Julian Devolt

**Julian Devolt** is a character in Secret Palace serving as a supporting character in James' route. He is also the current head of Devolt Nights, a wine company and the older brother of Celeste Devolt.

## Appearance

Julian has a slight swept back dark brown hair with slight fringes in each sides and brown eyes.

His main outfit has him wearing a light gray formal suit jacket with six black parallel buttons in each sides and has a left pocket where he keeps his white gloves. Underneath, he wears a white long sleeved button shirt with a shades of blue checkered neck tie at the center of the collar, gray tight formal slacks and black loafers with no socks. He also wears a gold watch on his left wrist.

When he goes sail-boating with the player and his friends especially to both James and his sister Celeste, he wears a summer outfit; a white short sleeve v-neck button shirt with a single pocket at the left side, green swim shorts with a loose draw string in the same color in each sides and sandals.

In Chapter 4, he wears a formal suit in a shades of black; a charcoal gray formal suit jacket with a black long sleeved button-up shirt and a matching bow tie, charcoal gray formal slacks and black loafers. His gold watch was covered on his suit jacket.

In Chapter 5, he now wears a casual outfit to make him more look like a casual rich guy and this outfit is also seen at the official trailer in the game. Julian wears a black leather bomber jacket with two silver zipper chest pockets at the left side and the other two long silver zippers was on the right side that reaches through the edge of his jacket, a charcoal gray and white long sleeved polka dotted button-up shirt, pale blue jeans with a gray single button on the waistline and black leather shoes.

In Chapter 6, his second casual outfit was revealed as his polo attire where he and James are competing against Emmett Krasinki in a game of polo; a lime green short sleeved polo shirt with a white tiger design at the left side, white jeans with a matching lime green and green designed belt around his waist and black leather shoes.

* When he was in shirtless, he appears slender but a bit skinny while sharing the build similarly to Haku Kobayashi and he wears only a pair of gray skin-tight boxers while retaining his gold watch from his main outfit. In Chapter 2, his second shirtless portrait when he removes his short sleeve v-neck button shirt to swim. In Chapter 6, his third shirtless portrait has him wearing pink shorts with teal designs.

## Personality

Like Zac Hudson from Fallen Road, Julian is shown to be rude and arrogant and remarking the player about the milk she had put in his breakfast cereal and that she put it in too early, and also displays his sarcastic humor when he nicknames her cereal killer, much to her annoyance. He is also somewhat overly demanding due to his spoiled nature and always carries out the concierge's orders to make things perfect as well as calling giving stupid nicknames to the other hotel's staff, especially for bullying one of them which is Cameron Cooper. He is also friends with James Oswald-Descieux who also disapproves his mistreatment he gave to the hotel staff which led to him apologizing to the player. However, he has a child's side to him, as the first time the player sees him, he was watching cartoons on a flat screen TV and enjoys eating cereal. He also appears to be attracted to the player, as he commented that she was probably recruited for her looks rather than for her ability to follow instructions. Julian is also a party animal, and was heard to have partied until 4 am, only to be seen fresh like a business man the next and made the player wonder how he does it. When he saw the player the next day after partying he cracked an amused smile and she had asked him if he would have any cereal that morning, only for him to reply jokingly that he never has cereal before five. Julian seems to like attention, especially from the player, and often opts to get it.

In Chapter 2, he had an animosity towards his younger sister Celeste when she and James join his sailboat with his friends including the player. He also loves expensive Cuban cigars, which shows him as a chain smoker. He is also shown as a de facto leader to his fellow rich friends Bryan, Harvey and Clyde who are actually playboys who shows their interest to the player and to the player's disgust upon seeing them. James also reveals to the player that Julian is very passionate in sailing who likes to sail on the ocean seas and also had child-like antics displaying his other personality for being childish, playful and upbeat to splash the ocean water with his friends. His child-like antics is also disliked by both Celeste and James who remains his cool composure by hitting him with a football on his abs or throwing him off to the ocean waters.

In Chapter 5, he seemingly dislikes the secret relationship between James and the player while displaying his disrespectful side towards people in middle-class standards which was seen when he asks James to meet up the celebrity Cristal Richards instead of the player but James refuses stating that he doesn't want to have a bar brawl for his lack of manners and for spilling Beth's dress when they were messing the VIP room filled with glass of champagne with his rich friends which angers Beth, and Julian gave her a scowl and threatens her in disrespect causing James to stop him angrily not to take his tone down making Beth to leave angrily as both Abed and the player follow. His lack of manners according to James is because of their trip in Europe within their teenage years when they always engaged in parties in Paris. In Chapter 6, he soon apologizes to the player for his lack of manners and why he acted so badly to the freeloaders who butt in their social standards causing the player to get mad but was defended by James who scolded him. He also displays both his temper and confrontational side upon learning that Emmett threatened James for his challenge against him in a polo match. Although after the match where James beats Emmett, Julian is much more relaxed while joking on Emmett in a sense of dark humor when James breaks two of Emmet's teeth with a punch to the face after he insulted the player and mentioning his grandmother, Jeanna, but became disappointed when James officially tells him that he and Celeste need to be nice with the player. However in Chapter 7, Julian was becoming unhinged and was shortsighted when he angrily decided to break his friendship with James who does not tell him the main reason of his sister's crying and blames the player for their cause. Unaware to Julian however, James didn't tell him about his sister Celeste because he frequently rejects her romantic advances and her aggressive attitude.

