The Savant

Saint Valerius Academy - A Knight/Noble Fantasy

Alfi: *mid-stab* Oh.. you the new student? welcome!
the America: What. The. Actual-
Alfi: Oi, language!

@HylianRose

Ironic because I bet Alfi gets in trouble for language all the time. Hehe.

This child is going to be the headmaster's buddy. I bet he will be sent to the headmaster a lot.

Alfi getting caught doing something he isn't supposed to.
Literally, Alfi climbed up onto the roof of the school to paint graffiti in the middle of the night.
A teacher catching him and dragging him to the headmaster.
Alfi: One. How could I get up there by myself? I'm blind. I barely can see. Two, I had green paint, not yellow, so it could not have been me.
Headmaster: Alfi, we know you are blind, but we know you can do way more crap than you let on. Stop taking the dumb route.
Alfi: Okay. I got my paint mixed up. I was just making the school look better. It needs to be a little more colorful.
Everyone: You barely can see anything.
Alfi: It would make me feel better knowing the school was more colorful and I was told I couldn't paint in my room, so I had to paint outside of it.
The Headmaster letting Alfi paint his dorm room so he doesn't paint the rest of the school.

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Also, I'm getting hella Fire Emblem: Three Houses vibes from this, specifically Edelgard. And daaaamn these kids scary.

@HylianRose

Alpheus going on a murderous rampage for the royal family.
Pran: Look at what you are doing to your family! You just killed your cousin to get to the throne.
Alpheus: I can't see any of this, so I know it won't haunt my dreams.
Alpheus proceeds to kill his dad.

~ Alpheus should always stay in a good mood because he can be a very dark character.

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Also a note; Magical creatures and god DO exist in this world but they are so rare that they are believed to be fake/not real. Which will only make the "finding a unicorn in the woods" even more impactful.

@HylianRose

This gives me a very outstretched idea that I might try to consider down the road of the RP. Mhm. Interesting. Interesting indeed.

Hehe, I concur~ excited to see how things will play out IC.

Her revolution is more Augustus Caesar-style than French Revolution-style, she'd be so good at what she does, (most of the) people gladly vow their allegiance to her (and those that do not are taken care of, one way or another).

So yeah, actually no mass destruction, just strings masterfully pulled in the background. All the common people will know is their lives prospering, no civil wars necessary.

@Izurich

French revolutions are definitely WAY different than others, especially what Millie has in mind. If anything happens with France in the future, Alpheus might end up being nicknamed the "Red King" because he might lead the bloodiest revolution towards the royal family in France depending on how character development goes and if his family gets worse. Which I doubt they will get better, but god said we need to have faith in the ones we love. Alpheus just struggles with having any faith in the future of the French royalty every single day.

If slaughtering his whole family, extended and close, meant the people of France would prosper. Alpheus will see to it. I imagine France is in ruins in the sense that the majority of their people are currently in poverty, starving, homeless, etc... While the royal family gets to sit in their pretty and pristine estate behind safety from guards and iron-rodded fences.

Though he doesn't care about the royalty at all. He cares about the people.

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Noted! Nice, alright then. I can see her helping* him become the King of France in the future. I put an asterisk because (pending character development via IC progression) Millie as-is will also use that chance to integrate France as a vassal state, expanding the HRE's grip on Europe even more than it already has,

After all, if the French people are better off under her rule than their corrupt sovereign, then it's her duty to do so. Of course, that's what she'd like to tell herself. From a meta-narrative perspective, I - as her writer - know that she thrives on domination and obedience, the reincarnation of Augustus Caesar or Charlemagne.

But again, pending character development. 😛

@Izurich

Character development is the only thing standing between him becoming the king of France or not in my mind. A lot of character development, so we shall see how this goes! It already sounds like a great role-play along with the shadowed friendship of Alpheus and Millie.

I wonder who else will join the revolution - I mean friendship. Totally just friendship. Sunshine and rainbows. No mass destruction to overthrow any governments in their current time line. Not at all.

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Oh, Rose, I couldn't find anything much in the IC Tab, nor a zeroth post (the top post without the poster's avatar at the side). This is how it looks on my end: Screenshot

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Oh, that meant she got Pran to prattle on and on about Alpheus with a few not-so-mundane stares. Damn, man must have been seething inside and his subconscious looked for any chance to air out all that bad laundry just for some morbid satisfaction. It's like lighting a small spark to a pool of gasoline, such a teeny tiny thing triggering something big. Ironic, considering he wanted to forget Alfi even existed.

Hilarious, yet sensible haha. She's autocratic but also meritocratic, if someone can prove themselves to qualify for a role, then they should be given that role, and what Pran was doing is robbing Alpheus of even the chance to do that, between that and all the other cases of decadent nobles maintaining the rotten status quo (including keeping her brother as the primary heir even though she's more qualified than him), something snapped in her and she went full Thanos "Fine, I'll do it myself."

She'd be quite shocked yes as she'd fully expect his parents to keep him in house arrest until he dies (or made to "disappear").

@Izurich

Millie probably hates Alpheus's cousins then (the true royals of France) since they are petty, shallow, and inconsiderate individuals who see their civilians as pawns to their success. They die. They don't. If people talk about them, what difference does it make? A whole country can hate or love you, but fear makes them behave.

Alpheus is probably the best chance France has unless it's taken over by another country, but he would be the last one to ever be considered for such a role.

Millie "I'm Thanos-ing this bullshit,"
Alpheus: OH!? Are we starting a revolution?
Millie: Of the world, yes.
Alpheus: Can I join? I love being a problem.

