#cloudbeard

[thegoodmorningman]

Good Morning!!! Just wait until you see what I want to do to the Constitution!!!

[17-noodlebird]

Meet

King Cloudbeard

Voice Actor: Jim Cummings

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The main antagonist for Episode 3 and grand ruler of Medievia, King Cloudbeard is, at first glance, a good-natured king with a heart of gold and a compassionate smile unlike any other. This is the façade that he wants to present himself with anyway. He is actually a conservative purist who aims to wipe the fairytale characters clean off from the face of the digital world, simply because he thinks they're ugly. Not only are his motives petty, but extremely dangerous, as he had annexed and colonized the fairytale landscape by usurping the throne from its rightful rulers, and stealing the princess as his personal trophy, with said personal trophy becoming his wife, whom he would dispose of once he got bored of her. Lucky, you don't have to tolerate his bigoted ass for long, because the axolotl-looking dragon Vermilla eats him alive in an unceremonious manner, never for him to be heard of again. What a lousy king!

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[teethlabyrinth]

This grizzled seadog has lost since left the sailing life, but he’s still got plenty of tales to tell! Cloudberry Cookie, a transplant from the Hollyberry Kingdom, is famous in his corner of the Créme Republic for three things: his endless seafaring stories, his easygoing personality, and his immaculately fluffy beard. In his old age he mostly works with his young charge Blackstrap Cookie, who he met at sea many years ago — in the then-youngster’s first and last boat trip — in an encounter with pirates! He says he's happy to have left that life behind, but he occasionally looks at the old sunweathered bounty posters with a nostalgic glint in his eye.

behold mister cloudberry, humble one-armed merchant, mentor and father figure to blackstrap cookie, and DEFINITELY no relation to the dread pirate captain cloudbeard, who mysteriously vanished from the high seas one day...

Hohoho… would ye like to hear a story?

Have I ever told ye the tale of the time I met the Seaberry princess? Wait… I’ll tell ye when yer older. 

Have I ever told ye about meetin’ the Durianeers on the high seas? An’ livin’ to tell the tale!

Have I ever told ye of when a volcano erupted while I was passin’ it? Things heated up quick.

That reminds me of me old hunt for the lost city of Sugarteara... Never found it!

That reminds me of the time I accidentally shipped barrels of black powder instead of juice! Surprisin’ when I went for a drink, I’ll say that much. 

Let’s see this shippin’ manifest… Huh? That ain’t right. Where’re those darn sailors?!

Where’s young Blackstrap Cookie? I had a question about our latest shipment…

I prefer to avoid the docks, meself. What use is a one-armed old man to our strappin’ young employees?

I don’t regret losin’ me arm, ye know.

I actually used t’be quite handy with a sword! Heh, handy.

he sank the ship a young blackstrap and his family were immigrating to the créme republic on, and in a late-coming attack of conscience, saved who would become the only other survivor of the attack, losing his arm in the process. while recovering from that, young blackstrap (whose memories of the event are vague at best, due to being 5 years old and traumatized at the time) gradually grew close with the “sailor” who saved him, and the former captain cloudbeard’s black heart slowly thawed towards the good natured, easygoing boy.

he realized eventually that he seemed to have gotten away with it, as his bounty posters were all out of date and black-and-white to boot. he decided to fully embrace his new life as cloudberry cookie, helping to put blackstrap through school and eventually becoming co-founder of their mercantile company. he still avoids the docks, ostensibly because he can’t help the sailors as an elderly one-armed man, realistically because captain caviar and a few other navy sailors would definitely be able to identify him and threaten his much-enjoyed current way of life.

he’s 40 years older than blackstrap, and currently 65. there’s definitely a sword in his cane! and you can’t teach an old dog new tricks...

[thegoodmorningman]

Thou Shalt Do As Thou Wilt

[17-noodlebird]

Meet

White Hare

Voice Actor: Rob Paulsen

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Sometimes misspelled as "White Hair" due to his eponymous appearance (much to his annoyance), the White Hare is the lifetime friend of Mad Hatter and Hummingbird, who is just as zany as Mad Hatter himself. He also looks like he has seen better days, just like the rest of the fairytale characters have when King Cloudbeard forcefully took over. He's among the thousands upon thousands of those who took matters into their own hands and helped defeat the tyrannical ruler once and for all. He does not play any other larger role besides that.

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[17-noodlebird]

Meet

Mad Hatter

Voice Actor: Alan Tudyk

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The Mad Hatter is one of the thousands of assorted fairytale characters who at first doesn't contribute to much, but later on, with the inspiring words from Prince Draught, helps save his home from further degradation by the tyrannical King Cloudbeard. He never gets to know Team Circus on a personal level, instead serving as an obstacle for their mission — a mission we now all know that Prince Steele and King Cloudbeard faked. Had the gang all suspected something was amiss sooner, I'm sure they would have loved to be around Mad Hatter, as he's closer in personality to the canon Caine, but with a sad past.

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[17-noodlebird]

Meet

Princess Purity

Voice Actor: Jodi Benson

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Princess Purity is the daughter of King Cloudbeard, ruler of Medievia, who at first glance is your stereotypical Disney Princess who wants more out of life. In truth, she's just a lazy bum who got everything handed to her on both a golden and silver platter, sometimes even a bronze one if she ever feels like it. She meets her love-at-first-sight sweetheart Prince Steele during her Sweet 16th birthday party, to which the latter whisks her away to some grand paradise where she can be free to... be an even bigger lazy bum, but on an island or whatever. She couldn't care less for her people, what her father does, the people she and her loved ones hurt to get what they want, or overall just being a decent human/NPC. She tries to get wed to Prince Steele, but ultimately, after witnessing daddy dearest get eaten by a dragon, she tries to sing herself out of the crossfire, and too gets eaten by the dragon, alongside her groom, Lord Spaniel and Lady Fowl. "Till death do us part" they said. Yeesh.

