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 Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 11:32 pm
 Aldrich BrandtAldrich tried very hard not to laugh at the question, assuming it was a joke before he realized that there was no laughing. He cleared his throat, then shook his head. " Heh, no. No, brute force is a very terrible idea." He opened the door, leading the man into the living room and gesturing for him to sit. " Geez, haven't you ever been in love before?" asked Aldrich as he moved to the built-in bar to pour them something to drink. " Whiskey?" he offered.
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 8:04 pm
King Earle "Long live the king."━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Earle pursed his lips in a disappointed manner. He had a hard time thinking that brute force would not give him his victory. After all, how was his dear butler supposed to love someone that was dead? Noticing the man get out a few drinks, Earle nodded acceptance at the drink. As he took the glass, he considered the earlier question. " I suppose not." he admitted while thought clouded his eyes. " I married only for power, and I met the one I love later on. I didn't expect to love him. In fact, I hated him and made him my butler purely for irony. And now I have to witness him smile so fondly at a brat." He chugged his drink to help drown the sorrows then pressed his glass onto the counter, panting. It worked a little. He looked back at the other man. " You mentioned something similar, if I remember right?" And another male lover, for that matter. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 8:59 pm
Aldrich BrandtHe nodded, reaching out to refill the man's glass before sipping at his own. " I was married before, as well, but to a silly girl with dreams of playing house. She accidentally got pregnant, so I did the honorable thing and married her, remaining so for years. I should've taken our son away from her immediately, but the dream of having a family seduced me into staying married. Unfortunately, she was seduced herself by a twenty-two, hung German model. After divorce and years of loneliness, I met Peter, the most beautiful painter in this world." Aldrich paused, staring ahead almost longingly. " He was mine for so long, and now his heart's been captured by an Australian slut named Hayden Belmont." He spoke the demon's name with such contempt that one could've believed the name itself made him ill. After chugging his drink and regaining his composure, the man poured himself another, then raised the glass in a salute. " I nearly forgot. My name's Aldrich Brandt. Yourself?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 9:06 pm
King Earle"Long live the king."━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━The dark-haired man laughed, though he didn't mean to do so in offense. " I guess that's where we differ." he said while swishing his drink around. " I do not care about family. I never even meant to have child, nor did I care when I outlived him." He hid the fact that he was the cause, not wanting to immediately plunge himself into a bad impression. However, a glint in his eyes showed that he was definitely hiding something. When given the man's name, the king looked at him and his lifted glass and mimicked the action. " My name is Earle. Just Earle. I've no use for surnames." He paused. " Are you familiar with fairytales, Mr. Brandt?" he asked suddenly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 9:12 pm
Aldrich BrandtWhat kind of question was that? Of course he was, he used to read Alan fairytales all the time! Red Riding Hood was always his son's favorite. " Unfortunately," he nodded, not trusting the look in Earle's eyes. Then again, he didn't really trust anything about this guy. After a sip of the alcohol, Aldrich set the glass down and set about finding a different bottle of whiskey that was a little less strong. " Why do you ask?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 9:25 pm
King Earle"Long live the king."━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━" So I don't come off as completely insane when I tell you who I am." Earle responded casually. " Fairytales may seem like mere stories for you, but I assure you that they're real. From the goriest kind to ones that are displayed as movies. We coexist yet at the same time don't. The best way I can explain that is through dimensional rifts. I'm not entirely sure myself, and frankly I don't care to find out." He looked back at Aldrich, making sure to stare him in the eyes so he could see the truth in his own. " Yes, that's right. "We". I'll repeat what I told you before. My name is King Earle, I am the Frog King." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2015 9:34 pm
Aldrich Brandt" Huh." Aldrich knew that the man was probably telling the truth, unless he was totally nuts, which he didn't really seem to be. Anything was possible, he figured, since he worked at an academy for extraordinarily gifted students and knew that Peter himself was a Dark Muse or whatever and that his little wh-re boyfriend was an incubus thing. Yes, it was indeed entirely possible that fairytales were real and this guy was the Frog King. After taking another sip, Aldrich nodded. " Interesting. I wouldn't have pegged you for the Frog King if you hadn't told me. So what's the story of your hierarchy? Do all of the male descendants turn into frogs until they find a princess?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 1:22 am
King Earle"Long live the king."━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━The king fixed Aldrich with an amused look. He was taking it far better than anyone he had ever told - considering he did tell anyone. Unlike his foolish grandson, he had common sense and understood that humans were incapable of believing what they didn't want to believe. He lifted his glass to his lips and took a gulp or two of his whiskey as he considered the next question. " Along those lines, yes." he answered, still looking away thoughtfully. " You understand how all fairytales go: True love conquers all. In a sense, we follow that practice too. The heir to the throne is turned into a frog in order to find their true love, as well as someone capable of ruling alongside them. Only when they change back can they inherit the crown. My grandson, in fact, is in his mid-fifties because of this ordeal." He closed his eyes and smirked to himself. " It wasn't always like that. The tradition started with me when an unruly witch cast a curse on me. A kiss from a spoiled brat of a princess made me human, but it didn't break my spell completely. The true love bit is nothing more than a false reality. To my kingdom, at least. Yet it somehow has worked for my family." he mused the last part and sipped his drink some more, lost in thought. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 2:15 am
