Post by Captain Anne Brennan on Sept 30, 2014 20:03:29 GMT
Anne's colours
Character Basics
Name: Captain Anne Brennan
Alias: Anne Bonny, Anne Cormac, Anne Burleigh, Anne Teach
Nicknames: Anney, Big Red (because of her larger than life personality/notoriety
and red hair), Rosebud (by Blackbeard)
Age: late 30s/early 40s
Appearance
Looks: red hair as fiery as her spirit, green eyes lined with kohl, fair skinned, many freckles, plenty of dirt under her fingernails because she's
never been afraid of a little hard work.
never been afraid of a little hard work.
Scars, tattoos, other marks: stretch marks from her many pregnancies, a few scars across her hands and arms but anything else is long-since
healed or not visible because it is usually covered by her clothes.
healed or not visible because it is usually covered by her clothes.
Portrayed by: Anna Friel
Personality and Stats
Basic Personality: --
Occupation: Pirate, Captain of the Fata Morgana
Allegiance: to herself, above all else!
Abilities: Combat with a sword and pistol alike. She usually keeps her nails long because they can be just as deadly. When she finds herself
in a physical fight, she does so quite dirty and is not below any cheap shots. She's a keen navigator, and knows how to command loyalty
from her crew. She can be as scary as her male counterparts, and just as charming.
in a physical fight, she does so quite dirty and is not below any cheap shots. She's a keen navigator, and knows how to command loyalty
from her crew. She can be as scary as her male counterparts, and just as charming.
History
Birthplace: Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland
Family: William Cormac, (father)
Mary Brennan, (mother, deceased)
James Bonny (1st husband, divorced)
John "Calico Jack" Rackham, (common-law husband, deceased)
~ 2 children (whereabouts unknown)
Joseph Burleigh (2nd husband)
~ 10 children (only 5 survived past infancy)
Edward Teach / Blackbeard, common-law husband
Mary Brennan, (mother, deceased)
James Bonny (1st husband, divorced)
John "Calico Jack" Rackham, (common-law husband, deceased)
~ 2 children (whereabouts unknown)
Joseph Burleigh (2nd husband)
~ 10 children (only 5 survived past infancy)
Edward Teach / Blackbeard, common-law husband
Friends: Jomo Freeman, lover & First Mate
Jannick Stryder (former lover)
Jack Sparrow (former lover)
Mary Read (deceased)
Jannick Stryder (former lover)
Jack Sparrow (former lover)
Mary Read (deceased)
History: Bonny was born about 1697 (or thereafter) in Kinsale, Cork County, Ireland, the daughter of attorney William Cormac and
his maidservant, Mary Brennan. Cormac separated from his wife and, for a time, raised Anne disguised as a boy (passing her off as a
relative's son). Once the scandal was revealed his legal business was irreparably damaged and so Cormac moved the family to Charles
Towne, South Carolina where, after earning new wealth as a merchant, he bought a large plantation.
At first, Anne's family had a rough start in their new home. Her mother died shortly after they arrived in North America. Her father
attempted to become an attorney there, but did not do well. Eventually, Anne's father joined the more profitable merchant business
and accumulated for the two of them a substantial fortune.
When Bonny was 13, she supposedly stabbed a servant girl in the stomach with a table knife. Bonny was a red-haired beauty and
considered a good catch. She married a poor sailor and small-time pirate named James Bonny. James Bonny hoped to win possession
of his father-in-law's estate, but Anne was disowned by her father.
There is no evidence supporting the story that Anne Bonny starteda fire on the plantation in retaliation, but it is known that sometime
between 1714 and 1718, she and James Bonny moved to Nassau,on New Providence Island in the Bahamas. New Providence was then a
sanctuary for English pirates. Many received a "King's Pardon" orotherwise evaded the law. It is also true that after the arrival of Governor
Woodes Rogers in the summer of 1718, James Bonny became an informant for the governor.
While in the Bahamas, Anne Bonny began mingling with pirates in the local taverns. She met the John "Calico Jack" Rackham, captain of the
pirate sloop Revenge, and became his mistress. They had a child in Cuba, although this child's ultimate fate is unknown. Many different
theories state that it was left with friends, died during birth or was simply abandoned. Anne rejoined Rackham and continued the pirate life.
