Aramis (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nothingthatsuffers) wrote2017-10-14 01:44 am
nothingthatsuffers) wrote2017-10-14 01:44 am
Entry tags:
Last Voyages Application
User Name/Nick: A.J.
User DW:wyrish
AIM/IM: surfaceshine
E-mail: surfaceshines@gmail.com
Other Characters: Alec McDowell (kissthatgoodbye)
Character Name: Aramis, born René d'Herblay
Series: BBC's The Musketeers
Age: Mid-30s
From When?: 2x06 - Aramis will die after being pushed out of a third story window because he doesn't know when to stop talking
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. While Aramis is undeniably A Good Man, he's also a man who simply doesn't think and that has grave consequences for all the people around him and even his country. His intentions are always good - or at least, aren't ever bad - but he'll ignore common sense, the direct orders of his superiors, the sound advice of his friends, and even his own sworn oaths if he feels something strongly enough in the moment. The greatest example of this is that in a moment of grief and mutual loneliness, he sleeps with Queen Anne, and she later gives birth to their son. While he undeniably loves her (and she loves him) and his intent was never a malicious one, he still committed an act of treason which would result in the execution of not only himself but the Queen, his bastard son, and any of his friends who knew about it and said nothing if it ever came to light - which it did, and it caused half a season worth of problems that almost destabilized the country except the madman telling the truth about THAT was lying about everything ELSE so Aramis's friends were able to bury it under the rest. He causes further harm by beginning an affair with the Dauphin's governess as a cover story when she catches him multiple times trying to see and interact with his son, which in and of itself is a perfectly understandable motivation, but leaves her open to life-ruining scandal which ultimately allows his enemies to leverage her against him and the Queen, and - though it hasn't happened yet by his pull point, it definitely is already headed that way - ultimately causes her to take her own life out of shame, guilt, and heartbreak because she did in fact truly love him. Basically, the boy needs to recognize that when you fall in love with the Queen, leave that shit alone, especially if you're sworn to protect and serve the King - but failing that, at least listen to wiser people than you, so you don't get everyone you love killed messily and quite a lot of the innocent people you swore to protect too, honey. Intentions are not always all that matter, and failing to anticipate REALLY OBVIOUS consequences doth not butter the parsnips.
Arrival: [(INMATES ONLY) Aramis will be arriving against his will.
Abilities/Powers: Aramis is plain jane run of the mill human. He is the best shot in his regiment (who are in turn the best soldiers of France's army) but that's with a freaking single shot musket that he himself admits is unreliable at even 100 yards and takes ten seconds to reload a single shot. He's trained and seasoned with a sword and dueling dagger, fluent in Spanish and knows some Latin, knowledgeable about several matters of the Church, and has some field medical knowledge which seems limited to assessing and dressing wounds, very very nice stitches, digging out shrapnel, and being able to find a pulse on a living person 80% of the time.
Personality: The most important thing to know about Aramis, perhaps, is that he is a man who is never satisfied by what he has. This applies to all aspects of his life, every motivation he's ever had, and pretty much every decision he's ever made. He is restless, moving from brothel to minor nobility to church to soldier to elite Kingsguard to church again, all while burying himself literally and metaphorically in every pleasure of the flesh, mind, and spirit he can find. He is insatiably curious, irrationally loyal, startlingly intelligent, and passionate about anything that touches his heart.
Alright, backing off the romantic language for a moment, Aramis is a man that has never met an impulse he didn't at least consider indulging. He flirts shamelessly with women, even and maybe especially married ones, he pushes himself to be the best with sword and pistol, he seeks both to understand and obey his God and spread His love to others that are in need of it. He is nominally bound by honor - and to be fair, for the most part he is a truly honorable person, as he seeks more or less to do right by those around him and will wholeheartedly protect the weak and the needy. He only sees class and race when he's forced to by the zeitgeist of the time period, and often rejects them as important where possible; he never speaks down to women, and does genuinely care about even the women he seduces out of boredom or for the sense of challenge. He is a genuine person, overall, but a man ruled by what he wants to do most in a moment when it comes right down to it.
