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poisoninmypocket) wrote2015-01-07 07:35 am
poisoninmypocket) wrote2015-01-07 07:35 am
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▸PLAYER
Name: Terri
Means of Contact: montymun on Plurk
▸CHARACTER
Name: Lord Montague "Monty" D'Ysquith Navarro, Ninth Earl of Highhurst
Canon: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Age: 23
Canon Point: Just after being released from prison at the end of the musical.
Background Information:
Wiki Link
In brief, Monty is an Englishman who hails from 1909 London. He is a man who was born and lived in poverty until the death of his dear mother whom he had assumed lived as a cleaning woman her entire life after the early death of his father, a Castilian musician. Upon her death, he's informed by a family friend that she was really a disinherited heir of the D'Ysquith family fortune, turned away when she married for love instead of privilege, and that his birth certificate provides proof of his D'Ysquith lineage and his right to the fortune. Seeing an opportunity for himself, Monty contacts the family to try to reconnect and is summarily dismissed. Grieving and humiliated, Monty takes on any menial work he can get while making plans for how to get in with the family in spite of the refusal. He ends up contacting another semi-estranged member of the family and another of the heirs, an alcoholic priest.
Monty begs his relative to help him with the reticent family for his dearly departed mother's sake, but is refused by him several times while being given a tour of a church with a very high tower. Things come to a head when the priest stands too close to the edge of the tower and begins to overbalance. He calls for Monty's help and Monty is about to dutifully assist and pull him back when it occurs to him that he could just let this man fall to his death. After more than a little back-and-forth with himself, Monty comes to the decision to take the lives of the D'Ysquiths who had scorned and shamed his mother and rise to the head of the family.
What follows are several darkly comedic murders which become progressively more diabolical as Monty shakes his timidity about the act. Along the way, he's joined by his childhood love, Sibella, who turns away his devotion and marriage proposals to marry another man that she feels will keep her in the comfort she desires. Later, Monty meets a very distantly-related cousin whom he falls in love with, as well, named Phoebe. She's innocent and pious to Sibella's sultry passion. Monty continues to see Sibella while he's courting Phoebe, and even continues once he's announced that he's to marry Phoebe.
Events culminate in the death of the last heir ahead of Monty while Monty's in the process of trying to murder him with poison. Monty assumes the Earldom and takes over the fortune of the D'Ysquiths along with the family banking firm that another heir had made him head of before dying of natural causes. Everything's going perfectly well with his marriage to Phoebe, and then he's arrested for the one murder he didn't actually commit and put on trial.
While in prison, Monty writes the story of his two-year rise and serial killings as a memoir, expecting himself to hang. However, through Phoebe and Sibella's clever scheming, Monty is released due to reasonable doubt about the identity of the murderer, escapes justice for all of his crimes, and heads off to enjoy a life at the family home of Highhurst as the Ninth Earl with an adoring wife, a mistress, and all the wealth and ease he's always wanted.
Personality:
Monty Navarro is a sweet, intelligent, devoted gentleman who has risen from a life of poverty to the head of a prominent English family through hard work, perseverance, and the rather tragic demise of multiple relatives.
That's what Monty would like people to think, anyway, and in a way, it's how he thinks of himself. He is an ambitious young fellow whose mother filled his head with ideas about rising above his station in life. When met with the opportunity to do so, he immediately takes it, and then, when he's spurned by the family that had disowned his mother, he proceeds to systematically murder six people (and bystanders) who are ahead of him in line to the family title. Ostensibly this is to avenge his poor mother, but it helps him rise, as well. He never regrets this course of action, though he does wrestle with one of the murders. Monty truly believes what he's doing is right, and when he believes he's right, he'll stop at nothing to achieve his goals.
Monty has an arrogance about him. He knows he's clever and while he can put up a front of perfect gentlemanly behavior when he doesn't get his way or he's faced with accusations of a murder he didn't commit, his internal thoughts tend toward petulant tones (I've dispatched half a dozen, each one a cousin. All of them quite by design. It is not a defense, it just makes no sense! This murder is not one of mine!). He can be unkind and pointedly observant, as well, with words that cut like knives when he's a mind to pull out his claws. With a woman he's worshiped for years and begged to marry him, only for her to marry another for money, he tells her directly: "You are vain and you are heartless, and yet, I can feel in you a shade of sadness that's barely detectable." This is following on a revelation by the character herself that her chosen husband is insufferably boring and will provide no 'life' to her life. She personally comes to this conclusion, but never directly mentions this to Monty, playing off her disappointment with her husband and her choices.
