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George.
describe as many words, funny, splendid, beautiful, charismatic, lively, gorgeous, intelligent, flexible, dependant, pretty, and many more words the single men, women and all in between describe him with, and plenty more that the Awe siblings are sure could be filled in a dictionary size book.
‘Gorgeous George’
Was their favorite nickname to use and tease their oldest sibling with.
“Oh what is Gorgeous George going to do today?”
“Oh my what will Gorgeous George wear today?”
“...What weapon will he use?”
“...Will Gorgeous George slay more hearts today?”
“Yes!”
They always teased the oldest brunet, it's their favorite hobby and since the royal family had a public relationship with the people, they received mail and letters just for them, and well it had become a family tradition to frame the best written love letter written to George, they all gather his mail and rush to his room and read the letters together.
It was all fun and games in the end, George knew this; a reason why he never put an end to it. Never really bothered him, Sam knew it was a bonding thing for the children so he just let them do their own things.
It was all fun and games, or it was all fun and games until George began going into adulthood, the letters continued, some kept their innocent love touch others began getting more mature. They still found a way of making them fun for the family, the fun continued on, but for Quackity it began getting less fun and more irritating.
The amounts of letters never once went down in quantities, in fact as George approached his 20th birthday they only grew in number, the piles the siblings would bring to his chambers were multiplying in number.
George had reached his ‘prime’ age. A royals 20th birthday apparently dictates what kind of ruler you may be(if the oldest) or what kind of glories and skills one will bring to the kingdom(younger siblings), George was not only recognized for his beauty but also for his skill in combat and flexibility, and he had the ability to run a nation, in everyone's eyes George Awe is the perfect human being.
Usually a royal would be wedded or be arranged in a marriage at that age but George denied all marriage arrangements put in front of him. The day of his birthday became a large celebration with the Redstone Kingdom, but the day after became known as the “river of broken hearts” given the title by many whispering and gossiping women and men.
In a single day George had rejected and declined over ten thousand marriage offers, he broke hearts and wrecked hopes for many royals, commoners, dukes(duchesses), knights and soldiers alike.
George kept his reputation of a heart breaker for many years, the letters never once stopped, now more than ever they continued many broken hearted people wrote to him asking for a chance.
The Awe siblings grew up with little to nearly no attention, all being consumed by their dear older brother George, it began tainting the waters, building up walls and causing conflict between the siblings, they were casted out in the shadows, as George took all the attention to himself. “The perfect Prince” echoed through their minds, it's always “George this” “George that” “Where's George” “how is George” “why isn't George here”.
By George’s 21st birthday, the relationship between him and his siblings was utterly non-existent, the relationship they had built up over the years, and maintained where now mere memories of smiling children in the further corners of their mind.
The Awe siblings had built up walls and stone cold complexes, those who have gotten to meet them call them selfish, stone hearted, narcissistic, some going as far as saying the siblings had large egos and having a god complex.
Not that it matters really because those sour words directed to them turned into milk and honey when directed to George, sickening Milk and Honey.
In the end, they were just words.
But words do as much damage as anything else.
Rose and Dylan, twins of equal dark brown hair and dark brown eyes and white skin, matched one another in every aspect, from personality to goals. More formally known by their preferred middle names, Hannah and Boomer.
They were only three years younger than George, and had yet to receive as many letters as him, the siblings were no exception to the good looks, they had their fair shares of beauty but together they could never rival George’s.
When they turned 20, it caught the attention of the people,they received many propositions of marriage but not for the good reasons, the twins had already begun building up walls to the outside world and their 20th birthday help reinforce those walls, all evening people came to them to ask for George, it enraged them that on their! birthday, the attention was only on George.
They got love letters but they knew no one wanted to marry them, they wanted to marry into the family to get to George.
No one batted an eye when “it” happened, no one looked to care.
Only a month after their birthday and walls as tight as ever, they let loose, no longer playing into people’s hands, they let go of a way of retaliation against their father, everyone and George.
Boomer stopped dyeing his hair brown like Hannahs, he let the platinum white take over, he allowed himself to let loose those “quirks’ of his, Hannah stopped hiding her quirks too, she spent more time in her garden, talking to herself, people called them both equally insane for talking to air when alone.
That's what Sam preferred the public to know anyways.
Alexis Awe, or Quackity as he prefers to be called, was the second to last child, some say middle child, but that was for debate. His hatred for George had been suffocating him far longer than his other siblings, the jealousy that he felt towards his brother drowned him every day deeper and deeper into its waters.
The prince knew he was nothing special and he was told so, by indirect whispers-hushed voices all around. He was not skilled in combat as his other siblings, he had no interested in the scrolls or his studies, he wasn't beautiful, he was just ‘fair’, people said his beauty was tainted by the black dots on his face, beauty marks he had no control over, beauty marks that plagued his face, his skin was not like his siblings, where they had light tan-white skin, he was of a light shade of honey brown tone.
He came to hate himself and his appearance by age thirteen, he began doing his own thing, he was the rebellious of the bunch, behind closed doors he was himself, but when those doors had to be open he was as cold and calculating as his older siblings. He knew what he was, because he was self conscious, but he would be lying if he said he didn't like it, he loved the attention, negative or good, he loved it, and when he showed his colours he loved the look of fear in their eyes.
Tom Awe, or Tommy(to everyone he allows call him so)he didn't experience the girth of George’s shadow, and if he ever did then he was very good at not giving a single fuck about it. He called himself a big man and in fact he was, he was dependant,outspoken, brave, outgoing, he was ruthless in the battle field, a skill he sharpened when studying under the arctic empire’s emperor, Phil.
When Tommy was seven he was invited to live and study under Phil alongside other selected children. Sam, knowing it would be the best for him and Tommy accepting, went on to live in the Arctic Empire for nearly ten years.
Speculation had gone around of him being Phil’s child since he looked like him, gold hair, blue eyes as well as their similarities in personality. Sam, enraged, shut down all allegations, Phil supported it saying Tommy was not his son but an apprentice.
When Tommy returned home the last thing he’d expected was the grey and thick air around his older siblings, and how hard they had to force their muscles to smile, how hard they tried to not gag when being forced to sit with one another or having to spend time together.
He knew many things, he was taught many things and one of those was to read the room and see things others don't see, and what he saw was morbid, he could see the hatred between each sibling, and the anger in their eyes. Tommy concluded if they were given weapons and an open field they wouldn't hesitate at the opportunity to jump one another and kill each other.
When he returned home many things came to light in the first week of his stay, and by the looks of it this was not a silly problem between siblings this was more serious.
What none of them knew were the changes that were to come, changes that could put them all in jeopardy in the end.