Starry Eyes & Stellar Tides

Hope is a powerful tool, enough to overturn the world in the right hands. If only Lucy knew where to get any. Lucille 'Lucy' Amaye is a thief, a sailor, and a dreamer. Her aspirations of becoming a legend of the nine seas have long burned themselves out over a life of hardships, horrors, and failures; she thought she’d spend the rest of her life grinding her hopes and dreams into someone else's fuel. Until, one miserable, dreary night. A lifetime of built up resentment and hatred over her inability to change her fate, all concentrated into one stupid, reckless decision. To steal a supposed miracle artifact from one of the most infamous pirates in all the seas of Lurial, a Lord of the Tides. And she gets away with it, at first. But escaping the ire of a Lord is no easy task, and the stolen artifact comes with a few unwanted side effects. It's begun reshaping her flesh and blood into something... different, and she can't get rid of it, no matter how hard she tries. But it's given her one advantage she hasn't had in a long time. It's given her motivation. A bounty worth more than most kingdoms has been set on her head, her body is drifting further from humanity every day, and the workings of things beyond comprehension are playing out beneath the surface. So what’s she to do but dive headfirst into the maelstrom and fight like hell to make it to the other side, with only the help of a few kindred outcasts and whatever power she can take, bargain, or steal along the way. And If she makes it through all her trials and tribulations, all the storms and monsters and vengeful bastards in her way, she might just make a legend out of herself after all. What to Expect: - A Progression Fantasy Story - Light body horror elements - Multi-POV - An Age of Sail adjacent setting (Pirates, Guns, Empires, and Naval Battles) - Pirate shenanigans! Adventure! Plunder! Running from the law! Crew bonding! Overthrowing the tyrants! - Sailing mythos, With ghost ships and vengeful curses and people who definitely aren't Davy Jones - Romantic subplots (Eventually, they’re very slowburn) - Lots of big mysterious secrets and hidden power games to be eventually unraveled - A very queer story, if you couldn't already tell by reading the tags Chapters: Whenever I have them done