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Bastion Fanfarinet is the nephew of Fanfarinet from Princess Mayblossom, a fairytale by Madame D'Aulnoy.

this page is one hex of a WIP i do apologise in advance

Character

Personality

> implying that Bas has a personality

> in the words of Hamlet: "God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another."

> perfectionist, the president of angst, too much of a whinger

> aaaand from Macbeth: "there are daggers in men's smiles"

> terrified of the future

> actually a huge pushover

> "an unexamined life is not worth living" weLL plato how about a guy who's always overthinking and contemplates too much

Hobbies & Interests

Violin: Out of all the instruments that he had picked up, violin is the only one Bastion has stuck with. Perhaps it's the lightness of the instrument, or the romanticism, or the ease of play, but whatever it is, Bastion will admit that playing the violin is one of the few things that calms him down. Favourite musical period? Romantic. Chopin's a genius in Bas' eyes.

Orchestra: Likewise, Bastion is a first-violinist in one of Ever After High's orchestras.

Debate: A member of Ever After High's Senior Premier Team, Bastion is a masterful debater, easily able to express convincing and well-put arguments. Often is second person, on the same team as Pythia Adalinda. (Previous Debate team members include Sage Idason, who dropped out because it was impacting his plays.)

Elegiac Poetry: To paraphase Ovid, "now my verse will rise in six feet and fall in five."

Model United Nations: Bastion is a regular representative and delegate and uses this as an opportunity to simulate an actual parliament hall.

Charity Projects: More out of obligation (he's a diplomat's kid, he has to look charitable to be presentable) than actual interest. Honestly this is probably more of a ploy to take selfies with poor kids and to feel a false sense of being humbled.

Switzerland: A country dearer to his heart than France is. Traitor.

Ever After Host Club: Bas actually dislikes this place and how Tereus runs it, but he can get away without talking to his clients by simply playing violin and reading French and Swiss feminist literature.

Appearance

okaaaaaay im gonna rewrite this to sound coherent. bullet points for now.

– looks like those impossibly perfect people with their life together. I mean, he doesn't have his life together, but at least he's good at faking that appearance.

– pretty boy charm, well-dressed, well-put together

– way too pedantic on his appearance but what can you do

– tall-ish. uses short friends as armrests.

– olive skin tone? double eyelidded medium brown eyes?? slim??

– symmetrical face. like really symmetrical. uncannily symmetrical.

– dyes hair pink

– biracial. French (white) and East-Asian (Chinese + Korean). people keep guessing the wrong Asian countries for his Asian half, he doesn't exactly mind as long as you don't call him Japanese.

– has dimples. hardly anyone knows he has dimples. thats because he never smiles.

Fairy tale – Princess Mayblossom

How the Story Goes

Wikipedia – Princess Mayblossom

Princess Mayblossom is born, but a fairytale named Carabosse curses her to be miserable for 20 years. Thus, the princess was put into a tower to prevent any harm to her.

When Mayblossom was nearly 20, her parents decided that she must be married, so they sent her portrait to every legible prince. King Merlin sent his ambassador, Fanfarinet, to make an offer for his son, but Mayblossom swiftly fell in love with Fanfarinet instead, and convinced him to run away with her, taking her father's dagger and her mother's headdress.

A chancellor realised that the princess was missing, and the nurses told him about the princess and Fanfarinet. They later found from a man that he rowed the couple to an island.

At the island, you probably expect the Ambassador and the Princess to be happy. Nah. Turns out that Fanfarinet was actually a huge jerk, a lazy arse, and wasn't very nice to the princess at all. Later, while the admiral men land on the island to search for Mayblossom and Fanfarinet, Mayblossom made Fanfarinet invisible with her mother's headdress, and he ended up killing the men.

Later, Fanfarinet turned on the princess, about to kill her as well, but instead Mayblossom stabbed him in the face and threw him down a cliff.

When Mayblossom went home, her 20 years were up, and ended up married to King Merlin's son, who was hella rad.

