Pirate Queen

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Ion's mother, Ionia-Yggdrasil (whose real name is Freya) was born is s small coastal "fishing village" where the people made their living pillaging trade ships or small coastal trading towns. From a young age she learned to sail and command crews, gaining command of her own ship by the time she was 14. In her late teens/early 20's on one raid of a coastal town, during the fighting she took a bullet to the side of her gut and was forces to retreat herself from the battle. While retreating she was being followed by the local guards but managed to slip away in a nearby alley. Starting to severely bleed out of her side, she started getting woozy when a shadowy figure appeared in front of her and she ended up collapsing in his arms. She awoke not long after, in what looked like a small hospital room, where the man told her to take deep breaths as he made a small incision in her side and attempted to remove the bullet. Ionia screamed in pain as the bullet was pulled out and she passed out again not long after as the man was stitching her up. She woke up the next morning to find the man bringing her something to eat, but she tried to thank him and get up to leave, but fell to the floor in her weakened state. The man who was named Ivan, helped her back to her bed and told her to relax as the bullet she was injured with was poison coated and it would take a few days for her body to expel it, notwithstanding the minor trauma from the small surgery to remove it. Knowing that her crew probable left her behind as the code would say, she reluctantly rested in bed for the next few days. During this time she started bonding with Ivan as they got to know a bit more about each other. After she recovered, Ionia thought about returning to her village, but Ivan offered her a chance to do something else with her life as he offered her a nurse/caretaker position in his small medical practice. This is where she would work over the next year, growing even closer with Ivan. Ivan was eventually recalled to his home city, as he was the son of the city's founder and Ivan's father decided to retire and hand down leadership to his son. Ivan, who never wanted to be in the leadership position, reluctantly agreed to take leadership and closed down his practice in the coastal town. Ionia came with him to the city, where he proposed to her and in a small ceremony, married each other, where she adopted the name Ionia-Yggdrasil becoming part of the family. Months latter she gave birth to her son Ion and for the early years of Ion's life she nurtured him to be adventurous, feisty, helped him realize his natural sword ship abilities and his affinity to lightning and fire. However when Ion was 8, tragedy struct her family as her parents were hunted down/killed by Contract Hunters and they were after her and her home village next for the crimes of their past. Now wanting to put the safety of her son and partner in danger, she made the painful decision to leave them behind and return to her home village. There she would retake her mantle as a pirate and her realy name Freya back, in order to keep the hunters attention on her, far away from her family. She then regained her passion for pillaging and started to become one of the most successful pirates/pillagers again. Years latter she would reunite with Ion, hen he was investigating pirate activity/attacks in a coastal town. During the fight, when she realized it was him, she embraced Ion who was taken aback that his mother was still alive. Ion decided to let her go, as he would not "officially" complete a contract on his mother (he didn't know her real name was Freya as on the contract) and told her to be more discrete in her actions. Even though her son was part of her enemies' organization, she was proud of what he became. Ion would then help her out by taking on contracts related to her crew and "completing" them, which was getting harder as she continued to pillage at a high pace against Ion's wishes.

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