While she and Rackham were back in New Providence, James Bonny dragged Anne before Governor Rogers, demanding that she be flogged
for adultery and returned to him. There was even an offer for Rackham to buy her in a divorce-by purchase, but Anne refused to be "bought
and sold like cattle." She was sentenced to the flogging, but later Anne and Rackham escaped to live togetheras pirates. Anne, Rackham, and
Mary Read stole the Revenge, then at anchor in Nassau harbour, and put out to sea. Rackham and the two women recruited a new crew. Over the
next several months, they were successful as pirates, capturing many ships and bringing in an abundance of treasure. Anne did not disguise
herself as a man aboard the Revenge as is often claimed. She took part in combat alongside the men, and the accounts of her exploits present her
as competent, effective in combat, and respected by her shipmates. She and Mary Read's name and gender were known to all from the start,
including Governor Rogers, who named them in a "pirates wanted" circular published in the continent's only newspaper, The Boston News Letter.
Although Bonny is one of the best-known pirates in history, she never commanded a ship of her own. Her renown is because she was a rarity: a female pirate.
In October 1720, Rackham and his crew were attacked by a "King's ship", a sloop captained by Jonathan Barnet under a commission from the Governor
of Jamaica. Most of Rackham's pirates did not put up much resistance as many of them were too drunk to fight; other sources indicate it was at night
and most of them were asleep. However, Read, Bonny, and an unknown man fought fiercely and managed to hold off Barnet's troops for a short time.
Rackhamand his crew were taken to Jamaica, where they were convicted and sentenced by the Governor of Jamaica to behanged. According to Johnson,
Bonny's last words to the imprisoned Rackham were that she was "sorry to see him there, but if he had fought like a man, he need not have been hang'd
like a Dog."
After being sentenced, Read and Bonny both "pleaded their bellies": asking for mercy because they were pregnant.
In accordance with English common law, both women received a temporary stay of execution until they gave birth. Read died in prison, most likely
from a fever, though it has been alleged that she died during childbirth.
There is no historical record of Bonny's release or of her execution. This has fed speculation that her father ransomed her; that she might have
returned to her husband, or even that she resumed a life of piracy under a new identity.
The popular rumour is that Anne's father managed to secure her release from jail and bring her back to Charles Town, South Carolina, where she
gave birth to Rackham's second child. On December 21, 1721 she married a local man, Joseph Burleigh, and they had 10 children.
Some claim that she was smuggled away by her father, and that this was made possible by his far reaching and favorable merchant connections.
This is a probable solution to the mystery. After all, her father's business connections had saved Anne a number of times before. Rackham's crew spent
a lot of time in Jamaica and the surrounding area. Although the crew, including Anne, was discovered or caught on a number of occasions, Bonny always
escaped punishment and harm. This was probably because of her father's business contacts in Jamaica.
As it goes, there is always truth to rumour. Anne had in fact been smuggled away by her father and brought back to Charles Towne where she gave
birth to her and Calico Jack's second child. She also did marry Joseph Burleigh, though it was a loveless marriage. However loveless, she did give him
those 10 children, even if only half of them survived infancy.
Never having been marriage or mother material, after about a decade of living a simple life as a wife and mother, Anne decided enough was enough.
She had been having an affair with her black servant Tom and promised him that if he assisted her in fleeing the home in the night to find passage
to the Caribbean on a ship, she would take him with her, thus granting his freedom. He agreed quite readily. The pair took off together in the dead of
night and bartered passage on a merchant ship to Nassau where they arrived after a couple weeks of sailing. Once there, she began going under the
name of Anne Brennan; Brennan having been her mother's maiden name. Tom also returned to his original Kenyan name of Jomo and took on the
surname of Freeman.Together they found passage again on another ship, this time to Tortuga where Anne came to meet Captain Hector Barbossa who
had just recently taken over the Black Pearl after leading a mutiny against its former captain, Jack Sparrow, and marooning him. Barbossa, unaware of
his curse settling in from the Aztec gold, was also without any colours. Anne made him a deal: if Barbossa helped her get a ship of her own, he could
have the infamous Jolly Rogerof her late lover, Calico Jack; the black flag with the skull and crossed swords. Barbossa was intrigued and welcomed Anne
and Jomo aboard the BlackPearl. She was there to witness the first time Barbossa and his crew appeared as ghastly skeletons in the moonlight. As
unnerving as it were, Anne took it in stride, having witnessed a few odd things during her tenure with Calico Jack and Mary Read.
