Elijah Venomania

==A P P E A R A N C E Elijah is 6' tall exactly, taking after his father in height. He has a rather angular face, with hair that is never quite in order and a peculiar in-between shade of auburn and red, best described as 'dusty red'. He's not the prime example of physical fitness, but he's certainly not unfit. He makes a point of walking when possible and exercising regularly. He's very clean - and kind of has to be, due to looking after the palace horses mostly on his own, and often ending up smelling like a stable. He bathes daily. He tends to be chewing mint leaves, though no-one really understands why - they're not really all that tasty. But he seems to enjoy them, for reasons he doesn't really divulge. Something about happy memories?

P E R S O N A L I T Y On the outside he's very cold and quiet but when opened up has a sense of humour and is quite brave. He's usually the type to let anger fester within him but when he's angered it's raw, somewhat like seeing red. He has a deep set dislike of his brother, as well as feeling extremely uncomfortable around him. He's also very quiet and is more likely to puzzle over his own conflictions than spilling them to people. He has trust issues.

B I O G R A P H Y Prince Elijah Venomania (Duke Elijah Venomania) is the second eldest son of King Luca and Queen Illyria, neither of which are in power currently. He is second in the line of succession to the throne of Asmodin, behind his Elder brother Sayoko Venomania. He was educated underneath a private tutor separately to his brothers, and underneath the tutor learnt etiquette, how to play the violin (though he never mastered it and never bothered to try and re-educate himself), how to speak German (of which he now has an adept knowledge) and horse riding. Elijah is an avid horse rider and spends a lot of his time with the royal horses. He is a very unsocial person and spends as little time as possible in the public eye and with his family and keeps a low profile most of the time, allowing him to ride more freely.

At the age of 10, his mother consulted a 'Doctor' (who happened to be Luca's butler, Rei, drunken and in disguise). According to him, Elijah was sick. In the body and in the mind. His mother, who was not exactly the sanest person in existence, disinherited him on the spot, with beatings. At the time, she was Queen of a country, and she could barely look after her own sons. After this, the brothers were separated. Elijah and Jaetyn, his younger brother, were taken into the care of their Uncle, Lord Nicholas. Sayoko, the heir to be, was forced to stay with his insane parents, leading to... questionable actions later in life.

At the Asmodin Mead Festival, Elijah and Sayo were alone for a while, allowed to wander. At the time, the two were close, and they met up with Sonnet Ray, and their, uh... charismatic leader. The two boys - both rather lost - were welcomed into their ranks, both having made good friends with them. Though they separated later on in the festival. At that time, a mysterious masked woman came past the young - recently teenage-ified - princes, and offered them peculiar poop shaped pastries (no, seriously). Both took one, but both had dramatically different effects on the princes.

Elijah was knocked out, rendered utterly unconscious. And Sayoko... well... he became very, very needing of sexual relief. Sayoko took Elijah away into a private room, and stripped him of his clothes and began raping him, while Elijah was still unconscious. Elijah woke up in the middle of it and fought back viciously, feeling painfully violated and angry at his brother - the only person he had ever really trusted - doing such a thing to him.

The two got in a vicious fight and both ended up getting hurt. Eventually, Elijah fled in his clothes from the room and found Alianne and Nicholas, but didn't tell either until much later on. After the event, he holed himself up in his room alone for days on end, slowly trying to recover from the event. His trust was shattered.

After this, his personality - though sombre and cold before - became more cruel and dismissive, pushing people away and always, always, angsting. He started spending more time with the animals on the palace grounds, firing the stable boy and taking care of the horses himself. One horse became his quick favourite; a Gypsy Vanner stallion that was nameless at the time. It was still a rather young foal, and had a couple more months before maturity, but it had been rejected by it's mother, as he had. He personally took care of and hand-reared the foal, though never ignored the other ones.

