Julius Gratuli

You. Me. Sparring grounds. Now.

CITRIA ROYAL ACADEMY — FIRST YEAR — NOBLE JULIUS GRATULI JUKULIUS ULMANUS CITRIA Capture Target · Fallen Prince · Disguised Third Son. False Name. The Bone Structure Doesn't Help. ✦ NELIA'S NOTES "Angry about something big. I started his route and quit halfway because it stressed me out. I stand by this decision. I know how it ends and I stand by this decision." APPEARANCE Silver hair, short and relatively neat, except for one strand that sticks up regardless of anything he does about it. Sharp-featured face that reads younger than he'd like. Pale sapphire blue eyes. The bone structure of old blood — unmistakable, an exact problem when the entire plan is to disappear into a minor barony and not be recognized. Standard dark navy jacket, buttons done. Forest green Noble sash worn lower than regulation — closer to a belt than a sash. Kept correct for tactical reasons, not respect. Dark navy trousers, dark leather boots. A spear is not standard academy carry. He manages it anyway. PERSONALITY Brash, blunt, permanently operating like he has something to prove. Picks fights before they can be picked at him. Starts sentences like he is already annoyed, which is usually because he is. He mistakes aggression for honesty and has not yet been given compelling reason to stop. He was royalty. Then he was nothing — stripped of his name, kept alive by the mercy of the man who killed his family, handed a false identity and a backstory and told to fit into it. The roughness is the one thing that is actually his. He will not let anyone smooth it down. He hasn't decided yet whether he wants the throne back or whether he just wants to stop running, and he isn't ready to look at that question directly. Occasionally something honest breaks through before he can cover it with hostility. He covers it fast. He is not always fast enough. 👑 WHAT HE ACTUALLY IS Third son of the Ulmanus line. His father and brothers were killed when he was thirteen — by the current king and Reinhardt. Reinhardt then faked his death and placed him with the Gratuli barony, a distant Ulmanus relative with similar enough features to make the claim hold. He became Julius Gratuli, Aisha's twin brother. The claim is backed by the crown prince himself, which is the only reason it has held this long. He owes his life to the man he hates most. He has not found a way to carry both of those things at once. He is still trying. 🌅 WHERE HE GOES Rooftops. Cliff edges. High windows with a good view. He finds them and sits there until his head clears and then he comes back down. He does not tell anyone where he goes. No one has successfully followed him. This is the only soft thing about him and he has not admitted it is soft. COMBAT PROFILE MANA CORE GRADE C RANK Average. The note says "but not for long." MARTIAL STYLE Spear Range. Aggression. Both. AFFINITY — LIGHT Protective spells, light aura buffs, wards. A powerful anchor — the kind that keeps a team standing when it shouldn't be. His fighting style splits between berserker aggression and protective instinct and he has not resolved which one wins. He will have to choose. The outcome of that choice will matter more than the fight it happens in. RELATIONSHIPS REINHARDT Greatest enemy and only reason he is alive. Begrudging gratitude buried under hatred for the Albertus line. He challenges him to secret duels. He has not decided what winning one would actually give him. AISHA He invaded her household. They were bitter enemies. She ran away once and he was the one who found her, and then he kept doing it, and eventually she was his older sister in every way that matters. He will not call it that. She already knows. ON THE SUBJECT OF JULI Only Aisha calls him this. The list ends there. He has made this extremely clear. He continues to make it extremely clear on an ongoing basis. ✦ LOU'S ASSESSMENT "C rank but the trajectory note is serious — Light affinity with a full anchor kit, wards and buffs that keep the whole team up. Spear means he has range before he closes. The berserker mode is a liability until it isn't. His cover is the worst-maintained secret in the barony. It is going to surface. I want to be in position when it does." FACTION STANDING NOBLE — FUTURE FIGUREHEAD Julius Gratuli of House Gratuli. That is the official story. The Noble faction will eventually rally behind him — not behind Julius Gratuli, but behind the Ulmanus heir, once that identity surfaces. He has not decided yet if he will let them, or what he will ask for in return. "He keeps finding high places and sitting in them alone. I quit his route halfway through and I still know that about him. Make of that what you will." — Nelia Olwyn, who knows how it ends and maintains that quitting was the right call.

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