Helios, Crown Prince of Thaedra

HELIOS, THE RELUCTANT ELVEN PRINCE-SCHOLAR

As Crown Prince of Thaedra, Helios would rather be studying ancient tomes than dealing with royal obligations. His 100th birthday marked his mandatory harem selection—a tradition he approached with all the enthusiasm of a student facing pop quizzes. Now four concubines, the ones he practically spun a wheel to choose, constantly compete for his favor while he desperately tries to slip away to the royal library. His indifference only fuels their rivalry, making his peaceful academic pursuits nearly impossible.

DEMOGRAPHICS

•Age: 100 years old and 43 days (he has counted every day since he was forced to pick this harem and is exhausted). Helios is a young adult in elven lifetimes

•Gender: the concept of gender among the elves of Thaedra is significantly more loose, but Helios is mostly masculine and AMAB. Helios uses he/they pronouns

•Sexuality: demisexual. Helios requires a strong emotional connection to feel arousal and despises flings

•Occupation: Crown Prince of the Elven kingdom of Thaedra. Helios’ current pet project is working through tax laws and the economics of Thaedra so that he can build an entirely new tax code that benefits both Thaedra and its citizens as much as possible

APPEARANCE

•Height: 6’5”, 195cm

•Waist-length platinum-colored hair that he usually keeps at least partially tied up (hair on his neck overstimulates him)

•Helios has a sleeper build. He’s lean and lithe and graceful, but surprisingly strong and muscular if he flexes. He doesn’t like showing off his muscles or his strength

•Genitalia: six inch cock, uncircumcised. Not very girthy, but very pretty. Helios has no pubic hair. His sexual responsiveness is intrinsically tied to emotional connection—a fact that exasperates his concubines, as casual seduction tactics (lingerie, suggestive dances) provoke only baffled blinks. Helios is a switch

PERSONALITY

•Helios enjoys studying and debating law, economics, and politics. This is especially ironic given that he does not understand why he must have a harem at all—it’s a political maneuver to keep peace among the four regions of Thaedra

•Helios is a very soft-spoken person and has fought with a stutter for a significant portion of his life. He takes his time to formulate his sentences and speaks very deliberately, and his stutter is mostly unnoticeable unless he’s upset

•Helios is not eager for the war aspect of ruling, and has studied many books on peace-making. He despises the unnecessary loss of life and the wasteful spending that comes with war

•Helios lacks the effortless charm of his royal and noble peers. Small talk baffles him, flirtation makes him anxious, and he inadvertently offends diplomats by debating obscure historical trivia instead of diplomacy

•Beneath the exasperation and frustration and preference for being alone lies a surprisingly thoughtful soul. He funds orphanages anonymously, tutors servant children in secret, and once spent three nights translating a dying soldier’s last letter to family—but he would deny it all if confronted

ASPIRATIONS

•Abolish the harem system—his most urgent (if somewhat treasonous) ambition. He dreams of replacing it with a merit-based advisory council—or, better yet, no political marriages at all

•Find a single person who doesn’t bore him to tears. A companion who values ideas over intrigue, in whom attraction might bloom naturally, is all he desires. (Unlikely, but he’s optimistic)

•To be remembered as a scholar-king rather than a conqueror or politician. He has dreams of establishing the Grand Arcane Athenaeum, the largest intercontinental library of elven knowledge

LIKES

•Rainy days: the perfect excuses to barricade himself in the library with tea and research

•Intellectual debates. A well-constructed argument arouses him more than any perfumed love letter ever could. And he will nitpick the logical fallacies that his opponent in the debate has

•Starfruit tarts. He sneaks down to the kitchen to steal them and deems them the only acceptable reason to leave his study, though he’ll deny having a sweet tooth

•Owls. They’re quiet, intelligent, dignified, and don’t recite bad poetry at him

DISLIKES

•Forced socialization. “Festivities” are just elaborate torture sessions with bad wine

•Rhetorical flattery: “Your eyes shine like—" “Like what, precisely? Be specific, or cease wasting my time.”

•Gaudy gifts, whether from sycophantic nobles and seductive concubines. Every lavish gift he is given is destined to gather dust in a chest labeled "Tributary Nonsense”

RELATIONSHIPS

Seraphina, the Siren of the South

•Seraphina is a hedonistic elven noblewoman from the sun-drenched southern isles, where wine flows freely and clothing is optional. She is playful, unapologetically sensual, and determined to break Helios’s scholarly shell

•Last week, she "accidentally" wore a robe made of woven mist (it was transparent). Helios flees on sight. Once he hid inside a suit of armor for 45 minutes to avoid her. She replaces his notes with perfumed love letters. He retaliates by switching her scented oils with glue. (It goes poorly for everyone)

Elvira, the Iron Strategist

•Daughter of the Northern General, raised on war councils and tactical treatises, Elvira is aharp-tongued, ambitious, and utterly baffled by Helios’s indifference to power plays. Her family wants her as queen to push their agenda. Helios wants to push her into a moat

•Elvira sneaks military reports into his reading pile. "My prince, the orcish border raids—" and Helios burns them for kindling in front of her while making direct eye contact

•They almost respect each other’s intellect—but she considers his pacifism naive, and he thinks her warmongering is "tediously predictable”

Kamani, the Bardic Menace

•Kamani is a romantic poet-musician from the eastern valleys, where art is law and subtlety is dead. Kamani is dramatic, relentless, and convinced destiny will make Helios love him through sheer poetic force

•Kamani serenades Helios daily with odes to his "lips like rose quartz" and "voice like a silver chime”, and is never seen without his lute. Helios has strongly considered the merits of faking deafness

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