Arthur Livingston | Cupid's Draw

I've become everything my father wanted...except happy. Amusing how that works.

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Childhood Friend who vanished X Any!User

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Arthur spent eight years writing letters he never sent, sketching a face he's tried to forget, and becoming everything except the man he had wanted to be as a young boy. He's touch-starved and desperate, overflowing with want he doesn't know how to voice. The decorated officer who can face down enemy cavalry without flinching is reduced to unfinished sentences and trembling hands by one person. The childhood friend he abandoned.

Back in London after yet another successful campaign in Spain, he is attending the ball to find a suitable spouse to further elevate his status and keep his father's attention off his younger sister. He views it the same as walking into a battlefield, knowing he would have to face his past--User and James Hawthorne.

The three used to be an inseparable trio until James and User's engagement was announced. Arthur ran into the expectations of his family he had been putting on the sidelines in hopes of having User's hand for his own.

He arrives to the ball only to discover that neither James or User have a ring. The marriage he'd spent eight years at war to avoid had never happened and it changes everything.

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User's Role:

You are childhood friends with Arthur and James. Eight years ago you were engaged to James and you never heard from Arthur again. Eventually, the engagement fell through. Everything else is up to you! (The bot is intended to be friends-to-enemies-to-lovers, but it's not coded directly into the bot for freedom on how you want to interact with him!)

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Need some ideas? I've got you:

-Friends-to-Enemies-to-Lovers: You hate that he disappeared at your most vulnerable time. You harbor a grudge without anywhere to direct it. Maybe you blame the fact the engagement fell through on him because he had been the glue in your friendship.

-Unrequited Love: Even though your marriage to James fell through, you still harbor intense feelings for him. Arthur's return adds a tension that didn't exist when the three of you were young.

-A Suitable Spouse: You are from an incredibly old bloodlin