He is loyal, as any of his brothers in arms will tell any that ask, and would honestly probably die for his best friends before he'd die for his King - although he also takes his duty to the Crown seriously, with the one glaring exception. He is recklessly fearless, often putting himself directly into harm's way to protect civilians, fellow soldiers, and the King and Queen alike. He is kind, as someone that takes the time to bless fallen enemies and comrades alike - "He's dead. We can afford to be generous." - who prays over the grave of a woman and the coffin of a veteran with no one else to pray for them, and without hesitation gives up one of his most valued possessions to give comfort to a woman facing being burned at the stake. He is mischievous, willing to play at games of chance and skill and rarely taking anything short of a drawn blade seriously. He is intelligent, having not only established himself as enlightened by literacy and scripture, but having learned multiple languages and medical knowledge useful in the field and in support of someone with specific medical training. He believes in and fights for fairness, and refuses to follow the binding expectations of rank, station, race, or gender simply for the sake of them being the established norm.
But he is also a man who, when pressed or when he sees no reason to restrain himself, is at the mercy of his emotions. He has a temper, as most successful soldiers do, and it's slow to put in an appearance in most situations but is quick and decisive when it does, and runs very hot where his friends or people important to him are involved. He is very tactile and while he would never force himself on anyone that didn't consent, he (VERY OBVIOUSLY) sees no reason not to sleep with any willing partner. His sense of restlessness leads him to push at the boundaries both within himself and around himself in good ways - bringing him to excel at the art of war and diplomacy and religion alike - but also to place those around him in danger or disgrace, such as when he sleeps with married women or casually disregards an order from a superior or the King himself. He is capable of rationalizing any decision he makes as having the best of intentions or, at worst, as perfectly acceptable because it is perfectly acceptable to him. Despite his very real intelligence and common sense, the dude is somewhat oblivious in the way of all charming people, because he can get away with a lot of things with his charisma that most people can't - or won't in his absence or wake.
Aramis is someone who is grounded in the reality of having been born and raised in a brothel, exposed to the church, elevated to aristocracy, drawn to war, blooded on the battlefield, and raised to the company of Kings and Queens. His constant need to better, change, and recreate himself or the world around him has brought him a lot of fantastic experience and a lot of complicated troubles, too. He is genuinely drawn to the devotion of the church and the violence of the soldier, to the security and love of a family and the adventure of a life lived hand to mouth. He has a lot of love to give, and does so freely, but is often short sighted about where his good intentions are leading him and those he loves.
Barge Reactions: Aramis believes in Hell for sinners, and knows he is one, so he'll mistake the Barge for that for a while - even though there's considerably less brimstone and hellfire than he was originally expecting. He'll have a very hard time adjusting to a lot of the technology as well as the more modern or outrageous people on board the Barge - specifically non-humans - and will be overwhelmed at first. As he settles in, though, his natural curiosity, resiliency, and general opinion that all living things are valued in the sight of the God he loves will help him begin to take an interest in understanding his surroundings and the people here. The breaches and floods will seem like something akin to Biblical trials to him for a while, but he's a Musketeer and a libertine, and he adapts.
Path to Redemption: Aramis will never believe that loving and sleeping with the Queen is wrong at its heart. This is in fact where most of the people in his life already have failed to get through to him, because they seem to fear acknowledging that being in love with Anne and wanting to be a father to his son are two of the most natural things in the world, as it might cause Aramis to go even further off the rails (and take them and the country with him). They are not wrong. The reason that love has caused so many problems is not because it is inherently wrong but because of how he's gone about it and the position he and Anne are both in - and, by association, his friends - whether or not Louis is alive. The best way to get through to Aramis is probably going to be through the concept of sacrificial love: he chose a life of service, he fought for and often voices preference for a life of service, he can leave it any time but he chooses to stay in the King's service specifically which leaves him in the service, by proxy, of the Queen, his fellow soldiers, and his country. The best thing he can do for those he loves, then, is to adhere to his own freely made choices and give up his own chance at the traditional family and love to continue to serve those he loves in doing so - a decision he has already made, but in wavering on has caused many of his own problems, and those of the people in his life. He wasn't here long enough on his previous stay to make much to any headway on this, so it remains the same.
