Ablative Charming

"I came, I saw, I kicked everyone’s butt!"

- Ablative Charming

Ablative Charming is the daughter of a prince charming, destined to take on a role as a generic prince charming.

She’s a hero, as traditional as it gets, fueled by egoism and self-gain and personal glory. Homeric in fury and Vergilian in heritage, Ablative is exactly the sort of Roman princess ardent to go down in epic history.

Personality
There's a distinct sense of arrogance present in Ablative. She carries a lot of pride with her. Pride about herself, pride about her nation and her kingdom, pride about her potential destiny. She gets very uncomfortable when her abilities are questioned and has a very fragile (but large!) ego.

Due to this, Ablative is driven by the urge to present herself well, and strives for that ideal image of her: as a warrior, as a soldier and as a leader. Her ultimate goal is self-improvement and besting absolutely everyone and anyone, hence she puts a lot of effort in maintaining and improving her abilities.

For starters, she aims to be multipurpose and adaptable, believing that she must cultivate a "mens sana in corpore sano", working at both mental and physical strength.

Because of her egoism, Ablative strives for glory and has a determination to see her name get committed to song.

Ablative believes that gallantry and chivalry are nice on the surface, but thinks neither of those two traits are very substantial in the long run. The world is gifted to those who take action and fight, rather than those who make pretty speeches and put on pleasantries.

A tad ironically, Ablative is well-spoken and actually fond of these so-called "pretty speeches". Nevertheless, such speeches are made not to appeal, but to inspire. She considers herself a pretty damn good pep-talker, in fact.

Nevertheless, Ablative is a prince of action. She's always out there to prove something - her worth, her honour, her skill. I mean, why talk it out when you can fight it out?

Clearly, she's bellicose. Without exception, Ablative is always down for a fight. Swords, wits, whatever. Such pugnaciousness, and the determination to best people, does mean that she's also power-hungry. Being a prince without a set destiny or a strong fairytalesque family history (and look, claiming that you're descended from the Aeneas can only get you so far) is a little disheartening and makes Ablative feels inferior. So she overcompensates. She constantly tries jumping the royal ranks and is nothing short of a vicious social climber.

Perhaps, this will be her doom.

"Then fall, Caesar."

- Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act III Scene I

Appearance
With tanned skin, long brown hair that’s always tied back, and green eyes, Ablative doesn’t look too spelltacularly different from other Charmings in the school. She possesses a relatively toned body shape, and is always seen with a cocky smirk.

Interests, Hobbies, and Skills

 * Warfare
 * Tactics, in warfare.
 * Poetry
 * Being awesome
 * Kicking butt
 * lowkey really into board games. because dice are cool.

How It Goes / How the AAs come into this
There’s not much to be said, I think most people get the gist of this trope. In the Ever After High universe, Prince Charmings tend to go by the naming convention of “(Adjective) Charming”.

Opinion on Destiny
As Raven Queen went before the twins on Legacy Day, Ablative is entirely unaware of her destiny. However, she is hoping for an action-filled destiny, though she’s also not against the idea of merely being a love interest princess, as long as her destined love is hot.

Believing that there’s really no point in aligning Royal or Rebel when she doesn’t even have a destiny to take a stance on, Ablative opted for the alignment of Roybel.

Parallels
Regarding the trope:
 * Dashing, bold, cocky, falls in superficial love easily, always seen with a sword in hand.
 * Pretty much a quintessential prince charming.

Regarding her name:
 * Right, so Ablative and Absolute are based off the ablative absolute.
 * This is a Latin grammatical construct. Julius Caesar was notoriously fond of it, and it makes its way into his writing frequently.
 * Due to this, Ablative and Absolute are inspired by different elements of Julius Caesar, as well other things that relate to their own particular part of the phrase ‘ablative absolute’.
 * Ablative is based off the militant nature of Julius Caesar.
 * In Latin, the ablative case serves many purposes - for this reason, Ablative is an adaptable all-rounder.
 * ”Ablative” is the adjectival form of the noun “ablation”, which is a process used to fix hearts.
 * I don’t really have a parallel to draw up here - it’s just an interesting point of note.

Regarding Julius Caesar (aka, I don't think this list will ever encompass every single ref I make):
 * He's an arrogant jackass. The Ablative Absolute are both arrogant jackarses.
 * The twins are born on the Ides of March - the day of Caesar's death.
 * They claim descent from the first King by Latium (Iulus), and therefore descent from Aeneas and by extension Aphrodite/Venus.
 * Literally, they act like they've got godly blood in them.
 * Anyway, the point is, Julius Caesar did the same thing.
 * Caesar was a general, Ablative is warlike and militant and born to fight.
 * The like of poetry is a reference to how Caesar got kidnapped by pirates and forced them to listen to him read aloud his poetry.
 * Everything I write about the twin Charmings is a Caesar reference so I'll stop explaining all of them.
 * If you can list out and explain all the Ancient Rome + Caesar refs in Ablative's bio, I will actually draw or write you something.
 * This is a serious offer.

Quotes
TBA

Trivia

 * Ablative and Absolute Charming are based off the “ablative absolute”, the Latin grammatical construct.
 * For more information about their names, and how that relates to their respective characters, visit the “Fairytale Trope” section of their pages.