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A Brief Biographical Study
Name: Jacques Belmont
Character journal name: jacques_belmont
Your photo-credit/PB: Ioan Gruffudd
Age: 23
Nationality: French
Allegiance and why: The Revolution. He has seen enough excesses to dislike the Ancien Regime, and read enough philosophy to adore the Revolution's principles. Oh, and his mother. Jacques knows she loves him, unlike with his father.
Social Status and/or Occupation: Bourgeoisie son of the French Ambassador to England. He just passed the bar, so he's technically a lawyer, but he considers himself a revolutionary and a playwright.
Brief physical description of your character: Jacques has dark, curly hair that he wears in a queue, and warm, dark eyes. He is of medium height, and well-built without being terribly muscular, since he spends more time wielding a pen than a sword. If he could get away with it, he would give up culottes for trousers and red-heeled shoes for wooden clogs. As is, he contents himself with his tricolor sash and the marked simplicity of his (still fashionable, since the Romantic movement's about to come into its own, and Jacques is a born Romantic) wardrobe.
Brief description of your characters history, including family: Jacques is the only son of Leon Belmont and a wife Leon despises. Mme Belmont raised Jacques while Léon worked as a lawyer, and then as a member of the Secret Police. Léon had always been busy (particularly after the Revolution hit), and when he did spend time with his family, he showed Jacques's adored mother a distant, almost frigid politeness and no affection what-so-ever. Madame Belmont naturally disliked this and taught her son, who almost idolized her, to hate his father. Being almost frighteningly conscientious, Jacques believed her and to this day thinks that his father despises him about as much as he despises his father. When he was younger, and before his mother started in on the reasoning behind 'your-father-never-loved-you-you-should-h
As a child, he had always been bright, faithful, eager-to-please, and intelligent, so he went to Louis-le-Grand, and then the Sourbonne to study law. Jacques has won several prizes for his essays, has had one of his tragedies performed by a provincial theatre troupe, and recently passed the bar. Though he had several close male friends at school, he was very alone throughout most of his life.
One or two plots which you would like to play out in the community: Jacques writing and then getting a play performed, Jacques confronting his father about politics and his neglectful childhood and adolesence, or Jacques falling in love with something (preferably someone) other than a philosophical treatise.
Are there any other characters you would like to see in the game? For instance, family, friends of your character?: Jacques's mother might be interesting. He also had one extremely close friend in school, who is likewise a lawyer and a revolutionary, though without Jacques's stauchness of character.
Name: Jacques Belmont
Character journal name: jacques_belmont
Your photo-credit/PB: Ioan Gruffudd
Age: 23
Nationality: French
Allegiance and why: The Revolution. He has seen enough excesses to dislike the Ancien Regime, and read enough philosophy to adore the Revolution's principles. Oh, and his mother. Jacques knows she loves him, unlike with his father.
Social Status and/or Occupation: Bourgeoisie son of the French Ambassador to England. He just passed the bar, so he's technically a lawyer, but he considers himself a revolutionary and a playwright.
Brief physical description of your character: Jacques has dark, curly hair that he wears in a queue, and warm, dark eyes. He is of medium height, and well-built without being terribly muscular, since he spends more time wielding a pen than a sword. If he could get away with it, he would give up culottes for trousers and red-heeled shoes for wooden clogs. As is, he contents himself with his tricolor sash and the marked simplicity of his (still fashionable, since the Romantic movement's about to come into its own, and Jacques is a born Romantic) wardrobe.
Brief description of your characters history, including family: Jacques is the only son of Leon Belmont and a wife Leon despises. Mme Belmont raised Jacques while Léon worked as a lawyer, and then as a member of the Secret Police. Léon had always been busy (particularly after the Revolution hit), and when he did spend time with his family, he showed Jacques's adored mother a distant, almost frigid politeness and no affection what-so-ever. Madame Belmont naturally disliked this and taught her son, who almost idolized her, to hate his father. Being almost frighteningly conscientious, Jacques believed her and to this day thinks that his father despises him about as much as he despises his father. When he was younger, and before his mother started in on the reasoning behind 'your-father-never-loved-you-you-should-h
As a child, he had always been bright, faithful, eager-to-please, and intelligent, so he went to Louis-le-Grand, and then the Sourbonne to study law. Jacques has won several prizes for his essays, has had one of his tragedies performed by a provincial theatre troupe, and recently passed the bar. Though he had several close male friends at school, he was very alone throughout most of his life.
One or two plots which you would like to play out in the community: Jacques writing and then getting a play performed, Jacques confronting his father about politics and his neglectful childhood and adolesence, or Jacques falling in love with something (preferably someone) other than a philosophical treatise.
Are there any other characters you would like to see in the game? For instance, family, friends of your character?: Jacques's mother might be interesting. He also had one extremely close friend in school, who is likewise a lawyer and a revolutionary, though without Jacques's stauchness of character.