Daring Charming

⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: LA
Contact: bubblykins
Age: 26
Current Characters: Shinou thegreatpain, Atsushi Kinugawa hurricanechef, and Squall Leonhart innermonologues


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Daring Charming
Age: Never specified, probably 16-17
Canon: Ever After high
Canon Point: Post; Dragon Games

Background: Welcome to Ever After High, a world of magic and wonder and fairy tale creatures. Many people probably wonder what happens to their favorite fairy tale character after their story has finished and they've had their happily ever after, well here is their answer. Ever After High is a school for children of those very famous characters ( Like Snow White and Cinderella ) to go and grow and soon take after their parent's stories. Even children born from characters from nursery rhymes like Little Bow Peep and Humpty Dumpty go to this high school.

The school that all of fairy tale students attend to is called Ever After High. In this school where everyone learns to follow their destinys, there are two factions of students. There are the Royals who not only come from a royal background, but they also want to follow their destinys, and who could blame them since most of them get wonderful stories of having princes and saving lives and being beloved by everyone. Then you have the other faction known as the Rebels. The Rebels for the most part don't always come from a royal background. Not only that, but many of the rebels want go against their destiny and write their own story or just doing something that goes against their destiny like falling in love with someone from the Royal side. Though that isn't the only case as well. Some are considered rebel just because they support their friends who want to rewrite their destiny.

At Ever After High, Second year students have a special day called Legacy day. It is one of the few days in the year where the Story book of Legends is allowed to come out of its case and be viewed by all. The Story Book of Legends is a magical book that binds everyone in Ever After to their own stories. On Legacy day, the students all get dressed up and pledge to follow in their family's footsteps and become the next important role in their own stories. Once they sign the book, they are officially bound to that role. There are some students in the school who actually don't wish to follow in their parents footsteps, like Raven Queen ( Daughter of the Evil Queen. ) Daring however has no problems with following his destiny as Prince Charming. It's what he was born to do forever after.

In the school the students all take classes that will prepare them for their own stories. Princesses will end up taking classes on Kingdom management, Damsels in distressing, and Princessology, while evil people might get classes like General Villainy, Home Evilnomics, and Kingdom Mismanagement. They also have more general type classes like Muse-ic, Story telling 101, and Grimmnasics. Daring himself takes many classes on being a hero, like Dragon Slaying, Heroics 101, and Advanced Wooing. All of these courses are there to help all the students learn and live and use their abilities later on to follow their destinies perfectly.

With a name like Daring Charming, it's not difficult to realize who he's the son of in this world. Daring is the eldest son of King Charming by nine months and has a twin brother and sister by the names of Dexterous and Darling. There is a long long line of Charmings in this series, and on top of that, not all the Charmings are actually related. Daring and Dexter once had a project about their family trees where they stated they were in no way related to the Charmings of Nottingham forest, the Charmings of Neverafter or even the Charmings that came over on the Charmflower. With this, it makes all the stories with prince charmings just a little less awkward.

At a young age, Daring had always been seen as the favorite child to King Charming. He was the first born which made him first to the family line and destiny. Their father had high hopes for Daring. It came to no one's surprise in the Charming family when Daring became everything they had hoped he would be. He proved to be strong and fast, clever and handsome, and just all around well... Daring. Unfortunately for his younger brother Dexter, because he was so perfect especially in the eyes of their father, Daring often outshone his younger brother in everything they did. He was always amazing at Dragon slaying. He could woo a princess with just a smile. Even saving damsels in distress came fairly easy to him. All of this is probably why he is destined to be the prince charming in Apple White's ( Daughter of Snow White) story.

Unfortunately for Daring, there was never any proof that that Apple was the damsel of his destiny. There was never any proof that he would be the prince from that story at all, his father just always assumed and pushed those feelings onto Daring. One day, the Evil Queen ( Raven's Mother. ) was released from her mirror prison and caused chaos throughout the school. To stop her, Snow White ( Apple White's mother) had a magic mirror that was supposed to pull her back into the evil mirror world, but some mixups happened causing her to lose the mirror. One Daring Charming happened to find it and got himself stuck in the mirror for long long time. During this time Apple was forced to be poisoned before her story was even supposed to begin and and no one actually knew what to do to save her without Daring.

