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Character, series- Emperor Ioder Algios Heurassein, Tales of Vesperia
Character journal-imperialtroll
Character type- Minor
Digimon partner- PawnChessmon White > KnightChessmon White > BishopChessmon White > KingChessmon White
D-Comm colours/symbol-
Imported from another RP?- n/a
Character appearance-
(the blonde, obviously)
Character age- 18
Character history-
Prince Ioder was born in the Imperial city of Zaphias, the same as his cousin Princess Estelleise. Like his cousin, he spent most of his time in Zaphias castle, reading and participating in sword training, but unlike Estelle he had much more freedom than she did. This was due to the fact that she was the leading candidate for the throne where as he was much more akin to second choice among other candidates in the matter. Because of this he was more often seen away from the castle with a handler or two, helping with attending to imperial matters and the like. For the most part his life was about as cut and dry as it could get for a royal, at least until he was kidnapped by a man named Barbos, with the actual kidnapping itself orchestrated by Magistrate Ragou due the council supporting Estelle’s ascension to the throne.
He was held on a ship for an undetermined amount of time in the harbor of Capua Nor, until an attack on it left the ship burning and sinking with him still inside. Thankfully his calling out for help before it sank informed Yuri Lowell that there was some one still inside, and because of this he was rescued and dragged out of the water by Flynn Scifo. Yuri was traveling with Ioder’s cousin (as she had run off with him some time before, though the imperials swore she had been kidnapped as well) and they had found out about another devious plot of Ragou’s that included breeding monsters and apparently feeding children to them. Unfortunately there wasn’t much evidence to implicate him at the time, and they were forced to let the lying Ragou leave without arrest.
Ioder didn’t see Estelle and her friends again until he was in the city of Heliord with Flynn and Commandant Alexei, where he pardoned Yuri for his previous crimes as thanks for saving him and protecting Estelle on her journey. They tried to talk about the current issue of who was going take the throne and how Estelle’s journey had complicated matters, but Yuri wasn’t one to listen to such matters.
Much later, Flynn came to Ioder claiming he had received a false letter bearing his signature that would have started a war between the imperials and the guilds. Thankfully Ioder himself was able to rectify most of the issues that arose because of it by writing a proper letter to the leader of the guilds, Don Whitehorse. With the letter, he called a council with Whitehorse, and allowed for a treaty of friendship to be drafted between the guilds and the empire. Ragou’s misdeeds were also brought to light at last, and he was finally arrested.
Unfortunately a creature attacked the city of Dahngrest, prompting Alexei to raise a war ship known as Heracles. Though it was able to chase off the creature before it could do much damage, it still caused tensions to rise further between the guilds and the empire, making Ioder’s job much harder than it already was.
He voiced these concerns to Estelle and her friends later in Capua Nor while still working on the treaty, and Yuri suggested he simply become emperor if no one answered to him directly in his current position. Estelle and Ioder both pointed out it wasn’t that simple, that the item needed to ascend to the throne - a sword called Dein Nomos - had been lost since the beginning of the Great War ten years ago, before Ioder would have ever been eligible to become emperor. When the previous emperor had died after the Great War, it created a rift in the empire due to the fact that the position then remained in limbo with opposing sides supporting different people to take the throne.
He left Capua Nor and headed to Halure to continue the discussions while Estelle continued her journey. And it was while he was in Halure that everything went to hell. The blastia barriers in Zaphias all failed at once and earthquakes and lightening began shaking everything. What was worse was when the blastia began giving off green glows that turned even harmless plants in to monsters that terrorized the city. People were forced to flee, and due to his location in Halure, Ioder was able to set up the place as a temporary refugee area for those that left. These things were all the fault of Alexei, who’s true colors had been shown to Estelle and her friends before that moment when he brought forth a weapon known as the Enduring Shrine of Zaude. He claimed to be saving the world, but whatever he was truly doing, it was beginning a process of turning the world in to something terrible. To make matters worse he had take Estelle captive and was using her power to do cause the world’s aer to go out of balance.
Unfortunately even with Flynn’s help to get the people out of Zaphias, they weren’t able to rescue many of the people from the lower quarter where Yuri normally lived - news that upset him greatly. There was little Ioder could do, though, about the lower quarter and about Estelle. He could only continue to help those in Halure and quietly hope for the best.
He did, however, catch Yuri attempting to leave Halure and go to the lower quarter alone. He mentioned to Yuri that the council was planning on bringing formal charges against Alexei for his crimes, and that they were going to attempt to get in to the city via Deidon Hold. Yuri didn’t agree that they would be able to break through due to the massive amounts of aer that was causing all the trouble. Ioder switched subjects then, finally mentioning Estelle and asking Yuri if she was truly in the city with Alexei. When Yuri confirmed it, he asked what the other was planning on doing about it, commenting with heavy regret that because of Estelle’s power taking out Alexei alone might not be enough, and it could eventually come down to the imperial knights having to fight and possibly kill Estelle.
