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⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Hotaru
Contact: hailingjavelin
Age: 27
Current Characters: Yukihina (Code:Breaker)


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Eduard Markgraf von Sekt nahe Braunschweig
Age: 18
Canon: Meine Liebe
Canon Point: Anime season 2, episode 5; when he confronts his step-mother after her assassin failed in killing him

Background: Here.

Personality: Eduard is a cheerful and bright young man who likes to take things easy. He is fairly clever, but is more street smart than books smart, unlike his friends. He is the type of person who can't mask his emotions very well, or at all, and he wears his heart on his sleeve. But he thinks that that's alright, because he doesn't care what other people think of him. He knows that perhaps he actually should care because he is an aristocrat, but he grew up as a normal town boy before he was taught how to be an aristocrat, since his mother was a woman from town that his father had an illict affair with. Still, Ed is casual and relaxed, and very easy-going. He's almost a little too relaxed sometimes, but his friendly nature makes it easy for him to get along with people and his antics can help others calm down and get into better moods. And he likes that, he enjoys helping people feel better, because he's a genuinely kind young man who is incredibly loyal toward those he holds dear.

He does, however, have a little bit of a temper. While he doesn't get as heated about politics as his best friend Orphe, for example, he is passionate and if he gets mad, he really gets mad. It mostly concerns people badmouthing or hurting those that he cares about (as mentioned before, he doesn't give a damn if he's the one who gets insulted) and he'll defend them both fiercly and loudly.

Still, he is a forgiving person, who can listen to reason. He is understanding and if he's inte the wrong, he'll apologize without protest. But about his forgiving side. It's very noticable that he is both forgiving and understanding when one considers his relationship with his stepmother. She hates him more than she hates anyone, because she was unable to give her husband an heir, and her husband brought in Ed as his heir. His stepmother has, on more than one occasion, tried to have Ed killed. For that, people would normally be angered. Ed, on the other hand, is sad, but understands why she is angry with him. He wishes that she wasn't, and deeply hopes that she will accept him one day, but he doesn't expect or ask for it. If she doesn't want to like him, that's alright. It's not her fault that hings turned out the way that they did. Sure, he is sad that she ordered her daughters not to speak to Ed or his younger sister, and that it essentially was because of his steepmother's hatred that his younger sister was sent away, but he doesn't hold grudges easily, not even for that.

Ed's biggest regret is, however, that he was separated from his sister. They promised to find each other again, but he has not yet succeeded in that matter. But he's stubborn and is refusing to give up, even if things sometimes feels hopeless. His sister means the world to him, and he is dead set on finding her again one day, no matter what.

He is multi-talented, and he, for example, is a very good piano player. He might play some songs that are less suitable to formal, rich-people places, though. Not that he can't play the classics, but he does love to play and sing the songs that his mother sang to him and his sister when they were children. That means that he playes them even at school, whish is a school mostly for the priviledged, rich people. But as usual, he doesn't care and playes whatever songs that he wants to play. Besides musically inclined, he is also athletic. He is a member of the equestrian club, and spends a lot of time with the horses. He even has a mare that he calls his girlfriend. He also doesn't mind doing hard work and helping out with taking care of the horses, which, due to his status as an aristocrat, makes people look down on him, since aristocrats are not expected to do labor work. But he can do other sports besides horseback riding, such as tennis, or, really, anything that he things it's interesting. And since he's a curious person, he wants to try all kinds of sports.

One of Ed's flaws is that he is romatically oblivious. He has a female friend called Augusta who also attends the academy, and who also is a member of the equestrian club. She also happens to be in love with him. But Ed, being completely blind to feelings like love when they're directed at him, notices nothing about that. To him, Augusta is just another very precious friend, not a girlfriend. Then there are other girls in school that fawn over him, and he doesn't notice their feelings either. It's definitely not out of cruelty, though, never. Ed is not a cruel person. He's just entirely oblivious to such things. He would never intentionally hurt anyone's feelings.

Ed is a Strahl candidate, bout out of those that has been chosen as potential advisors to the king, Ed doesn't want to be a Strahl. He thinks that the job wouldn't suit him. It's a stiff, serious job, after all, where you have to keep your attention focused, and that is the exacct opposite of what Ed is. He would much rather be an adventurer. Or have some other profession that lets him travel the world, because he wants to see it, and as much different places and culutes, and see as many different kinds of people as possible.

