Age: 25

Appearance: Learan is of average height. He has black hair that is almost shoulder-length and quite wavy, and huge, wide-spaced grey-blue eyes that make him seem a lot younger than he is. His skin is pale, but that’s largely because he rarely goes out into the sun. He has naturally red lips that are bowed like a cherub’s, and his nose is long and straight. He blushes at the drop of a hat, but it’s a very attractive blush in the apples of his cheeks.

He favours plain but impeccably cut outfits in light, comfortable fabrics, because he doesn’t like having his movement restricted.

Personality: Learan is what one would call an emotional soul. He likes reading sad stories or plays, and he has a well-developed sense of the tragic. He tends to identify with other people completely (probably a product of his having no stable sense of his own self), and thus be drawn into their tragedies or quests. He cries a lot. He cries when he’s sad, he cries when he’s lonely, he cries when he’s happy, he cries when someone else is happy, he cries at the end of a sad story—or a happy one—he cries when he’s cross. Fortunately he’s a very attractive crier. His eyes fill up with tears which make them seem even larger and greyer than they are, his cheeks flush, and his lip wobbles. He doesn’t get unsightly puffy eyes or red noses.

Other than his fondness for his drama, Learan is a fairly amicable man. He’s never really grown up properly, having been a Key since he was fifteen. He’ll do just about whatever a Master tells him to do, but if a master is unchivalrous (especially to the Pages), he gets furious (starts crying) and reprimands the Master soundly for being ungallant, then sulks for two minutes straight. First-time Rain Key Masters generally emerge from their first twenty-four hours with the impression they’ve survived a thunderstorm, since Learan gets emotional about everything, sheds enough tears to fill a bath tub and asks millions of questions. Of course, then he smiles, and ‘lo, a rainbow.

He does give off a bit of a damsel-in-distress vibe, but he prefers to think of himself as a cavalier, and likes to rescue people in trouble… to the limited extent he can whilst incarcerated in a Key suite.

Background: Learan, like many of the Keys, came to the Palace as a young, orphaned boy. He has never really known a life outside it, but his early years were spent reasonably comfortably with his parents in a respectable part of town. They died when he was five, and he ended up briefly in the hands of the very disinterested Mr. Kirbing, man of law, who instead of going through all the bother of registering him as a ward of the state (Learan had no other relatives), simply sold him to the Palace and convinced the authorities that the boy had run away, and was probably dead in an alleyway.

So it was that Learan came to the Palace, where he stayed until he was old enough to begin Key training. He had his first Master when he was fifteen, so he’s been a Key for ten years, and is a bit of a fixture around the Palace. He has a lot of repeat Masters, because if they can cope with the constant drama of his Suite, they generally become pretty fond of him.

He generally gets the kinds of Masters who are lonely and want companionship as well as sex, and maybe to have their minds distracted. Though he’s had his share of authoritarian Masters just after satisfaction, he almost never gets sadists. The Palace staff know what he’s good at, and it isn’t that (besides, he practically grew up with one of the receptionists).

He’s very fun in bed, when his flair for drama really comes into its own. He’s a submissive through and through, never having been given a chance to try being dominant. Of course, he cries when he comes.

Room: Learan’s rooms look more like a home than a suite.

The main doors open onto an antechamber with dark blue walls and blackwood panelling. The room has a coat rack and a storage cupboard, and double doors in blackwood open onto the main room, which has a full wall of windows (floor-to-ceiling) that open enough to get a breeze in, but not enough to get more than an arm through. The ceilings are high—about 1.5 storeys. Walls are painted a light greyish blue with the same blackwood panelling as in the anteroom. The floors are polished wood, and a large blue rug covers most of it. The main room has a small dining table with a liquor cabinet beside it. On the other side of the room is a living room arrangement with chairs and a small coffee table. There are also bookshelves and a fireplace in this corner (though not near each other).

On the wall nearest the living area, there are two doors. One is to the bathroom, and the other to the bedroom. There is also a connecting door between backroom and bedroom. The bathroom is fairly standard fancy hotel stuff with a big bath, tiled in white.

The bedroom has the same colour scheme as the antechamber, with a king-size four-poster against the far wall. The bed has white sheets and pillows. The floor is polished blackwood with a large blue rug. Of course, there are wardrobes across one wall. There are tasteful paintings on the walls of all the rooms.

If the setting is “modern,” there could be a small kitchen with a bar fridge and microwave off the main room near the dining area. Of course, if the setting is “ancient” then changes will need to be made for the room to fit in as well.