Marion Livingston

all walks of life (not a living character)

Male

Marion, Mssr. Livingston, Mr. Marion

Primary Instigator;
Antagonist

China blue

5'9 (pretty tall for the time)

Brown

Stylishly tousled up

Minor Sideburns

Human

Fair

Lean, but not lanky in any sense of the word. It's more lean muscle than thinness.

His own fancy

He is incredibly ignorant of others' emotions towards him, and only cares about how he feels.

Historically-present racial prejudices

Chess, Conversation

Keeping a personal journal, Horse riding, Socializing (dancing, conversation, etc.), other high-society leisure activities

cocky, suave, charming

Sword (rapier)

Christian

Doesn't care (earlier)
Anti-abolition [Yates is pro-abolition] (later)

Gentleman (heir to an illustrious merchant business)

Red

All

None

Marion grew up the middle sibling, his brothers being William and Yates Livingston. Lacking his older brother's ambition and his younger's streak for the romantic, Marion develops a sense of self-importance through his possessions, and in his ability to control situations. As a child, he and Yates grow up playing with Eulalia Merripenny, their neighbor. A plethora of failed friendships and romances throughout his life are initially broken by his desire for the absolute best- the creme of the crop, so to speak. He begins to butt heads with Yates, who wants to turn their estate into a safe house for fugitive slaves after a trip to a manor house surrounded by plantation fields (the Livingston estate does not keep slaves- their wealth comes from extensive port ownership in Mobile).

Private Tutor and University

1841

Horse

He only really exists in the story through the Antagonists' flashbacks to different stages in their lives, as well as in Cordelia's Coping Book.