Character name: Damianos Character canon: Captive Prince
Briefly explain what their ideal world is like - how has it changed? There is actually a canon answer for this!
"[Damen] imagined himself nineteen again, knowing then what he knew now, and he wondered if he would have let that long-ago battle fall to the Veretians - let Auguste live. If he would have ignored his father's call to arms altogether, and instead found his way to the Veretian tents and sought out Auguste to find some common ground. Laurent would have been thirteen, but in Damen's mind's eye he would have found him a little older, sixteen or seventeen, old enough that Damen's nineteen-year-old self could have begun, with all the exuberence of youth, to court him."
So! There's that. For whatever reason, Damen's version of events is likely to go completely off the rails from Laurent's after that point. For some reason, Auguste is not king of Vere and Laurent is? They jointly rule the two kingdoms from a neutral zone between the two. It's fine, don't worry about the logistics of that.
Briefly explain your character's role in this world: Damen is ruler of Akielos! You know, like he is anyway.
Other roles characters might assume in this world: It's pretty wide open! Your character can be a noble of Vere (fake France) or Akielos (fake Greece), they can be a bodyguard, hell you can be Damen's family and he will not bat a single eyelash.
Potential discrepancies others may pick up: Anyone who was around in December for, uh. Memory share? Yeah, Kastor is nice. You know, like Damen actually thinks he is instead of like a person who stabbed Damen twice. Also nobody should recognize Auguste, who is just. Here? He's not dead or anything, he's just not king - which is a weird flag in and of itself, because Auguste is clearly older than Laurent. All in all, though, Damen's dream is pretty fucking difficult to detect discrepancies in.
au where auguste isn't dead
Character canon: Captive Prince
Briefly explain what their ideal world is like - how has it changed? There is actually a canon answer for this!
"[Damen] imagined himself nineteen again, knowing then what he knew now, and he wondered if he would have let that long-ago battle fall to the Veretians - let Auguste live. If he would have ignored his father's call to arms altogether, and instead found his way to the Veretian tents and sought out Auguste to find some common ground. Laurent would have been thirteen, but in Damen's mind's eye he would have found him a little older, sixteen or seventeen, old enough that Damen's nineteen-year-old self could have begun, with all the exuberence of youth, to court him."
So! There's that. For whatever reason, Damen's version of events is likely to go completely off the rails from Laurent's after that point. For some reason, Auguste is not king of Vere and Laurent is? They jointly rule the two kingdoms from a neutral zone between the two. It's fine, don't worry about the logistics of that.
Briefly explain your character's role in this world: Damen is ruler of Akielos! You know, like he is anyway.
Other roles characters might assume in this world: It's pretty wide open! Your character can be a noble of Vere (fake France) or Akielos (fake Greece), they can be a bodyguard, hell you can be Damen's family and he will not bat a single eyelash.
Potential discrepancies others may pick up: Anyone who was around in December for, uh. Memory share? Yeah, Kastor is nice. You know, like Damen actually thinks he is instead of like a person who stabbed Damen twice. Also nobody should recognize Auguste, who is just. Here? He's not dead or anything, he's just not king - which is a weird flag in and of itself, because Auguste is clearly older than Laurent. All in all, though, Damen's dream is pretty fucking difficult to detect discrepancies in.