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Owner of "Le Masquerade," a most select cabaret club with more than its share of depravity and debauchery, Éloi -an intelligent young man with a great penchant for beauty, human specimens of intriguing nature and true liberty of expression- is undoubtedly a fascinating individual. While beautiful, alluring, cultured and most persuasive, he also adheres to a very dubious code of morals, has a terribly frivolous nature reminiscent of a spoiled little girl, and treats humans like material possessions. However, despite his atrocious personality he is a very successful businessman, a most accomplished actor, and -if he so desires- can be truly charming, making good use of his silver tongue.

History

Although raised in a toxic environment, childhood had been bearable, both his parents fussed about him and he always had their full attention. And each of his small accomplishments was always met with approval. His mother's silly and affectionate behavior with him and his father's grave, strict discipline balanced nicely and so he did not feel pressured. Not until he started school.

By eleven years old, Éloi had already started to pick up some of his parents traits, but he was still a good kid. However, the second he had entered an environment that put him in contact with other, normal, families and eh started to realize the wrongs in his family, he soon started to change. Not only that, but also both of his parents had begun to pull him in different directions, each wanting something else for their only son.

Both Anna and Albert had started demanding more of him, Albert in his education and Anna from his social standing. But they both agreed that the more he achieved the more freedom they would give him. So he struggled to keep them both pleased. He did well in his classes, opting to emphasize on those classes that would help him follow in his father's footsteps, while still maintain a large circle of acquaintances and connections for his mother's sake. Around the time he had finished the collège, he showed signs of giving in under the pressure of his parent's demands and started to stray from his duties and fall in with the wrong crowd.

Of course, it took the Desrosiers little to no time to hear about their son's misdemeanor and properly punish him by denying him access to all of his funds and friends, so that's when Éloi learned that it is best to drag a clear line between his professional life and his personal life—well, no, not really, he just learned to be very subtle and also keep his parents utterly blissful with his achievements so he could do whatever he damn well pleased. So he continued to get the best grades in those subjects that most interested his father, kept up with his mother's acquaintances and made sure to entertain whomever she - not so subtly - implied he should associate himself with, and so seven years of school passed rather uneventfully.

He graduated very well, making his father as proud as one as selfish as Albert could be and Anna's social circles all loved him, making her incredibly happy with him. All was fine and dandy in the Desrosiers family. Well—at least from the outside, because Éloi was finally free of the confines of morality and society norms.

But Éloi did not have much time to relish in his new-found freedom, because Albert wasted no time in putting his recently finished education at work. He promptly entrusted him with a small number of businesses from the family company and instructed him diligently on how they should be run. So while he battled with trying to take the enterprises to the next level and finally be free of his familial duties, he found that he had enough time to still enjoy the beauties of life: clubs, social gatherings of less than moral standing, enjoying the sultry notes of cabaret music and collecting fine works of art and clothing... and lovers—because there was really not that much difference between the two. All the while, while still keeping his mother and her socialite friends entertained and really, Anna's friends - high, upstanding, noble ladies - had rather taken to accepting her invitation for tea more for the sake of fawning over her most charming, beautiful son.

Éloi was growing bored with the routine of his life, and even if he took much pride in having saved his father's businesses and taking them to entirely new levels, and his dalliances into the debauchery and depravity of the Paris night life gave him much satisfaction and his mother's silly friends were a welcome amusement—it was all so incredibly boring. But one night, while enjoying a Peach And Lime Daiquiri at the bar of one famous cabaret establishment in Montmartre he happened to meet his dear first cousin one removed, Arianne Desrosiers. And wasn't that a fortuitous encounter? Éloi had no business with his father's grudges against her side of the family, and he and Arianne were so similar and like-minded he could not care less. True she was more restrained and preferred to uphold to the expectations of all around her at all times during public situations, but she was as much a libertine as he was by night time.

So when his father had finally decided to let him succeed on his own, and Arianne announced she'll be leaving for England, he wasted not on second in preparing to depart with her. He was, of course, rather disappointed to hear she'd be locked away in some dreadful old castle in Scotland while he was stuck in London with no acquaintances at all, but he soon snaked his way into the upper class society circles and in a few weeks since his arrival, "Le Masquerade", his cabaret club was open. Now, the cabaret, was truly something special and it gave him so much pleasure just knowing it existed that when the business actually started to pick up he was elated. He had created the venue to perfectly suit his needs. It was luxurious, select but most of all private.

And, while he himself, never gets involved with some of the less than upstanding citizens frequenting his club or their rather illegal transactions, he still offers them a safe haven, as long as they can pray the price, and of course, entertain him. He's slowly starting to expand and accept more members, and through the club he is also starting to acquaint himself with various people he enjoys the company of. He doesn't really do friends, but he is certainly interested in some of his clients to also join him in personal life. And with some he has managed, with others he still prefers to watch from afar