`Character Name: Iandore Lightfoot
Title/occupation: Viscount/Scholar
Sponsor: Lady Jessica Rabbit
Magick Status: Hidden (Sorcerer/Elf)
Accoutrement: Heirloom Jewelry (An odd ornate wrist cuff with his father's family crest.)
Accomplishments: Being well-read, equestrian, knowledge of geography and history
Biography: Family had always been central to life for Iandore Lightfoot, and entirely the reason he finds himself in his current abysmal situation. As the youngest son of an unlikely union; his mother a General in the army of the Elven kingdom his grandparents serve under as Duke and Duchess and father a well respected intellectual and Viscount from a prominent house in the United States, the marriage of his parents was met with stern scrutiny from both sides as it was without the approval of either. Wilden's family settled into acceptance but with generations of cautious effort to retain their status as hidden outside the community of their kingdom it was a horrifying blow to Laurel's to witness their daughter secret away into a union with an openly vocal Magick family in America.
The turmoil built to a breaking point quickly with the birth of Iandore and, rather than risk exposure as Magicks themselves, it was easier to remove the problem, to cast the blame on a crime of anger against Wilden's Magick status. A manipulation necessary to bring their daughter home out of fear for her children and their future.
Iandore was raised in the house of his father's murderers unknowingly, under the exhausting burden of their secrets; the family status of Magick carefully hidden to outsiders, his own mixed linage an even more dire one, the death of his father spoken of as an accident of happenstance. And through it all his mother held her head high and her boys close, fiercely strong. But even her pride did little to protect them from the windfall that came with the unearthing of family sins; irony in that it was the determined efforts of Wilden's own brother that brought the truth to light and cast the family into terrible scandal.
It was with reluctance his mother accepted the offer of refuge from his uncle in the wake of the truth, the only way to keep the education and safety she wanted for her boys. And for a time, with the freedom to pursue his interests in academics under the encouragement of his American kin, Iandore found happiness in being left to decide his own goals. The full price of that aid though came to light with the most recent Season and Wilden's family's pressure to climb in standings. This weight fell, with the absence of his elder brother Barley in his traveling the world, to Iandore by sheer default of his remaining home to continue his studies.
He hasn't the will to tell his mother he has no desire to be part of the high society world his father's family strives to scale, that he simply wants to learn and make a proper scholar of himself, that he's wary of being discovered as a Magick under that scrutiny knowing being seen as not carries a better chance of a match. But even less he wants to cause another family divide with the truth that his uncle gave him the task of finding an appropriate marriage without exception or choice in return for sheltering them; best to simply lie and allow the family to think he wants it.
His apprehension is suffocating, a lifetime of uneasiness holding him back; it's a world he's always faltered in and no amount of study of the social rules feels like enough to play the part he was born into. But he refuses to be the cause of another family scandal and break his mother's heart, even at the cost of tossing his own to the wayside in favor of a match of necessity.
