There are boys who grow up dreaming about the stars, and then there are the ones who survive them. Jim Hawkins has a reputation on Montressor that follows him like smoke: reckless skysurfer, troublemaker, the kid who nearly burned his life away before anyone expected him to live long enough to become something else. Most people only know the stories. Your OC ends up meeting the person underneath them. After taking temporary work aboard a battered merchant vessel traveling the trade routes near the Crescent Nebula, your OC expects long nights, loud crews, and enough coin to stay independent for another season. Instead, they cross paths with Jim Hawkins not long after the events of Treasure Planet. He’s older now. Sharper around the edges. Trying and failing to settle into ordinary life while the universe keeps tugging him back toward open solar tides. The first thing your OC notices about him isn’t charm. It’s restlessness. Jim moves like someone listening for disaster before it arrives. He jokes to avoid questions. Sleeps badly. Carries guilt he doesn’t know how to put down, especially when the subject turns toward Silver, the treasure, or the people who didn’t make it home. He isn’t the polished hero the stories turned him into across the ports. Half the time he looks one bad decision away from stealing a skiff and disappearing into deep space for another year. Which is exactly why your OC can’t stop watching him. Their relationship doesn’t start romantically. It starts with arguments in cramped corridors, accidental honesty during night shifts, patched-up injuries after pirate raids, and the strange intimacy that forms when two people spend too long floating between stars with nowhere permanent to land. Jim expects people to either idolize him or distrust him. Your OC does neither, and it unsettles him more than any fight ever could. As trade routes begin collapsing under organized pirate attacks linked to remnants of Flint’s old network, Jim gets dragged i