Richard Vawdrey II

[richard]

| ~ • ~ | Character Basics | ~ • ~ |

.:Name of Character:. Richard Vawdrey II
.:Nick Name:. Richey, Ric
.:Age:. 23 years old
.:Status:. Nobility

| ~ • ~ | Appearance | ~ • ~ |

.:Physical Appearance:.

Richard is in great physical condition and reaches nearly six foot. He has dark brown hair that reaches to his shoulders and warm brown eyes. He has a small but faint mustache that reaches to the corners of his mouth. When not wearing the knight's armor, he is usually seen wearing comfortable but presentable clothings of various types.

.:Height:. 5'11"
.:Portrayed by:. Orlando Bloom

| ~ • ~ | Personality | ~ • ~ |

.:Personality:.

Richard is a kind and caring man. He loves his family and would do anything to protect them. So far has he gone to protect them, that he has once before sold his services to a band of mercenaries and has even killed before. However, he keeps this un-noble act secret, as he is ashamed of it.

Despite being born of nobility in Mercia, Richard is loyal to the royal family of Camelot. He upholds his honor and promise to his dead mother to become a Knight of Camelot. There is one man he holds in high regard for his fighting abilities: Arthur Pendragon. Besides his mother telling him that she wanted him to become a knight with he dying wish, he also has the wish to serve Arthur.

His loyalty to those he serves and cares for drives him to the extreme sometimes. Having failed to protect his mother from bandits, Richard refuses to allow anyone else to die when he can protect them, whatever he has to do.

Richard is not afraid to stand up for what he believes in, be it standing up against nobility, or fighting to protect others. However, he keeps his common sense about him at all times, or at least tries to. When people insult his mother or father, even though he detests his father, a different side comes upon him. Depending on the insult, Richard Vawdrey can grow the most violent because of his upbringing.

.:Strengths:.

• Good with a sword and spear
  
• Courageous
  
• Physically strong
  
• Not afraid to stand up to others

.:Weaknesses:.

• Sometimes too loyal to his family and friends
  
• Sometimes foolishly puts himself in danger to protect others if they need it
  
• Slow to judge. While this can be a strength, it can also be a weakness as he is slow to decide whether or not someone's bad

.:View on Magic:.

Richard personally does not like magic. However, he doesn't judge people based on the ability to use it alone. No, Richard judges people more on their intent and moral views over their knowledge of magic.

.:Special Skills:.

Richard is great at physical sports, though like always there are those who are better than him. He is also good with using a sword and a spear, and enduring long periods of strenuous activity due to training. He is also a great cook.

.:Accents:. British accent

| ~ • ~ | History | ~ • ~ |

.:Birthplace:. A village in Mercia
.:Family:.

Richard Vawdrey I - Father
Estienne Vawdrey née Pentecost - Mother
Thomas Vawdrey - Older Twin Brother
Roana Vawdrey - Younger Sister

.:Occupation:. Knight of Camelot
.:Current Location of Residence:. Camelot
.:History:.

Richard Vawdrey II's life was a conflicted one. His mother, Estienne Pentecost, had been the adopted daughter of a wealthy noble. Richard Vawdrey I, the son of another wealthy noble in Camelot, had fallen in love with the young beauty, do he courted her secretly. Over time, the two happy teens sought their parents' approval to get married. Richard succeeded in getting his, but Estienne's disapproved, being in a feud with the Vawdrey's. To spite her parents, the couple left Camelot's borders and traveled to Mercia, where they lived instead. Not long after, the two got married, and celebrated their marriage afterwards by making it "official".

Nine months later, Thomas Richard Vawdrey II were born. Both were born on a rainy summer night. The midwife that delivered the two babes said that the rain was an omen, that the young Richard would bring about disaster to the family. Estienne didn't believe the midwife's tale, but the superstitious Richard did. As the midwife handed Estienne Thomas, Richard took the younger babe and planned on throwing him into the river to drown. Still weak with childbirth, Estienne ignore the women in her household's protests and went to stop her husband. She succeeded just in time.

As the young Richard grew up, he became the source of his father's anger and frustrations. Not even but five years old, the boy already knew the pain of near-death. Thomas and Richard's sixth birthday was also the day of Ysane's (the midwife that delivered them) death. With her dying words, she cursed the family for not heeding her words, saying that because of their foolishness, Estienne would die. It also just so happened to be that she had been a Seer... The only one to take these heard words to heart was the young Richard and his father. After that day, his father's beatings only got worse.

When both Richard and Thomas were ten, their mother gave birth to another child, a daughter named Roana. The girl was treated like a princess by their father. The three grew up together as a loving family, however. At fifteen years of age, Richard's father left the family to return to Camelot. While Richard was relieved that the source of his pain was gone from his life, he was angry that the man had left the woman he loved. From that day on, he took up training with a sword, and other weapons, training rigorously every day to the point of exhaustion. Living in a wealthy town, and already being of nobility, Richard did not have a hard time getting lessons from the other nobles that fought for Mercia. However, Richard would always remain loyal to the one king who he had never lived under -- Uther Pendragon.

His family was constantly in danger. Estienne's parents had found out about the whereabouts of their daughter from his father. Richard was forced to keep this a secret from his mother and family, lest she go into depression. His mother's parents would send people to capture -- and kill -- their daughter. They had declared her a traitor to their trust, and to Camelot. Richard did many things in those years that he regretted later. But never had he regretted protecting his family. He once joined a mercenary band, declaring himself to have been on a hunting trip, and helped to kill an opposing enemy noble who had wronged the leader of the group. In helping the mercenary band, they agreed not to kill his family.

One day, however, the day would come when Richard would fail. A brigade of bandits, sent by none other than his mother's murderous parents, attacked the city, ransacking it. But they did not forget their goal of killing Estienne. Richard had failed to reach his mother in time to stop the bandits from stabbing her, and he only managed to kill the ones in his home after the deed was already done. His mother's last words were to tell him to go to Camelot, and to join the Knights. Richard, only eighteen, took up that goal as his own. On one of the bandits, he would also find something else that would shock him -- his father's insignia. He had helped with the bandits.

Richard traveled all the way to Camelot, leaving his twin and younger sister to take care of themselves as they promised, only to find his father. News arrived that he had left for one of the neighboring villages, and Richard headed off there. It took several years to find the man, he knew his son was searching for him, apparently, or he regretted what he had done to his wife. Either way, Richard eventually found him, and killed him on his way to another village.

Again, this was something that the young man regretted doing, but he felt justified despite the blood upon his hands. News came to Camelot that the older man had been killed by a bandit. Ever since then, Richard sought to redeem himself and live up to his mother's last wish -- to become a Knight of Camelot.

[Camelot]