Yuri stated he wasn’t going to let that happen, to which Ioder took to imply that he was going to do it himself, adding in that Flynn often told him Yuri had a habit of taking the world on his shoulders. Yuri countered that Ioder needed to tell Flynn he’d be “just fine” without his help, prompting Ioder to ask “but why?” only to get a “it’s none of your concern” shot back at him. At this point Yuri had, by chance and circumstance, been handed the lost Dein Nomos by an ex-soldier named Duke, and because Ioder noticed he had the sword with him went on to comment that perhaps Yuri was the person Dein Nomos was waiting for. This only riled Yuri more and earned a threat in Ioder’s direction. He finally quieted, apologized and let Yuri go on his way.
The hell was not over yet, though. Zaude was not a weapon, but a massive barrier, and when it broke down after Alexei’s defeat and Estelle’s rescue it allowed a massive monstrosity known as the Adephagos to break through the world’s atmosphere, threatening to tear the world apart. Again it was something Ioder could only stand by and watch, but was at least given more power than he had before when the council decided to cede all authority to him, effectively putting him in the same position as emperor. With this power he in turn made Flynn acting commandant, knowing that while the world needed heroes like Yuri and Estelle, they also needed leaders like himself and Flynn. And beyond that, with Zaphias overrun as it was, the people who had their homes destroyed because of Alexei’s actions would need a new place to call home.
Thankfully some of the refugees had already taken it upon themselves to start a camp that was slowly rebuilding in to a town, with knights and common folk working together to build it. Yuri had Flynn call Ioder there along with the remaining guild leaders (as Don Whitehorse had died before even Zaude had been risen), and when they arrived they saw that the people had already made a lot of progress in turning the area in to a livable place. During the meeting with the guild leaders, Flynn, Yuri and Estelle helped to explain the current situation, and how Yuri and his friends were attempting to find a way to fight back the Adephagos by turning the cores of the world in to spirits that would give power to defeating it.
Of course this provided a whole different set of problems - getting rid of blastia meant throwing the world in to chaos. Letting the Adephagos go unchallenged meant that the world would be destroyed, either by it or by Duke who was attempting to take it out by also taking out himself and the population of the world at the same time. The question on everyone’s mind was whether or not the people would listen, and willingly give up blastia to save the world, and eventually find something that could replace it.
Ioder was hopeful that by working with the people and being a strong voice for them they could move forward, and Estelle agreed to this sentiment. There was also the issue of fighting off the monsters without blastia barriers, to which Ioder also suggested possibly combining the reformed knights and what was left of the guilds. Guild leader Kaufman stated it would be interesting, but that it wouldn’t go smoothly, meaning there were many things to still work out. Ioder was left to this task while Yuri and company went off to take care of the things they needed to - namely dealing with the Adephagos and Duke.
They met up with them again later just as Estelle came up with a name for the new town - Aurnion, meaning “the light that melts away the snow”. Ioder explained that they discussed what to do with the blastia and spirits with the other guild leaders and length after they left, agreeing that it was going to be a difficult transition for all, but if they started by talking to the people there in Aurnion it would be a step in the right direction. With this in mind, Ioder went to address the people of Aurnion while Yuri, Estelle and their friends went to put a stop to Duke and the Adephagos.
They were successful, and while the world was far from okay, it was put back on the right path to rebuild and grow, with Ioder at the helm of it as the new Emperor. Later, he met again with his cousin and her friends in Aurion. There was a lot of work to be done, especially in the efforts to bring the factions of the world together instead of having them work against one another. Due to the disasters that had befallen the world, Ioder worked together a plan to have a portion of the salaries of councilmen and imperial knights would go towards relief efforts to the towns and more specifically families and orphans most affected by it all. It was a bold move, one even Judith went so far as to call shrewd, since it required a lot of council members to do something they didn’t want to, in order to not make themselves seem like callous people. Ioder insisted that wasn’t really his intent, even if it looked like that - they had to do something, after all, and council members and higher ranking knights held the most money in the world.
Discussing this, Ioder asked a rather heavy favor of Estelle. Handing her the Blue Crystal Rod, the symbol of the emperor’s right hand man and second in command, he asked if she would become his vice-emperor. Knowing she wanted to travel still, he didn’t confine her to the castle with this duty, instead asking her to keep him informed on the state of the world from afar while he tended to his duties from Zaphias.
Character personality-
For a noble, and some one in power, Ioder is surprisingly easy going, calm, gentle spirited, patient and easy to get along with. In fact if you didn’t know he was Emperor it would be easy to mistake him for nothing more than a young man of a higher class. He is friendly, polite to a fault, though to call him “overly agreeable” would be a bit of a stretch. He is merely agreeable when it’s beneficial to be so - otherwise he is not above telling some one when they are wrong or when their actions are only going lead to disaster. He can be stern or commanding when he needs to be, but most of the time he tries merely to be as understanding as possible, listening to problems first before offering opinions or advice if he has any at all to give.