History: Part of his history, including some backstory and most of season one, is here. To fill in the holes and string it all together, though:
Aramis was born to a mother who loved him - and whom he loved - and wanted what was best for him but was also a prostitute. She raised him in the brothel where she worked and lived, did her best to get him to church not only for religion reasons but because that was the main source of education at the time. Aramis learned how to read early and well and fell unnaturally in love with it, even though it would be a difficult love to feed throughout his life. It would not be the first or the last part of life he'd fall for wholeheartedly.
Eventually - it's unclear when, but probably around ten or eleven years old - Aramis's minor aristocratic father learned of his existence and came to get him from the brothel, and his mother wanted him to have a better life and made him go. This will have been when he went by René d'Herblay, if ever. It was somewhere in here that he met, fell in love with, seduced, and became engaged to Isabelle; he claims she is the last woman he truly loved, as when she miscarried and (he thought) was spirited away by her father to join a convent, his heart was irreparably broken. It was also during this time that he was trained in the ways of sword and pistol as well as furthering his education as befit a young lord at the time, but very quickly lost patience with the class divide and general condescension from aristocrat to peasant. He took the politesse and left the arrogance - and the name - and ran off to join the infantry in one of the many wars against Spain. Where and when aren't given exactly, but he does claim participation in the Siege of Montabaun in 1621 and the Île de Ré in 1622. He proved proficient with the long range arquebus as well as the shorter range musket and pistol, and two-handed dueling style, to the point that when the King's own regiment began recruiting a new crop of Musketeers, he was commissioned from his unit.
Aramis accepted because who wouldn't, especially when restlessness is one's defining characteristic, but it was after joining the Musketeers that Aramis met the people he would consider family for the rest of his days: very early on, he met and formed a close bond with fellow lowborn soldier Porthos, and the both of them would later befriend a very prickly and often very drunk nobly-born Athos. Thereafter the three of them would become known as the Inseperables, or the (in)famous Three Musketeers, "whose loyalty to the King is legendary."
The only other pre-canon bit of history for Aramis worth mentioning is the Massacre at Savoy. In 1625, during a training exercise purportedly in the safe territory along the border of France and Savoy, a unit of Musketeers was attacked and murdered while they slept by what they thought at the time was a band of Spaniards. There were only two survivors: Aramis and the coward Marsac, who deserted full of survivor's guilt after saving Aramis during the fighting and thereby accidentally saving his own life as well. Aramis still harbors quite a bit of trauma from this, as he makes it quite clear that Marsac left him among the ruined camp, too, "alone in the forest with twenty dead Musketeers" until reinforcements came. It is later revealed that the location of the unit was given to the Cardinal by Treville on orders from the King, although he didn't know what the information would be used for; the true killer was the Duke of Savoy and his men, under the impression he was thwarting an assassination attempt on his own life.
Save for that, though, Aramis enjoyed a relatively comfortable and successful tenure with the garrison. He was well known for his skill with a musket and being loyal to a fault, as well as being the field medic and priest for any of the unit assigned with him at any given time. His personal life was almost nonexistent save for his strange dalliances with reading, the Church, and every woman he could convince to let him into her bed - even if she was married. Even if she was the Cardinal's mistress. Especially then. He's accepted as the (very) informal second in command amongst himself, Athos, and Porthos, taking charge when Athos is accused of murder as they work to clear his name, and later acting as go between and information broker for the Musketeers and the rest of the world when Athos needs to be thought to be dead for a while. All of this comes to an abrupt left turn when the Cardinal decides that for the good of France, the 'barren' Queen Anne of Austria must be assassinated so that the King can remarry. Except the three of them + d'Artagnan are on duty and they get in the way of that, as you do if you're sworn to.
