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Name: Robb Stark in canon. Reincarnated, his name's Robert Smith, but he goes by Robb.
Canon: A Song of Ice and Fire
Age: 16 when he died in Westeros. Reincarnated, he's 21.
Preincarnation Appearance: Here we go.
Any differences: Aside from an updated fashion sense, none.
Preincarnated History: I'm just going to copy/paste from my GB application, if that's okay.
Once, a long time ago, in a land where the seasons lasted for years, there was a family called the Starks, who ruled the North...
...yeah, okay. So, details first: Robb Stark was born in a land where the seasons could last for years. And I do mean years, because by the time he's fourteen, summer has lasted for about ten years, and "winter is coming", like the Stark words always say. And it's coming fast, for the Seven Kingdoms.
Anyway, he was the firstborn son of Lord Eddard "Ned" Stark and Lady Catelyn Tully, of Winterfell. Most likely he was conceived during Robert Baratheon's Rebellion, which ended up eliminating the then-ruling family, the Targaryens, and establishing Robert (who married Cersei Lannister) as the new king, but anyway.
Growing up, Robb had it pretty easy. Summer was lasting for quite a while, after all, so he had time to bond with his siblings Sansa, Arya, Bran and Rickon (and his bastard half-brother Jon Snow), and his father's hostage ward Theon Greyjoy. He even got himself a direwolf pup--a bigger, meaner version of a wolf--and named it Grey Wind, while the rest of his siblings (and also Jon) found themselves taking care of their own direwolves.
And then Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, died under mysterious circumstances, and Lord Stark was called away, leaving Robb as the Stark in Winterfell, who now also had to deal with his little brother Bran in a coma after falling from a tower and his lady mother initially neglected her responsibilities. And then someone tried to attack Bran, though Catelyn and Summer (Bran's direwolf) took the would-be assassin down, but Catelyn resolved to leave and go off to King's Landing to tell his father, leaving Robb solely in charge.
Unfortunately, while Catelyn was away, Robb received word that King Robert had died and was replaced by his "son" (quotation marks necessary, okay) Joffrey Baratheon, his father had been arrested for treason, and his sisters trapped in King's Landing. How well did he take the news? Hint: not very. He went and called the Stark banners, and marched down to the Riverlands to kick Lannister ass.
And boy, did he kick ass. Once he learned that Jaime Lannister, aka the Kingslayer, aka that one guy who killed the king he was sworn to protect, had besieged his mother's house's castle Riverrun as Jaime's father Tywin marched from the south to meet them, Robb sent most of his footmen off under Roose Bolton to basically distract Tywin while he and his mother, who by that time had come back to see her son at war, negotiated with the old and ancient Lord Walder Frey of the Twins to open the Green Fork so they could cross.
They got it, all right, but at a price: Robb had to marry one of Walder Frey's daughters, and trust me, he had plenty of them.
Anyway, then Robb and his forces went off to Riverrun, and ambushed Jaime Lannister and his army in what would be known as the Battle of the Whispering Wood. Result: he won, captured the Kingslayer and destroyed his forces, and also managed to lift the siege on Riverrun. Robb Stark 1, Lannisters 0.
And then King Joffrey went and shortened Ned Stark by a head, which pretty much killed any chances, slim as they were, of the North reconciling with the South. Robb did not take this well, and neither did his bannermen, because they went and made him King in the North. In retrospect, it pretty much meant he was screwed.
While at Riverrun, Robb sent off his lady mother and his friend Theon on two separate missions: Catelyn, to treat with Stannis Baratheon and Renly Baratheon, who'd gone and crowned themselves kings as well, so they would back Robb, and Theon, to treat with his father Balon Greyjoy, who also crowned himself king as well. Unfortunately, both missions failed: neither of the Baratheon brothers agreed (and Renly got himself killed as well), and Balon pretty much answered Robb's treaty by invading the North. (And Theon went and sided with the Greyjoys, so.)
