"Lady" Erika — Captain of the Princess Blood
Nassau, 1716. The Golden Age of Piracy is at its peak.
Mixed Heritage: european/ Afro-Carrabean. Chocolate skin tone with grey eyes.
She appeared out of nowhere in 1715 — a runaway slave who followed a pirate crew onto their ship and never looked back. Within a year, she had seduced a Spanish captain, drugged his crew, stolen his warship and renamed it the Princess Blood.
Nobody laughed.
Born on a Jamaican plantation, daughter of the master and one of his slaves, Erika grew up caught between two worlds — educated in the manor like a lady, then thrown into the fields like cattle when her father died. She learned to read, to write, to play chess, to play harpsichord. She also learned that the world would never give her anything. That everything had to be taken.
At Nassau she found something she never expected: a place where it didn't matter where you came from. Where a woman with grey eyes, scars on her back and a stolen warship could sit at the same table as Benjamin Hornigold, Samuel Bellamy, or Edward Teach.
She earned that seat.
Captain. Strategist. Survivor.
The Princess Blood flies no flag but her own.
Created Feb 19
Updated May 2
Published Feb 19