During the ensuing pursuit and siege at a rural monastery, Aramis not only runs into old flame Isabelle who is promptly killed by the mercenaries trying to get to the Queen, but he follows up on the connection he and Anne have had and been building since he saved her life during an earlier breakout at the Chatelet. That is to say, he definitely sleeps with the Queen, who seeks to comfort him (and follow up on her own very obvious attraction to someone who treats her kindly and respectfully) after the loss of Isabelle and the revelation that it was Isabelle who chose to run away from Aramis after her miscarriage because she knew the married life wouldn't make Aramis happy. (He disagrees, but he's wrong, poor lad.) Aramis and Athos, with the help of the nuns in the monastery, manage to hold off the would be assassins until Porthos and d'Artagnan can return with reinforcements from Paris, and go on to help expose the Cardinal being behind the attempt on the Queen. The Queen, in turn, goes on to reveal the fact that she is now pregnant, a fact which gives Athos immediate chronic heartburn and causes Aramis to promptly abandon the remainder of whatever common sense he might have ever had.
Because naturally, once the baby is bornin the several months between seasons, the boy can't stay away. He fosters a relationship with the royal Governess, Marguerite, who mistakenly thinks he's following her around all doe-eyed and not the Dauphin, and he just lets her go on thinking that because now he gets to see the baby AND have sex. He's still running around helping his friends and the traitorous Count de Rochefort do things like pretend to be Spanish soldiers by being the only one that speaks Spanish and generally soldiering it up being Musketeers, but he's also sneaking away into the Palace at every opportunity to check in with the child that can literally never be his unless he wants himself, the baby, and Anne all executed for treason - a fact Athos, as the only other living soul that knows the truth at this point, reminds him of at every turn but never really seems to sink in, unfortunately.
In fact, on the last mission he'll go on before his pull point, he's part of the standard quartet escorting the King and Queen plus half their court to the abode of a local renowned astronomer to view a solar eclipse. The astronomer turns out to be crazy and wants to kill all the nobility he traps in the keep with him, and when Aramis is arguing for the release of the Queen and the Dauphin specifically, the astronomer decides to make an example of him by having him pushed backwards out of a window.
Sample Journal Entry: Communicator business scattered in the comments here from before.
Sample RP: Voice Test Meme from now.
Special Notes: While I know the story of the Three Musketeers has been done over and over and over again, and I could potentially draw from those sources as well as the original books, the canon in The Musketeers seems to be different enough from other versions that it wouldn't fit the character for the most part. I may use the source material to clarify some aspects left vague in the series (such as his freaking birth name, or the denomination of the monk order he joined for four freaking years, which goes unmentioned in the series and designates him as a Jesuit from the books), but again, most of it doesn't scan, so won't be used.
Regarding his previous Barge stay: I would like for Aramis to remember his previous time on the Barge as this is the same version of him I played before. He disappeared during/right after a breach then, and I'd like for him to return now thinking no time has passed from then if that's alright.
User DW:
wyrishAIM/IM: surfaceshine
E-mail: surfaceshines@gmail.com
Other Characters: Alec McDowell (
kissthatgoodbye)Character Name: Aramis, born René d'Herblay
Series: BBC's The Musketeers
Age: Mid-30s
From When?: 2x06 - Aramis will die after being pushed out of a third story window because he doesn't know when to stop talking
Inmate/Warden: Inmate. While Aramis is undeniably A Good Man, he's also a man who simply doesn't think and that has grave consequences for all the people around him and even his country. His intentions are always good - or at least, aren't ever bad - but he'll ignore common sense, the direct orders of his superiors, the sound advice of his friends, and even his own sworn oaths if he feels something strongly enough in the moment. The greatest example of this is that in a moment of grief and mutual loneliness, he sleeps with Queen Anne, and she later gives birth to their son. While he undeniably loves her (and she loves him) and his intent was never a malicious one, he still committed an act of treason which would result in the execution of not only himself but the Queen, his bastard son, and any of his friends who knew about it and said nothing if it ever came to light - which it did, and it caused half a season worth of problems that almost destabilized the country except the madman telling the truth about THAT was lying about everything ELSE so Aramis's friends were able to bury it under the rest. He causes further harm by beginning an affair with the Dauphin's governess as a cover story when she catches him multiple times trying to see and interact with his son, which in and of itself is a perfectly understandable motivation, but leaves her open to life-ruining scandal which ultimately allows his enemies to leverage her against him and the Queen, and - though it hasn't happened yet by his pull point, it definitely is already headed that way - ultimately causes her to take her own life out of shame, guilt, and heartbreak because she did in fact truly love him. Basically, the boy needs to recognize that when you fall in love with the Queen, leave that shit alone, especially if you're sworn to protect and serve the King - but failing that, at least listen to wiser people than you, so you don't get everyone you love killed messily and quite a lot of the innocent people you swore to protect too, honey. Intentions are not always all that matter, and failing to anticipate REALLY OBVIOUS consequences doth not butter the parsnips.
