Post by John Windsor on Sept 7, 2010 15:45:55 GMT -6
[/color]VALKYRIE,
CALIFORNIA
the ocean breathes salty, won't you carry it in?
I’ve got a hunger twisting my stomach into knots,
that my tongue is tied off, my brain’s repeating,
“if you’ve got an impulse, let it out,” [/font][/center]
WHEN THE OCEAN MET THE SKY ,[/color]
CHARACTER BASICS ,
you missed when time and life shook hands and said goodbye[/color]
FULL NAME: His Royal Highness Prince John Ezra Aurelian Xavier of York, (house of Windsor)[/font]
NICKNAMES: Bluesy, but only his family and close friends call him that. and the rebel royal by the paparazzi
GENDER: male
AGE: twenty one
PAST EDUCATION: – went to Oxford University and graduated with a bachelors in psychology with a minor in comparative literature
- Attended and graduated at the prestigious Eaton academy one year early than most his age.
JOB: doesn't work, correction, doesn't need to work.
PLAYBY: c.hunnam
YOUR BODY MAY BE GONE ,[/color]
CHARACTER APPEARANCE ,
i'm gonna carry you in my head, in my heart, in my soul[/color]
ETHNICITY: English, Danish, Spanish, Greek[/font]
HAIR COLOR: Dirty blonde, light brown even.
EYE COLOR: blue eyed baby
HEIGHT: 6' even
WEIGHT: 180 lbs
BODY TYPE: John has always had a very fit body from years of athletic activities. His body mass mostly consists of long lean muscles from years of soccer and polo.
DISTINGUISHED FEATURES: The Prince has four tattoos, a Celtic cross, the phrase “what goes around comes around” on his right shoulder, his family crest with the word “Godspeed” below it on his left hip bone, and an anchor on his wrist. He also has quite a defined jaw and a prominent nose.
PERSONAL STYLE: John’s personal style has been dictated all his life, from school uniforms and formal tuxedos, though in the past couple of years he has been creating his own way of dressing himself. Although he does have his special clothing such as suites and ties and tuxedos, but casual John has a far more relaxed fit. Jeans and a button up shirt, or even a t shirt paired with sneakers has been his latest attire of choice.
OTHER: damn, boy cleans up well, that’s all I have to say. =]
IN YOUR MOUTH, IN YOUR SOUL ,[/color]
CHARACTER PERSONALITY ,
the more we move ahead the more we're stuck in rewind[/color]
STRENGTHS: Academics. Picking up languages easily. Ballroom Dancing. Playing the Piano. Soccer, track and field, rowing. Being formal, polite and all round put together for events such as the Darby or other royal gatherings. Outspoken and very honest. Fearless.[/font]
WEAKNESSES: Fiery women, a pretty smile, long legs, has a very intense sweet tooth, a good cup of tea, blueberry muffins, chocolate, tattoos.
LIKES: pretty, witty girls. Himself. Rain. Horses. Soccer. Polo. Cucumber sandwiches. Masks. Books. Pianos. Night clubs. Escargot.
DISLIKES: Prudes. Haggis. Spider. Elevators. Unnatural hair colours. Commitment. Funerals. People who attempt to copy his accent. Most reality television. Misbehaving technology.
FLAWS: John can get very annoyed very quickly, he cannot stand bullshit. However, it takes a lot to make him truly angry. He can be very bitter and hurtful when something is bothering him, taking his frustration out on people. He can also have a habit of looking through other people’s things, all because he likes to know everything about everything/everybody. John is also quite a perfectionist, he likes to do things his way and every single detail counts. This attribute also comes with a dose of arrogance and pure stubbornness, but he takes that with stride, he honestly couldn’t care less what people think of him about his flaws. John is a notorious womanizer due to the fact that he has a very hard time opening up as the idea of being vulnerable is repulsive to him. Of course he’s had girlfriends, but he has never loved them, he’s only been in lust after all.
HABITS: runs his fingers through his hair constantly. Bounces a ball or fidgets with something between his fingers when thinking. Sings the songs that get stuck in his head, also sings along to the radio whilst driving. perpetually corrects other people’s grammar.
SECRETS: Just recently John found out that his mother, Princess Kate of Denmark, was not in fact his mother. The Princess was unable to have children of her own, so essentially his father “hired” a commoner to have an heir, ie. John. All of this was done without the knowledge of most of the world and most of the royal family is unaware of this fact also.
