☕ ABOUT SEBASTIAN ÉMERI SMYTHE 💸
AGE & DATE OF BIRTH: Nov 9th
OCCUPATION: attorney specializing in foreign affairs and divorce
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single, but his parents are trying to marry him off to rich socialites
POSITIVE TRAITS: determined, educated, loyal
NEGATIVE TRAITS: hot headed, competitive, snarky
Open your eyes, I’m all a disguise
Everybody in my circle, Think I’m gonna be their friend But I got bad intentions, And I’m gonna have ‘em again
So why should I stop my dissin’, Or soften up my heart Tell me what good is livin’, If you can’t be who you are, yeah
Never gonna put a spell on me, Never ever gonna bring me back Never gonna make me be, Somethin’ I’m not because I’m evil
FAMILY INFORMATION
His family has always been high profile and he’s always felt like he was above other people because of the way he was raised. He got to travel between France and the US, he got to get his education at the fanciest private schools, he got to wear designer clothing and being so well-traveled meant he always sounded so sophisticated, even to himself. His intention was never to become a cocky asshole, but over time it happened anyway. After getting away with everything he did wrong and still being praised because he was charming, handsome, rich, well-connected, and popular it was hard to not get a big head. All it took was the honest truth and he always made people think he was something special, like when he told Blaine about Paris in the Lima Bean on the show. He’s always been able to talk other people into doing things and he always got his way.
He doesn’t necessarily want to be an attorney forever and he didn’t necessarily want to become one in the first place but with his father’s side of the family being who they are, he felt there was no way around it. He didn’t really tell anyone that he wanted to dance, and he does still want to dance. His specialty as a divorce attorney began as a joke because of his open views on relationships but it has soured him a little on the reality of being with another person. There’s a fear there. Though he didn’t want to become an attorney, he does like his job. He’d just like to do something for himself too.
MOTHER: Étiennette Lilou Smythe (French, from France, not royalty but from a socialite family in politics. She ran off the normal path for her family by getting into modeling before she got married and began her own fashion line, which Sebastian modeled for when he was much younger)
FATHER: Frederick Harrison Smythe (American, from the US, similar to Russell Fabray but law centric instead of bible centric. Rich socialites go to him to clean up their messes. He’s the reason Sebastian took on law, he works with and for his own family at his dad’s family owned law firm (the Legacy Law Offices of Smythe & Smythe in NYC) that was opened two generations ago and he should be honored to have a legacy to take on, blah blah blah)
SIBLINGS/OTHER IMPORTANT FAMILY: Just his grandparents in France. He used to go see them every Christmas and every summer when he was growing up, then it narrowed to once a year when he got busier and older. They are old money, the kind of people that just feel powerful when you stand near them, but they’re retired and though they live in the city, they all meet at a large cottage in the countryside that the family owns.
CONNECTIONS
I’d be willing to potentially take on one or two connections for people his parents were/are trying to set him up with. He will not be getting with them romantically, but the situation can be used for plotting.
HUNTER CLARINGTON: Hunter is a close friend, he would definitely hide a body for the Clarington and he is pretty sure that Hunter would do the same for him if need be. Their relationship looks odd from the outside though, with Sebastian endlessly teasing the stoic Hunter (but only in ways that Hunter might secretly enjoy). Their connection is based a lot on canon info.
HEADCANONS
Everything canon is canon about him really liking being on top and being a bully. Knocking other people down means he has someone to stand on to get a little higher himself and he honestly doesn’t see it as anything serious.
He really wanted to do Not Law. He really liked performing and still dances in his free time (at a professional level now), but never on stage. Only in a private studio, when he has time. The fear that his talent is going to fade while he’s getting more and more busy with his family business has been getting harder and harder to ignore. People might not understand how his family could have so much influence on what he does as an adult, even after he moved into his own place as a teenager, this is just how it’s always been for him. They traveled back and forth, hosting and attending events, doing things to perpetuate their status financially and socially, and his parents were always his tour guides. They’ve always told him what to do, in the sense that they’ve always been there to guide him though strange, new lands. But they’re also busy people, so their attention was moderately fleeting and therefore incredibly valuable.
He has a partying habit still. It’s not something that he has had time for in years but he still does it anyway. He’s not an alcoholic, but he’s definitely a sex addict (not in the romanticized way, in the real way) and uses the attention he can get for his body to keep him going. He’s not miserable, and he’s even happy a lot of the time, but this habit still lingers and when he’s upset the very first thing he’ll think to do is go out to a club, party, and have sex. He has slipped a few times and gotten a little sloppy at an event his parents took him to, both as a teenager sneaking alcohol illegally and as a fully legal adult. It’s not enough to have been noticeable, his parents got him out quickly enough to cover it up.