He named the horse Cheval, and Cheval grew up into a rather strong horse and as Elijah took care of him, he began riding the horse, having had horse riding lessons beforehand. The two became rather close, inseparable, even. And he began riding him around the towns and streets. Thankfully, his low public profile allowed him to ride the horse in relative freedom.

It was around this time that Elijah had started spending more & more time at Sonnet Ray, only returning back to the Palace when he specifically was needed (i.e. for official events) or to care for the horses in the stables. At the time, he was fully aware of the fact that Sonnet Ray was a 'crime' gang, but under their leader, the ever enigmatic Montgomery Callanan, they barely if ever did anything against the law - otherwise he'd have stayed far away from them. He stayed, then. Even if only for the sense of relative companionship he had with the other members and in the group. Because no matter how sore he was to admit it he was a very lonely person.

While in the group, Elijah was at least on relatively good terms with most members, though with Edmund he was always wary. He had a menacing air around him that unsettled him. One night, though, he was wandering rather aimlessly around the base, and was still rather new to the place, and often got himself lost - or at least in an area he had never visited previously. After a bit, he came across a door he had never seen before. Not seeing anybody around, he let himself in with odd curiousity.

On the other side of the door was a basement, which looked rather innocent really. Not much to say in such a dark area. Seeing no nearby lamps to light, Elijah retrieved and lit a small candelabra and carried it down into the basement. He didn't see much at first, but then a door to the back room of the basement shocked him.

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;">Two girls - tied up & battered. At first they didn't trust him (most likely understandably) but then he began untying them and making his intentions clear. He discovered that Edmund was the one trapping & holding them there, hiring a person to rape & beat them. Elijah figured this because Edmund, as twisted as he was, would not do the raping most likely. Too small and was a hermaphrodite anyway. He just wasn't the type to do his own dirty work, mostly. - At least Elijah assumed.

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;">He found that one of the girls, Charlotte, was disabled, her legs hobbled and broken horribly. Elijah carried her out, the other girl - woman - called Fantina following behind. Both of them had rather different strategems for dealing with things, Fantina being cold and stoic, Charlotte the complete opposite - naive and sweet. But Elijah had no time to analyse personalities, really. He began to get them out, but was caught by Edmund, angering him. He made his escape quickly as possible and managed to get all three of them out and onto Cheval, and riding home to the Palace.

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;">At the Palace, Elijah came across Alianne, who was not only Head Maid and very very respected in Elijah's books, but also a witch with quite a bit of healing ability, and after she was told what happened and saw the girls, she jumped right into action. Elijah stayed for a bit, but after a while couldn't bare it - especially when Sayoko made an appearance. He slipped out silently and retreated to the stables to care for the horses. Elijah had always been an animal person - they didn't judge as easily humans and things were less likely to go wrong with them. As a child he often dreamed of having a pet dog but never asked for one. He planned on eventually getting one, however. Though he was a fan of horses, too - they were loyal and strong and incredibly graceful, Elijah would note.

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;">Later, upon returning, he saw that Alianne had done her magic - both literally and figuratively. Charlotte's legs were not utterly healed but she was able to very very shakily walk. Fantina's wounds had been healed and her only major losses were the loss of ears and a tail, since she had since been a neko.

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;">Time went onwards and Elijah felt somewhat guilty for leaving them during their healing, so began spending more time for them and caring for them personally. But upon the abdication of his father and subsequent coronation of his brother, and his becoming a Duke and inheriting a Duchy, he became much more busy, trying to juggle the running of his land and care for Fantina and Charlotte, though he's not acted on it yet, he wonders sometimes if he should just hire someone to look after the girls, or his land. He really hasn't decided on that yet.

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;">Soon after his brother's coronation, both were forced to go to a event that requested both of their presences, however, the roads were icy after recent cold weather and heavy snow. The driver was a novice, not the most experienced or talented of his co-workers, and was unable to retain a steady hold on the horses. During this time, Elijah and Sayo were having one of their frequently occuring arguments, causing the carriage to rock with sudden movements.