Tying into his arrogance, Monty is a philanderer. He falls in love easily with young, well-to-do women who are either innocently sweet or brazenly domineering, and he has no compunctions about carrying on with two women at once, even when one of those women is his fiancée and the other is married. His only concern in either finding out about the other is them saying something and causing a visible scandal.
While Monty does commit at least seven (and possibly more by indirect designs) murders in relatively quick succession, he's not a cold-blooded killer, per se. He avoids getting blood on his hands, resorting to traps, tricks, and simply not assisting when he could in order to dispatch his relatives. If he believes he's letting someone hang themselves with the noose they've made, figuratively or literally, he feels the murders can be justified. His motivations for committing these murders are tied to his setting, though. He specifically set out to murder the people who threw his mother into the gutter and who stood in the way to money and a title for himself, leaving him to grow up in poverty. His first thought upon leaving the company of Phoebe D'Ysquith, a distant cousin whom he's infatuated with, is that it's lucky she's from his own generation, and therefore not someone he'll need to murder. Without these motivations in place, though, Monty's unlikely to commit additional crimes without some new impetus. He can be very motivated by the promise of survival or a means to rise above where he is, though.
In terms of day-to-day interactions with those who don't know him well, Monty is an exceptionally polite and earnest person who has the manners of a gentleman circa 1910. There is a song devoted in his canon to other characters praising Monty's 'good character,' intelligence, and resourcefulness. He is also exceptionally loyal in spirit (if nothing else) to those he loves, such as his mother, mistress Sibella, and wife Phoebe. Monty even struggles with killing his employer (another heir) due to these feelings of fondness and is only spared the private hell of trying to figure out if he values ambition and revenge over the kindness shown to him by said employer's timely demise.
Appearance:
Dressed as a Commoner
Dressed as an Earl
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 165 lbs
Physique: Athletic
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Dark Brown and Curly
Clothes: This is mostly a list for my own memory because Monty has a ridiculous number of clothing articles upon his person that include: a watch from Cecil, silk socks, sock garters, black leather shoes, spats, boxers, trousers, braces (aka suspenders), button-down shirt, waistcoat, mourning coat or suit jacket, and silk cravat. Occasionally a top hat and white gloves to complete the ensemble.
Abilities:
N/A - Monty is a normal human being.
Name: Terri
Means of Contact: montymun on Plurk
▸CHARACTER
Name: Lord Montague "Monty" D'Ysquith Navarro, Ninth Earl of Highhurst
Canon: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Age: 23
Canon Point: Just after being released from prison at the end of the musical.
Background Information:
Wiki Link
In brief, Monty is an Englishman who hails from 1909 London. He is a man who was born and lived in poverty until the death of his dear mother whom he had assumed lived as a cleaning woman her entire life after the early death of his father, a Castilian musician. Upon her death, he's informed by a family friend that she was really a disinherited heir of the D'Ysquith family fortune, turned away when she married for love instead of privilege, and that his birth certificate provides proof of his D'Ysquith lineage and his right to the fortune. Seeing an opportunity for himself, Monty contacts the family to try to reconnect and is summarily dismissed. Grieving and humiliated, Monty takes on any menial work he can get while making plans for how to get in with the family in spite of the refusal. He ends up contacting another semi-estranged member of the family and another of the heirs, an alcoholic priest.
Monty begs his relative to help him with the reticent family for his dearly departed mother's sake, but is refused by him several times while being given a tour of a church with a very high tower. Things come to a head when the priest stands too close to the edge of the tower and begins to overbalance. He calls for Monty's help and Monty is about to dutifully assist and pull him back when it occurs to him that he could just let this man fall to his death. After more than a little back-and-forth with himself, Monty comes to the decision to take the lives of the D'Ysquiths who had scorned and shamed his mother and rise to the head of the family.
What follows are several darkly comedic murders which become progressively more diabolical as Monty shakes his timidity about the act. Along the way, he's joined by his childhood love, Sibella, who turns away his devotion and marriage proposals to marry another man that she feels will keep her in the comfort she desires. Later, Monty meets a very distantly-related cousin whom he falls in love with, as well, named Phoebe. She's innocent and pious to Sibella's sultry passion. Monty continues to see Sibella while he's courting Phoebe, and even continues once he's announced that he's to marry Phoebe.
