Jesper Dalmas

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OOC | Jesper & Sysley

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alskdfjlaj omg that is everything tbh. Meanwhile Sysley is just like: *raises eyebrows* control your son.

Jesper: ...Who?  Oh...yeah...

Am I kidding?  Idek *kateshrug*  In any case, though, I think Jesper would prefer to make an ally of Sysley, if possible, than an enemy, but I think in general he tends to tread lightly with her.  I do think sometimes her commentary isn’t wholly appreciated though hahaha smh like:

sysley: control your son

jesper, internally: he’ll control you when he’s king

No, but I do think he knows that Sysley’s the sort of woman who is most likely to...be onto him, yknow?  I mean, not necessarily the specifics that he’s got a pretender waiting in the wings to strike or anything hahaha but that she would glean that he’s up to smth nefarious...but, then, it’s probs just best to assume that of him in any scenario tbh hahaha but yeah!!  my point is, he’s respectful but also wary towards her, after all he can’t help having a suspicious mind - he’s Karrian, after all ;D

But, yeah, tbh...he actually agrees w her about Roderick asfa lsjfklsdjfksjd he’s like ‘why did my good son have to die and thiS one survive clearly the gods are cruel’ roderick: ‘thanks, dad’

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OOC | Jesper & Alexandir

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Alexandir: Always nice to meet a fan.

No, but seriously Alex is just as happy that Valles is dead and he escaped, b/c otherwise Valles would be alive and he’d be dead and ???? (Alex: Thanks, Av. Your plan worked wonderfully. I doubted your intentions at first, but never again!” ~winky face~)

So, I’m guessing these two probs meet at the wedding??? Cue drunk!Alex b/c that’s always fun ;DD Or do you think that Jesper has been in the east before? I can see Alex having gone up north back when he was a prince but idk if he would have met Jesper then or not??

All righty, so I’ve had more time now to think this over hahaha and here’s some ~revised 

Ok, so here’s what Jesper’s sort of thinking:

This is a risk that can greatly benefit me if I play it just right

In order to pull this off, I need funds, I need swords, I need and need and need

I can either strike against them or I can bring them to my side and gear up for my Godiva plot

I think he was also hoping that, at the wedding, he could begin buddying up to Alexandir and be like ‘what if aalis was alive’ *hint hint* and gain an ally there who is 1) Godiva 2) popular in the South for manifold reasons 3) would add credence of “aalis’s” claim 4) has experience commanding an army 5) rich 6) has access to an army and claim of his own 7) as duke of raimbeaucourt also has western contacts.  Plus, he was thinking that what w Jon having a Beaumont bride and Alex having a Beaumont bride, they’d be (sort of) family ++ they’d be Godiva w some modicum of Arrington support.  Basically, Alex is Jesper’s holy grail.  

Obv that plan went to hell in a handbasket about an hour after they met but yknow ++ if things go South (heh) w the Beaumonts, once Alexandir escapes, he’ll def want to be hitting up that contact again.  So, ideally, he’d get the Beaumont connection, but he’d throw them over just as easily bc they’re really more a consolation prize than anything atp hahaha

So I wrote all the above...God knows how many years ago tbh slkjfslkjfj so I’m not 100% sure where I was going with all of that, esp the last sentence, but imma build off the whole bit anyway heehee

Anyway!!  I do think that young Jesper traveled to the east, buT I think it was on his way to go to the south to try and find Aalis so, while he met lots of ppl there, I ~don’t know that he would’ve met Alex, given that Alex was pr promptly dispatched to the Southern Isles?  Or, alternately, maybe he knows him even better bc maybe they ended up traveling the same way at the same time, essentially?  Either way, he deF asked Alex lots of questions about Aalis, at the time, bc he was trying to find her, but yeaH that might even be where he got some extra info that he’s now using, etc?

Regardless of whether they met before or not, tho, as I noted above, Jesper would lovE to have Alex on his side and he really wants a family member to acknowledge ‘Aalis,’ to help ppl believe.  For instance, the fake Anastasia didn’t get any credence till a great aunt said she believed her, and Perkin Warbeck wasn’t able to sail to Britain until Richard of Shrewsbury’s aunt said he was who he claimed to be.  Of course, Alex is clearly in line before Aalis, but Jesper would for being merely connected to the next ruler and still seeing himself as a king of Kingmaker hahaha but that’s yet another reason he’d love for Roderick to marry Lilla (if Lilla’s working out) bc yeah obv that’s several steps up for him, all things considered hahaah

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OOC | Jesper & Valery

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aalis: IT SURE ISN’T!!!!!!!!!

