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Lysander; Prince of Laconia
Topic Started: Jun 6 2008, 05:59 PM (502 Views)
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Prince of Laconia

General Information

Name: Lysander
Gender: Male
Age || Birthday: 17 || April 26
Race: Mortal
Location: Sparta
Trade/Occupation: Prince

Appearance

General Appearance: Lysander is well-built and, having been raised as a warrior, also very fit. He has a triangular face with expressive gray eyes and dark brown hair that often appears to defy any attempt at control. More often than not, he is wearing his dark leather tunic and breeches along with his sword belt with has his long-bladed sword and twin daggers. When relaxing or simply spending time with family, he will wear loose-fitting robes that often have several concealed weapons. There are several scars on his body, many of them visible, and they bear witness of the warrior's life the young prince has chosen.
Weapons: Lysander has chosen an unusual long-bladed sword as his weapon of choice. He also has a bow which he mainly uses to hunt supper rather than in battle.
Items/Personal Belongings/Ownings: A bay stallion named Chariton. An old woven necklace that was a gift from a friend.

Personality

General Personality: Lysander is best described as a 'patriot'. He is fiercely in love with his country and totally deveoted to his family. Despite this almost blind devotion, he is still a moral soldier. He has a firm belief in right and wrong and will oppose what he sees as wrong even if it should bring him into conflict with the very things and people he loves. He is stubborn to a fault and is very hard to disuage once he makes up his mind.
Hobbies: Lysander is a keen student and loves to learn. He can often be seen spending time in the library or in the gardens with a book or even at the public squares engaging others in debate.
Quirks: Lysander sings when he is bathing. A quirk he picked up from a fellow soldier.

Fighting

Favourite Weapon: Long-bladed sword and twin daggers
Weapon Skills: Bow
Strengths in Fighting: Lysander, though capable of fighting with a phalanx, prefers to fight from horseback. It is where he is strongest and almost unmatched in skill.
Weaknesses in Fighting: Lysander is fairly good on foot, but is not as agile as most. He tends to be a fraction slower and also a little more unpracticed. He is at a decided disadvantage when not mounted.
Special Abilities: Lysander is a master of daggers and can throw them accurately as well as melee with them.

Background

As a prince of Sparta, Lysander's early life was filled with mental and physical conditioning beyond what was normally expected of the men of his people. Though he was not the heir to throne, he was expected to learn exactly what his brother did, for the Gods were fickle, and he may yet be required to take up the burdan and responsibilty of the heir.

Still, he was always reminded that he was only the second prince. He was constantly reminded of his place, even by his own brother, and taught that to give his life in service to his nation was the greatest glory he could achieve. It might have been that he could have grown bitter and resentful of his fate, but Lysander was made of sterner and stronger stuff. He grew to love his country and became almost worshipful of his older sibling.

His relationship with his father is somewhat cold, for no reason that he can discern. His mother is a warm and approachable presence in his life and though he loves her dearly, he laments that he doesn't show it as often as he could. Lysander adores all his sisters and they can often impose on him in ways that they can't with others like his older brother. There is very little he wouldn't do for them or to keep them from harm.

Lysander, as a prince of Sparta, was expected to pass the traditional fitness trials with flying colours. He did so, though it was a trying and tough period in his life. Partly because of his status and partly because he was needed to serve, he was put through the trials younger than most of the boys. Considered a full-fledged warrior and citizen of Sparta, he has taken his place in Laconia and is determined to help his brother make their Kingdom and its people more powerful and prosperous and defend it from all threats.


Roleplay example

This example is from a sci-fi site called 'Fallen Commonwealth'. I picked it because my character here has the same name as this one-though they are completely different-and because it demonstrates my writing style (the site is no longer active :( ):

Sins of the Father - Crossing the line
by Captain Lysander Anasazi

"That looks almost new," Lysander crouched by the engine component and grimaced as he ran his hands along the side where the crack had been. He looked at the engineer, "Do you think it will hold?"

"Not forever," admitted the woman grimly, "These rods aren't meant to be patched, Captain."

"I know," Lysander rose. For the last six months they had slowly been patching the battle damage to the Justice. It was a long and arduous task under ideal conditions. After the damage caused by Indrid Mossadim, it had become nearly impossible. They were short on parts, destroyed in the explosions, and even shorter on manpower to conduct the repairs. Lysander glanced at the young High Guard engineer. Her eyes had dark rings beneath them and he knew that the crew had been working long shifts and catching only a few hours sleep a day. "Will it get us home?"

"I'm sure it has one, maybe two jumps in it, sir," she didn't look certain and she ran a hand over her face and shook her head, "But there is no way to know for sure."

"Alright, it will have to do," Lysander rose and smiled, "Good work, Lieutenant. Get some sleep. That's an order. One more day delay won't make a difference at this point."

"Yes, sir."

Lysander headed for the station control room and arrived there to check the communications station for any priority dispatches. Lysander had avoided sending a message from so deep behind enemy lines. It wouldn't do to tip off the Nietzscheans to their location.

He froze as he saw a priority message flagged in the system. He opened it using his authorisation code and read the contents. As his eyes browsed the communique he snapped out of his shock. He shook his head in disbelief. The Commonwealth couldn't have approved such action.

The orders were authentic and clear though. It hadn't been meant for this station, but had used the comm-relay to send the orders to the intended recipient: a Siege Perilous Class starship, the newest and most advanced ship class in the High Guard fleet. The Retribution of Athena. The most lethal starship-killer ever built. Designed to operate with a minimum of crew and without fleet support behind enemy lines for extended periods of time, the DSX forgoes such standard shipboard features as small craft, a Lancer contingent, and research capabilities in favour of missiles, missiles, and more missiles. It was a ship entirely capable of carrying out this mission on its own.

The destruction of the Nietzschean homeworld: Fountainhead.


OOC Information
Name: Ash
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Country: South Africa
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Hey Ash, that was a nice profile. I'm going to accept it but I'm going to ask some stuff of you to do while Rp'ing and getting to know the character.

First of all your personality part is a bit on the short side. And I like you to expand it in the next few weeks as you start roleplaying. Add strengths and weaknesses, how he interacts with others and that kind of stuff. Try to use 'traits' to describe his personality. It's not that I want to have a book to read, but a few paragraphs about his personality would be great. You can always have a look at my profiles for an example.

Then the next thing is to contact the other players who play your siblings (or parents when they are taken) to work out a little history, how they feel about each other and what their relationship is. Maybe a good way to do this is to all start a plotting sheet and reply in each others sheet, or talk via pm about it first. Like this you'll have some relationships with your siblings and know a bit how to react to each other. As your character and his siblings have known each other for their entire life already.

Well that's about it ^_^. I wish you lots of fun here and if you have a question, just ask!
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