Events culminate in the death of the last heir ahead of Monty while Monty's in the process of trying to murder him with poison. Monty assumes the Earldom and takes over the fortune of the D'Ysquiths along with the family banking firm that another heir had made him head of before dying of natural causes. Everything's going perfectly well with his marriage to Phoebe, and then he's arrested for the one murder he didn't actually commit and put on trial.
While in prison, Monty writes the story of his two-year rise and serial killings as a memoir, expecting himself to hang. However, through Phoebe and Sibella's clever scheming, Monty is released due to reasonable doubt about the identity of the murderer, escapes justice for all of his crimes, and heads off to enjoy a life at the family home of Highhurst as the Ninth Earl with an adoring wife, a mistress, and all the wealth and ease he's always wanted.
Personality:
Monty Navarro is a sweet, intelligent, devoted gentleman who has risen from a life of poverty to the head of a prominent English family through hard work, perseverance, and the rather tragic demise of multiple relatives.
That's what Monty would like people to think, anyway, and in a way, it's how he thinks of himself. He is an ambitious young fellow whose mother filled his head with ideas about rising above his station in life. When met with the opportunity to do so, he immediately takes it, and then, when he's spurned by the family that had disowned his mother, he proceeds to systematically murder six people (and bystanders) who are ahead of him in line to the family title. Ostensibly this is to avenge his poor mother, but it helps him rise, as well. He never regrets this course of action, though he does wrestle with one of the murders. Monty truly believes what he's doing is right, and when he believes he's right, he'll stop at nothing to achieve his goals.
Monty has an arrogance about him. He knows he's clever and while he can put up a front of perfect gentlemanly behavior when he doesn't get his way or he's faced with accusations of a murder he didn't commit, his internal thoughts tend toward petulant tones (I've dispatched half a dozen, each one a cousin. All of them quite by design. It is not a defense, it just makes no sense! This murder is not one of mine!). He can be unkind and pointedly observant, as well, with words that cut like knives when he's a mind to pull out his claws. With a woman he's worshiped for years and begged to marry him, only for her to marry another for money, he tells her directly: "You are vain and you are heartless, and yet, I can feel in you a shade of sadness that's barely detectable." This is following on a revelation by the character herself that her chosen husband is insufferably boring and will provide no 'life' to her life. She personally comes to this conclusion, but never directly mentions this to Monty, playing off her disappointment with her husband and her choices.
Tying into his arrogance, Monty is a philanderer. He falls in love easily with young, well-to-do women who are either innocently sweet or brazenly domineering, and he has no compunctions about carrying on with two women at once, even when one of those women is his fiancée and the other is married. His only concern in either finding out about the other is them saying something and causing a visible scandal.
While Monty does commit at least seven (and possibly more by indirect designs) murders in relatively quick succession, he's not a cold-blooded killer, per se. He avoids getting blood on his hands, resorting to traps, tricks, and simply not assisting when he could in order to dispatch his relatives. If he believes he's letting someone hang themselves with the noose they've made, figuratively or literally, he feels the murders can be justified. His motivations for committing these murders are tied to his setting, though. He specifically set out to murder the people who threw his mother into the gutter and who stood in the way to money and a title for himself, leaving him to grow up in poverty. His first thought upon leaving the company of Phoebe D'Ysquith, a distant cousin whom he's infatuated with, is that it's lucky she's from his own generation, and therefore not someone he'll need to murder. Without these motivations in place, though, Monty's unlikely to commit additional crimes without some new impetus. He can be very motivated by the promise of survival or a means to rise above where he is, though.
In terms of day-to-day interactions with those who don't know him well, Monty is an exceptionally polite and earnest person who has the manners of a gentleman circa 1910. There is a song devoted in his canon to other characters praising Monty's 'good character,' intelligence, and resourcefulness. He is also exceptionally loyal in spirit (if nothing else) to those he loves, such as his mother, mistress Sibella, and wife Phoebe. Monty even struggles with killing his employer (another heir) due to these feelings of fondness and is only spared the private hell of trying to figure out if he values ambition and revenge over the kindness shown to him by said employer's timely demise.
Appearance:
Dressed as a Commoner
Dressed as an Earl
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 165 lbs
Physique: Athletic
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Dark Brown and Curly
Clothes: This is mostly a list for my own memory because Monty has a ridiculous number of clothing articles upon his person that include: a watch from Cecil, silk socks, sock garters, black leather shoes, spats, boxers, trousers, braces (aka suspenders), button-down shirt, waistcoat, mourning coat or suit jacket, and silk cravat. Occasionally a top hat and white gloves to complete the ensemble.
Abilities:
N/A - Monty is a normal human being.