Once upon a time...
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| In the year 2004, there was a little Eton College RPG called A Field Sable. Within A Field Sable was a boy called Avery Fitzwilliam Driscoll. Naturally, he had to have parents of some sort. A place of birth. A history. For a short while, his parents were mean. Deciding it was unfair, his parents regained their dignity. Avery himself gained a brother and a sister. His middle name was gifted an origin--and it was that origin that spawned the entire Fitzwilliam family.
You see, Avery's mother was a former ballerina by the name of Claire Fitzwilliam. I had long decided that the bulk of the family's wealth came from her side of the family, but it took me over a year to figure out just what this extremely lucrative business was.
Once I had the idea, and once his mother began to fill out the darkest crevices of a fresh and nubile character, the family began to grow exponentially. People three, four, five generations back were given names and minor history. Other characters clamored to be heard, but in the interest of conserving a modicum of relevance, most went ignored.
Until now.
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In other words...
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| The Fitzwilliam family is an entirely fictional family first created for A Field Sable RPG, then later, and more officially, Dirty Life RPG, where their present-day activities are noted. The family also appears in a lot of novels and novellas and other things of the like, both canon and alternate universe. Essentially, they are the original characters of Scout, and she does with them what she pleases.
Canonically, as in the Dirty Life universe, the Fitzwilliams are the richest family in Great Britain, and indeed one of the wealthiest in the world, due to two things:
- They've been in the aristocracy since the twelfth century. And somehow saved their fortunes by not ever becoming kings and queens.
- They own the world's biggest diamond company, and indeed, as per this canon, purchased DeBeers during the American Depression.
But the family isn't without its more colorful history that renders their finances almost forgettable. Much like any self-respecting British family of royal heritage, they have plenty of incest, murder, skeletons, and ghosts. They also have a few things brought in by their marriages to people across class lines, including a little secret the public is desperate to crack.
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