Slavvo Boleyn
Name Given at Birth: Slavvo Stanley Jal Boleyn
Nicknames: None
Hometown or where you were born: Outskirts of Canterbury during the harvest festival.
Current Residence: Gypsy Kumpania
Age: 23
Class: Romania Princes
What do you do, your main function in life/society: Performer, heavy labor in the Kumpania, Glox (master) in arms.
Have you ever gone skinny-dipping / do you know how to swim: Yes and Yes
Do you make fun of people: Nay, but I am known to tease my brothers and a few others in jest.
Favorite Color: Ialo (red) and black
Have you ever committed or been convicted of a crime: Yes, I have committed crime, but I have never been caught.
Closest friends/How did you meet: Nikolai is perhaps my closest prala (brother) and we both share many interests and can be found working with weapons and dance often.
One Pillow or two: 1 pillow is all that is necessary.
Pets: My hunting falcon
Favorite Type of Music: I do enjoy the sound of a swift beat and the music of the Romani
Hobbies/Pastimes: singing and sparring
Personal Hygiene: very clean
Favorite Food: Italian
Are your parents alive, do you get along with them: My papa is alive and I get along with him well.
If your parents are dead, when and how did they die? My mother, Sofia Tragka was the chavo of a deposed Czar. One month after meeting papa and having me the new Czar had her murdered. Papa rightly returned the favor.
Favorite place to relax: On a sunny secluded rock, or a tall tree or rooftop.
Favorite Holy Day / Why: Yuletide. Because we receive a week off to enjoy at our Mitri’s and patri’s estate.
Favorite Drink: Black mead
What's your bedtime: When the work is done and there is no more of the ‘family business’ to do, I usually fall quickly asleep. Though I occasionally stay up and feed Liluri or star at the astururi.
What, if anything, do you usually wear on your feet? I do enjoy the feeling of the earth beneath my feet, but I normally wear sandals or boots.
Are you married or single? Single. I am a widower.
Do you have a family / who are they?
Luca – He is my youngest brother and the baby of the family and is trident in trying to prove otherwise. He can often be found, to papa’s annoyance, staring intently at the inside of his eyelids. But, a gifted dancer with a sharp tongue, Luca is truly a Boleyn gypsy boy.
Cezar – The second youngest, he carries with him a kind, yet sometimes, mischievous heart. His love for dancing is truly a gift to this kumpania. He has traveled with Troupe Festivale, but supposedly he was key in the disintegration of the Troupe. We sons have yet to discover how though.
Benvolio – Perhaps the smartest of my brothers, he is the caravan’s yeoman. Brilliant with numbers and a hard worker, Benvolio is destined to be in charge of his own caravan. Quiet and sometimes shy, he is possessed of a quick tongue and a ready laugh.
Tibor – Our talented drummer and musician. He is originally from India. Of few words around gaje, Tibor is our main musician and drummer. He is a valuable member of the kumpania and well-respected for his musical prowess, despite his quirky attitude his duties.
Reynoldo – The boy with a baro smile is of course our brother Reynaldo. Almost always found grinning, he is jovial and fun loving and quick to laugh. Like most Boleyn’s his tongue is quick and his wits sharp. But he does sometimes lose himself in thought, and wanders about aimless, oblivious even to a large-oxen pulled vardo about to run him down. Luckily I was there to save him. He may seem a strange choice for the kumpania’s cartographer, but there is no better map maker in Europe. When you can get him to attend.
Harim – Is our Swedish brother. And we phral do never let him forget it. It is all in jest, of course, but it is too much fun to see him get so angry when teased about his fair skin. But teasing aside, Harem is the keeper of the baro pretera and many of the other animals necessary to our caravan. He controls the animals with a firm, but not unkind, hand.
Netotsi – Born in Morraco and raised by his mother among the Bedouins, Netotsi left his home at his mother’s behest to find his father. He eventually found our kumpania and his father, papa, took him in. A great lover of women and a hunter of skill possibly rivaling Evgeny, he possesses an uncanny affinity with ruvuri (wolf). He is also a lover of song and dance.
Milosh – Is our fixer. When things break, from a roj (spoon), lil (book) or vardo, it is Milosh who is charged with rehabilitating the item to working order. He is also an aspiring dancer and often works with me in the art of weaponry.
Adi – The greatest runner ever to grace the earth. He is our messenger and trusted by papa explicitly. As such, he is papa’s personal helper, always ready to deftly complete any chore papa has need of. He is a most exuberant dancer, his skill in dance and great endurance is an asset to every performance.
