Character Profiles ~ Mithé

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=D 'Narti had me code it for her coz' she didn't want to, so~ here's Mithé, King of Raykin and absolute studmuffin (in that sexy secondary character sort of way =3), in all his profiled glory! =D

King Mithé

1. Raw Basics (Quick Reference)

Birth
Summer 60th, 4000MY (February 20th)
Age: 53

Physical description
Average height, overweight, short, thinning, dark grey hair and beard, doesn't tend to cover himself in jewellery, just sticks with rich fabrics

Personality traits
Quietly confident, patient, responsible, not aggressive (both as person and ruler), learns from his mistakes, excellent coping skills, but can be a bit irrational about some things.

Mannerisms/habits
Scratching his beard or fiddling with his fingers when he's thinking or nervous, his left eye twitches when he's angry

2. Physical Description

Distinguishing features/marks
Beard, overweightness

Hair-do
Cut fairly short by Raykinian standards, thinning, dark grey. Well-trimmed beard

Height/build/weight
177cm, 140kg, overweight, bulky

Accessories
Just the crown: Gold band with numerous rubies/garnets/red jewels in it, including a large ruby at the front, crowned by three smaller garnets. Wears it at official functions.

Casual wear
Mostly blue with the royal yrae tail all over the smaller flap. Looks like this. Has a very interesting, not-mirrored back because I am NOT a lazy fiend ¬¬;

Battle attire (if applicable)
Not applicable. He was in the army for a brief time, when he was part of the knife archer division in purple shirts.

Best/worst qualities
Best: Hasn't got a lot of that left. He's getting on a bit.
Worst: The fat.

3. Speech and Language

Speech
Very well-spoken, can easily hold himself against a Llayan if the need arrises.

Reading/writing
Can obviously do both very well

Languages
Fluent Llayan, enough Kazinian and Tsaythi to make conversation, speaks with a bit of an accent, but still easily understood.

4. Battle

Worst enemy
Empress Shizaaqa, though more because she chose to be enemies with him than vice versa. He wouldn't choose to go to war with her though.

Preferred weapon
Throwing knives, though he hasn't even picked one up in 25 years, so he's probably not very good with them anymore.

Fighting style
Not applicable

5. Lifestyle

Typical day
Get up at dawn, breakfast, work, possibly deal with a foreign dignitary or two, makes some attempt at teaching Nol how to rule, lunch, more work, dealing with more local people/issues, dinner, more work, goes to bed late at night.

Occupation
King. Also trained as a blade archer in the army, but he was only there for three years, two and a half decades ago.

Favourite food/drink
Salmon and palace-brewed beer, which is served to everyone in the palace who wants it, but not outside the walls.

Early bird or night owl?
His line of work demands that he be up with the sun, but down well after it. He dreams of being able to sleep in.

Hobbies
Doesn't really have time for any.

6. Personality

Greatest flaw
He's a bit boring. Makes bad jokes that only he gets, and doesn't get the jokes of others.

Strongest point
Coping skills

Greatest ambition/goal
Present Raykin with a responsible, capable heir. So much for that idea.

Self-confidence
He's modest, but quietly confident.

Give orders or take them
Give them, but he presents orders more as requests, until whoever he's requesting decides to disobey him.

Introvert or extrovert
Half-half.

Coping skills
Excellent, particularly when dealing with extra responsibility (noble ‡ crown prince ‡ king ‡ soul king and father). Incredibly patient with Nolryn. Has the tendency to get slightly paranoid and irrational when concerning people attempting to take his own life—he has six assassins, Nimay and his own son being two of them.

7. What to say

"I love you"
He'd continue the conversation or whatever as if they had never said anything.

"I hate you"
He'd definitely be taken aback, probably speechless.

"Someone you love is dead"
He'd swear a few times, then push on with his job; Raykin doesn't care about the life of one person, so they wouldn't allow for him to slack off just because of one person. He probably wouldn't sleep for a day or two though.

"Someone you hate is dead"
There's really nobody Mithé hates. There are of course people he doesn't like or doesn't get on well with, but he doesn't hate anyone. If any of the people he disliked died, he'd probably forget he ever disliked them.

"You will die"
This has essentially already happened. He now has six assassins working for him.

"Help me"
That would depend entirely on what they were asking for, what he was doing at the time and whether it would prove to be a downfall to Raykin.

8. Dealing with it

Anger
Take a deep breath and try his best not to take his anger out on others. If a particular person is the cause of his anger, he'll talk to them with obviously strained patience. Sometimes this strained patience can come across slightly whiney

Sadness
He'll put it aside and tell himself that in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter as much as the wellbeing of Raykin's people.

Loss
Same again. If it's loss of money from the kingdom's treasury, then he'll rack his brains for the best way to make up the deficit. Raising taxes is a last resort.

Stress
Again, take a deep breath and work his way through it.

Conflict
He'll do everything in his power to avoid it, whether international or domestic.

Social events
He definitely gets sick of so many people trying to suck up to him or ask for more money for their respective industries. However, he sees the necessity of such events, and treats them as a way of finding out what most concerns the people at that point in time.

9. What would be most likely to make him…

Happy
Nol making a good decision, one of his people telling him something's going well.

Sad
It takes a lot to make Mithé sad. Generally he skips sad and moves straight onto anger.

Scared
Someone brandishing a weapon at him.

Angry
People begging for money off of him, people talking down to him.

Surprised
Nol making a good decision.

Embarrassed
Nol talking down to foreign dignitaries, but he won't show he's embarrassed.

10. Relationships (how he see others and how others see him)

King Yan
As a historical figure, Mithé is quite indifferent to Yan's rule, since it happened so long ago. However, once he reappears, his opinions change somewhat. He still can't understand how Yan is ‘alive', and keeps trying to convince himself that the person before him is someone who found the fallen king's ring.
Yan sees him as his greatest rival, but knows he hardly poses any threat.

