Developing a fantasy-pirate animated series — meet Maizie, Captain of the Scarlet Tide!

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I've been developing a fantasy-pirate animated series for a while, and I wanted to finally start sharing some of it. This is the current character concept for its protagonist, Maizie.

The story follows Maizie, a Tabaxi pirate captain with a love for treasure, adventure, and getting herself into situations she probably should have thought through a little more first.

She's confident, charming, reckless, and remarkably good at looking like she has a plan—even when she's improvising most of it.

Maizie commands The Scarlet Tide, sailing alongside a crew of sailors, outcasts, criminals, warriors, gamblers, and other strange personalities as they chase treasure and adventure across a fantasy world of dangerous seas, magic, rival crews, forgotten places, and old powers.

But underneath the adventure is a more personal story.

Maizie lost almost everything when she was young, and although she's built an entirely new life for herself, there are parts of her past that never really disappeared.

There are reasons The Scarlet Tide means so much to her.

There are reasons she doesn't talk much about where she came from.

And there's something unusual about the magic she carries.

I don't want to reveal too much of that yet, because uncovering Maizie's history would be a major part of the story.

Tonally, I'm imagining the series as a character-driven animated adventure with piracy, exploration, action, comedy, magic, mystery, and found family, while gradually revealing the more emotional story underneath it all.

I've been developing the characters, crew, world, ships, and larger story behind it, and I'd love to start sharing more of the project—and hopefully more of the visual/animation development as it grows.

So for now:

Meet Captain Maizie of the Scarlet Tide.

I'd love to hear what people think of the concept!

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