Statistically speaking, being something other than human in America is slightly more common than it is in other places around the world. Still, it's not that common. At the same time, it's still more common than being a princess, even if you happen to be a princess that is not recognized by the general population of your world. And yet, here stands River Paxton, a statistical lottery winner. However, it's hard to feel like a winner when a powerful man wants you dead and your only real defense is to marry the only reason he wants you dead, despite the fact that you barely know the guy.
That's not completely horrible, right? Yes? ...Screw you.
River Paxton -
River has never been one to imagine herself a princess. When other girls took ballet and waited ever so impatiently for their prince to come, she was busy playing dodge ball with the boys and hoping to someday be a swimsuit model. Obviously life has a sense of humor, since becoming a princess was entirely within her reach the entire time.
- Xylander Holtman
Most people don't simply go to prison when they're involved in the murder of a princess. In fact, that's usually a hanging offense. Luckily for Xylander, there was a distinct lack of evidence linking him to the crime, and he had a great alibi. His tax evasion, however? That was harder to get out of, and after a thousand years in prison, he's learned that, really, hoping someone else paid the taxes is a great way to get locked up. But all of this only served to bring him together with the one girl that will ruin his life in mostly trivial ways.
Sean Cooper -
Being a werewolf has its advantages, namely being a manly factor of about ten, being able to reach the bowls on the top shelf, and being able to out play many of your peers through sheer stamina. Unfortunately, those perks do not make up for the painful, monthly transformation into a wolfman or the fact that he lives in fear that the next transformation will be the one where he slaughters his family without meaning to. Luckily, there's a solution - he can got to Hell. Or, at least, he'll be able to if Xylander gets his ass in gear.
- Lucas Knickerbacker
Few things in this world rival a vampire's need for blood, but the amount of money they spend on sunscreen comes pretty damn close. At somewhere between two and three hundred years old, Lucas is looking good for his age. He doesn't look a day over seventeen! And yet he insists on being cranky all the time. Maybe it's all due to stress from dating a boy.
Lysander Holtman -
He seriously doesn't care what you think. So what if he killed a princess once? He wasn't in his right mind. Would you be in your right mind if you were trapped in your twin brother's mind for two hundred years? Frankly, all he wants is to live his own life and maybe ruin Xylander's.
Lysander Holtman -
He seriously doesn't care what you think. So what if he killed a princess once? He wasn't in his right mind. Would you be in your right mind if you were trapped in your twin brother's mind for two hundred years? Frankly, all he wants is to live his own life and maybe ruin Xylander's.
- Xavier Belmonte
We've all heard about the prince who thinks the entire idea of nobility is a waste of air. You mean you haven't? Well, meet Xavier. Depending on who you are, he might put on a nice face. Or he'll be rude and bully you. It's a chance you have to take. If he bullies you in private, it means he likes you more than he like having a tooth pulled, but only just.
Gavin Reed -
The real question surrounding his existence is not whether or not he's acting of his free will in befriending River - because we already know he was forced to - it's whether or not his personality has changed on a basic level as a result. Whether it has or not, he really ought to keep his nose out of cosmic business. It he was smarter, he'd walk away from all of it and go run rum into Damascus with his friends.
The disproportionate gender distribution is not an indication of character whoring or sexism on my part. You have been warned.