So! Question - do you think these two will ever meet?? I can see where he will most likely die before they do??? Alternatively, can see her confronting him at some point once she finds out who she is and what he’s done???? But we may be too far out do nail down any of those details. Thoughts????

Oooooooh, that could be really, really interesting!!!!!  If so, and Lilla wasn’t working out, he’d be like *frank reynolds voice* ‘can i offer you a nice revolution in this trying time????’ ;D  jk jk i doubt he’d know who she was obv hahahaha

So, obv Jesper deF dies but I’m honestly open for it to be whenever!!  I can 100% see Avelina offing him (the rest of team beaumont probs: ‘wtf no! you can’t just kill everyone you don’t like!’ jk jk she’d make it look like sickness or suck him dry of life force via magic) or I can see him killing Osyth and/or Osyth killing him; I can see him being killed by the Morans (he’s a treacherous bugger) or just getting in too deep w the sharks anywhere; i can see Malculmus killing him...point is, he’s very killable and can die whenever we want him to!  I did suggest...somewhere hahah that Malculmus potentially take over the Lilla plot but that may or may not be independent w whether or not Jesper is able to make a move on that plotline, yknow?  

Basically, he’s a great foil to use wherever we want him and then get rid of when we’re done w him.  I do see him as maybe having a shorter run - he’s more a medium bad than a big bad ;D - but that wouldn’t necessarily interfere w him meeting her, etc.  For example, if Valery (gonna call her that so its clear since there’s Lilla, etc hahaha) goes w Godfrey to rescue Sybil, she’ll be up north asp, and Jesper himself does travel when he thinks it might suit him to do so, as well.

Saying for the moment tho that he and Valery do meet asp, and she does know what he’s done (and how that relates to her), that might be a great way to have a sort of climactic scene for that whole identity crisis for Valery!!  But yeah obv that’s 100% up to you!!  I’m down for whatever <3`

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OOC | Jesper & Alaric

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alaric remembers (and misses!!!!) those good old day also, haha, and that’s definitely one thing they can agree on!!!!!!

do you think they knew each other back then btw???? aka do you think he ever made trips to the east??? I don’t think alaric really had much reason to leave the east, back when his life was legal, haha.

I do!!!  Jesper has always been about one thing and that’s ambition.  So the place to go when you wanna move up is most certainly the Imperial City and the ppl you wanna meet are the Privy Council members, so yeah I do think they would’ve met bc I think Jesper would’ve made sure they did!!  I also think that his savvy moves in the capitol are part of what got him enough capital hahah to start buying up the bordellos of the north, which is where he really made his money, etc.  That being said, I’m guessing?? Alaric was used to ppl more slippery than Jesper and saw through him?  Or do you think he was taken in?  How well they knew each other probs depended on how receptive Alaric was, bc Jesper wasn’t there to waste anyone’s time - most esp his own hahaha if he wasn’t getting what he wanted from alaric, he would’ve moved on to the next mark...

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ooc | Lilla & Jesper

so …. I honestly feel like lilla has always considered  jesper to be like her uncle or something?????? Like growing up, I think she knew that he was the 1 other person who knew her “true identity” and that he was their benefactor and idk that he would come to visit them that often (if ever?) but I’m sure he was always kind to her and she was probably always excited to see him (especially since I imagine she was pretty starved for company overall haha). 

Now that she knows the truth about who she is though, she’s not so sure she does like him???? I think she’s trying to figure a lot of things out and whether or not Jesper had the best intentions is probably one of them!!! (Also, unsure if Osyth would have told her that Jesper is on the fact that Lilla isn’t actually Aalis? Or if LIlla believes that Jesper believes she’s Aalis??? Because that would definitely alter things!!!!) 

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So, I talked a little bit about Jesper and Osyth, etc, [ here ], so obv that informs the whole deal a bit, but yeah!!  Jesper has always 100% used and manipulated these two and honestly?? even as he assured them that he would def 100% ensure Lilla’s rise, he was always prepared to scrap that idea, as well, if it never suited him.  Jesper loves to have lots of plans b’s in place for all eventualities etc

But yes!!  He def lowkey flirted w Osyth (tho he was never really interested in her - he just knew that would butter her up) and acted fatherly towards Lilla.  In Lilla’s case, he does care a great deal about her, but less so as a person and more so as his ultimate ploy.  Like, in an ideal scenario he would be able to pull this off and then be grandpa to the next king.  And more on that!!

