Your Character (Desire & Decorum)

Your Character in Desire & Decorum is the main protagonist of Desire & Decorum series.

Although her default name is "Clara Mills", the player can choose to name her as they wish.

Appearance
Your appearance is customizable according to the player's preferences.

Personality
In general, your personality is based on your choices. You can choose to be blunt and honest, but discover others find you to lack manners; you can choose to be snide and condescending, but find that doesn't improve your relationships; or you can be polite, charming, and only reveal your thoughts to your best friend and closest confidants. If you choose to flirt or pay compliments to potential love interests, they will become interested in you. Your father says you're quick-witted just like your mother. Mr. Sinclaire says you're headstrong. Briar Dally says you're free-spirited.

Book 1

 * Chapter 1: The Journey Ahead
 * Chapter 2: Ties That Bind
 * Chapter 3: Threading the Needle
 * Chapter 4: Best Foot Forward
 * Chapter 5: The Road to London
 * Chapter 6: An Intimate Affair
 * Chapter 7: Opera St. James
 * Chapter 8: Ill Repute
 * Chapter 9: An Indelicate Proposal
 * Chapter 10: On Your Marks
 * Chapter 11: The Clock Runs Out
 * Chapter 12: In Sickness and In Health
 * Chapter 13: A Better Place
 * Chapter 14: Fight or Flight
 * Chapter 15: A Cut Above
 * Chapter 16: Season's End

Book 2

 * Chapter 1: Betrothal & Betrayal
 * Chapter 2: A Royal Introduction
 * Chapter 3: Homeward Bound
 * Chapter 4: Back to the Beginning
 * Chapter 5: Celebration
 * Chapter 6: A New Set of Rules
 * Chapter 7: Moonlit Deception
 * Chapter 8: Hunt Or Be Hunted
 * Chapter 9: Until Dawn
 * Chapter 10: In the Balance
 * Chapter 11: A New Horizon
 * Chapter 12: The Deep End
 * Chapter 13: Changing Tides
 * Chapter 14: Before the Bell Tolls
 * Chapter 15: Eye of the Storm
 * Chapter 16: The Final Vow

Book 3

 * Chapter 1: Family Matters
 * Chapter 2: Ashes to Ashes
 * Chapter 3: A Mother's Touch
 * Chapter 4: Sugar & Spice
 * Chapter 5: Double Trouble
 * Chapter 6: Keep Your Enemies Closer
 * Chapter 7: London Calling
 * Chapter 8: The Price of the Past
 * Chapter 9: Fifth Time's the Charm
 * Chapter 10: By Royal Appointment
 * Chapter 11: The Game is Afoot
 * Chapter 12: Tower of Terror
 * Chapter 13: Love and War
 * Chapter 14: Anticipation
 * Chapter 15: With This Ring
 * Chapter 16: A Joyous Union
 * Chapter 17: Wife or Death
 * Chapter 18: 1817

Desire & Decorum: First Winter

 * Chapter 1: Deck the Halls
 * Chapter 2: All I Want for Christmas
 * Chapter 3: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
 * Chapter 4: Sleigh Ride

Ernest Sinclaire
Ernest Sinclaire is one of your potential love interests. Your first encounter is in a country village of Grovershire when he passes by you and Briar. When you arrive at Edgewater, your grandmother introduces you to each other and you can choose to accompany him to the gardens to get to know him better. If he is the one you choose to be with in Book 2, Chapter 8, he will challenge the Duke to a duel to free you from your unwanted engagement. If he is not, he will act as your love interest's second in the duel.

Luke Harper
Luke is one of your potential love interests. You first meet him when you arrive at Edgewater. Because he is your friend and protector, even if you do not romance him, Duke Richards will demand his employment at Edgewater be terminated in Book 2, Chapter 6. Your friends determine the Duke's reason was to remove any obstacle between the two of you. Luckily, Miss Parsons convinces her family to take Luke on as a manservant. If he is not your love interest and Mr. Sinclaire is, he will be Mr. Sinclaire's second during the duel.

Annabelle Parsons
Annabelle Parsons is one of your potential love interests. You first meet her when you arrive at the Edgewater Estate after meeting Mr. Sinclaire and Mr. Harper. You are not formally introduced to her until the next day during the Countess' sewing circle. If you decide to pursue a romantic relationship with her, you will not be able to marry her to secure your title. Instead, you will have to enter a marriage of convenience with Mr. Chambers and continue to hide your relationship with her behind closed doors. Still, her feelings for you are obvious to your friends especially when she challenges the Duke to a duel.

Vincent Foredale
Vincent Foredale is your father. While growing up, your mother Mary told you your father died before you were born. So you grew up believing your father was dead. When your mother knew she didn't have much time left, she wrote to him and told him about you. Knowing he would take care of you gave your mother peace in her last moments. You first meet him when he sends for you a week after your mother passes. He takes an automatic liking to you, and within weeks of knowing you, he changes his will naming you his heir. However, his will has a stipulation that you must marry a man of suitable rank. At some point after your father's death and your wedding to your chosen love interest, Your Character admits to Harry and Edmund that you were terrified of being brought to Edgewater. Your Character admits she was terrified, because she was leaving everyone and everything she knew for a place she knew nothing about and was stepping into a new world she thought she'd never belong in. But Your Character admits the thing she was most terrified of was that when meeting her father for the first time, her father would take one look at her and send her back to Grovershire.

