name: Lord Ernest Durant
--nicknames: Well, Brent Inglewood certainly isn't one of them! Sometimes people call him Ernie, or Lord Durant, but his closest friends just call him Ernest.
age: 21 - he's one of the younger ones of the group, yeah
appearance: He's tall, dark-haired, dark-eyed, and he keeps a very important secret...
occupation: He's a land surveyor, but in secret he also writes romance novels.
history: He was engaged from youth to Prudence Hough - a wonderful friend, but not one he loved. However, he's always enjoyed exchanging long notes and letters with her, and with their chaperon, Morphy's character (f).
Their relationship continued through his shipment off to public school, where his existing acquaintance to [male character] allowed him closeness by proximity to shy Brent Inglewood. The trio formed a sort of small writing club after discovering that Brent, like Ernest's own Prudence, greatly preferred the written word to the spoken one, and the girls were drawn in eventually too. At first they merely exchanged stories, but later they realized that their writing was stronger when they worked around each other: for they trusted each other very well.
Upon leaving public school, Ernest adored Prudence more than he'd previously done, but still felt as though their relationship lacked love: a point upon which prudence quickly agreed. there was nothing to be done, though, for it would be unreasonable to suggest the breaking of troth between a well-matched pair that got along very well. he stumbled upon the solution by accident: the growing popularity of the group of five's romantic narratives forced the spotlight onto reclusive brent. to distance themselves from suspicion, the rest of the five took professions. prudence's was respectable: it could be seen, even, as charity. ernest, ever daring, took upon himself the ambition of...er, surveying land?
it was a scandal for certain. it was only a few months before the breaking of ernest's troth to prudence: something which caused him great relief, for he'd always been a romantic at heart - and it was not a fate that prudence had found especially frightening, either. it caused difficulty, though: repercussions in the form of whispers of infidelity and immorality on ernest's part, and the sight of ernest and prudence in public together now was jarring and strange. they were no longer courting, no?
the relatively recent rift has caused a great amount of tension for "brent inglewood's" success, and their fourth novel is due to be published soon: it must meet quality and deadline, or they fear losing their precious readership...
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personality: snarky, generous, outgoing social butterfly wow i hate writing personalities without writing histories first wait DIDN'T I ALREADY KNOW THIS
