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Volæria: A Red Rose in November

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Volæria: A Red Rose in November

Frederick

Frederick Charles II of Hesse-Kassel

^{"You don’t have to act serious to be serious about your dealings; seriousness is a loss of lifetime."
Theme(s): Johan’s Waltz}

_{B A S I C I N F O R M A T I O N}

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Full Name: Friedrich Karl von Hessen-Kassel

Nickname: Herr Wurst (derogatory)

Date of Birth: 7 of July, 1895

Place of Birth: Berlin, Preußen, Deutsches Kaiserreich

Gender: Male

Race, Ethnicity: Caucasian, German

Eye Color: Green

Height: 1,87 m.

Weight: 89 kg.

_{D E T A I L E D I N F O R M A T I O N}

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Titles: None, formerly nobility.

Appearance: Frederick Charles is a tall and broad-shouldered man in amount large enough to be noticeable and not excessive so as to be part of his most defining characteristics. He has inherited his mother’s vivaciously green eyes that set him apart from the rest of his family and her reddened brown hair instead of his father’s blond one. These characteristics are a constant reminder of his origins and the weight they carry with them.

He is often seen wearing expensive suits in almost any circumstance, with his style decided primarily on his impulses more than in practicality. While these suits serve as a reminder of his former status, for his job are a necessity and for his habits of former status they are the small consolation of mundanity.

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Past Occupation: Frederick Charles was a diplomat as soon as his majority of age arrived, granted to him by his ability of easily grasping new languages and the connections of his family.

Current Occupation: Current face of the public relations of the Strativella.

Equipment:

• LeMat Rovelver: Frederick always carries with him this fancy 9 shot revolver with a surprise shotgun shell. Most people are unaware or aren’t used to its larger capacity to it has saved Frederick’s life more than a few times when deals got rougher.
• Sketch notebook and box filled with diverse pencils: Essential for an avid draftsman and caricaturist.
• Modified greatcoat: As any person who has been in this risky business long enough, the fallen noble knows almost everyone has a reason and a price to stab you in the back, so Frederick weaved a chainmail and several metal plates into the cloth of a greatcoat. It might not give him great mobility or speed, but stabbing in the back comes mostly from blind spots anyway.

Notable Talents/Abilities:

• Smooth talker: You don’t go far into the diplomatic business if you aren’t able to sweeten sour deals and manage to obtain the best out of any situation with your sharp tongue as your only weapon.
• Decent shot: Frederick will never go down in history as a great sniper nor sharpshooter, but his enemies will go down in front of him much faster than what several of them can inflict upon him.
• Prodigious polyglot: Frederick speaks a multitude of languages, both from Europe and from abroad, making him able to conduct business with many different clients with no problem. It also gives him an edge where many people commit the mistake in discussing things in their language expecting him not to understand.

Reasons why they are a crew member aboard this vessel: Do not write this part yet.

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Hobbies/Pastimes:

• Sketching: The former German noble likes to draw what he sees as interesting, be it machines, landscapes or people, and sometimes draws some caricatures of the people he finds amusing for whatever reason. It helps him clear his head, order his ideas and, should he sustain it long enough, not to think about anything.
• Playing instruments: Frederick is proficient in both piano and violin.
• Drinking: Frederick might not be an alcoholic, but he enjoys his drinks a little too much, regardless of their quality, if it has alcohol, it gets a pass on his book. Plus he doesn’t know a dime about the types of alcohol.

Talents/Skills: What are they good at which hasn't already been mentioned?

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Frederick measures carefully his words and therefore is hard to get an accurate portrayal of his personality if he doesn’t wish to present anything beyond his business persona. However, once one passes his threshold of trust, it is possible to find a vivacious young man with a deep desire to stand out beyond what is expected of him. When his mask is left behind and he can be himself, he is brash of acting and sometimes even abrasive of talk in spite of all of what his persona might seem like.

Frederick is very intelligent and even more sharp of tongue should the situation present itself for it. With subtle humour he attacks his enemies beneath their noses without them realizing it before being too late.

_{B I O G R A P H Y}

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Frederick Charles II von Hessen-Kassel was born in 1895 as Frederick Charles Aodh, of his father Frederick Charles von Hessen-Kassel and Branwen Aodh, one of his mistress. Baptized originally with the surname of his mother, Frederick was tried to be kept a secret from the world. However, the truth came out a few years later when he was a child and his father decided to legitimize him despite his wife’s very vocal attempts against it, seeing he also had two legitimate sons before him: Frederick Wilhelm Sigismund, born 1893 and Maximilian Frederick Wilhelm Georg, born 1894.

Frederick, even as a child showed an innate talent for languages and a silver tongue, the decision was clear once he was old enough: he would go to a diplomats’ academy. Even though it was not a promising idea in the eyes of many that for the shame of the family to be paraded around the world, in the end the finality of his father that he had to be someone useful for both family and country prevailed. Frederick at first rebelled against the idea, wishing to be instead a musician and play in the Berlin Philharmonic, nonetheless, his unrelenting father managed to get the upper hand finally and Frederick’s desires laid hidden for years after that point.

