well well, i couldn’t help myself with him, so here’s revamped beau ! he’s still.... well, he’s just a pretty himbo and i love him 🥰
&&. announcing his royal highness, LÉOPOLD BAUDOUIN CHRISTIAN MARIE DE SAXE-COBOURG ET GOTHA, the TWENTY-SEVEN year old PRINCE of BELGIUM. he is often confused with DAVID CORENSWET. some say that he is FICKLE & IMPETUOUS, but he is actually PASSIONATE & CAPTIVATING.
IMPORTANT LINKS: carrd ( just stats & existing + wanted connections bc.... i’m lazy and haven’t written his bio :) ) — copying and pasting his og intro with some edits because what is a bio idk her
born prince léopold of belgium, he wasn’t trouble from birth, but he wasn’t necessarily easy either, not like louise. he was a celebrated little boy, charming and enigmatic, he drew an audience wherever he went, and still does. but he had more energy than most knew what to do with, wouldn’t settle for any nanny or governess, only his parents or grandparents. by the time he was four, they decided to channel this excess of energy into sports, namely tennis and soccer. he still loves both sports to this day.
he was known as léo until he was three when his governess overheard him reciting the pronunciation of his name and sticking on the bau of baudouin, she began to call him beau, and it became more widely used when louise heard it and started using it also. he is now known as prince beau, with léopold only being used formally and on legal documents. call him léopold or léo and all you’ll get is an exceptionally strange look and perhaps even a “ sorry, you don’t look like my oma. ”
he’s close with his family. he idolised his dad, followed him around like a little lost duckling, would crawl into his mother’s lap just to hear her as she read him a book. even as the middle child he was told he would be his sister’s keeper, both louise and lola. he is notoriously fickle with just about everything else, but never ever with his family.
as a child and a teen, his family was tight knit, being a prince never felt like a job and he liked the attention. but as he neared closer to university age, wanted to spend more time with his friends, the love his family had for each other felt more like he was being coddled and smothered.
when louise decided to study internationally the general encouragement for him was that he should stay in belgium for his tertiary education, to stay close, instead he decided to go to oxford mostly because he could. he chose to study history and english, although he was encouraged to take history and politics and he eventually took some politics courses to please his parents. he doesn’t know how he’s meant to utilise his knowledge in real life, but he knows he’s probably never going to have a real job anyway so it’s not like it matters.
after graduating from oxford in 2017, he’s spent a majority of his time in brussels, working and attending events while also travelling. he got his own flat not too far from the grand palace in 2018, sneaking people into the palace wasn’t quite as easy as he’d hoped, and he remained there until his parent’s accident, after that he moved back in to château de laeken and remained there until deciding to join the program when it was in argentina in 2020.
the second he got to oxford and experienced a sliver of freedom, he’s been slightly wild, there were far too many times he rolled up to class drunk, high, or a fun combination of both. in his mind he thought nobody would know, he was in another country, nobody would notice, right ? wrong. belgian tabloids caught wind of it and suddenly the otherwise unproblematic royal family had a problem.
the thought was that once he was back in the fold, back home, permanently, that he’d calm down, maybe settle down with someone and have some kids, but it never quite happened. in some ways it’s caused trouble, most recently when he returned to brussels and started a relationship with a belgian duchess’s younger sister only to end their fling when he decided to fly back to tokyo.
after the bombing, rather than fleeing with his sisters and araya, he made a split second decision to go to antwerp with his grandmother and aunt geneviève. he was there with them until he decided he needed to return to the program to be with his sisters, and cousins.
in all honesty, he hasn’t exactly been dealing with the trauma they all went through on the day of the bombing, he doesn’t quite know how to. he was raised to be a pillar of strength so the concept of letting his walls crumble and feeling the pain.... doesn’t really compute.
and then the kidnapping happened and functioning became harder, his therapist practically needed a therapist after all he’d began unloading on her, but there was a buoy keeping him upright, in the form of ariel.
he’s been in switzerland for the last two-and-a-half months, at the kusnacht practice, a mental health retreat, as per his therapist’s recommendation. there was only so much she was capable of helping him with, and his mental health had taken a sharp nosedive right before he left. only a select few knew where he was going, with no end date specified.
but he’s back, and is actually feeling better than ever.
so like to plot & i’ll come to you!
