Mr. Caledon Hockley
Crew member | Stokers24.2.1882
Biography
"What made you think you could get your hands on my biography?! Look at me, you filth!"
Caledon Hockley is the son of Nathan Hockley, the most powerful and well-respected steel tycoon in all of Pittsburgh. Born and raised into royalty, he saw himself as above everyone else. All life is a game of luck. Cal won, they lost.
In 1912, during Cal's trip to England, his parents set up a fiancée for him to be engaged with. And that would be a young lady named Rose DeWitt Bukater, whose mother was trying to secure their wealth after the death of Rose's father. He wanted Rose would honor him the way a wife is required to honor a husband, because he did not want to be made a fool out of. Rose had a distinct taste in art that Cal disliked, and she bought a painting from an up-and-coming artist known as Picasso. Something Picasso. He'd never amount to a thing.
They were scheduled to have a wedding when they arrived back to America, so Cal decided to surprise Rose by buying tickets to board the Titanic in Southampton on April 10th, 1912. Cal pulled every string he could to book the fanciest room on the grandest ship in history, and she was all so blasé about it! It was over a hundred feet longer than the Mauretania, far more luxurious, and was deemed unsinkable by the press. Cal even gave Rose a beautiful gift called the Heart of the Ocean. It was a heart-shaped, 56-carat diamond owned by Louis XVI.
But then, Rose cheated on Cal for a sketch artist in third-class named Jack Dawson. Cal called his valet Lovejoy to spy on them throughout the ship, but they kept sneaking away before he could get them. And then, on the night of April 14th, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg and started to sink. Lovejoy and Cal hid the diamond in Jack's pocket to frame him, but even when women and children were being evacuated into the boats, she somehow managed to bail him out of the ship's brig and get him onto the deck. And in the end, Rose decided to go down with Jack on the sinking ship. Obviously, Cal survived, but his valet, fiancée, and diamond were all lost forever. Or so it seemed.
It couldn't get any worse, right? Well, it did. In 1914, while Cal was on another trip in England, some war that started in the Balkans spread all over Europe, and then the whole world went to war. All of his stocks had collapsed overnight, bringing Cal from a wealthy, respected businessman to a homeless peasant.
Cal spent the next two years begging on the streets and trying to do any sort of job to make some quick money. One night in Southampton, Cal came across a poster that said that the White Star Line was hiring people to work as stokers to power their newest ship, His Majesty's Hospital Ship Britannic, which was scheduled to set sail on November 12th, 1916 to pick up wounded soldiers in Greece. Cal was hesitant to work on what is the sister ship of the liner that took his wealth away, but goddamn it all to hell, beggars can't be choosers.
Caledon Hockley is the son of Nathan Hockley, the most powerful and well-respected steel tycoon in all of Pittsburgh. Born and raised into royalty, he saw himself as above everyone else. All life is a game of luck. Cal won, they lost.
In 1912, during Cal's trip to England, his parents set up a fiancée for him to be engaged with. And that would be a young lady named Rose DeWitt Bukater, whose mother was trying to secure their wealth after the death of Rose's father. He wanted Rose would honor him the way a wife is required to honor a husband, because he did not want to be made a fool out of. Rose had a distinct taste in art that Cal disliked, and she bought a painting from an up-and-coming artist known as Picasso. Something Picasso. He'd never amount to a thing.
They were scheduled to have a wedding when they arrived back to America, so Cal decided to surprise Rose by buying tickets to board the Titanic in Southampton on April 10th, 1912. Cal pulled every string he could to book the fanciest room on the grandest ship in history, and she was all so blasé about it! It was over a hundred feet longer than the Mauretania, far more luxurious, and was deemed unsinkable by the press. Cal even gave Rose a beautiful gift called the Heart of the Ocean. It was a heart-shaped, 56-carat diamond owned by Louis XVI.
But then, Rose cheated on Cal for a sketch artist in third-class named Jack Dawson. Cal called his valet Lovejoy to spy on them throughout the ship, but they kept sneaking away before he could get them. And then, on the night of April 14th, 1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg and started to sink. Lovejoy and Cal hid the diamond in Jack's pocket to frame him, but even when women and children were being evacuated into the boats, she somehow managed to bail him out of the ship's brig and get him onto the deck. And in the end, Rose decided to go down with Jack on the sinking ship. Obviously, Cal survived, but his valet, fiancée, and diamond were all lost forever. Or so it seemed.
It couldn't get any worse, right? Well, it did. In 1914, while Cal was on another trip in England, some war that started in the Balkans spread all over Europe, and then the whole world went to war. All of his stocks had collapsed overnight, bringing Cal from a wealthy, respected businessman to a homeless peasant.
Cal spent the next two years begging on the streets and trying to do any sort of job to make some quick money. One night in Southampton, Cal came across a poster that said that the White Star Line was hiring people to work as stokers to power their newest ship, His Majesty's Hospital Ship Britannic, which was scheduled to set sail on November 12th, 1916 to pick up wounded soldiers in Greece. Cal was hesitant to work on what is the sister ship of the liner that took his wealth away, but goddamn it all to hell, beggars can't be choosers.