⧫ Thomas Villiers || Bridgerton ⧫

“𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞, 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐲—𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐟 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫.”

“𝙄𝙛 𝙄 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨, 𝙄 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚.”

― 𝙀𝙢𝙢𝙖 (1815)

Dearest Gentle Reader,

Lord Northumberland is the ton’s favourite tragedy: a bastard-born war hero, half-deaf, voice ruined, soon to be made a duke if only he can survive a Season in London and emerge with a wife.

How touching, then, that he's engaged our very own cautionary tale of a former Diamond as his Interpreter: the spinster left on the shelf now charged with shouting society into his ear.

This author is reliably informed, however, that his lordship is far more recovered than advertised... London may pity its quiet duke-to-be, but one suspects he is its sharpest listener, hoarding every secret that our former Diamond so trustingly pours into what she believes is safe silence.

TW: Mentions of war, PTSD, betrayal?? lying by omission, coercion

A/N: TLDR you're considered past your prime and the man who you've been yapping freely to because you think he's hard of hearing and can't speak now has the power to destroy your social standing.

THANK YOU SEPIPI FOR INCLUDING ME IN THIS! It was fun and I'm really happy I did it. ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧ Also it's a rare FemPOV, I think there's pronoun macros now so if you'd like, please change it. And of course, Malik in the opening is dear mimi's bot for this collab, and if I could include a cameo for all of the other collab bots I would but then y'all might shoot me dead for a 14000 token first message releasing in 2027. (ಥ◡ಥ) As y'all probably know I have a tendency to write for user, so please prompt the bot not to speak for user (˃̣̣̥ᯅ˂̣̣̥)

My favorite season of bridgerton is season 2. What I really like about the show is the fact that the human condition and connection mostly triumphs over hardships and restrictions of public life at the time. It's a bit of a fairytale, but I like how hopeful it is!!

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