Monarch Auditions

[Crystal]

So, what is your name?
"That is a matter that cannot be disclosed openly. Private matters protect not only me but the people that serve underneath me and those that I am sworn by my life to protect. However, you would not simply call me horse - that would be hilarious, but largely unrealistic. Instead, I will guarantee you - and safely so - that I permit the use of the name Schiewerlausaystreudel for such occasions."

Then....only your subjects know your name?
"Alas, this is not the truth either. I would prefer to promise you that I trust them all as if I were female enough to have given birth to each and every one of them. Have you not heard of the saying of wolves among sheep, though? This is such an occasion - instead, I must inspect my flock and trust the sheepiest of the sheeps with such a protected cause."

Do you prefer all your subjects to have fake identities?
"Ah, good sir you jest! A fake identity also builds up to a life that is not their own. I am not a shoe sales man throwing an odd pitch to you, I am a Monarch with an alias. That is hardly the norm I suppose, but it isn't largely abnormal either. It is merely a fact - when Schiewerlausaystreudel gets hired onto another job, I promise you you'll be the first to know about the fake life he lives!"

And what do you do as a Monarch?
"What don't I do? My day has my rising in the early mornings to do a run around my lands. Honestly, I have to split the workload up - so I'm inhabiting different regions at different times throughout the weeks. I trust those that guard my kingdom, I assure you, but I like to help them out and be positive that there aren't any threats lingering about. Then I like to spend my morning tea at the lake side, sipping gently as I chat with another Monarch or two. Sometimes allies cannot be made - I like to think there's a compromise for every Monarch I've yet to meet though, that's itching at the back of their throats. It's largely whether or not I can find it that seems to be the problem."

You handle foreign affairs and guarding your territory. That's it?
"Funny assumption, don't you think? I have to mingle with my peers - this is a never ending job. If I do not ask around to find out what my Kingdom is lacking, then it will be lacking in fully committed members. Of course, I need to survey the health of my lands, look after those that I've put in charge of my different lands entirely, and see how they treat the members that reside in their herds. I have to completely prove to myself that everyone is pulling their weight, or I have to give them the boot in the end. I have to work out treaties of course so that we don't go to war - generally a complete upkeep. And of course, the age old tradition of creating new laws that comes with all rulers. But all of this is just icing upon the cake."

You really hate war don't you?
"Oh, completely! If I loved war then my members die as well at the other party's. I could handle the death of their members easily without losing too many nights of sleep. It would have me rolling around in my bed for a spell, but largely I could get over it. But even if we won, I would hate to see one person's unnecessary bloodshed when we could have both come to an agreement. Although that is not always the case - thus why I support any and all Colonies creating a Military."

Wouldn't it be wiser to train all of your members for battle?
"You cannot lead a horse to water, no pun intended. What I mean that that is that the horse may be forced to battle, train, and fight for their life but it doesn't mean that any of the lessons will stay fresh in their minds. Plus, if we are all fighters ad we are all dying to protect our Colony, then no one is alive to heal the wounded who could have lived for another fight. No one is tilling the farmlands of their nutrients to keep the fighters fit and ready for another round. No one is scoping out for spies among the bloodshed, because they're too busy focusing on the enemy ahead of their eyes to see the one sneaking up behind them. And no one is tending to the children, tucking them inside of a hidden cave, and making sure they survive for the next generation. All is lost inside of one war, because planning was inevitable but it was forgotten. I prefer to play on everyone's strengths - armymen will rise where the rest have fallen. The slack will be covered."

What do you consider yourself, then?
"Someone who gets the job done. What else?"

Well...how old are you?
"I'm preparing the celebration of my birthday this month. That's right, I'm an October baby! That'll put me at 11 years old. Ain't that funny - 11 years ago I was born, approximately speaking. I grow up so fast."

Are you looking for Consort?
"Are you offering? She'll show up when it's her time - you can't rush these things after all."

What's your biggest regret?
"I'm sorry, is it impossible not to have one? I mean I've held regrets, but at my age I've learned the best thing is to let them go. So yes, I stand by the fact that I have none. Anything that I regret is either an apology I've yet to tell someone or a goal I've yet to accomplish - not something to ruin my mental health as it were."

What was your childhood like?
"Happy, healthy, and unproductive no matter how hard I tried to help out. Children can only to do much, after all."

How did you become Monarch?
"Ah, a busy body! I like the way you think. Worried that I slipped the poison into Henry the eigth's drink and gently lulled him into his last slumber ever, are you? Well I'll promise you that isn't the case. The Monarch's name wasn't Henry for starters, and I'm his son. Did I just inherit it though - I wish! Actually, the joke around my Kingdom is that I prayed so much not to become a Monarch and bothered the Gods so often that they made me one to spite me! Truth be told - and this was discovered only after I was made a Monarch, and it was too late - my father's dying wish was for my brother to be made Monarch, which I would have supported. But since my brother was there when he died and absolutely despised such a role - and I quote you, 'anyone in power ought to have their head cut off and their body shoved down its throat!' I was given that right. By then, though, my brother had already ran away from home. Perhaps I'll give him the title....if we can ever find him again. Did you hear about him, perhaps? Please, do tell me."