It wasn't long before the Black Pearl overtook an Irish merchant ship and as part of their arrangement, Barbossa gave it to Anne and she gave him the
Jolly Roger which he hoisted immediately. Anne and Jomo sailed off on their new ship, which she named the Fata Morgana. She soon sailed back to
Tortuga where she recruited a crew of her own.
A couple of years later, she met up with Blackbeard who had faked his own death years before off the coast of North Carolina. When he saw the
Fata Morgana, he had initially intended to attack and pillage the ship until he saw that it was captained by Anne. He remembered her as Calico
Jack's "woman" from a meeting once before his supposed death in 1718 when she was just a young thing. He decided against attacking her ship
and welcomed her aboard his, the QueenAnne's Revenge. They had a sit down and partnered up for a time, taking on merchant ships and even
Naval ships together, splitting the bounty down the middle between their respective crews. She even allowed him to take her as one of his many
common law wives. So long as she was not tied down to any man,she was happy. And he was not one to be tied down either. It worked for them.
Eventually the two parted ways, promising to meet up when they could from time to time to share their "marital bed".
About a year or two later, Anne met up with Captain Jack Sparrow, who was once again without a ship. Apparently the ship he had stolen had just
sunk and was needing a new ship to sail on. It just so happened that Anne let him aboard hers. At first he annoyed her, with his chatter and erratic
mannerisms. But he was also charming and devilishly handsome, so she found no problem taking him to her bed. It was really his talent betwixt the
sheets that kept him on her ship. That is, until one night he tried to take the ship from her. The mutiny attempt did not work and she made him walk
the plank and then sailed away.
Over the next few years she took to smuggling to the Colonies because it brought more variety to the Colonies when the EICo and the British Government
tried to control everything and only wanted to give the Colonies a few items at a high price and tax and second rate items. It was lucrative to her
but she mostly kept to piracy, somehow evading being "brought to justice". Perhaps it was all her years of experience helping her to learn from past
mistakes and perhaps it was the allies she's built up that would come to her aid in times of need. Maybe she was just clever.
More recently she has made the brief acquaintances Anastazia Elisabeth de Colbe; a Lady, plantation owner, and ship owner of the Resurrection, though
secretly a pirate and smuggler. She's also made the acquaintance of Captain Jannick Stryder who she has taken to her bed for a short period of time.
Actually, there isn't many pirate captains she hasn't taken to her bed. Anne is, after all, a strong and independent woman, a pirate captain, who
knows what she wants and has needs she makes sure get met., and ship owner of the Resurrection, though secretly a pirate and smuggler. She's also
made the acquaintance of Captain Jannick Stryder who she has taken to her bed for a short period of time. Actually, there isn't many pirate captains she
hasn't taken to her bed. Anne is, after all, a strong and independent woman, a pirate captain, who knows what she wants and has needs she makes
sure get met.
his maidservant, Mary Brennan. Cormac separated from his wife and, for a time, raised Anne disguised as a boy (passing her off as a
relative's son). Once the scandal was revealed his legal business was irreparably damaged and so Cormac moved the family to Charles
Towne, South Carolina where, after earning new wealth as a merchant, he bought a large plantation.
At first, Anne's family had a rough start in their new home. Her mother died shortly after they arrived in North America. Her father
attempted to become an attorney there, but did not do well. Eventually, Anne's father joined the more profitable merchant business
and accumulated for the two of them a substantial fortune.
When Bonny was 13, she supposedly stabbed a servant girl in the stomach with a table knife. Bonny was a red-haired beauty and
considered a good catch. She married a poor sailor and small-time pirate named James Bonny. James Bonny hoped to win possession
of his father-in-law's estate, but Anne was disowned by her father.