Frederick was continuously and without fault pushed far beyond what his brothers or people of his age and social station would have been, resulting in an overload of work. The young aristocrat, however, would not take it with his head laying down, and instead forced himself to excel in what was given to him and using said exigencies to drown his real preoccupations, shutting off the world little by little. His ambitions lied buried for the moment, accumulating force and pressure with each passing day unbeknownst to all, except maybe Frederick himself. Maybe.

When the war started, Frederick was conducting diplomatic missions on South America for the German colonizers of the Southern Cone, mostly supervising the correct application of taxes on the incipient market of sausages and meat that the German families created. Spared from all the action and the glory, the young noble felt betrayed inside but was also spared the fate of his two older brothers and survived the war. Frederick didn’t feel much the death of his half-brothers as their families had grown separated and he only saw his brothers on his childhood, when they bullied him, and later at social events as rigid statues.

When his father assumed the throne as Finnish King, he was expected to be impeccable and behave as an ideal Crown Prince, however, like father, like son, he fell for a Finnish entrepreneur. With her, not a noble but one of the richest people in the country, he finally rebelled against his father’s wishes and had an affair that lasted for a few weeks. Frederick felt liberated at last; but when his marriage was arranged, he threw half the buffet on his father’s lap in front of the whole Finnish nobility and renounced his inheritance seconds before his father could disinherit him.Much of it was for naught however, as the idea of the Finnish monarchy didn't last more than a few months.

However, his lover didn’t wish to marry him and that caused another scandal. Until she realized she was pregnant...

Volæria: A Red Rose in November

@Blubaron45, I'm ready.

Frederick

Frederick Charles II of Hesse-Kassel

^{"You don’t have to act serious to be serious about your dealings; seriousness is a loss of lifetime."
Theme(s): Johan’s Waltz}

_{B A S I C I N F O R M A T I O N}

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Full Name: Friedrich Karl von Hessen-Kassel

Nickname: Herr Wurst (derogatory)

Date of Birth: 7 of July, 1895

Place of Birth: Berlin, Preußen, Deutsches Kaiserreich

Gender: Male

Race, Ethnicity: Caucasian, German

Eye Color: Green

Height: 1,87 m.

Weight: 89 kg.

_{D E T A I L E D I N F O R M A T I O N}

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Titles: None, formerly nobility.

Appearance: Frederick Charles is a tall and broad-shouldered man in amount large enough to be noticeable and not excessive so as to be part of his most defining characteristics. He has inherited his mother’s vivaciously green eyes that set him apart from the rest of his family and her reddened brown hair instead of his father’s blond one. These characteristics are a constant reminder of his origins and the weight they carry with them.

He is often seen wearing expensive suits in almost any circumstance, with his style decided primarily on his impulses more than in practicality. While these suits serve as a reminder of his former status, for his job are a necessity and for his habits of former status they are the small consolation of mundanity.

_{O C C U P A T I O N A L A N D F I G H T I N G A B I L I T I E S}

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Past Occupation: Frederick Charles was a diplomat as soon as his majority of age arrived, granted to him by his ability of easily grasping new languages and the connections of his family.

Current Occupation: Current face of the public relations of the Strativella.

Equipment:

• LeMat Rovelver: Frederick always carries with him this fancy 9 shot revolver with a surprise shotgun shell. Most people are unaware or aren’t used to its larger capacity to it has saved Frederick’s life more than a few times when deals got rougher.
• Sketch notebook and box filled with diverse pencils: Essential for an avid draftsman and caricaturist.
• Modified greatcoat: As any person who has been in this risky business long enough, the fallen noble knows almost everyone has a reason and a price to stab you in the back, so Frederick weaved a chainmail and several metal plates into the cloth of a greatcoat. It might not give him great mobility or speed, but stabbing in the back comes mostly from blind spots anyway.

Notable Talents/Abilities:

• Smooth talker: You don’t go far into the diplomatic business if you aren’t able to sweeten sour deals and manage to obtain the best out of any situation with your sharp tongue as your only weapon.
• Decent shot: Frederick will never go down in history as a great sniper nor sharpshooter, but his enemies will go down in front of him much faster than what several of them can inflict upon him.
• Prodigious polyglot: Frederick speaks a multitude of languages, both from Europe and from abroad, making him able to conduct business with many different clients with no problem. It also gives him an edge where many people commit the mistake in discussing things in their language expecting him not to understand.

Reasons why they are a crew member aboard this vessel: Do not write this part yet.

_{P E R S O N A L}

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Hobbies/Pastimes:

• Sketching: The former German noble likes to draw what he sees as interesting, be it machines, landscapes or people, and sometimes draws some caricatures of the people he finds amusing for whatever reason. It helps him clear his head, order his ideas and, should he sustain it long enough, not to think about anything.
• Playing instruments: Frederick is proficient in both piano and violin.
• Drinking: Frederick might not be an alcoholic, but he enjoys his drinks a little too much, regardless of their quality, if it has alcohol, it gets a pass on his book. Plus he doesn’t know a dime about the types of alcohol.

