King Edin Danrose

### Offspring

Prince Wulfric Danrose, Prince Auguste Danrose, Prince Callum Danrose and Princess Anastasia Danrose

## The King of Caesonia

King Edin Danrose is a man raised to want to be the best of the best. Nothing short of perfection. This is what he expected of the children as well. He enjoys having not only his but the names of his children being known to all. His personality could be summed up as arrogant and selfish. He views the impoverished as the country’s laziest and is known to be a believer in harsh punishment.

He is more than willing to make moves no one else will as long as the wrongs he commits are buried under the bed. Additionally, Edin enjoys the pleasures of life too much, outwardly having mistresses.

## Personality Overview

Nobody seems to love themselves more than King Edin. Raised with quite the god-complex, the man demands praise and worship. He's narcissistic and arrogant, always boasting of his looks, his accomplishments and his Kingdom. Despite all the self-love, there's an insecure, frightened little boy inside who has a lot to prove. The man took the phrase "fake it until you make it" to another level, losing himself in the process. Edin loves to immerse himself in opulence and excess. Food, women, and any other pleasures he likes to overindulge just because he can. It's as if he needs these things as a reminder to who he is. His ego accounts for his sometimes lacking intelligence as he passed up opportunities in his youth believing that he did not need them. It was hard for him to take the role as the lesser, the student, to a teacher.

Edin isn't a complete idiot nonetheless. He has managed to successfully run a Kingdom for years and has learned the ins and out through experience. Within the upper and middle class population of Caesonia, he's well-liked and has a way of presenting himself as a kind and good King. When it comes to the lower class citizens, they may not have seen King Edin for the egotistical asshole he is, but they have felt the weight of his lack of concern for them.

There are cracks in the porcelain as always. He's easy to anger and easy to offend. However, when he's angry, it's one thing. When it becomes *fury*, he's a completely different person. The mask falls off and an out-of-control man shows his true colors. Perhaps this is one of the few events that does evoke a sense of guilt in the King. In other situations, not so much. King Edin will lie and manipulate a situation to achieve his end goals without guilt. He is willing to do anything to keep himself and his Kingdom on top.

## Views on his Family

### **King George Danrose**

Edin's father is long be dead, but the very name still makes the hair stiffen on his neck. As much as his country loved him, he did not. Though Edin follows in his footsteps, he never forgave his father for how he treated him.

When asked publicly, King Edin would say after a pause, *"... King George Danrose was one of the finest kings in Caesonia's history. "*

Within the castle walls, King Edin often will reply, *"Don't mention that name around me."*

### Queen Harriet Danrose

Harriet was a quiet woman who only spoke when spoken to. She was forced by King George to give Edin the cold shoulder once he aged out of his toddler years. Edin felt little grief when she died. It felt to him as if she had been a mere shadow that lurked the castle halls.

Within the castle walls, King Edin may reply with, "*My mother played her part I suppose."*

In the public eye, King Edin speaks highly of his mother. *"She was a wonderful, compassionate woman."*

### Princess Jane Danrose

Princess Jane had been King Edin's dear elder sister. She had been ten years older than Edin, but she had been the only true friend he had in his childhood. She had been kind and warm. Jane was the closest Edin had to a maternal figure. When she died, it left a wound in Edin that never healed.

He refuses to talk about her.

### Queen Alibeth Danrose

Alibeth had stood out to him the moment she met him with her extraordinary beauty and intelligence. It was if the perfect woman had been presented to him. She seemed to say all the right things. She had been able to win the respect of King Edin enough to let her even speak without permission at times as she displayed that she had the capabilities that women normally should not. Edin explains this abnormality to himself in a number of ways. One of them being that she was created and sent to him by the Gods purposely with qualities women normally do not have in order to help him succeed. However, she is a woman at the end of the day and King Edin will not tolerate any sign of her not being submissive to him.

*"Alibeth is the perfect wife and I deserve nothing less."*

### Prince Wulfric Danrose

Prince Wulfric is the heir to the throne and henceforth King Edin's main focus. He idealized the boy from birth and dreamed of him going down in history as the best King to ever grace not only Caesonia, but Eromora. He was a handsome, intelligent and masculine young man. There was not a flaw to be found on Wulfric. *if there was, it was corrected.* The boy was given the finest education and clothes. Edin also felt he gave the boy quite anything he ever wanted. He was also given the pressure of the planet on his shoulders. Wulfric is King Edin's legacy and therefore has become almost an extension of himself. If anything was ever out of place, King Edin would privately rage on the boy, desperate to fix even the slightest hair back into perfection.

*"Being in the presence of Prince Wulfric is a gift. He is sent from the heavens themselves to bring Caesonia and maybe even the world to greatest. He is my proudest accomplishment."*

King Edin will never say anything negative about Prince Wulfric. However, when one-on-one with the eldest prince, he can be harsh and expect too much of him.

