The Trojan

However, this really is all a persona he puts on; with everything going on with being the heir apparent to the crown, he wants a place to let out his tension. And what better place than the Tension division of the AFW? In actuality, he is a man who cares little for himself, and just likes to take care of other people. Despite what he may show, he deals with severe self-image issues, partly because he’s worried that he wouldn’t be a good ruler. But he grins and bears it for everyone else; he doesn’t want to worry them. Besides, it’s ill-fitting of a ruler to admit to such issues!

Born Nero Arkedia, he was the first child of the king of Astrak and his queen. Living a sheltered life in the palace was not much of a fun time, so he would often find ways to sneak out into the capital city from the palace, providing a rough time for guardsmen who were supposed to keep an eye on him at all times. It was during these excursions that he first learned how to wrestle; he loved playing with the older kids who didn’t know who he was and treated him like any other kid, and they tried to bully him. When they saw he wasn’t one to be bullied and actually was fairly strong (thanks to the training in the palace), they would try and make him spar with them. He learned lots of ways of fighting this way, but he took to wrestling most.

As time went on, he never really grew out of that phase of his life. Always sneaking out, always going to places with the people he would eventually be ruling. But when he began to get older and realized that he would have to lead, he began to listen to his people, and use what they said in closed parliamentary sessions. He had his eyes and ears on the street, including several of the children that he grew fond of always reporting back to him. If there were hints of a revolution, he would know before they even put their first pamphlet together. If the people were unhappy about a recent law, he would work his hardest to reach compromise in the parliament. He was growing into a fine young ruler, keeping up with his studies and he supplemented his royal training with wrestling training from the kids he knew way back when.

One of them, Aris, was someone he considered his best friend. Having begged his father to let him be his advisor, Aris ended up being one of his closest compatriots. However, issues arose when Aris got Nero to let his brother join the royal guard – and Nero actually fell for him. Aris, friend that he was, helped Nero with getting close to him, getting to know him. Heck, he even got to sleep with him a few times. But when his father found out, he sent Aris’s brother away, told Nero he couldn’t act like that with the guardsmen, because he was a prince.

But Nero didn’t like that. He wanted to be able to be himself. So, after consulting with Aris, he told his father that he was going to travel the world. He would keep in contact and do his work from afar, but he would be doing what he wanted. His father, hoping this would convince him to settle down, agreed.

He had heard of the AFW while he was still in the palace, and had even watched quite a few matches of theirs – so when he finally got to Japan, that was the first place he went to, in order to get in. And, lo and behold, he was accepted!