Meanwhile, Robb went off to the Westerlands with his forces, proceeding to smash a Lannister host at Oxcross and win at Ashemark and the Crag, the latter of which being the place where he got an arrow through his arm and was tended to by Jeyne Westerling. It was also the place where he learned that Theon had gone and captured Winterfell and, allegedly, killed Bran and his youngest brother Rickon (though they just hid in the crypts instead, and the bodies were those of two miller's sons). As Jeyne was with him at the time, she comforted him, and one thing led to another, and the next thing you know they're getting shotgun-married because he had to preserve her honor. The Freys...weren't too happy about this, as they withdrew their support.
And then the troubles really started, when he went back to Riverrun. Turns out, while he was away, his lady mother, grieving over the supposed murder of her sons, freed Jaime Lannister. His uncle Edmure Tully had gone and thrown back the Lannister forces at the Red Fork near Riverrun and screwed up Robb's plan to lead them away from King's Landing in order to let Stannis take it. And then Rickard Karstark, one of his bannermen and someone who lost sons to Jaime Lannister in the Whispering Wood, sent men to the cells of two of the prisoners to murder them, something Robb took his head off for. (It was...not a pretty sight, and also the Karstark forces went and withdrew their support as well because of it.)
Robb planned on marching back north to avenge his brothers and drive the ironborn out of his territory, and also to legitimize his brother Jon Snow because Sansa, back in King's Landing, had been forced into marrying Tyrion Lannister, and no one wanted that to happen. Unfortunately, he needed to get passage across the Twins (again) first, and so he suggested that Edmure marry one of the Freys instead.
It seemed like a perfect plan at the time, but the thing was, Walder Frey never forgot a slight. And Robb soon learned this, when the wedding came to pass--the Freys had gotten together with Tywin Lannister, the very man that Robb was fighting against, and plotted to betray him. To that end, Walder Frey snuck in sellswords, disguised as musicians, and stood by and watched as the sellswords slaughtered Robb's bannermen.
As for Robb himself, he was murdered as well, by Roose Bolton. (And then they killed his wolf, cut off Robb's head and replaced it with said wolf's.)
Reincarnated History:
Robb Smith's life is...well, it wasn't as tragic as Robb Stark's, thankfully. Born to a policeman and a schoolteacher, Robb lived comfortably. While his parents were never rich, there was a lot of love to go around, and from a young age, Robb's parents did his best to teach him right from wrong, to instill values in their young, impressionable son. It was successful, for the most part, helped along by Robb's dad's habit of bringing him along to the precinct when he was old enough. The "scare 'em straight" method? Worked wonders for him.
Unlike his first life, Robb stayed an only child. He did, however, make quite a few friends when he made it into school, but they all drifted apart after some time. His childhood was fairly uneventful, save for somehow managing to pick up a puppy and adopting it into his family. (He named it Captain, after a fairly popular superhero on his favorite Saturday morning cartoon. Don't start.)
Then, when he was thirteen, his father died. It was an accident--the man had been walking home, when a drunk driver came out of nowhere and slammed his car into him. Robb's dad died on the spot.
Robb himself...didn't take it well, especially since Captain had died a year earlier. When before the accident, he had a B+ average, his grades quickly slipped, and he started skipping classes, getting into fights, and generally not dealing well with his father's death. Five years passed in this way, during which his mother tried her best to cope with both her husband's death and the steady downward spiral of her son, then, when he was eighteen, Robb met a teacher who, after multiple classes that he either skipped, slept through or just plain didn't listen in, sat him down and told him that he had potential, but that he was squandering it this way, and that he needed to turn his life around.
He laughed the advice off, at first. But the teacher's words had gotten into his head, so little by little, he straightened out his act and pulled up his grades. Granted, they weren't as high as they used to be, but they were enough for him to graduate alongside his classmates. (His mom framed his high school diploma. It's still at their home, right beside a picture of all three of them together with Captain.)
