EVER AFTER HIGH: OTHELLO

Aside from The Royal Betrothed (The Princess Bride), Madeline Hatter has written a story titled Disloyalty (Othello), before The Royal Betrothed, in my EAH AU. Starring Charles and Sophia once more, this fic shifts into an atypical Elegant Gothic style, way darker than that of the previous parody. Cue an unexpected twist ending!

Starring:

• Charles Liddell as Othello
• Sophia Eleanor of Lilienstiel as Desdemona
• Lutwidge Liddell as Iago
• Rainer Leutnant as Roderigo
• Blondie Lockes as Emilia
• Laurent des Lauriers as Cassio
• Mireille de Myrthe as Bianca
• Ruby Rabbit as a Herald
• Madeline Hatter as the plucky narrator, a French maid, and a "Magical Space Angel", who lands with her flying teacup on Earth and resurrects all the slain in the end.

EAH -THE ROYAL BETROTHED

The Royal Betrothed. Such is the title of the in-universe story written by Maddie Hatter in the third story arc of my Ever After High fanon.
Essentially, it's The Princess Bride in between Lilienstiel and Wonderland, with most of the cast as themselves.
The cast roster is as following:

• Charles Liddell: Himself, young master of the estate (Buttercup)
• Sophia Eleanor von Lilienstiel: Herself, foundling maidservant/Lady in Black (Westley)
• Jamie Hook: Himself as the Dreaded Captain Hook (Roberts) (ghost character)
• Elizabeth "Lizzie" Hearts: Herself as Queen of Wonderland (Humperdinck)
• Cerise Hood: Herself as the brawn of the kidnapper trio (Fezzik)
• Sparrow Hood: Himself as the avenger of the kidnapper trio (Íñigo Montoya)
• Lutwidge Liddell: Himself as the brains of the kidnapper trio (Vizzini)
• Bill the Lizard and his mate: The ROUS/Reptiles of Unusual Size (Rodents of Unusual Size)
• Fitzwilliam Scarlet: Himself as the eleven-fingered Chancellor/General of Wonderland (Chancellor Count Rügen)
• Ruby Rabbit: Herself as the albino bunny in the dungeon (albino in the dungeon)
• Gerhard Ekelöf and Kyllikki Valkoinen: Themselves as Miracle Gerhard and his wife Kylli (Miracle Max and his wife Valerie).

EAH FANON - DISTANT FINALE

This third arc of my Ever After High fanon will have a darker theme than the previous ones, and it will be set one year after the leading cast's graduation.
Expect to meet new characters, like Katinka (Rosi's younger sister) or the Lilienstengel guards Horst, Kunz, and Volker (actually characters from the first arc of the Ringstetten Saga, privates under Lieutenant Gerhard von Ringstetten's command)...
Charles is already betrothed to Sophia, and both live at Schloss Lilienstengel, where peace reigns, the regency will soon come to an end, and everyone (court ladies and excellencies, blue-coated guards in silver lace and valets in gold livery, and even the regent himself) is completely unaware of the threat that is gradually taking shape beyond the palace park... One can already believe that the peace and merriment won't last that long.
Far away, on the fringes of existence, an outcast deity (Eris, the personification of chaos, released by Blondie Lockes from Pandora's box) triggers a chain of unexpected events that leave no character in-universe indifferent.
Starting with a declaration of war and the "reconquest" of Lilienstiel by Wonderland, the call of nearly all the guards, led by Charles himself, to arms and their departure for the war front (leaving a garrison behind to defend Schloss Lilienstengel). When the young monarch disappears, severely injured, on the battlefield, his army left in tatters and fleeing outnumbered by the Wonderland ranks... the elderly regent's health failing more for each day, the presence of an unknown traitor at court, the upcoming siege of Schloss Lilienstengel, where the last stand will be held... Sophia, Mireille, Erszi, Rosi, Jeanne, and Blondie are whisked away to a distant hinterland fortress... that turns out to have fallen.
Luckily, they were captured by highwaymen just before their arrival. Katinka falls out with Rosi for having "betrayed their ideals". The highwaymen's stronghold still resists the invasion, and it is far more secure in case of siege than Schloss Lilienstengel. Concealed in the woods, these dark outsiders fight a secret gerilla war on Wonderland, joined by more Lilienstielian villagers and deserters for each day. To reconquer their kingdom and save their loved ones, our leading cast will have to walk through fire and ice before risking it all at one card at Lilienstengel... Sophia will break prison and be left for dead, then assume a fallen officer's identity... Will her cross-dressing fail?
There are still a lot of questions to be asked about the outcome of this war (highlight below for spoilers!)

