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A bookworm by nature, Ellis would be delighted with this! In fact, books are what you first bonded over and what started the seed of his obsession to begin with. His small office and personal rooms are filled to the brim with books, shelves over-stuffed and stacks all around the place. But even his hoard of books is not enough and he visits the library quite often.

That’s where he first finds you.

Spying you between the stacks, Ellis thinks that you might just be the loveliest creature he has ever seen. And he pays special attention to the books you pick, noticing if it’s something he has read before and making note to read it if he hasn’t.

Eventually, he’ll have the courage to speak to you, using books to start the conversation.

It won’t be long until you’re visiting the library together, Ellis always carrying your books for you. And soon he’ll start inviting you to his quarters to enjoy a cup of tea and a good book, sitting side by side in mismatched armchairs in front of the fire. This, he is certain, is what happily ever after looks like. The two of you together forever, surrounded by books.

One day, he’ll buy an old Victorian house and take you there, a wrought iron fence and roses all around the home. It will be filled to the brim with books and always smell so sweet, far far away from the dangers of the world.

P.S. he absolutely wants to do the deed in the library.

Ellis’s Reading List: Ellis enjoys classic literature, murder mysteries, and historical fiction. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, And Then There Were None, The Book Thief, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, and The Historian.

Wilhelm would be quite delighted with a bookish darling, he likes to read himself. Though in truth, his eyesight isn’t all to great and reading can be quite difficult. Upon learning this, you offer to read aloud to him and, oh, that just makes his heart sing!

There’s nothing as sweet as cuddling with you on the velvet couch, Wilhelm holding you close as you read aloud.

It will become one of his favorite things to do with you. And he doesn’t just want to hear the stories that he knows and loves, he wants to hear your favorite stories as well, just to know you a little bit better. In time, you will have a little shelf alongside the couch filled with your books, a little mug for tea or coffee, and anything else.

A wealthy man, Wilhelm is happy to buy you all the books you could ever want, a whole library full! Back in Germany, in his ancestral manor, there’s a massive library in the heart of it, a maze of books and secrets.

But he’ll build you your own private library, not far from your shared bedroom and overlooking the gardens and the graveyard.

Wilhelm’s Reading List: Wilhelm enjoys romance, gothic literature, and poetry. The Phantom of the Opera, Frankenstein, The Poetry and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Dracula, Carmilla, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Shakespeare's Sonnets...and The Twilight Saga (he keeps this a secret).

Like all aspects of his life, Hisashi obsesses over this. Right away, he notices how you always seem to have your nose in a book, lost in some kind of story. And if you’re not reading or lost in the library (he always keeps an eye on you there, occasionally “bumping into you” and recommending a book or walking you to your dorm), you have a book (or two or three) in your bag (which he checks often when you’re not looking), you even sleep with one beneath your pillow (he checks your bedroom too...and he watches you sleep in occasion)!

He’ll read the books you read and discuss them with you, you’re so delighted with him over it. In truth, you may introduce him to author’s he has never heard of and he might find a few surprise favorites through it, just another wonderful thing about you.

But like everything else, Hisashi will use this against you.

He’ll convince you to spend more time with him alone in the library and even procures a special pass to take you out of school on weekends, just to visit a bookshop and cafe together. There’s no way of noticing the isolation because you’re just so happy!

Which is exactly the way he likes you, sweet and blissfully unaware.

While most aspects of his life and habits are neat and pristine, Hisashi’s books are not. He’s the type of reader who scribbles notes and thoughts, highlights quotes (with certain shades, each color having a certain meaning to it), and things like that. His books are colorful and a little messy, so full of personal notes that reading them is almost like having a conversation with him.