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[17-noodlebird]

Meet

Archdeacon Bishop

Voice Actor: Aaron Horvath

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Archdeacon Bishop literally only appears at the climax of the story, and this is a small potatoes antagonist who got the unfortunate short end of the stick of literally just doing his job. As an archdeacon. He's probably one of the most apathetic people out there, and only tried to have Prince Steele and Princess Purity married, before the retaliation happened. He nonchalantly leaves the building, never to be seen by the audience or Team Circus again (and to be honest, nothing of value was lost in that instance), which spares him from becoming dragon dinner, of which Lord Spaniel, Lady Fowl, Princess Purity, Prince Steele, and King Cloudbeard were not so lucky. Again, nothing of genuine value was lost with Archdeacon Bishop as the members of Team Circus DO NOT KNOW HIM NOR DID THEY GET THE CHANCE TO KNOW HIM.

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[17-noodlebird]

Meet

Prince Dice

Voice Actor: Adam "SomethingElseYT" Oritz

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Prince Dice is the lost twin of Prince Draught who was kidnapped by King Cloudbeard and his generals in the invasion of what used to be his kingdom. He was subsequently locked in an abandoned fortress tower for what was supposed to be the rest of his life, guarded by a talking dragon so that he wouldn't dare escape. The dragon in question was supposed to drive Dice to the brink of insanity with her chatterbox tendencies, but he instead befriended the giant scaly creature, and it would always be there when he needed to vent. During that time he met the dragon's childhood friend, who turned out to be Prince Steele of a neighboring nation, and already he hated him. And Prince Dice was right to. Steele had organized a fake kidnapping of the princess in order for King Cloudbeard to continue forth with the invasion plans. Had Jax not gone out of his way to free Dice, he would've been forced to watch his people get slaughtered left and right until no fairytale character was left surviving. For 16 years, Dice had no idea when or even if he would ever see his brother Prince Draught again.

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[17-noodlebird]

Meet

The Beast/Prince Draught

Voice Actor: Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson

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The twin brother of Prince Dice, these two used to be the heirs to the throne of a thriving nation with whimsical creatures and wild imagination... Until King Cloudbeard invaded the kingdom, annexed the land, usurped the throne from the prince twins and stole their mother as a trophy. King Cloudbeard used a spell on Prince Draught to be cursed into turning into a beast, left to wander the wastelands for all time, while his brother was imprisoned in an abandoned fortress tower forever. Draught had been meaning to look for his brother all this time, but eventually forgot what he had doing as the years passed, falling into some sort of aimless despair all the while. The twin brothers would not be reunited for the next 16 years.

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[17-noodlebird]

Meet

Prince Steele

Voice Actor: Ed Sheeran

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Prince Steele is third in line to the throne of an unspecified neighboring kingdom of Medievia, who by random happenstance just so happen to fall head over heels in love with Princess Purity. But he also has an ulterior motive to secure power on ANY kind of throne, which he easily obtains through King Cloudbeard. He staged the Princess's kidnapping, faked a rescue operation by luring random people in to his convoluted scheme, and took immense satisfaction with the erasure of the fairytale characters' existence, solely for the throne of Medievia. He even almost wedded Princess Purity before he, his bride, and two other people he didn't know all became dragon dinner. Steele doesn't play a huge role either due to how irrelevant he is during the entire journey to "save" the princess, but he certainly plays the role of a twist villain surprisingly average.

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[17-noodlebird]

Meet

Janiss the Room Service Lady

Voice Actor: Alex Borstein

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A one-note character, Janiss is just your average working-class lady who does her menial labor at the Fox Inn, not really having any ambitions or dreams outside of her poor provincial life. She's among the thousands of Medievians invited to the Princess's birthday party, but you don't actually ever see her there, because she's not really an important character. As for the Medievia-Fairytale conflict, she's neutral, if not indifferent, to the whole thing, and is more than happy for the liberation of the fairytale folks from the reign of King Cloudbeard. Although Team Circus isn't there to witness it, Janiss does solve the political succession crisis by becoming the next Queen of Medievia, albeit very much offscreen, and unprepared to take on such a huge burden. Fortunately for Janiss, Stumpulot and his gang helps her out as his official royal advisor, so there's nothing too much we should worry about.

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[17-noodlebird]

Meet

Stumpulot the Bard

Voice Actor: Patrick Stump

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An unapologetic expy of the lead singer of Fall Out Boy, Stumpulot is the great grandson of the Pied Piper, hence the flute he holds in his hand. He has seen what Medievia used to look like, having been the former jester of the prince twins before Cloudbeard annexed the place and drove him away from home. He's somewhere in his late 50's or his early 60's, but looks like he's in his late 30's or early 40's due to not eating as often as one should, and being vagabond in his pursuit to try to start his life over for years on end. If it weren't for Pomni, who knows what would have happened to him? He's also frat buddies with Lynnard, Red, and Genie, hence their close connections with one another.

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[thegoodmorningman]

Love’s the Law, man