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b r i n g i n g defne to the tea shop had become a routine for Grayson. In truth spending time not searching for answers about Eleanor or worrying for his other siblings was time well spent for the marquess and having a walk with his youngest sibling calmed his mind a little. As he let his sister mingle with the ton's people, Grayson looked out over the crowd assembled only to find himself releasing a small sigh. as he stood there studying known and unknown faces he didn't hear the individual who approached him and didn't turn in their direction before they spoke.
❛ lord cecil, ❜ comes yejong’s greeting, the salutation clothed in equal parts surprise and amusement: it is quite the sight to behold the marquess of salisbury amidst the vision of ices and pastries and confectionaries of all sorts and shapes and sizes. the same, he reckons, can be aptly said of him as well — and so yejong feels a close sort of kinship with the marquess in this specific situation, both of them seeming so out-of-place amidst all the saccharine sweetness happening about. ❛ either you are here as a chaperone for someone, ❜ the first lord of the admiralty muses out loud, ❛ or as someone who has given cause for someone else to be a chaperone — tell me, which is it for today? ❜
it sticks. it lasts. it sneaks. it makes its way home in the hollow of his bones without him all the wiser: thoughtless, reckless, careless — a thousand other things he’d sworn himself off from being, a thousand other things he couldn’t help but still become.
it, meaning: there are instances where the softness of her skin so easily touches the fabric of his clothes, two or three layers of material separating skin from skin, her hand on his shoulder; just a bit lower — sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right — rests his heart, that indefatigable fist of blood and tissue. a pulse beats along to a rhythm he dare not name, so far removed that he dare not even call it his pulse beating from his own heart, instead hiding behind the indefinite, cloaked behind words, as he always tended to, as he always will be.
as much, perhaps, as he does not wish to be: a cage of his own making, with no one else but himself to blame.
he comes to her late at night, so late that it becomes morning, twilight about to become light. perhaps, if he stayed, and yet he never does, it might become metaphor; but there is only this: tomorrow, the whispers will talk about how the right honourable lord dormer is lurking where he shouldn’t be, and oh, look — what a pretty box he carries! silk ribbons and floral wrapping paper! a gift, perhaps, for a secret beau from the demimonde? and so he lets himself in, and here there could only be speculation. here, the truth is known only to two, and the truth is this: he unties the ribbons and opens the box, unveiling metal pipes, supplies of opium, bottles of laudanum… presented, ever so prettily, ever so tenderly, at she who could have had dresses but instead only received this unfortunate man’s benedictions.
at she, whom he might give the world and more, and so does not.
❛ what do you think? ❜ he asks, voice low, body coming nearer so that the breath of his words might caress her ear. he puts down the box on a table nearby, but his fingers catch the tail-end of a silk ribbon, already looping it ‘round his fingers. ❛ of the ruse, that is? ❜ he takes her hand in his, his own hand brushing the length of her arm, thumb caressing wrist-bone, spreading out the other’s fingertips so that he could tie the ribbon on her little finger. ❛ the box might be counterfeit, ❜ he muses, ❛ but the ribbon — why, i just got it this morning. ❜ for you, he does not say. ❛ it suits you so. ❜
𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫
location : lake side at st. james park
it was crucial for william emerge back to society once more after months of being secluded ; he needed to demonstrate that he was a perfect example of a healthy young man, embodying all the qualities expected of britain's future ruler. However, those within his close circle knew that he was far from being such an ideal figure. Despite the lingering chilliness in the air, spring finally arrived—a season he particularly cherished. Today's weather was exceptionally ideal, william thought as he strolled along the lake in st. James park. He tried to ignore his guard and valet, who not-so-discreetly follows him a few steps behind. while walking along the path, william paused briefly and veered off towards the riverbank. He reached into his coat pocket, revealing the feed he had been carrying. The prince had hoped to encounter some ducks today. without hesitation, he tossed the feed into the lake, observing the nearby ducks swim toward the spot where the food had landed. William couldn't help but be amused by the sight. "they have waterproof feathers", the prince of wales mused, turning his gaze towards the other person. "that's why they can swim for hours on end." he clarified, offering the remaining feed from his outstretched hand in his pocket. "would you like to feed them?"
