Petros surveillait la bataille en cours à bord du navire. Une tactique, viser des hostiles mais ne jamais tirer, était devenue une routine pour lui en peu de temps sur le navire. Il n'avait aucun doute que cette ruse finirait par lui causer des ennuis, mais pour l'instant cela a servi à le garder sain d'esprit. En réalité, Petros n'était pas aussi à l'aise que certains de ses coéquipiers quand il s'agissait de tuer. Bien sûr, il se défendrait si un pirate le précipitait un jour, mais étant donné que son style était le mieux utilisé dans les lignes arrière- il ne semblait jamais y avoir beaucoup de chance de cela. Après tout, entre Fletcher, les pilotes, et l'équipage dans les lignes de front- les incidents ne semblaient pas durer pendant très longtemps. Les ennemis ne sont jamais allés très loin, et il a toujours fini par se sentir comme une escarmouche plutôt qu'une bataille pure et simple.
Au lieu de cela, Petros puisait occasionnellement de son assortiment d'arcs explosifs - cherchant à les tirer dans les canons ennemis ou à causer suffisamment de délabrement sur le navire ennemi pour forcer une retraite. Petros était plutôt exceptionnel quand il s'agissait de viser. Il a réussi à enlever quelques-unes des armes du vaisseau ennemi. Il a pris un souffle lent avec chaque coup de feu prudent sur son placement pour éviter de frapper des hostiles. De son point de vue, il pouvait voir Fletcher traiter avec certains des pirates ennemis lui-même. C'était certainement un combattant habile. Ses capacités apparemment surnaturelles suffisaient cependant à rendre Petros plus qu'un peu nerveux. En fait, n'importe quel membre de l'équipage qui possédait de telles capacités a fait sauter le cœur de l'archer quelques battements de temps en temps. Il l'a jeté, il a continué sa fusillade. J'espère que ce combat sera bientôt terminé.
Même alors, une fin à cette folie signifiait voyager au Schéol pour le Festival de Lumière. Une tradition malheureusement persistante d'idiots dans une stupeur ivre injurieusement brouillant autour des tours. Petros n'était ni religieux ni ivrogne, et la perspective qu'il passe une semaine dans le Schéol était tout à fait épouvantable. Quoi qu'il en soit, cela signifiait qu'une partie du rivage et Petros pourraient certainement avoir besoin d'une pause. Il ferait probablement de la précipitation pour le coin le plus calme d'une bibliothèque, et s'enterrerait dans des études d'archives pour la semaine. C'était une pensée...
Name:
Petros Avakian
Alias(s):
Nimbus (an insult he's grown up with)
Age:
22
Height:
6'1''
Weight: 
187lbs
Hair Color:
Dark Brown
Eye Color:
Chestnut Brown
Crew Position:
Steward
Physical Appearance:
Petros is a fairly tall and toned young man. He has dark olive skin and deep brown hair that reaches to slightly below his ears (typically tied in a man-bun or small ponytail). By most accounts Petros would be considered quite handsome, but most people would notice that he has an air of sadness about him that constantly stains his face. His body has a few various scars and scratches from a childhood spent in Neberziel.
Petros tends to keep himself well groomed as well, especially serving as a steward. He is typically expected to serve other crew members (as a housekeeper or as an assistant cook) and is also expected to tend to guests on the ship. Thus, he feels the need to keep himself tidy.
Attire:
Petros wears a short-sleeved funnel collar jacket which is fortified by a few leather straps that wrap around and form a belt at his waist. Petros wears long arm bracers that are fortified by their own armor. The left arm bracer extends all the way to his hand-serving as a glove.
Petros wears a slim-fit pair of breeches that are reinforced with armor at the knees, shins, and feet (giving his lower legs a robotic appearance). His belt also contains various pouches.
Personality:
Petros would like to think that he can always rely on his intelligence before brute force, but unfortunately for him- this simply isn't the case in the world he lives in. Petros is the kind of intelligent that comes with a strong sense of self-preservation, as well as someone who has pondered and studied the ways of the world. A philosopher and skeptic at heart, Petros "practices" misotheism. He can see that Gods exist, but he encourages others to cease worshiping and/or fearing them. Petros sees their influence as a corrupting one that has brought only suffering to the world. Petros seeks to have matters resolved peacefully, but isn't completely against defending himself. In all honesty, Petros may be served best as an activist or a teacher, but he has found himself on this ship running away from who he is and where he came from.
