✔ / ✘: adventurous, independent, headstrong, curious, outgoing
John Smith was born to be an explorer; to sail the seven seas, set foot on strange and exciting new lands, and to scavenge for whatever his kingdom requires of him. Born to Franklin Smith–a nobleman living in the kingdom of Balia–and Marie Archer-Smith–a young commoner who had once been a chambermaid for the royal family–John Smith lived with parents extraordinarily different than any of his peers. While most young noble-ranking children were raised to attend etiquette schools, prepare for suitable matches and for leading on in their parents’ legacies, John spent most of his youth in training rooms and fields with his father or in the marketplace with his mother. Though Marie Smith had married a knighted nobleman, she was still very much so of common blood, and was therefore ostracized from many of the other women living in the royal court. As such, she spent a great deal of time in town, and through her ventures, John was able to grow up with a taste of his roots and the full extent of his family’s heritage and making. It also gave him a thirst to know what life was like outside the protected royal walls of Balia…it gave him a thirst to see more, to know more.
So while John’s father trained him for the makings of a knight in the hopes that his only son would inherit his father’s title as a defender for their home nation, John found himself secretly hoping that he could use his skills to branch out away from the kingdom of Balia. A land he loved…but a land he felt he wasn’t destined to spend the rest of his life in, nevertheless. However, on John’s twentieth birthday, when he was called upon by the royal court and asked if he wished to work as a traveling soldier and spokesman for their kingdom, John reluctantly agreed. It wasn’t the most ideal sort of position to have, given that he wanted to leave Balia for good, but he reasoned that it would, at the very least, give him a decent headstart on figuring out what to do with his life. And, more importantly, where to go.
For the first few years, John found that he was fairly content with his new job. He was able to travel and see more of the magical realm, visit far off lands and learn all about their customs, and still have time to come home and visit his family and friends and report back to his kingdom. But then, when he was twenty-four years old, John was sent to a land he’d never been asked to venture to before: Agrabah. Home to the Sultan and his beautiful daughter, Princess Jasmine, Agrabah was one of the more secluded kingdoms in terms of communications with Balia. But with a dark faerie by the name of Maleficent threatening the peace that kept the realm of Verden at peace with one another, Balia needed as many close allies as possible. And with John serving as a spokesperson and middle man between the two kingdoms, he was fairly confident that he would earn the support and admiration of the kingdom of Agrabah. What he hadn’t been depending on, however, was how thoroughly and intensely he would fall in love with the land.
From the bazaar the townspeople put together to the sprawling and glittering architecture, Agrabah was a sight unlike anything else John had ever come across. He became so smitten with the land, in fact, that when he returned to Balia to report that relations were good between the two countries, he asked the captain of the guard if he might be permitted to stay stationed in Agrabah permanently (under the guise of protecting their allies and ensuring that their newly-formed and strengthened alliance wouldn’t go awry. The Captain and royal court deliberated over their decision for a bit, but finally decided they saw no harm in John seeking out to strengthen and protect new lands so closely tied to their own. So, shortly after Johnathan Smith turned twenty-five years old, he packed up his belongings, bid adieu to his parents, and made the trek to Agrabah. Now, a recent settler to the land and hoping to make his mark in the land, John finds himself fresh-faced and eager in the face of the endless opportunities that await him.
So long as Maleficent doesn’t tear the kingdom to shreds first.
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