How does Bastion come into it?

The Fanfarinets are generally regarded as the most well-known political families in France. They hop from kingdom to kingdom, working as ambassadors for whatever fortunate prince lands himself lucky to marry the next Mayblossom. Their reputation is grand, but their work ethnic is always seen as nothing less than impeccable, so hosting a Fanfarinet family in one's kingdom is seen as honourable. In fact, the only villainous part people see of the Fanfarinets is their unfortunate destiny.

Bastion's mother was the younger sister of the previous Fanfarinet. Ever since her brother got the destiny, Bastion's mother grew distant from him, and didn't even bat an eyelash when he fell from grace.

It was unknown whether the previous Fanfarinet fathered any children, and no one really wanted to bother to find out. Instead, the fairytale authorities deemed that the next Fanfarinet should be someone related to the previous one, and picked Bastion.

His parents were fine with that, and oddly, only slightly delighted when, after the WTW events, he didn't have to follow his destiny anymore.

Opinion on Destiny

Obviously, Bastion doesn't like his destiny. There's little to like about deceiving pretty girls, plotting to murder them only to get killed yourself. He's not sure about his own moral standing but he knows for a fact that he doesn't want to sink that low. Also, being the next Ambassador? It makes him a villain, which clashes with the charming politician image he was born to portray.

However, above all, Bastion is a Fanfarinet, and there's something honourable about living your family legacy, even if it means laying down your life.

Still, Bastion expresses no strong opinions either way, although he is aligned with the Rebels. This is because he wants to seem amicable towards most of the student body, and wants to seem confident and alluring and self-assured. Showing people his inner turmoil? That is unspeakable.

Unfortunate Parallels

Bastion is charming and approachable, mirroring how Fanfarinet was attractive at first.
His fear of knives is due to how Mayblossom will stab him in the future.

Relationships

Family

How to describe the Fanfarinet family? A French aristocratic family previously held in high esteem, the Fanfarinets' reputation took a blow ever since the very first Princess Mayblossom was taken by the very first Ambassador Fanfarinet.

They recovered that reputation, of course. Over generations, they became one of the most influential diplomatic families in France. In fact, it became an honour to host the Fanfarinets in your kingdom, because it ensured your prince marriage to the next Princess Mayblossom.

Unfortunately, a family can recover from a crime-stained reputation, but very rarely can they recover from forementioned crime. Disguised behind sharply creased suits and well-meant trade agreements, behind closed doors and under-the-table payments, the Fanfarinets are nothing less than corrupt politicians. Payments of gold are sent off to dragon hoards, goblins in the British Isles and Swiss Banks, while the family indulge in their comfort and luxury.

People adore them though. Two professional working parents, two beautiful and clever kids. The ideal modern family.

Parents

They're both lovely people. On the outside, at least, because on the inside, they're just really corrupt politicians.

My mother was a genius.

His mother was the sister of the previous Fanfarinet, born with a superiority complex. Knowing that her brother would take over the destiny, she strived to be better than him in every aspect, so that she would pass on the legacy of their family name with grace and dignity. She was ambitious and dedicated, educated and erudite, serving as a fine French diplomat in foreign affairs, rallying treaties and policies and other information between countries and received many accolades for that.

My father commanded respect.

It was through foreign affairs that she met Bastion's father, an ambassador from Asia who visited her kingdom on a business exchange.

How do they feel about their son being the next Ambassador? It was destiny and tradition, after all. They're have a second child already, too, so there's no worry about losing the family name.

Unfortunately for Bastion, he had always felt like his parents practically dressed him up to die. They never expected much from him, as long as he presented nicely and got decent grades. Because of that, Bastion always felt expendable, as if he didn't matter in the family, as if all his achievements, once he died, will be forgotten and he would be uncared about.

He's torn up in guilt, because he knows that his parents have given him enough and more than enough to live comfortably for the first twenty years of his life and doesn't want to leave and be an inconvenience, but he doesn't feel like he matters as part of the family other than as a vessel to continue the family legacy.

