Name: Aed
Species: Duine Sídhe (Fairy)
Home World: Earth
Home land: Ireland
Accent: Irish
Sex: Male
Sexual Orientation: Omnisexual
Height: 6'6"
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Blue
Past
The mother would not see her children grow because shortly after their birth death decided to take her for his own. Her father not wanting to see his grandchildren grow without a mother decided to send another of his daughters to assume that role, and also as a way to keep appeasing the fairy king, because the grandfather was afraid that if the union between the two family did not stay the fairy king would start a war.
Unlike with her sister love for the new fairy queen did not find it way within the fairy king's heart. She came to believe that the reason for this was because try as she might she could not get with child. While her womb remained empty over the years another thing took root within her heart, and begun to grow. This thing was called jealousy.
She saw the love that her husband bore for his children, and that they bore for him and each other. She decided that it wasn't a barren womb that kept her from having a child, but rather the love that a father bore for the children he already had. She came to believe that if her step children were no more that her husband would have no problem planting his seed within her.
A few days later, she told her husband that she wished to take Aed and his siblings to see their grandfather. The king agreed not knowing of her devious plan. She was going to kill the children on this journey, and half way to her father's house she leaped into action. However, even from the grave the love a mother bears for her children is strong. Aed's mother saved her children from that fate, but she could not spare her children from another one. While she kept the spell her sister had casted upon her children from killing them she could not keep it from having an effect. Aed and his siblings were turned into swans.
While the outcome was not what the queen had planned she still saw it as a benefit to her plan. She returned home, and told her husband that his children had been killed on the journey. Immediately, he wanted to go out and seek revenge against the guilty parties, but she sooth his anger in a passionate night of love making. That night she got exactly what she wanted--pregnant. However, fear kept her from enjoying this joyous news. She was afraid her husband was going to find out what she had done, and attempt to seek his vengeance upon her.
She decided that the only way she could keep this from happening was to kill him, and set out to do just that. Unlike with Aed and his siblings this attempt was successful. Her first action after the king death was to order all swans to be killed upon sight, because she knew her step children were swans and they were the only ones that could keep her unborn child from becoming ruler of the fairies. Although, many swans were killed none were the ones she had hoped for.
Aed and his siblings had been found by Aine, and she took them to a place where their step mother's decree couldn't reach them. Slowly over the years she thought them how to reclaim the form they had been born with, and slowly over the years Aed and Aine fell in love. He wished to take her as his wife, but knew that he couldn't until he proved his worth. He decided that he needed to avenge his father, and return him and his siblings home. Aine tried telling him that such actions were not needed, that he was already worthy of being her husband, but those pleas went upon deaf ears.
He returned to a home he did not recognized nor one that recognized him. Even his step mother could not tell whom he was. He used this knowledge to his advantage, and became not only her lover but chief adviser as well. He made sure that she didn't act without talking to him first. The queen had become very paranoid over the years, because like her sister she had bore four children, and by the time Aed had found his way into her bed all but one had met a gruesome end.
Aed wiggled his way into becoming the person she trusted most by saving her son's life not once, but multiple times. So, when he tells her that her son needed to prove that he is worthy to be king she does not think twice about his words, but simply ask how this could be done. He tells her by testing his worth on the field of battle. The queen did not wish to send her son to war, but he told her war was not needed to prove someone's worth in battle. He told her to set up a duel between her son and another. He would be the other.
She agreed thinking that even if Aed proved stronger than her son that he wouldn't be able to kill him. The first reason was because he loved her, and the second reason was that only one of royal blood could kill another of royal blood in these kind of duels. The duel was set up for the end of the month. This gave plenty of time for an large audience to gather in order to watch the fight. Even Aed's grandfather were among the guest.
The fight finally took place and Aed's half brother proved to be the stronger of the two. However, instead of killing or seriously harming Aed, he turned to the crowd, and told them that a true king knows when the strike his enemies down, and when to let them walk away. Standing up, Aed told his half-brother that he was exactly right before thrusting his blade into his heart. The room exploded into an uproar even before his dead body hit the ground.
Many of those attending could not believe what just happened. There was no way that their prince was dead, only someone of royal blood could kill him in these kind of duels. It had to be some kinda of trick. Aed had found a way around these ancient laws or something. Whatever the case he had to be punished. Their demand for blood was ignored by the queen who ran down to her son's lifeless body and in vain attempted to bring him back.
It was Aed's grandfather who finally made the chaos cease. He turned an angry face towards Aed, and demand to know how he managed to kill his grandson. Aed was more than happy to answer that question, and revealed to him the truth of what the queen had done all those years ago. As he spoke these words, the queen face turned white and when her father asked if Aed spoke the truth she could not deny that he had. Her father became angry over what she had done cursed her to spend the rest of eternity as a demon.
After this was all said and done, Aed took his proper position on the throne, but he did not claim the title of king as his own. No, he said until he reclaimed what his step mother had lost during her reign he would remain only their prince. Due to Aed's step mother's leadership a number of fairies left the kingdom. Some started kingdoms of their own, and others wandered the world as solitary fae. He set-out to bring those faes that had decided to leave his kingdom for whatever reason before he took the throne back to the fold, and he managed to bring a good number of them. He even managed to bring fae that never belonged to his people into his kingdom, but over the centuries he never managed to reclaim those that had been lost.
It might have been impatience or he might have simply realize that she had spoken the truth all those years ago when he first set out to reclaim what had been stolen from him and his siblings that he was already worthy to take her as his wife, but whatever the reason might have been Aed return to bring his siblings him and ask Aine to see if she was still interested in marrying him. He arrived too late. All his siblings and his heart had been slain by his step mother. He was enraged, and vowed to make her pay for what she had done.