There is no evidence supporting the story that Anne Bonny starteda fire on the plantation in retaliation, but it is known that sometime
between 1714 and 1718, she and James Bonny moved to Nassau,on New Providence Island in the Bahamas. New Providence was then a
sanctuary for English pirates. Many received a "King's Pardon" orotherwise evaded the law. It is also true that after the arrival of Governor
Woodes Rogers in the summer of 1718, James Bonny became an informant for the governor.
While in the Bahamas, Anne Bonny began mingling with pirates in the local taverns. She met the John "Calico Jack" Rackham, captain of the
pirate sloop Revenge, and became his mistress. They had a child in Cuba, although this child's ultimate fate is unknown. Many different
theories state that it was left with friends, died during birth or was simply abandoned. Anne rejoined Rackham and continued the pirate life.
While she and Rackham were back in New Providence, James Bonny dragged Anne before Governor Rogers, demanding that she be flogged
for adultery and returned to him. There was even an offer for Rackham to buy her in a divorce-by purchase, but Anne refused to be "bought
and sold like cattle." She was sentenced to the flogging, but later Anne and Rackham escaped to live togetheras pirates. Anne, Rackham, and
Mary Read stole the Revenge, then at anchor in Nassau harbour, and put out to sea. Rackham and the two women recruited a new crew. Over the
next several months, they were successful as pirates, capturing many ships and bringing in an abundance of treasure. Anne did not disguise
herself as a man aboard the Revenge as is often claimed. She took part in combat alongside the men, and the accounts of her exploits present her
as competent, effective in combat, and respected by her shipmates. She and Mary Read's name and gender were known to all from the start,
including Governor Rogers, who named them in a "pirates wanted" circular published in the continent's only newspaper, The Boston News Letter.
Although Bonny is one of the best-known pirates in history, she never commanded a ship of her own. Her renown is because she was a rarity: a female pirate.
In October 1720, Rackham and his crew were attacked by a "King's ship", a sloop captained by Jonathan Barnet under a commission from the Governor
of Jamaica. Most of Rackham's pirates did not put up much resistance as many of them were too drunk to fight; other sources indicate it was at night
and most of them were asleep. However, Read, Bonny, and an unknown man fought fiercely and managed to hold off Barnet's troops for a short time.
Rackhamand his crew were taken to Jamaica, where they were convicted and sentenced by the Governor of Jamaica to behanged. According to Johnson,
Bonny's last words to the imprisoned Rackham were that she was "sorry to see him there, but if he had fought like a man, he need not have been hang'd
like a Dog."
After being sentenced, Read and Bonny both "pleaded their bellies": asking for mercy because they were pregnant.
In accordance with English common law, both women received a temporary stay of execution until they gave birth. Read died in prison, most likely
from a fever, though it has been alleged that she died during childbirth.
There is no historical record of Bonny's release or of her execution. This has fed speculation that her father ransomed her; that she might have
returned to her husband, or even that she resumed a life of piracy under a new identity.
The popular rumour is that Anne's father managed to secure her release from jail and bring her back to Charles Town, South Carolina, where she
gave birth to Rackham's second child. On December 21, 1721 she married a local man, Joseph Burleigh, and they had 10 children.
Some claim that she was smuggled away by her father, and that this was made possible by his far reaching and favorable merchant connections.
This is a probable solution to the mystery. After all, her father's business connections had saved Anne a number of times before. Rackham's crew spent
a lot of time in Jamaica and the surrounding area. Although the crew, including Anne, was discovered or caught on a number of occasions, Bonny always
escaped punishment and harm. This was probably because of her father's business contacts in Jamaica.
As it goes, there is always truth to rumour. Anne had in fact been smuggled away by her father and brought back to Charles Towne where she gave
birth to her and Calico Jack's second child. She also did marry Joseph Burleigh, though it was a loveless marriage. However loveless, she did give him
those 10 children, even if only half of them survived infancy.
Never having been marriage or mother material, after about a decade of living a simple life as a wife and mother, Anne decided enough was enough.
