Cut me and I bleed Dior
- Unknown
Leightonâs father is a fashion designing legend, and his mother his fatherâs greatest muse. Swaddled in cashmere and fed with glinting silverware, itâs no wonder he turned out the way he did. Heâs lazy, acrid, spoilt, and sick to death of the attention given to him by everyone he doesnât want it from. People disgust him, and yet he canât escape them. He finds himself above, everyone else a stepping stone to get him to the next pedestal of life. You see, though he hates the doting - he needs it. He cultivates it and feeds them by hand. He thrives in it.
The only ember of light he deems worthy of his time is his sister, Mabyn. She loved him even before she could understand why everyone else claimed to. She trailed after him and remembered his favourite colour, painted over his stylised bedroom walls a mural of childish stick figures and circles, and he shielded her from her nanny and his parents when they found out. He likes to think that he protects her, and though she lets him continue to think so, sheâs outgrown her adolescent adoration of him and instead shows a great fondness for him. Sheâs intelligent enough to know heâs a prick and that he isnât a good guy, but he doesnât have to know that.
Llywelyn only cares about himself and is a thorn in Leightonâs side; the second child to parents who actually adore each other, but are incapable of understanding that they produced offspring or how exactly to take care of them. Heâs manipulative and a shadow amongst a crowd, who delights in taking Leighton down a peg because heâs capable and nothing more. Or maybe he enjoys the flinty glare and promise of retribution Leighton turns on him when heâs realised whatâll happen before it takes place.
His parents, bless them, are too invested in themselves to see their children as individuals. Theyâre like beautiful dolls to them, tiny, beautiful mysteries to dress up and parade around. There are no family dinners, no helping with homework over the holidays, no trips to visit relatives to brag on their successes. There are birthday cards and socialisations, play dates with strangers, and only the very best schooling for their little darlings. At least those little darlings knew how to make the most of what they were given.
Leighton wants to excel, he wants to reap the benefits of the hard-working man - without actually having to be that man. Heâll take the easy way out without a second thought, and believe heâs in the right by doing so. Those who disagree with his methods, behaviour, and/or language usually meet the sharpest edge of his tongue. Heâs proficient in unspoken magic, if only because heâs so used to keeping his actions and expressions in check. Outwardly speaking his actual thoughts would not be popular opinion, and thus he keeps his following happy.
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