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Franceline Drake might be called a precocious pirate, having gone to sea with her father, Cornelius Cid (himself a famous pirate in his day), when she was barely old enough to walk--against, it might be added, the express wishes of her mother. When she was sixteen her mother enrolled her in a school for young ladies, but she had barely been imprisoned there a week when she ran away--this time with a handsome young sailing man who proved to be a pirate. What happened to that young fellow is something of a mystery, but Drake's piratical career can certainly be traced to that time. She has since become such a nuisance to trade that Camembert, the richest and most powerful nation in the Quadra Terrarum, has sent an elite officer to track her down and bring her to justice.
Drake, the Eschaton and the Quadra Terrarum are (c) me.
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Maybe someday I'll actually get back to her story? Wouldn't that be neat!
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very very much so, yes.
I realllly need to catch up; you had a second book, didn't you?
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Haha, I have plans for a second book. I started writing it, and it was terrible, and then life happened. >_<
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Thanks kindly! And thanks for the 
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Question: Is she based off of Sir Francis Drake?
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Her name is, but that's about it, really. More of a tribute, I guess.
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Oh, I thought so, I read something about the real person, and it sounded familiar. So hows the story? Are you going to post it anywhere?
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Keep a weather eye on the horizon... I'm self-publishing, and the book should be ready to buy very soon!
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Sooon, sooon, my precious. After I finish the illustrations. End of next month, maybe?
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Wow, she is very young. 
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Thank you!
She is old for her age--seen a lot of the world, and most of what she's seen didn't impress her too much.
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Cool character. I love the design, in particular her pirate-esque (is that even nearly a word?) clothes. I like the way you have made slight adaptations since 'The red coat'
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Piratesque is a fine word!
Thanks!
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Man I love pirates, yours are awesome!
I like the way you use colors, very much like animation movies, or cartoons. And the tones you use for each character fits a lot the personality they show with their expressions and all.
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A distant relative to Sir Francis Drake? O_o; Yar, command the Golden Be-Hind and capture those Spanish Galleons full of gold and plunder that armada! Spanish dogs! >D
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Eh, more like an alternate universe namesake, really. If Francis Drake were a girl. Yeah.
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wow an awesome character indeed! The image struck me since I have the same uniform as she has on the left! haha so fun to see! Great drawing!
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Thanks for the comment!
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the second suit this very detailed, although both feels to her very well
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Aye! She's ... um. Precocious. And impatient. She wants everything--right now!
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Camembert? Camembert? 
For that matter, Eschaton is a freakin' awesome name for a pirate ship. I wish I had thought of it.
Oh well, I have my vast catalog of ship names stolen liberally from ancient myth. *cuddles his copy of Graves' Greek Myths and Lattimore's Homer* They work quite well.
Oh, and very nice character too. I like the name, especially as (or so my father's side of the family claims) Sir Francis was supposedly an ancestor of mine.
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Ancient myth is the best source for ship names! Huzzah for Homer (though I prefer Virgil, myself)! And huzzah for Sir Francis Drake, too!
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I've learned to respect Vergil after many years. Back when I read him in college, he felt like like a copycat Homer/propagandist and I hated the Aeneiad but I've since reread parts and enjoyed it. One of these days I'll read the whole thing again...
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Well, he is a copycat Homer and a propagandist, and the whole poem is basically, "Look at how great Rome is--especially my fabulous patron, the great and mighty Augustus!" But you can't help but have affection for it after you've had to slog through it in the Latin--or at least, I can't--and besides, Virgil is the best character in Dante's Divine Comedy! (Which has nothing to do with the Aeneid, but still ... one feels there might not have been a Divine Comedy without Virgil, and that would have been a mighty shame.)
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I'm so with you on the character of Virgil (I always want to spell it Vergil for some reason) in the Comedy. Dante's character of himself bugged me at various points, but I always enjoyed Virgil.
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I suppose you prefer "Vergil" because it's closer to the Latin spelling?
Dante was amusing, though: "I saw something scary ... and swooned!" He faints his way through the afterlife.
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Yeah, it wasn't fair. The dogs, indeed.
Now I have an urge to read Dante again.... another thing on the list of things I don't have time to do.
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Huzzah for having more things to do than time to do them in! 
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very interesting... I must get a copy of one of your stories some time. I am really curious of how all of these characters intertwine. Beautiful artwork!
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beautiful! her design is probably my favorite, i so gotta draw her someday!
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XD Thanks, neko! I think it'd be great if you drew her!
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WOW I LOVE HER DESIGHNNNN sooo much! <3 heh shes so cool!
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You do NOT know how much I love your character designs. Purely amazing.
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