april catch-all!

[feintofhart]

Who: Claude & Various
Where: Around Aldrip!
What: Claude and his encounters around town.
Warnings: None anticipated! If you'd like to hop in on a log, however, please feel free to PM/DM me or hit me up on plurk (here!), and I'd be happy to whip up a starter for you, or you can just wildcard me in here! Claude will be going about his business exploring the new Aldrip, fumbling around with new technology, running the apothecary, training, riding his wyvern, etc., etc., so if any of those appeal, feel free to jump on in. :)

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[feintofhart]

Duke von Riegan, leader of the Leicester Alliance at your service, Lady Toph, [ Claude says, something a little sardonic in the twist of his lips. Even now, the title of Duke feels wrong, like he slipped into someone else's shoes only to find them a little too big for him. Duke is technically a lesser ranking than his true one to be sure, but he had never before had to seriously tackle the idea of leading an entire country, and after spending a lifetime as Prince Khalid, becoming Duke von Riegan in a world where he still felt he was learning its customs and culture had been... trying. ]

In another world, I may have well been one of those awful men your father had picked out for you. [ His tone slips, turned cheeky, still a little charmed by the little performance that Toph gave, prim and proper and ladylike and everything that Claude's had to put on himself in the past few years. (Maybe not the ladylike part, though certainly ladylike compared to Almyra's customs). They are, Claude realizes, more alike than they are dissimilar in many ways.

Claude had run too. ]

The Leicester Alliance is what my country is called, by the way. True to its name, it's ruled by a confederacy, though I'm the one at its head. [ He taps his fingers on the table in an uneasy rhythm, feeling comfortable enough to admit: ] Honestly, it's not a role I saw myself adopting. But my grandfather passed almost as soon as war broke out, and leaving Leicester's fate to the other nobles... well, I didn't believe that would be in anyone's best interest. So Duke von Riegan it was.

[ Some may think Claude wished to shirk his duties and run rampant, a joyful little lordling enjoying the blessings of his class. The truth is quite the opposite: Claude doesn't want to be Duke. He wants to be King. ]