Who are you? LIISU How did you get here? I am in your living room. Any alts? Nick, Ilde, Gwendolyn, Milla, Talulah.
Canon information
Character name and canon: Sir Bellamy Morray | Legends of the Riftwar / The Redemption of Martel (The Elenium AU) ... I am sorry. A little. Character background: So after our glorious (...ly unfinished) rewrite project, Kay and I made a little crossover through the magic of the nexus and canon world rifts in Baron Ernest Morray's world of origin, leading to the good baron's resurrection and eventual brand new life in Elenia. Because fuck you, that's why. Presented as the totes Elene you guys "cousin" of Lord General Martel, military advisor to the Queen, he took over the royal treasury and married the recently-widowed (Martel and Maryani were happy to help) and scandalously Styric Duchess Teobhan, and a good thing too, because she was already pregnant with bouncing baby Bellamy. For two of the most normal and arguably boring people in the entire goddamn kingdom, the Morrays had an alarmingly bloody courtship. TL;DR, Bellamy Morray became one of the earliest half-allegedly-Elene (his father was, in fact, an Isleman of Midkemia), half-Styric babies to be born into the nobility, which had its ups and downs in a country still heavily defined by the former's prejudice against the latter. I am genuinely sorry that there is not really an easy way to make any of that both succinct and perfectly clear. Anyway, Bellamy grew up with the traditional excess of sass that is required of Eddings characters, eventually joining his older cousin (Nikolaj) in the ranks of Pandion knights largely as a route to practising witchcraft without it being a Thing. Aware of the social mathematics involved in deciding whether or not to hurl eligible noble daughters in his path (heir to a duchy, popularly perceived to be part heathen barn animal and thus does not deserve that duchy), he has avoided that beautiful experience that is matrimony and instead entertains himself with inappropriate and fleeting affairs and the slow realization of his sister's suitors that when he politely declined to threaten them on her behalf because whatever she's about to do to their psyche will be more than sufficient he wasn't kidding. He enjoys pretending to be dumber than he is in really unconvincing ways to sift out the assholes, swinging a giant sword around like a boss, and being an accomplished sorcerer who politely resents being trotted out as a political coffee table conversation piece and/or show pony.
Voidville information
Character's Voidville name: Bel de Norea Voidville background: Bel is half English, half Italian Romani (the family uses his mother's surname, which is for reasons that have never been explained - although his historically conservatively traditional and straitlaced, somewhat awkward father did once stare him down as to why would it even be questioned so he is assuming There Are Reasons, Ernest probably didn't wake up one day and decide to become super feminist) and trouble on both sides - not that you'd know it to meet his parents these days. Born in England, but relocated to Voidville during his teen years, he pursued a career in law enforcement and is today a detective with the Voidville PD, as well as probably the only Roma cop in New York. Divorced (from Carolina Mendez) he lives alone (except for his cat, Drustan, foisted on him by his uncle after the divorce and under the impression that all space is Drustan-space, including Bel's arse at 4AM and the breasts of any woman he brings home) in a Voidville flat, occupies his time mostly with work and the odd attendance of a poetry reading when the opportunity pops up. Nearsighted, he wears contacts most of the time and glasses around the flat.
With a family that veers between either totally nuts or aggressively normal and boring (as far as you know), he has made a career out of presenting himself as The Sane One, wry and a bit distressingly sincere, laidback and amicable if sometimes a little vague - a serious, well put together man who follows the rules and doesn't get all your jokes. This is total bullshit, FYI. One time he stopped a moving vehicle with his own body by leaping out of a moving car. He is just as crazy, he's only got strong feelings about self-control and maintaining the appearance of appropriate behaviour, etc, etc.
Although he was born into a respectable amount of privilege, he was also born to parents who take 'with great power comes great responsibility' very seriously (thx spiderman) and has never laboured under the idea that he should just lie around being fed grapes by beautiful women, who realistically would probably be petting his slutty cat anyway. He requires occupation, likes puzzles, and if he had a different racial mix he might have been a much more boisterously daft bloke in pursuit of the kind of crazy thrills he enjoys. His dedication to his pristine, slightly upper class good manners and polished mannerisms (ingrained in him by his father) and (as mentioned earlier) appropriate behaviour is not unrelated to the popular, racist depictions and perceptions of Romani people.
Also, he is a keen soccer fan and there is nothing he likes better than watching Italy get their ass handed to them whenever possible. Fuck Italy.
Played by?: Richard Armitage
Comments, thoughts, opinions? If it will get me approved, I will totally upload nothing but icons of him shirtless and tattooed. Just saying.
