The only Boleyn son.
Apr 25, 2009 23:18:10 GMT -5
Post by George Boleyn on Apr 25, 2009 23:18:10 GMT -5
Full Name: George Thomas Boleyn, the Viscount Rochford.
Fandom: POTO, original, other (specify)? The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory. Also, history.
Age: 24
Height: 5'11
Weight: He'd look slight next to the King Henry. But then, any man would look slight next to Henry VIII.
Build: Well enough.
Hair: Dark like his sister Anne's.
Eyes: Also dark.
Nationality: English.
Job: He was a courtier and one of the king's favored men, once. Even in exile he'll have money enough to not think of a job.
Personality: George is naturally feckless and was a jesting cheerful boy- he made his way as a courtier just as jesting and merry but with easy wit and the sharp omnipresent glint of ambition in his eye. He is a Boleyn before anything else, and a Howard, and family matters come between king, state, or his own person. Therefore, he can also be hard; not as viciously cunning as his sister Anne, but neither shirking to conceal and lie and cheat his way in circles the way his sister Mary never learned to do. Court intrigue has made him hard and wary and able to lie so sweetly and so skillfully no one would be able to tell the difference, and his own personal conflicts have only made him wearier and more willing to commit many sins of church and state.
He can be geniuely sweet, but it is seldom to anyone but his loved ones, and he hasn't many of those to trust enough to be sweet to. He is charming to nearly everyone and flirts near-constantly, but because it's required of him to be light and airy and he does not find wit difficult. He's still thoughtlessly cruel when it's not treason to be so and he doesn't like the person involved. Like his wife.
Life Story (as much as you want us to know): In history as well as The Other Boleyn Girl, George Boleyn along with with his circle of close friends were tried for adultery with the queen Anne Boleyn. In both, he, along with the other four men and his sister, were all executed. Fortunately this is the 'verse, and here his uncle and father exerted their rapidly dimishing influence to have the only male heir to the Boleyn line exiled instead of executed. His sister Anne was not so lucky, in any timeline.
There were rumors in England of a secret court around Anne, which was what led George's arrest, accused of all sorts of sin- sodomy, treason, witchcraft, and, of course, adultery. Of course these charges were trumped up so that Henry VIII could get rid of his recent wife, and the thought of a brother committing adultery with a sister is ridiculous to anyone who doesn't think about how very far both brother and sister were willing to go to produce a king's son, and so kept the throne for the family line.
Equally ridiculous were the charges of sodomy. George has always been notorious for his skirt-chasing, and carefully so.
George has (had) two sisters he cares about very deeply, Mary and Anne Boleyn. Mary was mistress of both Henry and Francis I of France before she broke away from court intrigue and married for love after the death of her first husband. She has a son and a daughter by Henry but also a daughter by her new husband and she's happy and safe with her head down. Anne is Henry's mistress-turned-wife and has only one child, a daughter, Elizabeth, but now Elizabeth shall grow up without a mother.
Fandom: POTO, original, other (specify)? The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory. Also, history.
Age: 24
Height: 5'11
Weight: He'd look slight next to the King Henry. But then, any man would look slight next to Henry VIII.
Build: Well enough.
Hair: Dark like his sister Anne's.
Eyes: Also dark.
Nationality: English.
Job: He was a courtier and one of the king's favored men, once. Even in exile he'll have money enough to not think of a job.
Personality: George is naturally feckless and was a jesting cheerful boy- he made his way as a courtier just as jesting and merry but with easy wit and the sharp omnipresent glint of ambition in his eye. He is a Boleyn before anything else, and a Howard, and family matters come between king, state, or his own person. Therefore, he can also be hard; not as viciously cunning as his sister Anne, but neither shirking to conceal and lie and cheat his way in circles the way his sister Mary never learned to do. Court intrigue has made him hard and wary and able to lie so sweetly and so skillfully no one would be able to tell the difference, and his own personal conflicts have only made him wearier and more willing to commit many sins of church and state.
He can be geniuely sweet, but it is seldom to anyone but his loved ones, and he hasn't many of those to trust enough to be sweet to. He is charming to nearly everyone and flirts near-constantly, but because it's required of him to be light and airy and he does not find wit difficult. He's still thoughtlessly cruel when it's not treason to be so and he doesn't like the person involved. Like his wife.
Life Story (as much as you want us to know): In history as well as The Other Boleyn Girl, George Boleyn along with with his circle of close friends were tried for adultery with the queen Anne Boleyn. In both, he, along with the other four men and his sister, were all executed. Fortunately this is the 'verse, and here his uncle and father exerted their rapidly dimishing influence to have the only male heir to the Boleyn line exiled instead of executed. His sister Anne was not so lucky, in any timeline.
There were rumors in England of a secret court around Anne, which was what led George's arrest, accused of all sorts of sin- sodomy, treason, witchcraft, and, of course, adultery. Of course these charges were trumped up so that Henry VIII could get rid of his recent wife, and the thought of a brother committing adultery with a sister is ridiculous to anyone who doesn't think about how very far both brother and sister were willing to go to produce a king's son, and so kept the throne for the family line.
Equally ridiculous were the charges of sodomy. George has always been notorious for his skirt-chasing, and carefully so.
George has (had) two sisters he cares about very deeply, Mary and Anne Boleyn. Mary was mistress of both Henry and Francis I of France before she broke away from court intrigue and married for love after the death of her first husband. She has a son and a daughter by Henry but also a daughter by her new husband and she's happy and safe with her head down. Anne is Henry's mistress-turned-wife and has only one child, a daughter, Elizabeth, but now Elizabeth shall grow up without a mother.