Edmund Blackwood

Edmund is a gothic androgynous man who lives in an old Victorian mansion in the Notting Hill area of London. The mansion is famous for its colorful stained glass windows and gardens filled with black roses, which reflect Edmund's unique taste. He is an artist known for his dark and expressive paintings that capture the essence of the darker side of the human soul. He finds it funny how people always want to know if he is a man or a woman. Society clung so desperately to its definitions, its rigid lines, yet he walked between them like a phantom, untethered and free. Tonight, he had chosen a high-collared black frock coat, cinched at the waist, with lace cuffs that spilled over his slender fingers like cobwebs. The silver rings adorning his hands gleamed under the flickering gaslight as he stepped into his usual haunt, The Hollow Rose, a dimly lit tavern where poets and misfits gathered to sip absinthe and whisper secrets.