AU NAME: Laurent Duvere AU AGE: 20 AU OCCUPATION: Heir to CableCorp, a thinly veiled version of NewsCorp in its heyday, and business student BLURB: Laurent Duvere is the youngest son of Aleron Duvere, a French billionaire who made his fortune as a successful media mogul. He expanded CableCorp, a French media company started by his father before him, via successful investing and buyouts until it became one of the largest media companies in Europe. CableCorp is a media conglomerate worth billions of dollars. It owns newspapers, TV channels, websites, magazines, radio shows, has shares in film companies.
Laurent's father and mother both died in a car accident seven years ago, leaving the business to be taken over by their oldest son Auguste with the assistance of his uncle. Auguste is well liked and clever, and largely Laurent trusts him with all this, but recently the usually more even-handed direction of the company and its reporting has begun to tip just enough to be noticeable. Since the death of his father, Laurent's uncle has been a more noticeable presence in the family's life and he has been helping Auguste run the company in a way that smacks of ambition. Laurent suspects his influence is responsible for this change in direction, and that his brother is a little too trusting of his own family to realise he is being manipulated.
CableCorp thus has had a certain amount of backlash, and while Laurent is likely not a recognisable face his surname is (in the same way the name Murdoch might be in life). There is a slowly developing scandal as the reporting methods of some branches are investigated, and Laurent is loathe to not be home to help but also aware he must let his brother handle it. He is in Recolle finishing a business degree, and generally travels with security in case someone decides to get a little heated. (Someone else who will end up on the workshop in a minute will probably be his awkward security guard).
CableCorp tends to back the mayor in most of its news! It is not the number one news company in Recolle, it's bigger in Europe, but it is present. The mayor probably plays golf with Laurent's creepy uncle once a month or something.
LOOKING FOR: Study friends in business degree land, or in the land the same college at least! Rival families! Friendly families! Politically minded people who want to have slightly heated debates about Cablecorp! Fellow book nerds! Laurent is a big reader Do you like riding? Laurent likes riding! Horses in canon but yknow I CAN DEAL W/ BIG CHICKENS Are you a tenacious flirt? Laurent is gay (yes, as well as European) and also plays horrendously hard to get. Do you like a good sass battle? Laurent won Best Poker Face of the Year ten times over and can drop the sickest burns. Are you also European? Complain with him about how everything is clearly better in Europe.
WARNING: This book series comes with a laundry list of content warnings. While most of it is sort of... safely not in his AU memories, once he starts to remember his life he will definitely have memories of child abuse, slavery, incest, all sorts of bad things. You can totally opt out of him (if he gets in!) or just, you know, warn me to stay away from that content with you. It... probably isn't something he'd talk about anyway, I'm just being upfront so people don't feel caught out after planning here or something.
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CANON: Captive Prince
AU NAME: Laurent Duvere
AU AGE: 20
AU OCCUPATION: Heir to CableCorp, a thinly veiled version of NewsCorp in its heyday, and business student
BLURB:
Laurent Duvere is the youngest son of Aleron Duvere, a French billionaire who made his fortune as a successful media mogul. He expanded CableCorp, a French media company started by his father before him, via successful investing and buyouts until it became one of the largest media companies in Europe. CableCorp is a media conglomerate worth billions of dollars. It owns newspapers, TV channels, websites, magazines, radio shows, has shares in film companies.
Laurent's father and mother both died in a car accident seven years ago, leaving the business to be taken over by their oldest son Auguste with the assistance of his uncle. Auguste is well liked and clever, and largely Laurent trusts him with all this, but recently the usually more even-handed direction of the company and its reporting has begun to tip just enough to be noticeable. Since the death of his father, Laurent's uncle has been a more noticeable presence in the family's life and he has been helping Auguste run the company in a way that smacks of ambition. Laurent suspects his influence is responsible for this change in direction, and that his brother is a little too trusting of his own family to realise he is being manipulated.
CableCorp thus has had a certain amount of backlash, and while Laurent is likely not a recognisable face his surname is (in the same way the name Murdoch might be in life). There is a slowly developing scandal as the reporting methods of some branches are investigated, and Laurent is loathe to not be home to help but also aware he must let his brother handle it. He is in Recolle finishing a business degree, and generally travels with security in case someone decides to get a little heated. (Someone else who will end up on the workshop in a minute will probably be his awkward security guard).
CableCorp tends to back the mayor in most of its news! It is not the number one news company in Recolle, it's bigger in Europe, but it is present. The mayor probably plays golf with Laurent's creepy uncle once a month or something.
LOOKING FOR:
Study friends in business degree land, or in the land the same college at least!
Rival families!
Friendly families!
Politically minded people who want to have slightly heated debates about Cablecorp!
Fellow book nerds! Laurent is a big reader
Do you like riding? Laurent likes riding! Horses in canon but yknow I CAN DEAL W/ BIG CHICKENS
Are you a tenacious flirt? Laurent is gay (yes, as well as European) and also plays horrendously hard to get.
Do you like a good sass battle? Laurent won Best Poker Face of the Year ten times over and can drop the sickest burns.
Are you also European? Complain with him about how everything is clearly better in Europe.
WARNING: This book series comes with a laundry list of content warnings. While most of it is sort of... safely not in his AU memories, once he starts to remember his life he will definitely have memories of child abuse, slavery, incest, all sorts of bad things. You can totally opt out of him (if he gets in!) or just, you know, warn me to stay away from that content with you. It... probably isn't something he'd talk about anyway, I'm just being upfront so people don't feel caught out after planning here or something.