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[B]Name:[/B] James Jeremy Hooke
[B]Age:[/B] 48
[B]Gender:[/B] Male.

[B]Skills/traits:[/B] Having a long history in the navy spanning from his late teens to his late thirties, Hooke is a disciplined and resourceful military man in all manner of endeavours. While not necessarily the smartest individual he is a strong leader figure with a keen mind, able to adapt and react when the situation deems it necessary and has access to a surprisingly sharp tongue when he needs to use it. It was enough to have earned the respect of his fellow crew members and have them accept him as their captain. His time crewing a boat has left him with stronger sea legs than those he used for land and he is skilled in all aspects of life on open waters.

[B]Personality:[/B] Hooke is a good man with ultimately good intentions. His causes are just by any standards and some of his escapades could be considered heroic if he were willing to give them a little extra flair. His life has been straight laced, organised and guided by one prevailing ideal. Protection of those who cannot protect themselves. Hooke will tell you that this is not enough to make a man a hero and in spite of it all he knows his chances to be one, if he had ever had one, have long passed.

In recent years his mind has been clouded by a fury and chaos he has never felt before, negative emotions driving every aspect of his being and tipping him a little more over the edge each day. Hell bent on revenge for what one man did to him many years ago, Hooke has an obsession with the criminal underworld and is willing to do anything in order for it to be rooted out. His methods are never quite as noble as his goals and he is willing to pave a way with blood should he need to. Hooke has never given up and while he carries a much darker weight on his shoulders than before he is still strong and stalwart to his cause.

[HIDER=History]With a home far off from Arcadia, Hooke feels somewhat out of place in the sprawling city. He was born in England, Buckinghamshire, as the youngest of three children to two moderately wealthy land owners. He idolised the two of them, even if his contact with them was limited. When they were not around, which was often, Hooke was cared for the various nannies that were hired for him or the tutors who were brought in to teach him. Later he was cared for by the various teachers and staff at Eton, the boarding school which he was quickly shipped off to when he grew old enough. Looking back, Hooke wonders why he cared so deeply for both his parents. He barely knew them and barely saw them, but despite this he still clung so tightly to them.

His years at Eton were swift and some of the least memorable of his life. He did not remain there for a significant amount of time though, later educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, until he was eighteen. With the adequate training and education to make something of himself in the navy, Hooke became a junior naval officer in the British military. His abilities impressed his superiors and the appropriate promotions followed. It was not until his late thirties that he would finally commandeer his own ship however, the HMS Jolly Roger, but for a long while he would serve under its captain.

With global crime on the rise, the primary role of the HMS Jolly Roger was engaging smuggling and pirate vessels and apprehending the crew and cargo so that they could be dealt with properly. Hooke proved to be quite skilled at managing the crew for his captain and quickly gained his favour. As the years passed, one name continued to crop up among the criminals that the ship apprehended; “Peter Pan”. Many of the imprisoned criminals seemed to consider him a vague leader, or at least a business partner, and it was enough for an investigation into his identity and location to take place.

The HMS Jolly Roger was the first recorded British vessel to come into contact with Pan’s own pirate vessel, a small but quick boat with no name and few discernable features other than the forest green sails it sported. The Jolly Roger was caught off guard by the smaller ship, along with a healthy number of gunboats and frigates which supported it, and was bombarded by military-grade weaponry. The Jolly Roger’s captain ordered the crew to fire back defensively, which they did, but the ship had already suffered significant damage and had little chance of winning a battle with so many ships. They fled for a while until the engines were damaged, not enough to cripple the vessel but enough to slow them down.