• Will Lilienstengel fall? (Almost: half the palace will burn after a two-month siege, and the besieged will seek refuge in the bedchamber, but the occupation will last but for three days) 
• Is Charles still alive? (He is, but he spends a while in delirium, unconscious.) 
• If he lives, is he free or imprisoned? (Imprisoned and brainwashed, turned Lizzie's General Scarlet's aide-de-camp...) 
• Allies from France, Prussia, and other lands will join Lilienstiel in its plight... Will Rainer, still doubting his destiny as a death seeker, finally fall shot through the heart? (Yes, but he will be resurrected by Katla, after realizing that she, not Lilianne, is his real true love). 
• Who is the enemy within? (Ostensibly, Madeline "Maddie" Hatter, now the Wonderland ambassador/diplomat at Lilienstengel, subjugated to the will of Blondie... possessed by Eris). 
• Will the regent lose his life? (He dies of a heart attack during the last stand, having gradually been weakened by one of Madeline's potions).
• And, last of all, will this story end with a happily ever after? (It will, though Mireille and Laurent will both have died during the last stand).

AND WHAT ABOUT KATLA?

We have been told how Valdis got over her heartbreak... but Katla, in my EAH fandom?
The spell she had cast on a drugged Charles Liddell broke when he was deprived of the drug he was wired on: Gustav Leutnant drank it to quench his thirst...
As for Katla, she was punished with turning into full-dragon mode and being collared for the rest of the year. The bond betweeh her and Gustav, both lost souls condemned to suffer, strengthens and unites them, as Charles breaks free from the influence and embraces Sophia.
Afterboth lost souls get to suffer each a heartbreak, Katla goes so far as to find to whisk away Gustav's corpse at dusk on the battlefield...
The palace where Katla lives is also on a rock, overlooking Lake Vänern. The court is equally sumptuous, yet slightly austere fitting a warrior nation. The warrior king/former commander of the guards is actually her stepfather (she is a lovechild, conceived by her mother's human beau).
Speaking of being golden blond and blue-eyed, Katla transforms after healing/resurrecting the one she actually loved, Rainer Leutnant. She loses her dragon wings and special powers, the scales on her cheeks become freckles, her talons are reduced to normal nails, her flaming hair turns a lighter shade (golden blond), and her green eyes turn bluish-green. This whole "mugglification" also tears at her state of health. She had been warned not to take such a chance: the resurrection/extreme healing spell (a bullet lodged in a young lieutenant's heart was the wound to be healed!) would at worst cost her her life, but having lost Charles was a lesson harsh enough not to be that shallow and to tell true love from mere infatuation. The one who wished for anything beautiful or exciting her sight was set on sacrifices her powers for the life of the one she truly loved...

MORE ON THE CLEVER PRINCESS

Laura Athena, in January 2013, has consecrated a shrine to the female cast of "The Snow Queen", devoting one of the altars to my favourite supporting character, whom she defines as: "a princess of surpassing cleverness and beauty":

The princess is a supplementary character who only appears in one of the chapters of the Snow Queen story - but she is nonetheless an admirable and inspirational female character, whose story hints at a much longer and grander untold narrative.