Currently, he's attending Locke City University, majoring in Film, and working odd jobs part-time in order to fund his education.
First Echo: There was a Dark Ages special on the History Channel, and Robb had nothing else to do but watch at the time. There was also a reenactment of someone being cleanly beheaded, and that brought to mind the rather messier beheading of Rickard Karstark. One moment he was thinking, "it wasn't that clean, was it?", the next he was trying to cut off someone's head with an ax and, well, no. It was not clean at all.
Preincarnation Personality: Also copy-pasted from GB app.
Robb, first of all, is honorable. Or at least he tries his best to be. See, he grew up in a family--no, a society where honor and duty were basically Very Important, and that fact was impressed on him from a young age. His late lord father, Ned, was a pretty good example, and set a standard that Robb tries his hardest to follow. He's dutiful, has a good sense of right and wrong, and tries so very hard to be responsible, and to be a good king at sixteen.
Unfortunately, well, he's sixteen, and despite how good he is at it, there are times when he's going to slip up. Like, you know, bedding and wedding Jeyne Westerling, which pretty much pissed off the Freys. Despite having a good head for battle strategies, sometimes he can get a little impulsive and just rush into something without really thinking it through. And then there's the pesky honor thing--you know how he tries his best to be honorable? Yeah, sometimes it reaches "what in the seven hells were you thinking" levels.
He's also pretty emotional. No, it's not to the point where he'll freak out over every little thing, but he's a teenager who's had to take on a leadership role, and his emotions will probably make themselves a little obvious. He's not a robot, after all.
He also values his family. A lot. Remember, the reason he went to war in the first place was because the Lannisters had his father and sisters, and he pardoned his mother after he learned she freed Jaime Lannister and told him to bring back Arya and Sansa. Plus, his grief after learning that Theon had allegedly killed Bran and Rickon led to Jeyne comforting him.
Also, you know that strict standards of honor thing? He applies it to others as well. If you're a good person, everything's cool, and he'll treat you pretty well, but if you're dishonorable, or, say, you're a traitor, then everything's not cool, and you're pretty much screwed, depending on the degree. If, say, you did something like Theon Greyjoy taking Winterfell and supposedly killing Robb's brothers, or Rickard Karstark murdering two unarmed prisoners in their cells, then Robb will take your head himself.
And yes, he totally believes in that. Again, it's an honor thing: "the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword". And Robb will do it, if he has to, but here's the thing: he won't take any joy from it. He will lead his army and kill people in battle and take the heads of traitors if he has to, but each death will weigh on him. Torturing prisoners of war? Out of the question.
That's not to say he can't have fun. Oh, yes, he's pretty serious most of the time, but if he trusts you, and if you're his family, he'll play a practical joke or two on you. (See: him and Jon teaming up to scare Arya and Rickon in the crypts of Winterfell.) He can snark and quip rather well too, but that part doesn't really show itself much, and anyway, when you're in the same world as Tyrion "Snark Galore" Lannister, you have no hope of matching up to him. And anyway, since Robb's had to take up the title of King in the North, he hasn't had as much fun as he used to, when life didn't suck so much for the Starks.
So, in conclusion, Robb Stark is...well, if he's not a good king, then at the very least, he tries his best to be one.
Any differences:
Thanks to being an only child and not having to lead a kingdom at a young age, Robb's become a lot more easygoing than he used to be. Sure, he can be responsible--taking care of a dog requires a lot of that--but at the same time he's more liable to kick back and relax on a weekend, if there isn't a project deadline coming up.
At the same time, he can also be irresponsible, considering that he's never had to take on a huge leadership role. He procrastinates, sleeps in, and he gives in to his impulses a lot. This was especially evident after his father's death, and it still occasionally manifests itself, though it's much less self-destructive.
