handful of issues to tell the story and I hoped we'd get to come back to them, but nothing was certain.

Some of the characters, namely DeMarco and Lesedi Singh became regular characters in the game, which was something I had never even realized was a possibility. Then, of course, DeMarco's death as a big story in the game. It was the first big mystery. And Lesedi was part of it. We even got to hear Lesedi's voice (I was quietly VERY excited they actually cast a South Asian woman in the part).

That led to a new opportunity! Years after their initial adventures, we got to make a new mini-series called "Sea Dog's Search" which centers Lesedi on her quest to find her brother's lost soul. We wanted to change things up and show that it had been years of adventuring on the Sea of Thieves, so even though we hadn't written years of comics, we wanted to show that their lives had kept on going. Since Lesedi was our focus in the series, updating her look was important to me. In the first comic, she started out looking like this:

Then, in the game, she and her brother founded The Sea Dogs and got sharp matching outfits:

Obviously, she stay's looking fly, but it's worth noting that this was a matching outfit with her brother and much more his style than hers (DeMarco loves clothes and dressing sexy, Lesedi has always been a little more no nonsense). So now that she's out from under the shadow of both her brother and legendary father, we've done some updating to her look. First, she had to get rid of the old one and do a bit of fighting of her own:

Over the years, the variety of what you can wear in SoT has improved so we wanted to give Lesedi something that felt like it had a little bit of who she is and a little bit of her home.

But there was somebody else who hadn't really been in the game whose evolution was perhaps more important to me.

When we had done the first miniseries, I talked with the crew about the possibility of having a trans character in the books. They were excited, but one thing they really wanted in the comics was to make sure that things that characters did in the book were more or less achievable in the game and, at the time, there was no way in the build to change your character's look or gender once you started.

But now, there is! There is a potion that allows you to change the look of your character including their gender. Rare and co was very supporting of us then following through with an idea we had during the first fun that was now possible. I had originally written the character of Alessia St. Marina as a person who was not comfortable in her own skin and had used costumes and espionage as a way to cope with that. She was especially fond of going undercover pretending to be male.

At the end of the mini-series, Alessia ended up getting together with her partner in crime, but she was never able to come out as trans. But it has been a few years both in our world and in the game one, so allow be to introduce you to Alister St. Marina.

He's a smooth talkin swashbuckler who just happens to be married to one of the most dangerous cutthroat women in the world, whom our crew has to rescue from her most recent scrape.

So, thank you very much to Rare, Titan, and everybody else involved for letting us tell this wonderful story and bring the first canonical trans masc pirate character into the Sea of Thieves.

See you out there, you salty sea dogs!

[sapphirekitter]

The beanssssssss!!!!!

[sir-scarab]

The rotating crew of my Sea Of Thieves discord.

[torturedbymemes]

i really like the servant of the flame..,,,,,....

[inkvox]

Doodles from todays 2 hour stream, last one being some pose practice because I adore the pose

[talexior]

Timelapse: https://youtu.be/rfzNaG6GxmU

What could be more badass than a pirate wielding a swarm of bees?

People commission me to paint the coolest characters and I love it!

[i-am-sonson]

Finished my first illustrated map for the Sea of Thieves 🖤 #seaofthieves #seaofthievesart #seaofthievescommunity #gameart #fanart #madewithprocreate (at Matewan, West Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm8FFcGMOtu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[itookpicturesandpostedthemto]

Inktober 17 of 31 for 2022. Cue word “salty” #inktober #inktober2022 #stencil #stenciltober #seaofthieves (at Southeast, Washington, D.C.) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj1x8OPDJKt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[francez1o1]

Golden Sands Propaganda 04

[uberthemeh]

Sea of Thieves is so wild and fun like, u couldbe playing it by urself and meet a random guy decked up in high level gear and he would give you bunch of stuff to sell and help you with ur quest.

AND also during the same game u would meet a ship with a whole crew with people who speak like waluigi and they would just randomly give u an explosive and steal all ur treasuers

Like yeah its annoying but if that isnt the funniest thing to experience in this game idk what is vjdbdhsksn

[moskstraumen04]

Anyone else feel like the Servant of Flame needs like, a lot of therapy? To me it feels like every other line of dialogue is about how much he wants to impress his father

[astarfruity]

Birthday art for my twin! He's a huge sea of thieves fan so I wanted to make something for him! 🌊

[mutineerbay]

#Repost @thibaudzamora ・・・ Space pirate ship exploding near Jupiter. 🌌🏴‍☠️⛵ #aiart #aiartcommunity #generativeart #artistsoninstagram #contemporaryart #digitalartist #digitalillustration #starwars #pirateship #spaceart #spaceship #spaceexploration #spacephotography #seaofthieves #startrek #startrekdiscovery #treasureplanet #jupiter #jameswebb #starwarsart #mandalorian https://www.instagram.com/p/ChwzzvQOZzT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[haikumaven]

Playing more Sea of Thieves today!! So I did another tattoo from the game and pirate wench outfit 🥰☠️ Let's sail together at Twitch.tv/GiveNoEffs 🖤 #selfie #selfies #pirate #piratewench #tattoo #faketattoos #seaofthieves #sot #piratey #piratecrew #cheers #Twitchtv #twitch https://www.instagram.com/p/ChvkVFHNeoS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dvalin]

🔴LIVE on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/dvalin - Time to sail the seas and plunder some gold! New player entering Sea of Thieves. Excited to try out this game again after many years!

[mydarlinq]

MUHH HEEAARRTTT <3