"In this kingdom in which we are now sitting, lives a Princess, who is so immoderately clever; but then she has read all the newspapers that are in the world, read and forgotten them again, so clever is she. Lately she was sitting on her throne, when she began to sing, and the theme of her song was "Why should I not marry?" "Well there is something in that, she said, and so she determined to get married; but she must have a husband who knew how to answer when spoken to, not one who could only stand there and look grand, for that is too stupid."

What a fantastic introduction to a character! And what a refreshing change from the fairytale standard of princesses being first and foremost beautiful! The Princess decides on her own that she wants to get married, and she then goes on to specify what kind of a husband she is looking for - one who is intelligent, unabashed by royalty, unafraid of her power and one who "feels at home" with her.
Andersen then goes on to describe the meeting of the princess and her husband-to-be:

"He was merry and well behaved, but had not come at all to pay court to the Princess, but only to hear how clever she was. He had every reason to be satisfied with her, and she no less so with him."

Again, what a refreshing subversion of the princess trope! The princess' chosen husband is bright-eyed and merry; a poorly dressed "little person" - a wanderer with creaking boots and a knapsack on his back. No dragonslayer he - but one who can match the princess' intellect, rather than impress her with feats of arms.

As well as being clever, the Princess is later shown to be generous and sympathetic, willing to help Gerda into her new golden carriage herself without formality. Though her part is small in the overall story, and she and the Prince go away to "live in foreign places", one feels sure that such a great character must be the heroine of her own legend. "

And I identify with her for being "clever" (erudite, learned), confident, and kindly like me. Thus I make Sophia Eleonora the heroine of my Ever After High fanverse, and her beau Charles, a male Alice, the one she'll wed in the end. Charles and Sophia had already met at EAH before she returned to her palace of Lilienstengel and he took the plunge into Wonderland, where he received the announcement of Sophia's engagement challenge after that Lizzie had surrendered and proposed to him... A rather emotive re-encounter, in which they finish each other's sentences and switch language a couple of times, ensues. He doesn't look down or kneel before her... and, finally, they kiss and embrace! ("Get the cannons!" "Get the fireworks!")
Though they've had to earn their happy ending: after Charles is freed from Katla's spell, a couple of threats more separate them and endanger especially his life...

MY EVER AFTER HIGH OC:S

Ever since I first came into contact with the Ever After High franchise, I created a few original characters, that I nowadays use in EAH fandom.

