Horatio Esterhuizen

"'You indolent little scoundrel! How dare you! I will make you pay in your own blood when I get my claws on you!'"Horatio Esterhuizen, once known as The First Prince but now known as The Tailor, is a pyromancing puppeteer that was held captive as a prisoner within Maxwell's lair during the Vervanging War. He has since lost all of his former glory, and remains at the lair due to his fear of returning home to be ridiculed and shamed by his meant-to-be subjects.

He is originally introduced as a main character in Book 1 : Black Eyes.

Appearance
Horatio appears to be a scruffy, lanky man of roughly 12 feet. His limbs seem immensely disproportional, which makes him appear disjointed and almost unnerving to look at. Furthermore, his spine seems to be twice the length of an average man's, providing him with a disturbing level of flexibility. His face is whiskered and framed with a beard, beholding a decently animalistic look, especially when accompanied by his long, triangular ears which splay on the sides of his face. Upon his head, a crown of furry horns sprout from his dirty red hair.

Unlike the average puppeteer, Horatio's eyes seem to be a shade of gold rather than silver or white, and flecked with golden specks around the slitted pupil. His unique eye colour indicates that he views the world in shades of yellow rather than monochromatically.

Personality
Horatio is very self-righteous, naturally from being raised and pampered throughout his younger years of royalty. He is impatient, snobbish, arrogant and extremely demanding when he wishes for things to go his way. He considers himself as high and mighty, immediately asserting his dominance and authority on others during first impressions.

Despite his horrendous self-hygiene that's resulted in his fur becoming a stale grey, Horatio still seems to compose himself with high dignity. He almost seems absent-minded towards his own filth, and grows extremely offended when other people acknowledge how foul he smells, or how musky his fur feels. From lacking the patience to learn and knowledge on how to do it himself, Horatio's hygiene only continues to deteriorate.

Trivia

 * Horatio was initially going to be South African.
 * This idea was later passed on to Benedict, and was furthermore changed into Benedict having an unknown origin.
 * Horatio's concept sketch also was provided to Benedict instead.