so lost in thought was he, staring into the water, that he barely realises who stands beside him — or, indeed, that anyone is standing beside him at all — until words leave the other’s mouth, breaking him out of his reverie, causing him to turn and behold the visage of the crown prince himself: perhaps the last person he expects to see this day, but yejong is too quick to recognise an opportunity when he sees it. ❛ your highness, ❜ he greets, bowing. as he does so, he hazards a glance, quick and easy, at the proffered feed. ❛ i see no reason why i shouldn’t, ❜ he continues, taking the feed in his hand and scattering it near the spot where the prince of wales had distributed the grains just moments before. ❛ surely there must be ducks in the ponds in the gardens of the palace, ❜ yejong adds, his roundabout way of asking why the crown prince might be out and about — but then he frowns rather thoughtfully. ❛ though it does you a world of good, i suppose, ❜ he says, ❛ to be seen. ❜ this, the closest he will come to acknowledging matters that exist outside of this niche where pond meets green meets the two of them together: it would not do, after all, to bring gloom on a prince who might merely be looking to enjoy a day out, feeding ducks on a pond in the park.
━━ ⊰ [ sam reid , 37 , cisgender man , he/him ] the ton is buzzing ! have you heard ? ALBEMARLE DORMER , BARON DORMER has arrived in mayfair ! i have been told that he is + INSIGHTFUL & + CORDIAL but are also - MACHIAVELLIAN & - RECKLESS but we shall know more about them as the season progresses. they aim to SECURE HIS FAMILY'S FORTUNE before the season ends. we cannot be too sure but it is said that their loyalties lie WITH THEIR FAMILY. how true ? we are yet to find out.
QUICK FACTS.
NAME: albemarle codrington dormer NICKNAME: albie AGE: thirty-seven PLACE OF BIRTH: oxfordshire, england ETHNICITY: anglo-irish GENDER: cisgender man PRONOUNS: he/him ORIENTATION: bisexual RELIGION: roman catholic PARENTS: swynfen coare dormer ( baron ) & albertine makepeace dormer née learmonth ( baroness ) SIBLINGS utp, ophelia dormer LANGUAGES: english, french, ancient greek ( fluent ) latin, gaeilge ( conversational ) german ( basics ) EDUCATION: eton, oxford OCCUPATION: nominally an antiquarian, in actuality the owner of white rabbit HOBBIES & INTERESTS: gambling, travelling, antiquaries, fencing, poetry RESIDENCES newcastle house ( london ) steeple barton manorhouse ( oxfordshire )
PARALLELS.
alexei ivanovich ( the gambler ) tom ripley ( the talented mr. ripley ) sisyphus ( mythology ) tantalus ( mythology ) ozymandias ( watchmen )
SNAPSHOT.
tl;dr giant faker of a man does the whole ‘hey kid wanna do drugs’ routine on the whole ton and. somehow this works? bc ppl can’t help but woobify a white man with a sob story
aka tom ripley if he was born rich
tw for references to gambling, death
the rumours are aplenty, but perhaps none moreso whispered than this: there is a rot in baron dormer’s soul.
consider, perhaps, his smile: too easy, too wide, too generous. perhaps, if his automatic response to anything is to smile, this habit then leading into one or two moments of embarrassment to be gleefully traded around the ton, then it would be a non-affair. as it is, he would offer you a how do you do? he would ask you how your kids have been. he will make it seem as if he is interested in you, your life, your hopes, your dreams, your fears — worst of all, he might even become your friend, offering you a shoulder to cry on, honeyed words of advice, a strong hand to push you where you have always needed to go.
do not be fooled: there is no room for friendship in the baron dormer’s soul.
consider, too, his gregariousness. he’s no fool. he knows the things being whispered about him. he knows that you have been talked to death about his loss of fortune, his predilection for the gambling table, the death of his wife, his back-alley dealings, his magnetism for scandals, his propensity for being pitied. he knows all these — and yet, when he talks to you, doubtless knowing what it is he knows, it is as if all is forgotten. he must have known you exchanged whispers about him with miss tyrwhitt-prufrock in almacks assembly hall, but see him come to you now. see him offer you his smile, his companionship, his easy humour, his amiability. he must have heard, hadn’t he? — but then again, perhaps, maybe not, for how else could he still show his face to the ton?
he will offer you a smile. he will ask you how you’ve been. he will ask about your children at home, your hunting grounds in the country, your latest troubles in trying to marry off your eldest. he will have you talking so much about yourself that you will feel yourself rude, being so self-absorbed, and so you will ask him about himself. he will smile. he always smiles. he will talk to you about his journey to greece, where he talks about how, in years and centuries past, maenads will dance themselves into a frenzy. communed with the divine. have you ever felt that? he will ask. have you ever felt the divine touch your soul? i am not talking here of religion. here, he will laugh a charming kind of laugh. you must steel yourself against his laugh. you must steel yourself against him. i am talking of something more, something better, something purer—
there is something, you are beginning to realise, about the way he talks.