_{P E R S O N A L I T Y}

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Frederick measures carefully his words and therefore is hard to get an accurate portrayal of his personality if he doesn’t wish to present anything beyond his business persona. However, once one passes his threshold of trust, it is possible to find a vivacious young man with a deep desire to stand out beyond what is expected of him. When his mask is left behind and he can be himself, he is brash of acting and sometimes even abrasive of talk in spite of all of what his persona might seem like.

Frederick is very intelligent and even more sharp of tongue should the situation present itself for it. With subtle humour he attacks his enemies beneath their noses without them realizing it before being too late.

_{B I O G R A P H Y}

---

Frederick Charles II von Hessen-Kassel was born in 1895 as Frederick Charles Aodh, of his father Frederick Charles von Hessen-Kassel and Branwen Aodh, one of his mistress. Baptized originally with the surname of his mother, Frederick was tried to be kept a secret from the world. However, the truth came out a few years later when he was a child and his father decided to legitimize him despite his wife’s very vocal attempts against it, seeing he also had two legitimate sons before him: Frederick Wilhelm Sigismund, born 1893, and Maximilian Frederick Wilhelm Georg, born 1894.

Frederick, even as a child showed an innate talent for languages and a silver tongue, the decision was clear once he was old enough: he would go to a diplomats’ academy. Even though it was not a promising idea in the eyes of many that for the shame of the family to be paraded around the world, in the end the finality of his father that he had to be someone useful for both family and country prevailed. Frederick at first rebelled against the idea, wishing to be instead a musician and play in the Berlin Philharmonic, nonetheless, his unrelenting father managed to get the upper hand finally and Frederick’s desires laid hidden for years after that point.

Frederick was continuously and without fault pushed far beyond what his brothers or people of his age and social station would have been, resulting in an overload of work. The young aristocrat, however, would not take it with his head laying down, and instead forced himself to excel in what was given to him and using said exigencies to drown his real preoccupations, shutting off the world little by little. His ambitions lied buried for the moment, accumulating force and pressure with each passing day unbeknownst to all, except maybe Frederick himself. Maybe.

When the war started, Frederick was conducting diplomatic missions on South America for the German colonizers of the Southern Cone, mostly supervising the correct application of taxes on the incipient market of sausages and meat that the German families created. Spared from all the action and the glory, the young noble felt betrayed inside but was also spared the fate of his two older brothers and survived the war. Frederick didn’t feel much the death of his half-brothers as their families had grown separated and he only saw his brothers on his childhood, when they bullied him, and later at social events as rigid statues.

When his father assumed the throne as Finnish King, he was expected to be impeccable and behave as an ideal Crown Prince, however, like father, like son, he fell for a Finnish entrepreneur. With her, not a noble but one of the richest people in the country, he finally rebelled against his father’s wishes and had an affair that lasted for a few weeks. Frederick felt liberated at last; but when his marriage was arranged, he threw half the buffet on his father’s lap in front of the whole Finnish nobility and renounced his inheritance seconds before his father could disinherit him. Much of it was for naught however, as the idea of the Finnish monarchy didn't last more than a few months.

However, his lover didn’t wish to marry him and that caused another scandal. Until she realized she was pregnant...

Volæria: An Alt 1920's Steampunk Story (name WIP)

WIP...

Frederick Cahrles of Hesse-Kassel

Frederick Charles II of Hesse-Kassel

^{"You don’t have to act serious to be serious about your dealings; seriousness is a loss of lifetime."
Theme(s): An example}

_{B A S I C I N F O R M A T I O N}

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Full Name: Friedrich Karl von Hessen-Kassel

Nickname: Herr Wurst (derogatory)

Date of Birth: 7 of July, 1895

Place of Birth: Berlin, Preußen, Deutsches Kaiserreich

Gender: Male

Race, Ethnicity: Caucasian, German

Eye Color: Green

Height: 1,87 m.

Weight: 89 kg.

_{D E T A I L E D I N F O R M A T I O N}

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Titles: None, formerly a legitimized bastard of the house of Hesse-Kassel.

Appearance: Frederick Charles is a tall and broad-shouldered man in amount large enough to be noticeable and not excessive so as to be part of his most defining characteristics. He has inherited his mother’s vivaciously green eyes that set him apart from the rest of his family and her reddened brown hair instead of his father’s blond one. These characteristics are a constant reminder of his origins and the weight they carry with them.

He is often seen wearing expensive suits in almost any circumstance, with his style decided primarily on his impulses more than in practicality. While these suits serve as a reminder of his former status, for his job are a necessity and for his habits of former status they are the small consolation of mundanity.

_{O C C U P A T I O N A L A N D F I G H T I N G A B I L I T I E S}

---

Past Occupation: Frederick Charles was a diplomat as soon as his majority of age arrived, granted to him by his ability of easily grasping new languages and the connections of his family.

Current Occupation: Current face of the public relations of the Strativella.

Equipment:

• LeMat Rovelver: Frederick always carries with him this fancy 9 shot revolver with a surprise shotgun shell. Most people are unaware or aren’t used to its larger capacity to it has saved Frederick’s life more than a few times when deals got rougher.
• Sketch notebook and box filled with diverse pencils: Essential for an avid draftsman and caricaturist.
• Modified greatcoat: As any person who has been in this risky business long enough, the fallen noble knows almost everyone has a reason and a price to stab you in the back, so Frederick weaved a chainmail and several metal plates into the cloth of a greatcoat. It might not give him great mobility or speed, but stabbing in the back comes mostly from blind spots anyway.

