#❛ ALBEMARLE DORMER , INFO !
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━━ ⊰ [ 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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