They managed to find the mirror and got Daring out of it. They begged him to kiss Apple and wake her from her slumber. Now, when he went to try, nothing happened. He tried various times, and each time there was no magic in the kiss. It could have been his nervous jitters, and his intentions at that point not being pure, or it could have been that he just wasn't the right prince. Instead, his sister Darling who only wished to save her friend Apple and had nothing but pure intentions, gave her a cpr sort of kiss and the magic curse was lifted, leaving Daring to feel nothing but confusion and shame.


Personality:

When you think of a Prince Charming, what comes to mind to you? Is it their bravery and kindness? Could it possibly be their strength and agility? How about their good looks, charm, and a dashing personality? Well look no further than Daring Charming himself. If the people at school could describe Daring in one word, it's perfect. He has the amazing good looks, and his enchanting smile that tends to woo any girl walking past him. He has amazing bravery, taking on dragons and defeating them like it's no big problem, to the point where Daring even admits Dragon slaying class is his "Worst subject" only because he gets so bored in that class. He's strong and fast and can just be in the right place at the right time to save falling damsels. He once caught a princess falling out the dorm rooms at Ever After High when he was just walking by and when she asked him "How did you know I was going to be here?" he replies with "Catching Damsels in distress, it's kind of my thing." Along with all these charming qualities of his, he is also shown to be pretty calm and collected in the face of danger and the unknown. When Daring and his Book Ball ( basically American football but played with books instead of balls), team were discussing their upcoming match with Beanstalk High he first thought they were going up against a bunch of little beans, but one of his team members corrected him, telling him that no, the Beanstalk High team was in fact a bunch of Giants. Instead of freaking out, in a calm voice he replied, "Oh. Well then we are in a lot of trouble, aren't we," and playfully elbowed his friend while laughing.

He could get along with anyone he talked to and had plenty of friends in Ever After High. It was like he was the most perfect child his father could have asked for. Even though Daring is seen to be so perfect and outshone his little brother, it didn't really hinder their relationship. Yes, it often led Dexter to feeling self conscious about himself, but Daring was still a loving older brother. They often hang out at school together and have a lot of the same friends. They roughhoused with each other like lots of brothers tend to do. He'd often give Dexter advice though it wasn't always the most useful. He did try at least, although most of his advice did usually end with "Dexter, you should be more like me." He encouraged Dexter in his own slightly egotistical way with comments like, "You almost got in second place right after me! Great Job, brother!" or even "You're a charming, of course you can do this." And for his sister, well he's his usual affectionate self with her, helping her out of carriages and chasing away boys who try to woo her from her balcony. He really does love both of his siblings, even if he shows it in odd ways.

Despite the fact that Daring and Apple White are destined to be together because of their stories, they aren't actually dating right now in school but they are still very close with each other. As Apple likes to put it "This is high school. We have forever after to be together." They are great friends and often seen around the halls with each other. Since Daring isn't tied down to her yet, he likes to spend his free time going on dates and flirting with other girls.

He may be charming and handsome, and most people seem to love him but he isn't one without faults either. Their father has always encouraged Daring since he was young and constantly told him how perfect he was to the point that the boy now has a little bit of an ego and is a complete narcissist. He is constantly looking at himself in a mirror or just being mesmerized by pictures of himself on his mirrorpad. In the book he was playing with his younger cousins and almost didn't catch one of them when he became distracted by a mirror he was walking past, and in the webisodes not only did he declare himself the winner of a female beauty pageant because he felt he was the best looking, but in a Kanye West like fashion, he got on stage when the winner of Thronecoming Queen was about to be announced and tried declaring himself the winner of that as well. So needless to say, he's definitely narcissistic, but it's hard to blame him when his father and everyone else constantly agrees with him.

He's also a bit closeminded when it comes to women. It's not that his intentions are bad, it's just that being raised as a Charming, you're sort of expected to see things a certain way. Instead of seeing girls that can do so many things that a boy can do, you expect them to just be a typical damsel in distress that you're suppose to save and protect. He really does have the best intentions, it's just that Daring's way of showing them aren't exactly the best at times. He is slowly growing to be an even better person though, and perhaps realizing not everything is as black and white as its always been placed out for him.

