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resplendentChaos
throws words and money at you I'd like words written about these three, please! I'd like to pay around 60k for all (btw I'm in love with your narrative style)
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- genuinely interested in other dragons’ affairs
- patient therapist: has a knack for getting other dragons to open up and speak freely about themselves
- honours the concept of privacy and the importance of secrets that are
not in the context of exposing them
- pretty savvy businessdragon, despite this.
- bottles memories. most of it is psychological (though an ancient Shadow legend indicates that one can in fact store secrets via a magical ritual - the Shadowbinder did to hide knowledge from the Lightbringer, for example)
- hasn’t lost his niceness, although that might be because all of
his bad memories are safely stored away
- Yosei's tent is beaten-down and a tacky shade of violet with white stripes. it smells strongly of herbs, spices, and occasionally cocoa.
- the interior is brightly-lit and cozy, with cushions and a low table. the tea is usually chamomile, and is always ready (yosei is very fond of tea.) he likes giving out hot chocolate to kids who come by his tent, but they’ll have to wait a bit — he won’t give them lukewarm cocoa. water was so polluted in his old hometown that no one could drink it without boiling it first, starting yosei along on this tradition.
- very courteous, to both men and women, and to dragons of all flights: Earth traditionalists especially appreciate his good manners and company.
- Laodicean attitude towards religion and the ideals of the Shadowbinder (e.g. winning at all costs). if he was dead-set on atheism that would be taken as a challenge - but he isn’t, and so his neighbours call him a cheat (in the Shadow sense) for refusing to play the will-you-won’t-you game.
- talks like someone who’s seen the world, but will only smile and shake his head if you ask him to elaborate.
- gives well-meant and generally useful advice (
it's unwise to proclaim your ideals in the Wood- someone's bound to try and make you renounce it, or at the very least make you angry enough to shout like a maniac)
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- the prince of a prosperous wind kingdom
- used to be very close to their brother when they were children, but they've drifted apart since
- the brother (asriel, but he is never named in chara's internal narrative because they're trying to ignore his presence as much as possible) is busy being tutored and training to take over the kingdom. chara feels neglected but isn’t going to push the point, mainly because they're allergic to emotional honesty.
- their primary pastime is sneaking out of the palace disguised to visit the local villages and stealing money from rich people, despite the innumerable risks involved. they get a thrill in causing a ruckus and being discussed by the populace. if they get caught, well - they can just leverage their resources to significant (if unsubtle) effect. but that hasn't happened yet.
- chara is told that they’re of age and that they need to marry (their brother has begged off until the kingdom is more prosperous - chara knows he just doesn’t want to marry anyone). chara says fine, but tells their parents that they wants to marry a “gentle soul”. their parents have never really known chara, and don’t realise that what chara really wants is an enabler (or ideally a co-conspirator), and if their prospective spouse doesn’t approve of what they’re doing they’re ready to bully and blackmail them to get their way.
- marries someone? the specifics don't really matter. maybe they gain a true friend. maybe they get a victim (and learn about personal space and how to negotiate living with someone). maybe they fall in love. maybe they’ll get their spouse killed (tho by then i’m pretty sure they’d be run out of the kingdom. or exiled somewhere.) maybe said spouse will come back and haunt them! i don't know.
- tl:dr: i don't really know, please feel free to make up an OC for their spouse or something
- happy ending not required
personality-wise:
- Chara is impatient and arrogant, and has had a general disregard for consequences since they were a child (generally enabled by the people around them)
- the public knows very little about their second prince. there's a ~mysterious~ quality to them that has the more romantic-minded bachelors and nearly all their commoner suitors swooning.
- they're very bad at emphasising with people, and has teased their brother to the point of tears for a laugh before.
- still charming and persuasive when the situation requires (which is all the time in the public eye). they're one of those people that can make up an opinion on the spot and still seem knowledgable.
- resentful of the fact that their opinion holds less heft to their parents than their crown prince brother, but has no concrete plans to do anything about it
- internally prone to unhealthy/paranoid ("they don't need me") lines of thought. generally emotionally unstable. they get intense and manipulative ("i knew you never really cared about me") when denied attention
- has chronic lying syndrome: as the second prince, they're used to having their opinions being ignored (whether or not they've
actually been ignored) and stay private about their plans.
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vague ideas:
- born an Ice traditionalist, believed that what he was doing was for Justice (when he was young) and Order (when he was a bit older) and finally Duty (later on).
- no real sense of time passing: the Fortress of Ends never melts.
- met
Ammolite soon after her revelation, and was taken aback by her sheer conviction and personal drive
- he reads the files and frees the unjustly imprisoned (or simply unlucky), and she escorts the ex-prisoners to the ship waiting to take them to Fire
- during their long acquaintance he's realised that he might have some romantic inclinations towards Ammolite, but he has no idea how to go about saying it.
