Honoria Crabb

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PLAYER

NAME: Blue
CONTACT: bluecitrine / in the game discord
ACTIVE TIMES/PACE:UK (BST), but I stay up stupid late; speed varies from boomeranging to a few days most of the time.
BRACKETS/PROSE: Either depending on partner and what I’m feeling. Will match.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Nothing to outright avoid, but warnings for anything relating to death by cancer would be appreciated.

IN CHARACTER

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Not actually the touchiest person by default, but not outright opposed either, you'll have better odds with adequate friendship.
PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: Let’s talk. Crabb's a strong but mundane human, but she's also experienced in a scrap and willing to throw down to defend herself. Always open to spars, though.
RELATIONSHIPS: Let’s talk, theoretically open. Has baggage up the wazoo about relationships. In Sail, she's officially dating Erin and has something building with others, but she's poly and bisexual.
PSYCHIC & PSIONIC INFORMATION: No powers, no defences.
MAGICAL INFORMATION: No magic, no defences.
MEDICAL INFORMATION: Generally healthy, though really she’s taken far too many cracks to the head in the last few years. Various scars around from various cuts and scrapes she’s had, including the signature one on her forehead.
OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS & TRIGGERS: Nothing major I don’t think.

OUT OF CHARACTER

BACKTAGGING: I’ll generally backtag as long as someone else is willing, don’t begrudge dropping older threads though either.
THREADHOPPING: Ask first.
FOURTHWALLING: Ask first, probably not though.
NOT INTERESTED IN:

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

VISUAL: Slightly above average height black woman with short, dark brown afro hair with a fade, with eyes that have been described like 'river stones'. Not slender, but her actual muscle isn’t obvious in clothes. Scar on her face where she took a knife to the forehead and one across the bridge of her nose. Butch clothing choices through and through, always practical. Looks good in teals.
AURAL: Technically has the lilt of a Gallerian accent, which is from somewhere in the French/Swiss/Italian region, but you really wouldn’t go wrong imagining her sounding like a kinda cockney rough and tumble woman from a British period/cop drama going by her word choices. Expressive.
DEMEANOUR: Crabb is crabby, but it’s not necessarily directed at anyone she’s just a scrappy soul with limited reserves of true chill. She’s very expressive unless she’s trying not to be, especially facially but also lots of gesturing. Can be almost comically reactive to things, sometimes.

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PLAYER
Name: Blue
Age: 25+
Contact: bluecitrine
Permission Post: Here
Reserve: N/A

CHARACTER
Name: Honoria Crabb
True Name: Honoria Crabb
Canon: Lavender Jack (Season 3 Act 2, episode 103; the day after the attack on the Margrave Building by an undead fake Lavender Jack sent to attack the Lavender League, Crabb and Ferrier having just been told it’s Lord Hawthorne back from the dead somehow.)
Age: 33
History: I'm so sorry there's no wiki for this one.

Honoria Crabb is from the early 1900s in an alternate history Earth, specifically the small city-state of Gallery, situated "somewhere between France, Italy and Switzerland", with some sci-fi flavour. We know next to nothing about Crabb's youth, but it can be assumed she grew up in Gallery as her parents Paulo and Christine still live in the city-state, and that her family was poor but not destitute. She started working as a police officer at around 19 and climbed ranks at a seemingly normal pace up until she foiled an assassination attempt on the Lord Mayor by getting between him and his assailant. In doing so, she earned not just a scar on her forehead from his knife, but the mayor's favour, and she was propelled from Constable to Chief Inspector. She spent the next four years doing her duty to her city, until Lavender Jack emerged and things took a turn.

Lavender Jack emerged on the scene by exposing six high society members as being duplicitous, corrupt and generally morally lacking by stealing and leaking their private documents. Crabb and her officers failed to capture him and the mayor called in Madame Theresa Ferrier, world-class detective, to figure out his identity and track him down. Crabb was not happy, but did her job anyway, and over the next few months they pieced together the puzzle of Lavender Jack's identity and motives. They started off with every intention of capturing Lavender Jack, but when they found him they ended up assisting him as, over the course of their investigation, the murders of his previous targets combined with emerging information about a shady investment company revealed that he was not the villain in this story—the elusive Lady and Lord Hawthorne, and associates, were. Crabb learned to recognise that doing the right thing is not always the legal thing, and together as a group they managed to expose Lady Hawthorne, kill Lord Hawthorne, and otherwise bring some amount of justice. At a cost, as Chief Justice Gall—himself associated with some shady elements of Gallery's high society—ended up in power in the aftermath.