later — much later, perhaps days, perhaps weeks — he will come up to you again. he will tell you how business seems to be booming. you try to remember: he did say something, didn’t he, about his antiquaries business? he will laugh when you remind him of this, and you laugh along, even though you don’t know why. he just has that way about him. you extend him condolences for his loss — something that you, in your predilection for smutty rumours, have completely forgotten — and you almost see his façade crumble. yet he will pull himself together. he will thank you for your thoughtfulness.
you will realise, then and there, that he has been putting up a front.
fool that you are, you do not know that this is yet another.
the rumours are aplenty, but perhaps none moreso whispered than this: the right honourable lord dormer must be pitied, for all that he has suffered.
A DEEPER LOOK.
mad, bad, and dangerous to know: blond-haired byron serving machievallian realness while even having the raging philhellenism. does not, however, use it to die a needless martyr’s death in greece but does use it to buy and sell antiquaries he could reliably prove ( or forge ) the provenance of. for even more lord byron plagiarism fodder: also writes poetry — though, alas, he publishes under a pseudonym.
is quite a good chess player, and went to schönbrunn palace during his grand tour of europe to battle with the mechanical turk. soundly lost. rues the war on europe simply bc it barred him from a rematch and now supposedly the owner’s shuttered the whole thing down.
absolutely shits where he eats: has zero (0) qualms enjoying his own wares. sometimes brings it with him in social function and offers freebies to anyone discerning enough to ask — provided, of course, that it’s only to prove what the other’s been missing out on.
WANTED CONNECTIONS.
people whom he’s owed gambling debts to which have now been paid off and heaven knows they’re suspicious about the source of the money they received as payment but. how does one exactly go about returning crime-tainted money?
people he’s probably done the tactic on in the snapshot above. i dare say this goes for most of the members of the ton, but he basically just uses the whole season to scope out customers for his other business.
bosom buddies from oxford and eton, whom he doubtless still keeps up with because he has mentally never grown past being a teenager with no responsibilities. on a more serious note: quite probably his first love also falls here. whether or not it was requited is utp and i’m not averse to this person being, like. his green light or whatever.
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━━ ⊰ [ gong yoo , 38 , cisgender man , he/him ] the ton is buzzing ! have you heard ? HAN YEJONG , FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY has arrived in mayfair ! i have been told that he is + LOYAL & + DILIGENT but are also - UNDERHANDED & - GRANDIOSE but we shall know more about them as the season progresses. they aim to FIND HIMSELF A BRIDE before the season ends. we cannot be too sure but it is said that their loyalties lie AGAINST THE CROWN. how true ? we are yet to find out.
QUICK FACTS
NAME: han yejong NICKNAME: yejong AGE: thirty-eight PLACE OF BIRTH: london, england ETHNICITY: korean GENDER: cisgender man PRONOUNS: he/him ORIENTATION: bisexual RELIGION: nominally anglican, atheist PARENTS: unknown ( unknown ) & unknown ( unknown ) SIBLINGS unknown LANGUAGES: korean, english, french ( fluent ) danish, portuguese ( conversational ) greek, mandarin ( half-forgotten ) EDUCATION: royal naval academy OCCUPATION: first lord of the admiralty HOBBIES & INTERESTS: sailing, natural philosophy, mathematics, astronomy RESIDENCES 3 park crescent ( london ) merton place ( surrey )
PARALLELS.
andrei bolkonsky ( war & peace ) septimus warren smith ( mrs. dalloway ) jon snow ( a song of ice and fire ) john watson ( arthur conan doyle ) faramir ( the lord of the rings )
SNAPSHOT.
tl;dr scholarship kid risks his life for his country and doesn’t end up dying but does end up suffering ego-death which is perhaps Worse
aka andrei bolkonsky if he was born poor
tw for post-traumatic stress disorder, mental health issues, warfare, burning/fires, death, gore, child abandonment
your death says: you will remember the cannonfire.
the sky is clear, the winds favourable. your sailing master tells you that the northeasterly winds mean that you should unfurl and, after thinking it over, you forward the suggestion to the riggers, your command met with cheerful voices and a fair degree of laughter. they do not see you as their superior, not really, but you find that you can’t begrudge them their lack of respect, having always felt more at home in the cabins than the wardroom. they fail to observe the proper decorum with you and you, fool that you are, allow them this. you allow them everything. there is nothing so dearer to you as the goodwill of your fellow men and, now that you have it, you have sworn not to let go of it.
