Arpeggio

spark said i should give this guy a page and i guess hes right but i am NOT going to be formal on this one, look at this. there's not even any formatting on this page. arpeggio doesn't deserve it. this man has no music and he is not my son; he's not a character hes a plot contrivance.

anyway yeah this is amaranth's dad. i think his most notable/defining trait is that he's a hell of a lot smarter than he lets on. he doesn't really act DUMB per se, but he definitely plays the eccentric old guy archetype to his advantage, at least where amaranth is concerned. generally, it's just to keep her guard down. given how amaranth Is, some question if his passive stance with her is actually effective at all, but he's got a better handle on her than most people tend to realize. he knows what he's doing.

if there's one point his cunning fails, it's with ezekiel. he seems... a bit oblivious to the tension between the two of them. ezekiel is a trusted friend to him. it's not that ezekiel hates him or shouldn't be trusted or anything, and they do appreciate his amiability and reasonableness; but there's a definite unease for them in trying to interact with him in such earnesty [yknow, given their past and how they absolutely can't being anything about it up around someone like arpeggio who's so closely connected to it] the one thing he will get snippy about with them is advice concerning amaranth- "you're here to advise me on how to be a king, not a father"- and he IS well aware how much ezekiel and amaranth dislike eachother.

besides that though he mutually gets on pretty well with everybody. he and magnolia are top contenders and co-conspirators in the 'get amaranth to fucking behave' squad; amaranth..... tolerates him. which may not sound like much, but i promise you if she's fine with calmly Putting Up With someone, that means she actually cares about them quite a bit.

also uhhh the queen? she Exists, technically, her name's mary, but shes canonically not in the picture. is she dead? missing? did she take off somewhere? is she simply just Not Around for some reason? i do not know. i am never going to bring it up. do not ask me about it.

arpeggio's biotech is these cool railgun wings that were a lot cooler when he was younger and had the energy to fire them more than a time or two without draining himself. amaranth ABSOLUTELY gives him shit for not getting something more sustainable but he won't change them. they're a statement.