His calm demeanor makes him difficult to shake up, even in frightening or difficult situations. He’s willing to hold his ground, and does not fluster or upset easily. He’s not necessarily stubborn, just tenacious and steadfast in his beliefs. But he is only human after all, and still fairly young at that, so he is not above some occasionally “childish” things, like lightly teasing friends, being silly or even just relaxing and having fun with other people. He rather likes the calmer things in life, though, so it would be rare to see him partaking in anything terribly exciting or dangerous. His favorite past times consist mostly of reading books, so while he may be interested in learning other hobbies or doing more than that, it will probably take him a while to break out of his previous comfort zones.
As for being made emperor... well. It’s an interesting subject for Ioder, to say the least. He wasn’t against being put in that position, but at the same time he wouldn’t have minded if it hadn’t gone to him. However once he learned just how much his cousin would have rather stayed away from the position and simply wanted freedom to be able to do what she wanted, he was much more willing to take the weight of it on his shoulders and accept without complaint. Thankfully it’s done little to change him, and if anything it and the events that transpired after his cousin left Zaphias only strengthened his resolve to want to do the best he could for the people of the empire.
Digimon personality-
Ioder’s partner, a fairly normal looking White Pawn Chessmon is just about everything Ioder is not. Loud, easily excitable and far too impulsive for his own good, he has a nasty habit of running in to bad situations without thinking or planning things out. He hardly lives up to his namesake, as it seems to him strategy is just a word and not a method to be employed in battle. It was for these reasons that he was actually exiled from the Chess Kingdom several years ago - he simply couldn’t stop making an absolute ass of himself in battle. He just wants to fight, kick ass, take names and look awesome while doing so, and he falls short of that every. single. time.
So basically he’s Leroy Jenkins, without the fried chicken.
Okay, not really. But he is pretty damn impulsive. And just down right lacking in subtly in many departments. Enough so that one would think Yggdrasil would think better than to give him a tamer at all, but clearly the tree god had other ideas. Whether or not giving this oft impatient Pawn Chessmon some one with such unwavering patience will be a good idea or simply a cruel joke will have to be seen, but if anyone can handle him it would probably be Ioder.
Thankfully his oft-times mindless behavior in battle is offset by the fact that outside of it, he can actually be a fairly level headed, if not overly intelligent, individual. He’s actually fairly nice, even if he’s not against acting a little childish from time to time. He’s not fueled by a temper (thank Yggdrasil), just a need to prove himself a superior warrior. And it’s a goal he may well accomplish some day, if he’s willing to learn and take the advice of others. Once again, something that will only be seen by the passage of time, since no one until his tamer has been willing to actually give him the chance.
Character abilities-
Ioder is not particularly gifted in any one thing aside from politics and being a fairly well rounded diplomat. With that comes a decent amount of negotiating skills, and natural charisma that makes him easy to get along with. People are willing to listen to him most of the time, and this also aids him in becoming a great and benevolent leader, even in difficult times. Like Estelle, he was trained in swordsmanship, however she rivals him greatly when it comes to this talent. As such, he is capable of defending himself, but could probably be taken down easily if his defenses were thrown.
Sample RP-
It was cold. A lot colder than he remembered it being when he had gone to bed that evening. The castle always got a little drafty this time of the year, but it was hardly ever anything less than slightly chilly even at the worst of times. So the very intense, almost painful cold seeping in to his bones was the first thing that tipped Ioder Heurassein off that something was very wrong.
More than cold, there was wet. Wet clothes, wet hair, damp skin. Wet that was quickly turning in to freezing, with the sensation of equally cold, frost bitten wind rushing over him. He didn’t open his eyes first, instead reaching out with a hand to grasp at the ground beneath where he lay, feeling nothing but frozen tundra under his fingers, so cold that it actually sent sharp stabs of pain through his hand. His other hand was grasped around something solid and decidedly warmer, but alien to him.
Soon enough an explanation came for both when his eyes finally opened and he dared to look around. Nothing but blinding white snow greeted his vision on one side, and on the other a distant blue sky that looked too far away to be of any comfort. Sitting up, he found a strange device in his hand, almost as white as the snow around him, but barely splashed with yellow and faint hints of blue. Inside there were buttons, many buttons and a blur of words that didn’t make sense to him.
Right then, the fact that he was apparently on a mountain top of unknown location and origin without any memory of how he arrived there was much more important, so he stood with some effort on the slope he’d been laying and pocketed the device, wrapping his arms around himself in some hope that he might find a flicker of warmth still in his body.
“Am I... dead... ?” Ioder thought to question aloud, but just as quickly dismissed the idea with a shake of his head. “That’s ridiculous...”
Of course, if he wasn’t dead, then what was going on? Panicking would bring him no answers, but the bleak white mountainous landscape around him was providing him with none either. Turning around, he let his eyes scan the area until they finally landed on a darker spot set against the gray-blue of the nearby peak. A cave, most likely.
