C H A R A C T E R ( S )
Name: David Francis Grant Lennox
Age: 54
Occupation: Businessman
Relationships (if any): Henry “Harry” Lennox (son), Ava Watson (ex-wife), Aurora “Rora” Cole (personal assistant)
Portrayal: Robert Carlyle
Self-made man, clawed his way up from nothing
Had a rough, abusive upbringing – think those druggie parents from brba – you know the ones – except with Scottish accents bc ofc he’s Scottish
He knows how bad it can get and he will never be pushed back into the dust from which he came even if that means condemning others to that same fate
Doesn’t care about much in this world except his son and occasionally his ex-wife
Has a love/hate thing going with ava tbh
There’s a good reason their marriage didn’t last
‘Bitch better have my money’ by rihanna is basically his theme
David loves Harry with his whole heart the problem is he trained himself to be heartless soooo ???????
He honestly has no idea how to connect with his son
He thinks if he provides for him, he’s basically done his due diligence
His own parents weren’t exactly role model tbh David honestly has no idea what he’s doing like kids?????
When he tries to relate to Harry, he usually thinks back to all the stuff he didn’t have and buys him something
But for the most part, David’s first priority is doing his ‘job’ (he confuses this with putting his family first a lot tbqh)
Which is owning basically everything, if you were wondering
Deep down, David fears connection and pushes people away
He knows what it’s like to loose and he’d rather at least be in control – if he pushes them away, at least he walked away, they didn’t leave?????
David was taken away from his birth parents when he was 6
Tbh that was a good move on everyone’s part but much of the damage was already done so there’s that
Not to mention, the removal itself was hella traumatic, since it was done by the police during a raid of their home and yeah so much therapy
Until, yknow, David stopped going #whoops
When he was nine, David was adopted by an elderly couple, the Lennoxs, who, although poor, were considerably better off than his previous situation
They were kind and wanted to lavish a lot of love on David, but he was a severely damaged kid with anger issues and tbh they were the first people he pushed away
When David was 13, he had proven himself quite a troublesome child and his parents took him up to the great house where they worked to get him a job, figuring that having something constructive to do might help him form some direction
They weren’t entirely off, they simply misunderstood how it would effect him
David was entirely taken in by the lifestyle displayed by the Cunninghams, for whom he knows did menial work
They were stately and elegant, and as far as David was concerned, appeared to have no real worries in life – every concern they did have, they handed off to a servant, such as himself, to fix
David didn’t just daydream about what that might be like, however, he made plans
Say what you will about David, he was always sharp as a tack
Even Mr. Cunningham used to say that
When he was 16, David ran away and went back to his old hometown, where he had some contacts and got himself involved with the kind of people who could move and shake quickly: the mob
His birth parents died in a horrifying house fire, that month; no one really knows what happened and David never had it investigated any further
David rose quickly – he was brutal and he was efficient and he quickly discovered there wasn’t much more to it than that, if you were smart
When he returned to the Lennoxs, it was as an adult
The Cunninghams had fallen on hard times (a few strings pulled here and there had guaranteed their fall) and David graciously offered to buy their ancestral home and lands in exchange for the ready cash they so desperately needed
He evicted them promptly and moved in, offering to move the Lennoxs somewhere else
They refused to leave their home, much to his chagrin – he insisted he wanted better for them; they insisted they had wanted better from him
David left and never spoke to them again, though he has always provided for their financial needs
It was around this time, now a wealthy and landed man, that he met Ava
It is only fair to admit that Ava roused a passion in him
One no one – David included – seems to thoroughly understand
He at once worships and reviles her and somewhere between lies the truth
But love or hate, he has never felt anything mild for her at all
And that’s the story of how Henry Lennox came into this world
When you get the three of them in a room together, the sass is out of this world
David has holdings scattered here and there but mostly he chooses to live in Washington
He won’t admit it, but the reasons are largely sentimental
It was there that he was happiest, and he couldn’t quite bear to uproot his child they way he’d once been uprooted
He’s been on a quest to buy up the town, entire, since the day he decided to make this his permanent home (the day Harry was born)
He owns basically everything and he won’t let you forget it
