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Created on 2006-12-22 12:20:43 (#11878014), never updated

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Name:	Lord Gareth of Tersel

Bio

Name: Gareth
Age: 41, 42, 43, 44, 45
Birthday: January 29 [Aquarius], 582 AR
Family: Wife // Mariana, Daughters // Luna, Kiara, Alyssa, Son // Tobias
Class: Patrician [prepromoted]
Country: Dentoria
Languages: Trade, Dentorian, High Dentorian [Fluent], Old Dentorian [Very Good], Old High Dentorian [Average]
Weapon Proficiencies: Sword [Preferred], Dark.

History

Gareth was born a youngest son of House Conare, with a large age gap between him and his siblings. When the then Lady of Tersel gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Mariana, a year later, it was decided between both parties that the two would be married when they were of age. Without any playmates or companions of similar standing or age in his family, and with a prospective bride to the northeast, Gareth grew up feeling more affinity with House Tersel than he did with his own family, and his education was geared towards his future as Lord of Tersel, and an assistant treasurer to his brother and his future nephew.

Gareth also grew up with a great appreciation for beauty and aesthetics. Conare is a city that is famed in Dentoria for its heavily Megam-inspired architecture, with the wealth to show it off. The perfect place to foster a love of design in a young child. His childhood was also filled with frequent visits to Tersel, the city where architecture, as an art, flourished (sometimes, he noticed, to the city's detriment), the province he would one day rule in his future wife's name, and that future wife was the prettiest girl he had ever laid eyes on in his young life.

His daughters often ask Gareth when he first met their mother, and every time, he tells them the same story. It was a cool spring day, and Gareth, then only thirteen, was walking through the gardens in Tersel Manor, flowers in hand, where he was told his future bride would be. He finally saw a young girl of around twelve, with long hair that shone like the sun and eyes that glistened like jewels. He asked if she was Mariana, which she confirmed, and he then handed the flowers he had been told were her favourites. The girl Mariana smiled, and young Gareth fell for her completely (to which his daughters then sigh at how romantic it all was, or giggle at how silly their father was being).

Gareth and Mariana married when he was seventeen, and Mariana by then had flourished to become a beautiful woman. It was expected that they would soon have children, to secure an heir, preferably male, to continue the line. But yet, as the years had passed, they were still childless. It worried Gareth. He was doing, by all reports, an excellent job in ruling Tersel and helping to manage the Treasury, but this was the one duty he could not afford to fail. It began to dawn on him one day, that perhaps, perhaps, the problem lay with him.

He was away from Tersel when his possible infertility began to trouble him. He was not infertile, his mind said, he was frequently away from his wife, on Treasury matters, and if he spent more time in Tersel, then there would be a pregnancy. But he was with Mariana enough, for it would not do for the Lord of Tersel to be too long away, as women could not rule, so how could be still be without an heir?

And then, every time he thought about it, as if his mind was trying to rationalise everything in some strange way, he went to secret parts of the cities (never his own), the invisible districts, where it was the norm to keep identities secret and business discreet, and slept with other women. Beautiful women, who looked like his wife.

The guilt was almost too much to bear, the first time. And yet, he did so, again and again, at least once or twice when he was away from Tersel. It was because he missed Mariana, he reasoned, it wasn't quite adultery, if the women looked like his beloved wife? He only slept with these women, he did not love them, not like he did Mariana.

It felt as if the world had been lifted off from his shoulders when Mariana finally told him that she was with child. He was not infertile, and he had done all that he needed. More children followed, three daughters and a son, a rarity in the Tersel family tree. Now, Gareth has everything he could possibly want: daughters to spoil, a male heir, a beautiful wife he adores, a city that has made him feel more welcome than he had ever felt at Conare and a duty that includes the hobbies he enjoys.

And yet, his mind says, isn't it strange, how long his and Mariana's childlessness had lasted, and now children in quick succession? It didn't make sense. He was fertile, of course, he had to be, he had children. But why did it take so long for the children to be born?

Gareth answers this the way he usually does every time his mind rationalises until his head is about to burst.

Sleeps with whores.

Personality

Gareth is the kind of person who is nearly impossible to dislike. Always cheerful, he goes about his work and his duties with the kind of energy one would expect of a man half his age. The rate at which he produces his ideas - for the Treasury, for another new monument to be built, for something to be added for the manor, for a toy the children would like - seems out of control, and he enjoys discussing his ideas - half of which are brilliant, half of which are questionable to put it kindly - almost as much as coming up with them. He adores his children, and spends his free time with them at every opportunity. He is well suited to playing with his children, some say, because he can be a big child himself. Perhaps this is his way of indulging in games he never played, for he did not have the siblings of close enough age for it.

Mariana is, without a doubt, the love of Gareth's life. He is protective of her, and worries often of her declining health. He senses, perhaps, that she does not love him as much as he does her, but readily forgives her for it. He reasons that it must be difficult to love someone as much as he does Mariana if said person was often away. He tries not to be absent from home quite so often as he did earlier in the marriage, especially with the children so young, and with the length of time he has spent trying to build reliable, trusted help who can cope without his input, he can afford it.

Less time away from Tersel also means less time with whores. While this is a situation he is greatly looking forward to, for perhaps then, the guilt will start to weigh down on him less, there is a part of him that looks at the prospect with just as much trepidation. For he has come to realise that perhaps the reason why he does not spend much time in Tersel, with the children, with Mariana, is that he does not want to think about why he had been childless for so long, and then not at all. Every answer he comes up with during the nights he spends by his wife's side is an answer that troubles him deeply, and there is no chance of this thought being erased away by a whore when in Tersel.

Appearance

Gareth is a tall, handsome man who is stronger than he looks, with brown eyes framed with spectacles and hair that falls messily over his head despite attempts to keep it neat. It is quite rare to see him without a smile, or ink stains on his hands.

Gareth is a fictional character played by megaera_inc for himitsu_sensou. He is played by Kinomoto Fujutaka from Cardcaptor Sakura, for lack of a better person, who belongs to CLAMP.