Petros isn't yet aware of the abilities he has inherited, but is himself incredibly skeptical of Captain Fletcher's mission. He has experienced what these powers can do to people, and how harmful they can be. He is ignorant to the shards capabilities and thus fears what may happen should Fletcher succeed (a thought he keeps to himself).
Aside from this, Petros is a relatively calm and sometimes reserved character. He is jovial enough to keep up appearances, but perceptive characters may note that their is a distinct air of sadness and doubt looming within. Others still, might notice that he is keeping something locked within himself- that he has come onto this ship to get away from something.
Finally, in combat Petros is frighteningly calm. He is a steady and rather skilled bowman- who also uses shards in specific situations to amplify an arrow's power. Petros is a rather skilled tactician (much better than his cooking skills) and is rather quick on his feet. There is a sort of genius about him in this regard. Granted it isn't the same kind of obvious genius that comes with an engineer, scientist, or great thinker- but he possesses obvious potential masked by his lack of experience.
Weapons & Equipment:
Petros uses a hunting bow that is fairly impressive in its technological relevancy. Quick and quiet, Petros is able to pick off enemies from a distance with skill. The arrows are standard, but in some scenarios- where stealth is not the objective- Petros will switch to arrows infused with shards. The arrows possess explosive capabilities.
Petros as carried two daggers with him made of white iron. These are simply there for close-quarter combat- which Petros is relatively skilled at. The daggers aren't anything special, and Petros certainly prefers to stay out of close-ranger combat as it isn't his specialty.
Petros will pick up a pistol if he has to, but he is far less skilled/accurate with this kind of weapon and easily prefers his bow.
Shard Ability:
Blink- Unbeknownst to him, Petros is capable of singular temporal distortion. In other words, he is capable of an ability called blink. Essentially, it is a teleportation ability that allows the user to move swiftly forward, backwards, and side to side. This ability is believed to function as a sort of miniature time travel ability that pushes Petros through time. He can't use blink repeatedly, as he isn't capable of pushing himself beyond about 2 or 3 every few minutes. He can use these teleportation abilities to clear large gaps, or to escape an enemy. As well, any location he is blinking to must be in clear sight of him. Blink is not necessarily teleportation, but rather willing yourself to a certain (view-able) location via time distortion.
Brief History:
Petros was born in Neberziel to Mira Okrel and Hayk Avakian. Petros was never destined for a normal life. While his father was a civilian that was rather afraid of danger, his mother was the "Red Stratus" of sky pirate legend. Mira, or Stratus, as she preferred- had served as a faithful tactician for Captain Wallace as a member of the Reapers. She received her name for her ability to move incredibly quickly threw enemy lines and devastate their defenses. She kept her "blink abilities" a secret from everyone; this included her Captain. She felt that explaining her abilities would make her that much more susceptible in battles, and she herself hardly understood them. She didn't have the same foresight or desire to seek out Cagen, the Immortal Archivist, as did Wallace.
Wallace would come into possession of a shardstone, and would inherit abilities from it. After having returned from council in Shoel, the Captain quickly put two-and-two together regarding Stratus' abilities. This led to a confrontation where Wallace exiled Stratus from his ship and from the Reapers. The Red Stratus was Mira Okrel once again.
Mira sought solace in the drink, and in the comfort of bedfellows for a time. She spent the next few years living in Neberziel. It would be here that she would meet Hayk Avakian. The two quickly hit it off, and within a year they were in love. They would have young Petros, and life for Mira was seemingly going quite well.
Unfortunately for Mira, she was left unaware when her abilities suddenly began to fade. She found herself no longer able to blink. She was no longer a pirate, but her ability was always apart of her identity. Mira began to spiral into a depression and self-loathing. She felt her youth slip away as she was faced with her own mortality in an unexpected way. She began drinking again, and found herself freelancing to feel alive again.
Without her powers, and years away from the life of a sky pirate- Mira had few connections, weakened capabilities, and a lack of understanding regarding the climate of the contemporary pirate world. She found herself making foolish mistakes in an attempt to restore some semblance of her youth and identity. She kept in contact with both Petros and Hayk, and still cared for them deeply. A part of Mira felt that Petros had taken who she was from her, albeit in a metaphorical way rather than the literal truth. She felt incredibly guilty for this. Mira would end up dying in combat during a rather sloppy mission.