The more Daring is shown the more growth we see in him. Sometimes his vanity can get the best of him, but in the end he shows he can be a good friend and he knows how to apologize when he's been a jerk. A friend of his by the name of Sparrow Hood ( Son of Robin Hood) once dared him to get a date with the next person to walk through the cafe they were hanging out in, and the loser of the bet was going to have to wash the other's Grimmnastics clothes after swamp swimming. Daring not being one that can back down from a dare and being confident in his abilities to get a girl, eagerly accepted. The girl that walked through the doors was none other than Lizzie Hearts who had a reputation of being quite like her mother. It took him all day, but he was finally able to win her over at least a little, and he actually had a really nice time himself. She asked him to not tell anyone about the fun time they had and to keep Lizzie's reputation safe, he embarrassed himself in front of everyone by having to clean Sparrow's uniform. Another instant of growth we see is during Thronecoming. The day of Thronecoming there was an important Book ball, game was happening between Ever After High, and Beanstalk High. A girl by the name of Cerise Hood came up to the boys asking if she could help them in their big match to which Daring replies to her with " Sorry, Cerise, Damsels are for saving, not playing Fairy Tale back." During the match, the boys were getting creamed, because they were up against a bunch of Giants. When things seemed to be their bleakest, Daring mentioned to the coach he might know of a certain Damsel who could actually save them and went over to Cerise in the stands to ask if she would help them. With her help they ended up winning the game and that night during the dance, Daring went up to Cerise and apologized for what he had said and thanked her for helping. He even offered to dance with her over any of the other girls that were lined up to see him.

It's a slow process, but Daring is slowly becoming the kind of charming from the stories, despite the towering pedestal his father placed him upon. And it is unfortunate, but when one is placed so high above others that also isn't a very good thing for them. It's shown in the movie Dragon Games, how this is damaging for a person. Daring was always told all his life how gorgeous he was, how handsome he was, how strong, brave, and amazing he was. He could do know wrong, and if on the rare chance that one of his siblings did something better than him, his father would make up excuses for that. So when he was trapped in the mirror world, he slowly started to lose it. The mirror world is a place where you can see through every mirror around, but you can't see your reflection at all. For someone who had been so into his looks since forever after, it was terrible for Daring.

Then he was finally brought out of the mirror world and found out that his kiss wasn't the magical kiss to break Apple from her spell. Daring had never expected for something like that to happen to him. When he fell from that pedestal, he fell hard. He fell into a world of hurt and confusion and nothing made sense to him anymore. So he may be all of these amazing things, but he is definitely lost in a world without his destiny anymore.

Abilities: Besides Daring's strength and bravery, his combat skills, and his ability to handle dragons, he does also have some magical abilities as well. Much like his two siblings, the three of them each have a magical aspect of their physical appearance. Daring's is his smile. He has the best smile in all of Ever After, and when he flashes his pearly whites, most girls fall at his feet literally, though it doesn't work on everyone. He can also grow flowers from the light of his teeth.

Alignment: Thras

Daring is a charming prince, not only because he saves damsels and fights dragons, but he literally is a Charming. It's in his name, and as a Charming, he was taught at a young age to be brave and heroic.

Unfortunately all that praise goes to his head and causes him to have a pretty large ego. This gives Daring some pretty superficial fears that are actually pretty terrifying for him, like being ugly, losing his destiny, not being the most charming sibling. So he could easily fall under both roles.

Other:


⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉

[ It's been a few days since Daring's first arrival in this new land, and honestly he hasn't been taking it very well. Not a single person here recognized him, he hasn't made a single woman fall with his charming smile, and to top it all off he was told he would have to start working soon to make a living?!

No this was wrong. This was all wrong. This wasn't how his destiny was supposed to play out. He was supposed to break the spell of Apple's sleeping curse, live with Apple forever after and just... be the most charming handsome Charming in all of Ever After! Now he's stuck here, destinyless. ( Actually he was before he came here but...) Practically homeless, and this raincloud above his head won't stop storming over him! ]

Shoo! Don't you know who I am? Begone you foul... cloud!

[ He swats at the cloud a few more times before just sitting on a nearby bench looking like a wet and soggy beast. It's been raining on him practically since he got here and the cloud doesn't show any signs of stopping. ]

If you're going to rain on me, can you at least do it in my image?

[ The rain cloud did not stop raining upon his royal head, but it was kind enough to morph into a similar image of Daring. ]

That's better. Now I can wallow in style.