Trying to ignore the chill that had seeped in to his bones, Ioder shivered violently and began trudging his way towards it, grateful that most of the mountain seemed to be packed tundra rather than loose newly falling snow. He stumbled a few times, but he made it relatively unscathed to the mouth of the dark cave. He didn’t go far, just enough to get away from the cold wind that kept whipping at his wet hair and clothes, huddling down against the rough wall while he continued to tremble. A harsh cough wracked his body, showing that he had already been out there longer than his body could handle. He needed warmth, but the cave was only a few degrees different than outside at best.
He closed his eyes, trying to force his mind to work sluggishly towards a solution. There appeared to be no one around, the device in his pocket gave no indication as to where he was or how to get away from there, and any attempt to climb down the mountain would likely meet with disaster if not a few broken limbs. And there was nothing inside that he could use to light a fire. He slid down the wall to the floor of the cave, wrapping his arms around his knees and drawing them close. For all his desire to not panic at this very odd and frighteningly confusing situation, he was already at zero solutions and zero ideas.
He couldn’t think. He could only feel alternating pain and numbness. If he wasn’t dead yet, he was at risk for dying there, and already his body was betraying him, wanting to do nothing but go back to sleep. Try as he might to fight it off, he could only resist for so long, and eventually consciousness faded from him.
When he woke again, it was with a start and a gasp. He was no longer cold, and no longer sitting huddled near the cave entrance with the brightness of day outside. Instead the opening showed nothing but darkness and stars beyond, but next to him was a familiar warm glow. Fire. Some one had lit a fire, and moved him further inside, lying him down on a bedroll and covering him with blankets. He didn’t feel well at all, but the heat was welcome all the same.
“You’re awake. Good.”
Slowly, Ioder turned his head to greet the person and thank them for their kind and arguably brave deed, but as soon as he did his voice caught in his throat. It wasn’t a person, at least in the usual sense of the word. They were adorned in ivory armor that Ioder didn’t recognize at all, but far, far too short to be a proper knight, unless they were a child. But the voice was far too deep to be that of a child, and upon closer inspection Ioder could see the faintest hint of large red inhuman eyes glowing behind the face plate.
“... what-...” he began, only to be cut off by more harsh coughing, and a disturbing bubbling sound in his chest.
“Probably better if you don’t talk. You humans get sick so damn easily...” the thing said, resting heavily on it’s large spear, looking away from Ioder. “You were half dead when I got here. Guess you couldn’t get dropped somewhere more convenient, huh Tamer?”
“T... tamer... ?” Ioder echoed uncertainly, sitting up to look at the creature more closely. He didn’t get far, an ache across his whole body causing him to groan and drop back down to his makeshift bed.
“Yeah... I got a lot to tell you, and we’re gonna be here for a while before help comes,” he answered, looking back again. “Got a name?”
“Ioder... Heurassein...”
“Right, well, I’m Pawn Chessmon. I’m your new partner. Don’t ask about the details right now, it ain’t important until you’re alive enough to listen. Ioder, was it it?”
Ioder nodded slowly, still obviously confused but grateful for any explanation he could get right then.
“Just trust me, and we’ll get through this night a-okay. Got it?”
Again, Ioder nodded.
“Alright. I trust you,” he said, managing a weak smile, “Consider my life in your hands, sir.”
Though the creature had no discernible mouth, Ioder could have sworn he saw a smile.
Sample journal entry-
[Video]
[A fairly unassuming looking White Pawn Chessmon is in view when the feed starts up, but after a second he moves his large head away, showing a young boy no older than 19 with blonde hair and bright blue green eyes lying on a bedroll on the ground of a cave. Near by a green jacket, a white kravat and brown vesta are folded up in a neat pile, but even the clothes that he still has on look rather fancy. He looks a bit feverish and tired, too.]
So... other people can see me through that?
Yup.
Fascinating... [he manages a smile and waves at it, looking a bit silly but at least in good spirits] What are you doing with it?
Trying to get a message out, so clam up a bit, would you?
[the teen chuckles, but it goes immediately in to a harsh cough, which the Pawn Chessmon takes as the cue to get to talking]
Right, so, my tamer, Ioder, got dropped right in the middle of the Poyi Mountains. Great, right? He’s about ready to cough up one of those squishy human lungs, so the sooner some one can get up here and haul him down to civilization, the better.
You don’t have to be that demanding with them, do you?
[Pawn Chessmon wheels around to stare at the boy.]
You’re the one who sounds like crap! Don’t gimmie any of that ‘ask nicely’ bull!
Yes, but--
[any argument is cut off by another fit of coughing, this one not seeming to stop like the others.]
… hey. Hey, come on, stop that! You--
[it only sounds like it’s getting worse, and poor Ioder seems like it’s very painful for him. It obviously worries his partner because all at once the comm is dropped, and the feed cuts out abruptly.]