Unlike his previous life, Robb doesn't hold honor very highly. It's there, among the values his parents instilled--he does his best to keep his promises, for example--but there wasn't any code of honor in the street fights he got into, so there wasn't much point in pulling his punches when his opponent wasn't. He's a good man, but he's willing to play dirty if he has to. He's also aware that honor does not always lead to good things happening--he's seen a few gang members handcuffed in the precinct when he was a kid, there out of a misguided sense of honor and loyalty--and that it isn't always right. He'd prefer to do the right thing if it differs from the honorable thing instead, thanks.
It's highly likely--possibly outright canon--that, in his preincarnation, he had little to no sexual experience, and that Jeyne Westerling was his first. In his reincarnation, he's had a few more years to figure things out, helped along by the looser attitudes of modern-day society. While he's no Casanova, he certainly has more experience than his previous self.
He's also pretty friendly and willing to reach out. Back in Westeros, he was a lord's son and then a king, so there was distance between him and the people he interacted with, and that's not even mentioning Theon's betrayal. Here, he's just a guy in college trying to complete his Film major, so it's a lot easier for him to become friends with someone. Unless you're either his family or a very good friend of his, though, there's still some distance in that he's not about to start talking about his feelings while he's going through a rough time, and even then it's highly likely he'll end up being a little moodier and more snappish than usual, for which he will apologize when everything's over and done with.
Abilities: c/ped and edited from the GB app.
Robb is a human, and that's about it for any ~*~magical~*~ abilities. That being said, he does have a direwolf named Grey Wind that he bonds with, and his brother Bran, his half-brother Jon, and his sister Arya have displayed the ability to "warg" into, or to share a body with their direwolves. According to GRRM, all the Stark kids have that ability, but Robb doesn't know it, and he's certainly never shown any affinity for it.
He is, however, a decent swordsman, and he has a good head for battle strategies and leadership skills, considering his young age and inexperience. He's also trying to be a good king, though that's a bit debatable.
Roleplay Sample – Third Person:
At first Robb thinks it might just be some kind of drunken hallucination, but that theory gets shot down pretty quickly. Even on the rare occasions when he was completely smashed, he'd never hallucinated this vividly before, and certainly not while watching the History Channel. And unless his tolerance has suddenly vanished while he wasn't looking, he's certain he can't get drunk off a few sips of cheap beer alone.
Not only that, but it had...it had felt real, somehow, strange as it is to think about it now. He'd felt the weight of the ax, when he lifted it and brought it down on someone's neck, saw the blood on his clothes and the headless corpse and forgive me, I never wanted--
Okay. Okay, he needs to stop thinking about it, or he's going to puke up whatever's still left in his stomach at this point. He needs water, food, something to do to take his mind off whatever this is. A side effect of all the stress over the past week, maybe, though he doesn't know why it would happen now.
"Quit thinking about it," he mutters to himself, pushing himself up to a more vertical position. "It's nothing."
He's probably going nuts. He's talking to himself in his bathroom after a really vivid hallucination brought on by History Channel, all signs are pointing to "crazy". But then, crazy people don't usually know they've gone round the bend, right? Or is that some kind of myth? He honestly doesn't know.
He staggers out of the bathroom. Fresh air--hadn't his mother told him to get out and get some fresh air in his lungs? He'd told her he was fine, but now, he figures she had a point. A walk would do him good, and anyway he's still got to pick up his laptop, see if it's back in working order.
He passes by the living room on the way out, and his attention is drawn to the screen for a brief moment. They're doing commercials now--something about bidding wars over storage rooms--and though he's never been so glad to see a commercial he turns it off anyways. Electricity's expensive, after all, and he doesn't know how long he'll be out for a walk.
Maybe an hour or so, perhaps. It's enough time to keep his mind as far away from hallucinations and beheadings as possible.
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thestarkheir. Plurk - bipolarteddybear, AIM - doesnotlikesoapsIC Information:
Name: Robb Stark in canon. Reincarnated, his name's Robert Smith, but he goes by Robb.