### Prince Auguste Danrose

King Edin had always noticed Auguste's capabilities and intelligence. A child born from his blood was bound to be extraordinary. Being the second eldest and the man that would stand side-by-side with Wulfric one day, the expectations for him were very high. The prince seemed to meet them in almost every aspect but in his personality. Prince Auguste would often show signs of softness that were not appropriate for a man nor a prince. He'd dote on Anastasia as if she were a flower and speak to the servants with a sweetness akin to cake. It was not in poor taste to be a nice person in King Edin's eyes, but he felt Auguste was so soft he'd be seen as feminine and therefore not be taken seriously. He attempted to push him towards swords and combat to toughen the boy up. Auguste had surpassed his expectations in skill. He managed to build not only a bond with the kingdom's military, but also create his own small contingent of knights known as the Knights of Dusk. King Edin was immensely impressed as he had not expected Auguste to have that type of drive and work ethic. But even after all that, he had retained that *infuriating* kindness. He felt as if Auguste made him behave in a way that reminded him of own father and he *hated* that. King Edin to this day wishes to harden the young man to wipe him of his "*feminine"* compassion in order to rid himself of the resentment he feels deep down towards Auguste.

In the public eye, King Edin will speak highly of Auguste. *"My son Auguste is brilliant and strong. He is an excellent strategist and phenomenal swordsman. He will be a fine aid to Wulfric once I am gone."*

### Prince Callum Danrose

It had been no accident that King Edin had spent more time sharpening the skills and behaviors of his elder two sons. With the same black-hair as his father once had, King Edin had felt he had been a bad omen. When he saw Callum, he saw King George. Almost as a self-fulfilling prophecy, the boy turned out to be the most ill-behaved of his sons. Sometimes King Edin would reason to himself that Callum wasn't really his son, but a demon sent from the pits of Hell to sabotage his success or perhaps his father reincarnated to further torment him. No matter how much Edin or Alibeth attempted to adjust Callum's behavior, it never seemed to work.

Despite everything, King Edin also will attempt to speak highly of Callum in the publicly eye. *"Ahh yes... Callum, Callum... That boy is... destined for greatness. He is young. We all had a little too much fun in our youth."*

### Princess Anastasia Danrose

Anastasia was an accident to say the least. Nonetheless, she was at the least a beautiful girl and could be used strategically later on in her life. What spare time he had was used to sharpen his sons into the fine men they needed to be and he often did not have time for her. *But oh how she had wanted it.* It was a daily basis that the little girl was running up to him and throwing her arms around him. "I love you daddy!" She'd say with the biggest smile and Edin had never understood why. He had pushed her away at first but she was persistent. Nothing would make stop her from pleading for his attention.

Though it had taken years of her trying, she began to grown on him. She started to remind him of the sweet Jane he knew and started to indulge her a little bit sometimes. It had become therapeutic to have someone love him so much. Maybe she was the reincarnation of Jane, back to comfort him with her angelic presence. Then one day the image started cracking. She started getting into trouble. She became a nuisance; an annoying fly that he needed to swat at while he was working. The cracks grew and grew until the picture finally broke into pieces when she got kidnapped due to her own idiocy. Her rescue had cost them a great deal of money and even a few men. King Edin had lost control at her that day she returned.

Maybe it had been because she wasn't Jane. Maybe it had been because of money and men she had cost him. Maybe it had just been because she had made him treat her the way George had treated him.

After that day, he decided to just pretend she didn't exist.

## Opinions on Others

* Duke Laurent Petit - ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥- "He consistently treats me with the respect I deserve and it's noteworthy that things consistently run seamlessly in Montague.."
* Duchess Antoinette Petit - ♥ ♥ ♡ ♡ ♡ - "It would be beneficial if she could adopt some of her husband's qualities. Also, do something about those wrinkles... Ugh."
* Duke Gideon Edwards - ♥ ♥ ♥ ♡ ♡ - "Gideon's commitment to his work is commendable; however, it seems that recently, he has been dedicating a significant amount of time to delivering speeches and focusing on the needs of the impoverished. We have bigger issues at stake."
* Duchess Victoria Edwards - ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ - "She is always dressed well. Victoria is a woman who embraces being one and I love that. She also wisely maintains a distance from both her husband's affairs and *mine*."
* Lady Ariella Edwards - ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♡ -" I have been eying her and Priscilla as potential wives for my younger sons."
* Lord Drake Edwards - ♥ ♥ ♡ ♡ ♡ - "Gideon has a son?"
* Duke Lorenzo Vikena - ♥ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ - "Somehow, this man manages to outdo himself every time in creating spectacles. I have grown very weary of him. "
* Lady Charlotte Vikena - ♥ ♥ ♡ ♡ ♡ - "Charlotte may have her mother's beauty, however it's evident that she ultimately embodies a feminine iteration of Duke Walter Vikena."
* Count Landon Monet - ♥ ♥ ♡ ♡ ♡ - "That's the fellow who often has outbursts, yes?"
* Countess Melanie Monet - ♥ ♥ ♡ ♡ ♡ - "Who? "
* Count Andrew Cortez - ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ - "Andrew is one of Caesonia's finest gems."
* Count Calbert Damien - ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ - "Calbert is such an exemplary nobleman who knows how to play the game. Others should take notes."
* Lady Crystal Damien - ♥ ♥ ♡ ♡ ♡ - "Who?"
* Lady Violet Damien- ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ - "A quiet and beautiful woman who would make an excellent wife to one of my sons."
* Count Jonathan Bernard - ♥ ♥ ♥ ♡ ♡ - "Nice gentleman who does a well-enough job for his age."
* Countess Ella Bernard - ♥ ♥ ♡ ♡ ♡ - "Who?"
* Count Emil Schmidt - ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ - "Emil is brilliant and very engaging to conversate with."