Notable Talents/Abilities: What skills does your character have to offer that complements their trade?

Reasons why they are a crew member aboard this vessel: Do not write this part yet.

_{P E R S O N A L}

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Hobbies/Pastimes: What do they do when they're bored or to keep themselves from being so?

Talents/Skills: What are they good at which hasn't already been mentioned?

_{P E R S O N A L I T Y}

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Write at least a paragraph about who they are.

_{B I O G R A P H Y}

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Paragraph 1

Paragraph 2,

Paragraph 3, you must have at least three for now. Again do not yet write how they were hired aboard the Strativella yet.

etc.

Volæria: An Alt 1920's Steampunk Story (name WIP)

Goodness yes! I have awaited from an RP of this type since I joined RPG.

FoxFire's 1x1 Interest Check

FoxFire’s 1x1 Interest Check

Hello there, thanks for being here to listen, or in this case read. ;)

Some things about me and how they concern the RPs:

In no particular order of importance:

• I’m male, but have no problem playing characters of either gender. I could try to give a go to characters of different gender denominations than the traditional ones, but I don’t believe I can do them justice and therefore I’m reluctant to try except they are a fantasy creation. What I’m trying to say is that I would have no problem with playing a hermaphrodite fantasy creature but I would have with a gender dysphoria-heavy character.
• I’m 22 years old and I need all my partners to be +18 as I do not like for the screen to fade to black in any moment that might be important, be it sex, violence or other mature themes. That isn’t to say that there would be the need for all the RPs to be extremely violent or pornographic in every case. Some might, some might even have those things as driving forces, but there is no need for it in every case, nor likely in most cases.
• I’m a university student, I have a life outside of the guild and I respect that all of you have one too. Your life comes first in every case and so does mine, but please take care to inform me of any prolonged absences.
• English isn’t my mother tongue, however, I learned it by reading and writing and would consider myself proficient on it except sometimes for the orthography. I won’t demand perfection, life knows how much that has taken from me when I demanded it from myself, but as long as you are understandable and try to maintain a good level that is intentioned towards writing, as opposed to chatting, I don’t think I would mind even a good number of mistakes.
• On the other hand, if you speak Spanish, it is as if you had a backstage pass with me. (In my dreams of becoming a superstar. C’mon, you all have or had had them too! XD).
• I like writing long posts but that is not a need for all of the RPs nor in all cases in the same RP, we can have posts of varying lengths but at the end of the day I wish for effort. No one-liners.
• I’m a tolerant person that has been in the shoes of simply being unable to answer for months and knowing I won’t be and I won’t resent you for abandoning an RP except in the case you don’t inform me. Still, I don’t believe that is a justification for not being able to ever RP with someone again, however, I respect that decision from others.
• I like to think that I’m a sociable person, so don’t hesitate to chat with me about whatever you wish in the OOC, from what happened in your day to your philosophical positions towards life passing through your musical tastes and everything in between. I love to meet new people.
• I don’t believe that, at least for me, romance is enough to push a story forward. It can be a nucleus of plot, but alone it cannot sustain a story. For me. This is all for me, I don’t think that that is an absolute, there are perfectly good books and RPs based around romance. Give me a romantic comedy and I’ll probably fall asleep, give it to me in a post-apocalyptic setting or something of the sort and I will be a very different story for me.
• I love complex backgrounds and settings. The more complex the merrier for me.
• For these prompts I wish to use PMs for story and Discord for chatting.

Ideas I'm interested at the moment (everchanging):

And to create…

This isn’t an RP in itself as it more of an exercise of creativity and a setting for one. This is basically us creating a fantasy world and then deciding how to go from there. I have many plots but they will be disclosed when we have a setting deep enough. This a completely flexible, blank page. Come at me with all of your ideas. This is my deepest craving.

Orbital Mechanics

This the "evolution" of The Times of False Grandeur if you wish to call it so; with it being included inside the world but also featuring other worlds. As this takes place after TTOFG therefore I will disclose it's plot by request.

• Some steampunk or Mortal Engines-based world.

Ideas floating around…

The Times of False Grandeur

A really, really deep setting I had created for the purpose of a fictional anime, then a book, then I realized I I’ve bitten too much to chew. Are you ready to hear it is spite of that?

Magic has existed on planet Earth since the inception of mankind, however, some irregular cycle exists in the universe that weakened it for centuries and millennia until making it disappear in the renaissance, nothing more than a myth… And thus it continued to be until the Great War… But this isn’t the Great War you remember: around the year 1750 things diverged from our timeline, the reform of the Subordinated Parliaments prevented the First British Empire from withering away after the independence of the USA and without its fall we have a continuous line from the first stage of the British Empire into the second.

With a great percentage of the world under the paws of the Lions in the Isles, there was the need to find a medium to compensate and thus magic re-enters the stage in the shape of gargantuan magically powered machinery created by the German Empire to crush the Russian Empire in 1910, a British ally at the time. The war raged on for twelve years and the British lost all power on the continent while the Germans lost all their colonies; a dichotomy that would birth fascism as the bitter peace and devastation wouldn’t leave anyone indifferent. However, we are still not there yet.

