#Erianne Adelaide Seymour (OC)

[tired-reader-writer]

Enabled by the 2 notes on my “do you want this AU” post, here it is, or at least part of it because it got LONG:

Okay, so

I was gonna introduce my OCs but screw it, let's just talk about the world instead

So I'm gonna establish that this is alternate history

The change is that there's way more schools (well-funded ones at that!) accepting commoners and girls, due to the efforts of a certain charity organization's efforts. I don't have a name for them, but let's call them Tulip.

Shit's doing this well because Tulip has been a thing for 20 years.

Tulip is no ordinary charity org, however

We'll get back to that

It has three founders: Willard Hans Seymour, Shannon Seymour, and Edmund Velvet. We'll also get to them later.

With that preamble aside, we dive into the story proper

Young Albert is part of the London branch of Tulip. He really likes them, he's only met Shannon once and the other two founders never, but he admires her a lot and inwardly wishes she could be his mother instead. His father, Earl Murtagh (changed Moriarty to Murtagh, expect many name changes to pop up) still does acts of charity but only for appearance and good reputation, as in canon. Albert meets and adopts the two brothers as in canon (renamed Olivier and Lewis respectively) and things go roughly the same for a while.

Until Willard and his daughter Erianne swing in like a wrecking ball

Okay, more like two sudden and very courteous guests at the Murtagh estate but my point still stands

Albert and the Earl chat with father and daughter, but oh Willard's not here to chat with a faker, he's on a mission. He basically manipulates the conversation to make the Earl suggest Albert show Erianne around while the adults chatted.

Alright then.

Albert has heard of Erianne, heard of this girl so much like her mother, the girl who won a court case representing the lawyer-less workers of some workhouse just recently. She had yet to appear in London up until this point, and he notes her attire is... odd. The skirt silhouette is normal like what a girl her age should wear, but she paired that off with the shirt waistcoat and coat combo of menswear style.

Okay...?

As soon as they're in the garden out of earshot of anyone present she asks that he take her to his newly adopted brothers

Albert's heart drops because he knows what his family's doing to them is shit, he tries but he can't stop it, and it'd make a really bad impression in the eyes of the daughter of a charity org founder he really admires

In case the weight of the situation hasn't sank in yet, lemme clarify

Albert feels like an outsider in his own house. He can't relate to his family, his family thinks there's something wrong with his head and acts like it too, and not even the servants are on his side. They obey his mother over him. He may be heir but he has no power.

And at school... what makes you think he had friends, in an environment where children of classist families congregate? With none who shares his ideals?

Tulip had been his only solace

So in his mind: lose their respect -> lose the only place he's ever felt he belonged

So understandably he's panicking a whole lot

Erianne states that she already knows what's going on, her parents know, and they're going to help. But first she must meet them. So he takes her to... I'm not sure whether it should be his room or the brothers' room, but she basically gets to meet them, and reveals that her parents are gonna get the three out of this family's grasp but it will take time and probably would end in the family's death.

Albert is shaken but he steels his resolve, Olivier and Lewis are... suspicious but they decide to ride along.

There originally was a scene where Willard sneaks into the two brothers' room late at night and calls Albert there too, and they hash out a plan together, but I'm considering scrapping it— replacing it with some sneaky meetings at the org office instead, but whatever the case is they are given a plan of what'll happen next, and also somewhere along the way revealed that Willard is actually a notorious underground Robin Hood figure criminal Robin Kinglet. Probably in the scene Erianne meets them for the first time but hm...

Oh yes the criminal thing

Let me explain

Tulip is actually one of the many fronts of an underground criminal/rebel organization who's against monarchy and pretty much sick and done with the British Empire's BS

They intend to go through a revolution and instate a republic instead

Willard is no mere jovial harmless looking man, he's an active information gatherer and leader of said many crimes and schemes and all the shit going on underneath to fund and prepare the org

Shannon and Edmund are of course in on the thing 100%

Two new maids are employed at the Murtagh estate, but they're actually spies/agents sent in by Tulip™ to help the boys endure and also keep contact with Willard.

Something happens that tanks the reputation of the Earl and the family even if Albert's stayed relatively clean, I haven't decided what yet but the three brothers know it was orchestrated by Willard. Servants quit their job at the estate, that kinda stuff happens, until the kids and the two maids set fire to the manor, after which the two maids disappear into the night, so as to not get caught. They returned to their base.

Lewis still burns his own face deliberately, which reduced ppl's suspicions and it'd be actually shown. Lewis is smart, okay!!

No one complained when Willard swooped in to foster the children, the children of a fallen family and two of them orphans anyways. The three brothers live with Shannon and Willard in the countryside estate— their main base of operations.

The AU spans from their childhood to all the way up until they win the war— probably around 1870s but could probably go longer than that. Shenanigans ensue, basically:

Featuring: History professor Olivier, politician Albert, lawyer Lewis who works exclusively for commoners and victims of the wealthy and nobles' bullshit

Erianne and Lewis are lawyer buddies

Ollie, his eventual love interest, and not-Sherlock are locked in a three-way rivalry. A great many things have exploded or burnt to dust.

Not-Sherlock has no love interest as of yet.

Lewis gets a boyfriend. As a bonus the boyfriend is trans and he's very soft.

Not-Bondler is actually trans. His name is Jaime Bondler. His love interest is not-Watson.

Not-Mycroft is an antagonist as is Queen Victoria. Moneypenny too.

So uh, that's it for now, I actually have a lot more under the surface such as backstories and everything, additional cast members, the structure of Tulip the rebel org, etc, but imma stop here now. This post must be hella long.

If y'all want me to elaborate on anything just shoot me an ask. Pretty sure my askbox is open.

[tired-reader-writer]

I'm so pleased to accidentally find out the existence of riding habits!!