Victor Severin
Name: Victor SeverinHeight: 6'
Weight: 162 lbs.
Age: 19
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Grey
Complexion: Light (tanned)
Birthplace/Nationality: London, England/French (émigrés)
Description: Victor stands 6 foot, lean but developed frame with steel-grey eyes framed by his short-cut brown hair. His features are decidedly Gallic but he speaks with a solidly Southern English accent. The young man's eyes shine with a native intelligence and curiosity. With his straight, intact, and white teeth he makes quite a handsome figure, particularly when he smiles. While his skin is clear and tanned, it is marred in places by the faint tracery of old scars, particularly his back which bear the stripes of flogging. Additionally, his calloused hands belie the suggestion of a upper-class upbringing and education.
Notes: Friendly, optimistic, and possessing boundless energy in the months onboard the Chance (transit between Liverpool and Bombay took 3 to 6 months) there's hardly a thing any of his fellow travelers don't know about Victor. Assuming at least there is at least some truth to his tales of outrageous fortune.
Kidnapped, rescued and then impressed by the Royal Navy as a powder monkey, serving as a sapper in the Bombay Engineers, surviving the Vellore mutiny, and latter as a surgeon's assistant before returning to England to 'settle some affairs', Victor is quite open with his ambitions and hopes to build a fortune in India given the available opportunities. His enthusiasm would be infectious if his ever ready anecdotal tales didn't seem so collectively absurd.
Still, he tells his tales earnestly and he's always ready to help out or entertain which helps lift spirits during a grindingly long journey.