Canon: A Song of Ice and Fire
Age: 16 when he died in Westeros. Reincarnated, he's 21.
Preincarnation Appearance: Here we go.
Any differences: Aside from an updated fashion sense, none.
Preincarnated History: I'm just going to copy/paste from my GB application, if that's okay.
Once, a long time ago, in a land where the seasons lasted for years, there was a family called the Starks, who ruled the North...
...yeah, okay. So, details first: Robb Stark was born in a land where the seasons could last for years. And I do mean years, because by the time he's fourteen, summer has lasted for about ten years, and "winter is coming", like the Stark words always say. And it's coming fast, for the Seven Kingdoms.
Anyway, he was the firstborn son of Lord Eddard "Ned" Stark and Lady Catelyn Tully, of Winterfell. Most likely he was conceived during Robert Baratheon's Rebellion, which ended up eliminating the then-ruling family, the Targaryens, and establishing Robert (who married Cersei Lannister) as the new king, but anyway.
Growing up, Robb had it pretty easy. Summer was lasting for quite a while, after all, so he had time to bond with his siblings Sansa, Arya, Bran and Rickon (and his bastard half-brother Jon Snow), and his father's hostage ward Theon Greyjoy. He even got himself a direwolf pup--a bigger, meaner version of a wolf--and named it Grey Wind, while the rest of his siblings (and also Jon) found themselves taking care of their own direwolves.
And then Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, died under mysterious circumstances, and Lord Stark was called away, leaving Robb as the Stark in Winterfell, who now also had to deal with his little brother Bran in a coma after falling from a tower and his lady mother initially neglected her responsibilities. And then someone tried to attack Bran, though Catelyn and Summer (Bran's direwolf) took the would-be assassin down, but Catelyn resolved to leave and go off to King's Landing to tell his father, leaving Robb solely in charge.
Unfortunately, while Catelyn was away, Robb received word that King Robert had died and was replaced by his "son" (quotation marks necessary, okay) Joffrey Baratheon, his father had been arrested for treason, and his sisters trapped in King's Landing. How well did he take the news? Hint: not very. He went and called the Stark banners, and marched down to the Riverlands to kick Lannister ass.
And boy, did he kick ass. Once he learned that Jaime Lannister, aka the Kingslayer, aka that one guy who killed the king he was sworn to protect, had besieged his mother's house's castle Riverrun as Jaime's father Tywin marched from the south to meet them, Robb sent most of his footmen off under Roose Bolton to basically distract Tywin while he and his mother, who by that time had come back to see her son at war, negotiated with the old and ancient Lord Walder Frey of the Twins to open the Green Fork so they could cross.
They got it, all right, but at a price: Robb had to marry one of Walder Frey's daughters, and trust me, he had plenty of them.
Anyway, then Robb and his forces went off to Riverrun, and ambushed Jaime Lannister and his army in what would be known as the Battle of the Whispering Wood. Result: he won, captured the Kingslayer and destroyed his forces, and also managed to lift the siege on Riverrun. Robb Stark 1, Lannisters 0.
And then King Joffrey went and shortened Ned Stark by a head, which pretty much killed any chances, slim as they were, of the North reconciling with the South. Robb did not take this well, and neither did his bannermen, because they went and made him King in the North. In retrospect, it pretty much meant he was screwed.
While at Riverrun, Robb sent off his lady mother and his friend Theon on two separate missions: Catelyn, to treat with Stannis Baratheon and Renly Baratheon, who'd gone and crowned themselves kings as well, so they would back Robb, and Theon, to treat with his father Balon Greyjoy, who also crowned himself king as well. Unfortunately, both missions failed: neither of the Baratheon brothers agreed (and Renly got himself killed as well), and Balon pretty much answered Robb's treaty by invading the North. (And Theon went and sided with the Greyjoys, so.)
