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Captain Fluffclaw looks different every time I draw her. Phooey.

Useless facts about her;

Her full name and title in Dutch, the language I'm writing the story in, is Johanna Stella Marina 'Flufklauw' (last name undecided). Planning on deriving her last name from a real pirate. The middle name 'Stella' is a subtle reference to her first iteration, where she wasn't even a pirate yet and named that, in an extremely not-subtle nod to Over The Hedge, my favourite movie at that time. Marina, is not only one of my own middle names, but also refers to the sea. She's a pirate, duh. Stella Marina can refer to a sea star, too. As for Johanna, it just sounds pretty and old-fashioned.

She's not very feminine-looking. This is inspired by the fact that two of the most well-known female pirates, Ann Bonny and Mary Read, dressed as males. On top of that, I tried to make her look like an actual skunk instead of going with a more commonly-accepted design for a cartoon skunk.

I wonder how many soccer moms I'll tick off? Fluffclaw actually fancies ladies more than she fancies lads.

Despite being a skunk, I unusually enough avoid stink jokes. While this could lead to some interesting/amusing situations, it's a bit of a cliché. The idea of Fluffclaw being a skunk pirate is that as a pirate, everyone's afraid of you. Same goes for a skunk. You'd think that a pirate skunk would be on top of the world, right? Wrong. Fluffclaw gets thrown out of her own ship. Stuff happens. Yeah.

Description
Captain Fluffclaw looks different every time I draw her. Phooey.

Useless facts about her;

Her full name and title in Dutch, the language I'm writing the story in, is Johanna Stella Marina 'Flufklauw' (last name undecided). Planning on deriving her last name from a real pirate. The middle name 'Stella' is a subtle reference to her first iteration, where she wasn't even a pirate yet and named that, in an extremely not-subtle nod to Over The Hedge, my favourite movie at that time. Marina, is not only one of my own middle names, but also refers to the sea. She's a pirate, duh. Stella Marina can refer to a sea star, too. As for Johanna, it just sounds pretty and old-fashioned.

She's not very feminine-looking. This is inspired by the fact that two of the most well-known female pirates, Ann Bonny and Mary Read, dressed as males. On top of that, I tried to make her look like an actual skunk instead of going with a more commonly-accepted design for a cartoon skunk.

I wonder how many soccer moms I'll tick off? Fluffclaw actually fancies ladies more than she fancies lads.

Despite being a skunk, I unusually enough avoid stink jokes. While this could lead to some interesting/amusing situations, it's a bit of a cliché. The idea of Fluffclaw being a skunk pirate is that as a pirate, everyone's afraid of you. Same goes for a skunk. You'd think that a pirate skunk would be on top of the world, right? Wrong. Fluffclaw gets thrown out of her own ship. Stuff happens. Yeah.