[hider= The Briarknight; Sir Ambrose Thrane (WIP)]
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[h1][color=#9E664C]𝕊 𝕀 ℝ[/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [color=#9E664C]𝔸 𝕄 𝔹 ℝ 𝕆 𝕊 𝔼[/color] [color=2e2c2c].[/color] [color=#9E664C]𝕋 ℍ ℝ 𝔸 ℕ 𝔼[/color][/h1]

[sup][h2][color=#CD7F32]“The Briarknight”[/color][/h2][/sup]  
[sup][h2][color=#CD7F32]“The Shield of Alixandre”[/color][/h2][/sup]

[sup][h3][color=808080]Age 29 · Male · Heterosexual · Knight-Protector of the Royal Children[/color][/h3][/sup]

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[center][h2][b][color=#9E664C]A P P E A R A N C E[/color][/b][/h2][/center]

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[b][color=#9E664C]Height:[/color][/b] 6’6"  
[b][color=#9E664C]Weight:[/color][/b] ~225 lbs  
[b][color=#9E664C]Eye Color:[/color][/b] Bronze  
[b][color=#9E664C]Hair Texture:[/color][/b] Thick, unruly hair with a slight wave, falling in shaggu layers across his brow. 
[b][color=#9E664C]Hair Color:[/color][/b] Raven Black  
[b][color=#9E664C]Skin Tone:[/color][/b] He has a light, cool-toned complexion with fair skin that has a subtle olive/ashen undertone.  
[b][color=#9E664C]Facial Details:[/color][/b] Sharp, angular features; bronze-gold eyes; straight dark brows; faint under-eye shadows; close-cropped stubble; and a severe, cool-toned expression that rarely softens.  
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[b][color=#9E664C]Distinguishing Features:[/color][/b]  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Briar-thorn tattoo circling his throat  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Scars across his ribs and left shoulder  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] The calloused hands of a swordsman 
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Discerning, and often judgmental eyes

[b][color=#9E664C]Clothing & Armor:[/color][/b]  
— [b]Official Armor:[/b] Master-forged steel plate with briar motifs, bronze inlay  
— [b]Mantle:[/b] Crimson-red fur  
— [b]Off-duty:[/b] Dark gambeson, worn leather, hooded cloak  
— [b]Weapon:[/b] A Master-forged Varian greatsword with a branching thorn-guard.   
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[center][h2][b][color=#9E664C]P S Y C H O L O G Y[/color][/b][/h2][/center]

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[b][color=#9E664C]Willingness toward friends (1–5):[/color][/b] 3 – loyal, but cautious  
[b][color=#9E664C]Willingness toward romance (1–5):[/color][/b] 3 – emotionally unavailable, but not closed off completely   
[b][color=#9E664C]Sexuality:[/color][/b] Omnisexual

[b][color=#9E664C]Main Ambition:[/color][/b]  
To protect the Camilia children with his life & to honor his sister

[b][color=#9E664C]Hobbies:[/color][/b]  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Horsemanship  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Sword / Armor maintenance  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Training 
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Camping
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Cooking
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Rereading Sophia’s letters  
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[b][color=#9E664C]Likes:[/color][/b]  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Sable, his Varian Warhorse (and his closest friend) 
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Light Snowfall  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] The Varian Royal Family (Excluding Lucian)  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] King Alixandre’s counsel  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Loyalty 
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Silence 
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Solitude
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Honey tea  


[b][color=#9E664C]Dislikes:[/color][/b]  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Lucian (complicated)  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Breaking promises  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] His father  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Politics  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Pranks  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Recklessness   
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[center][h2][b][color=#9E664C]P E R S O N A L I T Y[/color][/b][/h2][/center]

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Ambrose Thrane is grumpy. There's just no way to sugar coat it. A fortress of discipline and quiet fury, Ambrose speaks bluntly, often harshly with bite softened only by exhaustion and the faintest traces of buried emotion. His presence can cold, withdrawn, and deeply controlled, yet behind the armor is someone who has never stopped grieving for his sister. 

Duty is the spine of his identity, at least on paper. If Ambrose swears to protect someone, he will do so with unshakeable resolve, even if he resents them, even if it kills him. Nothing will stand between him and his oaths.

His relationship with Lucian is a tangled snarl of grief, bitterness, and obligation. Ambrose blames him for Sophia’s death...and blames himself twice as much for not being there. Despite that, he guards Lucian with suffocating vigilance. Duty does not bend, even under the weight of heartbreak.

Marina and Sylvia bring out the few remaining gentle parts of him. They exhaust him with their antics, but they remind him painfully of Sophia, and he is fiercely protective of both.