• Sophia Eleonora von Lilienstiel: ROYAL. Daughter of the Clever Princess from Andersen's tale The Snow Queen (Fourth Story) and her late consort. President of the EAH Literature Club, the Alliance of Late Bards, that she has founded herself à la Dead Poets Society. An only child with an impressive cultural level, whose Secret Heart's Desire is to espouse her intellectual equal, someone who would price her mind rather than her wealth or beauty. She is hetero and she only does bad at Grimm-nastics and Crownculus (she can't climb up trees, and she is prone to sign errors). Her greatest strengths are her kindness and gift of languages. The leading character. Sophia is tall and fragile, with nutbrown (auburn/mahogany) hair and hazel eyes. She dresses Regency/Empire style. She is considered "sexy" and popular (even among the girls), which embarrasses her. Her pet is a female crow, Muninn. Later on becomes roomate to her frenemy Lizzie Hearts, with whom there is some ship-tease.
• Vivian Seelie: ROYAL. Daughter of Merlin and Nimue, from Arthurian legend. Vivian is flat-chested and strawberry blond, with blue-green eyes, that shine violet when she does magic. She tends to speak her mind, and to be absent-minded and do wrong with magic and potions. She is roomates with Ivy Goodwill, the would-be Ghost of Christmas Future. Vivian dresses and acts in a New Agey manner, like a Wiccan. However, she might be more than just a cute and powerful ditz. Unlike Sophia, she does not want to be involved in any relationship. Her pet is a male Kelpie colt, Mee.
• Rainer Leutnant: REBEL. Nephew of the lieutenant in Putlitz's story Forget-Me-Not (knowledge of this story is significant to understand why he skipped the pledge on Legacy Day, so here it goes: A boy and girl of the gentry are childhood friends. He goes to university, while she is betrothed to a general. When he returns to the shire, the engagement ball is taking place. The student has fallen in love with his childhood friend, but she remains cold and indifferent. Thus, he joins the army as a lieutenant to seek death on the battlefield, and he dies with a bullet through his heart. As for the young lady, she realizes that she did love her childhood friend and regrets having scorned him). The typical feminine "sensitive guy" (though he is taller and more broad-shouldered than Charles), but still hetero. Rainer's hair is nutbrown and curly, while his eyes are light blue. He dresses in a nineteenth-century Prussian officer's uniform. A reserved young person who sees himself as an aesthete and an epicurean, in love with everything that is pleasant and beautiful. He dreads blood, pain, and conflict with all his heart. Roomates with Laurent, and member of the Literature Club. He hasn't got any pet. His betrothed, Lillianne von Wintergarten, left EAH three years ago, due to her state of health, to be homeschooled by her parents at the Wintergarten estate. She was cold and haughty towards him, but maybe he'll forget her during this course.
• Charles Liddell: ROYAL. Son/nephew of Alice Liddell, the titular heroine of Alice in Wonderland. Charles is both brave and sensible, in spite of his short stature and cuteness. His eyes are amber, and he keeps his dark blond hair tied in a ponytail with a black ribbon. He dresses in a preppy fashion, in white and blue. His curiosity and bravery lead to his betrothal with Sophia (both are hetero). His favourite subject is Crownculus, but he is a letters person at heart no matter for how long he denies it. A running gag involves him looking for Ruby. Charles suffers from middle child syndrome, which explains the personality he has developed to break with such a past. He is roomates with August. Like Vivian, Charles isn't afraid of speaking his mind, and he will never let an innocent suffer. He keeps a wounded male crow, that he found in the woods, called Huginn. Mid-series, he becomes roomates with Fitzwilliam Scarlet and aware of the young officer's agenda... though his addiction to a certain potion and the promise he was forced to make (not to betray Scarlet under death penalty) conflict and he finally speaks to Katla under the influence, leading to Scarlet's recruitment and a grudge between him and Charles... 
• April Hare: REBEL. Daughter of the March Hare, and sister of November and August. April is a tomboyish and sensible perfectionist. She does good at Grimm-nastics, constantly competing against Roswitha for higher marks. She tends to be brash, even dictatorial, to her roomate Ruby. April considers herself the only sane member of the Hare family, and she sure is right! She's neither a letters nor a numbers person, much like her frenemy Roswitha.
