Guinevere Cavello
The Princess Bride
Guinevere Cavello
"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something"
-Man in Black
Guinevere is a young princess from Avalon. She is currently arranged to be married and is trying to find her place in a galaxy far far away.
- BIOGRAPHY
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Princess Guinevere Cavello was born beneath the emerald canopies of Avalon, a world revered across the sector for its untouched forests, living seas, and carefully protected ecosystems. For generations, House Cavello ruled Avalon not through conquest, but stewardship, champions of conservation, planetary balance, and harmony between civilization and nature. To the galaxy, the Cavellos were benevolent monarchs. To Guinevere, they were architects of a life meticulously designed, and never chosen.
From the moment her older brother was born, his path was unquestioned. He was groomed to inherit Avalon's throne, educated in statecraft, diplomacy, and planetary leadership. Guinevere, by contrast, was quietly reassigned a different purpose. She was not a future ruler, but a future alliance.
As a child, Gwen learned early that affection was conditional. Praise came not for curiosity or defiance, but for poise. For silence. For obedience. She was taught how to sit, how to smile, how to listen without speaking. When she asked questions about governance or conservation policy, they were gently deflected, those matters were for her brother.
When she reached adolescence, she was sent away to an elite finishing academy favored by noble houses across the sector. There, her education was exhaustive and unrelenting. She studied etiquette, interstellar customs, and political protocol until they became instinct. She was trained in diplomacy and rhetoric, taught how to speak without revealing opinion. Beneath the silk and ceremony, she also learned self-defense, precise, efficient techniques designed not to win battles, but to survive them.
Her beauty became both asset and sentence.
Every detail of her appearance was controlled. Meals were measured. Calories counted. Hair styled and restyled until perfection was achieved. Dresses chosen not for comfort, but for symbolism. She was sculpted into an ideal, desirable, compliant, flawless and virginal future bride. The galaxy would see a princess. Only Guinevere knew how little of herself remained beneath the polish.
She would never be allowed to date, or be alone in the presence of a male. In her spare time she would read great romances and yearn for an epic love story all her own, but she knew her father would never allow it. Gwen was a prize to be offered up to whatever man they deemed worthy.
Her life was never truly her own.
Now, just days after her eighteenth birthday, Guinevere has been informed of her future. A marriage has been arranged with another noble house, strategic, advantageous, inevitable. She is expected to accept with gratitude, to smile as she always has, to fulfill the role she was shaped for since childhood.
Yet beneath the grace, beneath the training, something quietly endures.
Guinevere Cavello has learned how to survive gilded cages, but deep down she dreams to escape hers.
- STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
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Strengths
+Intelligence - Very intelligent and a quick learner
+Classical Training - Gwen has been trained in decorum, poise, and politics to fit in with high society
+Royalty - Her stature in society opens many doors for her
+Agility - Gwen has trained in self-defense enough to escape a dangerous situation
Weaknesses
-Not a Fighter - Though trained in minor self-defense, Gwen is not a fighter. She has always been protected.
-Her Will Not Be Done - Gwen has little say in her life and is often at the mercy of her parents or other nobles
-Inexperienced - Since she's been sheltered most of her life she has little experience in social situations that involve men
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