Meanwhile, Robb went off to the Westerlands with his forces, proceeding to smash a Lannister host at Oxcross and win at Ashemark and the Crag, the latter of which being the place where he got an arrow through his arm and was tended to by Jeyne Westerling. It was also the place where he learned that Theon had gone and captured Winterfell and, allegedly, killed Bran and his youngest brother Rickon (though they just hid in the crypts instead, and the bodies were those of two miller's sons). As Jeyne was with him at the time, she comforted him, and one thing led to another, and the next thing you know they're getting shotgun-married because he had to preserve her honor. The Freys...weren't too happy about this, as they withdrew their support.
And then the troubles really started, when he went back to Riverrun. Turns out, while he was away, his lady mother, grieving over the supposed murder of her sons, freed Jaime Lannister. His uncle Edmure Tully had gone and thrown back the Lannister forces at the Red Fork near Riverrun and screwed up Robb's plan to lead them away from King's Landing in order to let Stannis take it. And then Rickard Karstark, one of his bannermen and someone who lost sons to Jaime Lannister in the Whispering Wood, sent men to the cells of two of the prisoners to murder them, something Robb took his head off for. (It was...not a pretty sight, and also the Karstark forces went and withdrew their support as well because of it.)
Robb planned on marching back north to avenge his brothers and drive the ironborn out of his territory, and also to legitimize his brother Jon Snow because Sansa, back in King's Landing, had been forced into marrying Tyrion Lannister, and no one wanted that to happen. Unfortunately, he needed to get passage across the Twins (again) first, and so he suggested that Edmure marry one of the Freys instead.
It seemed like a perfect plan at the time, but the thing was, Walder Frey never forgot a slight. And Robb soon learned this, when the wedding came to pass--the Freys had gotten together with Tywin Lannister, the very man that Robb was fighting against, and plotted to betray him. To that end, Walder Frey snuck in sellswords, disguised as musicians, and stood by and watched as the sellswords slaughtered Robb's bannermen.
As for Robb himself, he was murdered as well, by Roose Bolton. (And then they killed his wolf, cut off Robb's head and replaced it with said wolf's.)
Reincarnated History:
Robb Smith's life is...well, it wasn't as tragic as Robb Stark's, thankfully. Born to a policeman and a schoolteacher, Robb lived comfortably. While his parents were never rich, there was a lot of love to go around, and from a young age, Robb's parents did his best to teach him right from wrong, to instill values in their young, impressionable son. It was successful, for the most part, helped along by Robb's dad's habit of bringing him along to the precinct when he was old enough. The "scare 'em straight" method? Worked wonders for him.
Unlike his first life, Robb stayed an only child. He did, however, make quite a few friends when he made it into school, but they all drifted apart after some time. His childhood was fairly uneventful, save for somehow managing to pick up a puppy and adopting it into his family. (He named it Captain, after a fairly popular superhero on his favorite Saturday morning cartoon. Don't start.)
Then, when he was thirteen, his father died. It was an accident--the man had been walking home, when a drunk driver came out of nowhere and slammed his car into him. Robb's dad died on the spot.
Robb himself...didn't take it well, especially since Captain had died a year earlier. When before the accident, he had a B+ average, his grades quickly slipped, and he started skipping classes, getting into fights, and generally not dealing well with his father's death. Five years passed in this way, during which his mother tried her best to cope with both her husband's death and the steady downward spiral of her son, then, when he was eighteen, Robb met a teacher who, after multiple classes that he either skipped, slept through or just plain didn't listen in, sat him down and told him that he had potential, but that he was squandering it this way, and that he needed to turn his life around.
He laughed the advice off, at first. But the teacher's words had gotten into his head, so little by little, he straightened out his act and pulled up his grades. Granted, they weren't as high as they used to be, but they were enough for him to graduate alongside his classmates. (His mom framed his high school diploma. It's still at their home, right beside a picture of all three of them together with Captain.)