Arrival: [(INMATES ONLY) Aramis will be arriving against his will.
Abilities/Powers: Aramis is plain jane run of the mill human. He is the best shot in his regiment (who are in turn the best soldiers of France's army) but that's with a freaking single shot musket that he himself admits is unreliable at even 100 yards and takes ten seconds to reload a single shot. He's trained and seasoned with a sword and dueling dagger, fluent in Spanish and knows some Latin, knowledgeable about several matters of the Church, and has some field medical knowledge which seems limited to assessing and dressing wounds, very very nice stitches, digging out shrapnel, and being able to find a pulse on a living person 80% of the time.
Personality: The most important thing to know about Aramis, perhaps, is that he is a man who is never satisfied by what he has. This applies to all aspects of his life, every motivation he's ever had, and pretty much every decision he's ever made. He is restless, moving from brothel to minor nobility to church to soldier to elite Kingsguard to church again, all while burying himself literally and metaphorically in every pleasure of the flesh, mind, and spirit he can find. He is insatiably curious, irrationally loyal, startlingly intelligent, and passionate about anything that touches his heart.
Alright, backing off the romantic language for a moment, Aramis is a man that has never met an impulse he didn't at least consider indulging. He flirts shamelessly with women, even and maybe especially married ones, he pushes himself to be the best with sword and pistol, he seeks both to understand and obey his God and spread His love to others that are in need of it. He is nominally bound by honor - and to be fair, for the most part he is a truly honorable person, as he seeks more or less to do right by those around him and will wholeheartedly protect the weak and the needy. He only sees class and race when he's forced to by the zeitgeist of the time period, and often rejects them as important where possible; he never speaks down to women, and does genuinely care about even the women he seduces out of boredom or for the sense of challenge. He is a genuine person, overall, but a man ruled by what he wants to do most in a moment when it comes right down to it.
He is loyal, as any of his brothers in arms will tell any that ask, and would honestly probably die for his best friends before he'd die for his King - although he also takes his duty to the Crown seriously, with the one glaring exception. He is recklessly fearless, often putting himself directly into harm's way to protect civilians, fellow soldiers, and the King and Queen alike. He is kind, as someone that takes the time to bless fallen enemies and comrades alike - "He's dead. We can afford to be generous." - who prays over the grave of a woman and the coffin of a veteran with no one else to pray for them, and without hesitation gives up one of his most valued possessions to give comfort to a woman facing being burned at the stake. He is mischievous, willing to play at games of chance and skill and rarely taking anything short of a drawn blade seriously. He is intelligent, having not only established himself as enlightened by literacy and scripture, but having learned multiple languages and medical knowledge useful in the field and in support of someone with specific medical training. He believes in and fights for fairness, and refuses to follow the binding expectations of rank, station, race, or gender simply for the sake of them being the established norm.
But he is also a man who, when pressed or when he sees no reason to restrain himself, is at the mercy of his emotions. He has a temper, as most successful soldiers do, and it's slow to put in an appearance in most situations but is quick and decisive when it does, and runs very hot where his friends or people important to him are involved. He is very tactile and while he would never force himself on anyone that didn't consent, he (VERY OBVIOUSLY) sees no reason not to sleep with any willing partner. His sense of restlessness leads him to push at the boundaries both within himself and around himself in good ways - bringing him to excel at the art of war and diplomacy and religion alike - but also to place those around him in danger or disgrace, such as when he sleeps with married women or casually disregards an order from a superior or the King himself. He is capable of rationalizing any decision he makes as having the best of intentions or, at worst, as perfectly acceptable because it is perfectly acceptable to him. Despite his very real intelligence and common sense, the dude is somewhat oblivious in the way of all charming people, because he can get away with a lot of things with his charisma that most people can't - or won't in his absence or wake.