Henrietta
While Henrietta may be your character's stepmother, she automatically dislikes you. This is mainly due to the fact that your presence jeopardizes her son, Mr. Marlcaster's claim to the Edgewater estate. During your debut into society, she tries to undermine you but when your engagement to Duke Richards is announced, her dislike for him outweighs her dislike for you. In Book 2, you join forces to discredit the Duke.

In Desire and Decorum: First Winter, Countess Henrietta shows up near the end of Chapter 1.

In Chapter 2, Your Character admits she'd never expected to see Countess Henrietta to walk through the doors of Edgewater. But despite the bad history between them, Your Character allows her to stay for Christmas and it's revealed Harry invited her. Around the dinner table, Countess Henrietta tells Your Character she believes it's time, to make amends. She gives Your Character a crown, Your Character can chose to accept Countess Henrietta's apology and Your Character gives her a Christmas present too.

Dominique
Dominique is your grandmother and Vincent's mother. Because you are her only granddaughter, your marriage prospects become her sole focus. Although she sees viable matches in Mr. Chambers, Mr. Sinclaire, and Prince Hamid, she pushes you toward Duke Richards because his title outranks your father's (thus you and Edgewater by extension would climb the social ladder). That, along with his wealth and reputation, outweigh all other possible suitors.

Briar Daly
Briar is your best friend. You grew up with her in Grovershire and when you learn your father is not only alive but also the Earl of Edgewater, she goes with you, saying she will become your lady's maid. You both confide in each other and she encourages you to spend time with your love interests.

You are able to encourage her with either Arthur Woods or Edmund Marlcaster. If she doesn't marry any of them, she will become pregnant out of wedlock in Book 3, Chapter 18. She is relieved when you tell her she will always have a place at your estate and that you will be happy to become Auntie Clara. You can also say that you hope to become pregnant, too, so that your children are able to play together. If you have enough Manners to see her future, you will learn that she has a daughter and names her after you.

Mary
Mary is your mother. When you were younger, she told you your father had died. However, in her last moments, she tells you that she had lied and asks for your forgiveness. Your Character can chose to tell her, there's nothing to forgive, Your Character reassures her mother she understands and Your Character tells her mother, she wishes you had more time together.

Her last wish is that you go to him since he will be sending a carriage for you. You find her letters to him, hidden from your father by your grandfather, and can choose to read them.

Prince Hamid
Prince Hamid is one of your potential love interests. You first meet him when you arrive in London, and can choose to walk with him for a little while before he escorts you and Miss Parsons to your townhouse.

Bartholomew Chambers
In the event that you want to pursue Annabelle as your love interest, you will have to accept his proposal to enter a marriage of convenience with him.

Harry
Harry is your younger brother. You have only heard of him through stories told by Miss Parsons and Mr. Marlcaster, and have only seen his portrait in the portrait gallery. His appearance shocks you in Book 2, Chapter 16, and you meet him for the first time in Book 3, Chapter 1. You can improve or worsen your relationship with him with your choices (similar to your relationships with your grandmother, Mr. Marlcaster, Miss Sutton, and others).

Harry accuses you of murder of your father because of Comte Renard's letter to him informing him of your father's death. Later, he helps you defeat Comte Renard and foil his plan of usurping the crown. You can choose to walk down the aisle with him.

Manners
Throughout all three stories of Desire and Decorum, you have the ability to accrue Manners points, exemplified by acting in a dignified, courtly manner. It is not possible to lose Manners points once obtained. If you reach a certain threshold, there is a reward given at the end of each book
 * Accruing enough Manners in Book 1 grants the Edgewater Jewels, a tiara that can be worn by the main character.
 * Accruing enough Manners in Book 2 grants the player the title of Championess of the Realm by Queen Charlotte.
 * Accruing enough Manners in Book 3 allows the player to see the futures of numerous characters throughout the book.

Outfit Choices

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Trivia

 * She is shown on the cover of Desire & Decorum, Book 1, Desire & Decorum, Book 2, Desire & Decorum, Book 3, and Desire & Decorum: First Winter.
 * She was confirmed to be 20 years old in Book 1, Chapter 1.
 * She is the first Main Character whose biological mother and father are shown in the story.
 * Some of the dialogues alter depending on her skin tone.
 * In a premium scene in Book 1, Chapter 13, her date of birth is revealed as 2 November 1795.
 * If you have gained enough Manners in Book 2, Queen Charlotte dubs you Championess of the Realm.
 * If you are married to one of the male love interests and have gained enough Manners in Book 3, you are able to experience your own future in which you are pregnant.
 * If you are married to one of the male love interests and have gained enough Manners in Book 3, you are able to experience your own future in which you are pregnant.