[Crystal]

OUTLINE

| NAME | Schaden

[/b] "Shay-dehn"
--> ORIGIN | German
--> MEANING | "harm"[/ul]
| BREED | American Cream Draft X Clydesdale Draft

[/b] 75% American Cream 25% Clydesdale
--> HEIGHT | 16.0 Hands
--> WEIGHT | 1750 lbs[/ul]
| AGE | 7 Years

[/b] October 31st[/ul]
| COLONY | Byzantium*

[/b] Monarch*
--> GOAL | attained[/ul]

Details

| PERSONALITY | To put it briefly, he isn't what he seems.

[/b] Schaden’s outlook on life peers hostlers a realistic approach. He preserves the knowledge of one’s mortality and holds it’s dear to his heart. Whenever death seems like an inevitable turn, he would rather keep the truth vibrant and the heartwarming hopes minimal. He regards death as an inevitable feat, bound only by the existence of reality and time. When one or both of those falters, then so will the life that was deemed ‘immortal’. Likewise, he is attuned with morals that many individuals prefer to keep festering inside of their minds, and accustoms himself appropriately for his peers. His key focus is in preserving life in and of itself, by deluding himself of the fact of it’s vulnerability he throws the margin of it’s death at a higher scale.

He is also an avid fan of the bodily functions. Anything from the different classifications of tissues within the body to it’s weakest points. This leads into his militaristic approach in life, but allows him to favor a largely defensive approach. He is neither obsessed with death itself nor does he shy away from the topic - instead, he likes to study just how it affects our daily lives, and how easily it is achieved. For such a vibrant, and durable body as a living horse, and how it possesses the ability to last several years, it holds a morbid fascination for him on just how easily it is snuffed out. This morbid fascination is appropriately placed however, as he uses it in a more “preventative” approach.


--> STRATEGIST | Schaden has three roles in strategy - prediction, predictability, and flexibility. A large portion of it is locked within one’s ability to predict their opponents moves. Although the ideal is to predict one’s move even before they themselves have truly mapped it out within their own minds, it is largely impossible. However, to understand how one’s enemy functions he prefers to become well acquainted with any that oppose him. If he and befriend them, he can understand them enough to piece together their usual motives, and to track down their mentality. By unlocking one’s mentality, it affords Schaden the ability to estimate the projection rates of their moves.

Predictability plays a large role in prediction. It is even arguably the backbone of prediction itself, and without it fosters an inevitable recipe for failure. Predictability is outlined only by the daily roles of the character - where their usual methods at handling various problems and tasks give them away. Although one can vary in their motives, they generally do not stray far from their paths. While Schaden will use predictability to trace out the details of their plans, he allows a generous marginal room for error especially for such events. However, close observation of the subject is key - it generally gives away new evidence that can change their current path.

Flexibility is actually the largest component to being a ruler, as well a strategist. Without room to completely remodel - or even to scrap - your original plan, you may find yourself failing miserably in many endeavors. Being able to completely bend your shape at will and to mold yourself to fit any and all changes, you fair a better advantage. He likes to keep himself as flexible as possible, although he knows that there is a snapping point for all things. Instead of chasing the task alone, Schaden usually involves a counsel of his peers, within his inner and outer circles, and considers the advice of those in neither of the two, to form his next moves. Everything is a blend of the advices, however, and mere pieces of what he has generally found to work the best, given the circumstances.


--> RESERVED | Schaden prefers to keep his business silent, even inside of his own head. Although he may try to focus on it constantly, he won’t. To obsess over the problem without fixing it warrants nothing but headaches and stress. It may also allude to one’s guests that their host is bothered by something internally, and thus it tends to make them feel as though their host is disconnected. While he lacks the ability to be truly connected on most levels, he prefers to feign the deepest levels of compassion so that his peers will feel completely welcomed. Instead, he sets aside appropriate measures to control his thoughts so that he can focus on everything equally - balancing them out according to their level of importance relative to the current moment.

Schaden also has two tones - his witty, comical, and humorous tone, with which he connects to others by, and it completely serious tone. He uses both carefully, and keeps himself reserved in most affairs. The witty tone makes light of a rather serious conversation, or of a typical speculation, and aids at getting any point he has across whilst allowing him to connect with his peers. By creating a happier, lighter atmosphere around them he can aptly make them feel completely welcomed within his presence. This allows him to build his illusionary form and it helps him to lure their them in and to guile them in the depth of his compassion for them, and is his largest strategy at keeping a happy, and loyal Colony. Although he does care to some degree, he keeps it locked inside of a realistic, and reserved perspective.[/ul]
| HISTORY | To put it briefly, he ruined the best chance he ever had.

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