Talk:Bertrand Beaumont/@comment-33719824-20180113013624/@comment-3452092-20180113023859

They probably just want us to feel a little involved. It's a longer scene and it gives us a little control. We know he messed it up. That was pretty obvious before we ever started that. I had fun with it and making him mess up the first choice is totally adorable. To me at least.

I wouldn't say jerk. I would say idiot. Stumbling, bumbling idiot. He's totally tongue tied around her and he kind of forgets his brain which makes him default to his training. And I don't doubt for a moment that he has training. He was trained, probably from birth to either put the dukedom first or pretty nearly put it first and by doing this, he will protect the people he loves. Or maybe it was that everything was a duty, but I don't think duty means the same thing to him as it does to most people. I think to him doing his duty is how he shows love. And while I pretty sure Savannah thinks she understands him, Maxwell is probably the only one who really gets that faucet of his personality. And that's because Maxwell has been around him so much, being his brother and all, and he has seen Bertrand go through phases and he sees what Bertrand retreats in to.

Yes, the conversation was a disaster, but I liked it and it was nice to have some control, limited though it may be.