Benjamin Lascelles
Personality
Benjamin Lascelles was a man with a multifaceted personality to present in the faces of all of those who met him. When Benjamin Lascelles first came to Kara, he came as an angry peasant, coming from a land where being common was tantamount to being worthless, who felt he had something to prove. It was there, in this anger and distrust, that formed the first facet that people came to identify themselves with. At a young age, Benjamin learned that if he just kept talking, people would listen, and he could spend any tale he needed to spin to rise above other people. If he simply acted as if he was strong, powerful, violent beyond any measure, then a handful of people just might believe it. Benjamin was egotistical and arrogant, but he was also meticulous and conniving, making sure that any enemies he had were the enemies he wanted. But to have enemies, you must also find yourself with friends.
This leads into the second facet of personality that less people certainly saw. A relatively goofy man who did things for the hell of it, especially if it was funny. After years of doing the wrong thing, he put himself in other's shoes and decided he didn't like how the fabric felt. But the same type of talking he did to get people to do what he wanted, worked just as well on his allies if he just made them laugh. It worked well on people he could care for. Through relationships he got to make with his future daughter, with his friends, and later with the King, he got to learn what he was missing his entire life. Many who knew Benjamin would say that he was a crazy son of a bitch who couldn't care less on what he did. That would be wrong on about 50%. Benjamin Lascelles was a man who cared so much about every little thing he did. He believed that if people thought he was a villain, or going to be the one to fear, then people would prepare themselves to fight someone like him or more.
Which leads into the third facet of Benjamin Lascelles personality. Benjamin was a solemn man filled with more regrets and more self-immolation towards his own actions than any other person ever was. He was a man that chose to regularly eat dinners alone, because he thought he deserved it. He believed truly in the things that he was doing, and that they were all things he could do with purpose- and as long as it was for the state, or benefitted the crown, then he was a happy person. However, his way of thinking also led him to believing that he always needed to be the scapegoat, or the Dirt under the Bay. That he always needed to be the one to make the mistakes so that everyone else looked better in comparison. This was a lonely existence for him. He was, at his core, a lonely kid that needed to be needed.
His personality after death obviously didn't change, but how people saw him after he died certainly changed. Several people saw him enough of a hero to allow him to die as one. This allowed those who knew him close to tell more people about the kind of man he was, combining all three facets of his personality into one man, and allowing those to comb into one well-known piece of history.