The August month is strong, silent yet ushering in new waves of interest and hierarchy.
Mahkiell was born with certain faults. He would never be King. Mahkiell is only meant as a poster child, a background character, never will he ever attain the throne and for something he was born with that could never change. Mahkiell is labeled as schizophrenic and suffers from 'delusions'. They tried therapy, medication, exorcisms, blessings, charms, anything that showed hope, but Mahkiell continues to sustain delusions. You can't have a crazy king, now, can you? He was kept on the side, never to take the role his blood calls for, and held behind the walls of the castle.
Even if it were real, nobody wants it to be, not even Mahkiel. He'd rather be called crazy.
It was the same every day. Get up, eat, bathe, take a round in the yard, sit down to tea with his sister. Chess with the palace staff, sparring with the guards, wash up, lunch, take time in the study, read in the library, waste time, wash up, dinner, then a full 2-hour grooming and finally to bed.
After years sitting obediently in the background, smiling, sitting pretty, he was faced with the harsh reality. This would never change for as long as he lived here in the palace. Forever trapped, hidden away, forced into limbo for all his life. At first he hoped that switching things around, trying new things, talking more with his sister, just about anything to avoid the dull repeated cycle, but it all felt the same, and he was left hopeless...
So what did he do? Nothing. Well, he intended to do nothing, but... he couldn't kill the jealousy, the angst, the frustration building inside of him. It wasn't against anyone but himself, and as the days dragged on in perpetual motion, Mahkiel's fuse waned, shortening down to a mere nub. Brooding almost all day. He stopped talking with his sister, his parents were frequently avoided, and Mahkiel cooped himself up in his rooms most days. He was a liability, an unwanted nuisance. If he'd been born right, been born without these hallucinations.... he'd be something important. He'd be king, and he could help the kingdom, spread prosperity and joy among his people. He would've invited the whole kingdom to a feast, a big feast with delicious little pastries and cups of the finest tea. He'd be friends with everybody! Mahkiel's dreams of what it would be like to be King, what he would do, what he wanted to be... it only bothered him more. As the depression consumed him, Mahkiel found himself lashing out at others without thinking, or even realizing it. His bitterness was bleeding through, and he had to be pulled from his training because he had hurt his instructor. It was...shocking. When he looked in the mirror, he didn't see that 'King' he was raised to be. He wasn't mean, he wasn't hurtful... he was a good man! A....a good man...
What choices were there? Stay? and do what exactly? Mahkiel was being driven to be hateful and bitter, and he knew he had to change or it would consume him. He knew he was rather susceptible to certain energies, making him easier to snap, to lash out, or turn hateful and malicious. That could not be changed... after all, the dark arts were in his blood. Or... they weren't really 'dark', more like... Vile. They are referenced to being 'dark', but the true name would more or less be 'Yeella'. The meaning was lost in time, but the name stuck around a bit longer. It is a natural gift.... and it comes with side effect.
Every single day, he fought a silent war with himself...
Neither choice he had was very desirable... but a choice had to be made... and he chose.
He died.
Mahkiell, as said above, experiences delusions. Now, these delusions are not entirely...well... You could say they're terrifying.
Mahkiell sees the 'dead'. They're simply walking corpses, brutally torn open, or simply paled from their passing. He never talks to them, they never listen anyways, and they don't really like to talk to him, more at him. Imagine just laying in your bed and watching forms move about in the dark, or feel some unreal being scoot closer to you, it's breath on the back of your neck, it's dead, empty eyes focused on nothing and the reek in the air... rotting....rotting....always rotting.
Mahkiell just deals with it. He was brought up to ignore them, the hallucinations, but sometimes it becomes unbearable. Sometimes the dead have fits of screaming, attack him, watch him constantly, many things that just get in the way. When he was a child, he'd go crying to his parents because one bit him, or was under his bed. Sometimes they even steal his stuff.
