Name: Eric Moyer
Age: 24 (24)
Neighborhood: Ever After
Job: Owner/Operator, Landlocked
Story: The Little Mermaid
Character: Prince Eric
Faceclaim: Zachary Levi
Status: Taken
+ resilient, hard-working, romantic
- idealistic, naive, myopic
Prince Eric was raised by his father’s advisor and other royal staff after his father was killed in a war before his birth and his mom died giving birth. He wanted for nothing physical, but everything emotional. He took the throne at the tender age of sixteen, and took on the additional pressure of finding a wife at eighteen because it would help him be taken more seriously. He was handsome, more interested in seafaring than dating and being like other royalty in Europe, but it still wasn’t enough for him to be seen as a proper king. The trouble was, in all his longing, he’d become an idealistic romantic, knowing there was someone out there he could share his life with and love, who would love him in return. She would fill the missing pieces in and he didn’t want to marry someone just for the sake of getting married. He wanted to find his other half and build the family he’d never really had.
One night, while he was out on the sea, he got caught up in a storm and sunk his boat. He nearly drown, but was saved somehow. When he came to, all he could remember was a beautiful voice and the blurry image of a beautiful woman. He never fully understood what happened. As his memories solidified a little, he managed to find her, thinking she might be the one he was meant to marry. She was convent-bound, though, and he was heartbroken. He returned home and threw himself in the project of caring for a displaced, young redhead he’d found on the same beach he’d washed up on several months before. He took her in, nursed her back to health, and took pride in watching her dance. In his mind, she became a little sister during that time, and a staple in the castle.
Some months later, he’d begun a rigorous travel schedule, and happened upon the woman who had saved him all those months before. She had decided not to devote herself to the Church and was free to marry. She swore it was because of the handsome stranger she’d met, him, though she’d made no effort to contact him. She was everything he’d hoped for her and was immediately swept up in love, lust, wedding plans.
After their honeymoon, he returned home to find the girl he’d been caring for gone. He searched for her, of course, but was never able to find her. He wasn’t ever able to fully devote his attention to the search, though, because his new bride was already expecting a child, a little prince they called Lukas. She never fully recovered, though, and faded away before his eyes. When they were transported to Fableton, his wife died, unable to handle the strain. He was a single father in a new land, and had to find his feet fast. Relying on his memories of a slightly crazy and definitely entertaining chef, he learned how to be a chef himself and opened a luxurious restaurant in town.
Ariel Trident: The girl is a like a little sister to him, though he hasn’t seen her in years. He’s a bit protective of her, but he doesn’t know what her job actually is. If he did, he would probably try to move her somewhere else.
ALTERNATE FACECLAIMS: Zac Efron, Colin Donnell