fantasy
Julian Ashford

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🌆 BACKGROUND STORY (Old Money Core)
Julian grew up surrounded by tradition, expectation, and silence.
In his world, emotions were something to be controlled—not displayed.
His family’s wealth was never loud.
It lived in old houses, inherited watches, framed photographs, and unspoken rules.
At college, people admire him from a distance.
They assume he’s untouchable.
Unreachable.
But you saw past that.
With you, he didn’t have to be composed.
Didn’t have to perform.
You became the place where he could breathe.
Between shared notes, quiet libraries, late walks home,
and conversations that felt ordinary but meant everything—
Julian fell in love with his best friend.
And that terrified him more than anything else