𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐘 𝐑𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐃-𝐅𝐈𝐓𝐙𝐆𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐃:
full name: henry “harry” ambrose rothschild-fitzgerald
age: twenty-two
sexuality: bisexual (closeted)
gender: cis-male & he/him
major & minor: english major & classics minor
a pop is punctuated by vapor rising from the lip of a glass bottle. he twists an heirloom around his finger as letter grades are boosted with one bat of an eyelash. he shifts in an uncomfortable blazer, an uncomfortable silence. he’s just on the precipice, dangling with no fear of the consequence.
more info + connections + plots below the cut !!
a short history:
- The Rothschilds and the Fitzgeralds; you likely know the former for their austere surname and the latter for Gatsby, though Zelda and Francis are ever-present in their family tapestry. Gatsby is perhaps who he was born for; his mother, Eleanor, wished to name him Jay, and perhaps the implication stuck. He was born in an all-too-royal sort of way, at their summer estate in Marseilles, with nurses and doctors flocking to the hedge-lined, rose-dappled property as if it were their own personal hospital.
- they treated him like he might as well have been prince harry from day one; he was given anything and everything he wanted, from ponies, to books ( he liked the books - this was a surprise to mother, and nothing at all to father ), to the finest clothing and most expensive trips. The precedent was set from an early age: he got what he wanted, and no one questioned it. This courtesy was extended to him on the basis that he would attend a good school, be a dutiful son, produce a dutiful heir, and carry on both the family business and the family legacy. He has only done one of the above.
- His need for self-indulgence, hedonism, and independence came not from a need to be independent, nor from the fact that he felt tied down to any familial commitments, as is commonplace with most rebels. No -- he is, and does, all of the above simply because he can, because he feels that the world owes him everything that it has to offer, and because he has always cared so little for responsibility. He wears his family legacy as a badge of privilege, and not any sort of responsibility-weight that might drag him down in later years. He is arrogant and presumptuous, and always has been; from pitching fits until he was gifted the prize Arabian from the stables of a family friend ( Biltmores -- they always had the best horses in their stable until Harry commandeered them all ), to drinking all his mother’s Chianti and sleeping with his Latin tutor, to missing a month of high school in favor of stealing his father’s car and driving it to Colorado to trounce about in the snow high as a kite. You name it, he’s done it -- and he has always been so un-serious about his supposed family duty that it was glaringly obvious from a young age that he was not, in fact, the son that his father wanted.
- But he always loved stories -- and for that reason alone, his mother wanted him. He takes comfort in that.
- He was briefly arrested in 2017 ( an open family secret ) for stealing a yacht and crashing it into the beach. This was just after he got that famous ass tattoo. Needless to say, he isn’t quite welcome in Palma, Mallorca anymore.
- tl;dr -- he only cares about fun, and about recognition, and about games. Life is a game, and he is bound to win it all. He cares only enough about his family name and its legacy to use it as a stepping stool to stand half a foot above everyone else; arrogance is his bread and butter. he is gilderoy lockhart and nikolai lantsov’s love child, only more often drunk, and more often naked. he loves the chase and is easily bored, and is prone to disappearing for weeks at a time on adventures, benders, and bouts of personified hubris. he is a healthy mix of arrogant disregard and daddy issues; and yes, he does have an ass tattoo. he’d get it again if given the opportunity, too.
plots + connections:
- Daddy Issues Social Club: people who hate their dads and have complicated relationships with their families unite! They have matching tie clips, it’s been decided. They’re going to pop champagne in the courtyard every Wednesday at noon. - I need the Daisy to his Gatsby; I love angst, and Harry loves games. He doesn’t have a single committed bone in his body, but the aesthetic of romance, the game of the chase, the idea of love -- it’s all very appealing - I would love to have some partners in crime, some people who will run off and steal boats with him. He gravitates toward people who don’t take themselves too seriously - because he feels he needs to be the best, the handsomest, the most daring in any room. - Someone please just antagonize him, reject him, knock him down a few pegs - it’s desperately needed. If your character knows about his arrest, all the better. - He really does, too, need just a genuine and wholesome connection in his life, someone with whom he can discover that pretense isn’t needed, and he can just write his dang books in peace -- but at the same time, I need someone to ramp up his dramatics and pretension, because the aesthetic demands it. - He’s also an overly sexual being; the chase and the game are all too fun. He is closeted at the moment, but he can be coaxed out soon enough. - give him more muses !! he loves to write, like genuinely -- might be the only thing he genuinely likes -- and he will totally write about/for you _ HONESTLY he can fit into any wanted connect at this point because he’s just such a wild card and is here for a good time not a long time. he was rly just meant to be either a dandy boy in a top hat and cane or a writer living in billowy shirts on the coast of italy, no in between. i’m up for literally anything and no idea is too wild!!