Currently, he's attending Locke City University, majoring in Film, and working odd jobs part-time in order to fund his education.
First Echo: There was a Dark Ages special on the History Channel, and Robb had nothing else to do but watch at the time. There was also a reenactment of someone being cleanly beheaded, and that brought to mind the rather messier beheading of Rickard Karstark. One moment he was thinking, "it wasn't that clean, was it?", the next he was trying to cut off someone's head with an ax and, well, no. It was not clean at all.
Preincarnation Personality: Also copy-pasted from GB app.
Robb, first of all, is honorable. Or at least he tries his best to be. See, he grew up in a family--no, a society where honor and duty were basically Very Important, and that fact was impressed on him from a young age. His late lord father, Ned, was a pretty good example, and set a standard that Robb tries his hardest to follow. He's dutiful, has a good sense of right and wrong, and tries so very hard to be responsible, and to be a good king at sixteen.
Unfortunately, well, he's sixteen, and despite how good he is at it, there are times when he's going to slip up. Like, you know, bedding and wedding Jeyne Westerling, which pretty much pissed off the Freys. Despite having a good head for battle strategies, sometimes he can get a little impulsive and just rush into something without really thinking it through. And then there's the pesky honor thing--you know how he tries his best to be honorable? Yeah, sometimes it reaches "what in the seven hells were you thinking" levels.
He's also pretty emotional. No, it's not to the point where he'll freak out over every little thing, but he's a teenager who's had to take on a leadership role, and his emotions will probably make themselves a little obvious. He's not a robot, after all.
He also values his family. A lot. Remember, the reason he went to war in the first place was because the Lannisters had his father and sisters, and he pardoned his mother after he learned she freed Jaime Lannister and told him to bring back Arya and Sansa. Plus, his grief after learning that Theon had allegedly killed Bran and Rickon led to Jeyne comforting him.
Also, you know that strict standards of honor thing? He applies it to others as well. If you're a good person, everything's cool, and he'll treat you pretty well, but if you're dishonorable, or, say, you're a traitor, then everything's not cool, and you're pretty much screwed, depending on the degree. If, say, you did something like Theon Greyjoy taking Winterfell and supposedly killing Robb's brothers, or Rickard Karstark murdering two unarmed prisoners in their cells, then Robb will take your head himself.
And yes, he totally believes in that. Again, it's an honor thing: "the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword". And Robb will do it, if he has to, but here's the thing: he won't take any joy from it. He will lead his army and kill people in battle and take the heads of traitors if he has to, but each death will weigh on him. Torturing prisoners of war? Out of the question.
That's not to say he can't have fun. Oh, yes, he's pretty serious most of the time, but if he trusts you, and if you're his family, he'll play a practical joke or two on you. (See: him and Jon teaming up to scare Arya and Rickon in the crypts of Winterfell.) He can snark and quip rather well too, but that part doesn't really show itself much, and anyway, when you're in the same world as Tyrion "Snark Galore" Lannister, you have no hope of matching up to him. And anyway, since Robb's had to take up the title of King in the North, he hasn't had as much fun as he used to, when life didn't suck so much for the Starks.
So, in conclusion, Robb Stark is...well, if he's not a good king, then at the very least, he tries his best to be one.
Any differences:
Thanks to being an only child and not having to lead a kingdom at a young age, Robb's become a lot more easygoing than he used to be. Sure, he can be responsible--taking care of a dog requires a lot of that--but at the same time he's more liable to kick back and relax on a weekend, if there isn't a project deadline coming up.
At the same time, he can also be irresponsible, considering that he's never had to take on a huge leadership role. He procrastinates, sleeps in, and he gives in to his impulses a lot. This was especially evident after his father's death, and it still occasionally manifests itself, though it's much less self-destructive.
