Quinton Reed

**Relationships:** | Adeline Covey (Ex-girlfriend)

Growing up in a rich family, Quinton’s fashion sense is heavily influenced by the way his parents dressed him when he was younger. He often wore colored suits to galas (experimenting with ones that are considered “out there”, at least in the UK), and even his casual clothes are still formal to an extent, choosing to go to school wearing a jacket or blazer, flannels, needlecord trousers or chinos, a shirt with a collar, and smart shoes –- “not trainers or sandals, thank you very much”.

His sense of humor is sarcastic, but often good-natured, unlike Adeline who is straightforward. Quinton’s language isn’t with words but through his art, and yet he has a kind of charm with other people, albeit it doesn’t come natually with his peers since he grew up sweet-talking adults, most of whom are art dealers.

Eventually, though, Quinton found his craft in modernism once he could understand the fundamental concepts of what his rich family believes to be the "superior art form," meaning he was able to sell his pieces to an art gallery. Even the Louvre took notice of his skill, and he was recommended to become a student of the academy for seventh grade, his first year of junior high school, notwithstanding his academic skills, which are subpar at best. His family bought a house near the beach, about an hour away at most from the academy, but Quinton mostly lives alone apart from the help. His parents visit from time-to-time, but for the most part they’re away on business, and his younger brother Lucian is studying at a boarding school in England.

He was a member of Baudelaire at the academy, a prominent member at that, since he was bringing in money and trophies for the organization, and subsequently, the school as well. Quinton eventually became the leader of Caravaggio after the split, primarily because of his skill, making people believe that he is automatically assertive. He can be, to an extent, since he has experience talking to art dealers and other experts, but he has a little bit of trouble connecting with his peers.

**Deveraux Reed**, on the other hand, was an art dealer and expert who would sell the pieces inspired by Millicent and they’d meet more than a few times and they hit it off and eventually established a relationship and got married after less than a year of being together. They had Quinton two years later, and as is the case with almost all parents, they wanted him to follow in their footsteps one way or another.

Quinton was mostly comfortable with the lifestyle his parents had paved for him; after all, he didn’t really know anything else. Instead of leaving him at home, Millicent and Deveraux would often bring Quinton to their events, which took a toll on Quinton’s mental health as he grew up, since he was beginning to feel fatigued and emotionally disconnected from everyone else. This led to him being silent as a child, except when he had to help his parents convince someone to be business partners, or when he had to let prospective buyers down because what they were offering wasn’t enough. His life was all business and no love, so he grew up emotionally distant and not knowing how to express his feelings.

**Lucian Reed** is Quinton’s brother, younger by only two years, and the two were never close. In fact, Lucian is far from an artist, writer, or performer. Instead, he’s an athlete, being a football (soccer) extraordinaire. He is disconnected from the rest of the family; he’s nowhere near as charismatic, but he still has a striking confidence that’s enough to shake people up and get their attention. He and Quinton rarely talk, and even when they were younger Lucian always felt out of place with their other childhood friends. Quinton’s friends ask him from time-to-time how Lucian is doing, but he can never have a definitive answer; in fact, not a lot of people even know that Quinton has any siblings, and the same goes for Lucian, who currently goes to a boarding school in England, which is a decision he made for himself since he didn’t want to be associated with family.

He was closest, however, to his childhood friends **Harper St. Jude** and **Rozu Frühling** (who still went by Rozu St. Jude at the time), siblings whom he met when their parents had an encounter at the Louvre.

Harper and Quinton often communicated cryptically; they knew what the other would be feeling without really needing to say anything. The two are close but not enough for people to notice, which is fine with them because they tend to keep it lowkey. Quinton would also defend Harper against people who would discriminate him in any way, especially in terms of Harper’s sexuality which he is still trying to figure out. Nevertheless, that never stopped Quinton from openly being against **Axel Falkov'**, just enough for him to warn Harper that Axel was bad news, but not enough to stop the two from continuing to hang out anyway. He was never a fan of Axel (whom he met during one of his visits to the St. Jude manor), since he didn’t particularly like the way he was getting comfortable with Rozu. It was obvious to him that Axel didn’t like him either, especially with the way Ernhest Falkov, the headmaster of the academy, would treat Quinton -- like he was his own son more than Axel is.

Weirdly enough, ever since Quinton transferred to the academy, he and Harper didn’t talk much anymore, but their convergence point would often be Adeline Covey, Harper’s best friend and Quinton’s girlfriend at the time. These days, the rift has widened, especially since they’re the heads of two opposing organizations (which used to be a unified one).

Quinton and Rozu are kindred spirits, in that they both have a passion for art and would often paint together and Quinton would listen to her talk about her troubles. He didn’t talk much, but he would give her advice when she really needed it. On normal days, Quinton would annoy Rozu and she’d pretend not to be fazed by it but there are times when she does find him annoying but he knows she finds it secretly endearing as well. The two are seen to be comfortable with each other’s presence, and Quinton was glad that the appointed co-head in Caravaggio is Rozu, as it made socialization easier for him, but he does find it a little bit awkward to be delegating tasks to her since he’s not the leader type and they’ve never needed to have a co-worker dynamic.

Back then, it would make his other friends jealous when Quinton would choose Harper and Rozu instead of them, especially since the two have remained a mystery to his school friends; they would be upset over the fact that Quinton would fly over to the St. Judes from England in a heartbeat, instead of trying to connect with his other friends, and it didn’t help that this was the type of behavior encouraged by Millicent and Deveraux. This made it easier for Quinton, then, to transfer at the academy since he didn’t especially have any loyalties to anyone and didn’t feel like he would really miss any of them.

Quinton met **Adeline Covey** in the summer before seventh grade, at a benefit gala that their parents were invited to; Adeline’s parents were big in the entertainment industry and Quinton’s mom used to be a model while his dad is prominent in the art scene, so the two pairs talked about becoming business partners someday. They believed that keeping Quinton and Adeline in touch would make it easier for them to cultivate a good rapport, to test the waters to see if they would be compatible for business, so they ensured that the two would always be classmates at the academy.

The odds seemed to work in their favor, for even without their intervention Quinton and Adeline seemed to hit it off. Quinton, not knowing how to show endearment, would use teasing as a love language, and Adeline, due to her competitive nature, would never back down from a fight. They had a love-hate relationship and often fought, but when it comes to Quinton’s chronic mental fatigue or issues with Lucian or his own parents, Adeline was always there to pick up after Quinton. They eventually got together in ninth grade after Adeline finally confronted him about it and he teased her about it first, but it would be Quinton’s death if he ever admitted that he fell in love with her longer than she liked him. They were in the honeymoon phase for a while and had a mostly healthy relationship until tenth grade, in which they had an on-off relationship. They officially ended during the summer before eleventh grade, around the time Adeline went to rehab for her alcoholism, which Quinton still blames himself for.

* He currently lives in a house by the beach on his own (not including the help).
* Quinton loves ice cream and would often go to the ice cream shop near the beach whenever he has a craving for it.