Fast forward to the year 2275 and the magical races that reappeared in the 1910s have been expelled from Earth as a scapegoat since 150 years ago… And now the cycle is entering the upwards phase of the curve, granting them power once again and granting them the ability to maybe come back to Earth from their exile in the orbital and planetary colonies of the Solar System.

Old age is ungrateful

The current age of mankind has been the shortest to date, nanotechnology has replaced most factory processes and the jump between the robotized production and the nanomechanical one has destroyed the economy of the developed world in favour of the developing world; but that hasn’t been the solution to the problems of anyone. Petroleum has ran out, space elevators have risen from the Equator and machine melded with flesh. Old age for the developed world is ungrateful and for the younger states of the world, their adolescent phase doesn’t excuse them of their mistakes as it does for people.

Basically cyberpunk with a hint of political commentary behind it.

No one is born to be immortal

"There were castles in the sky before, both metaphorical and maybe not so much. "We don't need them", felt most humanity and thus cast their gods away and built better ones of machine and mind. Their power pushed us to the fringes and the semingly sempiternal hewning of our cultures and way of life, already on nigh extinction, passed to become sepulted by time and dust. Not hated, not venerated as before, no memories of us for mankind as there is no strong feelings towards our isolated communities when we closed ourselves off and dissapeared in the fog. Said fog was once the sweet dew of a moor, pregnant with the unknown and good promises. Now that fog is an acrimnoius mixture of ash and smoke that leaves a septic, metallic taste in our mouths. Now, as mankind's tall spires reach for the heavens we once ruled, we will soon be no more."

Basically a dark fantasy that has transitioned into the future, erasing and forgetting most magic in the process but for a few isolated communities. My character would be one of the ones that still remembers, mostly because he or she had been alive during that period and has experienced all of the changes. He or she wouldn't really be immortal, but would have a tremendously long lifespan both behind and ahead. Said lifespan has costed him or her most of his sense of wonder and anything but indifference for the world, slowly suffocating without pain a depression out of him or her. That's when your character enters the scene with her or his own share of problems and maybe a solution to my character's world-weariness.

Steamworks: Prophecy

Sorry Lyla I haven't been able to post in the weekend, I decided to wait for your post and you then said it would come later... It's my fault, I'm not trying to displace responsibility, I'll post on the weekend whatever happens.

Steamworks: Prophecy

I'm going to post at least once over the weekend, at the moment, I got a test in my university.

Steamworks: Prophecy

Reinhard Schwartz

Reinhard Schwartz

Character Summary

Name: Reinhard Howard Schawrtz di Leonardo
Aliases: Mr. Carbon
Titles: Heir apparent of the Duchy of Xixier
Age:32
Place of Origin: The Serene High Kingdom of Azuria
Kingdom: None, though he will support a certain noble couple.
Gender: Male

Physical Attributes

Eyes: Brown

Hair: Brown

Day To Day Attire: Either formal suits or protective greatcoats and laboratory coats with not much middle ground.

Strengths: Great intellect, slightly above average strength.

Weaknesses: Too liberal for his time and place, nervous, obstinate, too theatrical at expressing his emotions under very little pressure.

Psychological Attributes

Intelligent * Obstinate * Histrionic * Nervous

Sexuality: Pansexual

Relationship Status: On-and-off

Personality: Reinhard has no great ego nor desire for attention, though it might look otherwise at first glance thanks to his almost acrobatics when expressing a brilliant idea or an intense emotion; which seems to come and blast through the door of his mind in every instance, seemingly without much filter. Nonetheless, before one can even accept or get used to his outbursts, it is easy to realize how much wit comes with each of his grandiloquent antics and proclamations, or the sarcasm and hyperbolic black humour he exclaims with more frequency than delight. Indeed, don’t make yourself the target of one of his caustic sprouts of humour or one those tirades that he falls into that you can’t make out if are serious or not. Combine it with a deep belief on his conclusions and a plethora of nervous habits and you have a person that can never stay quietly in the same place.

Beyond that rough and hard to deal with exterior, Reinhard is a kind and empathic person, with his intelligence not only enveloping the area of chemistry he loves so deeply, but also concerning emotional intelligence: he can read people very well although he rarely shows it, preferring to act indirectly or only when it’s really necessary. His dealings with businessmen since a very young age have shaped a slight, although not ill-intentioned mistrust by default; that isn’t to say he can’t trust people, just that he will take more time to do so and even then, he will prefer not to critically depend on others.

The Heir of Xixier is an obstinate person by nature, with his genius carrying him forward since he has memory and the abilities to implement it only making most of his projects bloom, he held his own opinions in high regard, even when he doesn’t acknowledge it and prefers to believe he always follows the scientific method. He won’t hesitate to change his worldview if there are enough proof, but when dealing with less empirical subjects, like many in life are, makes this hard to archive even when he is open to criticism. Many believe all of this is a just a result of very egocentric person reaching the best position on his field, but the truth is that Reinhard had had the same personality since his adolescence.

