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TITLE ── comfort crowd ✧ TIMELINE── pre-season one-?? LOVE INTEREST── simon basset OC NAME ── laurence "laurie" rutherford FACE CLAIM── alice pagani ✧ STATUS── available
SHORT DESCRIPTION ── in which two outcasts from society, constantly find each other pushed from parties and balls and endless soirees, only to end up in each others company every single time.
﹙𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒚! ﹚ ✧ ₊˚ˑ༄ؘ ──────────
LAURENCE, BUT SHE PREFERS "LAURIE", RUTHERFORD, hates all proper 1813 English terminology. "Promenade", too french. "Swoon", just say overreactive and get on with it. The worst one being: "Your Grace". Laurie thinks it is pathetic. Why should a man get such a title, when she, being a woman, receives as much respect in society as an earthworm? Laurie lives by the statement "I will respect you when you respect me". And so far, she hasn't been all that successful.
Life in 1813, for a woman, isn't the best of times. Hardly futuristic. Unfair in every scenario. Not very ahead of its time. So boring would be the correct terminology, Laurie believes. And with the season looming, Laurie's period of peace is running out of time. No more relaxing at home, and only ever showing her face when her four older brothers have guests over. No more speaking her mind, because, as mother dearest says, "that kind of language shall not get you a decent husband!". It's not her first season, but it most certainly will not be her last. You see, Laurie is of the mischief-chaser type. Always searching for a trap to set, or for a Lord to annoy. No one wants to marry the infamous Miss Laurence Rutherford. She brings bad news to her family name, and her mother is sick of it.
Four handsome, intelligent, and well-behaved sons before Laurie came along, set rather unrealistic expectations for Lady Rutherford. Upon finding out the sex of her fifth child, Lady Rutherford scheduled an easy upbringing, and was delighted by the prospects having a daughter could provide ─ buying a wedding dress, talking about possible suitors, complaining about all the men in the house, that kind of shit. Instead, Lady Rutherford was very unhappily surprised with the outcome and practically got slapped across the face when Laurie turned out to be the childish, naughty adult she is today.
Instead of letting her off lightly, Lady Rutherford is not going to let her daughter, Laurie out of her sight. No more petty tantrums at banquets. No more wreaking havoc around the family estate. No more denying perfectly good proposals because Laurie "doesn't feel like it". Laurie isn't even permitted to ride the family horses from now on because she can cause too much trouble. Marrying Laurie off isn't just so she can settle down, and do her duty as a woman in 1813 society, but because Lady Rutherford will do anything to get Laurie off of her hands.
