[ SECRET POST #2811 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2811 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Re: ORIGINAL STUFF THREAD

[(Anonymous)]

At the minute, because I'm playing in his universe the most, it'd be Prince Feo from my Dragon Slayer universe:

"A scholar prince from a kingdom subdued under a military tyrant must resurrect long-lost magitech to defeat a newly-expansionist dragon empire, and save the only dragon king that might halt its new aggression."

I like Feo. He sort of semi-accidentally became the most successful dragon slayer in 800 years, at least in terms of kill count, by cheating horribly. A combination of research into previous dragons slayers (said 'long lost magitech' was him realising that the anti-dragon superweapons of a famous slayer 350 years ago weren't actually spelled weapons but an alchemical poison spread onto lots of sharp pointy things) and a unique quirk of magic resulting from his background (he's been part of an underground rebel movement against his rabidly anti-mage tyrant of a father for the past decade, and consequently lacks formal mage training but is very good at instinctive stealth magic) mean that while he's got the highest bodycount for slain dragons in centuries (six dragons by the 'save the king' part, when even the superweapon slayer only managed two), he killed exactly none of them in actual face-to-face combat, and essentially assassinated all of them before they even knew he was there. Only two of them were in dragon form, the other four were in humanoid form, where they're much easier to kill. Well. If they don't know you're there, anyway. And the last four, all in one battle, were busy fighting other people when he killed them, and one of them (the second dragon form) was already injured.

He doesn't really get off scot free, either. The first one he killed, in dragon form, pretty much killed him back accidentally, because being invisible doesn't really help when a couple of tonnes of thrashing dragon corpse is busy falling on you in a confined space. He survived but was crippled and slowly dying of organ damage when an emissary from the dragon empire mostly healed him. Not for his sake, of course, but to keep him alive long enough to reach the dragon capital so he could stand trial for breaking treaty and killing one of them. He was then promptly assassinated right on back just before his trial when the dead dragon's brother and his cadre incinerated his 'guest room' from the air, which he only barely survived by jumping out the (tower) window while invisible and then clinging to the underside of a balcony until they went away again. Everything he does in the dragon capital after that, including the next five assassinations (in the midst of their coup d'etat while they were, to put it mildly, a little distracted) and the whole 'save the king' part, are done while injured and invisible and handily presumed dead by more or less everyone.

He only ever intended to kill the first one, because it was a 'rogue' that had wiped out three towns/cities in the northern provinces and emissaries to the dragon empire to get them to corral their own according to treaty were mysteriously not getting through. The other five were because this resulted in him getting dropped into a foreign succession crisis where one side was trying to kill him and declare war on the rest of the world, and since he was dead already twice over, he figured he might as well attempt to do something about that before someone managed a 'third time's the charm' and actually killed him properly.

He's very grumpy by the end of it. Also snappish, skittish and very paranoid, despite the fact that the newly saved king has him properly healed and declared free in gratitude, because most of the other dragons who are aware of his role in the failed coup are a little twitchy about letting him go. (Yes, let's release the nice invisible assassin who's killed more of us in four months than any three other slayers have managed in the better part of a millennium, that's a great plan, your majesty!)

And after all that, he still has to go back and finish the coup against his own father/brothers as well. Without dropping his kingdom into overt civil war in the process, or damaging the continental political balance he's just killed six dragons and helped crown a king to try and save. The entire dragon incident was basically a very unexpected and extremely unwanted interruption to a long, slow rebellion at home, and both revealed him as a magic user and then apparently killed him, triggering the failsafe plans by the rest of the rebellion in his absence, so thanks for that, they've left him a massive mess at home to deal with.

He has a hard life, Feo. I'm very fond of him.