Yamin
Mithé thinks of Yamin as his daughter, and pities her for having lost her own. In his effort to give her a father figure, he hasn't thought that maybe Yamin doesn't want her own father to be replaced. She wishes for their relationship to remain professional.

Nimay
Again, he treats her as his daughter, and since Nimay remembers nothing of her father, she easily accepts Mithé when he assumes the role.
Mithé sees both twins as a couple of girls who have had bad things happen to them, rather than staring at the yrae stone, their colour or commenting on their lack of speech, as most other people do. As a result, he's earned great respect from both of them.

Prince Nolryn
He definitely worries about him a lot, and whether there's any hope that he'll be capable of running the kingdom once Mithé's passed on. The king tries his best to teach Nol the runnings of Raykin, but he can see that most of it just goes straight over his head. He loves his son, but he definitely worries about his capabilities.

Community
The palace staff all think he does a pretty good job as king, but not so good as a father. They can see he's trying, but whatever he's doing doesn't work. Privately, many people think he could be more ambitious, but know that what he's doing basically works.

Other Raykinians
Since Mithé makes a pretty average king, people don't tend to take much notice of him. Mithé doesn't really mingle with the general public all that much, so they just think of him as basically another palace official.

Llayans, Tsaythis and Kazinians
They pay even less attention to him than the Raykinians. Llayan royalty loves him though, simply because he doesn't like the idea of declaring war on other kingdoms, and because the two families are trying to get Nol and Lynnlita married.
Tsayth tends to ignore him—he doesn't get in their way, so there's really no reason to bother with him. Kazin, likewise, couldn't really give much of a stuff about him. Shizaaqa knows he won't attack her, and doesn't really feel like attacking back, since she's got too many internal wars of her own to deal with, not to mention her army's dislike of her. She hates him as she would any other Raykinian ruler, but only because he rules Raykin. In return, Mithé hates her because she hates him irrationally. She's more of an annoyance than anything else.

Desert people
Initially he didn't really think of them, but having learnt that the twins' mother was a desert person, he's been learning more about them, mostly through Yamin's stories. The desert people bare a grudge against him for not trying to change the minds of the river folk, as they do every Raykinian monarch.

11. Beliefs/Superstitions

Yrae
He's always suspected that the yrae actually existed, but to have the proof manifest in front of him is something entirely different.

Is the glass half-empty or half-full?
Half-full, unless it's really, really empty. That doesn't happen often though, not even when considering Nol.

Superstitions
He doesn't like the first day of a new moon.

Lucky charms
A small shell he'd found on the docks when he was younger, from a Tsaythi boat. He had it in his pocket when he was accepted into the army, and had lost it the day Alurié died, so he's kept it on him every day since.

Lin and Aeia—what part do they play? Do they exist?
They definitely exist, and play a large part in Raykinian life. How could anyone ignore the desert and water, when they so affected every aspect of daily life?

12. Facts of Life

Birth
Very, very scary. After his wife died giving birth, he's just about paranoid of it.

Death
Also scary, if for nothing but the thought that Nol would be ruling when Mithé dies himself. He tries to prolong his life as much as possible.

Life
The purpose of life is to make the lives of others happier, and he takes this philosophy with him to work.

Love
It's a beautiful thing, but painful for him since the woman he loved died. He knows that because of his position, he can't really take another wife, not unless she's a supremely fine ruler.

Sex
Definitely not something to be talked about.

Killing
He'll avoid going to war and killing as much as he can, but he has no qualms about sending someone to kill if it means directly preserving his own life.

Magic
He's known the twins long enough to be used to it and relatively unfazed when he sees it in use.

13. Magical Attributes

Not Applicable

14. Education

Schooling
He was taught by various teachers in his house how to read, write, do simple mathematics, and the history of Raykin. Later trained to become part of the army.

Survival skills
Better than most due to army training, but he's probably forgotten most of it in the decades since he completed training.

15. Family

Parents' names and occupations
Ikaela: Mother, home duties
Irman: Father, Minister for Transport

Relationship with parents
Fairly good, especially when they learned he'd be marrying the princess.

Siblings' names and occupations
None

Relationship with siblings
Not Applicable

Other family members
Alurié: Late wife. She was a bit of a bitch to everyone except Mithé, and during her brief stint as queen, she didn't do a very good job at it. All the same, Mithé misses her, if bittersweetly. She died giving birth to Nol.
Nolryn: Son. See Relationships for more info.

16. Before Silent Harmony

Childhood
Typically noble—taught by the three or four teachers of the household, largely relaxing life. Decided to train for the army when he was 15, when Alurié started taking notice of him.

How current position was reached
Alurié noticed him when he was training for the army and made a point of getting to know him. He eventually got the guts to propose to her for his hrai-dani, she accepted and they married, hence he became prince. When Alurié's parents died a few years later, he was king, and then when Alurié died he became sole ruler of Raykin. Eventful life.

Best memory
His hrai-dani. It made him feel special, more so than his wedding, which was of course mostly about Alurié.

Worst memory
Nol's birth, because it was also Alurié's death.

Turning points in life
Age 15: Began training for the army
Age 17: Met Alurié. She'd been watching him since before then, but she only approached him when he was 17.
Age 19: Proposed to Alurié
Age 20: Married Alurié, became prince
Age 22: Graduated from army training
Age 23: King died
Age 25: Queen died, became king of Raykin, joint rule with Alurié, but she had authority.
Age 30: Nol born, Alurié died, became sole ruler of Raykin and a father
Age 40: Twins arrived at palace