Uncle – Jacques Fanfarinet (Previous Ambassador)

When [he] died, [he] left no instructions, just a legacy to protect.

Bastion never met his uncle, obviously. Despite dying before Bas' birth, his uncle has shaped a huge portion of Bas' life.

Bas is expected to follow in his uncle's footsteps, just like all the previous Fanfarinets. That's something that Bas is not quite looking forward to – from the stories he's heard about his uncle, he knows that Jacques was absolutely despicable.

Basically: Bastion knows more about his uncle than he wants to know. More importantly, he knows that this is not the man he wants to emulate. Unfortunately, Bastion's convinced that people will only be defining him by his destiny in the future, and knows that if that happens, then he'll simply be a name mentioned alongside that of his uncle.

Fun fact: Jacques sounds like "jackass".

Sister – Adelaide Fanfarinet

Adelaide is Bastion's 14 year old sister. Although a cynical butthead, she is a brilliant orator, and writes like she's running out of time.

It was always Adelaide with the expensive tutors, Adelaide who they invested in scholarships for, Adelaide, Adelaide, Adelaide. When it came to conversations with the parents and representing parliaments and all that, it was Adelaide who got a major say in those discussions, and Bastion who was shoved aside.

There is tension between these two obviously. It was weird for Bastion, to be living in the shadow of a younger sister, when by all means, it should have been him in the limelight of their parents – the one with the legacy, the older brother.

Still, Bastion does care about his sister and he does want her to achieve, even at his own expense.

I guess that's what happens when you spend the majority of your teen years thinking you're worthless, huh.

Friends

Pythia Adalinda

Bastion and Pythia are family friends, brought together by their villainous legacies but otherwise kind and candid political families (on the outside, at least). The two are also in the same Debate Team (Ever After's Premier).

Bastion is lowkey jealous of Pythia, because she always stands up for and is outspoken about her strong beliefs. There's no mystery or concealment behind what causes she stands for – she's completely honest. In a sense, I suppose, Bastion wishes he could be like that, being say whatever he believes in.

Charmaine Lexwington

In the rush between class periods, a certain fairy crashed into our favourite ambassador, getting caught in his arms, and naturally, Bastion had to make a really bad pick-up line ("looks like you're quite the catch"). Min, naturally, punched Bas. In the face. And from then on, immediately dubbed him the dude with the terrible pick-up lines.

– TBA, how they became friends, what sort of friends they are like now, how some people think they're dating,

Airmid Valerian

	Obviously, he was envious of them. Envious that this young physician had their life in control, that they had a strong idea of their own future. And frustrated that he might have such a stable future – or even a future to begin with.
—Atrox Veritas

Bastion and Airmid were desk partners in Geografairy in Freedom Year. A month into the school year, where Airmid got a "98" on their first assignment. Needless to say, the future physician ended up crying over the fact that they narrowly missed a perfect score. Bastion (with his own 86) thought Airmid was overly sensitive and whiny, and didn't talk to them at all.

Their mutual silence continued for two years, until this seemingly whiny and sensitive physician ended up leading Dead Epics. Bas had a newfound appreciation for Airy's revolutionary nature, their outspokeness and their confidence. Through philosophical conversations about life and purpose, a mutual dislike for their predecessors, and a mutual dislike for dying for a princess' happily ever, the two became amicable acquaintances. They'll even borrow each others' eyeliners if they run out.

– also please read Atrox Veritas if you want character depth because :3c

Acquaintances

Icarus Juniper

To Bastion, Icarus is the chill, level-headed leader of Dead Epics. Bastion's impressed by how much chill Icarus seems to portray, and views him as the epitome of mature, sensible and collected.

Orleans le Nouveau

all they do is have serious conversations about the declining state of the stock market

Enemies

Turnus Wyllt

Turnus is irresponsible and childish – at least to Bastion.