Peter Pan’s ship rode up alongside the Jolly Roger, almost mocking its inability to defend itself, and offered the military vessel a second chance to escape if it offered up its goods. Stocked with guns, ammunition, food, and supplies, it was a ripe target for the pirate ship. Hooke only saw Peter Pan for a few moments, a small and thin man, almost child-like in appearance, with thick red hair and a green coat, but it was enough to send a chill down his spine. He carried the look of a man twisted and disturbed, evil in more ways than one, and Hooke remembers wondering if the figure before him was even real. Yet here he was, aboard the Jolly Roger, threatening Hooke’s captain to hand over all he owned or watch his crew sink into the murky abyss of the ocean.

Stealing the ship’s supplies and shooting the captain in the heart despite giving his word that the entire crew would go unharmed,, Pan abandoned the ship and left it to return to England and tell tales of “the dreaded pirate king, Peter Pan,” words which he himself used. As the highest ranking officer aboard the ship, Hooke guided the limping Jolly Roger home. For keeping calm under such stressful circumstances and managing the crew through a traumatic time, Hooke was promoted once more to the point of governing his own ship. He took control of the HMS Jolly Roger which had since been repaired, the ship needing a new captain, and continued its role hunting sea-faring criminals.

Now under command of his own ship, Hooke continued the work of his late successor. However, meetings between the Jolly Roger and Pan’s vessel were all too frequent. From passing light skirmishes to the slightest glance of forest green sails off in the distance, Hook felt the looming watch of the ship at all times. He grew paranoid of the ship and the elusive pirate king, his desire to capture Peter Pan swiftly turning into an obsession. He constructed plans to bottleneck the ship or destroy it for a distance, finally getting his revenge on the bizarre individual. These plans were enacted without proper authorisation, something which Hooke lied to his crew about, and soon one of these attempts would go horribly wrong.

Attempting to draw Pan into an ambush, Hooke’s own ship was suddenly attacked by a large group of ships from the pirate’s fleet. Tired of his interference, Pan brought down hell-fire on the HMS Jolly Roger before any of the crew could react. The majority of them were killed in the bombardment; others were knocked into the sea and drowned. The remainder of the crew were captured, including Hooke, and if it were not for the intervention of another military vessel, the HMS Susan Constant, then the entire crew of the Jolly Roger would have surely been killed. The remaining crew were spared, if only for a short while, and were brought down into the ship’s storage bay to be contained. This was second time that the crew of the Jolly Roger had nearly been killed by Pan’s fleet, and the desire for revenge grew stronger still. This feeling grew even stronger in Captain Hooke, whose desire to capture Peter Pan twisted into a need to kill him.

Rather than kill him, Pan took a great interest in Hooke. Much of his crew were boring and of little use to him but Hooke was more than that. Pan saw a great fury in the man’s heart that inspired him, and despite the atrocities he inflicted on his other prisoners he made sure that Hook remained alive. Tortured, yes, but alive. Pan’s ship was on a course to Arcadia, a city in the United States, with Hooke in tow, and before he arrived to conduct business he decided to give Hooke a grand send-off as a reward for all the amusement he had given him.

Pan cut the man’s hand clean off, tossing it into a large cage which Pan kept in his cabin; the salt-water crocodile inside quickly tore Hooke’s hand to shreds. Pan then tossed Hooke into the ocean, perfectly content to let him drown. If it had not been for a passing fishing boat which arrived shortly after Pan left then he might have done. His wounds were tended to as best as they could be and Hooke asked to be left in Arcadia.

If it had not been for a young boy called Chip Potts, another prisoner of Peter Pan, then Hooke would have no leads to follow. However, the boy had told him of a man by the name of Lumiere who lived in Arcadia. He knew a great deal about the crime that flooded the city, and if anyone could help Hooke enact his revenge against the legendary Peter Pan, then it was him.[/HIDER]

[B]Other:[/B] Hooke had his entire left hand removed by the pirate Peter Pan. Having lost the hand entirely it has been replaced with a metal prosthetic hand that, with the tensing of an arm muscle, can open and close. The grip is weak, making it difficult to do anything particularly dexterous, but the metal is strong and with gloves it can easily pass as a real hand.