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[series]: Romeo x Juliet
[character]: Tybalt
Tybalt, for the most part, is an unknown person. The truth of his background is actually quite interesting. His mother was Volumnia Du Capulet. Romeo's father, not yet Duke at this time, courted his mother and eventually discarded her when he was done with her. Unfortunately for her, she was already pregnant with Tybalt at the time and she did not survive through childbirth. Tybalt did. He was placed in the care of Camilo who raised him. When Tybalt was fifteen years old, he ran away from that house to make his own way in the world. Over the years, Tybalt would set up a network that would gather information for him and leads a group of rebels.
It is through this chain of people that he learns of the assassination orders on the Valdino family. He passes that information onto the Capulet alliance, knowing that they would act on it. He first makes his appearance to Juliet when she and her group were attemping to rescue Benvolio and his family from the Duke's men. He arrives on his black ryouma and Juliet mistakenly assumes that he was Romeo. Single-handedly, he defeats the group of enemies. At the end of this encounter, he calls Juliet by her real name, clearly showing that he knows who she is.
Tybalt later seeks out Juliet and tells her to follow him. He is the one who shows to Juliet that the Friar is not the man that everyone thinks that he is and saves her when she cannot actually kill him. When she breaks down crying, he offers her support. As well, because he was asked too, he helps Juliet escape from the headquarters where the Capulet supporters had been meeting. He is able to smuggle Juliet out of the building and leaves her in a part of town where people would be less willing to sell the information of where she is hiding. She does not stay though. He later is in the house where Camilo is living and tells Juliet the truth about his past as well as Lord Montagues. He thinks that in her there should be that drive to seek revenge that should equal his own. She though turns around and states that she has no hate left in her.
Tybalt is in the city when the Capulet forces start their advance. It would be to him that Juliet tells her secret. Tybalt though cannot understand this. As the keep is given to the Capulet forces, Tybalt, who had vowed to take his father's life with his own blade, goes into his room. He reveals who he is, as his father did not seem aware and moves to attack. They cross blades for several moments before Romeo enters. Tybalt informs Romeo that he should stay out of his business. The Capulet forces arrive though and Juliet gives her speech. Both Montague sons back off, but Mercutio ends up stabbing Lord Montague in the back.
Later, when Romeo is visiting his death father, Tybalt confronts him with the truth about Juliet and what she is planning on doing. He mocks Romeo's plans of simply allowing Juliet to rule while he goes away and tells him that he should at least go and try. he would be there to help Romeo get across the bridge-way after the roots of the trees have destroyed most of it and tells him to go to Juliet. Together with Francisco and Curio, they go and offer their aid in attacking Ophelia. In the end, all three of them leave by Juliet's bidding. Romeo is already dead and Juliet tells them to leave. Their world crashes down, but Juliet's sacrifice is able to save them. Although he had mocked his brother when he requests for Tybalt to take two children for a ride on a Pegasus, Tybalt honours his brother's wish and does so.
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The man who is Tybalt is not quite what he seems. On the outside, Tybalt is a mysterious character that is hard to read. He often has a hard stone face that does not show his emotions and he kills people with a surprising ease that others cannot do. He is guarded about who he is although he never makes any attempt to hide it. He just never actually states it. He is very stealthy, able to move about Neo Verona and other places without people actually paying heed to him. He is intelligent which is shown by the fact that he knows the city and that he has a relay of people who feed him information.
The truth of the matter is that Tybalt is an angry individual. He is driven by his own need for vengeance against his father for what he did to his mother. He would like nothing more than to see Lord Montague pay for the way he treated his mother and then just left her. In a way, that is ironic, for Lord Montague's strife with the Capulet's is based on the same principle. His mother had become pregnant by a Capulet and had been discarded. He is driven by his own personal feelings on the matter, whereas Juliet and later Romeo are driven more by justice, not hate, and are able to forgive to a degree, whereas Tybalt is not.
Tybalt is strong, both physically and mentally. He ran away from his home at fifteen and survived. He is a skilled sword fighter, able to take on and defeat the very men who Juliet and her group could not. As well, he can be straight forward, for he tells Juliet his story and is honest in his own way for he does not make any excuses as to why he is doing what he is doing. Although he might come across as uncaring, this is not exactly true. When Juliet is unable to kill the Friar, Tybalt moves in and kills him, and later offers Juliet comfort when she cries. He does not sugar coat his words though for he has serious doubts as to whether Juliet is actually up to the task that she has been put up too. As well, although he mocks his brother for wanting to honour the wishes of his dead friend, Tybalt himself actually does so. He can be gruff, but he is also honourable.
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[point in timeline you're picking your character from]: Very end of the series