Into a distant island across the salty sea, a remote village with its people surviving from its environment driving how they live their life on the island. However there is one resident in the village who experiences everyday in his life was nothing but pain and sadness from the people who shunned him for being different from everyone in the village. With this person's right arm that has a red mutated claw and having only three fingers, but the whole arm is grotesque being the same colour as his hair and his eyes being a dark bright red. Thus this person's name who has been hated by everyone is Semya called to be a freak among his people, and towards the villagers of his home who despise him greatly, thinking he was the plaque to the god they worshiped, looking different from the rest he would feel tremendously torture from both the young and the adults. Years have passed and Semya has lost a certain loved one. His mother passed away due to a sickness that struck her, dying on her bed and since Semya has no purpose to live anymore. Being mistreated for all his life he sought to end his own life himself. Heading towards a cliff outside of the village rethinking his life choices, since he was born, from being called the village curse, or worse, from gaining an only friend but only losing to him the following day and being blamed for his death with all those harsh memories he would hold dear to his heart for twenty eight whole years especially to his own mother who passed away shortly after he became into his late twenties and he's ready to end it all today soon stepping forward on the edge of the cliff letting himself fall into the murky depths into the sea closing his eyes awaiting for his light to be consumed by the water.
As Semya awaits death to surface him to the skies, however he sees a school of fish swimming around him he doesn't care about to give a thought of why these fishes are swimming away from him until he sees a fishing net heading towards him catching the fishes he tries to swim away but has no strength nor motivation to get away and the fishing net manages to catch him in the depths of the ocean soon pulling him up back towards the surface. When Semya sees the boat he realizes it wasn't just any boat, but he is saved by pirates and sees one of the crew members pulling the net towards the deck.
"Ay lassie I've caught a big one" as the pirate struggles to pull on the net and another one comes to help but the weight they struggle with "Luughead get over here" a female pirate calling for his name for their crew member Luughead Bombardy their muscle heads over towards the other two crew mates helping them tugging on the net pulling with all their might bringing the net up towards the main deck as all three searches what they catch, they mostly find many fishes, scraps, but were surprise for them accidentally catching a person, Semya coughing out the water filling inside him.
"Ay, that's not a shark" the three crew members soon sees his right arm being grotesque thinking he is a threat thus he was quickly subdued and tied him up with little resistance, considering he has no will to live anymore. "Well that was easier than expected. Luughead puts him into the cellar" Luughead proceeds to pick up Semya and carries him all the way down under the deck and towards the cellar. Once Semya was locked up in the cellar he took a long thought of how hard his life puts him into unfaithful situations but suddenly he hears two people talking to each other, he tries to get into a better position in the cell to listen to what these people are saying.
"So what should we do with our little stowaway"
"Ay, I say let him walk the plank"
"Sally, you know the rules"
"Ay, I know Luughead, you don't need to lecture me every time"
From the two bickering with one another Semya got tired of those two trying to find a fate better for him either pushing him aside or letting 'walking the plank' Semya doesn't know what that meant, but can tell it's not good from what the female pirate was speaking to the muscle pirate. But soon he then hears another one's footsteps walking toward the two, doesn't know who, but it stopped the two pirates from bickering as he heard someone speak to them.
"Is there a problem?" The man's voice felt confident, and bold, his words felt simple and straight to the point and felt inspiration from what Semya could hear.
"Oh it's the Captain" one of the pirates said as Semya overheard.
But then they began talking to each other and Semya couldn't get a single hint of what they were planning. It was mostly just bickering with one another but there was one word that caught his attention: 'respect'. Semya doesn't know what they are talking about but the word did give him something to be interested in.
Until he hears someone soon come downstairs towards the cellar, he quickly gets back into position before meeting his new captor pulling out a chair and sitting right in front of Semya.
"So how was our little conversation, stowaway?"
Semya was shocked to speak that knowing his captor knew he was eavesdropping on them, though the Captain swayed the thought away "but anyways stowaway. What are you from" Semya was hesitant to speak, but had no choice but to reply to his question.
"I'm from a village from afar, an island that's where I'm from" his captor slowly observed him but the only noticeable thing he could see was his grotesque arm. "Hm, judging from your arm. It's not like you are popular with your folks"
Semya gives a face of both guilt, and depression, as his captor notices his saddened expression "apology, I understand hearing about your past will hurt you for someone in their late twenties" his captor then takes a deep breath to regain his focus "how about we start off with an introduction. I'm Captain Moed, the leader of Founders Seek, and this ship is also the name of my crew" Founders Seek is the name of the ship, and the name of Captain Moed's crew.
"I guess... my name is Semya, and we'll leave it at that"
Captain Moed nodded "that alright, all I need is your name. It's fine if you want to withdraw any information that's fine by me."
Captain Moed stands up from the chair and unlocks the cell door and unties Semya "why are you untying me"
"Well, Semya, unlike your appearance, this crew has the consistency of misfits like you. Come, I'll show you the ropes" Captain Moed then hands Semya a piece of bread "if your ready" then heads towards the upper deck, Semya couldn't process how captain Moed treated him unlike his crew, with the bread in his hand he then eats it feeling a bit of gratitude and is ready to go meet the others.
(End of prologue)