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Who are you? LIISU
How did you get here? I am in your living room.
Any alts? Nick, Ilde, Gwendolyn, Milla, Talulah.
Canon information
Character name and canon: Sir Bellamy Morray | Legends of the Riftwar / The Redemption of Martel (The Elenium AU) ... I am sorry. A little.
Character background: So after our glorious (...ly unfinished) rewrite project, Kay and I made a little crossover through the magic of the nexus and canon world rifts in Baron Ernest Morray's world of origin, leading to the good baron's resurrection and eventual brand new life in Elenia. Because fuck you, that's why. Presented as the totes Elene you guys "cousin" of Lord General Martel, military advisor to the Queen, he took over the royal treasury and married the recently-widowed (Martel and Maryani were happy to help) and scandalously Styric Duchess Teobhan, and a good thing too, because she was already pregnant with bouncing baby Bellamy. For two of the most normal and arguably boring people in the entire goddamn kingdom, the Morrays had an alarmingly bloody courtship. TL;DR, Bellamy Morray became one of the earliest half-allegedly-Elene (his father was, in fact, an Isleman of Midkemia), half-Styric babies to be born into the nobility, which had its ups and downs in a country still heavily defined by the former's prejudice against the latter. I am genuinely sorry that there is not really an easy way to make any of that both succinct and perfectly clear. Anyway, Bellamy grew up with the traditional excess of sass that is required of Eddings characters, eventually joining his older cousin (Nikolaj) in the ranks of Pandion knights largely as a route to practising witchcraft without it being a Thing. Aware of the social mathematics involved in deciding whether or not to hurl eligible noble daughters in his path (heir to a duchy, popularly perceived to be part heathen barn animal and thus does not deserve that duchy), he has avoided that beautiful experience that is matrimony and instead entertains himself with inappropriate and fleeting affairs and the slow realization of his sister's suitors that when he politely declined to threaten them on her behalf because whatever she's about to do to their psyche will be more than sufficient he wasn't kidding. He enjoys pretending to be dumber than he is in really unconvincing ways to sift out the assholes, swinging a giant sword around like a boss, and being an accomplished sorcerer who politely resents being trotted out as a political coffee table conversation piece and/or show pony.
Voidville information
Character's Voidville name: Bel de Norea
Voidville background: Bel is half English, half Italian Romani (the family uses his mother's surname, which is for reasons that have never been explained - although his historically conservatively traditional and straitlaced, somewhat awkward father did once stare him down as to why would it even be questioned so he is assuming There Are Reasons, Ernest probably didn't wake up one day and decide to become super feminist) and trouble on both sides - not that you'd know it to meet his parents these days. Born in England, but relocated to Voidville during his teen years, he pursued a career in law enforcement and is today a detective with the Voidville PD, as well as probably the only Roma cop in New York. Divorced (from Carolina Mendez) he lives alone (except for his cat, Drustan, foisted on him by his uncle after the divorce and under the impression that all space is Drustan-space, including Bel's arse at 4AM and the breasts of any woman he brings home) in a Voidville flat, occupies his time mostly with work and the odd attendance of a poetry reading when the opportunity pops up. Nearsighted, he wears contacts most of the time and glasses around the flat.
With a family that veers between either totally nuts or aggressively normal and boring (as far as you know), he has made a career out of presenting himself as The Sane One, wry and a bit distressingly sincere, laidback and amicable if sometimes a little vague - a serious, well put together man who follows the rules and doesn't get all your jokes. This is total bullshit, FYI. One time he stopped a moving vehicle with his own body by leaping out of a moving car. He is just as crazy, he's only got strong feelings about self-control and maintaining the appearance of appropriate behaviour, etc, etc.
Although he was born into a respectable amount of privilege, he was also born to parents who take 'with great power comes great responsibility' very seriously (thx spiderman) and has never laboured under the idea that he should just lie around being fed grapes by beautiful women, who realistically would probably be petting his slutty cat anyway. He requires occupation, likes puzzles, and if he had a different racial mix he might have been a much more boisterously daft bloke in pursuit of the kind of crazy thrills he enjoys. His dedication to his pristine, slightly upper class good manners and polished mannerisms (ingrained in him by his father) and (as mentioned earlier) appropriate behaviour is not unrelated to the popular, racist depictions and perceptions of Romani people.
Also, he is a keen soccer fan and there is nothing he likes better than watching Italy get their ass handed to them whenever possible. Fuck Italy.
Played by?: Richard Armitage
Comments, thoughts, opinions? If it will get me approved, I will totally upload nothing but icons of him shirtless and tattooed. Just saying.
Also this is Drustan:
he's coming for your women