If you wish to talk to the dead, do so on your own, he'd not a bridge between life and death one can use as a telephone. Mahkiel is 'delusional', not a medium.... the dead don't like talking anyways.
One more thing to add: Mahkiell is always cold. No matter what, he is always cold. It's not a matter of his surroundings, or his body temperature, he simply always feels cold.
With as much as Mahkiel has going on, he is quite happy with his placement in life. You'll never catch him depressed or sad. He takes whatever happens and braves it with a calm, indifferent smile. Not once will he complain, not once will he voice his pains. He was raised to be like a King, and that means to take care of his people and kingdom above all else, and to think of himself last. With that, he rarely even cares about himself and is always bothered by everyone else's problems, pains, their stress and anxiety, their loss, their grief, and anything that might rub him the wrong way.
Mahkiel spends his happy time studying black magic. He is naturally gifted in the area, though he doesn't use it often, or at all really. Blacl magic flows in his veins, but it's a twisted hobby. He can't just use it without a price, so he never really uses it. Though he loves to study it, and spends the majority of his time in exile searching out books on it, even people who use it themselves, anything to learn more about it. He's a scholar for the dark arts, though he's not evil... he just likes black magic.
It was simple enough. He used his natural gifts...
He took his blood, his hair, and a Alexandrite stone, and he made what one could call, a Golem.
It was in the spitting image of him. Not a single hair out of place. It couldn't talk, or think for itself, but it looked and felt like him. It bled and could die... but it felt no pain. It had no soul. It was just a carbon copy of his body.
The day was like any other. He'd planned it so well... there was not a thought from anyone of what would come.
He was cloaked in a veil of illusions, hidden far from the palace walls, seeing through the Golem's eyes. He had placed the poison for himself, even placed evidence to lead them to a dead end. The Golem wouldn't look any different then him... once it was dead, there'd be little to nothing telling it apart from the real Prince Mahkiel. He felt the poison pass his lips, and slowly it began coursing through him, the connection to the Golem starting to break. He let out a cry, panicked as the Golem retched, letting out pained cries. His hand reached out and the world rushed up to meet his eyes. A soft thud, and the lights went out. He was left with nothing but empty hands. The connection was severed... The Prince was dead. Long live Queen Constantine....
Prince Draconia is summed up as a monster, in most others eyes.
He "rules" his kingdom with a iron fist, and doesn't let anyone leave. Draco is very sick mentally, and doesn't realize it. He thinks he is a king, and has his own kingdom. Has his own lands, his own castle. But reality he really has nothing left going for him anymore. He's imagining it all, and it won't go away. It follows him, and it seems he will never be sane. His "kingdom" is a bone yard, full of bones and demons now. All his friends, and "people" had died off. Prince Draconia has never been seen sane in anybody's eyes, even his sister's now. She has grown distant from him.
Prince Draconia is a manipulative boy. He knows how to get his way, and sneak around other's backs to get his way. He picked this trait up from his father. He learned how to be a good liar as well, from his father. His father taught him that being nasty was the only way to get what you want, when you want it. And Draco always gets his way...
His mother of course taught him to show his manners. To be courteous, and outspoken. Respect others, and have manners.Even if they are rude to you. Outspoken like his mother, he speaks the truth. And nothing but the truth. If it hurts you, it hurts you. He doesn't care. He was taught that the truth and honest opinions are all that matter in the world.
His own traits he developed were his dark sense of humor. Finding darker, and crueler jokes more funny then playful, and funny jokes. Most Ceiral's dislike this about him. Due to the fact that it isn't the best kind of humor to find. Especially since he makes jokes about death, and other serious things. Without a care in the world.
Draco is pretty negative about his life. He often thinks negative, and realistically. Which often depresses this boy out. Most Ceiral's don't like to be around him. Due to his views on life itself, and how straight forward and comfortable he is with death and disease.
In the end, Draco is just a handful.
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