“THE ROSE CAPTAIN & THE PEARLCHILD”
Recorded at Brine-Mercy Surgery, Port Seabright
Primary Author: Jane Pep (Doctor / Pearl-trained)
Collegium Cross-Note: Filed under Titan-Forged Obstetric Incidents
Name: Captain Rosaline “Rose” Veyra (commonly recorded as “Rose Captain”)
Race: Baseline Human (Titan-Forged: Giant Pearl Host)
Height: ~7 meters
Status: Deceased (childbirth)
Notable Condition: Recent Titan Powder Keg conversion with no secondary Anchor Organ installed.
Appearance
Rosaline was built like a cathedral made of flesh—towering, slender-framed, and unnervingly symmetrical for a Titan-forged body. Her skin carried faint “resonance seams,” thin luminous lines that flared when the Giant Pearl inside her surged. Her hair was worn long and bound with sea-cord, and her scars were not random: they were ritual roses, carved into the skin as both vanity and vow. In lamplight, the scars looked black. Under pearl hum, they looked alive.
Background & Incident Summary
Rosaline captained the Rose Pirates, a small but respected crew known for fast raids and clean discipline. She pursued Titan-Forged power early, surviving the first step—Giant Pearl implantation—only to be ambushed by the cruel truth of the path: surviving implantation is not mastery, it is merely permission to suffer longer.
Before she could undergo her second anchor surgery, she discovered she was pregnant.
Within weeks, the pregnancy did not behave like pregnancy. It behaved like resonance acceleration.
At sea, the Giant Pearl began reacting to the womb—an unstable feedback between maternal slot web, fetal growth, and unshielded torso anchor. The event is now called by survivors (few) The Roseburst: a pressure-like resonance explosion that killed most of her crew, shattered rigging, and left Rosaline adrift and half-burned, still refusing to die.
She traveled south on stolen hulls and borrowed decks, seeking anyone capable of keeping her alive long enough to deliver the child.
She reached Brine-Mercy Surgery in Port Seabright approximately one month after conception. The fetus read as near-term.
On “Alabasta”
Rosaline arrived with evidence of prolonged exposure to a Great Pearl Beast frequency—specifically the signature patterns associated with The Great Monkey Alabasta. The Collegium note is clear: this does not indicate paternity. It indicates imprinting—a phenomenon where prolonged proximity to a Great Pearl Beast can “overwrite” developmental resonance patterns in a fetus, accelerating growth and shaping phenotype. The emotional bond Rosaline carried toward Alabasta was undeniable, but the medical record treats it as attachment and imprint, not biology.
Final Words (Witnessed)
Rosaline remained lucid long enough to place a blood-slick hand on Jane Pep’s wrist and give a single name—recorded, sealed, and not spoken aloud in public ledgers. Her final request was simple:
“Raise him. Don’t make him small.”
She died minutes after delivery.
Name: Kaio “Sun-Vow” Veyra (nickname: “Wukong” in dock slang; change freely)
Race: Baseline Human (Pearl-Imprinted; simian-leaning silhouette)
Age: 12 (current)
Birthplace: Brine-Mercy Surgery, Port Seabright
Core Theme: Willpower so dense it condenses into Yoto—Siddhi Pearls.
Appearance
Kaio grew with the wrong kind of confidence—like the sea itself raised him. He has a high-energy, primate-quick build: long reach, spring-loaded legs, expressive eyes, and a grin that looks like trouble deciding to be friendly. His hair grows wild and refuses most ties. His posture is rarely still; even resting, he moves like he’s already mid-fight.
When his emotions spike—joy, rage, laughter, defiance—small beads of pale resonance sometimes appear near him for a heartbeat, like dew forming in air that shouldn’t hold water.
Temperament
Kaio is bright, reckless, loyal, and impossible to intimidate for long. He is not cruel. He is not cautious. He treats danger like a conversation he plans to win. He laughs easily, forgives fast, and fights like it’s the most honest language in the world.
He has repeated one sentence since he could speak clearly:
“I’m going to become the Pirate King.”
He doesn’t say it like a wish. He says it like a schedule.
The Seven Will-Pearls
By age twelve, Kaio has unconsciously formed seven Yoto pearls through discipline, strain, and raw intent. They are not mined. They are not traded. They are condensed will—rare, unstable, and quietly terrifying to anyone who understands pearls.
Kaio refuses to “upgrade” them, even when offered larger pearls, because of a childhood memory: when the first formed, his dying mother’s lesson (repeated by Jane Pep) became law in his head:
“There are bigger ones. Don’t chase size. Chase control.”
Each will-pearl tends to manifest around a personal truth (examples commonly observed):
a pearl that sharpens reflex when he decides not to hesitate
a pearl that hardens skin when he refuses to yield
a pearl that steadies footing when he refuses to fall
(Exact effects are best left to class/feat design or DM assignment—what matters is the source: will.)
Upbringing
Jane Pep raised him like a problem you solve by surviving it. He learned medicine basics by necessity (bandages, infection, splints, pearl burn care) and learned violence by living near docks. Brine-Mercy became his home, the Patchyards his playground, and the Gilded Gull the place he was repeatedly thrown out of for being twelve and acting forty.
He calls Jane Pep “Doc.”
He calls Port Seabright “my first ship.”
Relationship to Alabasta
Kaio is marked by Alabasta’s resonance pattern the way some sailors are marked by storms: not owned, not controlled—simply touched. Whether Alabasta ever speaks to him, watches him, or ignores him is unknown. But Pearl-trained ears swear the boy’s will-pearls sometimes hum on the same “calm line” as the Great Monkey’s Great Pearl.