But, where in this decided person lies the nervousness when he is so sure in his accomplishments? Simple, the most powerful force in daily life: habit. He might not be as nervous as he appears, but he always appears at least a little bit of nervous. He has always something on his hands, they are never idle, always tinkering with something, making his joints pop or practicing tricks or complex movements such as playing piano in the air. Reinhard is constantly pacing if it isn’t absolutely required that he is still, with a friend even pointing out that he would recognize him after being dead because he wouldn’t stop twitching even after he has been turned to dust. He also is constantly reading, sometime seven when talking to other people. Nonetheless, perhaps his most obnoxious habit is the fact that while he is a very considerate and respectful person, when nervousness attacks, he starts exploring the things laying around the room, looking into drawers, reading books and papers laying around and so forth.

Skills

A listing of skills, such as horseback riding or cooking. Levels include novice (1 pt), apprentice (2 pt), journeyman (3 pt), expert (4 pt), master (5 pt). Each character can spend 21 points & only two skills can be mastered. If your character knows magic, it counts as a skill.

• Chemistry (Master): What did you expect with a nickname such as Mr. Carbon? Reinhard is a master chemist, the eccentric Chief of the Royal Advisors of Science Division in the Department of War of the city of Azuria and chemical inventor on the side. He is proud to be working in what he has considered his passion since he was a teenager even when that has won him the idea that his personality is the way it is just because he can.
  
  On a more practical role, Reinhard is such in tune with the knowledge he has that he can easily recognize compounds, alloys and such and differentiate them from many similar ones from sight alone be them in laboratory tubes, being part of a machine or in the rocks. The Heir of Xixier is such an expert that he can do wonders with just industrial products lying around.
• Driving (Master): From a submarine to the largest flying ship to the fastest steam-powered monowheel, Reinhard is a natural at the controls once he knows what they do. Thanks to the instruction of his mother, the chemist knows how to drive as if he had been doing it for years. Any and every trick will eventually be discovered and, sooner rather than later, mastered. Dangerous, high speed persecutions in land, air or water, no problem!
• Engineering (Expert): In spite of not being a brilliant inventor nor it being his main area of expertise, Reinhard wouldn’t have come close to ever imagining his success without the technical knowledge of physics, engineering, mathematics and the related areas of knowledge. Despite not having the grace of many clockwork, steam or steamwork scientists that seem to be more and more prevalent with each year that passes, Reinhard can defend himself in the three fields of expertise without difficulty, making him special in the sense that he is a mechanic jack of all trades beyond his field.
• Negotiator (Expert): While growing around merchants and businessmen can be a pain, Reinhard had the fortune to have an exceptional teacher in his mother and the maturity at a young enough age to profit from the environment instead of going against the tides unnecessarily. While he had a rebellions nature in his youth, it was expressed in other ways while he learned to dominate the art of the negotiation, closing and bettering deals, bartering and being an ace in the diplomatic arena. This has given him the ability to rise above and beyond what a simple scientist would be able to reach.
• Pianist (Journeyman): It might have been a pastime in the past, but now it is an ability that Reinhard uses to calm his nerves, one of the many that he uses, one of the few that really works.

Magic

A listing of favorite or unique spells, if any. Maximum of four.

• Spell: Description
• Spell: Description
• Spell: Description
• Spell: Description

History

Parents: Father, Aethelwulf Hraf Schwartz Bischoffs II, very close but deteriorating thanks to lack of frequent contact. Mother, Calypso di Leonardo, dead, extremely good relationship while alive.

Siblings: Three sisters who died in infancy thanks to a plague before he was born, one alive: one year younger, Hrafnyr. They have had a very good relationship that has been cooling with the years they have spent apart.

Childhood: Since very young age, Reinhard has shown exceptional talent in the sciences and a good judge of character for other people, nonetheless, this hasn’t meant that he had a good head on his shoulders most of the time. On the contrary, when he was a child and an adolescent, Reinhard had the tendency to take unnecessary risks even knowing full well the consequences. That attitude had gotten him a kindred spirit in the form of a childhood friend, the heir to the Archduchy of Be’ir, Charlotte Aafje Blumenthal. Since of birth they shared their sharp mind and sharper wit, then they had a long-lasting, though mostly secret, romantic relationship through their adolescence that finally faded with time though they remained extremely close friends after that.

In his academic pursuits, Reinhard shone brightly. There was no precise moment in which he decided he wished to be a chemist, but it was obviously inspired by his father being Head Royal Engineer after his seemingly unshakable position fell through with the sudden death of his own father, Aethelwulf I.

His mother died when he was 17 years old, leaving behind a very affected, but capable, Reinhard, a great fortune and a letter congratulating him on keeping even a sliver of a relationship with Charlotte. Yes, she knew everything and was still proud, after all, she was the one to teach Reinhard his liberal views both through example and word.

Adulthood: With the compromise between Charlotte and archduke Marcus III, it seemed that his on-and-off relationship with Charlotte would end, it only became polyamorous after the deep friendship between Marcus and Reinhard (something from before it was even thought that Marcus and Charlotte would marry) became more than platonic. It even reached the point where Charlotte and Marcus offered to elope with Reinhard, something he declined citing that it would only be prejudice against the three of them.