Ambrose embodies the ideal Varian knight: relentless, unwavering, shaped by the hard life of a commoner who earned their spot. Beneath the armor is a man who is still trying to atone for a loss he believes he could have prevented if only he were there, and who now shields the royal children with every battered piece of himself that remains.
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[center][h2][b][color=#9E664C]B A C K G R O U N D[/color][/b][/h2][/center]

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[b][color=#9E664C]Kingdom & Birthplace:[/color][/b]  
Varian Kingdom / Breoven outskirts

[b][color=#9E664C]Current Occupation:[/color][/b]  
Knight-Protector of the Royal Children

[b][color=#9E664C]Past Occupations:[/color][/b]  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] King’s Special Operations Soldier  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] His father's apprentice

[b][color=#9E664C]Active Relatives:[/color][/b]  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Sister: Sophia Thrane (deceased) - Lucian’s late wife
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Father: Arn Thrane (whereabouts unknown) - What a piece of shit he was to Sophia and Ambrose
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Mother: Sera Thrane (deceased; died birthing Sophia) - Ambrose only has a few memories of her. He wonders what life could have been if she had survived.

[b][color=#9E664C]Other Connections:[/color][/b]
King Alixandre - [color=#9E664C]"The man that showed me there was a life away from father's tyranny. He raised me up, gave me an opportunity to be more than my blood would allow, and taught me how to be a man. I may not be his son, but he is like a father to me. His word is my command, now and forever."[/color]
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Queen Rosa - [color=#9E664C]"She has been as kind to me as she was to her own children. The perfect example of what a queen should be, unlike Caesonia's Danrose Disaster of a Queen. "[/color] 
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Prince Lucian - [color=#9E664C]"Are you trying to get a rise out of me? He's my Prince, the heir to my Kingdom's throne... But that's all he'll ever be to me now."[/color] 
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Prince/Sir Askel - [color=#9E664C]"Once just a cub with dreams of knighthood, I doubted the boy when my King first assigned him as my squire. I have no issues admitting that I was wrong. Askel is a good man, a good Prince, and will be an even better knight. Don't tell him, but I'm proud of him. We may not share blood, but this man is my brother."[/color]
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Princess Marina - [color=#9E664C]"I've not met a kinder, more infuriating woman. She refuses to comply, tries to slip away constantly, and I've spent countless evenings tracking her down. She is capable, more than perhaps she'll ever know... Definitely more than I'd ever admit to her face. Whatever soul decides to marry her better pray to all the gods in the realm. They'll need all the help they can get. With that said, there is nothing that I would not endure to keep her safe."[/color]
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Princess Sylvia - [color=#9E664C]"If Marnie is infuriating, Princess Sylvia is a knight's worst nightmare. She is a lightning storm of energy and antics that will surely be the death of me. There is a darkness in her that I have noticed, something that reminds me of myself at her age. Despite the madness she creates in me at times, Sylvia is as worthy as her sister of my protection. I will kill the gods themselves before I let anything happen to the girls."[/color]
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Mina Blackwood - [color=#9E664C]"WIP"[/color]
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Roman Ravenwood - [color=#9E664C]"WIP"[/color] 

[b][color=#9E664C]Skills:[/color][/b]  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Elite swordsmanship  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Defensive combat style  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Tracking & Wilderness Survival  
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Horsemanship
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Warfare
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] Emotional repression
[color=#CD7F32]♞[/color] General Grumpy / Judgmental Cuntiness   
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[b][color=#9E664C]History Summary:[/color][/b]  
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Ambrose & Sophia Thrane grew up under the iron rule of a brutal father, a man who blamed the death of his wife on their daughter, Sophia. Their childhood was a gauntlet of violence, shaping Ambrose into a soldier long before he held a title. It was King Alixandre who first saw the boy beneath the bruises and carved out a place for him in the palace guard. In many ways, the king became more of a father to Ambrose than his own ever was.

Ambrose excelled rapidly, rising into the king’s trusted special operations unit. But everything in his life revolved around his younger sister Sophia, the only gentle thing in his world. When Lucian Camilia asked for her hand, Ambrose sought a single promise: that Lucian would protect her as fiercely as he did.

Ambrose was gone on special assignment by the king when his sister was murdered. He returned to Sophia’s corpse and Lucian’s broken promise.

The grief hollowed him...but his rage was worse. It became problematic. He blamed Lucian for failing her, and himself more for being gone. Their relationship has never recovered. When he looks at the Prince he once thought of as his brother, all he sees is another man who failed Sophia.

When Alixandre accepted his request to be appointed as guard the royal children, Lucian included, Ambrose swore himself to the task despite his disdain for Lucian. Duty is duty, even when it cuts deep, and this new oath would be his way of honoring Sophia's memory. 

Marina and Sylvia slowly became the last soft spots left in his heart, echoes of Sophia he will protect until his dying breath.

Now, as the Briarknight, a name he earned for his thorny and relentless presence on and off the battlefield, Ambrose stands as shield, sentinel, and penance to the Camilia siblings as they travel to Sorian. 
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