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;">Eventually, and almost inevitably, the carriage veered out of control on the ice, spinning off of the road and into a nearby ditch. Both King Sayoko and Elijah himself were knocked unconscious, both in an almost coma-like state from the crash. One horse was killed in the impact and fell as a dead weight onto Elijah's left leg, breaking it severely and bruising the muscles.

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;">The driver and one horse got through the accident well enough, with a few cuts and bruises. The driver, panicking, had no idea what to do, so got on the horse and rode it to the town to fetch help. Help did eventually come in the form of Doctor Frederic Sifka and a co-worker of his from the hospital. With the help of the driver who was keen to patch up this mistake, they removed the dead horse from Elijah's leg and took both him and Sayoko to the hospital.

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;">However, during this time, both Elijah and Sayoko were stuck in some odd limbo between both life & death - trapped in their own minds. Elijah didn't like the feeling of it, & the fact he was stuck with Sayoko was all the worse. At first in this limbo, the two argued constantly, tearing at each other's throats and blaming the other for their unfortunate situation.

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;">At this time, they both found that not only were <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;font-style:italic;">they <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;"> in this limbo, but someone else was too. Azreal Rou - the black sheep of the affluent Rou family. They didn't question how Azreal was there, but they were grateful. Someone else to distract from the other. The two were kind of forced to work together under Azreal, who rose as a leader to separate the two from petty arguments and fisticuffs.

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;">Eventually, they somewhat made up - but it wasn't tearful or overarching, if anything, it was solely due to circumstance. The two don't fight as much as they did any more, and try to separate from official business and petty arguements, but no-one could say they were the closest or even on civil terms. They just know now how to not let stupid things in their personal lives effect official business and professional lives.

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;">After this event, Elijah was forced to wear a cast and crutches, allowing him to sympathise with Charlotte. The two grew closer as Elijah was in the hospital recovery wards. While he was still there, he discovered from Fantina that she was pregnant, from the abuse in the Sonnet Ray HQ. After some false leads and questions, he helped her find a footman who was willing to pretend to be the father of the child. However, soon afterwards, a speeding hobo ran over the footman, causing him to die an incredibly peculiar death.

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;">So alternatives had to be made. Dr. Frederic Sifka then stepped up to the plate, willing to pretend to be the father of the child in the footman's place. Elijah was concerned at first, but when he realised that Sifka was the one who had cared for him and his brother with a lot of success, he was better for it.

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;">When Elijah had been excused from the hospital, he discovered his brother was let out far before him, much to his chagrin and annoyance. Some somewhat boring months followed, before an incredibly rainy and stormy day had left Elijah bound in the castle, even though he had planned to visit his Duchy that day. As such, he spent the morning doing nothing of much importance and impatiently pacing before paying a visit to Charlotte and Fantina to check on them.

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;">He found Charlotte gazing plaintively out of the window, sitting on the window bay and watching as people ran to their homes, Fantina watching on in concern. Him and Fantina seemed to divulge into an argument, Charlotte seemingly blank to the world and not hearing a thing.

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;">Fantina then left, in a huff and heavily pregnant. Elijah was irritated, but then Charlotte managed to speak. Some small, uttered words that Elijah didn't expect to hear. This was the first time he had heard of her history - her parents - everything. He was shocked and appalled at what circumstances they were put through - what <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;font-style:italic;">she <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;"> was put through at such a young age. He found her parents had died of pneumonia and she had lived on the street.

<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;">And with that, Elijah made a decision to found the <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;font-style:italic;">Bradley Health Trust <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:12px;">, or BHT, named for Charlotte and her Parent's surnames. Lettie and Norwood Health Trust didn't sound as catchy, you see. The organisation is still in the making, however it plans on providing health services, homes and assisstance for Asmodin's bountiful homeless population, to prevent anything that happened to Charlotte's parents from happening again. ==