Honor Leopold is the first prince of Ladok. With two younger brothers and a younger sister he will be the one to inherit the throne after his father. He's a reckless, playful boy with a temper who can be more serious than his peers would expect. His siblings look up to him and though he might be the most honorable one in the family he can be unpredictably moody and too easily angered. All this changes on one fateful day when the prince and other royalty and nobility go on a hunting trip. To gain more control of the throne one of the nobles plots to kill the heir so that his younger brother, Prince Malcom might inherit the throne, as she has more influence over him than Honor. Lady Tucker's captain conveniently found himself alone in the woods with Prince Honor, the perfect opportunity to kill the heir. For not only were they alone in the woods, but they had accidently crossed the border into enemy territory. So he drew his sword and committed treason of the highest kind, murdering the prince.
Just kidding! He thought he killed Honor, but miraculously he survived. Lady Chrysanta of Torres (the enemy territory) and her captain found the prince just in time. However, like most of the people of Torres they'd never seen the royalty or nobility of Ladok before so they had no idea who's life they saved.
When Honor awoke he was Honor no more. Suffering a severe head trauma he lost all his memories. Those who did know him thought he was dead and those who knew he was alive didn't know who he was. Lady Chrysanta and Captain Kaiden pieced him back together again and he became Captain Sebastian. Sebastian served King Augustine of Torres and became Prince Ezekiel's closest (and only) friend. A year went by and Sebastian became his own man, with still no memories of who he was before. Ladok declared war on Torres, sending Sebastian to the battlefield alongside Ezekiel.
Sebastian is an angry man, ready to take his revenge on his attacker should the opportunity arise. He's not the same playful boy he was before and he's far less reckless. Perhaps the only thing that softened his heart was Lady Chrysanta. The most graceful and beautiful women in all of Torres stole his heart with one glance.
Will Sebastian ever remember who he is? That is the question I was unable to answer until just the other day. 80,000 words later, reaching the climax of Icy Silence, Sebastian found his family, learned the identity of his "killer", and... *drum roll* had his memories returned to him. Captain Sebastian of Torres and Prince Honor of Ladok become one man. A soldier and a prince. A Torrian and Ladokian.
That is the last scene I wrote in Icy Silence and one with the most development for Honor's character. For a while I seriously considered never making Sebastian remember. Sebastian was still in many ways the same man he was before. As I was writing the scene though, it just sort of happened. I knew that when he returned to the scene of the crime then it would trigger something in his mind and he remembered. It's cool how writing works like that sometimes. The story just takes off on it's own and things happen whether you meant them to our not. Honor still has much to do that will continue to shape him and change him and even alter the course of the story.
When writing his character it was actually helpful for me to watch movies on characters who suffered memory loss. So when watching The Bourne Identity I called it research. ;) So yeah, it's been pretty fun writing Icy Silence.
As far as character bios go I think this might have been one of my better ones. Until next time...
Have a blessed day. :)