He stalked the earth until he found her, and brought the wrath of his own curse down upon her--without warning or mercy. He banished her to the deepest pits--where she will find neither love nor companionship. It is here she will remain for the rest of time--only to be freed by her true love or Aed if he chooses to left the curse from her. It wasn't that Aed added the true love part on purpose, but no matter how wicked a curse might be--nothing is stronger than the power of true love.
After that was said and done, he turned to mourn those that he had lost. He knew that they would come back to him. They would be reborn into another life, and he vowed to Aine that his heart would always belong to him. He ruled his people for centuries upon centuries and have taken many lovers, and had a number of children with these various lovers. One such lover was a queen of Ireland. She used to play among the fae when she was a child, and developed a friendship with Aed during this time.
She ruled her people alone for awhile, but slowly it became clear that she needed a husband. Aed was more happy to fill that role. He would never love another in the same manner that he had loved and still loves Aine, but he cared a great deal for his friend. They had a happy marriage and in that time she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. He loved his daughter with all his heart and watched her grow with great delight. Their daughter would inherit the Irish. They thought her everything she would need to know to be a good queen to her people.
They, also, decided to betroth her to the prince of France. They thought that brokering peace between the two nations might be a good idea, and like many countries at the time they figured the best way to ensure this peace last was through marriage. They decided that it would be wise to send their daughter to met the one that she would marry. Their first encounter went well--more than well. From the reports Aed received, it seemed that his daughter and the french prince became fast friends.
Not long after she arrived in France, his daughter was taken from him. The official report claimed that she was lost in the woods picking berries. Aed did not care what actually happened. He wanted his daughter to be found, or he would release the full wrath of his army down upon the french. It never came to that. While the french never actually found his little girl they managed to settle his rage enough that he did not declare war upon them, but relations between the two nations were never the same.
Believing that their daughter was dead, Aed and the Irish queen mourned her. It wasn't until years later that they learned the truth of what happened. She had fallen and hit her head while playing in the woods. The impact of her head hitting the ground cause her to lose her memories, and the couple that had found her decided to take her in as their own. They cared for her like she was their own, but she eventually found her way back to those whom could tell her who she was. Aed receiving news of her return went to her, and told her everything she needed to know about who she was. He watched over his daughter. He watched her deal with joy and sorrow over the years, and shared in those moment with her.
The years drifted by until the one Aed lost all those centuries ago was reborn. Aine was reborn into a human female with the gift--or as some might claim curse--of second sight. She could see between the veil that separated the human realm from the realm of the supernatural. Those within the village she was born into feared this ability. They believed that it would bring the wrath of the others--the fae--down upon them. They were cruel to her, and kept her locked up in fear that she was actually a monster in disguise.
One evening they decided to rid themselves of their problem. They decided that the monster needed to be slain. They sent her into the woods, and sent hunters after her. She attracted many things as she fled in fear through the woods---Aed including. However, he did not reach her before another. This other being was an aspect of light, and merged with his heart. He thought about making himself known to her, but decided for one reason or another to keep silent. Instead, he watched over her from the background---allowing her to live a normal human life in the manner that the light whom she had bonded with had wanted her to, but most of all in the manner that she wished to. Through, he knew that if she have gotten into any real danger that he would have jumped to her aid, regardless if it would have brought her into his world.
She traveled to Amercia where she met and eventually feel in love with a man there. This male was someone that Aed believed would keep her safe when the going got tough, and so he left the two of them to live a life together. From what he understand it was a wonderful life. They had ten together, and it was filled with much sorrow but endless joy. That was until an assassin came and slaughtered his heart and her entire moment.
Guilt filled Aed when he received the news. If instead of allowing her to go off to live a normal human life he took her to live among the fae she would still be alive. Her children would still be alive. Of course, he realized that if he had taken her when he first intended that she wouldn't have had her children, but any children of hers were his---no matter if he was actually the father or not. He blamed himself for what had happened to her, and then in turn he blamed the husband. He had left her in his care and he failed to protect her. He retreated into his kingdom to deal with the grief of her lose.
Present
He discovered that his Aine had somehow managed to survive the incident with the assassin. It might have something to do with the concept of light that had joined her all those years ago. In spite, her desire to just live a normal human life inside the girl she had to leap into action to protect said girl when her life was in danger. It seemed that the two of them were bonded permanently together. At least, that was the belief until Aine's youngest daughter--a pure soul --managed to separate the two with a simple wish.
Aed decided that he would not make the same mistake twice. He would not hide in the background and watch his heart live her life. He made himself known to her. He made his desire to take her away to his kingdom known to her. A fact that understandably frightened her. She had came from a world where she taught to fear beings like him, and were thanks to the power that allowed her to see his world caused her much suffering as a child. He was not always patient in this understand. He is a fae. He tend to forget that humans don't always know his people ways, and gets offended when they don't.
He also knew that Aine was the type of girl that desired her freedom. She was not the sorta girl that you locked inside a cage even if you believed that she was safer in that cage. It would kill her more inside a cage than any danger she might encounter outside it. Still, he took her away to his kingdom--not as his prisoner but in hopes that eventually she would come to see the place as her home. He allows her to come and go as she pleases and allows her children to come and go as they please. Instead, of watching in the background. He will be there to stand before her and guard her against any that wishes to bring her harm. He is the only one that can protect his heart.
