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Name: Samm
Age: 24
Contact: neveryourmask @ plurk
Characters Already in Teleios: n/a
Reserve: me

Character Name: Charming
Journal: shepherdprince
Age: 31 (PB's age).
Fandom: Once Upon a Time
Canon Point: "Into the Deep", 2x08.
Debt:

Class A: 36 years.

Onscreen, he has at least murdered a siren as well as many, many henchmen. As in a group of them try to arrest him and he stabs them all and this has happened at least a couple of times. In taking back the kingdom, he and Snow White made war against King George, and so there was likely some deaths at his sword there too. I am also counting treason to his kingdom for disobeying King George, right or wrong.

Class B: 47 years.

A truly countless amount of assault, and his existence as a prince is probably kind of like fraud too. Everyone is also stealing shit off one another so there is probably some of that. Basically I'm handing him 94 offences in this realm due to leading a rough and occasionally violent life of deceit and war and shenanigans.

Class C: One year, four months.

attempted assassination

escaping custody

failure to accept responsibility

giving up on a friend

impersonating royalty

infidelity

stalking

breaking someone's heart x 2

child endangerment

threatening death x 5 (approx.)

impersonating your dead twin

GRAND TOTAL: 84 years, 4 months.

Canon Character Section:

History: All of this and some of this until canon point.

Personality:

David, as he is better called, is, like most people, a complicated mesh of ideas -- but this is in part due to the curse that fell on his land, changed who he was, and the aftermath of this. He is both Prince Charming and Some Guy, but he tries hard, and has come to accept both aspects of himself.

Prince Charming is, in some ways, a textbook idea of what that archetype should be -- he is brave, he believes in justice, he falls in love completely. But it was humble beginnings as a shepherd that instilled in him some humble values, as a fairytale might dictate, and his mother especially impressed upon him the belief in having an honesty of the heart. To follow and trust his heart, and to stay strong in the face of moral uncertainty. Which is easily done when you're a farmboy, in this world, but less so if you are destined to step beyond it.

As a result, Charming possesses a rather decisive way of viewing the world -- good and bad, right and wrong, as much as these values have been tested and tried when being honest with his feelings directly counter his sense of honour. His affair with Snow White was laden with ambiguity. But regardless, this cut and dry perception still works better when you live in a world of fairytale -- in the real world, and most characterised by his Storybrooke persona in David Nolan, things don't work like this.

David Nolan possessed no true direction, and no conviction even in things he felt passionately about. He tried to carry out an affair, failed to be truthful about it when the time came for truth, and even lost faith in the woman he loved when she was arrested for murder as a result of not knowing what was right or wrong. The combination of these qualities with a more secure Prince Charming makes for Some Guy who is trying to do the right thing, but what he conceives the right thing to be is shying away from getting hurt or other people hurt, and making the wrong decisions with every good intention and achieving the opposite of what he wanted.

David is weak where Charming is strong, and both of these tendencies are an internal struggle since the Storybrooke curse was broken and he has since chosen to accept both parts of himself.

Charming also has a brash quality about him in the form of someone who knows he fights on the side of good and thus may overlook his own mistakes, his own flaws, or react too quickly to situations. Snow was the one who questioned what they were doing, who suggested mercy or justice in a different way, or actually questioned how many people they were hurting to be together, whereas these are not the first things Charming thinks of. Or even the second things. The exception would be his holding back of Snow should she wander off the path of good or even morally ambiguous -- he values, very much, what he sees in her as a purity of heart, and has made such gallant gestures as risking his life to protect this. It'll probably bite them both in the ass, if the show has any sense.

But above all this analysing, in the day to day, he is a generally likeable guy. He makes earnest and kind gestures, he punches people who need punching According To David, he fiercely protects the people he loves (or even likes) and he holds accountable people who have done wrong (mostly). He gets made sheriff for a while and wears a holster because it looks awesome. He is neither quiet nor loud, his arrogance more to do with moral conviction than pride and posturing, and he is a natural leader, for better or for worse. He treats his friends and loved ones with bias and kindness, and his enemies with a rough and callous hand. He still makes stupid decisions.

Appearing in Teleios will be an almost normal experience for Charming, in that he is introduced to the concept of not only entering different realities, but the notion of multiple realities, and the multiple ways you can cross them. Considering his canon point -- which is, specifically, when he pricks his finger on the spinning wheel to induce a magical sleep so as to find his wife across realms -- he will be openly frustrated and treat his arrival as yet another obstacle to his Happy Ending, and torn about whether he should be happy or angry that his family is there too (Emma, and possibly Snow White). He will find objection that his crimes can be compared to the likes of his enemies (Regina, Rumplestiltskin), as he has a solid belief in righteous acts differentiating from acts of evil. But he will also adapt. He will make new connections, and sympathise with those in his same predicament, and probably come to care for them.

If you need further clarification, please see the comment below regarding his punchability as compared to other men in Once Upon a Time.

Powers/Abilties: No special powers, save for the power to make terrible life choices and adapt very quickly to different kinds of weaponry, turns out.

Appearance: Here is a picture of Charming being incompetent in tight pants a.k.a his usual state of being.

Samples:

Actionspam Sample:

Over here.

Prose Sample:

Before Henry went to school that day, David roped him into the kind of hug that convinces children that grown ups are at least a little nuts, but was polite enough not to point it out. Probably in solidarity.

And now, he's doing the dishes -- which in itself is a joke enough that he tries not to think on it too hard -- when he catches himself humming. He stops, hands submerged in soap water, the dead silence of the empty apartment almost a whine in his ears, as he hunts after the melody, as evasive as a leaf dancing in the wind. Neither David Nolan nor Prince Charming were or are exactly musical souls. He hadn't paid that much attention to bawdy tavern songs, except for when they felt like they carried the wind of other kingdoms with them, expanding his world a little further. And everyone knows "American Pie", or at least the chorus. Who doesn't? And so certainty is lost between these two vast tectonic plates of memory, smothered between the cracks.

David lifts a dripping dinner plate from the water, fingers grasping too tight to slippery ceramic as if he would really quite like to pitch it across the room. Maybe others feel this way too, those that are here, that he convinced to stay. This sudden flash of anger, echoing vague in a world of hard lessons and injustice, ambiguity and the reality that you have to do the dishes, sometimes, and your wife isn't there to help you dry it, even.

It's unfair. All of it.

But it's really what he might attribute to the side of himself he calls David Nolan that reminds him that everyone in this bleak little world, beyond the bounds of Storybrooke, knows these feelings, this sense of helplessness, that it's human and ordinary. That it had come before the spell had ever broken, the simple reality that he is the main character of no story at all, and Charming's expectations at anything need to pipe down a little.

Except for the part where he's going to move mountains to find his wife. Well, obviously. That, they can both agree on.

And to not break anything else.