Aldrich BrandtThe businessman raised a hand to call for attention, confused by one particular piece of information. " Wait, your grandson's in his fifties?" he asked, finally astonished by something. Aldrich looked over the young-looking man. " You're joking. You can't be more than thirty!" He set the glass down, crossing his arms as he examined the king. " Forgive my forwardness, but exactly how old are you, Your Majesty?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2015 6:51 pm
King Earle"Long live the king."━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Earle was watching the alcohol in his glass swirl around with his swishing when he heard Aldrich's outburst. He looked at him with an interested quirk of the eyebrow. Ah yes, he always forgot that tidbit. " Oh, I lost track after the third century had passed. I was around before this land you live on was dubbed a country." he chuckled nostalgically between sips of his drink. " As I said before, when I wedded my curse was only partially broken. I was returned to the age of when I had become a frog, but I could not age farther. Only recently did I have my first kiss from my true love, but I managed to keep my youth through... unconventional methods." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 2:53 pm
Aldrich BrandtDeciding not to ask further, Aldrich walked around the bar to sit in the living area, his drink in one hand and his uncertainty in the other. " That's all very fascinating," he said, sincerely interested in the background of this new character in his life. " But let's talk about your butler now. You said that he's in love with someone else now. Tell me about their relationship as accurately as you can."
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Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:20 pm
King Earle"Long live the king."━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Earle watched Aldrich try to process all the information, trying to decide himself whether to feel empathy towards the man or mere amusement. He blinked when the host absently wandered towards the next room then looked down at his own drink. Unsure of what else to do, he got off his seat and followed him, making it just in time to hear the comment. Must I really talk of this? he thought to himself bitterly as he reluctantly thought back. " I didn't have much time to observe their relationship, or the patience, but they seemed like a strong couple. The man - his name is Haneul - tends to keep my butler close whenever he's possible, and they encourage each other." He grit his teeth as he remembered Haneul breaking the mind control he had over Heinrich. " They're supportive, and clearly more open about being intimate. And, by what I recall hearing, they trust each other." ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:32 pm
Aldrich Brandt" Then I can see why you're jealous," he said after Earle finished explaining the butler and his lover's relationship. " Relationships like that are very hard to come by. Your best bet in breaking them up is either killing off Haneul or disillusioning your butler to his charms. Since killing is off the table, what do you know about Haneul?" He crossed his legs, watching the king for his reactions to the conversation. He was an interesting character, definitely.
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Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:42 pm
King Earle"Long live the king."━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Earle's eyes lit up at the mention of killing, and for a second a smile was visible. He knew it! This was what he was saying all along! The best way to win his beloved back would be to kill that wretched fly! Of course, just as that comment was in the air, it was snatched away by Aldrich, making the king revert back to his stoic expression. Of course. It was when Haneul was mentioned again that his demeanor changed once more, only instead of vicious joy it was pure rage. " That man is hardly worth talking about, let alone being called a man." he spat while looking away, eyes narrowed and jaw clenched. The hand holding the glass was trembling from how tightly it was gripping the glass. " He's defiant and has no respect for authority, he blatantly insults me despite my royalty. He likes to pretend he's smart and cultured, but I know deep down he's nothing but trash. And the way he stares at me! Like he's... Like he's better! Like he knows more! Then... he has the gall to dangle my precious butler in front of my face...!" Haneul's imaged was plastered in the king's head. That strong and defiant glare that cut through him as Heinrich chose him. It was too much. With a low growl, he snapped his head in Aldrich's direction. " Why can't I kill him? I can make it look like an accident, I've done it before!" he spouted. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
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Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:50 pm
Aldrich BrandtHe shook his head. " You can't honestly think that your butler wouldn't suspect you of his lover's death, do you? You seem like an intelligent man, Your Majesty. Use that royal brain of yours and think." Aldrich leaned back, staring at the ceiling in thought. " Well, we could always set him up to look like a cheater. Better yet, we could use his occupation to break them up. What does Haneul do for a living?" asked the diamond smuggler, looking at his encrusted watch for the time. Alan should be home soon, he realized.
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