• November Hare: REBEL. Son of the March Hare, and a shotaro-type character shorter than his roomate Charles. A gothic dandy who rarely speaks, and who appears to suffer from compulsions (i.e. washing his hands in a special way before each and every class). A nutbrown bunny-boy with heterochromia (black right eye, amber left eye). He is more than BF4EA with William, who received from him their mutual pet Tick-Tock, a saltwater crocodile. Long story short, William and Nov are one true pairing, until Nov reurns to Wonderland due to health issues. 
• August Hare: ROYAL. Another son of the March Hare. Like his brother November, August is odd-eyed, but with inverted colour scheme. He is fond of inventing contraptions and coming up with Blackadderian schemes that nearly always fail. Auggy appears to have either mania or impulsive ADHD. He is merry and outspoken, unlike his more reserved roomate Jamie Hook. A Falstaffian waistline and impressive sideburns add to his eccentric appearance. He dresses in an outright eclectic and crazy style. 
• Ruby Rabbit: ROYAL. Daughter of the White Rabbit and of Mopsy Rabbit (the former from Carroll's Alice, the latter from Beatrix Potter's storybooks). An albino bunny-girl (with white fur and hair, and ruby eyes) who dresses preppy-style. Shy and reserved, and quite the perfectionist. She has to do everything on time. A running gag involves Hook stalking her to get a hold on either her pocket-watch or Rainer's, ever since Tick-Tock ate Hook's own watch. A more serious plot point involves Charles pursuing her to learn secrets of hers, which makes her think he is a stalker. Ruby might be a shrinking violet, but she is sure that she will make an excellent herald in Wonderland. She is slightly scared of Hook, but even more (terrified!) of Charles (considering how sternly he pursues her). Like Vivian, she doesn't like commitment.
• Mireille de Myrthe: NEUTRAL. Niece of the myrtle/marquis poet in J.J. Grandville's story The Myrtle and the Laurel (Some knowledge about this story is also necessary: A veteran colonel and a versifying courtier, both in their autumn years, live in the same shire and they are good friends, until both of them fall for the same younger woman. Their quarrels escalate, and they even challenge each other to a duel, but both old men suddenly die of internal bleeding -"a blood vessel broke in both their chests"- right before they draw their pistols). Roomates with Sophia at first, second-in-command of the Literature Club, and most truly bi. Mireille is an airheaded and prissy ditz, who starkly contrasts with her roomate. She has platinum blond hair, powdered to look white, and gray eyes. Mireille dresses in pastels and petticoats, like a French court lady, and she is rather concerned with her appearance (but, at heart, she's a closeted military otaku). When it comes to love, she is slightly less popular than Sophia, but nevertheless one of EAH's three resident belles alongside Sophia and Katla. Mireille is frenemies (both rivals and close friends) with Laurent, like Benedick and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing.
• Jean-Laurent des Lauriers: NEUTRAL. Nephew of the laurel/veteran colonel in The Myrtle and the Laurel (see above!). Most truly bi, and roomates with Rainer. Like his frenemy Mireille, he is platinum blond and gray-eyed. He wears an eighteenth-century French officer's uniform. Stalwart and broad-shouldered, dashing and cool, he's the blue ogre to Jamie Hook's red, and he starkly contrasts with his more feminine roomate as well (but, at heart, Laurent is also found of cute things!) He has, nevertheless, one fatal flaw: he can't hold his liquor.
• Fitz-James "Jamie" Hook: REBEL. Bastard son/nephew of Captain Hook (it is later on revealed that there is more than one Captain Hook!). Dark-skinned and amber-eyed, with cascading shoulder-length raven locks and some curly hair on his chest. He is the "red ogre" to Laurent's "blue ogre": literally, as described by temperamental Jamie's maroon and scarlet seventeenth-century coats versus the more reserved and refined young Frenchman's blue uniform jacket. Roomates with November. Ambidextrous. Has not lost a hand in action yet, but his clock was swallowed by Tick-Tock, leading to his attacks on Ruby and, less frequently, Rainer. Jamie likes releasing his wrath on Tick-Tock when contrariated. Though he is moody and brash, he is considered as dashing as Laurent, causing even war to be declared between their supporters of both genders. Partners in crime and more than BF4A with November.