Aramis is someone who is grounded in the reality of having been born and raised in a brothel, exposed to the church, elevated to aristocracy, drawn to war, blooded on the battlefield, and raised to the company of Kings and Queens. His constant need to better, change, and recreate himself or the world around him has brought him a lot of fantastic experience and a lot of complicated troubles, too. He is genuinely drawn to the devotion of the church and the violence of the soldier, to the security and love of a family and the adventure of a life lived hand to mouth. He has a lot of love to give, and does so freely, but is often short sighted about where his good intentions are leading him and those he loves.
Barge Reactions: Aramis believes in Hell for sinners, and knows he is one, so he'll mistake the Barge for that for a while - even though there's considerably less brimstone and hellfire than he was originally expecting. He'll have a very hard time adjusting to a lot of the technology as well as the more modern or outrageous people on board the Barge - specifically non-humans - and will be overwhelmed at first. As he settles in, though, his natural curiosity, resiliency, and general opinion that all living things are valued in the sight of the God he loves will help him begin to take an interest in understanding his surroundings and the people here. The breaches and floods will seem like something akin to Biblical trials to him for a while, but he's a Musketeer and a libertine, and he adapts.
Path to Redemption: Aramis will never believe that loving and sleeping with the Queen is wrong at its heart. This is in fact where most of the people in his life already have failed to get through to him, because they seem to fear acknowledging that being in love with Anne and wanting to be a father to his son are two of the most natural things in the world, as it might cause Aramis to go even further off the rails (and take them and the country with him). They are not wrong. The reason that love has caused so many problems is not because it is inherently wrong but because of how he's gone about it and the position he and Anne are both in - and, by association, his friends - whether or not Louis is alive. The best way to get through to Aramis is probably going to be through the concept of sacrificial love: he chose a life of service, he fought for and often voices preference for a life of service, he can leave it any time but he chooses to stay in the King's service specifically which leaves him in the service, by proxy, of the Queen, his fellow soldiers, and his country. The best thing he can do for those he loves, then, is to adhere to his own freely made choices and give up his own chance at the traditional family and love to continue to serve those he loves in doing so - a decision he has already made, but in wavering on has caused many of his own problems, and those of the people in his life. He wasn't here long enough on his previous stay to make much to any headway on this, so it remains the same.
History: Part of his history, including some backstory and most of season one, is here. To fill in the holes and string it all together, though:
Aramis was born to a mother who loved him - and whom he loved - and wanted what was best for him but was also a prostitute. She raised him in the brothel where she worked and lived, did her best to get him to church not only for religion reasons but because that was the main source of education at the time. Aramis learned how to read early and well and fell unnaturally in love with it, even though it would be a difficult love to feed throughout his life. It would not be the first or the last part of life he'd fall for wholeheartedly.
Eventually - it's unclear when, but probably around ten or eleven years old - Aramis's minor aristocratic father learned of his existence and came to get him from the brothel, and his mother wanted him to have a better life and made him go. This will have been when he went by René d'Herblay, if ever. It was somewhere in here that he met, fell in love with, seduced, and became engaged to Isabelle; he claims she is the last woman he truly loved, as when she miscarried and (he thought) was spirited away by her father to join a convent, his heart was irreparably broken. It was also during this time that he was trained in the ways of sword and pistol as well as furthering his education as befit a young lord at the time, but very quickly lost patience with the class divide and general condescension from aristocrat to peasant. He took the politesse and left the arrogance - and the name - and ran off to join the infantry in one of the many wars against Spain. Where and when aren't given exactly, but he does claim participation in the Siege of Montabaun in 1621 and the Île de Ré in 1622. He proved proficient with the long range arquebus as well as the shorter range musket and pistol, and two-handed dueling style, to the point that when the King's own regiment began recruiting a new crop of Musketeers, he was commissioned from his unit.
Aramis accepted because who wouldn't, especially when restlessness is one's defining characteristic, but it was after joining the Musketeers that Aramis met the people he would consider family for the rest of his days: very early on, he met and formed a close bond with fellow lowborn soldier Porthos, and the both of them would later befriend a very prickly and often very drunk nobly-born Athos. Thereafter the three of them would become known as the Inseperables, or the (in)famous Three Musketeers, "whose loyalty to the King is legendary."