So, Jesper asp took a wife (married entirely to rake in them sweet, sweet $$$$$$$) and impregnated her.  She died in childbirth, but gave him a son, of whom he was immensely proud, to carry on the Dalmas name (what was this kid’s name you may ask?  that’s a great question!  it has no answer).  He was super hard on this kid and super proud of him, unlike RODERICk who gets the great joy of being constantly compared (and found wanting) and has a huge chip on his shoulder about said kid.  

Unfortunately for this kid, this iS the north, so a few years ago, our nameless Dalmas boy kicked the bucket (again, i have no details for you) which grieved Jesper, greatly.  Fortunately, as in all situations, Jesper had a backup and his name is Roderick.  Roderick, in Jesper’s opinion, is probs the worst plan b he’s ever had, but he’s gotta make due bc they’re the only two kids he’s ever produced that he felt were in any way worth acknowledging (which is of extreme disappointment to Jesper, but here we are).  Anyway, as it stands, Lilla is now his favorite kid and she’s not even his kid ;DDDD

Anyway!!  His legit son was only a few years older than Lilla and Jesper was constantly having him visit them and bring them things and lowkey woo Lilla (as well as some other eligible ladies probs #facepalm) in the hopes that, if Lilla ever rose to the throne, she’d marry nameless kid and their babies would be rulers and begin the dalmas dynasty and make jesper the granddad of their future kings, etc.!!  obv this is the ideal situation!!  However, then nameless kid had to go and disappoint his dad and his plans by dying smdh and now he’s just left w stupid roderick aslkdjflksj anyway!! Jesper is potentially interested in roderick and lilla getting together, now, but yeah like i said he’s prepared to drop her (and roderick tbh) like a hot potato at the first sign of trouble so Jesper is clearly #mentorgoals

But yessss!!  He knows what Lilla looks to him for and he’s always been careful to give her precisely that and to seem warm and interested, etc, w them even tho he is none of those things aklsjfksd he’s also ensured that she’s had a costly education and is constantly sending her books and tutors, etc, to further her queenly goals bc she must be able to look and act that part, even tho he fully intends on pulling the strings the whole way through.  Anyway, he didn’t come visit them that often, himself, but he made sure to do so at least once a year t ensure that everything was proceeding the way he needed it to (and to further water the seed in their mind that they had to look to him for everything they had, etc *eyes emojis*) and he always brought nice gifts and treats and things to butter them up, etc, and he was always his kindest and yeah!!

Osyth is a fountain, so once she started telling her the truth, she told her every little detail hahaha so Lilla def knows everything and that it was Jesper’s plan, etc., but she’s also been ensured that he was doing it for patriotic reasons bc Osyth truly believes that’s the case!!  And that he wanted to avenge all the horror and slaughter and restore Aragoth to its true glory and what better way than through the purity of a child, etc lajsfkjsf he doesn’t even remember all the bs he laid on osyth to convince her in the beginning but shE does aljsdfklajsdfk buT yeah!!  I do think Osyth sent word to Jesper that she told Lilla the truth and, the instant he receives her news, Jesper will turn around and go there to do damage control.  He’s FURIOUS at osyth, but he knows he can’t show it and yeaH its gonna be a loT alksjdflkjsdf he’s gonna lie through his teeth like ‘i always believed that you should know the truth so that you could make your choice, but i meant to break it to you quite differently...and i confess i almost forgot myself that you were not aalis as time passed - you have truly blossomed into a princess.  this was badly done, i know, but i could not bear to hurt you or, thru you, aragoth’ etc etc etc smdh oR if he thinks her belief in osyth is shaken, he might try to convince her osyth was lying to protect her as osyth was afraid she might get hurt, or whatever...Either way, he’s also planning to take Lilla away from Osyth, now, and put her w someone he can trust...

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OOC | Jesper & Lynessa

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Oh man, I mean, I figure Dmitrei is a given with Lynessa atp. ;D Actual royalty/murder soulmates tbqh. (I should text you a photo of the water bottle I bought only bc it says “Just a Cupcake looking for her Stud Muffin” and all I could think of was Dimessa, not even gonna lie. Bought it just bc Dimessa/Dmitrei feels. I am trASH FOR MY EVIL STUD MUFFIN.)

uuugghhh. i jUST. Lynessa being turned to her first real challenge before having to turn on Dmitrei! I’m so excited!