• Roswitha Törne: REBEL. Daughter of the Robber Girl from The Snow Queen (Fifth Story). A Roma tomboy with wild raven hair and black eyes. She can speak and comprehend animal languages fluently. Roswitha is best when it comes to Grimm-nastics, and a frequent partner to Jamie and Nov in their hijinks. She is petite and cute, but broad-shouldered and battle-scarred. Nearly all intellectual subjects fret her. Though she may be stubborn and moody, she is also brave leaning on reckless. Roomates with Katla. She keeps a male reindeer, Bae, as mount, and two homing pigeons, Frey and Freya, as pets.
• Katla von Feuersbrunst: REBEL. Daughter of the Dragon Princess in The Singing, Springing Lark (the Germanic version of East of the Sun and West of the Moon), a jilted villainess/false heroine. Like Sophia, she is the only child of a single mother, yearning for someone who understands her. On Legacy Day, Katla declared that she wouldn't follow in her mother's footsteps: her Secret Heart's Desire is to espouse her first love. Katla is confident and arrogant. She dresses in provocative, elegant style, along the lines of a belly dancer and of a flapper. She is a Drakharin or weredragon, her fully reptilian form being scarlet and orange with blue gleams. Her humanoid form, seen throughout most of the series, is that of a girl of Sophia's height and bearing, with strawberry blond (don't say it's red when she's near, or prepare to face her wrath!) hair, amber/chartreuse serpent eyes, and blue scales on some parts of her fair skin. Like Sophia, Katla is considered more than attractive by EAH students, and even staff, of both genders: she develops a rivalry (similar to that of Hook and Laurent) with Lizzie, Sophia, and Mireille. Katla falls at first sight for Charles, and she decides to separate him and Sophia, thus becoming the leading villainess in the stories, a clingy "female Iago" who won't stop at anything. But she will soon discover that Charles may not be the one she truly loves... As a pet, she keeps a chicken chick called Blondette, and a chestnut griffon called Blutaar is her steed. Katla herself is pretty hot-blooded, passionate, and aggressive when she snaps... but most usually sarcastic.
• Snowdrop, Holly, and Ivy Goodwill: NEUTRAL. Related to the ghosts in A Christmas Carol. They act as a Greek chorus of sorts. Currently, two of them (Snowdrop and Holly) share a room. They are lolitas all three (a sweet lolita, a naive-Bavarian lolita, and a gothic lolita). Snowdrop has got platinum hair and blue eyes, she is petite and cute. Holly has got a voluptous and imposing physique, nutbrown hair and green eyes to fit her Dirndlkleid. Ivy is pale and darkhaired, she wears a black hooded cloak with a silver bell, the masculine one of the three, and speech-impaired... yet she says a lot without words. Not much is known about them, except that they have the same personalities as their Dickensian ancestors. 
• Bianca Ivory: REBEL. Daughter of the White Queen and thus, related to Lizzie: her designated enemy. She is also related to the Snow Queen. She is platinum blond with violet eyes, and emotionally cold. Attractive in a nerdy sort of way, but she thinks she is ugly due to the magic mirror shard in her heart: a flaw that Katla will exploit. Lesbian, and fond of her soulmate Ruby. She likes austere, white clothes, and she wants to make peace with Lizzie in the future, which Liz disagrees with... In the end, she will become court prelate and Duchess of Wonderland, her Heart's Desire of stopping the feud within the Wonderland royal bloodline having become true.
• Herr Christian Drosselmeier: Related to Herr Drosselmeier in Hoffmann's stories, the most famous one being The Nutcracker. Christian Drosselmeier looks like Rainer, but three decades older and wearing eighteenth-century clothes. He seems to suffer from heterochromia, but his gray left eye is actually made of glass. He is the strict and harsh, slightly sadistic, Crown-culus teacher at EAH. He is nicknamed "Old One-Eye" by the least supportive students. Chris and Polly were classmates in EAH and he was her second-in-command. Will they or won't they, in the end?
• Miss Polly Poppins: Related to Mary Poppins. She is the eccentric guidance counsellor at EAH, and she tends to be less harsh than Herr Drosselmeier. Miss Poppins has nutbrown hair and violet eyes, and she can fly with her umbrella. As a young girl, she was spirited and eccentric, but kind at heart, and led a group like Sophia's as "the EAH Resistance".
• Friedrich Albrecht von Nehmen: Son/descendant of the Baron von Nehmen, a brutal feudal lord in a story by Henry Morley. Looks like a teenage Wallenstein, and appears to provoke Rainer constantly. He is revealed to be Lilli's husband and Rainer's rival in the end.