BEST MEMORY: “Hmmm, my best memory… well there was that time in Tokyo with those twins Sakura and Min... or Barbados with Robyn… Well, I think my best memory, after thinking long and hard must be when I went to New York with my mum. It was just the two of us, with little to no paparazzi bothering us and we went to all the touristy places such as central park and to the statue of liberty and everything. It was nice, calming even.”
WORST MEMORY: “By far, my worst memory is when I found out that mum… isn’t my real mum. Why would she keep that from me, I wouldn’t love her any less… but it just made me wonder why my biological mother would give me up just like that, it even disgusts me that she might have for the possibility of wealth… It makes me want to find her just to metaphorically slap her across the face.”
OVERALL PERSONALITY: Naturally, John is a curious person. Never the one to hide neither his opinion nor his yearning for information, he has become quite talented at reading people in order to figure them out better. This led to his degree in Psychology which will also lead into his Masters in the same field. Without even trying, John manages to pick apart people, quickly determining their weak points and thus using them to his advantage. But he can also be quite sweet and charming, flirting with every single pretty woman he ever encounters. He lusts over the female race, though he never plans on every falling in love. Having this inability to allow himself to become weak or vulnerable, John has been known to be the type to “love ‘em and leave ‘em.” It is just simpler this way, he doesn’t get hurt or shot down painfully, besides, at twenty one, who really wants to settle down? Exactly, no one.
John, when he wants to be, can be the stereotypical prince. He is well mannered, kind, charming, funny, talented… every single thing you can think of regarding princes, he can easily become. However, this is only when he wants to be. The Prince is quite the chameleon, a clever, subtle manipulator for when he wants something; he gets it, regardless of the consequences. Bluesy doesn’t really take into consideration the consequences of his actions; he is only interested in the results. But he does realize that his actions have impact, and thus, he meticulously acts, thinking about everything he does to the point of insanity. Being called a perfectionist just doesn’t cut it with this royal. John will most definitely become impatient if things don’t go his way, or if all his details are performed in the fullest. He isn’t particularly bratty or spoiled, just accustomed to his lifestyle, but that doesn’t stop him from using his two hands to get things done if they aren’t done properly by others.
However, the impulse of doing things for himself has oddly sent him into sticky situations. John isn’t the type to get permission to do things; he does them and then sort of alerts the world about it later. Authority does not have a power over John, for he will inevitably do what he damn wants to, to hell with everyone else. And with that sense of character, he has been one of the greatest students and philanthropists to ever be born in the Windsor house. His fearlessness has been both a blessing and curse, for it has done great things and has run amuck greatly. But this sort of attitude has garnered him a massive ego, for his arrogance is something that he nurtures. John likes to think highly of himself, it just came in the job description of being a damn prince. Fortunately, Mr. Windsor has quite the witty tongue and mixed with a little charm, he can become the sweetest and simultaneously dangerous person you shall ever know.
AND WE'LL BOTH GROW OLD ,[/color]
CHARACTER HISTORY ,
well i don't know, i don't know, i don't know, i hope so[/color]
HOMETOWN: Londontown, yo! Though he did spent a hefty part of his childhood in Liverpool as well…[/size][/font]
PARENTS: HRH Prince Xavier of York and HRH Princess Kate of Denmark and Greece
SIBLINGS: none
OTHER: the only real cousin he hangs out with: Lady Seraphina Natalia Eliza Kate “Finn” of York
And then there are a shizah load of other relatives that I don’t want to list at this moment.
LIVING SITUATION: valks with his butler Cornelius
HISTORY: Katie de Bourbon was quite unconventional. The youngest child of the reigning King of Spain, Jose Felipe I and Reina of Greece and Denmark, Lena was often referred to as the audacious royal, defying the constraint of a typical monarch family. But that all changed when she met Xavier when she was a mere sixteen. Though she was known as Princess Kate of Denmark and Greece and he was Prince Xavier of York to the world, to each other they were Katie and Avie. Soon they were writing letters, calling each other and soon they were married within three years. It was a lavish ceremony, with the themes of white and pale gold; everything seemed to be a part of a fairytale. They were in love, they knew of each others responsibilities to their respective royal houses, for there was a mutual understanding, the basis of a successful marriage. However, in a few years after the wedding ceremony, the pressure of having children began to hit them... and it hit them hard. Five years had passed with no luck at all. Secretly, both Xavier and Kate went to the doctors, and unfortunately, it was found that Kate was unable to have children.
