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Benedict would like most people to believe he has nothing to prove, but he tries very hard to prove it anyway. He wants desperately to be liked, cherished even, but can't help but see others as beneath him; spoiled as he is, he finds it difficult to understand perspectives that are much different from his own. In place of empathy is something like need, a desire to be seen and wanted, and which can cause him to mold his identity to be favored by the strongest personality in the room.
With that said, he has an eye for aesthetics and can be unexpectedly generous when he likes someone. He will bend over backwards to please a person whose opinion he values, and has a profound instinct for conscientiousness that he attempts to drown with every intoxicant available to him.
There's a sweet person in there somewhere, he's just had no reason to think so up until recently.
history
Born the crown prince and heir to the kingdom of Southsea, a balmy coastal realm in a fantasy setting, Benedict Quintus Artemaeus enjoyed an extremely privileged existence with very few struggles up until his early adulthood. In his world, magic exists but is highly illegal, and the average person who manifests it is put to death without trial; thus was Benedict's rude awakening when he found in his late teens that he conjures fire from his hands under enough emotional duress. He was immediately stripped of his title, albeit given a lenient sentence in the form of lifelong imprisonment rather than immediate execution.
He lasted a year or so in his family's dungeon before succumbing to an illness of the lungs, but the result of his death was his arrival in Neocepholas rather than the expected oblivion.
Benedict would like most people to believe he has nothing to prove, but he tries very hard to prove it anyway. He wants desperately to be liked, cherished even, but can't help but see others as beneath him; spoiled as he is, he finds it difficult to understand perspectives that are much different from his own. In place of empathy is something like need, a desire to be seen and wanted, and which can cause him to mold his identity to be favored by the strongest personality in the room.
With that said, he has an eye for aesthetics and can be unexpectedly generous when he likes someone. He will bend over backwards to please a person whose opinion he values, and has a profound instinct for conscientiousness that he attempts to drown with every intoxicant available to him.
There's a sweet person in there somewhere, he's just had no reason to think so up until recently.
history
Born the crown prince and heir to the kingdom of Southsea, a balmy coastal realm in a fantasy setting, Benedict Quintus Artemaeus enjoyed an extremely privileged existence with very few struggles up until his early adulthood. In his world, magic exists but is highly illegal, and the average person who manifests it is put to death without trial; thus was Benedict's rude awakening when he found in his late teens that he conjures fire from his hands under enough emotional duress. He was immediately stripped of his title, albeit given a lenient sentence in the form of lifelong imprisonment rather than immediate execution.
He lasted a year or so in his family's dungeon before succumbing to an illness of the lungs, but the result of his death was his arrival in Neocepholas rather than the expected oblivion.
