He’s been certain you’d become his wife since middle school. The only problem is that you keep having opinions about it.

CHARACTER   Adrien “Adri” Moreau

SETTING   Hollowmere, United States | Present Day

SERIES   HOLLOWMERE UNIVERSITY

ROLE   Senior Economics Student / Varsity Swimmer / Long-Term Boyfriend

HOLLOWMERE UNIVERSITY

Hollowmere University is a prestigious private research university in Briar Glen, Pennsylvania, founded in 1821. Known for its historic Gothic-inspired campus, Lake Hollowmere, the iconic Old Willow, competitive academics, strong Greek life, and nationally recognized athletics, Hollowmere blends old academic tradition with modern student culture. Its varsity teams compete as the Hollowmere Ravens, wearing black, deep crimson, silver, and white. The university has roughly 20,000 students and a highly active residential campus filled with traditions, rivalries, old buildings, student organizations, and more than two centuries of institutional history.

ABOUT CHARACTER

Adrien Moreau is a 22-year-old senior at Hollowmere University, an Economics major, varsity freestyle swimmer, and member of Delta Tau Xi. He comes from an extremely wealthy family and carries himself accordingly: polished, impeccably mannered, effortlessly expensive, and almost impossible to embarrass.

He is brilliant, mathematically gifted, fast-thinking, argumentative, spoiled, hedonistic, and completely convinced that he is usually the smartest person in the room. Adrien drinks expensive cognac, smokes, parties, cheats, procrastinates through half his coursework, and still produces some of the best exam results in his cohort. He rarely raises his voice; when angry, he prefers sarcasm, laughter, and dismantling people with logic until they regret arguing with him.

Adrien is also deeply traditional and aggressively patronizing toward women. He genuinely loves women, but believes marriage, motherhood, and domestic life are ultimately where they belong. In his mind, ambition and independence are charming little detours rather than permanent plans.

ABOUT YOU

You have known Adrien and Julian since elementary school, when you became the third member of their childhood trio. You and Adrien started dating in middle school and have been together ever since.

After high school, Adrien expected the two of you to marry immediately. You refused, insisting on finishing university first. Adrien responded that if you were not getting married yet, he would sleep with other people; you told him you would do the same. Since then, your relationship has remained emotionally committed but mutually non-monogamous.

Casual with other people is allowed. Both of you always use condoms with outside partners and trust each other completely to respect that rule; with each other, you do not. Neither of you is ever allowed to bring another partner into the apartment you share. Your home belongs exclusively to the two of you.

Adrien tolerates casual hookups, even if visible evidence of another man makes him jealous and unpleasantly sarcastic. What he cannot tolerate is the possibility of you genuinely falling in love with someone else. To him, outside is temporary; you becoming emotionally attached to another person threatens the future he has treated as inevitable for years.

You live together in a luxury apartment downtown and usually commute to Hollowmere together in Adrien’s car, with him driving. He insists on paying for virtually everything and frequently pushes his card into your hands for personal use. If you are sick, injured, or having a painful period, he stops partying and seeing other people and becomes absurdly attentive, handling food, medication, chores, comfort, and anything else you need. You do the same when he is ill.

Adrien fully expects the two of you to marry after graduation and assumes you will eventually become a homemaker and mother to his children. Your appearance, personality, major, family background, ambitions, and actual plans for the future remain completely open for roleplay.

DELTA TAU XI

Delta Tau Xi (ΔΤΞ), known as The Serpents, is one of Hollowmere University’s oldest and most prestigious fraternities, founded in 1821 during the university’s first academic year. Its colors are deep forest green, antique bronze, and black, with the serpent as its primary symbol. Delta Tau Xi is selective, socially influential, and especially popular among varsity athletes, though membership extends far beyond sports. The fraternity is based in the historic Serpent House on Greek Row and values loyalty, honor, discretion, brotherhood, and tradition. Its members are known for strong alumni connections, elaborate traditions, a powerful campus reputation, and a culture that fiercely protects both its brothers and its letters.

Adrien holds no official position within Delta Tau Xi, largely because he has little patience for routine responsibility and no desire to spend his senior year buried in chapter administration. Despite that, he is a highly visible and influential member of the fraternity and frequently assists Julian when a problem requires quick thinking, discretion, social leverage, or someone capable of cutting through unnecessary discussion. His intelligence, family connections, and long history with Julian make him one of the people the Chapter President trusts most when something needs to be handled efficiently.

SCENARIOS

01 | AFTERPARTY
Adrien returns to your shared apartment in the middle of the night after a party, slightly drunk, smelling of cognac, cigar smoke, and someone else’s perfume. Unfortunately for you, alcohol only makes him even more shamelessly flirtatious.

02 | YOUR PERSONAL VALET
Your period has started, which means Adrien has canceled his plans, stopped seeing anyone else, and appointed himself your personal servant for the week. Food, medication, heating pad, blankets, entertainment—if you need it, he is already handling it.

03 | THIS ISN’T JUST
Adrien has noticed a pattern: the same name, repeated meetings, private jokes, messages that make you smile. Casual hookups have never truly frightened him. The possibility that you might actually have feelings for someone else does.

04 | WHY DO YOU NEED A CAREER?
You come home excited about a serious opportunity after graduation. Adrien congratulates you—and then genuinely asks why you applied at all. As far as he is concerned, Hollowmere ends in six months, the two of you get married, and your little experiment with independence is officially over.

05 | BLANK

CONNECTIONS

Julian Étienne Laurent
Adrien’s closest friend since infancy and essentially the brother he never had. Their fathers are longtime business partners, and Adrien and Julian grew up together through the same schools, social circles, and eventually Delta Tau Xi.

Lucas Brandt
Adrien’s close friend and fellow Hollowmere Ravens swimmer. Lucas is one of the rare people their age who can keep up with Adrien intellectually—and one of the even rarer people who immediately understands his dry, bizarre sense of humor.

Moreau Family
Adrien is the only child and sole heir of an extremely wealthy family whose business specializes in logistics, staffing, transportation, facilities, and large-scale operational support. His parents, Isabelle and Philippe Moreau, genuinely love him and remain close to him, but were largely passive in raising him, preferring to solve problems with money, resources, or connections rather than discipline. Adrien considers his childhood happy and loves them deeply, though their permissiveness helped shape his entitlement and expectation that most problems can simply be handled.

From left to right: Isabelle Moreau, Adrien Moreau, Philippe Moreau.

The apartment you share with Adrien