Parenthood: Julian

[RPGPundit]

To me, Julian is the utter fuckup of the family. He's the one that just isn't right, in a different and more harmless but just as ugly way as Brand just wasn't right.
Julian is socially retarded, and incapable of really interacting with other human beings. In many ways, he's far less "clever" than Gerard; Gerard might not be a genius, but at least he knows how to talk to people, how to be compassionate and empathic, and to understand that what he wants isn't the only important thing in the universe.

Julian is the lawncrapper of the family, the geek who surrounded himself with toys and stuff because he can't make human contact.  Arden Forest is the big metaphorical equivalent of that room in the basement where he sits with all his toys and all the things he's got that can't say no to him or make fun of him, its the place where he can pretend he has absolute power.

I can't really imagine Julian having any kind of actual romantic relationship with a woman, much less a family. Any child of Julian would be likely to be from one of two sources: either the product of rape (which would certainly be in keeping with Julian's mentality), or the product of some ambitious woman's manipulations of Julian: she gave him sex, and got herself pregnant because she wanted to have a son who was a prince of Amber, or for some other more nefarious purpose.

Julian might or might not raise the child: He'd be equally likely in my mind, depending on the circumstances, to want nothing to do with his kid in childhood or to demand that he get to raise it and then proceed to bring the kid up in Arden where he would try to control every aspect of his kids' life and make clear that the kid exists for his amusement and glorification.
In the former case, he would probably be resentful of the child he did not raise (particularly if the circumstances of the kid's birth were in some way publically embarrassing for him), and would refuse to have much of anything to do with the kid even as an adult. He might go so far as to be aggressive to the kid if they had to go through Arden. The child would likely have gotten lots of attention from Caine and Gerard though, and either of these might try to push and coerce their brother into taking some responsibility and not being such a douchebag.

In the other case, where Julian raised the kid, he would likely poison the kids' mind about all his relatives excepting Gerard and Caine, telling his son or daughter about how all the other princes and princesses of Amber were just a bunch of assholes who think they're better than him and that they will one day suffer his revenge; the kid may very well be a vehicle for that revenge.
On the one hand, Julian might insist that his kid be "trained" and "prepared" to right all of the wrongs Julian imagines he has suffered at the hands of his relatives, he will envision his child to be the instrument for "getting even" with all the "assholes".
On the other, if the child rebels against Julian or, even WORSE, starts to show themselves to be more competent or capable at anything that Julian is (be it things like combat, or magic, or more mundane things like being well-liked by people or having success with women), Julian is likely to go utterly apeshit: his own child is a "traitor" trying to be "Better than him", trying to "insult" him and "make a fool" of him.  
Its very possible that a child of Julian who he raised will have grown up believing, as children are likely to, in all the things Julian said; growing up hating others in the family like Corwin and the Redheads (especially that "bitch" Fiona), and thinking that their dad was both the "coolest", "scariest", and "mightiest" person in the world. Depending on how quickly they were disabused of these notions, it could cause them a lot of problems in life. But its likely that eventually, they'd have to figure out at the very least that in fact their dad is not as "cool" as he led them to believe, nor as "mighty", and ultimately, he's not even particularly "scary" as far as Elder Amberites go.  That moment, when you realize your father is really just a sad lonely little man who everyone walks over, will likely mark a changing point for any PC son or daughter of Julian.

Of course, if it is the case of a daughter, there could also be some other very ugly consequences of being raised by Julian: I see Julian as a violent misogynist, blaming women for all his failures with them.  It would be likely that any daughter of Julians, especially as she grew into the age where Julian began to have troubles with women, would get a particular hard time of things as he let out all his revenge and frustrations against women and against female members of his family on his own daughter.

RPGPundit

[Malleus Arianorum]

On the other hand, I could see Julian becoming a nighmare if he somehow got ahold of real power. Already he's been able to take dogs, horses and armor and turn them up to eleven... but what if he did that with something that really mattered? Thematicaly, I'd like to see something that he can machine or train since he himself doesn't seem to have much personal power and he seems content to be overshadowed by his gear. (I mean honestly, who's afraid of Julian v.s. who's NOT afraid of his horse and hounds?)

So anyway, he gives his child the same treatment Morgenstein got. He starts by picking the "perfect" woman to bear his children, although what perfect means to the master of the eight legged horse is anyone's guess. He could search through shadow, or he could breed her like he breeds his hounds [your bitch joke here]. Or, he might look beyond shadow riff-raff to royalty, either the courts, or his siblings, or even grandma unicorn herself. In any case, the end result would be a failed experiement, freakish monster, or perfect child and their relationship to their father would be as good as they were valuable to him.

Julian would also be the parent most likely to give free items to his children, albiet "free" as in "has hooks." I could very easily see him spoiling his children with bodyguards, horses, hounds, armor, weapons etc... It would be entertaining to see his gifts overshadow the other PCs, at least until real danger reared it's head.

[Trevelyan]

Julian was the creepy kid who delighted in pulling the wings off flies. He's the guy at the con who wants to tell you about his character, and the guy who always sits a little too close to any female gamers that join the group.

Much of what he does comes from a desire to be part of something, hindered by a complete inability to understand subtle social clues that most people, in particular his family, take for granted. One character might seek his advice in Arden on the best way to quickly dispatch a stag once the hounds bring it down, Julain's mind will sieze on the notion that this topic interests people and he'll bring it up the next time the family serves venison at a state dinner, making every guest feel nervous as he talks about the time it probably took the deer to die, and how much bolld he had to clean from his pristeen white armour. He won't do this out of the desire to offend, but purely because he oesn't realise that a conversation from the hunt isn't usually acceptable over dinner. For this reason he'll never get on well with Flora.

With his children, Julian is likely to be the same way. He's the parent who will slip from amusing annecdotes about his son's first hunt to embarrasing tales about the time the kid pissed himself when first confronted by a manticore. He'll do this with every girl that his son brings hiome to meet the family and will never understand why his son grows to hate him, and why he continues to be isolated and ignored once his kids are old enough to know better and avoid him.

At some level Julian is aware that he's not well liked and remains deeply envious of everyone more social adept than he is. And that is pretty much everyone he'll ever meet. Julian has never learnt that it's better to remain silent and be thoguht a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. Yet time and again he'll pit himself against someone in a social context and walk away humiliated and plotting revenge the next time his imagined tormentor wanders through Arden.

Growing up a child of Julian is likely to be surrounded by his father's lackies, a group of frequently violent thugs who laugh at Julian's jokes and humour his more vicious whims in exchange for sharing some of his authority. They may resent the attention that he pays to a child, making the kid's life difficult in such a way as to make the kid's life difficult without the ever oblivious Julian realising that there is a problem (the image of the janitor from Scrubs tormenting JD while always sucking up to Elliott springs to mind).

That's the bad stuff version.

For a good stuff character, they might see through their father's social awkwardness and discover a lonely man with a lot of love and attention to lavish on his offspring. The child of Julian could become his father's only true confidant and benefit from all the support that this entails. Other Amberites might see this child as the best avenue for dealing with Julian, approaching the child with offers of alliance where it would be difficult to deal with Julian directly.

[JongWK]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Julian's child!