Hayk would continue to raise Petros who was by this time a teenager. He was already quite skilled with a bow from being taught by his mother. As well, he and his father would spend hours "bird-hunting" for food whenever birds would get too close to the docks. Having lived on Neberziel, Petros often encountered pirates that were temporarily docked. There was an allure there for Petros, but with it he also began to foster a resentment for the character his mother was. He had grown up with stories from pirates about the Red Stratus and just how violent and powerful a pirate she was.
Petros found himself horrified by these stories, and developed a dislike for Stratus. He was unable to separate Mira and her pirate legacy. He questioned the ethics of a sky-pirate lifestyle, but this only caused him scorn in Neberziel. While some pirates expected him to join the Reapers others heckled him for living in the shadow of one of the "greatest pirates to ever live".
In 21 years, Petros had already seen enough of this tower and was ready to leave. When he learned that Captain Fletcher- a pirate that actually sought to do some good- was recruiting he decided that this was his one viable option off of Neberziel. Finally he'd have a chance to escape his mother's legacy and do some good. Petros is relatively new to the ship, but has been around for about 5 or 6 months.

Hayk Avakian
Petros' father still lives in Neberziel, though the two had a falling out when Petros decided to join up with Fletcher. Hayk warned Petros that he would end up getting killed, but Petros in his stubborn youth refused to listen. He wanted a chance to escape the legacy of the Red Stratus. Hayk still cares deeply for his son, and longs to seem him safe and home again.
Fletcher G. Payne
Petros is grateful for the opportunity the captain has afforded him, but is overall quite wary of Fletcher. Petros remains unsure of Fletcher's plans for the Shardseekers, and is anxious regarding the end goal. Petros isn't the type of person that can just go along with a mission no questions asked. It's this lack of understanding and knowledge that nurtures Petros' growing suspicions. Petros has decided to remain quiet about these quandaries.
Petros is also interested to find out if Fletcher ever had encounters with his mother. Surely there was some reason that Petros had been provided access to a position on the crew. He was used to getting things because of who his mother was, and assumes that it is no different here. Despite this, Petros has joined with the Shardseekers to become someone wholly different than the person his mother was. Should the captain ever try to sway Petros from his motivations, it would leave Avakian a rather disenfranchised crew-mate.
Aloysius Poole
Poole is quite different from anything that Petros has seen before. Petros recognizes Poole as a deservedly respected pirate, and finds his augmentations to be a scientific marvel. Nonetheless the mystery that surrounds the bosun makes Petros quite uneasy. There are far too many unanswered questions about Poole, and this often leaves Petros frustrated. He seems dangerously loyal to Fletcher (at least to Petros), and in Petros' opinion a loyalty that can ignore self-preservation and morality borders on fanaticism.Even still, Petros is certainly glad to have Poole on his side rather than as an enemy. His presence in a battle often provides Petros with an easier time in the back lines.
As well, Poole could certainly use a cosmetic re-imagining- which Petros would be more than happy to help with. His appearance never goes over well with new guests to the ship which makes Petros' job all the more difficult (explaining the zombie robot and all). Like with all of the crew members, despite his observations, Petros remains cordial and at least marginally friendly with Poole. It doesn't hurt that Poole could easily snap Petros in half.
There is a certain sadness, buried deep within that metal exterior, that Petros can relate to when he sees Poole. Petros hasn't been able to connect the dots, but figures that Poole must be running from some memory or past life. Petros can at least relate to that.
Carlos Cunningham
Petros finds the Master-at-Arms to be a bit callous in both conversation and in battle. Petros can't help but figure that Cunningham doesn't like him very much. While Petros doesn't have a dislike for him, necessarily, he also doesn't particularly enjoy his company. For Petros, Cunningham is far more dangerous than many of the other crew mates in that his need for 'entertainment' led him to a pirate ship where his sport of choice is murder.
Petros recognizes the nuances of being a pirate and that violence comes with the job, but in his five months of being aboard the ship- Petros has noticed that Cunningham thoroughly enjoys fighting. For now, Petros has chalked this up to a strong sense of competitiveness which is fairly harmless, albeit rather annoying. With that being said, Cunningham skirts the line of becoming a pirate that is uncomfortably close to who Petros' mother was- a wanton murderer whose fading youth made her all the more desperately reckless in proving her mettle. Desperation is dangerous, and Petros hopes that Fletcher is keeping a close eye on his Master-at-Arms.
