#Ren was gonna cover his face in some fashion anyway so the scarf and paint combo works hehehehe

[ashren]

WIP wednesday with Pirates ™ on the brain thanks to ofmd

So I guess enjoy Ren as a Pirate ☠️

I truly cannot believe i haven't thought about this before and i have so many thoughts on a pirate AU swimming around in my Brain

some (or a lot of) brain worms about his backstory under the cut!

-Ren came from a high society type background, but gave that all up to marry a merchant sailor, Jonathan Daley.

-Ren (Who is known as Lauren up to this point) joins Johnny on his ship, The Hope, where he learns how to sail and becomes part of the crew. At this point Johnny and the crew call him Ren and use he/him pronouns for him.

-One day they enter an unsuspected fog, and while lost and unable to see, the ship is attacked. They attack back, still unable too really see much beyond the vague shape of the attacking ship, but they're not well equipped for a sea battle.

-Ren and the first officer, Nyoka, are the only people who survive and they realize they were attacked by a British Royal Navy ship who mistook them for a pirate ship they'd been chasing

-They're taken aboard the British ship where they try to spin some story, but the actual pirate ship isn't too far behind ~~~

-Captain Alex Hawthorne of the Unreliable quickly overtakes the British Ship and Ren is able to convince Hawthorne into letting him and Nyoka go.

-Nyoka leaves when they make landfall, but Hawthorne offers Ren a spot on the crew, and, now fueled by anger toward the British Navy, Ren accepts.

Flash forward a few years~

-Poor Captain Alex Hawthorne died in a freak accident (that sounds sarcastic but i do not mean it to be, he genuinely dies in a freak accident) and his very capable first mate Ren Daley is voted in as Captain.

-Ren takes over ship and takes on the name 'Hawthorne', afraid that Ren Daley will be too recognizable. Thus, he becomes Captain Ren Hawthorne of The Unreliable.

obviously i have a lot more rattling around in my noggin too, like Ada being a person who was part of Alex's crew but not really she was just kinda there, and no one knows anything about her except Alex.

i also have ideas for the rest of the crew- Nyoka will come back to work for Ren at some point, Felix they pick up at the docks (lol), Ellie joins after Ren saves her from idk something and she feels like she owes him. Plus they need a doctor

Parvati I think would also have been on Alex's crew before Ren took over, but he picked her up from a merchant ship she was on. She talked them out of attacking her ship, and Alex convinced her to join his crew and leave Reed's ship cuz he sounded like a dick Alex may be a bloody thirsty pirate but he was protective of his crew.

Max has a LOT of fun potential too, i haven't even delved into that one quite yet but uh priests of MY pirate ship ??? it's more likely than you think

So yeah PIRATES

this is legit all i was thinking about today at work lmfao and thank u and bless u if u read this far