History:Black Sails Character Wiki CR AU (Optional): Vane spent his first round in Duplicity struggling against the rules of the system and working through complicated new emotions with his castmates and new CR. He planted the initial seed of the boat plot but left well in advance of it coming to tragic fruition. His impact was minimal and most of his memories are limited to personal interactions.
Personality: Positive Trait: LOYAL. Vane has always placed a great deal of value on loyalty, but it wasnāt until recently (shortly before the end of his life) that he stopped equating loyalty with obedience and gave it closer, more nuanced attention. He still values loyalty to himself but shows it to the people who deserve it reciprocally from him without shame; he also learns to make hard choices when loyalties come into conflict, as evidenced when he abandoned Edward Teach (for the second time) to join Flintās rebellion. In the end, all other forms of loyalty came second to Jack and Anne, and to Vaneās belief that Nassau deserved to stay free, in the hands of pirates. In Duplicity, Vaneās loyalty to Jack and Anne persists, and before his disappearance he had been nurturing similar feelings toward Daphne. This time around, with death still hanging over him, he intends to place his dedication to his loved ones over his own conflicting impulses about being contained within the city, bearing a Submissive mark. All subsequent negative traits will be channeled for their protection when necessary.
Negative Trait: RUTHLESS. Vaneās success and survival are entirely a result of his reputation as a man not to be fucked with, and he protects that reputation at the cost of all else, including love and friendship. He is loyal until betrayed, calm until provoked, but once either of those things happen, he retaliates decisively and to devastating effect. This is repeatedly proven over the course of the series, perhaps in most dramatic fashion when he murdered Richard Guthrie and left his manifesto attached to the corpse. Even on a more subtle, personal level, Vane develops as a character not by changing who he is, but by cutting away the parts of him that donāt serve his ultimate goal - when his night terrors about Albinus start to overcome him, he faces the fear by returning to his former master, killing him, and forming a new crew from the former pirate slaves.
Negative Trait: VIOLENT. While pirates in general are more willing to fight and kill, Vane uses them as a default strategy for settling grievances, particularly with people he doesnāt know or trust. Much of his strength lies in his ability to fight and dish out punishment to a significant degree, and he never makes a threat without both the intention and the means to follow through. This is not at all to say that Vane is indiscriminately violent - rather itās that he is not afraid to go from 0 to 60 when given a reason. However, his violent tendencies also run deep enough to make him incompatible with civilized life, something he recognizes and accepts willingly about himself, viewing it as a source of pride. During his first time in Duplicity, he used the Cage in the Down as an outlet for his frustration.
Negative Trait: SHORT-SIGHTED. Vaneās entire life has been a series of jumps from one survival situation to the next, which heās handled with increasing skill, but has also shortened his foresight in return. He does not ascribe sentimental value to things and until very recently in his ālifetimeā could not accept the future as currency, due entirely to the fact that he knew he was unlikely to live that long. Vane attends to his own immediate wants and struggles to look beyond that, toward less palpable rewards. This trait more than any other is one he seeks to transform now that heās looking at either some kind of eternity in Duplicity or nothing.
Powers and Abilities: Very strong and athletic within the bounds of human capabilities. Inventory: Clothes on his back, minus the jacket in the above photo.
round 2
Name: Charles Vane
Door: Previously assigned Submissive.
Canon: Black Sails
Canon Point: Post-death; Duplicity CR from 7 months ago
Age: mid/late 30s
Appearance: still the vibe
History: Black Sails Character Wiki
CR AU (Optional): Vane spent his first round in Duplicity struggling against the rules of the system and working through complicated new emotions with his castmates and new CR. He planted the initial seed of the boat plot but left well in advance of it coming to tragic fruition. His impact was minimal and most of his memories are limited to personal interactions.
Personality:
Positive Trait: LOYAL.
Vane has always placed a great deal of value on loyalty, but it wasnāt until recently (shortly before the end of his life) that he stopped equating loyalty with obedience and gave it closer, more nuanced attention. He still values loyalty to himself but shows it to the people who deserve it reciprocally from him without shame; he also learns to make hard choices when loyalties come into conflict, as evidenced when he abandoned Edward Teach (for the second time) to join Flintās rebellion. In the end, all other forms of loyalty came second to Jack and Anne, and to Vaneās belief that Nassau deserved to stay free, in the hands of pirates. In Duplicity, Vaneās loyalty to Jack and Anne persists, and before his disappearance he had been nurturing similar feelings toward Daphne. This time around, with death still hanging over him, he intends to place his dedication to his loved ones over his own conflicting impulses about being contained within the city, bearing a Submissive mark. All subsequent negative traits will be channeled for their protection when necessary.
Negative Trait: RUTHLESS.
Vaneās success and survival are entirely a result of his reputation as a man not to be fucked with, and he protects that reputation at the cost of all else, including love and friendship. He is loyal until betrayed, calm until provoked, but once either of those things happen, he retaliates decisively and to devastating effect. This is repeatedly proven over the course of the series, perhaps in most dramatic fashion when he murdered Richard Guthrie and left his manifesto attached to the corpse. Even on a more subtle, personal level, Vane develops as a character not by changing who he is, but by cutting away the parts of him that donāt serve his ultimate goal - when his night terrors about Albinus start to overcome him, he faces the fear by returning to his former master, killing him, and forming a new crew from the former pirate slaves.
Negative Trait: VIOLENT.
While pirates in general are more willing to fight and kill, Vane uses them as a default strategy for settling grievances, particularly with people he doesnāt know or trust. Much of his strength lies in his ability to fight and dish out punishment to a significant degree, and he never makes a threat without both the intention and the means to follow through. This is not at all to say that Vane is indiscriminately violent - rather itās that he is not afraid to go from 0 to 60 when given a reason. However, his violent tendencies also run deep enough to make him incompatible with civilized life, something he recognizes and accepts willingly about himself, viewing it as a source of pride. During his first time in Duplicity, he used the Cage in the Down as an outlet for his frustration.
Negative Trait: SHORT-SIGHTED.
Vaneās entire life has been a series of jumps from one survival situation to the next, which heās handled with increasing skill, but has also shortened his foresight in return. He does not ascribe sentimental value to things and until very recently in his ālifetimeā could not accept the future as currency, due entirely to the fact that he knew he was unlikely to live that long. Vane attends to his own immediate wants and struggles to look beyond that, toward less palpable rewards. This trait more than any other is one he seeks to transform now that heās looking at either some kind of eternity in Duplicity or nothing.
Powers and Abilities: Very strong and athletic within the bounds of human capabilities.
Inventory: Clothes on his back, minus the jacket in the above photo.