in the horizon, so near that you could taste smoke on your tongue, copenhagen burns.
in the quiet of quiets, so soft you can almost pretend it doesn’t exist, your death will whisper in your ear: remember the cannonfire.
words so loud they erase everything else, guilt so nagging it drags you down and weathers you from the inside out: stories replace memories replace selfhood replace everything you think you know. every church you see, you think of burning spires. every plaza is strewn with the ruins of houses and the gore of flesh. every blue sky is marred with the pockmarks of smoke.
every unknown child, you think, could have been you: mere foundling wrapped in a blanket not even embroidered with your own name, mere slip of paper telling the orphanage what it was — didn’t they know that the wind could have carried your name away? — before growing into a child that had something to prove. the late duke, too, had something to prove: charity is next to godliness, and perhaps he wanted to touch the edge of divinity. you were a test case, meant to say something about opportunity and diligence and worthiness in outcomes.
make no mistake: you were a charity case.
the bombardment lasts twenty-two days. on wednesdays, you would toast for yourselves, for nobody else would think of you. your death, just off-stage, laughs and laughs and laughs: for it is certainly thinking of you. on thursdays, you would toast to wars and sickly seasons. here, you toast with death, for it is only through war and sickness that your star burns ever brighter, promotions rationed by the cord of life. on fridays, you toast to willing foes.
some nights, you just stand on-deck to take in the vision: copenhagen, burning.
you tell yourself that you will remember this: the sound of cannonfire, the ruckus of children crying for their parents, the smell of burning wood, the bitter tang of smoke as it hits your eyes, the sound of cannonfire, the sound of your own voice ordering for the bombardment, the taste of soot, the salt of the sea, the sound of cannonfire, the sound of death, the sound of screaming, the sound of cannonfire, the sound of cannonfire, the sound of cannonfire—
on fridays, you toast to willing foes.
your death says: you will remember the cannonfire.
the sky is so blue, the day you almost die. copenhagen has been won, and denmark brought to her knees. the royal navy rules the seas. you die with the taste of smoke on your tongue. there are no enemies. there is no battle. your men mishandled the cargo of shells, leading to a huge conflagration. there is no cannonfire. there is no bombardment. the sky is the sea is the horizon is endless blue as you die.
they come to you as you lie dying, but you have no memory save for the blue.
they tell you, weeks later, that you talked about cannonfire.
your death says: i am too easy.
A DEEPER LOOK.
tw for post-traumatic stress disorder, hanging
got the post of first lord of the admiralty entirely too young: mainly through a matter of savvy politicking, underhanded dealings, and hero-worship. he vaguely enjoys the same kind of celebrity that horatio nelson does, without exactly following the same career, and so is looked at to be one of the more eligible bachelors for the season.
his near-death incident on board the hms pompee just as it was about to dock plymouth obsessed the press for days, leading to court-martials aplenty for his subordinates, eventually finding the allegations of endangerment and negligence meritorious and sentencing them to hang — adding yet another thing to his guilt.
dabbles in substances to ameliorate his — obviously undiagnosed, since this is the 19th-century — ptsd: his habit has been getting worse and worse, though he’s getting better and better at hiding it.
WANTED CONNECTIONS.
fellow military men whom he absolutely connects to more easily in just a fundamental level than with civilians. is fundamentally anti-war after his experiences, so he detests glory-hunters, but will nevertheless seek understanding first and foremost from this group.
people he does business with: his naval prowess brought with it some certain authority in all things related to the sea, and he’s definitely pooled his investments in certain mercantile efforts.
former romances/friendships/associations/etc that was cut short by the call of war: save for the intermittent short visit here and there, this is really only the third season he’s attended. any prior relationships made in his first season — around the time of the peace of amiens — would be welcome, especially if such a romance seemed headed towards an engagement. perhaps your muse was willing to wait, even, but yejong couldn’t live with the idea of making someone a widow.
on that same note, his goal right now is to secure a bride, as he now thinks it unlikely — with his recent injury and his position in the admiralty — to get called up and thus considers himself free. does approach things rather scientifically: definitely has a list of qualities he likes to see in a match, reminiscent of anthony bridgerton.
he exerts effort in scientific pursuits and funnels his money accordingly: he’s been campaigning for a magnetic survey of england as well as cutting a passage through the open polar sea so as to bolster profits.