Asgard Eventide - Application
OOC Information;
Name; Alex
Personal Journal; freege
Contact;
[email] prinnypenguin@gmail.com
[plurk] yellassbutt
Other Characters; N/A
IC Information;
Character Name; Celice
Canon; Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu
Canon Point; Before the beginning of chapter 9
Age; Around 16-17 at this canon point.
House; Heimdall
Power; Damage Drain
Personality;
As a baby, Celice lost his father and was permanently separated from his mother. This was shortly before the country that should have been his homeland of Grandbell was taken over by a cult, forming an empire that his mother came to be the first empress of and that would eventually cover the entire continent. Around the time of her death, it steadily became more and more corrupt, completely taken over by the cult.
As a result of this, and as the firstborn son of both the empress and a man who had been branded a traitor and killed by those who formed this empire, he grew up in hiding. From a young age, it was made clear to him that it was expected that he help liberate the people from the Empire and take his rightful place as the king of Grandbell. Which leads me to my real point:
The most important thing to remember about Celice is that he was raised to take down the Grandbell Empire and avenge his parents. In Jugdral, the continent he's from, loyalty to one's family and bloodline-- and the duties that come with said bloodlines-- is extremely important. You just don't go against your family there, unless you want to end up dead. This is why, though he's never even set foot in Grandbell, Celice is determined to stop the Empire and see it restored to what it used to be, simply because he considers it his duty.
His guardians raised him fully expecting him to one day take the throne and it shows. He's well-mannered and polite to just about everyone and as honorable as can be expected (That is, probably way too much). If he's mistaken and it's pointed out to him, he's usually quick to accept it and try to change his behavior. Of course, he's still pretty young, so it's only too easy for him to slip up-- and to just fall into childish behavior in general, such as insisting he's not a kid, really, trust me!-- and he tends to rely on the adults around him a lot when making decisions.
In fact, that's an important thing to remember about him. Regardless of the responsibilities that have been thrust at him, in the end, he's just a teenage kid. While Celice puts on a brave face in front of his friends and all the other soldiers, it's pretty clear that he doesn't actually feel quite that brave at all. Unlike a lot of the other children who were raised alongside him, he was resistant about taking on such an important role in the war against the Empire. He insisted that he was nowhere near good enough to manage it and it took some convincing until he finally accepted it. Even then, he agreed to it because he believed it was his destiny-- his duty as Sigurd and Diadora's son, and the descendant of the hero Baldo-- not because he truly felt confident he could do everything that was expected of him.
However, even though he works to fulfill his duty, at the same time he also feels guilty about being the heir to his parents' country when he's never even been there. He feels as if he's somehow cheated the people by being the heir and really isn't sure that he's the best person for the job, even though he knows the only other alternative just isn't acceptable. Confidence is something that he seems to get a little better about as time goes by, but it's a work in progress. Even near the end of the game he mentions being uncomfortable with how everyone just expects him to save them.
This shouldn't lead one to think that Celice lacks confidence in all areas, though. He's not very confident in his ability to lead his army or to one day be as strong as his father, but he's still quite confident in his own ability with a sword and to keep himself alive during battle. When his friends tried to keep him out of battle, afraid that he'd end up getting hurt, he was insistent that he could fight and hold his own. He tends to feel that way about all of the times he has to fight, because it's not himself he worries about, it's everyone else.
The war against the Empire scares him because of the danger to others. He's very scared of the fighting and the fact that it's only too likely that many of the people he's close to will end up dead. Some days, he says in one scene, he wants to just run away from it all. He knows he can't though. As much as he may want to run away, he knows that things simply can't stay as they are for the people.
This is all likely a result of being raised knowing that he has to help the people of Jugdral, making him very protective of everyone around him. He can't stand to see anyone get hurt and will often try to insist that the weaker members of his army stay back, or at least behind everyone else. If someone's in danger and he can do something about it, you bet he'll be the first to rush to their help. Even if he knows he can't do something about it, he'll still try.
It's not just duty driving him to these things either. There's also the fact that he believes what he's doing is what his parents, mostly his father, would've wanted. When it comes to his father, Celice is set on three things: avenging his death, making him proud, and becoming as strong as he was someday. For the avenging his death part, his goal is to kill the man that killed him. The other two are vaguer, but they seem to hinge on succeeding at liberating Judgral from the Empire and doing everything that he believed his father would've wanted him to do. The last one is sort of taken to extremes sometimes. In one case he invites someone who'd just finished threatening to kill him to join the liberation army, just because he thought that their fathers-- who had been good friends-- would've wanted them to get along.
He seems just a bit too trusting in general, trusting even former enemies. Was someone just on the enemy's side trying to kill us but then decided to join us? Okay, sure, they can join! As if someone would ever try to betray us. He's very sure that no one would even think to betray someone on their side. (To be fair, this trait seems to plague nearly all of the main characters in the Fire Emblem series.)
The flip side to this is that it makes him a compassionate person. With a few exceptions, he'll mostly try to find a peaceful way to resolve battles, such as trying to convince enemy commanders to stand down. ...This never works, but the attempt is there! Of course, there are a few people for who he doesn't even consider this kind of thing. It's not crossing Celice that will get you this though, it's crossing or hurting other people, especially those that are important to him. With the man who killed his father, for example, there was no room for compassion. He wanted revenge and he got it. It wasn't till the end of the game that he was able to let go of his hatred for him (which hasn't happened yet at the point he's taken from).
All in all, he's a gentle and kind young man who, regardless of his reasons for it or whether he even believes he can succeed at it, will always be willing to help someone in need.