This was disturbing, unacceptable news. How could someone as kind and precious as Kate not be able to have children? But after much deliberating, surrogacy was the decision they made. With a generous amount of hush money, and nine months of waiting in the privacy of their vacation home, the birth of John Ezra Aurelian Xavier was welcomed on February twenty eighth. The surrogate Mother was immediately taken back to her home, never to be spoken to again. Although the original birth certificate had her name on it, it was quickly changed to Kate's name; she was after all, the true mother of this child.
John, or more commonly known as Bluesy to his parents and the rest of his family was quite spoiled growing up. Every beck and whim was answered by the hired help waiting on hand for such requests. However, John was not a selfish or spoiled person, just someone who was grown accustomed to such high class luxury. He was shuttled across the world multiple times, for he was the baby of the family, he was the only child. He spent a lot of time with his mother while growing up. John had Kate's vivacious personality as it showed early in a series of events. Being the eighth in line for the throne, John did not really feel the need to be as wound up as his cousins or the rest of family who seemed too caught up in the formalities. It didn’t bother John that he wasn’t particularly famous for being royal at the tender age of six, he had other things to worry about.
The royal doesn't quite remember his childhood as well as he remembers some key events, or as well as he remembered his teenage years. John was a rather chubby child, with a round face and pudgy hands. However, when he was around the age of sixteen, he went on a trip to America, volunteering for Habitat for humanity. He went under the pseudonym of John Smith, getting plenty of Pocahontas references along the way. It was an entire summer spent in under the hot sun, building houses, building muscle. Upon returning to the United Kingdom, he didn't expect the amount of buzz generated by his return, but damn, he looked good. Suddenly his every action was watched, every exclusive parties were filled with paparazzi and very attractive women were lining up to catch his attention.
Regardless that he suddenly became the "it" boy of the UK, he was very much focused on his academics at Eaton Academy. He is very ambitious, to the extend of perfection and graduated a year early and even managed to be accepted at Oxford University. It was a timed tradition that he were to go to Oxford, his father went, as did his mother so it was only time until John attended the same institution. Always interested in the way the mind works, the way thoughts build and the reasons why we do the things we do, John went in for a degree in psychology. Garnering an athletic scholarship in football, er, soccer, he humbly turned it down. It didn't feel right, someone more deserving should have that opportunity. With a minor in comparative literature, John was quite a well rounded student athlete.
A few weeks after graduation, John could not contain himself from looking through his father's things in his very private office. He was bored, and curious, and with a light whistle he scoured through the folder holders and in the lower drawer on the large mahogany desk in the center of the room, he found a dossier of information. Sitting down on the comfortable leather chair that swiveled, John casually flung open the folder, scanning through the papers and certificates. He saw a birth certificate, his name... though something was off, under the mother's name wasn't Kate's but rather some name he didn't know. What in the hell was this? The folder fell from his hands, he didn't bother to cover up his tracks of the snooping he did... he had far more pressing matters at hand.
In total disregard of his father's meeting, he stormed into the room, demanding to talk to the man. After being dragged into a room, John was furious. He yelled, he screamed, he damn well wanted to know what was going on here, why there was a second birth certificate. Eventually, when John stopped yelling, his father spoke. His biological mother was somewhere in America, California specifically. His father even explained the reason of his conception, they were childless, and it didn't matter who John's real mother was... he was theirs, and that was all that mattered. But that wasn't enough to John... He had questions, he wanted to know why his real mother just gave him up with a lump sum of money. So with the help of a private investigator, John finally found her, his biological mother's location. She was currently in a place called Valkyrie California, finally he could have answers.
With Cornelius the butler in tow, John moved out of his family castle, purchasing a high end condominium in the posh neighborhood in Valkyrie. He could spend lavishly, but his sole reason is to find his mother, and just ask her what was so wrong with him that she just let him go; and if he gets into a little trouble along the way, well isn't that just fantastic for John adores a little friction.
COLLECTED MY BELONGINGS ,[/color]
ABOUT YOU AND FOR THE ADMINS ,
and i left the jail, well thanks for the time[/color]
YOUR NAME: gurms the great.[/size][/font][/blockquote]
GENDER: let’s get down to business, to defeat the huns,
AGE: did they send me daughters when I asked for sons?
RP EXPERIENCE: you’re saddest bunch I’ve ever met,
OTHER CHARACTERS: but you can bet before we’re through
ROLEPLAY EXAMPLE:mister, I’ll make a man out of you.credit: format by lainey, lyrics by modest mouse