• Hermann and Adelgunde von Brakel: Children of a Prussian courtier, the Count of Brakel (in the story Das fremde Kind). Fraternal twins, who teased Polly and Chris but were recruited into the Resistance. Both wear eighteenth-century clothes: he wears a military uniform (he is a cadet) reminiscent of a hussar's, while she wears a frilly court dress like Mireille's with a blue, crown-like tricorn. Both have hazel eyes and speak gratuitous French. Hermann is a whiz at military history, knowing all the details (lives of generals, strategies, number of men slain and taken prisoner) of several battles, and is thus regarded as a military otaku. While Adelgunde is a whiz at languages and over-interested in astrology. They may represent Sophia and Laurent, respectively, in the backstory. Of course the Literary Club members plus Laurent wish to know them better and interview them. In the end, they are revealed to be the least expected: their Literature teacher is Adelgunde, while one of Sophia's own tutors, a stern veteran general who married the widowed and destitute Lady Friederike von Wintergarten and sired her daughter Lillianne... is revealed to be her brother. Both have become international authorities, each in a different field, but they were already the most popular at class in EAH already...
• Lillianne von Wintergarten-Brakel: Rainer's betrothed and childhood friend, who left EAH three years ago, due to her state of health, to be homeschooled by her parents at the Wintergarten estate. She was cold and haughty towards him, and treated him more or less like a servant. This blond and blue-eyed mademoiselle is dressed and styled like Adelgunde or Mireille, but with less lace (being the daughter of gentry instead of courtiers). Still she speaks gratuitous French. For being so sickly and cool, she is quite the spirited lady. Her absent father is a tutor and a general at the Lilienstiel royal court. She is betrothed to von Nehmen, but then realizes that her heart belongs to Rainer when it is too late. Still she learns to love her abusive spouse and even to warm his heart.
• Fitzwilliam "Will" Scarlet: OSTENSIBLY ROYAL, REBEL WITHIN, RECENTLY REFORMED. Descendant of Will Scarlet, the Red Knight, and the Knave of Hearts. Lizzie's personal bodyguard/generalissimo, bent on revenge at first but later gives up on his agenda. After the Crown claimed his family estate (where he was born and raised) and royalists killed his parents when they stood up, he fled into the Dark Forests with his little sister Cerise, but they became separated. He joined a band of highwaymen and got to know Rosi's parents, before her father was killed. Later on, he was taken prisoner, but subsequently received the royal pardon and became the commanding officer of Wonderland's Royal Guard. He would use the position to get revenge on Lizzie and dethrone her, while developing a crush on his liege and getting stuck in a loyalty crisis... which Katla took advantage of. However, his agenda is, in the finale, discovered and he begs his liege for pardon once more. A mock execution before the hedge of thorns ensues, but he is pardoned and resumes his post. A brave and tall redhead in a scarlet doublet and landsknecht-like garb, something along the line of Wallenstein and Pappenheim, with a scar (from childhood) on his left eye and a sharp widow's peak. At first resented and psychologically scarred but ostensibly optimistic and extraverted to conceal his true agenda, he remains equally extraverted, but much more light-hearted, after having been branded as a traitor and nigh-executed. Jealous of Laurent for his higher success. Roomates with the more physically imposing and reserved von Nehmen, until his departure for the Lilienstiel court mid-series, at which point he becomes roomates with Charles Liddell, November having left for Wonderland due to health issues. But Katla's plans give fruit, and he soon finds himself a sworn enemy to his roomate, who betrayed him under the influence: Scarlet knows that Katla is one worthy opponent... In the end, he will find his missing little sister...

Besides, a day like today (7th of September 1631), 382 years ago, a dapper young Gustavus Adolphus crushed poor old Count Tilly at Breitenfeld. The battle was not fought just for Leipzig or Saxony, but for the Western world as a whole. The outnumbered and sunstruck Swedish ranks won a renowned landslide victory through more advanced weaponry and revolutionary tactics. Ever since, the North of Europe has had the upper hand over the South. Which is crystal clear in these troubled times.