GENDER/PRONOUNS:Cis Male | He/Him
OCCUPATION: Writer / Novelist
BIRTHPLACE:Â Toulouse, France
ARRONDISSEMENT: Belleville ( 20th )
LENGTH OF TIME IN PARIS:Since the age of 10, recently returned after 1 year away.
Trigger Warnings: suicide, death
Born into the world of politics and high fashion was intoxicating for a child like Julien AndrĂ©, who was more like his father Marcel than his mother Lucille. From an early age he displayed the qualities of a disciplined and academic type of personality, and as he grew into himself and the position of his family to the world outside Julien was something of the golden child. His twin brother, SĂ©bastien, was the free-thinking, march to his own beat spirit that sat in the middle of the three AndrĂ© children, acting as some sort of glue and buffer. When Julien and his brother were four years of age they helped their parents welcome in a baby sister that became the apple of everyoneâs eye. Camille shared Julienâs poise yet displayed SĂ©bastienâs charm, and though they were all very close it hadnât gone unnoticed that his brother and sister shared a closer bond.
As expected, Julien performed very well in school, earning high marks and much praise from every single one of his education programs. For much of his youth heâd hear talk of how he was a spitting image of his father, and was encouraged by the man himself to be so. With his closest bond in life being his twin, he often picked up the pieces for SĂ©bastien when heâd struggle in academics or fell out of the bounds of what was deemed permissible behavior by their strict parents. The twins were opposites yet couldnât exist without one another, they knew what the other was thinking and feeling through their twin bond and were each otherâs best friend â though, sometimes, Julien felt as though he were carrying the adventurous SĂ©bastien along. While he did what he was told and within the high expectations of their parents, his brother was all for spontaneous fun.
Often his argument against his siblings, who desired more freedom in their lives, was that their family had an image to uphold. They lived in a glass house with parents in high profile social positions and from a young age Julien understood that. Or, maybe, in his youth he was simply easier to groom as the heir apparent to the legacy Marcel was pursuing. He was the dutiful child, and proudly so. When he went onto university, Julien studied literature and business, with the goals in mind to be the next great French writer and heâd also had the thoughts stirring that maybe one day heâd follow his fatherâs footsteps into politics. He believed in his fatherâs mission and policies, appreciated that Marcel was working for the greater good because he dreamt of a better life for the citizens in France.
While still in the midst of his university degrees, Julien landed a deal with a publishing agency and sold his first novel. He had been writing for years; publishing essays in school publications, magazines and literary journals, and pieces for news websites. The goal had been to be a voice, to point at societal missteps and display his view on political standpoints. Julienâs success had been an absolute shock given that most of his writing before the publication of his first novel had been heavily criticized and passed over â with many comments on nepotism. The journey into novel writing had gone from a sequel to a trilogy in the political-crime thriller genre, eventually turning him into one of the best selling authors in the world.
Even though Julien AndrĂ© had become international figure, he remained loyal and supportive to his fatherâs political aspirations â often showing his support for Marcelâs presidential run. However, when his father lost the election to a professional friend and was appointed prime minister instead, he too shared the suspicions that something was amiss. The plan had been to return to the days at the start of his writing career when his learning curve and exposure was as an investigative journalist, however only days following the election tragedy struck the AndrĂ© family. Julienâs twin brother and best friend had been found dead in an apparent suicide. And because of a note the police had found no one would hear his protests that the loss of SĂ©bastien had not been self inflicted.
Inconsolable, Julien left Paris, left France entirely and set out on a walkabout. It felt as though half of him was gone, there was a pain of absence like nothing heâd ever felt before and at first he hadnât even considered how his actions might have effected his family. Months passed by that are dark to Julien, so deep in grief that his memory only recognizes a period of lost time. Then, in honor of his twin, he checked a few things off of SĂ©bastienâs bucket list for him, and began to dwell deeper into his brotherâs suicide. Without a shadow of doubt he knew that SĂ©bastien wouldnât take his own life, he wasnât in a state of depression and Julien would have known if his twin was struggling. Eventually, somewhere around a year after his brotherâs death, he returned to Paris. Only, he did so silently and with determination to turn every stone in finding the truth.
trois â THEIR PERSONALITY
+ disciplined, forthright, imaginative
- dogmatic, hidebound, willful