RB: WALLIAM Bio

RB: King Walliam Reeves

~Protagonist~

BASIC INFORMATION

Full name: King Walliam Edgar Reeves

Nicknames: ‘Walliam’, ‘Wal’, ‘King’… uh, his step-children refer to him as different things; Hyde calls him stuff like ‘that thing’ or ‘that lizard’, Camilla used to call him ‘pops’ and kind-of affectionate passive-aggressive names like that which he’d take lightheartedly… uhhhh… he also has loads of nicknames for himself like ‘Your Tallness’ rather than ‘Your highness’, and ‘Wonderdad’ – things like that.

Gender: Male

Species: Dragon Artisan (Half Dragon / Half Artisan)

Age: Died at 41

Birthday: October 22^nd (right at the beginning of hibernation, haha)

Sexuality: Heterosexual (though he had an impeccable bro-mance with Salvador)

Family: Queen Dodie Ballentyne (wife), Prince Theador Cronos Maximillian Varrik III (son), Prince Hyde Ballentyne (step-daughter), Prince Calvin Ballentyne (step-son), Princess Camilla Ballentyne (step-daughter), Tu'la Reeves (father), Vanguard Vivaldi (mother), Salvador (honorary brother)

City or town of birth: A cave, a mountain on the outskirts of Albion, in a nice, comfy nest. (Quick Summary: Father was an Artisan, Mother was a Dragon – dragons can take human forms - , his father lived in the cave with his mother.)

Currently lives(d): Bra’Unk Castle. It’s a big, tall, white, surprisingly open castle. Nice and medieval. Lots of stone rooms, nice drapery, a big feast room for the townsfolks and royals to spend time together during feasts (and there were many feasts in Walliam’s time as King, he liked feasts). A few towers where his step-kids lived, and some stairs leading down from the front of the castle directly to the courtyard / commonfolk’s market. It’s very loosely based on the Castle from ‘Merlin’: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…

Languages spoken: English, Dragonese, Gaelic, Old Ruenic, Contemporary Ruenic, Elvish, Nordic. (he’s prone to rambling in dragonese when panicked/stressed)

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Height: 7’ 2” (not including horns)

Weight: 133kg

Preferred style of clothing: He tends to wear his cloak when just wandering around/not on duty. Beneath it he usually wears his royal attire, which looks like this: clockworkcarousels.deviantart.…. He’s not the most uptight of Kings though, so he’ll swap out his gloves, wear sandals and socks, or leave his crown lying around when he wants to be more comfortable. (Also, as a dragon he’s able to morph away his horns and blunten his teeth at will. If he’s talking to people who are touchy about magical beings he’ll appear more human for their sake.)

Frequently worn jewellery/accessories: He had his crown. He also had an artisan pendant (a small cross shape in the middle of the silver circle, hung on a silver chain), and a cool-ass staff bearing the same shape.


PERSONALITY

Personality:
Warm, loud, optimistic, and a bit of a goofball. He was a very nurturing man, very doting on his wife, son and step-children despite the many problems they faced in their family dynamic. He always stood by his wife’s side, often put his step-children’s needs above his despite how much they hated him, and he was very close to young Theador. He was very fond of his wife’s kingdom and actively fought against injustices and wrongdoers in person, hardly judgemental and strong-willed, a fantastic public speaker and an all-round friend of the people. (So, the exact opposite of his son in that respect)
Walliam was a very childish, clumsy and dorky father; the kind who would squish his children’s cheeks and call them ridiculously long names, parade them through the city and play-fight with them despite being ten-times their size. He was a giant bear-puppy, essentially.
However, he also had some problems: His work often exhausted him and he tended to shut himself away to hide his stress. He would often gamble and drink with his re-animated skeleton friends, and as Theador grew older he became a more distant, tired, and disconnected as he tried to advance his studies in sorcery/necromancy while remaining a strong King.

Likes: Bears (especially their pet grizzly, Moxxy), dragons, loud music, festivals, feasts, his wife, small children, nature/spring, vegetables, meat (though he tries to be a strict vegetarian), his skeleton friends, picking up his sulking children and hugging them out of tantrums, and being in really high places. Oh, and travelling.

Dislikes: Bureaucrats, turned witches, racist/classist jerks, bandits, highwaymen, poachers/people who hunt for pelts (artisans are very nature aware), sword-fighting, long periods of silence, very small animals he may accidentally step on, lilies and ice-cream.

Fears/phobias: His family being put in danger, his kingdom being put in danger, being unable to protect the things he cares about – death, and wounds caused by blades.

Favourite colour: Green.

Hobbies: Drinking and gambling with his skeleton friends, wrestling with the family bear, holding giant feasts for whatever made-up occasion he can.
He also liked travelling whenever he got the chance; sometimes he left Bra’Unk with Salvador and Sir George (Bra’Unk’s greatest knight) on ‘adventure-missions’ – exploring caves, chasing away bandits, collecting treasures, the usual.

Talents/Skills/Powers:
Talents: Public speaking, being a dork, alchemy, raving.
Skills: Despite his hatred for sword-fighting he was pretty good at it. He was also a strong rider and a very skilled sorcerer. Unlike Theador he was used to more defensive sorcery – healing, protective charms and jinxes, and tame hexes meant to fatigue, not injure opponents.
Powers: Alchemy, Sorcery, and he was one hell of a Necromancer. He had many skeleton friends he could easily re-animate to talk to / banter with. He could make them do his bidding if he wanted, but he never abused his power.

Occupation/Goals: BE THE BEST FATHER IN THE HISTORY OF FATHERS.

Brief Backstory:
- Birth: Walliam’s father (Tu’la Reeves) was an esteemed artisan who served a neighbouring Kingdom as the ‘Greatest Knight Around’. On his last mission he was ordered to storm the keep of a dark and powerful dragoness, murder her, and return with all the gold (and princes) the dragoness had stolen over her years of tyranny. They both fell madly in love, Tu’la faked his own death, and they lived out the rest of their days in a cave with Walliam. Eyy.
- After growing up with his parents Walliam eventually moved out – like any rational adult – and began practicing his magic on the road. Along the way he settled in the city of Bra’Unk, where he met Queen Dodie Ballentyne and her husband, Augustus. Walliam, having his father’s ridiculous affinity with love, fell in love with Dodie the moment they were first introduced, but they didn’t ‘get together’ until Dodie fell pregnant with Augustus’ children and, to everyone’s surprise, left the man for Walliam. (Augustus was an ass, he deserved it.) (Maybe Walliam shouldn’t have been such a homewrecker though, geez.)
- Walliam blahblahblah kids, blahblahblah, he died on a mission outside of Bra’Unk, blahblah.

OTHER:
- Walliam and Theador were both artisan/dragons, both very different from the rest of their family, and this kept them very close when Theador was young.
- Theador pretends that he hates his father for dying and ‘abandoning them all for the greater good’. But he does like his father, really. He just misses him, and hates that he died protecting the kingdom rather than lived mentoring Theador.

Here's Theador: 
Here are the others: clockworkcarousels.deviantart.…

Sorry Walliam's bio is a bit all over the place. I've never actually written anything serious about him, and the only time I talk about him is in AU's where he's still alive and everything's different. aaaaa

Walliam (C) ClockworkCarousels