– idk i guess the two just don't really talk, since destiny is just such an awkward topic. because Bas sort of prepped his whole life for being the Ambassador, while Turnus was just randomly picked for a destiny he didn't even want

– what makes it more awkward is that Bas actually gets along with Orleans and Ramsey

TBA

Tereus Yamaha

not really enemies, more like acquaintances who mildly dislike each other.

Pet

Bastion has a white cat named Beauvoir. Beauvoir gets the finest treatment from Bas, including expensive cat foods and the most elaborate of cat climbing towers.

Romance

	Who cares about your lonely soul? We strive towards a larger goal. Our little lives don't count at all.
—Les Miserables – Red & Black

Bastion generally has a cynical view on romance. He sees it as something that he could do without. There are greater things, greater causes, greater reasons to fight and live and learn. He has been put off by romance from all the stories he's heard about his uncle, all the tragedies he's read and watch, and the whole destiny thing.

TBA – unfortunately has inherited the natural Fanfarinet charm, anyway he dislikes the next Princess Mayblossom, does Fairyfloss or Candyfloss belong here or???,

Outfits

Bastion is somewhere between the boundary of decently well-dressed and soft punk.

Art

Bastion's Outfits

Basic

TBA

Hat-tastic Party

TBA

Trivia

Bastion is a diminutive of Sebastian, which means "venerable" or "respected". The 'Bas' part of Bastion sounds like amBASsador.
- I guess if you're a diplomat, you would probably be pretty respected.
- Fanfarinet was the name of the Ambassador in Princess Mayblossom.
He was a trust fund baby. His parents cut him off around post-Dragon Games.
- Apparently the reason was
Learns towards "respectability politics".
- Pythia disagrees with him on this count – "Bas, I'll rather be divisive than indecisive, drop the niceties!"
Bastion is short-sighted, but wears contacts. Gotta keep up that pretty boy image, right??
Like any respectable European politician, Bastion speaks 7 languages: English, French, German, Korean, Mandarin, Arabic and Spanish. Basically, every official language of the UN (sans Russian), as well as German and Korean.
- Which is why the administrative staff at Ever After High generally use him as a translator for any second-language English speakers that need a translator.
- And he can swear in 19. Do what you will with this information.
- He's learning Russian though. I blame his completionist streak.

Quotes

Mother told me never to keep a lady waiting.

	Bas. It rhymes with my greatest asset.
—Bastion, introducing himself.

	As for my straight opinion, Min dear, how could I possibly give a /straight/ opinion when–
—and here, Airmid cut him off for saying such an overused joke.

	Your reasoning is so incredibly fallacious. It’s absolutely erroneous for you to ignore all the nuances of–
—it's really obvious that he does debate

