This is my oc, Julian Damian Archer. He got the Storm Insight which grants him powers over the weather. He mostly uses lightning but he can use ice if he wants to. He’s a prince and has two older siblings. The oldest is Frances who is the heir to the kingdom and is the golden child. The middle child is Bartholomew who insists on being called Bart. Bart realised his parents sucked when he was quite young and decided he was just going to be as invisible as possible and move away as soon as he could. He went to a boarding school when he was 13. He felt bad about leaving Julian because he was painfully aware of Julian’s attempts to earn their parents’ love. Julian thought Frances was loved for being the heir so he tried desperately to prove how incompetent a ruler she would make. He studied from the early hours of the morning to the late hours of the night since he was six to become the perfect king. He was charming to those he deemed important enough to charm, he was intelligent and he was talented in many different areas. Alas, his parents still never gave him the attention he wanted so he decided around the time he was fourteen to go to the boarding school Bart went to. To his surprise, nobody knew there were two princes at the school and Bart had been pretending to be a normal guy who wasn’t noticeable in any way. He got a lot of attention for being the “only” prince there and had a lot of people try to get into his good graces so they can gain power and connections. He started off a bit egotistical but when he joins the Glow Seers nobody treats him like he’s some fantastical god among men. He’s just Yellow the annoying hot head of the team who’s only exceptional traits are his magic skills and how quickly he can get infuriated. At first he hated it but then he realised this was his first chance to be someone beyond Prince Julian. He could just be him and finally start to figure out he was without all the prestige and achievements.
Growing up the only people who could tell him what to do were his parents and he graciously listened to his tutors because most of them he deemed worthy of respect. However, since he was obsessed with comparison and felt inadequate compared to his sister, he became very classist and a massive asshole. He’s fifteen when he becomes a Glow Seer and it’s the first time he hangs out with kids who aren’t all wealthy nobles. He can’t be sure of that because of the whole secret identity stuff but judging by how they carried themselves and how they acted, he could guarantee everyone but maybe Purple and Orange were nowhere near his status. Over time, he came to respect his teammates and stopped judging people based off of their status and instead their character. From then on he distanced himself from a lot of people he once called friends. He also tried to reconnect with Bart but that goes… well Bart’s kind of going through getting possessed by a goddess withdrawals so it’s complicated but Bart does his best to also reach out.
I gave him Bakugou hair to show he’s the team hot head and I leaned more into the 70 s aesthetic for his costume. On the front of his jacket he has lighting bolt shapes but from this angle you can only see the straight stripes underneath his arms. He chose to make his hair look like that because as Julian his hair is very carefully “windswept”. He spent hours perfecting the “I just woke up like this and I’m so down to earth for a prince” look but it takes so much time to make it look like that. He wanted to look practical because that’s what he values second to looking Princely but since he has to hide his identity he focused on just wearing practical clothing. He’s always trying to be larger than life and better than he is so I thought giving him platformed boots would get across that idea nicely. He fights with throwing knives that he then shoots lighting bolts at so the lightning has an easier path to follow but he also punches a lot of things with lightning too.
He’s a hothead as Yellow but even whilst he’s being rude as Julian he never lets his temper slip through. He leans into his anger to further distinguish himself from his perfect princely persona so no one can figure out it’s him. As he grows to respect his team, he acts calmer around them and far nicer. He only gets angry during villain fights. He also has to learn the right balance of charm to calm people and get them to listen to his instructions for their own safety whilst also not too charming as to reveal his identity.
A lot of decisions I’ve made for him have come from other characters I like. His middle name is Damian because he reminds me of Damian Wayne and Damian Desmond. I already mentioned the Bakugou hair but he also has that aspect of learning to be a good hero. He also is kind of like Adrien from Miraculous if Adrien was super mean and rude. I think Geo is more like Adrien what with not knowing who he is or what he wants and constantly having to prove himself but Geo has a great support system at home and Julian very much does not.