Juliet

Juliet/Juliette (French surname?) is the daughter of _Monarch_ and third in line to the Azure City Monarchy.

Details

Age: 26
Body type: Tall and thin
Hair: dark brown, in a variety of styles

Personality

Juliet is a free spirit. She feigns disdain for the workings of the government and for her duties, but deep down has a real sense of compassion for the people of Azure City.

Professional Life

She is initially resentful of her natural-born status into the monarchy. What tasks she is given she performs well but begrudgingly and gives everyone a hard time. She frequently disappears and procrastinates and solves problems in unorthodox ways (technically complying but not necessarily in spirit).

After the assassination of her father and brothers, she becomes more neurotic, living with survivor's guilt and impostor syndrome. She expects people to do their jobs and sets unreasonable expectations, and lashes out at those who push back or fail, even when they don't deserve it. Slowly, she begins to understand the weight of leadership and learns to embrace it.

Personal Life

Though she loves her family, she doesn't take their seriousness seriously. She is rebellious and dismissive, but charming nevertheless. Her father sees in her the traits necessary for leadership: she is competent, charismatic, observant, and caring, but nevertheless refuses to fully apply herself.

Private Life

She loves the people of Azure City and has a deep connection to it. She views herself as one of the people, not above them. Initially, she believes that to fully embrace her role as a leader would be to betray this feeling, as if the city were beneath her. Slowly, she comes to realize that it is exactly this property which makes her a good leader. But, she must learn that sometimes to do what is best for them is to go against their will.

Small Details

Dog-ears book pages- Bryan hates it. She leaves a book in the cruiser, and at the end of the novel when she goes there to be alone, she sees the book and undoes the dog-ear, placing an object (TBD) there instead as a bookmark.

Plot

Act 1

Juliet visits Mars with Bryan O'Callahan, who shows her the racing scene there. She falls in love with the idea of creating a multi-planetary racing league to foster goodwill between Earth and Mars.

Act 2

After the assassination of _Monarch_ and her brothers, Juliet becomes acting and then official ruler of Azure City

Miscellaneous Details

• Tension between [_Monarch_] and her: she wants to maintain her freedom and distance from politics. _Monarch_ wants her to engage more in the ruling of the country, and become more serious.

Dialogue Snippets

• Juliet believes that _Monarch_ doesn't care about her. Another character relates the ruthless ways in which he cut off others, but never gave up on her.
• _Monarch_ asks "Do you know why your mother and I named you Juliet?" "Because you always planned on treating me like stupid teenage girl?"

Writing Notes

Juliette (Julie) is the same name as Julie Mao from The Expanse. Need to differentiate the characters enough to not be derivative. Don't call her Julie at least.