Fergus Gallagher
Unlike nearly everyone else on the ship, Gallagher, seems to be completely trustworthy to Petros. Fergus' theatrical yet friendly demeanor make him far more amiable than most. Petros is drawn to the sense of normalcy that Fergus brings to the crew, but he is still extravagant enough to serve as a source of entertainment. Much like Poole, Gallagher isn't one that you want to introduce most guests to, much to the bemusement of Petros.
Petros genuinely finds Fergus harmless, and perhaps this is because he hearkens back to a more woefully ignorant and peaceful time for Petros. Fergus is an every-man much in the way that Petros' father is. This may, at times, make Petros seem particularly attached to Fergus despite not knowing him very well. Despite assigning this comparison to Fergus, Petros actually finds him quite naive. Fergus doesn't seem all that interested in political machinations, the mission of the Shardseekers, or really anything of importance. Petros can both admire and admonish that kind of attitude.
Other than that, Petros does find himself rather annoyed with the constant barrage of machismo, but didn't really expect anything less when he decided to become a sky pirate. Petros is also somewhat taken aback by Fergus' age given that he is a mere deckhand, but usually keeps this to himself as not to be rude.
Silver Kingsly
Of everyone on the ship, Petros finds that he can relate most to Kingsly. Petros has learned from talk around the ship that Kingsly, much like Petros, ran away from his past to live a new life. In that similar experience Petros finds a sort of kinship with Kingsly. Of course, this hasn't been expressed because Petros hardly ever interacts with Kingsly.
Instead the engineer seems fixated with machines and technology more than the crew or living life as a pirate. Perhaps that is what makes Kingsly comparably more likable than some of the other crew mates. Petros respects his craft, and trusts his abilities as squadron leader. Sylphs make Petros' role on the battlefield all the more smooth.
Petros is also incredibly grateful that someone on the ship actually cares about maintaining a professional look. Petros is more than eager to show off Kingsly to guests aboard the ship. Tidiness is an all but forgotten virtue on Ocean Horizon.
Maria Siddiqui
If there is anything that Petros' hates more than recklessness, it's laziness. Maria has both in spades. Bonus hate points considering the fact that the lazier crew mates tend to leave bigger messes for Petros to clean. With that said, Petros doesn't actually hate Maria, but he certainly doesn't like her either. He knows that she is incredibly capable, and thus her laziness is all the more frustrating. If she was completely useless, like some of the other lesser crew mates, Petros wouldn't mind nearly as much. Instead, Maria is entrusted with perhaps one of the most important duties on the ship. Regardless, she is a capable apothecary and Petros values her (when she's actually working) a great deal.
Maria's constant state of obliviousness often leaves Petros frustrated, and he tries to keep their conversations brief and to a minimum. Petros does find himself constantly forced to get updates from the medical bay, and so he interacts with Maria often, much to his chagrin. Combined with her oblivious nature is a strong sense of truth which Petros can respect, under normal circumstances. However, Maria takes it to the extreme- with an almost professional lack of tact. Her biting outbursts make Petros' job all the more difficult. Especially considering that most guests aboard the ship are interested in the medical bay. Maria is one of the most difficult people for Petros to work with, but underneath his facade of utter dismay- he does respect her ability as an apothecary. As well, her shard ability seems to be relatively harmless (unless you're a bird), and thus he trusts he far more than others in the crew.
Alcides Demophon 
Overconfidence is a burden. That is a lesson that Petros learned early on in his life. However whimsical the navigator might be, too much confidence is a dangerous thing to all of the crew. For this reason, Petros finds his eyes stuck on upward whenever in the vicinity of Demophon. Though Petros would never admit to such a thing, he does find the navigator to be rather dashing, but that is quickly redacted whenever Demophon goes on about the women he's courted.
Living most of his life on the Broken Spires Petros came to learn that those who feel the need to show off their spoils aren't used to having them. Petros had the benefit of growing up without want given that his mother had a small fortune, and his father worked as well.Even still, Alcides manages not to prattle on about it to the point of frustration- and to be fair to the man, he has at least earned some respect given his position on the ship and relationship with the captain. Not to mention, Petros finds himself appreciative of Alcides' ability to keep his appearance up. It makes his life as a steward, welcoming guests unto the ship, all the more simple.
Petros has yet to fully comprehend Alcides' limited aspirations (being coin and women), but has certainly gathered that those two things are of utmost importance to him. Combine that with a tendency to be three sheets to the wind, and Alcides becomes someone that Petros has a lot trouble relating to. Like with everyone else he remains cordial, yet wary.