#heliosrpg

you all know the story: the face that launched a thousand ships, the pawn of the gods in some greater scheme. the woman despised by most by the end of things, the shapeshifter holding every wife, every mother

but this is another tale.

nadine is the sort of star that comes from coincidence and a dash of nepotism, a captivating presence that burst into being nearly fully formed. if there is a genius in the act of commanding a stage, then she once held it. (but that was once upon a time. this is now).

these days, she refuses to be anything. removing herself from the spotlight was a result of letting her true opinions loose, of removing herself from the narrative (but can you ever really do that?), leaving rumors and gossip mongers in her wake.

FULL NAME: Harold Maxwell Carroll

BIRTHPLACE: Boston

FROM: London

CURRENTLY:

Living in an East Village third-floor walk-up he doesn’t have to pay rent on (owned by his New Money parents)

Working as a server @ a frequently Instagrammed bar/cafe called Cordelia’s

Starring in an off-Broadway play you probably saw on a bad second date

Stirring (been having a lot of weird dreams lately, but convinced it’s because he’s been drinking too much CBD sparkling water)

FORMERLY:

A student at a posh all-boys school that was not quite as posh as Eton but probably just as expensive

Studied PPE (philosophy, politics, and economics) at Lancaster University before dropping out and moving to NYC @ age 19

Dead Guy on Law & Order: SVU, Sick Guy on Grey’s Anatomy, Horny Guy on The Young & The Restless

KNOWN FOR:

Being one of like three people who's actually made money from Bitcoin

Having an exceptional Tinder bio

Drinking only the most piss-colored IPAs

Eating a diet strictly composed of boxed pasta, jarred sauce, and whatever food he can score at work at the end of the night

A perpetual irreverence for everything but himself

Emailing a literary agent friend-of-a-friend with a proposition for a children’s book while shitfaced about a decade ago and then actually getting said book published because the idea was decent (he still occasionally sees it at bookstores and takes great pleasure in signing it—it’s about cows)

Having the arrogance to think wearing the same combination of generic Buffalo plaid button-up, white undershirt, khaki pants, and black Vans, every day, every season, is having style

Photographing a bit stoned

Setting people up to disappoint him

Being slightly more decent than you expect

NEEDS:

His best friend/ex-girlfriend, who he’s either legitimately in love with OR she’s just the healthiest relationship he’s ever had AND she’s pretty (Who’s to say??? He’s probably done her dirty so many times, he has no business even thinking about this)

SIBLINGS???? I love a good sibling plot, and would love to talk blondies who could be part of the Carroll family.

FELLOW Roman mythology homies (I know we’ve got some already, but more is more! Maybe a crumb of Apollo for Harry to antagonize????)

The staff of Cordelia’s? I’m thinking owner, general manager, chef(s), hostess, busboy, bartender, fellow servers, people who supply the place with food/flowers/etc.?

Actors/artists/designers/musicians that he runs in the same obnoxious circles with, even though he’s not quite as young and cool as he once was

Exes/current casual bullshit in general would be great (would you like a memorable Tinder date? Harry is your man!)

KUMIHO — "For each hundred years that the fox lives it receives another tail, and when it becomes nine-tailed, in its thousandth year of existence, it becomes a gumiho. With this, the opportunity arises for it to become human, often on the condition that it eats a human organ. […] If a man swallows the jewel which a fox always carries on her tongue, then if, before it dissolves, he looks up at the sky, he will possess all the wisdom of Heaven, and if he looks down on the ground he will possess all of the wisdom of the Earth." Zŏng In-sŏb’s Folk Tales from Korea

CYRIL — secondborn of the hwang family, multigenerational business of arms manufacturing • left destitute by his grandfather and forced to drop out in the middle of residency due to overwhelming debt • adopting a crime hustle to make ends meet, probably owes u money or a liver and will return neither • lucid consciousness and seeking that special lil yeowoo guseul wolf marble via bright dead things subplot • cw cannibalism lite: that old palate for blood n flesh might be making a comeback eat ur mf heart out hannibal lecter • "she went back to eating earth. she was getting back her ancestral appetite, the taste of primary minerals"