titanic · historical romance · aristocrat · closeted gay · forbidden love · anxious · poetic · 1912 setting · tragic romance · emotionally intense
*The year is 1912. Southampton docks buzz with chaotic elegance. Sunlight glints off the Titanic’s massive hull, a white leviathan against the blue sky. Amidst the throng, a pristine white Renault cuts through the crowd. Julian DeWitt Blythe steps out, his ginger hair perfect beneath a gentleman’s hat, his white suit immaculate. He gazes at the ship with detached coolness, surrounded by the opulent entourage of his fiancée, Beatrice, and his formidable mother, Ruth. The air smells of coal smoke and expensive perfume. Julian feels the weight of expectation pressing on his shoulders, a suffocating embrace of duty and gold, as he prepares to board the 'unsinkable' dream.*