Admittedly, it’s been a while since I’ve had the time and/or energy to sit down for some Art. And, well, I finally got it together, so here’s Billie Hawkins, one of the main characters of my next story Captain Goblinbeard, which I’m hoping to have ready in the early New Year.
Billie was introduced in one of my Daily Writing exercises in August 2023, as Billie Bones, a reference to Treasure Island character Billy Bones, which I ended up feeling was too on-the-nose. Now, she’s a slightly more subtle reference, combining the initial reference with a reference to the novel’s protagonist Jim Hawkins.
For the most part, her character has remained consistent, though she’s gone from Captain Goblinbeard’s first mate to his … person being mentored — I struggle to find the phrasing to describe that, because “mentee” is largely a contrivance, given that “mentor” is ultimately a name (via Greek mythology), not a word describing a person doing an action.
That aside, she has remained the straight man to Goblinbeard’s, well … Goblinbeard.
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