LJ-
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Character, series- Emperor Ioder Algios Heurassein, Tales of Vesperia
Character journal-
imperialtrollCharacter type- Minor
Digimon partner- PawnChessmon White > KnightChessmon White > BishopChessmon White > KingChessmon White
D-Comm colours/symbol-
Imported from another RP?- n/a
Character appearance-
(the blonde, obviously)
Character age- 18
Character history-
Prince Ioder was born in the Imperial city of Zaphias, the same as his cousin Princess Estelleise. Like his cousin, he spent most of his time in Zaphias castle, reading and participating in sword training, but unlike Estelle he had much more freedom than she did. This was due to the fact that she was the leading candidate for the throne where as he was much more akin to second choice among other candidates in the matter. Because of this he was more often seen away from the castle with a handler or two, helping with attending to imperial matters and the like. For the most part his life was about as cut and dry as it could get for a royal, at least until he was kidnapped by a man named Barbos, with the actual kidnapping itself orchestrated by Magistrate Ragou due the council supporting Estelle’s ascension to the throne.
He was held on a ship for an undetermined amount of time in the harbor of Capua Nor, until an attack on it left the ship burning and sinking with him still inside. Thankfully his calling out for help before it sank informed Yuri Lowell that there was some one still inside, and because of this he was rescued and dragged out of the water by Flynn Scifo. Yuri was traveling with Ioder’s cousin (as she had run off with him some time before, though the imperials swore she had been kidnapped as well) and they had found out about another devious plot of Ragou’s that included breeding monsters and apparently feeding children to them. Unfortunately there wasn’t much evidence to implicate him at the time, and they were forced to let the lying Ragou leave without arrest.
Ioder didn’t see Estelle and her friends again until he was in the city of Heliord with Flynn and Commandant Alexei, where he pardoned Yuri for his previous crimes as thanks for saving him and protecting Estelle on her journey. They tried to talk about the current issue of who was going take the throne and how Estelle’s journey had complicated matters, but Yuri wasn’t one to listen to such matters.
Much later, Flynn came to Ioder claiming he had received a false letter bearing his signature that would have started a war between the imperials and the guilds. Thankfully Ioder himself was able to rectify most of the issues that arose because of it by writing a proper letter to the leader of the guilds, Don Whitehorse. With the letter, he called a council with Whitehorse, and allowed for a treaty of friendship to be drafted between the guilds and the empire. Ragou’s misdeeds were also brought to light at last, and he was finally arrested.
Unfortunately a creature attacked the city of Dahngrest, prompting Alexei to raise a war ship known as Heracles. Though it was able to chase off the creature before it could do much damage, it still caused tensions to rise further between the guilds and the empire, making Ioder’s job much harder than it already was.
He voiced these concerns to Estelle and her friends later in Capua Nor while still working on the treaty, and Yuri suggested he simply become emperor if no one answered to him directly in his current position. Estelle and Ioder both pointed out it wasn’t that simple, that the item needed to ascend to the throne - a sword called Dein Nomos - had been lost since the beginning of the Great War ten years ago, before Ioder would have ever been eligible to become emperor. When the previous emperor had died after the Great War, it created a rift in the empire due to the fact that the position then remained in limbo with opposing sides supporting different people to take the throne.
He left Capua Nor and headed to Halure to continue the discussions while Estelle continued her journey. And it was while he was in Halure that everything went to hell. The blastia barriers in Zaphias all failed at once and earthquakes and lightening began shaking everything. What was worse was when the blastia began giving off green glows that turned even harmless plants in to monsters that terrorized the city. People were forced to flee, and due to his location in Halure, Ioder was able to set up the place as a temporary refugee area for those that left. These things were all the fault of Alexei, who’s true colors had been shown to Estelle and her friends before that moment when he brought forth a weapon known as the Enduring Shrine of Zaude. He claimed to be saving the world, but whatever he was truly doing, it was beginning a process of turning the world in to something terrible. To make matters worse he had take Estelle captive and was using her power to do cause the world’s aer to go out of balance.
Unfortunately even with Flynn’s help to get the people out of Zaphias, they weren’t able to rescue many of the people from the lower quarter where Yuri normally lived - news that upset him greatly. There was little Ioder could do, though, about the lower quarter and about Estelle. He could only continue to help those in Halure and quietly hope for the best.
He did, however, catch Yuri attempting to leave Halure and go to the lower quarter alone. He mentioned to Yuri that the council was planning on bringing formal charges against Alexei for his crimes, and that they were going to attempt to get in to the city via Deidon Hold. Yuri didn’t agree that they would be able to break through due to the massive amounts of aer that was causing all the trouble. Ioder switched subjects then, finally mentioning Estelle and asking Yuri if she was truly in the city with Alexei. When Yuri confirmed it, he asked what the other was planning on doing about it, commenting with heavy regret that because of Estelle’s power taking out Alexei alone might not be enough, and it could eventually come down to the imperial knights having to fight and possibly kill Estelle.