but oh man, nICE. I think Lynessa is mainly going to be like: “reALLY?!? Where in the seven hells did thIS GUY COME FROM?! I THOUGHT WE’D FIXED THE PROBLEM WITH VALLES. I HAVE HIS ARMY AND HIS MONEY. I THOUGHT WE’D GET TO MOVE ON HERE.” And just generally sighing and being like: “guys. I brought this #TeamBeaumont meeting to order because soMEONE *glares pointedly at Dmitrei probs* dIDN’T GIVE US ALL THE INFORMATION. did noBODY *stares at Dmitrei again* stop to think that this dude would show up??!?” Like def could see her sighing and being all: “I would have vomited all over him but might have been better to wait to kill Valles until after the marriage was consummated, or at least appeared to be consummated. Save us some trouble.” And cue Avelina’s head literally exploding. lol.

and oh man, I am so here for Lynessa being pulled into much more snarky two-faced conversations, like literally my favorite. Bc unlike Dmitrei, Jesper is going to get the full on facade of the Raven Queen/The Jewel of the Capitol. All brilliant white smiles and tinkling laughter and standing probs a bit closer than propriety allows. But at the same time I think she’ll see that someone like Jasper does value intelligence far more than Valles ever did (as he was more threatened by intelligence/cunning) so I think Jasper would get flashes of that as well.

If only because I’m sure Lynessa has a grand plan of trying to distract Jasper long enough, convince him that, yes, indeed, someday she will give him what he wants in House Valles through marrying her, he just has to be patient. All the while working behind the scenes with Avelina/Dmitrei to assure that he’ll never lay a hand upon her or any of her newly amassed assets. 

Will just be pissed that she has to waste her energy on this game as well, is all. 

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ALL THE PRAYING HANDS EMOJIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Omg that bottle sounds like everything tbh cue that gif of andy dwyer throwing rose petals/confetti tbqh  Dmitrei, actual cool shades emoji king of odr <333333

Jesper might not know it, but I’m proud he’s to be Lynessa’s anti-Dmitrei proving ground hahahahaha ;DDDD  I’m also excited to see Queen Nessa play with her first challenge <333333  My inner Avelina is hella proud ;DDDDD

I s2g Jesper is the human personification of that AHS gif of “bet you thought you’d seen the last of me/the north/house karr” or whatever it is (I’m still in s2 hahahaha) HAHAHAHAHAHAH I cry bc Avelina’s def blaming Dmitrei too #facepalm  Poor Dmitrei but that’s the risk you take when you play the game of thrones, I suppose ;DDDD

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH omg that speech tho cue Avelina yelling about burning cities to the ground before allowing him to touch her precious baby tbqh (also Avelina casually threatening to burn cities to the ground for her daughters is my jam)  Avelina’s just irritated they can’t just kill Jesper too tbh.

kadsjfkljkfJDSKAJFKLJADSJF SO HERE FOR THAT and Jesper is a capable and ambitious man and so he’ll like seeing that she knows the power she has and how to wield it and how to make the people love her (one skill he lacks) and he’ll be thinking, “w our combined wits, my acumen, and her charisma, we can do anything” probs.  Oh yeah, Valles def didn’t want intelligence but Jesper is nothing like his cousin and, in fact, probs can’t think of anything worse for your home than a dull wife.  Intelligence is def a turn-on for him!

Yes this absolutely makes sense!  I think he will want everything tied up in a nice neat bow v quickly though bc he’s not a fool and he knows there are several plates spinning and the longer they’re in the air, the more likely they are to fall and take the rest with them.  He also knows that the longer it waits, the more complex an issue like inheritance gets.  Meanwhile, his failure of a bastard is running his northern holdings (that can only go on so long before he ruins something, Jesper is sure), his absence provides the perfect time for other rival lords to move against him (not to mention buys Avelina time to act against his interests), etc, etc, etc.  He’s actually got a number of little schemes of his own cooking hahahah So he’s gonna be less willing to wait, but we’ll see.

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OOC | Jesper & Lynessa

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Oh god. I’ll edit/reblog this again later with more in-depth thoughts once I’ve had time to think about it, but all I can see is Lynessa like… deliberately stringing Jesper along/using every womanly wiles-y trick in the book she has to make him believe that she will marry him…. someday.

