Samuel Crook
Samuel Crook
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Groom — a young emigrant Saint aboard the Thornton

Samuel Crook

Mid-twenties, smooth-faced and bright-eyed, with the freshness of youth still on him despite the roughness of sea travel. Lean and spare, narrow through the shoulders but upright and energetic — a young man's build. Skin: Fair but reddened and windburned, with a warm flush across the cheeks and nose from sun and salt air. Hair: Deep dark brown, nearly black, Short and tousled, windblown and slightly unkempt from days at sea. Face: Clean-shaved with a strong jaw, bright and eager dark eyes, a straight nose, and an open expression full of excitement — the face of someone on the edge of something new. His oversized coat is a defining detail — the cuffs fall slightly past his wrists, as though borrowed or bought for growing into; his hair is never quite settled, always lifted by the ocean breeze. Always in the SAME outfit every scene: Plain dark wool coat, slightly too large at the shoulders, hanging loose; dark trousers tucked into worn, scuffed brown leather boots with visible creasing at the ankle; simple white linen shirt visible at the collar.

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1856 · May 29 Samuel Crook and Sarah Haines married on ship
“Samuel Crook of Apperley, Gloucester, and Sarah Haines of Tewkesbury, Glouscester, were joined in the bonds of matrimony on the quarter-deck by President J. G. Willie”

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What makes Samuel Crook

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The canonical likeness

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Mid-twenties, smooth-faced and bright-eyed, with the freshness of youth still on him despite the roughness of sea travel. Lean and spare, narrow through the shoulders but upright and energetic — a young man's build. Skin: Fair but reddened and windburned, with a warm flush across the cheeks and nose from sun and salt air. Hair: Deep dark brown, nearly black, Short and tousled, windblown and slightly unkempt from days at sea. Face: Clean-shaved with a strong jaw, bright and eager dark eyes, a straight nose, and an open expression full of excitement — the face of someone on the edge of something new. His oversized coat is a defining detail — the cuffs fall slightly past his wrists, as though borrowed or bought for growing into; his hair is never quite settled, always lifted by the ocean breeze. Always in the SAME outfit every scene: Plain dark wool coat, slightly too large at the shoulders, hanging loose; dark trousers tucked into worn, scuffed brown leather boots with visible creasing at the ankle; simple white linen shirt visible at the collar.

Life stages

The same Samuel Crook at every age they appear in the series. Draw a stage to age it from the canonical likeness, or pin a real photo to the stage it actually shows — even an old one — and the younger stages age down from it. Give each stage an outfit (clothes are era and station — a boy in England dresses nothing like a father in Utah) and every page at that age keeps it. Lock a stage once it's right so it's never redrawn. Each is generated once and reused across every book.

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Books featuring Samuel Crook

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