Sasha – The Da Vinci of gypsies, he is the architect and designer. When our kumpania made new vardos, they were created from plans drawn up by Sash. He is important to the family business with his deadly churi (knife) skills.
Evgeny – He is papa’s right hand man. The son who is respected and heeded almost as much as papa is. His powerful build, from ferari, and his legendary skill as a huntsman is offset by his graceful dancing, flowing words and ready laugh. A skilled member of the family business, he is our information specialist. Our phral has his wold moments, such as climbing upon roofs, being with gaje girls and then there is his ego, which could fill all the kumpania’s vardos with ease.
Nikolai – The oldests of pap’s chavo is he. Perhaps the greatest dancer our kumpania has ever known. His absence from our kumpania is sorely felt. He is currently searching for Ivan, the smelly, Lucianna’s husband. It is with Nikolai that I get along with the best.
Lucianna – The greatest sister we have!! Of course there are only two. A surrogate mother to many of the younger phral, and she does papa proud, usually keeping us well in line. Always with something to say, she is the only one of papa’s children currently married.
Ilyana – An unusual girl; she was raised by fairies for a good part of her childhood. Papa took her in soon after she turned eighteen. She loves animals and will eat no meat. Also a talented dancer and is rightly betrothed to Nikolai.
Esmerelda – The chakano (diva), she is famous in many countries for her talented performances. But that success and fame has gone to her head. She has her very own vardo, orders us brothers around as slaves and takes a BATH EVERYDAY! We get the bath water. She is with us purely because of her fame.
Saphira – It is a rare pleasure to have in our kumpania a cook of the calibre coveted by kings. We do eat well when she is with us. A wondrous drummer, there is not a gypsy among us that does not worship her.
Favorite Entertainment: A good sparring match, wooing, or a well-done theatrical.
Favorite Subject in School or Chore growing up: I truly enjoyed scholastic duties. But most of all I reveled in my training in arms.
Least Favorite Subject in School or Chore growing up: cooking
Favorite Sport: dueling and/or sparring
Most Humiliating Moment: It was to my eternal humiliation my first meeting with my late beloved wife. I had just gotten off of a ship with the gypsy kumpania after a long voyage. As I shakily walked off the ship I saw an angel on earth, a beauty with no match. I slowly wobbled over to this heavenly creature and when I opened my mouth to sweep her off her feet with my words, I emptied my troubled stomach upon her shoes and dress. In front of my entire gypsy family.
Proudest Moment: It would be both the day I had defeated all of our kumpania’s greatest fighters and passed papa’s test as well to become our master in arms. Or when I did kiss Ara Shala for the first time as my manishie (wife).
Craziest Person or silliest you know: Luca, for much of what comes out of that boy’s mouth is beyond belief and far outside of most comfort circles.
What do you look for in the opposite sex: dark and beautiful, wavy hair, a smile that is true and a heart full of laughter and mischief.
In our Hierarchical Society everybody has somebody "over" them, who is your immediate "overlord?" Papa
And how do you feel about him? He is a good and kind papa, but strict as well.
Favorite Sport to watch: my younger phral attempting to spar with weapons.
Do you remember your first kiss? Yes, it was under a magnificent moon on a roof in the main square of London.
Do you keep in touch with your childhood friends? Yes, they are my phral.
Where is your favorite "Vacation" spot? The Highgate manor
Have you ever been overseas? Yes, and I hate very moment upon those accursed ships.
Do you have Dirt/Mud floors or Stone? Normally dirt, but when it rains, I sleep in the vardo.
What is your bed made of? cloth
How many people sleep in your bed?
10 Things Everybody Should Know About Me:
1. I am a glox (master) with almost all weapons.
2. I enjoy leaping upon roofs.
3. Education is of equal value to me as physical training.
4. I enjoy dancing and acting much. But I am shy of singing in public and am much more comfortable singing alone.
5. I HATE SEA TRAVEL!!!!
6. My brothers say I sweat like a pig.
7. My wife was slain by buccaneers when returning from Sicily to see her parents, only 5 months after we became corthu.
8. I have no tolerance for those of a pirate nature because of Aria’s death. Papa is the sole reason I don’t kill pirates upon sight.
9. I wish to start a traveling theater troupe and also train them to help in the family business.
10. Sasha is my only equal, and perhaps even better, in the art of chari fighting.