If only we had a Joseph Vipont too. xD Lynessa juggling Arthur, Jesper aND Joseph?!? a literal three ring circus tbqh. ;D

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Don’t forget Dmitrei!  ;D

Ooooooh, omg that’s gonna be soooo much fun!  A game of cat and mouse in which they are by turns each!  *rubs hands together*

Ok so Jesper isn’t a ~high passion~ kind of guy so it’ll be more a chase than she may be bargaining for and I think that’ll prove v intriguing :3  I mean, not that she wouldn’t catch his eye bc I mean oBV she would catch his eye hahaha ;DDDD  But he won’t be as easy to fool as Valles and as an rper it’ll be fun watching them play off each other.  He’ll see her beauty and he’ll want her but he knows her mother, her cousin the queen, her father, both her grandfathers...and he’ll be wary bc he knows she’s got full as much brains as beauty and he also realizes he’s not exactly a catch for her.  He’s settling.  So, even if Lynessa convinces him that she, herself, is telling the truth, he’s not gonna trust that the rest of her family is.

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OOC | Jesper & Margery

lol lucian isn’t even warden of the north #amused

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OOC | Jesper & Sybil

Props to you for dumping Renfry!  Jesper def got a nice long laugh out of that.  In other news, I can see where Jesper may have asp been one of her other suitors?

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OOC | Jesper & Lynessa

Ok, sooooooo this is gonna get v interesting hahahah  Alrighty, so Jesper has always coveted Valles, disrepair and all, and when the crown threatens to give it to Jon’s wife of all of an hour without so much as a consummation to legitimize the union, Jesper’s gonna fight it.  He was Jon’s heir prior to his marriage, you see, and esp w the added advantage of Fontaine, Jesper is exceedingly keen to have that line of succession restored.  However, when he sees that Lynessa is equally keen, he’ll think to himself, “A Beaumont alliance would be greatly beneficial, anyway,” and I think he’ll turn to courting Lynessa.  I know Avelina won’t go for that, but they can’t really kill him since they just killed Valles and that’d draw too much attention but still a Dalmas marriage wouldn’t help Lynessa rise and she already married Jon just to have Valles and Fontaine, so why marry Dalmas too when she’s so agreeably single and ready to mingle with someone who could actually help her rise to queendom???????  So yeah.  Lotsa contention etc.  I’m excited to see what happens!!!!!

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OOC | Jesper & Isolde

So Jesper’s gonna roll his eyes so hard they fall out of his head that his son had anything to do with the bet that gets Isolde in so much trouble, but he’s also going to be keenly interested to see how that plays out bc he knows the level of respect the Thorels/Martels wield with the smallfolk in Blaminster etc and he’s curious to see what they’ll do with Isolde in such a situation.  Additionally, if it seems a popular enough cause, I can even see Jesper speaking out on her behalf/bailing her out/acting as her wealthy benefactor

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OOC | Jesper & Alaric

So Jesper probs remembers the good old days when Alaric was on the small council and Droyn was king etc etc etc and tbh I think he misses those days.  I think Jesper would like to see the realm doing well.  He can work w the chaos and advance himself and he’s not completely adverse to that, but I think he’d prefer a better world, even so, and Alaric was a part of the better world that might have been.  Still, he’s intensely pragmatic so if it suited him to, say, stab Alaric in the back, he would.  #whywecanthavenicethings

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OOC | Jesper & Annie

Like Lucian, I think Jesper is conscious of the power the Thorels wield (even if the Thorels aren’t), but unlike Lucian I don’t think he thinks it should be stopped, just cultivated and molded into whatever suits.  I think he def pays attention to what’s going on in town and to that respect they seem to have and he stores all this information away for a rainy day

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OOC | Jesper & Valery

Identity theft is not a joke *laughs*

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OOC | Jesper & Amia

I cry bc Jesper is probs deeply amused that Amia ran away from Normand.  I feel like he really detests Normand and thinks he’s a total blowhard and he’s like, “The news that you ran away from him to be a barmaid actually made my week,” and so he tips her really nicely any time he comes in to find his son probs

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OOC | Jesper & Danyl

I can see Jesper asp commissioning Danyl to steal some important document or something for him #facepalm

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OOC | Jesper & House Fontaine

Ok, so here’s the dealio.  Jesper was Jon Valles’ heir before Jon married (and then promptly kicked the bucket), which made his wife his heir.  Since the marriage was never consummated, however, there’s some room for casting aspersions on whether or not it was a valid marriage and, therefore, whether or not Lynessa stands to inherit from Valles.  Jesper will be casting all the shade on this he possibly can bc he does not mean to let Valles and Fontaine slip through his fingers.  He means to play this with as much grace as he can, however.  He’d much rather cultivate House Beaumont as allies than enemies, if possible, so his first notion will probably be to marry Lynessa, himself, (ofc, Avelina will NOT stand for that but that’s another story), and short of that probably to marry Elyzabeth, Ophelia, or Guin and, short of that, Isabella.  So yeah.  There’s that hahahah