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 {{quote|My father commanded respect.}}
-It was through foreign affairs that she met Bastion's father, an ambassador from Asia who visited her kingdom on a business exchange. He had a fondness for music and encouraged his son to be just as musical. Thus, he's the main reason why Bastion's talented in three instruments, with a nice voice to boot. He holds his son in high regard, and wants him to achieve as much as possible.
+It was through foreign affairs that she met Bastion's father, an ambassador from Asia who visited her kingdom on a business exchange.
 How do they feel about their son being the next Ambassador? It was destiny and tradition, after all. They're have a second child already, too, so there's no worry about losing the family name.
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 Bastion never met his uncle, obviously. Despite dying before Bas' birth, his uncle has shaped a huge portion of Bas' life.
-First of all, Bastion is expected to follow in his uncle's footsteps, just like all the previous Fanfarinets. Obviously that's not something that Bastion would like to do, but it's something that his uncle was really proud of being, from all the stories Bas has heard about it. That's something really off-putting for Bastion, because "''how on earth am I related to this guy?''" and "''out of all the people, you expect me to be like <u>him??</u>''"
+Bas is expected to follow in his uncle's footsteps, just like all the previous Fanfarinets. That's something that Bas is not quite looking forward to – from the stories he's heard about his uncle, he knows that Jacques was absolutely despicable.
-On a serious note, Bastion knows more about his uncle than he wants to know. More importantly, he knows that this is not the man he wants to emulate. Unfortunately, Bastion's convinced that people will only be defining him by his destiny in the future, and knows that if that happens, then he'll simply be a name mentioned alongside that of his uncle.
+Basically: Bastion knows more about his uncle than he wants to know. More importantly, he knows that this is not the man he wants to emulate. Unfortunately, Bastion's convinced that people will only be defining him by his destiny in the future, and knows that if that happens, then he'll simply be a name mentioned alongside that of his uncle.
 Fun fact: Jacques sounds like "jackass".
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 Bastion and Airmid were desk partners in Geografairy in Freedom Year. A month into the school year, where Airmid got a "98" on their first assignment. Needless to say, the future physician ended up crying over the fact that they narrowly missed a perfect score. Bastion (with his own 86) thought Airmid was overly sensitive and whiny, and didn't talk to them at all.
+Their mutual silence continued for two years, until this seemingly whiny and sensitive physician ended up leading Dead Epics. Bas had a newfound appreciation for Airy's revolutionary nature, their outspokeness and their confidence. Through philosophical conversations about life and purpose, a mutual dislike for their predecessors, and a mutual dislike for dying for a princess' happily ever, the two became amicable acquaintances. They'll even borrow each others' eyeliners if they run out.
-But this seemingly whiny and sensitive physician ended up leading Dead Epics. this is super TBA please bear with me ok.
-– mostly TBA. things to add: philosophical conversations, mutual dislike for their predecessors, mutual dislike for dying for a princess' happily ever after. oh and they're both lowkey emo and trade eyeliners.
 – also please read [[Atrox Veritas]] if you want character depth because :3c
+===Acquaintances===
 ====[[Icarus Juniper]]====
-To Bastion, Icarus is the chill, level-headed leader of Dead Epics. Bastion is impressed by how much chill Icarus has. Bastion also doubts that Icarus is actually chill and is probably also #internallyscreaming inside.
+To Bastion, Icarus is the chill, level-headed leader of Dead Epics. Bastion's impressed by how much chill Icarus seems to portray, and views him as the epitome of mature, sensible and collected.
+====[[Orleans le Nouveau]]====
+all they do is have serious conversations about the declining state of the stock market
-– things to add: did you know that Bas was the first one to realise Iccy had an eating disorder. also Bas wanted Icarus as his piano accompanist.
 ===Enemies===
 ====[[Turnus Wyllt]]====
-In Bastion's eyes, Turnus is irresponsible and childish, who hardly takes his role as a prince seriously.
+Turnus is irresponsible and childish – at least to Bastion.
+– idk i guess the two just don't really talk, since destiny is just such an awkward topic. because Bas sort of prepped his whole life for being the Ambassador, while Turnus was just randomly picked for a destiny he didn't even want
-TBA – a lot. Turnus' is underdeveloped rn so bear with me here.
+– what makes it more awkward is that Bas actually gets along with Orleans and Ramsey
+TBA
 ====[[Tereus Yamaha]]====
+not really enemies, more like acquaintances who mildly dislike each other.
-the actual piano accompanist daft punk robot trash
-TBA – so much
-====[[Daulia Song]]====
-she called him a slut (he's not) in Orchestra once and also stole Icarus from him. they have a long and lengthy feud okay.
 ===Pet===
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 ===Romance===
 {{quote|Who cares about your lonely soul? We strive towards a larger goal. Our little lives don't count at all.|Les Miserables – Red & Black}}
-ayyy lmao where do i even start
 Bastion generally has a cynical view on romance. He sees it as something that he could do without. There are greater things, greater causes, greater reasons to fight and live and learn. He has been put off by romance from all the stories he's heard about his uncle, all the tragedies he's read and watch, and the whole ''destiny'' thing.

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