She had been having an affair with her black servant Tom and promised him that if he assisted her in fleeing the home in the night to find passage
to the Caribbean on a ship, she would take him with her, thus granting his freedom. He agreed quite readily. The pair took off together in the dead of
night and bartered passage on a merchant ship to Nassau where they arrived after a couple weeks of sailing. Once there, she began going under the
name of Anne Brennan; Brennan having been her mother's maiden name. Tom also returned to his original Kenyan name of Jomo and took on the
surname of Freeman.Together they found passage again on another ship, this time to Tortuga where Anne came to meet Captain Hector Barbossa who
had just recently taken over the Black Pearl after leading a mutiny against its former captain, Jack Sparrow, and marooning him. Barbossa, unaware of
his curse settling in from the Aztec gold, was also without any colours. Anne made him a deal: if Barbossa helped her get a ship of her own, he could
have the infamous Jolly Rogerof her late lover, Calico Jack; the black flag with the skull and crossed swords. Barbossa was intrigued and welcomed Anne
and Jomo aboard the BlackPearl. She was there to witness the first time Barbossa and his crew appeared as ghastly skeletons in the moonlight. As
unnerving as it were, Anne took it in stride, having witnessed a few odd things during her tenure with Calico Jack and Mary Read.
It wasn't long before the Black Pearl overtook an Irish merchant ship and as part of their arrangement, Barbossa gave it to Anne and she gave him the
Jolly Roger which he hoisted immediately. Anne and Jomo sailed off on their new ship, which she named the Fata Morgana. She soon sailed back to
Tortuga where she recruited a crew of her own.
A couple of years later, she met up with Blackbeard who had faked his own death years before off the coast of North Carolina. When he saw the
Fata Morgana, he had initially intended to attack and pillage the ship until he saw that it was captained by Anne. He remembered her as Calico
Jack's "woman" from a meeting once before his supposed death in 1718 when she was just a young thing. He decided against attacking her ship
and welcomed her aboard his, the QueenAnne's Revenge. They had a sit down and partnered up for a time, taking on merchant ships and even
Naval ships together, splitting the bounty down the middle between their respective crews. She even allowed him to take her as one of his many
common law wives. So long as she was not tied down to any man,she was happy. And he was not one to be tied down either. It worked for them.
Eventually the two parted ways, promising to meet up when they could from time to time to share their "marital bed".
About a year or two later, Anne met up with Captain Jack Sparrow, who was once again without a ship. Apparently the ship he had stolen had just
sunk and was needing a new ship to sail on. It just so happened that Anne let him aboard hers. At first he annoyed her, with his chatter and erratic
mannerisms. But he was also charming and devilishly handsome, so she found no problem taking him to her bed. It was really his talent betwixt the
sheets that kept him on her ship. That is, until one night he tried to take the ship from her. The mutiny attempt did not work and she made him walk
the plank and then sailed away.
Over the next few years she took to smuggling to the Colonies because it brought more variety to the Colonies when the EICo and the British Government
tried to control everything and only wanted to give the Colonies a few items at a high price and tax and second rate items. It was lucrative to her
but she mostly kept to piracy, somehow evading being "brought to justice". Perhaps it was all her years of experience helping her to learn from past
mistakes and perhaps it was the allies she's built up that would come to her aid in times of need. Maybe she was just clever.
More recently she has made the brief acquaintances Anastazia Elisabeth de Colbe; a Lady, plantation owner, and ship owner of the Resurrection, though
secretly a pirate and smuggler. She's also made the acquaintance of Captain Jannick Stryder who she has taken to her bed for a short period of time.
Actually, there isn't many pirate captains she hasn't taken to her bed. Anne is, after all, a strong and independent woman, a pirate captain, who
knows what she wants and has needs she makes sure get met., and ship owner of the Resurrection, though secretly a pirate and smuggler. She's also
made the acquaintance of Captain Jannick Stryder who she has taken to her bed for a short period of time. Actually, there isn't many pirate captains she
hasn't taken to her bed. Anne is, after all, a strong and independent woman, a pirate captain, who knows what she wants and has needs she makes
sure get met.