Yuri stated he wasn’t going to let that happen, to which Ioder took to imply that he was going to do it himself, adding in that Flynn often told him Yuri had a habit of taking the world on his shoulders. Yuri countered that Ioder needed to tell Flynn he’d be “just fine” without his help, prompting Ioder to ask “but why?” only to get a “it’s none of your concern” shot back at him. At this point Yuri had, by chance and circumstance, been handed the lost Dein Nomos by an ex-soldier named Duke, and because Ioder noticed he had the sword with him went on to comment that perhaps Yuri was the person Dein Nomos was waiting for. This only riled Yuri more and earned a threat in Ioder’s direction. He finally quieted, apologized and let Yuri go on his way.
The hell was not over yet, though. Zaude was not a weapon, but a massive barrier, and when it broke down after Alexei’s defeat and Estelle’s rescue it allowed a massive monstrosity known as the Adephagos to break through the world’s atmosphere, threatening to tear the world apart. Again it was something Ioder could only stand by and watch, but was at least given more power than he had before when the council decided to cede all authority to him, effectively putting him in the same position as emperor. With this power he in turn made Flynn acting commandant, knowing that while the world needed heroes like Yuri and Estelle, they also needed leaders like himself and Flynn. And beyond that, with Zaphias overrun as it was, the people who had their homes destroyed because of Alexei’s actions would need a new place to call home.
Thankfully some of the refugees had already taken it upon themselves to start a camp that was slowly rebuilding in to a town, with knights and common folk working together to build it. Yuri had Flynn call Ioder there along with the remaining guild leaders (as Don Whitehorse had died before even Zaude had been risen), and when they arrived they saw that the people had already made a lot of progress in turning the area in to a livable place. During the meeting with the guild leaders, Flynn, Yuri and Estelle helped to explain the current situation, and how Yuri and his friends were attempting to find a way to fight back the Adephagos by turning the cores of the world in to spirits that would give power to defeating it.
Of course this provided a whole different set of problems - getting rid of blastia meant throwing the world in to chaos. Letting the Adephagos go unchallenged meant that the world would be destroyed, either by it or by Duke who was attempting to take it out by also taking out himself and the population of the world at the same time. The question on everyone’s mind was whether or not the people would listen, and willingly give up blastia to save the world, and eventually find something that could replace it.
Ioder was hopeful that by working with the people and being a strong voice for them they could move forward, and Estelle agreed to this sentiment. There was also the issue of fighting off the monsters without blastia barriers, to which Ioder also suggested possibly combining the reformed knights and what was left of the guilds. Guild leader Kaufman stated it would be interesting, but that it wouldn’t go smoothly, meaning there were many things to still work out. Ioder was left to this task while Yuri and company went off to take care of the things they needed to - namely dealing with the Adephagos and Duke.
They met up with them again later just as Estelle came up with a name for the new town - Aurnion, meaning “the light that melts away the snow”. Ioder explained that they discussed what to do with the blastia and spirits with the other guild leaders and length after they left, agreeing that it was going to be a difficult transition for all, but if they started by talking to the people there in Aurnion it would be a step in the right direction. With this in mind, Ioder went to address the people of Aurnion while Yuri, Estelle and their friends went to put a stop to Duke and the Adephagos.
They were successful, and while the world was far from okay, it was put back on the right path to rebuild and grow, with Ioder at the helm of it as the new Emperor. Later, he met again with his cousin and her friends in Aurion. There was a lot of work to be done, especially in the efforts to bring the factions of the world together instead of having them work against one another. Due to the disasters that had befallen the world, Ioder worked together a plan to have a portion of the salaries of councilmen and imperial knights would go towards relief efforts to the towns and more specifically families and orphans most affected by it all. It was a bold move, one even Judith went so far as to call shrewd, since it required a lot of council members to do something they didn’t want to, in order to not make themselves seem like callous people. Ioder insisted that wasn’t really his intent, even if it looked like that - they had to do something, after all, and council members and higher ranking knights held the most money in the world.
Discussing this, Ioder asked a rather heavy favor of Estelle. Handing her the Blue Crystal Rod, the symbol of the emperor’s right hand man and second in command, he asked if she would become his vice-emperor. Knowing she wanted to travel still, he didn’t confine her to the castle with this duty, instead asking her to keep him informed on the state of the world from afar while he tended to his duties from Zaphias.
Character personality-
For a noble, and some one in power, Ioder is surprisingly easy going, calm, gentle spirited, patient and easy to get along with. In fact if you didn’t know he was Emperor it would be easy to mistake him for nothing more than a young man of a higher class. He is friendly, polite to a fault, though to call him “overly agreeable” would be a bit of a stretch. He is merely agreeable when it’s beneficial to be so - otherwise he is not above telling some one when they are wrong or when their actions are only going lead to disaster. He can be stern or commanding when he needs to be, but most of the time he tries merely to be as understanding as possible, listening to problems first before offering opinions or advice if he has any at all to give.