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Ohooo, now we're cooking some royally - heh - delicious drama here. Yeah, I think due to the nature of her personality and power, she's the type of person who holds many secrets, with a lot of them not even belonging to herself. Perhaps this was also a factor why she routinely writes in her journal, she may be many things, but having eidetic memory isn't one of them.

For this case, if you accept, sure thing. And to be clear, just in case, you decide how much information did Pran spill out. What you said so far is good though. It can serve as one of the events that fostered her particular hatred for the decadence and corruption that's so ubiquitous amongst nobility. But if she wants that to change, the best way to go about it is to be Empress, and voila, core motivation get.

On a related note, no one must peek into that journal of hers. The stuff inside there can start bloody wars I imagine lol 😂

@Izurich

Millie just harboring a journal that can make the whole world burn.

I think in the sense of just her trying to figure out why they stopped bringing Alpheus around. She would figure out Pran curses his son for being cursed and sees him as an abomination. A weak link. She would find out that they stopped bringing him to everyone and they isolated him at the Hoel estate in France to the point where they became so superstitious that Alpheus was isolated from his siblings and parents for the majority of the time. Alpheus only has a singular maid who is to be around him, and he gets pushed into the background. He was treated EXTREMELY differently from how his siblings were treated.

Alpheus's genetic issues being a reason Millie has a core motivation to change things is kind of hilarious.

Other than that, Millie would probably be shocked to see Alpheus in school. He might or might not say something but he was getting close to his younger siblings because he has become such a rebellious and mischievous child. Pran sent him countries away to this private school so Alpheus couldn't have a relationship with his younger siblings because they were worried that his being around their youngest, Elsie, might cause her to have his issues to. She is around the same age when Alpheus was diagnosed.

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Hmmmmm... this just gives me an idea and a chance to practice that 'OOC consent' thing. I think Millie can find out the truth if you consent Pran being 'voodoo-eyed' by the princess, hahaha. Maybe he doesn't even remember about it, but Millie sure did make him slip out his secrets about Alpheus.

If not, then she'll likely be suspicious, but never found out the real truth, at least until they meet later at the academy.

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Mmm, that's a fair alternative, but I'd rather make a new character designed from the ground up with that plot in mind rather than trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.

@Izurich

I fully understand not wanting to change characters that you have a set image for!

I could see Millie getting upset. They always bring Alpheus with them, and one day suddenly they stop, and they continue to not bring her "friend" to her. That all the adults are making excuses. I permit Millie to use her eyes on Pran. However, that might also cause Millie to figure out how much Pran dislikes his son for the disability even though it's a genetic issue where both parents have to have the recessive gene, meaning that it is Pran and Anuli's fault but Pran and the rest of the family takes it as Alpheus is cursed. Still, he's also the only one in generations that can use magic without it fully backfiring.

So, in short, Millie would know the surface darkness of the Hoel family, unlike others.

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Oh damn, should've told me that before I-... nah, nevermind, what has happened has happened. Let's focus on the now.

As things stand, as outlined in her CS, particularly in the personality and history sections, doing that will destroy:
- Millie's background of being the princess of the most prominent country in the European continent.
- Millie's core motivation and goals because it's intrinsically tied to her background.

Obviously, that's not ideal. Though I do agree that such a notion is very hilarious, but perhaps for a different reason than yours, but I'm not going to bother you with it, because...

Ultimately, regardless of my preferences, you have the ultimate authority since you're the GM and this is your world, so if you insist on doing that, then consider Millie cancelled and I'll shift to Maximillian as my primary PC.

@Izurich

You could always have Millie see the kingdom falling and everything like that which makes her feel obligated that she has to slip into another royal family to take control of that country. I feel like you could do many things with Millie even if the above was to happen to her country and her family. It would be a power-struggle story for Millie tho.

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@The Savant@Izurich

I would go ahead and start drumming ideas for character ideas/connections that might be related to your characters. This could help other writers design characters around those ideas or say "hey, my character could probably do that with yours!"

As an example;

Connections Wanted
- Old Childhood friend who knew Character A back when they were in the institute, someone who knows about his past but likely doesn't know that they're actively trying to hide it.
- A rival from their home town that used to bully them when they were younger.
- A Cousin/Sibling
- Someone that Character A is currently betrothed to via political marriage.

If that's a silly idea and you don't think it would be helpful, please feel free to ignore. That's optional but I think would help others know what you want for your character and the roles that they can potentially fill for them.

@HylianRose

Izurich and I have already spoken a little about how our characters might have met before since Alpheus will only know what people look like, pretty much, before 14 and before. We got down that his family probably visited her family at least once. I bet a few times in all honesty because of how political-governmental-and social challenges and connections would go.

So, Alpheus knows what Millie looks like from when they were younger.

However, Alpheus was starting to be hidden by his parents when deterioration happened, so I don't know if Millie would have any idea that he went blind. He got shoved into the shadows of the family and the whole wealth realm because of it, so she probably assumes that he can see because he could when they were little.

What do you think Izurich? If they knew each other when they were children (or were forced to be around each other during parent visiting each other) and then he just kinda disappeared and wasn't talked about much. Would Millie know that he went blind? Knowing Pran as his dad, he probably only told everyone that "Alpheus is extremely sick," and just left it at that because Alpheus is definitely the curse/embarrassment of the Hoel family.

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Looks fantastic! Consider him accepted.

@HylianRose

Awesome, thank you! I moved him over to the character page.