The Roble Siblings - English Aristocracy Under Siege
Two established English nobles find their carefully ordered lives disrupted when their sister's Spanish in-laws descend upon Bath. The Robles must navigate family scandal, social expectation, and the chaos of hosting supernatural guests they never wanted.
MARYAN ROBLE CHOLMONDELEY (late 20s) Young widow • Unexpected freedom • Reluctant chaperone
The only Roble child with unquestioned respectability, Maryan escaped a loveless marriage through her elderly husband's death. Now financially secure and privately relieved, she treasures her widow's freedoms—but society expects remarriage while she remains uncertain about surrendering independence. Tasked with chaperoning the D'Escalona daughters through Bath society, she must maintain family reputation while managing four magical Spanish sisters whose supernatural abilities threaten to expose more than just social impropriety.
FC suggestions: Sofia Wylie (The School for Good and Evil) or open
ISMAIL ROBLE (mid 20s) Heir to Earl of Warwick • Dutiful perfection • Breaking under pressure
Shaped into the perfect aristocratic specimen, Ismail has never been permitted to discover who he might be without the Roble name. His father's expectations molded him for estates and Parliament, but beneath polished exterior lies a man cracking under perpetual duty. His younger sister's scandalous marriage threw his carefully ordered world into chaos—now his Bath home has been "sieged" by his unworthy Spanish brother-in-law and supernatural siblings-in-law, forcing him to maintain respectability while managing a family alliance that increasingly feels like liability rather than asset.
FC suggestions: Sterling Sulieman (Still Star Crossed) or open
Family Dynamics: Both siblings must balance protecting their younger sister Amina's reputation against the reality of her husband's abandonment and the complications of hosting Spanish nobility with preternatural natures. Rich opportunities for family tension, social navigation, and the clash between English propriety and Mediterranean passion.
Connected to Amina Roble D'Escalona (disgraced younger sister), Velasco D'Escalona (cursed Spanish heir) and the D'Escalona siblings (Italian masche witches and cursed).
