Ruth Timberdale - Mystfield's The War for Neverland

Once upon a time somewhere in New England, a boy was born to very poor family. The dad, Buck Timberdale, was often angry because often he was drunk, and on this occasion he was very, very angry and very, very drunk. He wanted a girl, a daughter, not a boy, and in his drunken rage he named his son Ruth, and relieved his mother and the midwife of their ability of bringing forth anymore children, or in other words their lives.

When he sobered a little he left the small town he lived in to somewhere in the South, proposedly in North Carolina, deep in the woods alone. He raised this boy as a boy but belittled him because he was supposed to be a girl. So the boy resented his father. And though they lived nowhere, he would walk twenty or more miles to school, where he was ridiculed for his feminine name.

The boy grew in resentment and hatred, for he was never loved and he was never treated kindly. Finally he came of age when he thought he could strike it on his own, and he left his dad and traveled to Raleigh where he looked for work. After months of searching, a dirty old man with a wooden leg and an eye patch hired him as cook on the Carib'n Rosa. He hadn't the slightest idea how to cook but he pretended he did. And he never made a fine cook but the men tolerated the portions enough to never dispatch him. He never told them his real name and they never asked, they just called him Cook.

Of course, he hated them cause he never knew how to love. They hated him too, but they hated everyone, they were pirates, men who had all grown up in bad and angry homes. But Ruth was planning. As cook sitting in the galley, he heard the ship hands talk, and they didn't always have good things to say about the Cap'n or the First mate. Sedition grew and freedom too. Oddly enough a few famous pirates started their careers on this ship. Long John Silver had been the previous cook before he took the the post and he saw Jack Sparrow go from ship hand to leaving and finding his own crew, per se. Some talk was of mutiny. Some of leaving and starting their own ships. Some he warned the Captain on. Some he let pass through the sails. There were three Captains on his ship and he hoped somehow he would be next. But he never took the chance.

One day he took leave of the ship when they had disembarked at Port-au-Prince. While searching for food for the galley he was enticed by a beautiful woman who was offering fortune seances. Charmed by her beauty he paid most of his own wages to his fortune. She told him that he would be approached by man who would offer him a grand opportunity which he should not turn up.

However, she was not magic, but hired by a certain man who was looking for help. Who, through magic discerned the desires of the Cook's heart. Before Ruth left the the market, this man chanced to meet him.

He called himself Terrance Coachman, an entrepreneur, who was looking for a ship and a captain. He was convinced that Carib'n Rosa was his ship but the current captain wasn't quite what he needed. So Terrance and Cook plotted the Death of the Captain and the bestowal of navigating the ship to Cook. So before they embarked on their voyage again, the captain of the Carib'n Rosa was murdered in the middle of the night and the papers were exchanged so that Terrance Coachman was the new owner of the ship and Cook was made captain.

When they made their announcement to the ship, the crew laughed and ridiculed him. Calling him the Cook Captain, and that they were all going to be killed by the Hawaiians. This caused Cook to lose his nerve. And in anger Terrance Coachman whipped him away into the Captains Lair. He revealed himself as a sorcerer and made him a spell that bound him as captain until he quit his service to Mr. Coachman. In the words of the spell, that once he left the service of Mr Coachman his men would mutiny him or worse. Later on, Mr. Coachman would enunciate all the terms of the contract, like where Captain Ruth would serve as Captain.

They sailed to London, England. One midnight as the pulled through the English Channel, the night watch saw Terrance Coachman on the bridge conjuring a spell. He saw the skies open and the ship rise off the water and float into the sky. However, when the vision closed he was never found.

When the truth was manifest, Terrance Goodman cursed the crew and captain to patrol the waters of his Neverland to occupy the children who would come there and that they could never leave or they would die.

Later on, in the War for Neverland, Ruth loses his hand and his name as the Cook when a young boy Peter Panning fights him for his and the Lost Boys' freedom and supremacy in Neverland.