Okay just one more random fact bc it's fun to talk about an OC I don't normally talk about
As a kid, though he couldn't read, he picked up on certain arrangements of letters meaning certain things and other such patterns. For example, he caught a letter pattern that aligns with a sound in his name and went ah! This must be how to spell my name!
When he signed up for the crew and was asked to put his mark he was so proud to show that his ""mark"" is his actual name.
But then he meets a girl who, despite supposedly coming from the same background as him, has a lot of knowledge associated with the upper upper class. And one thing she knows how to do very well is write. So she writes something for him and reads it aloud to teach him and he's like wait you spelled my name wrong. So she's like well you want me to spell it this way? And he's like no that's not right either. And she's like well you spell your name wrong. And he's like it's my name so however I spell it is the right way : /
He was thereafter mortified and embarrassed but doubled down and continues to spell it his own way, arguing to the death with anyone who tries to correct him.