He still visits them as often as he can, even with his new position on the council table of the throne room of Azuria. After he graduated he kept ascending meteorically in the field of chemistry until reaching the position of Chief of the Royal Advisors of the Science Division.

Special Moments: Meeting Charlotte, meeting Marcus, the death of his mother (he still invocates her name each time he climbs into a new and dangerous machine even when is completely faithless in higher powers), Charlotte’s and Marcus’ wedding day… and night.

Current Events: Currently Reinhard is just arriving on the Kingdom of Eagrose in a diplomatic mission to try and stablish commercial and science treaties, mainly selling technology in exchange for the natural resources that Azuria lacks.

Relations

* ☠ Enemy * ⚜ Unfriendly * ☯ Neutral * ☮ Friends * ღ Ally * ♥ Crush/Significant Other *

• Name: Description
• Name: Description
• Name: Description
• Name: Description
• Name: Description
• Name: Description

Extras (Optional)

Character Quote: Ah! Nothing like a good ol’ bottle of fluroantimonic acid in the morning to clear the mind of… Well, everything!
Theme Song: Here
Aura Color: A middle ground between burgundy, dried blood and pastel brown.
Scent: Graphite.
Anything Else: Not really.

Steamworks: Prophecy

Reinhard Schwartz

Reinhard Schwartz

Character Summary

Name: Reinhard Howard Schawrtz di Leonardo
Aliases: Mr. Carbon
Titles: Heir apparent of the Duchy of Xixier
Age:32
Place of Origin: The Serene High Kingdom of Azuria
Kingdom: None, though he will support a certain noble couple.
Gender: Male

Physical Attributes

Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Day To Day Attire: Either formal suits or protective greatcoats and laboratory coats with not much middle ground.
Strengths: Great intellect, slightly above average strength.
Weaknesses: Too liberal for his time and place, nervous, obstinate, too theatrical at expressing his emotions under very little pressure.

Psychological Attributes

Intelligent * Obstinate * Histrionic * Nervous

Sexuality: Pansexual
Relationship Status: On-and-off
Personality: Reinhard has no great ego nor desire for attention, though it might look otherwise at first glance thanks to his almost acrobatics when expressing a brilliant idea or an intense emotion; which seems to come and blast through the door of his mind in every instance, seemingly without much filter. Nonetheless, before one can even accept or get used to his outbursts, it is easy to realize how much wit comes with each of his grandiloquent antics and proclamations, or the sarcasm and hyperbolic black humour he exclaims with more frequency than delight. Indeed, don’t make yourself the target of one of his caustic sprouts of humour or one those tirades that he falls into that you can’t make out if are serious or not. Combine it with a deep belief on his conclusions and a plethora of nervous habits and you have a person that can never stay quietly in the same place.

Beyond that rough and hard to deal with exterior, Reinhard is a kind and empathic person, with his intelligence not only enveloping the area of chemistry he loves so deeply, but also concerning emotional intelligence: he can read people very well although he rarely shows it, preferring to act indirectly or only when it’s really necessary. His dealings with businessmen since a very young age have shaped a slight, although not ill-intentioned mistrust by default; that isn’t to say he can’t trust people, just that he will take more time to do so and even then, he will prefer not to critically depend on others.

The Heir of Xixier is an obstinate person by nature, with his genius carrying him forward since he has memory and the abilities to implement it only making most of his projects bloom, he held his own opinions in high regard, even when he doesn’t acknowledge it and prefers to believe he always follows the scientific method. He won’t hesitate to change his worldview if there are enough proof, but when dealing with less empirical subjects, like many in life are, makes this hard to archive even when he is open to criticism. Many believe all of this is a just a result of very egocentric person reaching the best position on his field, but the truth is that Reinhard had had the same personality since his adolescence.

But, where in this decided person lies the nervousness when he is so sure in his accomplishments? Simple, the most powerful force in daily life: habit. He might not be as nervous as he appears, but he always appears at least a little bit of nervous. He has always something on his hands, they are never idle, always tinkering with something, making his joints pop or practicing tricks or complex movements such as playing piano in the air. Reinhard is constantly pacing if it isn’t absolutely required that he is still, with a friend even pointing out that he would recognize him after being dead because he wouldn’t stop twitching even after he has been turned to dust. He also is constantly reading, sometime seven when talking to other people. Nonetheless, perhaps his most obnoxious habit is the fact that while he is a very considerate and respectful person, when nervousness attacks, he starts exploring the things laying around the room, looking into drawers, reading books and papers laying around and so forth.

Skills

A listing of skills, such as horseback riding or cooking. Levels include novice (1 pt), apprentice (2 pt), journeyman (3 pt), expert (4 pt), master (5 pt). Each character can spend 21 points & only two skills can be mastered. If your character knows magic, it counts as a skill.

• Chemistry (Master): What did you expect with a nickname such as Mr. Carbon? Reinhard is a master chemist, the eccentric Chief of the Royal Advisors of Science Division in the Department of War of the city of Azuria and chemical inventor on the side. He is proud to be working in what he has considered his passion since he was a teenager even when that has won him the idea that his personality is the way it is just because he can.
  
