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BASICS

• current timeframe: 1927, Paris, France
• born June 1902 to a new-money father and a weak-spirited mother, both who had reason to cling to their fortune
• has travelled East Africa extensively with his father, after he bought coffee plantations in those areas
• had a younger sister, Amélie, who died of cholera at an age of 14 while the family was trying to get business started in Morocco
• is being pressured to marry soon, so that an heir to the business empire can be produced
• nevertheless, he's queer and has resisted this pressure for some time, trying to figure out how to balance those aspects of his life
• through one of his father's closest business partners, Charles Gallard, he meets his sister, Sylvie, and immediately feels a sense of kinship with her without knowing why
• soon he begins wondering whether she might be the woman he needs to marry to stay authentic to himself at the same time
• eventually learns that she's had a relationship to her brother's mistress and he understands, this is where their kinship lies
• eventually, he asks her to marry him and she says yes

PERMISSIONS

• backtagging is good
• no ooc triggers or warnings
• warning for period-appropriate homophobia etc. blanket warning for armand's family owning coffee plantations in modern day ethiopia, meaning that colonization is an underlying theme in his story
• open to timey-whimey jamjar interaction, historical scenarios and, to some degree, straight-up modern au
• shipping can be either m/f or m/m with slight m/m pref, always open to lavender marriage scenarios; furthermore, i love gen interaction and especially friendship!
• pm for contact, cest/cet time zone

BACKGROUND

Armand as a character is from the novel, Lest They Leave, written by player, that takes place in France in the late 1920's. He is the only surviving child of a new money family, his father coming into wealth after taking over coffee plantations in North-East Africa. When he was young, they travelled throughout the African continent extensively. He had a younger sister, Amélie, who would eventually die of cholera while their father was trying to establish a business in Morocco and this loss resulted in his parents giving up the dream of expansion, instead focusing on their already thriving business in Ethiopia which would make them extremely rich and prominent back home in Parisian upperclass circles. Especially as the old money so-called "Coffee Baron", Charles Gallard, sets his eyes on Armand and his father's produce and the two families begin working together to distribute the expensive Dubois coffee around the city. To secure his access to the Dubois family's business, Charles calls his little sister, Sylvie, back to Paris from Marseille and introduces her to Armand in the hopes of arranging a marriage between them, and a deep connection is established between the two, though they're both queer and have other partners on the side. The courtship is briefly paused when Armand has to return to Africa to clear some distribution pathways that are being held up by strikes and unrest and upon his return, Sylvie has decided not to marry him, because she has initiated an affair with stage actress, Eloisa Paolo who is also Charles' unofficial girlfriend, and now insists on "living true". Armand accepts this, but once he hears of the end of Eloisa's and Sylvie's relationship, he soon seeks Sylvie out once more and invites her back into his life. She, in turn, invites him to ask her to marry him again and when he does, she accepts. They get married and enjoy an open, free and prejudice-less marriage.