His calm demeanor makes him difficult to shake up, even in frightening or difficult situations. He’s willing to hold his ground, and does not fluster or upset easily. He’s not necessarily stubborn, just tenacious and steadfast in his beliefs. But he is only human after all, and still fairly young at that, so he is not above some occasionally “childish” things, like lightly teasing friends, being silly or even just relaxing and having fun with other people. He rather likes the calmer things in life, though, so it would be rare to see him partaking in anything terribly exciting or dangerous. His favorite past times consist mostly of reading books, so while he may be interested in learning other hobbies or doing more than that, it will probably take him a while to break out of his previous comfort zones.
As for being made emperor... well. It’s an interesting subject for Ioder, to say the least. He wasn’t against being put in that position, but at the same time he wouldn’t have minded if it hadn’t gone to him. However once he learned just how much his cousin would have rather stayed away from the position and simply wanted freedom to be able to do what she wanted, he was much more willing to take the weight of it on his shoulders and accept without complaint. Thankfully it’s done little to change him, and if anything it and the events that transpired after his cousin left Zaphias only strengthened his resolve to want to do the best he could for the people of the empire.
Digimon personality-
Ioder’s partner, a fairly normal looking White Pawn Chessmon is just about everything Ioder is not. Loud, easily excitable and far too impulsive for his own good, he has a nasty habit of running in to bad situations without thinking or planning things out. He hardly lives up to his namesake, as it seems to him strategy is just a word and not a method to be employed in battle. It was for these reasons that he was actually exiled from the Chess Kingdom several years ago - he simply couldn’t stop making an absolute ass of himself in battle. He just wants to fight, kick ass, take names and look awesome while doing so, and he falls short of that every. single. time.
So basically he’s Leroy Jenkins, without the fried chicken.
Okay, not really. But he is pretty damn impulsive. And just down right lacking in subtly in many departments. Enough so that one would think Yggdrasil would think better than to give him a tamer at all, but clearly the tree god had other ideas. Whether or not giving this oft impatient Pawn Chessmon some one with such unwavering patience will be a good idea or simply a cruel joke will have to be seen, but if anyone can handle him it would probably be Ioder.
Thankfully his oft-times mindless behavior in battle is offset by the fact that outside of it, he can actually be a fairly level headed, if not overly intelligent, individual. He’s actually fairly nice, even if he’s not against acting a little childish from time to time. He’s not fueled by a temper (thank Yggdrasil), just a need to prove himself a superior warrior. And it’s a goal he may well accomplish some day, if he’s willing to learn and take the advice of others. Once again, something that will only be seen by the passage of time, since no one until his tamer has been willing to actually give him the chance.
Character abilities-
Ioder is not particularly gifted in any one thing aside from politics and being a fairly well rounded diplomat. With that comes a decent amount of negotiating skills, and natural charisma that makes him easy to get along with. People are willing to listen to him most of the time, and this also aids him in becoming a great and benevolent leader, even in difficult times. Like Estelle, he was trained in swordsmanship, however she rivals him greatly when it comes to this talent. As such, he is capable of defending himself, but could probably be taken down easily if his defenses were thrown.
Sample RP-
It was cold. A lot colder than he remembered it being when he had gone to bed that evening. The castle always got a little drafty this time of the year, but it was hardly ever anything less than slightly chilly even at the worst of times. So the very intense, almost painful cold seeping in to his bones was the first thing that tipped Ioder Heurassein off that something was very wrong.
More than cold, there was wet. Wet clothes, wet hair, damp skin. Wet that was quickly turning in to freezing, with the sensation of equally cold, frost bitten wind rushing over him. He didn’t open his eyes first, instead reaching out with a hand to grasp at the ground beneath where he lay, feeling nothing but frozen tundra under his fingers, so cold that it actually sent sharp stabs of pain through his hand. His other hand was grasped around something solid and decidedly warmer, but alien to him.
Soon enough an explanation came for both when his eyes finally opened and he dared to look around. Nothing but blinding white snow greeted his vision on one side, and on the other a distant blue sky that looked too far away to be of any comfort. Sitting up, he found a strange device in his hand, almost as white as the snow around him, but barely splashed with yellow and faint hints of blue. Inside there were buttons, many buttons and a blur of words that didn’t make sense to him.
Right then, the fact that he was apparently on a mountain top of unknown location and origin without any memory of how he arrived there was much more important, so he stood with some effort on the slope he’d been laying and pocketed the device, wrapping his arms around himself in some hope that he might find a flicker of warmth still in his body.
“Am I... dead... ?” Ioder thought to question aloud, but just as quickly dismissed the idea with a shake of his head. “That’s ridiculous...”
Of course, if he wasn’t dead, then what was going on? Panicking would bring him no answers, but the bleak white mountainous landscape around him was providing him with none either. Turning around, he let his eyes scan the area until they finally landed on a darker spot set against the gray-blue of the nearby peak. A cave, most likely.
