FanChar:Snowsfall:Nikita

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Nikita Name Nikita Birthplace Russia Age as of Act: I~III Unknown Gender Female Height Five Feet and Eight Inches (5'8") Weight 51 kg. Hair Color Black Eye Color Brown Blood type O Negative Weapon Khanda Family Her mother, (whom she addresses Praskovia) died when she was young. Character's Theme Quuatamo (6:50)

Brief Biography

Nikita hails from a line of violence as most would imagine, but not one many would assume. Her father was killed by his father in a fit of rage. As she heard it, a staff was used to kill her father. She dwells on this rarely, but she cannot undo the past, especially for one whom she had never met.

Her birth mother had given her to another to tend to the child. For fear of her late husband's father to kill the child, this is what was done. Nikita spoke rarely to her mother over the years. After her death, Nikita simply left. She set foot to ship and headed out.

She learned of what her father was like but also, she learned of who he was. As Praskovia Solova told Nikita,

While on board, she met a young woman by the name of Ryia. She was a wonder that one: golden brown eyes and long blonde hair marked her as she was. She was also shorter than most women of the time, standing at 5" 3' and practically dwarfed by Nikita. The two quickly became friends due to Ryia's fear of people. The ship docked in The Canaries, Spain.

From here, they sought out work.

Piracy

Over the course of months, Nikita kept Ryia close as her friend and ally. Teaching her swordplay whenever Ryia was up to learning yet, that was rare. Instead, she taught Ryia about trade. This she picked up on well and even liked learning about the different routes and items sold. Nikita taught her of signs of the weather, basic tracking, and various dangers of the wild ranging from animal territory to human camps. She seemed overly interested in the human camps more than anything which Nikita did not initially take notice in.

As they returned in the Canaries, they sought to learn what else they could do. Nikita had been running out of ideas. Out of no work and no gold, she sought expeditions and ambushes. Ryia disagreed with the line of thought, but with constant letdowns, she soon followed without question. With following, the duo headed for England. Nikita sought out the tavern, an ideal place for information as well as drunks to pickpocket, but of all things, she sought work.

To her luck, she heard of a man with the idea of circumnavigation. Upon this information, she sought out the man named Cavendish. They spoke of his training and ideas as well as her experience, with this done, and after a long debate of why women are incapable of this and that, he acceded and accepted her help. She planned for a vessel to be built while he thought the same, this said, they both headed the designs of their ships. He with the Desire, a 120 ton sailing ship while Nikita's was only half that weight. Her vessel was named Content. A mate of Cavendish brought along a third ship deemed Hugh Gallant.

"This is it love, you ready to explore?"

"M-maybe..."

Nikita cracked a smile.

"Don't fret, you'll be on board with me!"

"That's what I'm worried about."

Now she eyed Ryia with irritation in her gaze.

"You can't be mad at me for being honest!"

From Plymouth, they set sail. It was July 21st and things couldn't be going better. Despite the time it took to reach the Magellan Straight, (January of the following year), their stores of food began to run low. It was with a short time that they docked in Punta Arenas, in order to search for food. Here, they killed penguins and salted them afterwards. Two barrel fulls of penguin was a fine eat. Yet, the trek about the area was not done. The three ships explored Tierra del Fuego in hopes of finding anything more. To their disappointment, there was nothing found aside from few hostiles and additional navigation.

Weeks later, they came across Spanish ships. Nikita spoke on boarding the ships stealing things by night, however, Cavendish ignored the idea. He went on an assaulted the ships and listened to Nikita only when Hugh Gallant lost a majority of her men. The final and ninth ship, they waited and boarded the ship by night. This raid was by far the most successful and least costly to their numbers opposed to assaulting them in broad daylight.

This success did not stop Cavendish from intentionally sinking the Gallant. This was done to add the dwindling numbers to the Desire and Content.

With the final ship taken, Cavendish beat a pilot into submission in order to gain information on what they were truly after: A Manila Galleon. A Manila Galleon was a Spanish trading ship or ships that made voyages twice a year across the Pacific Ocean from the port of Acapulco in New Spain. From here, it traveled to Manila in the Spanish East Indies.

Ryia noted that the ship seemed to change names depending on where it had been sailing from. Nikita also noticed this while Cavendish thought it strange as well. Truth told, this was what the case had been. Ryia also noted that most of the goods came from China and were shipped from Manila and that it had also been called La Nao de la China which she translated to mean "The China Ship".

"Do you question why I brought her now?"

Cavendish said nothing to Nikita's gloating but still pointed out that Ryia could not kill a penguin. Ryia frowned as this was brought up again, however; he did not discredit her on her contribution.

The ships set sail once again. Despite it now being October, they were hopeful they had beat the Galleon here. Yet, as such, they stopped near Mazatlan in order to make needed repairs. After this brief stop, they picked back up.

Ryia told of another hunch she had. After talking to Nikita about it, Nikita spoke to Cavendish about this ambush that Ryia spoke of. Believing it a good idea, they were ordered to wait for time and more, until, November 4rth. It was this day which Ryia had spotted the Galleon, their mark. Patrols were quickly set and soon enough, they gave chase.

The Galleon had not tried to swivel and fire upon them, which Nikita noted that they likely had no cannons. She had predicted this aead of time due to the fact that several nations had a small hand in this setup, that said, they probably didn't feel the need to arm themselves...or thought such a big ship wouldn't be taken so easily.

As such, Nikita thought it best to use the Grape Shot instead of trying to blow a hole in the ship as Cavendish originally thought of doing, or the Chain Shot to destroy the mast.

After a several hour chase the English ships overhauled the Galleon, called the Santa Ana. With a name such as that, it had to come from New Spain. They had no cannons on board as Nikita had predicted. From here, the battle had erupted. Hours of battle had come and gone which Cavendish now chose to use the Grape Shot into the Galleon, despite their best attempts at fighting back with small arms, it was in the end, futile. The Galleon, Santa Ana, was now starting to sink, and after moments of silence, she finally struck her colors and surrendered.

There had been an issue though: the size of the Galleon put the Content and Desire to shame and this limited what could be looted. They had to pick and choose what to transfer to the Content and Desire. In the end, all the gold had been loaded upon the two ships, spices, wines, musks, damasks, silks and ship's supplies were what had been taken. However, a small uprising had occurred where a man had tried to kill Cavendish, his subordinate had been killed and the killer had been gunned down by Nikita. Unfortunately, this man had been steering the Content, and with him dead, this left Nikita to command the Content; with her, had been Ryia.

As they spoke on of what to do, Ryia noticed Cavendish taking prisoners. This wasn't what anyone had agreed to, but he had gone on and did what he wanted.

Cavendish kept with him two Japanese sailors, three boys from Manila, a Portuguese traveler familiar with China, and a Spanish Navigator. To add insult to injury, Cavendish set the Galleon afire--much to everyone's disapproval. On the Seventeenth of November, they made their trek across the Pacific.

As legend goes, the Content was never heard from again while the Desire avoided conflict as it made its return.

This was what truly set her on her path as a Raider, but most importantly, this is what set her off for years to come.