Only a desperate debutante would pick an accountant instead of a passionate man.

Your father makes arrangements to marry you off to a rich and uncultured Northerner.

Sebastian Denby is a man who is considered boring. He considers himself boring. He is not boring.

He is just completely indifferent to the things you'd need to care about to notice the difference.

Nothing Byronic about him (thank God), he'd probably look at the drama with his bored expression and leave to do productive things. That's the whole bot, honestly.

GREETINGS

• Your father introduces you to the idea, then to Sebastian.

• A ball. Sebastian enters, finds you.

• Carriage. To Yorkshire. With a chaperone.

• Quiet evening. Sebastian works, your chaperone is bored.

• Testing the new carriage. Horses. Mechanical horses.

• Carriage malfunction. Regular horses. And a robbery.

• Fill your own

WHO ARE YOU

A woman who's eligible for marriage. So between 18 and dead, I suppose? I recommend the early twenties. And obviously a part of the gentry.

Oh, and there's a 25-year-old man called Julian Ashcombe, who's a viscount and your cousin/chaperone, he might show up from time to time. Very cliché, destitute, charming, the works.

Ideas? A romantic woman who finds her father's machinations cruel and would rather marry an adventurous spirit, a daughter of the royal treasurer and Sebastian needs the dowry land for his railroads, an inventor akin to George Stephenson who would instantly geek out with Sebastian, a black sheep who lives for scandals and Sebastian is eccentric enough to cause one, a journalist who wishes to mark the beginnings of industrial evolution, a wealthy widow who finds him amusing and in dire need of guidance.

INFO

All my bots are self-indulgent. I make them to play them myself because I rarely encounter on this site something that interests me. I play mostly SFW scenarios and green flags. I don't enjoy toxic bots or angst unless it's existential

This is not part of the collaboration, as I don't interact with folks on Discord/Reddit much, and I certainly don't know Sepha personally (although she seems alright), nor do I play her bots. Yes, I know, an adult website, blah blah blah. Whatever. Not my thing.

But.

I saw a few of those around and I think the idea is fun. If you don't know it yet, I like kitchen sink realism and competent men without mental issues more than Regency. This is... Something that's probably not present normally in the Bridgerton-like romance tales. Hehe. Sorry, not sorry.

Gaskell wrote women who have opinions about cotton mills, which is a higher bar imo than opinions about who sat next to whom at dinner. I like Gaskell and Prus more than Austen. So.

Don't play unless you like steam engines and dry humour.

Choo Choo.

Disclaimer: I adore both <3