#ch: mikael rosario

[yeehawgame4ever]

PLEASE talk to me about mikael rosario

ok this ask took a long time to answer because i was doing art lmao  mostly the dogs.

so mikael rosario is the character i made up for trm but hes never really been The TRM MC, because trm began and mc was some goofy kindhearted scribe with no name which isn’t... what i wanted from this book lmao. so i’d been rewriting extensively. and now im not! i mean, i am, but ive moved a lot of the more extensive rewriting into original fiction because i realized that i really like this character and don’t want him to waste away in these choices clown shoes.

ESSENTIALLY (and im gonna like, copy/paste with some edits from what i wrote up for socks because i don’t know how words work) mikael is the only child of a military family, Technically a viscount as courtesy because he never inherited his parents’ titles (because he was a bit of a nine year old when they were big murdered by highwaymen and he (+ his inheritance) was carried out of the country into the eccentric arms of his great aunt. he was raised uhhhhhh a bit coldly, but not in quite the way trm’s written mc was. he’s smart, he’s standoffish, and he likes to insert himself into everyone’s business because he wants to feel important. 

he loves swords and dogs and men and the Idea of his family legacy, which he doesn’t have because after he left and stopped paying the house staff the other noble families gobbled up all of his family’s holdings. 

Anyway he falls in love. pretty standard. boy meets boy, boy falls in love, boy duels boy’s father who finds him disagreeable and loses an eye. father’s son believes this was a horrible idea and feels Immeasurable guilt, and releases ol’ swords and eyepatches. you can imagine mikael is in a bad place. 

he has nothing keeping him there anymore, not that he ever really did, but One Day he hears about this big fancy party they’re hosting in his old country! wow! and he makes the hasty, hellish decision to go to that even though he wasn’t invited, stands no chance of Being invited, and it’s likely nobody will remember him. 

from there the plot intersects with trm a bit more: hes being a shitheel to a bunch of rich people by suggesting that Maybe He’s Somebody To Keep An Eye On, throwing himself at the first person to pay him any genuine attention because he has some issues, Finds The Queen Has Been Mega-Killed, WHOA!! obviously this is suspicious because, like... unknown sword bastard is definitely not immediately trustworthy. but its fine because the heir was with him at the time, or at least claims to have been, but the problem is. that the heir. is a Shady Bitch.

shady bitch matteo knows that mikael is living in an empty husk of his family’s old estate (because that has Not been a secret) and hes like ‘hey, that’s not the best place for you. i think that you should really come to live here in the palace, because it’s less likely to fall down around your ears while you sleep, and it’s very nice to have a trustworthy fellow at the ready in the event that some unknown assassins come back, or something!’ 

and mikael who Barely knows this guy goes ‘hmm. i mean . alright.’ [internally] i’ve got my eye on you, you’re being a little too nice for what’s just happened to you

so basically he’s living in the castle, being taken around by our brand new king, trying to make an asset of himself so that he can get that good good power back, while Also learning over a matter of horrifying eavesdropping sessions that mr mattie’s responsible for the death of the queen in an almost-assured powergrab, and that this guy’s Also planning to scapegoat him by making him as visible as possible (because he knows that mikael isnt about to let people do Whatever They Want to him, and knows that he would be easy to provoke or lay blame on because he’s rude, Actively trying to establish himself among the elite, and isn’t anyone of any importance in the kingdom atm). 

And that’s mikael!! as always, in as confusing a way as i could have put all of that. i promise i write more coherently when i’m not summarizing for my jokes blog. 

also he has dogs: lurcher littermates named snowshoe and shadow. they’re hunting dogs but they’re also his constant companions. he definitely doesn’t feed them off of his plate at the dinner table and they definitely don’t sleep on either side of him on his bed because theyre Not basically his babies. 

[yeehawgame4ever]

damon when mikael does fucking anything

[yeehawgame4ever]

since im taking things from trm and putting them in a massive stew pot and mixing them all around ive Also done it to mc's backstory but it was like this

[yeehawgame4ever]

i just want these like On the post bye

since im taking things from trm and putting them in a massive stew pot and mixing them all around ive Also done it to mc's backstory but it was like this