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They mostly get it from their father, and Sophie loves to remind Benedict of that (but Benedict argues that they get it equally as much from her). Benedict also gives in easily when their kids are in trouble, especially when their little girl, Violet II, pouts her lips.

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR — “Dance in the Country” (1883)

S1

Making friends with someone via insulting their art

Hanging out on a swing-set with Eloise and bonding over not enjoying societal norms

Going to the best party he's ever been to (gets to hang out with people who just want to do art and don't mind nudity) and then being accosted by his brother who's like, "We gotta go kill my bestie to defend our sister's honour." To which Benedict says, "What," and then Anthony's like, "If I die, you're head of the family. If I don't die, you're also head of the family. Good luck being Viscount!" And narrowly avoiding one or multiple of his siblings being shot in a duel that same morning

Seeing two men have sex and then immediately having to sleep with two women so as to not have this interaction awaken anything within him

Getting into a situationship with everyone's favourite modiste

Discovering the concept of a lavender marriage

S2

Getting dumped by his situationship in front of his family

Discovering at a bar that he, a second son, can in fact follow his dreams as an artist and applying to the Royal Academy Schools

Sharing a poem he wrote so his brother can plagiarize it for clout

Getting so anxious about his application that he shows up to a dinner party with his brother's future-in-laws high as a kite

Attending art school and immediately hooking up with the figure model on his first day

Being the Best Man in a wedding that get cancelled at the altar

Going to his mother's ball where only 4 people outside his family show up and finding out his sister's honour is under threat (notably, different sister than the last time)

Going out with his valet and seeing Anthony carry his lover Kate's unconscious body through a thunderstorm, and then popping up to her bedside to ask Anthony what's up, to which he just says, "It's all my fault," and then walks away

Quitting art school because he found out Anthony bought his spot and he'll never know if he had the merit to get in on his own outside of being a nepo baby

Hanging out on a swing-set with Eloise and bonding over feeling like misfits and imposters

S3

Asking a debutante to dance one (1) time and spending every subsequent event avoiding her gaze

Befriending a hot widow through hot air balloon feats and then immediately starting another situationship

Finding out his brother is engaged from the local gossip rag cause he was too busy philandering

Coming home periodically to bond with his new brother-in-law (as his sister is also engaged) and fight over macarons and cards with his youngest siblings

Feeling like a #boyfailure about the whole art school debacle

Being invited to a dinner party by his situationship, flirting with a man for the first time, and being invited to a threesome with her situationship shortly thereafter and then, running away as fast as he can

Taking three (3) business days to figure out he is bisexual and leaving his brother's wedding party to go sleep with man and a woman

Being so busy with sex that he misses his family being blackmailed

Breaking up with his situationship because he's too likable and husband-worthy to remain in a casual throuple

Getting caught with two half-dressed women in his bachelor lodging in the morning, then hooking up with a man in the evening, before strolling into his family's masquerade ball two hours late to then meet the love of his life

Getting his sister-in-law to write an anonymous advert that he's single and ready to mingle in her gossip rag

Enlisting his sister (under mild duress) to attend like eight parties in a row with him to search for his meetcute

Finally figuring out the right house and getting Sophie fired for indirectly revealing she wore her own family heirlooms

Hanging out on a swing-set with Eloise and bonding over not being suited to marriage

Coming out of a multi-day drunken stupor to fistfight a guy for preying on women, thereby getting Sophie fired again

Trying to help Sophie back to Mayfair, and instead needing to be nursed back to health at his cottage while his fever induces him to ask her to kiss him better

Getting Sophie hired as a maid in his family home and somehow being in a love triangle with her and... herself but in a ball gown

Asking Sophie to start a situationship and then chastizing his mother for scolding him while she too, is in a situationship

Moving out of his family home bc he's so hot it messes up Sophie's workflow, before messing up her workflow more with premarital relations

Inviting Sophie to move in with him and coming out as bi to her in a single two-minute span

Causing his brother Anthony come all the way from India, and then from the countryside, in 1817, for an intervention

Being dumped because he has a great relationship with his family

Getting permission from his mummy to become estranged

Leaving his brother-in-law's wake to propose, finding out Sophie's going to America so he needs to charter a boat, finding out she's not going to America because she's been arrested, and instead crashing into a courtroom to save his lover from being charged with theft and impersonation, mummy in tow

Realizing his lover is also his meetcute so it was more of a love line

I want it on the record that THIS was his face, taking her in, after not having seen her for barely a day.

I really don't think he even knows how to breathe without her now...

she’s soooooo dumb she loves him soooo muchhhh she’s so fucking smitten w him like oh my god what a loserrrrrrr