Prompt: How would I portray Vincent Nightray (from Ro)
Rating: K?
Warnings: Nah.
Brief introspections are a good way to establish character perspective.
He's very good at chess—he's surprised more than a few people with this. He thinks it's funny, really; perhaps it's because he's young and "inexperienced", and not "truly" nobility, that they underestimate him in a battle of wits, or perhaps it's just that he smiles so gently that he couldn't possibly be so clever underneath that. It's not that he's all that clever, actually, as far as he sees it; he just learned from the best. Not that he could tell anyone that even if he wanted to, though.
No one needs to know how or why he learned to play chess from Jack Vessalius.
"Oh, is it my win again?" he lets himself sound legitimately surprised—his ruse is a pretty one, nice to look at and comfortable to hear; people like such things, after all. The truth is ugly, ugly—no one wants to know of such things, nor do they need to. That's the sort of world he exists in, the sort of board he plays chess across: one where a pretty smile and a few strokes of someone's ego will get you far further than any number of truthful words.
Whatever parting words he exchanges with his opponent are dreadfully pointless—he can't even remember them, moments later. Such frivolities and conveniences are second-nature to him, naturally woven into his smiling face and his gentle voice, both such false things that it's practically humorous (in a pointless, slapstick way) that no one ever notices how false they are. But that's just how it is—that's just how people like it to be. It's just as well.
The disgusting reality of himself is a thing that only needs to be destroyed.
He hums as he packs away the game's pieces, rolling a bishop between gloved fingers contemplatively. There's a weak point in it—thoughtlessly he presses on it, feels the piece crack in half. It can be replaced—there's no issue with having destroyed it, no mind paid to it at all. Pieces are pointless, in that way, as meaningless as the game which they're a part of.