Ferrier left Gallery, and Crabb continued to cooperate with Lavender Jack (otherwise known as Lord Bastrop and his partner in crime, Ducky) whilst trying not to get in too deep, which she failed at spectacularly. Before long she, Ducky and Bastrop were essentially operating as the 3-person team behind Lavender Jack after a new villain emerged: the mysterious Black Note, who had all of Lavender Jack's dramatics but less of his morals. All this over the top of an ongoing and very corrupt mayoral election. Crabb gets into all sorts of trouble whilst they chase down this mystery, lowkey falls in love with a man called Tom Broadfoot that turns out not to be Tom at all and in fact is the Black Note, grows more and more into her roll as a detective, and after they figure it all out and minimise the damage done, she quits the police force.

As Bastrop and Ducky are forced to flee the country, she and Ferrier stay behind and set up a detective agency running out of the Margrave Building owned by one Johnny Summer. War breaks out outside Gallery's borders and within two years Gall, now backed up by Lady Hawthorne who he sprung from prison to deal with the looming threat of his secret fraternity's meddling, is dragging Gallery into the war, too. Crabb and Ferrier are employed to find a missing journalist who was trying to find out about a secret military project and do, right as Bastrop and Ducky return after also hearing news of things turning dire in Gallery. And things are dire. There's an undead Lord Hawthorne masquerading as Lavender Jack, a shady and destructive military project called Postscript, and so much more happening.

Powers/Abilities: Crabb's a normal human person with no special abilities to speak of, but she is both experienced at hand-to-hand (often with multiple opponents) and tenacious enough to fight people far bigger than her, plus a decent shot with a revolver and an old-school rifle. She's growing into her intelligence and deductive skills more and more by the day, becoming quite the detective. She also has very basic field medicine skills in that she can and will clean her own wound with alcohol and bandage it with her own torn clothes if she has nothing else to hand.

Inventory: She's wearing a white button-up shirt, a black tie, suspenders holding up brown trousers, knee-high brown boots and a pair of gloves, plus a very private-detective looking brown trench coat. She's got an envelope with a Nightjar printed on it in her inside pocket, and in her other pockets there's a revolver with 5 bullets; a notepad and a pencil; some very crumpled bandaging and a small bottle of vodka that she literally only has on her as an emergency wound cleaner; and a couple smelling salts.

Job History:
Constable, Gallery Police -
- Flatfooting, aka basic patrol work.
- Protective detail at political events. Saving the mayor from a knife to the back.
- Arresting those implicated in crimes and processing their charges.

Chief Inspector, Gallery Police -
- Overseeing the activities of other, lower ranked officers and assigning them duties.
- Overseeing and organising protective detail at political events.
- Investigating major crimes, e.g. the Lavender Jack problem.
- Arresting those implicated in crimes and gathering evidence, talking to witnesses, etc.
- (Begrudgingly) investigating her boss's political opponents.

Member of the 'Lavender League' -
- Getting into fist fights with various fighters hired by members of Gallerian high society to interfere with her.
- Assisting Lavender Jack by sneaking around and being the feet on the ground that can get into the nitty gritty of things without being suspicious, and (whilst still employed as an officer) get into police records, locations, etc.
- Generally investigating the activities of suspicious parties related to Lavender Jack's latest mystery.
- Occasionally calling Bastrop and/or Ducky out in ways others might not.

Private Detective -
- Investigating matters brought to them by members of Gallerian society that can't turn to the police (missing people possibly killed by the state, proving implicated people's innocence, etc.)
- Talking to prospective clients and proving her skills in a short time.
- Talking to witnesses, gathering the kind of evidence the police can't or gathering evidence before the police can.

Suppressions:
- Crabb once responded to someone describing having a well of righteous anger that he tries to suppress but often fails by saying he 'mostly just sounds like her'.
- She also has an insatiable desire to know the truth at the core of every mystery; these days, she chases this far more often than she doesn't, and it took her a while to get the patience to properly investigate such things.
- Her biggest fears are being underground, in the dark, or alone, but on more than one occasion she's suppressed these when the situation calls for it. Mostly in service of the above.
- There's some complicated feelings there about what she began to feel towards the idea of Tom Broadfoot, two years out and knowing what she does it's mostly something she's past, but there were implied to be months where that relationship was building and finding out the truth knocked her for quite the spin.
- There is always a chance that one day she really might get in over her head when no one's around to save her, and somewhere she knows this, but she's not let it stop her so far.

Greatest Fear: That she'll fail her people and fail her city, by fumbling or simply not managing to do what needs to be done to save them and it from the corruption the Lavender League are trying to root out.

Greatest Desire: To figure out the root of the mysteries still plaguing and corrupting Gallery, to put all those pieces together and do something about it with as few people getting hurt in the process as possible.

Greatest Regret: Falling for the act of/starting to actually fall for 'Tom Broadfoot' (aka Cecil Cragen aka the Black Note) and not seeing through the act sooner, meaning he was allowed to go undiscovered for far longer and far more lives were lost than if she'd figured out something was fishy from the beginning.

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