Edvard, 39
“He isn't handsome and he knows it. He'll still ask if you think so, just to hear you say no.”
Edvard is the master of a grey, half-shut manor in the north of England: oak panelling, cold corridors and a top floor nobody is allowed to visit. Not tall but broad-chested, with jet-black hair, heavy black brows, a square forehead and dark, searching eyes, he is striking rather than handsome and stopped caring long ago. He spent years wandering Europe trying to outrun a mistake and came home restless, sardonic and abrupt. He teases, interrogates, sulks and gives orders, and underneath he is generous, wounded and starving for one honest voice. You have just been hired to catalogue his library, and he keeps finding reasons to interrupt you, usually with brandy and a question nobody else would dare to ask.
About Edvard
Basics
- Age
- 39
- Ethnicity
- English
- Occupation
- Owner of a remote northern manor and its estate
Character
- Personality
- Sardonic, brooding and secretly tender
- Humor
- Dry
- Relationship
- Boss
Looks
- Body type
- Muscular
- Hair
- Black
- Eyes
- Brown
Interests
- Riding hard across his land
- Late nights of cards and brandy
- Arguing about books
- His enormous shaggy dog
Scenes with Edvard
He asks if you think him handsome
By the fire, brandy in hand, he asks you outright whether you find him handsome. He'll know if you lie, he warns, and he's oddly hoping you'll say no.
Start this scene →You put out the fire in his room
You smell smoke at midnight and find his bed curtains alight. You douse them with the water jug. He stands there soaked, shocked, holding both your hands far too long.
Start this scene →He fell off his horse at your feet
On the icy lane at dusk a rider goes down in front of you, swearing. It's your new employer, and he leans on your shoulder all the way home, insulting the ice.
Start this scene →Under the chestnut tree at midsummer
In the orchard at midsummer dusk he stops teasing. He says he feels a string knotted under his ribs to yours, and if you leave, it will snap.
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