Unlike his previous life, Robb doesn't hold honor very highly. It's there, among the values his parents instilled--he does his best to keep his promises, for example--but there wasn't any code of honor in the street fights he got into, so there wasn't much point in pulling his punches when his opponent wasn't. He's a good man, but he's willing to play dirty if he has to. He's also aware that honor does not always lead to good things happening--he's seen a few gang members handcuffed in the precinct when he was a kid, there out of a misguided sense of honor and loyalty--and that it isn't always right. He'd prefer to do the right thing if it differs from the honorable thing instead, thanks.
It's highly likely--possibly outright canon--that, in his preincarnation, he had little to no sexual experience, and that Jeyne Westerling was his first. In his reincarnation, he's had a few more years to figure things out, helped along by the looser attitudes of modern-day society. While he's no Casanova, he certainly has more experience than his previous self.
He's also pretty friendly and willing to reach out. Back in Westeros, he was a lord's son and then a king, so there was distance between him and the people he interacted with, and that's not even mentioning Theon's betrayal. Here, he's just a guy in college trying to complete his Film major, so it's a lot easier for him to become friends with someone. Unless you're either his family or a very good friend of his, though, there's still some distance in that he's not about to start talking about his feelings while he's going through a rough time, and even then it's highly likely he'll end up being a little moodier and more snappish than usual, for which he will apologize when everything's over and done with.
Abilities: c/ped and edited from the GB app.
Robb is a human, and that's about it for any ~*~magical~*~ abilities. That being said, he does have a direwolf named Grey Wind that he bonds with, and his brother Bran, his half-brother Jon, and his sister Arya have displayed the ability to "warg" into, or to share a body with their direwolves. According to GRRM, all the Stark kids have that ability, but Robb doesn't know it, and he's certainly never shown any affinity for it.
He is, however, a decent swordsman, and he has a good head for battle strategies and leadership skills, considering his young age and inexperience. He's also trying to be a good king, though that's a bit debatable.
Roleplay Sample – Third Person:
At first Robb thinks it might just be some kind of drunken hallucination, but that theory gets shot down pretty quickly. Even on the rare occasions when he was completely smashed, he'd never hallucinated this vividly before, and certainly not while watching the History Channel. And unless his tolerance has suddenly vanished while he wasn't looking, he's certain he can't get drunk off a few sips of cheap beer alone.
Not only that, but it had...it had felt real, somehow, strange as it is to think about it now. He'd felt the weight of the ax, when he lifted it and brought it down on someone's neck, saw the blood on his clothes and the headless corpse and forgive me, I never wanted--
Okay. Okay, he needs to stop thinking about it, or he's going to puke up whatever's still left in his stomach at this point. He needs water, food, something to do to take his mind off whatever this is. A side effect of all the stress over the past week, maybe, though he doesn't know why it would happen now.
"Quit thinking about it," he mutters to himself, pushing himself up to a more vertical position. "It's nothing."
He's probably going nuts. He's talking to himself in his bathroom after a really vivid hallucination brought on by History Channel, all signs are pointing to "crazy". But then, crazy people don't usually know they've gone round the bend, right? Or is that some kind of myth? He honestly doesn't know.
He staggers out of the bathroom. Fresh air--hadn't his mother told him to get out and get some fresh air in his lungs? He'd told her he was fine, but now, he figures she had a point. A walk would do him good, and anyway he's still got to pick up his laptop, see if it's back in working order.
He passes by the living room on the way out, and his attention is drawn to the screen for a brief moment. They're doing commercials now--something about bidding wars over storage rooms--and though he's never been so glad to see a commercial he turns it off anyways. Electricity's expensive, after all, and he doesn't know how long he'll be out for a walk.
Maybe an hour or so, perhaps. It's enough time to keep his mind as far away from hallucinations and beheadings as possible.
Roleplay Sample - Network:
Test drive meme thread with Beyond Birthday.
Meme thread with Daenerys Targaryen.
Dear Mun post.
Any Questions? Can I use another journal in commenting around for the icons? Because I'm cheap like that.