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Biographical Information
Name: Harry Fisher
PB: Matthew MacFadyen
Age: 31
Nationality: English
Allegiance: To himself, and the rich, as long as they share.
Social Status and/or Occupation: Patron of the arts, business man, Harry is of the criminal classes, although he wouldn't want you to think that. He's looking to improve his lot.
Brief character history:
Years ago, Harry Fisher was a common, run-of-the-mill thug. He had a boss, and Harry did his bidding. Murders, robberies, smuggling, collecting money from those who didn't want any trouble and the more besides. Harry spent several years working his way through what passed as a hierarchy in those circles, until he was a trusted bodyguard and confidant of the gang leader. Harry, charismatic and friendly, as well as ambitious, saw a way to climb to the very top of the ladder, and killed the man who had once trusted him. Rumour says Harry made the man's wife his mistress, and then with her encouragement killed her husband, and not long after killed her also. Harry seems happy to let this rumour continue and spread, becoming darker and darker with every re-telling.
A couple of years ago, Harry saw a business opportunity in the form of a theatre, re-possessed by debt-collectors. He purchased the building, and hired new staff, young, pretty Variety actors who could draw in the right sort of crowds, and the cash, and work after the curtain went down for private admirers. He normally acts as a chaperon for boys who go out with favoured patrons.
As well as prostitution, there is cock- and dog- fighting, burglary, smuggling, the black-market as well as political manipulation and bribery to keep Harry busy. He has two prize Staffordshire Bull Terriers, Blitzer and Hawker, who he likes to take to the theatre when the actors start acting out of hand. According to the stories, once one boy attempted to run away, and Harry allowed the dogs to chase him. Many of these stories then continue to describe the boy's grisly end. Again, none of the boys presently living or working at the Theatre seem to remember being present at the time, but the rumours, and the dogs, are normally enough to make them behave.
But this isn't the only side of Harry. He's looking for a wife. A nice, quiet, beautiful wife, one he can be proud of, one that would suit his carefully decorated town-house. But not one who doesn't know her place. She needs a title, or at least money and a respectable name, and with the flood of widowed or orphaned French ladies coming to England to escape the Terror, Harry is sure he'll find one soon.
Name: Harry Fisher
PB: Matthew MacFadyen
Age: 31
Nationality: English
Allegiance: To himself, and the rich, as long as they share.
Social Status and/or Occupation: Patron of the arts, business man, Harry is of the criminal classes, although he wouldn't want you to think that. He's looking to improve his lot.
Brief character history:
Years ago, Harry Fisher was a common, run-of-the-mill thug. He had a boss, and Harry did his bidding. Murders, robberies, smuggling, collecting money from those who didn't want any trouble and the more besides. Harry spent several years working his way through what passed as a hierarchy in those circles, until he was a trusted bodyguard and confidant of the gang leader. Harry, charismatic and friendly, as well as ambitious, saw a way to climb to the very top of the ladder, and killed the man who had once trusted him. Rumour says Harry made the man's wife his mistress, and then with her encouragement killed her husband, and not long after killed her also. Harry seems happy to let this rumour continue and spread, becoming darker and darker with every re-telling.
A couple of years ago, Harry saw a business opportunity in the form of a theatre, re-possessed by debt-collectors. He purchased the building, and hired new staff, young, pretty Variety actors who could draw in the right sort of crowds, and the cash, and work after the curtain went down for private admirers. He normally acts as a chaperon for boys who go out with favoured patrons.
As well as prostitution, there is cock- and dog- fighting, burglary, smuggling, the black-market as well as political manipulation and bribery to keep Harry busy. He has two prize Staffordshire Bull Terriers, Blitzer and Hawker, who he likes to take to the theatre when the actors start acting out of hand. According to the stories, once one boy attempted to run away, and Harry allowed the dogs to chase him. Many of these stories then continue to describe the boy's grisly end. Again, none of the boys presently living or working at the Theatre seem to remember being present at the time, but the rumours, and the dogs, are normally enough to make them behave.
But this isn't the only side of Harry. He's looking for a wife. A nice, quiet, beautiful wife, one he can be proud of, one that would suit his carefully decorated town-house. But not one who doesn't know her place. She needs a title, or at least money and a respectable name, and with the flood of widowed or orphaned French ladies coming to England to escape the Terror, Harry is sure he'll find one soon.