Post by maria on May 19, 2011 18:24:10 GMT -5
♥ It Started out as a Feeling ♥
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We lived happily forever
So the story goes
But somehow we missed out on the pot of gold
But we'll try best that we can to carry on ~Come Sail Away- Styx
♥ Pick a Star on the dark Horizon ♥[/color]
Name: Raoul of Archenland
Age: 30
Race: Archenland
Weapons: Sword & Shield
♥ Now we're back to the Beginning ♥[/color]
History: Raoul was the firstborn child of his parents, King Edward and Queen Linota and as a boy his birth was celebrated greatly. But to his fathers disappointment, the little prince was not what he had wanted. Instead of a brave, brawny boy, Raoul was a sniveling sickly little sissy crybaby. He suffered frequently from illnesses and cried for hours when he fell off the pony his father bought for him. These personality traits earned him the nickname "Princess Raoul" by his father. When he was three, Raoul's mother had her second child, a girl to the disappointment of his father.
Raoul and his sister Estrilda were close, until when Raoul became an adolescent and began to drift from his feminism. His mother would eventually give him another sibling, a boy, Wilmarc. As a child, Wilmarc was the opposite of Raoul- hard headed, strong, and rowdy. Even though as the oldest Raoul was next in line for the throne, his father groomed Wilmarc as if he was the crown prince.
When he was 16, Raoul began training to become a knight. His original purpose for it was to please his father, but the more self-discipline he gained, the more Raoul enjoyed the work and lost interest in pleasing his father. For once in his life, he felt like a true man. He kind of became a jerk in his teenage, bullying his sister and teasing his brother and pushing the castle servants around. He wasn't really a brat, more just an arrogant arse. Later, his mother found him a tutor who taught him that wits and knowledge could sometimes be a better weapon than a sword.
And when Raoul's father was deemed too sick to rule, he appointed Wilmarc as his regent. By this time Raoul was around 19-22 years old and had settled himself in court as a knight. He had no interest in the throne; Raoul's life only revolved around protecting of his youngest sister and fiancée. About two years before, he'd met a girl named Rosaline, a working-class girl from Anvard, the small town near his castle. She worked in his home as a maid and his origin had been just to "have fun" with her, but he saw that there was so much more to Rosaline. For the first time, Raoul saw past status and plain clothes when he fell in love with the palace chambermaid. He wanted nothing more than to settle down and have the simple life with her, but life would have other plans for the prince.
Wilmarc proved to be an inefficient ruler. He was weak and couldn't as much as glance at the lower class people outside of court. His only interest was to gain more territory and power and Raoul knew that would only bring devastation to his homeland. Wilmarc would only pour money into wars and the working class would starve. He knew that he had to become King, or else he would see the decline of Archenland. Raoul's father eventually died and Wilmarc's coronation was scheduled. With Rosalie, he went into the archives and dusted off the old constitution that stated that the throne be passed on to the firstborn child of the previous ruler. After some hassle, Raoul was crowned King of Archenland at age 25. His next step was to make Rosaline his Queen, but once again fate had other plans for Raoully boy.
With her finacee now a King, Rosaline began to wonder if she had been interested in Raoul, or in his throne. When Rosaline realized it was the latter, she ended their relationship. She could not be happy with someone she did not love. Her background would make it impossible to enjoy the life of a monarch. To his heartbreak, Raoul's love left the castle and moved back to Anvard where she ended up marrying someone else..or so Raoul has heard.
His heartbreak did not last long though- Raoul eventually found comfort through a woman in his court named Lady Bryce. Bryce soon discovered she was carrying his child and Raoul secretly sent her off to live in one of the family's seasonal homes, where she gave birth to a boy they named Avery. He visits them sometimes and has the little boy and his mother stay with him around Christmas. He's never been told his father is the King, for it is a secret and he is too young to understand why it would need to be kept a secret, so he simply knows the King as, "Uncle Raoul".
Family: father- King Edward the Fourth of Archenland, deceased at 60
mother- Queen, now Lady Linota- 53 year old
siblings- Princess Estrilda of Archenland- 25 years old
Baron Wilmarc of Archenland- 23 years old
Magic: none
Original or Canon: Original
♥ No need to say Goodbye ♥[/color]
Sample RP: A tall figure had silently come into the room. But Anna was so caught up in playing with the boxer she neglected to notice the presence of Captain Sylas. The german had noticed someone come in- she just hadn't exactly who. And when she did, she cringed. Had he seen her acting like this? Ugh..so embarrassing. He didn't say anything at first but merely acknowledged her. Typical Vulcan. For them, showing emotion was like flashing your boobs. It was just..so taboo in their culture. Well, not taboo, but just not in their nature. Anna didn't see anything wrong in this- she was very open-minded when it came to personalities. Vulcans were stoic, andorians were violent, humans were well..human. That was just the way they were. Everyone was different, and in the german’s opinion, no one should have been afraid to be themselves.
Anna stood to full height, flickering eyes full of surprise at the Vulcan. "C-captain...I.. didn't see you come in. My apologies. I was..distracted."
It was true what he said about animals, really it was. As someone who’d owned dogs for almost her whole life, Anna felt she knew this better than anyone. When she’d become a widow, the familys old staffie, Keelo, had been there for comfort. And on her first mission aboard the deliberance, her dogo argentine, Brutus had kept her company many times when a human could not. “I couldn’t live without my animals, especially dogs. They are the most wonderful companions anyone could ask for. They will stay loyal to you until the end and unlike your children, will never talk back or be rude to you.” She petted the top of the boxers head, who now had jumped on her, paws on her chest. Not taking her eyes from the pooch, Anna asked, “Tell me captain, do they have dogs on vulcan?”
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