The only other pre-canon bit of history for Aramis worth mentioning is the Massacre at Savoy. In 1625, during a training exercise purportedly in the safe territory along the border of France and Savoy, a unit of Musketeers was attacked and murdered while they slept by what they thought at the time was a band of Spaniards. There were only two survivors: Aramis and the coward Marsac, who deserted full of survivor's guilt after saving Aramis during the fighting and thereby accidentally saving his own life as well. Aramis still harbors quite a bit of trauma from this, as he makes it quite clear that Marsac left him among the ruined camp, too, "alone in the forest with twenty dead Musketeers" until reinforcements came. It is later revealed that the location of the unit was given to the Cardinal by Treville on orders from the King, although he didn't know what the information would be used for; the true killer was the Duke of Savoy and his men, under the impression he was thwarting an assassination attempt on his own life.
Save for that, though, Aramis enjoyed a relatively comfortable and successful tenure with the garrison. He was well known for his skill with a musket and being loyal to a fault, as well as being the field medic and priest for any of the unit assigned with him at any given time. His personal life was almost nonexistent save for his strange dalliances with reading, the Church, and every woman he could convince to let him into her bed - even if she was married. Even if she was the Cardinal's mistress. Especially then. He's accepted as the (very) informal second in command amongst himself, Athos, and Porthos, taking charge when Athos is accused of murder as they work to clear his name, and later acting as go between and information broker for the Musketeers and the rest of the world when Athos needs to be thought to be dead for a while. All of this comes to an abrupt left turn when the Cardinal decides that for the good of France, the 'barren' Queen Anne of Austria must be assassinated so that the King can remarry. Except the three of them + d'Artagnan are on duty and they get in the way of that, as you do if you're sworn to.
During the ensuing pursuit and siege at a rural monastery, Aramis not only runs into old flame Isabelle who is promptly killed by the mercenaries trying to get to the Queen, but he follows up on the connection he and Anne have had and been building since he saved her life during an earlier breakout at the Chatelet. That is to say, he definitely sleeps with the Queen, who seeks to comfort him (and follow up on her own very obvious attraction to someone who treats her kindly and respectfully) after the loss of Isabelle and the revelation that it was Isabelle who chose to run away from Aramis after her miscarriage because she knew the married life wouldn't make Aramis happy. (He disagrees, but he's wrong, poor lad.) Aramis and Athos, with the help of the nuns in the monastery, manage to hold off the would be assassins until Porthos and d'Artagnan can return with reinforcements from Paris, and go on to help expose the Cardinal being behind the attempt on the Queen. The Queen, in turn, goes on to reveal the fact that she is now pregnant, a fact which gives Athos immediate chronic heartburn and causes Aramis to promptly abandon the remainder of whatever common sense he might have ever had.
Because naturally, once the baby is born
In fact, on the last mission he'll go on before his pull point, he's part of the standard quartet escorting the King and Queen plus half their court to the abode of a local renowned astronomer to view a solar eclipse. The astronomer turns out to be crazy and wants to kill all the nobility he traps in the keep with him, and when Aramis is arguing for the release of the Queen and the Dauphin specifically, the astronomer decides to make an example of him by having him pushed backwards out of a window.
Sample Journal Entry: Communicator business scattered in the comments here from before.
Sample RP: Voice Test Meme from now.
Special Notes: While I know the story of the Three Musketeers has been done over and over and over again, and I could potentially draw from those sources as well as the original books, the canon in The Musketeers seems to be different enough from other versions that it wouldn't fit the character for the most part. I may use the source material to clarify some aspects left vague in the series (such as his freaking birth name, or the denomination of the monk order he joined for four freaking years, which goes unmentioned in the series and designates him as a Jesuit from the books), but again, most of it doesn't scan, so won't be used.
Regarding his previous Barge stay: I would like for Aramis to remember his previous time on the Barge as this is the same version of him I played before. He disappeared during/right after a breach then, and I'd like for him to return now thinking no time has passed from then if that's alright.