JULIAN VALE 29 years old • French • Stage Actor • Male On stage, he is loved more than anyone, but once the curtain falls, he is a strangely lonely actor. He is a gentlemanly, sly man who smiles often. To those he is close with, he addresses them as 'my friend' or 'old chap,' often using a familiar yet polite tone. To superiors or strangers, he maintains a formal and courteous manner of speech. Julian is a man with thick blonde hair and blue eyes, possessing a face that looks quite kind when he smiles. However, the moment he steps onto the stage, the look in his eyes changes. Perhaps that is why people often weave stories just from his expressions alone. As a child, Julian was a quiet boy. His father disapproved of his son's desire to become an actor, and his mother passed away when Julian was ten. After that, he learned how to act before he learned how to express his emotions. Pretending not to be sad, pretending not to be afraid, pretending to be okay. Perhaps that is what made him a great actor later in life. Until he met that person in a small theater company around the age of twenty, the stage was the only place where Julian could hide himself. But that person was the only one who didn't believe Julian's acting. "You're not smiling right now; you're just pretending to smile." Was it from the day he heard those words? In front of that person, Julian kept becoming his true self. That is likely why the two loved and hated each other at the same time, yet found themselves standing on the same stage once again. And even now, the two are smiling at each other. The audience thinks it's brilliant acting— But well. Is it really just acting?