Unlike the other nobles that he's friends with, he doesn't shy away from using his fists in fights. He is a gentleman, although not brought up as one from the start, and should stick to using his sword. Which he is very skilled at using, by the way. But that doesn't mean that he won't use his fists when he deems it necessary. After all, unlike his friends, he doesn't care about appearances or keeping a proper reputation. Which is good because he also lacks any kind of grace.

Abilities:
Athletic: He's a great athlete, excellent at many sports, as well as a quick learner when it comes to physical activity.
Swordsmanship & hand-to-hand; He's an excellent sword fighter, but unlike the other gentlemen he hangs with, he doesn't hesitate to use his fists during a sword fight. He's quick on his feet and a very competent brawler, good at physical contact combat.
Animals: He's good at handling all sorts of animals, but he's particularly good with horses. He's great at riding them, as well as handling and taking care of them.
Music: He's very talented at playing the piano, as well as singing.
Parkour: Except the wouldn't call it that where/when he's from. But he's still surprisingly good at it for a nobleman.
Language: Fluent in German and English, also very good at French, so-so at Latin, decent at Spanish.
Various other things: Particularly things that noblemen probably shouldn't know, like cooking, cleaning, laundry, carpentry, and the likes.

Alignment: Ed would fit under several different alignments however, his regret and guilt over not being able to keep his promise to his younger sister - the promise to stay by her side and protect her - is very defining to him. He hides his grief, though, because he doesn't want to worry those who have accepted him. He is also self-depreciating, because of this and because of the insults he has grown up hearing.

Another defining trait is how forgiving he is. For example, he forgives his step-mother for trying to have him killed on more than one occasion; the only reason he got mad at her about it at all, is because she was about to shoot him with her own hands, and that would make Ed's older sisters sad. He does not want to see his sisters sad.

He is optimistic, friendly, independent, easy-going and enthusiastic, and he has an easy time adapting to situations and getting along with people. He is unwaveringly loyal, and loves those he cares about with all his heart, even if they might hate him, such as his step-mother does.

He wants to see the world become a fair place where people won't be hated or scorned for who they are (birth or family situation, economic status, race, sexuality, anything) and he may be a bit of a realizt, but he is far from being an idealist that can't see both sides, listen to reasoning; he has grown up seeing several sides of the country he was born in, particularly the dark sides but also how bright it also is. He's a realist with dreams, though he knows his place in the world and he knows what struggles lies ahead of him.

In the end, I have realized that he might be best suited to being aligned to Piphron.

Other: n/a


⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉
General Sample: PSL thread here.

Emotion Sample: When Ed finds himself at a shore he pauses for a while, and he stares out at the glittering water, golden orange in the dawn. The surrounding area bathes in the deepening darkness, and normally, had it been in the middle of the day, or much later in the night, he wouldn't have stopped to think about it.

But he remembers the incident a while back with Elaine, where she had tried to trick him into believing that she was his long-lost sister.

He isn't upset, he had known from the start and had forgiven her, but he is nostalgic. It had felt nice to pretend, for a little while, even if it had beeon one of mother's plots to get rid of him. He had forgiven her for it, too. He knew and understood her loathing.

But he's nostalgic, and he needs to sit down. He isn't only nostalgic about the time he spent with Elaine, bt he also misses home, misses Kuchen, misses his sisters, his friends.

He doesn't notice that the music that he starts to hear comes from nowhere, at first. He thinks maybe a minstrel is nearby, by coincidence, but after a while he glances up, because the music reflects the melancholy feeling, the yearning for those precious to him, all too well. And he doesn't tend to let those sort of feelings show if he can help it- least of all in the falling darkness, they should be tricky to see on his face.

This is an odd place, no matter how much he experiences of it. But he doesn't hate it, and even the music reflecting his feelings are somewhat soothing to him.


Questions: Emotional effects can cause music as a setting reaction, right? It's not only flowers, loss of color, and all that stuff, if I've understood correctly. Musical effects is what I want to use most of all for Ed.