George was a pirate, but he wasn’t a very good pirate.
Because he was fairly useless in raids and battles, he found himself serving the crew in other capacities.
Mostly, he served as a translator for the crew so their enemies or hostages had an accurate version of what they were saying.
“Guts for garters? said George. “The captain’s kinda angry.”
George drew diagrams for things like Davy Jones’s Locker, and he’d worked up a functional shoebox diorama that demonstrated keelhauling.
George pulled the string to drag a doll across the ship’s hull.
“Brilliant,” said the hostages. “That explains everything.”