#mr chambers

it makes me go

ID: Screencap of a Desire and Decorum scene in a ballroom. Mr Chambers grins and says, "Marvelous! I shall be honored to become your husband." End ID

ID: Screencap of Mr Chambers from Desire and Decorum in a ball room, saying, "But I can help you secure your claim, and I would not get in the way if you were to seek love outside of the marriage." End ID

Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

So for those of you who don’t know, Desire and Decorum is an Edwardian visual romance novel on the Choices app. You play as a woman, and there are four love interests, one of whom, Miss Parsons, is also a woman. You have to get married to a man of a certain social standing for Important Plot Reasons, so if you go her route, there is a convenient gay man, Mr Chambers, who says, “Hey, we can have a marriage of convenience that’ll be mutually beneficial, and I won’t make a fuss about you looking for love outside of marriage if you don’t make a fuss about my boyfriend.”

Now, because of the nature of the beast, the main plot doesn’t really differ depending on which love interest you go with. The four LI’s feature heavily as your good friends throughout, and Mr Chambers and his boyfriend, Mr Konevi, are around as sort of friendly acquaintances as long as you’re nice to them.

But I really wish there had been time to make Mr Chambers and Mr Konevi feature more heavily if you decide to marry Mr Chambers.

For one thing, I want to be friends with my “husband”. Marriage of convenience or no, relationships outside of the marriage or no, we still have to live together and tie up our finances, inheritances, holdings, titles, etc. We might as well be actual friends and not just somewhat friendly roommates.

For another, it’d alter Miss Parsons’ storyline. Whether you romance her or not, over the course of the story she decides that she doesn’t want to get married to a man, not any man, and while she doesn’t tell her father that it’s because she’s a lesbian, she does fight with him over her right to become an old maid if she chooses.

And while I very much am proud of her for doing so, I’d also love to see her “marry” Mr Konevi. It’d give everyone involved the excuse of having a respectable marriage, and since Mr Konevi already works for me it’d make sense for me to provide lodging to him and his “wife”. Which leads me to:

Shenanigans!

We start with a double wedding. Only our closest friends know who is actually marrying whom. The brides stand back to back, ever so slightly touching as they say their vows. The grooms look over the brides’ shoulders to say theirs. Everyone gets to wear actual wedding attire, and everyone gets a say in decor and the like. We all have the same anniversary, so every year we all celebrate together in public, and then pair off with our actual spouses in private.

The four of us live together in marital bliss: there’s my character, and there’s my wife, and there’s my husband, and there’s my husband’s husband who’s also my wife’s husband. Legally and socially, we’re two proper couples who are all the best of friends. Privately, we’re two very improper couples who are all the best of friends. And I’ve cultivated a good enough relationship with my servants that I can trust in their discretion.

That goal you’ve been wanting to set? That dream you’ve wanted to chase? Start it today! Right now! What is that first step? Make a plan. It doesn’t have to be big. Start small. The first step is always the hardest, but you can do it! 💛

vomit / don’t ship / ok / cute / adorable / sexy / perfect / beyond flawless / hot damn / screaming and crying /i will ship them in hell