  On a more practical role, Reinhard is such in tune with the knowledge he has that he can easily recognize compounds, alloys and such and differentiate them from many similar ones from sight alone be them in laboratory tubes, being part of a machine or in the rocks. The Heir of Xixier is such an expert that he can do wonders with just industrial products lying around.
• Driving (Master): From a submarine to the largest flying ship to the fastest steam-powered monowheel, Reinhard is a natural at the controls once he knows what they do. Thanks to the instruction of his mother, the chemist knows how to drive as if he had been doing it for years. Any and every trick will eventually be discovered and, sooner rather than later, mastered. Dangerous, high speed persecutions in land, air or water, no problem!
• Engineering (Expert): In spite of not being a brilliant inventor nor it being his main area of expertise, Reinhard wouldn’t have come close to ever imagining his success without the technical knowledge of physics, engineering, mathematics and the related areas of knowledge. Despite not having the grace of many clockwork, steam or steamwork scientists that seem to be more and more prevalent with each year that passes, Reinhard can defend himself in the three fields of expertise without difficulty, making him special in the sense that he is a mechanic jack of all trades beyond his field.
• Negotiator (Expert): While growing around merchants and businessmen can be a pain, Reinhard had the fortune to have an exceptional teacher in his mother and the maturity at a young enough age to profit from the environment instead of going against the tides unnecessarily. While he had a rebellions nature in his youth, it was expressed in other ways while he learned to dominate the art of the negotiation, closing and bettering deals, bartering and being an ace in the diplomatic arena. This has given him the ability to rise above and beyond what a simple scientist would be able to reach.
• Pianist (Journeyman): It might have been a pastime in the past, but now it is an ability that Reinhard uses to calm his nerves, one of the many that he uses, one of the few that really works.

Magic

A listing of favorite or unique spells, if any. Maximum of four.

• Spell: Description
• Spell: Description
• Spell: Description
• Spell: Description

History

Parents: Father, Aethelwulf Hraf Schwartz Bischoffs II, very close but deteriorating thanks to lack of frequent contact. Mother, Calypso di Leonardo, dead, extremely good relationship while alive.

Siblings: Three sisters who died in infancy thanks to a plague before he was born, one alive: one year younger, Hrafnyr. They have had a very good relationship that has been cooling with the years they have spent apart.

Childhood: Since very young age, Reinhard has shown exceptional talent in the sciences and a good judge of character for other people, nonetheless, this hasn’t meant that he had a good head on his shoulders most of the time. On the contrary, when he was a child and an adolescent, Reinhard had the tendency to take unnecessary risks even knowing full well the consequences. That attitude had gotten him a kindred spirit in the form of a childhood friend, the heir to the Archduchy of Be’ir, Charlotte Aafje Blumenthal. Since of birth they shared their sharp mind and sharper wit, then they had a long-lasting, though mostly secret, romantic relationship through their adolescence that finally faded with time though they remained extremely close friends after that.

In his academic pursuits, Reinhard shone brightly. There was no precise moment in which he decided he wished to be a chemist, but it was obviously inspired by his father being Head Royal Engineer after his seemingly unshakable position fell through with the sudden death of his own father, Aethelwulf I.

His mother died when he was 17 years old, leaving behind a very affected, but capable, Reinhard, a great fortune and a letter congratulating him on keeping even a sliver of a relationship with Charlotte. Yes, she knew everything and was still proud, after all, she was the one to teach Reinhard his liberal views both through example and word.

Adulthood: With the compromise between Charlotte and archduke Marcus III, it seemed that his on-and-off relationship with Charlotte would end, it only became polyamorous after the deep friendship between Marcus and Reinhard (something from before it was even thought that Marcus and Charlotte would marry) became more than platonic. It even reached the point where Charlotte and Marcus offered to elope with Reinhard, something he declined citing that it would only be prejudice against the three of them.

He still visits them as often as he can, even with his new position on the council table of the throne room of Azuria. After he graduated he kept ascending meteorically in the field of chemistry until reaching the position of Chief of the Royal Advisors of the Science Division.

Special Moments: Meeting Charlotte, meeting Marcus, the death of his mother (he still invocates her name each time he climbs into a new and dangerous machine even when is completely faithless in higher powers), Charlotte’s and Marcus’ wedding day… and night.

Current Events: Currently Reinhard is just arriving on the Kingdom of Eagrose in a diplomatic mission to try and stablish commercial and science treaties, mainly selling technology in exchange for the natural resources that Azuria lacks.

Relations

* ☠ Enemy * ⚜ Unfriendly * ☯ Neutral * ☮ Friends * ღ Ally * ♥ Crush/Significant Other *

• Name: Description
• Name: Description
• Name: Description
• Name: Description
• Name: Description
• Name: Description

Extras (Optional)

Character Quote: Ah! Nothing like a good ol’ bottle of fluroantimonic acid in the morning to clear the mind of… Well, everything!
Theme Song: Here
Aura Color: A middle ground between burgundy, dried blood and pastel brown.
Scent: Graphite. He specializes in working with carbon.
Anything Else: Not really.