Seth es wir Volaerys-Bakura

Seth was the adopted child of Llyre es vel Volaerys and his (now ex) husband Ryou Bakura.
== Appearance ==
Seth had dark brown hair and lilac eyes, with lightly tanned skin and freckles. He had dimples when he smiled. As was the style in Ryoujing where he was raised, his hair was long but kept tied away from the face, until he moved to Kumaur with his father Llyre, and chose to wear his hair down. He was about average height for his age, and all in all a healthy and vigorous child. When Seth died, he was missing his upper left canine tooth. As a half-elf, Seth also possessed pointed ears.
In Ryoujing, he wore clothes in the local style and befitting the station of his fathers, and later on in Kumaur was dressed more to handle the cold weather. Most distinctively, he was gifted a red brocade hat lined with white fur and depicting a stylised tiger's face by his parents, and wore it often, including the day he died.
Now, he only appears as a manifestation of Llyre's own paranoia and guilt, and looks like he did on the day he died, save for that his clothes and hair incessantly drip water and all the words he speaks sounds like they are muffled by the sea, with bubbles escaping his mouth as he talks.
== Personality ==
Like most children his age, Seth was cheerful, outgoing, and active. He enjoyed spending time outside when he lived in Ryoujing, though the poor weather in Kumaur often kept him inside. Seth also was quite good with animals, getting along well with Llyre's hunting dogs and other pets kept in Ryoujing, like exotic birds, foxes, and cats. To Ryou's dismay and disappointment however, Seth did not seem to be particularly ambitious or academically inclined (to be fair, he was a child), and took more after his other father, announcing that he would one day be "the best knight in the world" on more than one occasion. 
He was particularly fond of his younger brother Kichiro, and would often try to get him, at the time still an infant, to play games, or would carry him around the house, petting Kichiro's fluffy tail and ears. He also was fond of "all sorts of cool animals with big teeth and claws and stuff", and owned a mechanical toy tiger carved from whalebone gifted to him by one of the Kemrian Engineers for his 11th birthday that was his prized possession.
== Backstory ==
Born some time around the end of the Second Purple Insurrection in the 3rd Archonate of Viodoxa, Seth was found in a ruined campsite south of Viodoxa City by Llyre es vel Volaerys during a scouting mission, and taken back home by the man. Initially, Llyre was not pleased to be now stuck in charge of a sickly, demanding infant, and attempted to hand off the responsibility onto someone else, but Seth grew on him quickly, and shortly before the Second Siege of Viodoxa City, he properly adopted the child and Seth joined House Volaerys.
Following the battle, Seth joined his father when he fled Sparwood and settled in Ryoujing, though for some time was raised by nannies while Llyre recovered from the injuries he had sustained in the battle. After Llyre's marriage to Ryou bakura, Seth also joined the Bakura Family as its youngest member.
Seth was raised in Ryoujing alongside his older step-brother Xeno Bakura, as well as later on a younger brother, Kichiro yu vel Volaerys. Like Kichiro, he joined Llyre in Kumaur when he was appointed Count of Kemria by the Silvish government, and would reside here for several years.
Unfortunately, during the spring of year 156, he slipped and fell into the canals in Kumaur while playing with other local children, but was not noticed to be missing until later when he did not return home for dinner. The body was later found on the shoreline. The cause of death was determined to be drowning after his clothes became waterlogged and dragged him underwater.
At one point before his death he also begged his fathers to be allowed to marry Sist von Maple when they were older. Llyre denied this request, saying Seth was too young to worry about marriage yet.
== Aftermath ==
His death was the catalyst for many things.
Most notably, the canals of Kumaur were filled in to make them shallower, and ladders and guardrails were placed around the city to prevent more accidental drownings, while on a personal level, things were much worse. 
Most notably, Ryou used Seth's death and Llyre's relaxed style of parenting as a way to continue gaslighting and manipulating Llyre, telling him that Llyre's lack of strict rules and enforcing the education schedule Ryou had reccomended instead of letting Seth enjoy his childhood and the rare sunny days in Kumaur, had directly led to his death. "If you had just listened to me, and kept the brat inside to read, instead of letting him run about like a wild animal in the streets with filthy peasants, maybe our son would still be alive." This line was the first inkling to Llyre that he was unhappy in his marriage, though they remained together for another twenty years before finally divorcing. Despite Llyre being aware of Ryou's manipulation, he still feels intensely guilty over Seth's death, and continues to blame himself.
Category:Characters
Category:Traveler's Era