Jianyu Doran

Jianyu Doran was the father of Lilah Wilkes and Meirong Doran. He was the head of the Doran Clan and responsible for the entire Saburo's family deaths, although he only directly killed Rina Saburo.

## Jianyu Doran

### Aliases

EmperorHis Majesty the Emperor

Young head

### Relatives

Lilah Wilkes (daughter)Meirong Doran (daughter)

Jianying Doran (mother, deceased)

Donghai Doran (father, deceased)

Xiurong Doran (wife, deceased)

Yusheng Doran (great aunt, deceased)

Mengyao Doran (first cousin twice removed, deceased)

Devin Doran (ancestor, deceased)

Winton Doran (ancestor, deceased)

## Biographical information

### Age

Estinia

In his younger years, Jianyu had black hair that he kept in a topknot with a traditional clan hairpin. The hairpin he wore is reserved for the Crown Prince or Princess, as we see Meirong wearing the same hairpin. Jianyu wore the traditional red and black Longpao that all royal Doran men besides the emperor would wear. The Longpao had dragons, waves, and flowers on it.

In his adult years living on the Doran Estate, Jianyu would typically wear a yellow dragon Longpao and the Emperor's hairpin. On his wedding day, he wore a much larger headdress and a red, black, and gold hanfu. During both of these times he had a long goatee. When he left the Doran Estate to live in Estines, he had side parted hair and wore a black vest, white button up shirt, slacks, dress shoes, and a flat cap. He still had a goatee, but it was much shorter.

### Personality

As a child, he was outgoing and excitable, enjoying his training and frequently telling his mother how excited he was to be the new emperor, believing he would make the clan glorious again, as it had been steadily declining after Yusheng's reign.

In his adult years, Jianyu seemed much sterner and more intense, rarely smiling and spending most of his time working and trying to avoid his family. He would yell at Xiurong and Meirong for doing anything even slightly incorrectly, or simply just not doing it his way.

With Beatrice, Jianyu was different. It's unclear whether this was a façade in order to get closer to the Saburos or his true personality. Either way, with Beatrice, he was much kinder, showing her frequent love and affection and never yelling. Although he left early in Lilah's childhood, Lilah recalled him as a great father who never got angry, recalling when she broke his vase and he gave her a light scolding but showed her great affection after. Meirong was surprised at that, as Jianyu was quite cold with her, never seeming proud or impressed with her accomplishments, viewing them as the bare minimum. Overall, he was cold and distant and didn't acknowledge her unless she failed. Whenever Meirong did mess up, Jianyu would get enraged, screaming at her until she cried, not showing any remorse afterwards.

### History

Jianyu was born to Jianying and Donghai Doran. His birth angered many members of the clan, not because anything he did, but rather the age of the emperor when he was born. Donghai was only thirty years old, which the elders criticized as being far too young for an emperor to have their heir. At the youngest, emperors aren't meant to have their heir until they are forty. His early birth caused the already divided clan to divide even further, with many members of the Mengyao faction gaining power.

During this time, he became close with his servant Lin Hui. Hui's family was executed when his grandfather, a semi-prominent Mengyao faction member, took the fall for a failed coup attempt by Chuanli Doran and a few other senior faction members.

At some point during this friendship, Hui began supplying information to King Zacharias, preparing the King for an invasion of the Doran clan compounds. King Zacharias was openly hostile towards the clan, and refused to work with them and hoped to wipe them out for good before he died.

When Jianyu was twenty, the invasion occurred, wiping out multiple forts and strongholds. During the invasion, Jianyu discovered Hui's betrayal. When Jianyu asked him why, Hui told him he knew why. Jianyu then asked if he had any last words, to which Hui said that he wasn't sorry for anything but continuing the cycle of revenge, followed by Jianyu killing him. The strike was largely led by Harold Saburo. It was so powerful that it wiped out nearly half of the clan and set them back 'five hundred years.' Only adding fuel to the fire, King Zacharias hailed Harold as a hero and gave him the Pendragon Medal of Honor, the highest medal of honor that can only be given out once per king's reign.

Notably, he hid Hui's betrayal from everyone and even held a ceremonial burial typically reserved for ministers.

This caused Jianyu to spend his entire time as a prince plotting revenge against Harold and the Estinian government. About six years after the attack, Harold retired from the military. Jianyu ordered he be spied on, and during this time, the spies quickly realized he was a Level One, which enraged Jianyu even more.

When King Andrew formally apologized to the clan and offered them money, Jianyu fully moved his attention away from the government and onto Harold. Harold and Allard frequently moved around together, and Jianyu knew full well this would make an attack difficult.

When Jianyu was thirty-five, Emperor Donghai died and Jianyu became the next Emperor. He spent two years focusing on domestic matters until King Andrew asked him to investigate a radical Doran movement called the Dongyan Liberation Movement, who he feared were planning to overthrow him.

Jianyu initially intended on sending in someone as opposed to investigating himself until his spies informed him that Harold Saburo's sister-in-law, a woman named Beatrice Pendragon, was apart of the movement.

Upon hearing this, Jianyu chose to join it himself in order to woo Beatrice. He introduced himself as Milton Wilkes and told her that he was a descendant of Devin Doran after she told him of her royal heritage. The two wed at some point during this time as they both rose through the ranks of the Dongyan Liberation Movement.

Soon after, Beatrice gave birth to Lilah Wilkes. She became convinced that Lilah was the true heir of the Estinian throne as she was the only known direct descendant of both Devin and Arthur.

During this time, Jianyu learned and began