Trying to ignore the chill that had seeped in to his bones, Ioder shivered violently and began trudging his way towards it, grateful that most of the mountain seemed to be packed tundra rather than loose newly falling snow. He stumbled a few times, but he made it relatively unscathed to the mouth of the dark cave. He didn’t go far, just enough to get away from the cold wind that kept whipping at his wet hair and clothes, huddling down against the rough wall while he continued to tremble. A harsh cough wracked his body, showing that he had already been out there longer than his body could handle. He needed warmth, but the cave was only a few degrees different than outside at best.
He closed his eyes, trying to force his mind to work sluggishly towards a solution. There appeared to be no one around, the device in his pocket gave no indication as to where he was or how to get away from there, and any attempt to climb down the mountain would likely meet with disaster if not a few broken limbs. And there was nothing inside that he could use to light a fire. He slid down the wall to the floor of the cave, wrapping his arms around his knees and drawing them close. For all his desire to not panic at this very odd and frighteningly confusing situation, he was already at zero solutions and zero ideas.
He couldn’t think. He could only feel alternating pain and numbness. If he wasn’t dead yet, he was at risk for dying there, and already his body was betraying him, wanting to do nothing but go back to sleep. Try as he might to fight it off, he could only resist for so long, and eventually consciousness faded from him.
When he woke again, it was with a start and a gasp. He was no longer cold, and no longer sitting huddled near the cave entrance with the brightness of day outside. Instead the opening showed nothing but darkness and stars beyond, but next to him was a familiar warm glow. Fire. Some one had lit a fire, and moved him further inside, lying him down on a bedroll and covering him with blankets. He didn’t feel well at all, but the heat was welcome all the same.
“You’re awake. Good.”
Slowly, Ioder turned his head to greet the person and thank them for their kind and arguably brave deed, but as soon as he did his voice caught in his throat. It wasn’t a person, at least in the usual sense of the word. They were adorned in ivory armor that Ioder didn’t recognize at all, but far, far too short to be a proper knight, unless they were a child. But the voice was far too deep to be that of a child, and upon closer inspection Ioder could see the faintest hint of large red inhuman eyes glowing behind the face plate.
“... what-...” he began, only to be cut off by more harsh coughing, and a disturbing bubbling sound in his chest.
“Probably better if you don’t talk. You humans get sick so damn easily...” the thing said, resting heavily on it’s large spear, looking away from Ioder. “You were half dead when I got here. Guess you couldn’t get dropped somewhere more convenient, huh Tamer?”
“T... tamer... ?” Ioder echoed uncertainly, sitting up to look at the creature more closely. He didn’t get far, an ache across his whole body causing him to groan and drop back down to his makeshift bed.
“Yeah... I got a lot to tell you, and we’re gonna be here for a while before help comes,” he answered, looking back again. “Got a name?”
“Ioder... Heurassein...”
“Right, well, I’m Pawn Chessmon. I’m your new partner. Don’t ask about the details right now, it ain’t important until you’re alive enough to listen. Ioder, was it it?”
Ioder nodded slowly, still obviously confused but grateful for any explanation he could get right then.
“Just trust me, and we’ll get through this night a-okay. Got it?”
Again, Ioder nodded.
“Alright. I trust you,” he said, managing a weak smile, “Consider my life in your hands, sir.”
Though the creature had no discernible mouth, Ioder could have sworn he saw a smile.
Sample journal entry-
[Video]
[A fairly unassuming looking White Pawn Chessmon is in view when the feed starts up, but after a second he moves his large head away, showing a young boy no older than 19 with blonde hair and bright blue green eyes lying on a bedroll on the ground of a cave. Near by a green jacket, a white kravat and brown vesta are folded up in a neat pile, but even the clothes that he still has on look rather fancy. He looks a bit feverish and tired, too.]
So... other people can see me through that?
Yup.
Fascinating... [he manages a smile and waves at it, looking a bit silly but at least in good spirits] What are you doing with it?
Trying to get a message out, so clam up a bit, would you?
[the teen chuckles, but it goes immediately in to a harsh cough, which the Pawn Chessmon takes as the cue to get to talking]
Right, so, my tamer, Ioder, got dropped right in the middle of the Poyi Mountains. Great, right? He’s about ready to cough up one of those squishy human lungs, so the sooner some one can get up here and haul him down to civilization, the better.
You don’t have to be that demanding with them, do you?
[Pawn Chessmon wheels around to stare at the boy.]
You’re the one who sounds like crap! Don’t gimmie any of that ‘ask nicely’ bull!
Yes, but--
[any argument is cut off by another fit of coughing, this one not seeming to stop like the others.]
… hey. Hey, come on, stop that! You--
[it only sounds like it’s getting worse, and poor Ioder seems like it’s very painful for him. It obviously worries his partner because all at once the comm is dropped, and the feed cuts out abruptly.]