Template for signing up: Aoife (Ee-fa) | Female | Pan | She/her | 19 | Rig Medic | Accused of a crime she didn't commit | At bottom | Notes and creds | A small silver locket, containing a single image of a laughing red-haired girl, and a ivory hair clip/comb that once belonged to her mother, | She has a good personality, and can get along well with pretty much anyone. (I speak Gaelic/Irish, so you will see that pop up) And she's fully Irish, with the accent gently curving around her words, much like my accent irl. I grew up speaking everything from Moroccan Arabic, to Norse. We made our own language at my house even if I grew up in America.| Appearance: Aoife is petite at 4'5, yet her slim but curvy physique suggests a robust strength. Her alabaster skin creates a dramatic backdrop for her features. Her face is a classic heart shape with striking high cheekbones and a dusting of freckles scattered across the bridge of her nose. Her large, expressive eyes possess a rare and captivating beauty: one is a vibrant, lush emerald green, while the other is a warm, piercing liquid gold. Her long hair is a deep, dramatic black, worn in a beautiful cascade of loose, undulating curls, a pattern shaped by years spent by and on the sea.
Aoife: The Scarred Healer and The Promise The Orphaned Life and the Emerald Isle Born in the docklands of Dublin, Ireland, in the late summer of 1963, Aoife and her younger sister, Sorcha, grew up as orphans. Their mother died in childbirth; their father, a merchant sailor, was perpetually "MIA." Aoife, the eldest by a year, became Sorcha's fierce, sole protector. Her petite physique came from a hardscrabble life, constantly fighting for their survival. Her deep, black hair, worn in sea-shaped curls, is a physical mark of her childhood spent in the salty air of the harbor. To keep them healthy, Aoife apprenticed herself to a local, back-alley medic, gaining the practical, life-saving knowledge that makes her the Rig's indispensable Healer/Medic today. Her striking heterochromia—the vibrant emerald green eye and the piercing liquid gold eye—was a constant source of comment, often drawing both attention and suspicion on the docks. The Tragedy and the Frame-Up (Age 15) When Aoife was 15, Sorcha was caught up in the affairs of a powerful Irish crime syndicate with illicit ties to the financing of the Montgomery Bravo. Sorcha stumbled upon evidence of their conspiracy and was murdered. Aoife found her sister and was immediately framed for the crime. Her history of protective aggression was expertly manipulated by the syndicate, and she was wrongly convicted of Sorcha’s murder. She spent four years (age 15 to 19) imprisoned, turning her immense grief into a cold, determined resolve. The Escape: A Promise Kept (Age 19, 1982) The "Scottish Release" in 1982 found Aoife at 19 years old. She did not sign up for the Montgomery Bravo primarily to exact vengeance, but for a deeper, more profound reason: to live her life, the kind of life Sorcha would never get to have. She carries the crushing weight of her sister’s death, and the best way she can honor Sorcha's memory is to survive and experience the freedom that was taken from them both. She knows the rig is headed to a remote location off the coast of the United Kingdom—a known operational area for the syndicate. She believes that by getting there, she can expose the truth and finally clear her name, but that is secondary to her core commitment: survival. Aoife's Role on the Montgomery Bravo On the crumbling, five-year-old rig, two weeks out to sea, Aoife is the reluctant, vital anchor for 4,000 desperate criminals: The Healer: She is the only functioning medic, constantly treating injuries, managing infections, and rationing meager medical supplies. Her skill is non-negotiable, granting her a strange, protected status among the crew. Aoife remains quiet, focused, and fiercely independent. The criminals mistake her quiet diligence for killer instinct, but her true drive is a powerful, loving promise to a dead sister. She is an innocent woman, wrongly accused of the ultimate betrayal, fighting to survive aboard a floating coffin and find a true, free life in the vastness of the North Sea.