That also happens in Chapter 9 where he and his parents are unaware to Celeste's current behavior for being pretentious, manipulative and using their family wealth and power for illegal means and her obsession to James which is why they are pushing Henry and Ivana to make James getting close to her. According to James after their trip in Europe, Julian is revealed to be working as a club DJ in his spare time during his trip in Asia before he sets up his own wine company, Devolt Nights.

In Chapter 10, he reveals his dislike towards the player, thinking that she is a gold digger which led to him and James getting into a fist fight, but he loses. Despite his toughness however, Julian reveals to James about his father's horrible act, when he paid Kirsten to abort his baby with her, without his knowledge. James became angered after learning of his father's horrible actions, including to control the hotel business they had currently been working on and he regretfully blames him for what he had caused, leading his decision to become business partners with him at his club and his wine company using the Descieux champagne within the palace which Julian gladly accepts James' deal.

In Cameron's story, Julian became very friendly towards James' cousin the player. In Chapter 2, it is revealed that James sometimes he dislikes some of Julian's opinions and Julian himself hates getting rejected when he impulsively teaches her to like him which is also a part of the seducing game.

The nicknames he called to the hotel staff including Margaret which he called her as a Sergeant. Other names he called the staff are Michael Hell Angelo (Cameron), Bleach Bomb (Damian) and both a Cereal Killer and Killer (the player). In the Christmas limited extra love scene, Julian calls the new bartender Hiroshima (player who replaces the player in his Christmas Extra Love Scene)

In the Christmas limited extra love scene, the player, who works as a new bartender, is attracted to Julian and says that he makes her weak at the knees when she sees him. She asks Julian for advice on what she should get James, and Julian displays his pranking and joking nature after he had told the player to get James a hair dryer for a present after she had drawn his name in the employee Secret Santa exchange. The player gets James a hair dryer which James seems shocked by while Julian laughed, while the player was furious that he had embarrassed her. She goes up to his suit to confront him and sees that he has the hair dryer that she had given to James and he said that he had borrowed it because he needed one, he turns on the blow dryer and blow dries her body seductively, and like Daryl Ortega before him, Julian displays his romantic sense of passion and his aggression to the player when he had stripped everything away and the player's own just to have romantic sex with her on his suite. After they finish, Julian makes a funny remark about how useful getting that hair dryer was. However, if the player chooses George for James' gift in Secret Santa, Julian strikes up a friendship with her after she gave James a friendly hug and shows his romantic attraction to her stating that if she is his Secret Santa, his romantic antics with her is a secret. However during the Spring Break limited extra love scene shows Julian more of his humorous personality and almost getting crazy over the player when he is about to make love to her in public due to being interrupted by both of their respective friends while having a beach party on his sailboat, The World.

## Allies

* The Main Character (James) (sometimes)
* James Oswald-Descieux (sometimes)
* Extra Main Character
* Celeste Devolt (sometimes)
* Margaret Lawrence
* Henry Oswald-Descieux
* Ivana Oswald-Descieux
* Ethan McAllister
* Bryan

## Enemies

* Damian Krug
* Cameron Cooper
* James Oswald-Descieux (sometimes)
* Celeste Devolt (sometimes)
* Beth Young
* Emmett Krasinski
* The Main Character (James) (sometimes)

## Trivia

* He bears a resemblance to Ashton Darrow from Carter Corp, and his manipulative streak and personality is from Zac Hudson of Fallen Road.
	+ His stance is also a retooled version of Ashton Darrow's.
* His grey corporate suit is very similar to Ryan Carter's main corporate suit.
* He, Jake Stewart and Owen Hobbad are the only love interests that are confirmed smokers.
* In the French ads in the game, Julian is depicted as a villain where he keeps the key hidden from Henry's office.
* It is possible that both he and Raj Hirapati share the second love interest position. There is a confusion among these two in terms of 2nd love interest. Mark Leviels and Parker Sparke from Ryan Carter's story route too have this same confusion.
* Julian could possibly be bisexual, as he blushed when James hugged him when they saw each other, while James remained straight faced, and also blushed when James was shirtless.
	+ He could possible have a crush on James.
* He is the 1st male bisexual to be confirmed and overall 2nd next to Beth Young in the Secret Palace Universe.
* He bears a slight resemblance to the real-life actor, Cole Sprouse.
	+ Julian also somehow bears a resemblance to actor Robert Pattinson.
* In the Christmas limited extra love scene, Julian calls the player as Hiroshima, making a shoutout reference to the Hiroshima atomic bombing in 1945.
* It was presumed that he would get his own story route one day which was confirmed when the official Is it Love? Facebook released a promo of him while James' route wasn't fully released yet, signifying that he would get his own route one day.
* Fans have speculated that he is the next character to get his own story route after James in Secret Palace.
	+ This is hinted in his Extra Love Scene where Julian had made love to the player at his suite who could possibly become the main heroine for his story route as well as striking up his friendship to her after giving a gift to James.
* It's possible that Celeste Devolt could severe as the second love interest in his story route.
* Julian bears some similarities to Julian Devorak from The Arcana, in terms of personality and romantic behavior which is also an otome series.
	+ Both are named Julian.
	+ Both are termed as notorious and have a sister as well.
	+ Both like attention, good or bad.
* It is possible that Julian will be the 2nd Secret Palace character to be given a route, as the Is it Love team has given some indirect hints.
* It's possible that the the player from his extra love scene in James' route is going to be the main character in his upcoming route.
* Julian is probably right handed due to him wearing his watch on his left wrist.
* He was the only other character to appear in a secret image from James' story route.