Henry Oswald-Descieux

**Henry Oswald-Descieux** is the father of James Oswald-Descieux, the husband of Ivana Oswald-Descieux and the current manager of Secret Palace who made his appearance in the first chapter of his main story route. He is also the son of Jeanne Oswald-Descieux who made their family hotel business into a luxurious estate and the former husband of the late Jade Oswald-Descieux.

## Appearance

Henry is an old man who is slightly wrinkled, teal eyes and a long full beard.

He wore four outfits in the game as his fourth outfit is revealed in Cameron's route.

He wears a corporate outfit where he serves as the manager of the hotel, he wears a dark gray formal suit jacket with a left pocket where he keeps his white handkerchief, a gray formal vest with a white long sleeve button-up shirt with a shades of gray long neck tie on the collar, gray slacks and black loafers. His entire outfit is in the shades of gray which shows his black and white view between his son's relationship to the player.

During the Devolt Foundation Charity Gala, he wore a white tuxedo suit with a white long sleeve button shirt along with a black bowtie and his jacket from his tuxedo is adorned with a red rose at the right side, gray slacks and retaining his loafers from his corporate outfit. He also wears a black mask like the other male party goers.

When he sleeps at the family villa, Henry wears blue pajamas beneath his elegant royal purple robe.

His semi-casual attire is revealed in Cameron's route as well as being used in the ads, Henry wears a dark blue formal suit jacket with a single left pocket, a white and blue checkered long sleeved button-up shirt, medium blue jeans with a brown belt around his waist and black dress shoes.

## Personality

Like Richard R. Reynolds in Blue Swan, Henry is a very elegant old man with a no-nonsense attitude and is also a perfectionist. But is also strict and can often be unfair to some of his employees. He also shares Richard's strict rules in their respective business where his hotel employees are not allowed to engage romantic affairs towards fellow hotel employees which his son James had already did to the player of their current relationship. According to James, if his father finds out about their relationship with the player, which resulted him to be demoted and to the player's firing. However in Chapter 8, he shares Richard's crude rules within their respective business by implementing no relationship towards other employees which both are displaying their ruthless demeanor when encountering some of his employees that are in a relationship. In Henry's case, it was his son James who mainly breaks this rule because of his current relationship with the player.

In Chapter 4 despite the death of his mother Jeanne who recently died, Henry displays his disrespectful side towards his own mother and decided to sell most of the paintings and artworks in the auction and scolds his son James when he decided to keep all of his grandmother's paintings and tries to put their past behind and to move forward.

It is revealed throughout the chapters that Henry had been observing James' actions and tries to intrude on his private life. This is clearly seen at the near end of Chapter 8 where he had caught James who had been in a relationship with the player the entire time and finally silenced him on the spot. Henry is also the one who fired the player's mother Rose Murray by framing her for stealing expensive jewelry which he also did to the player, he framed her for stealing and immediately fires her on the spot in front of his son which angers James from his strict decisions. Especially believing into his customer's horrible claims where he pointed at the player for theft and the main reason why he immediately decided to fire her from stealing which led him to do the illegal firing.

In Chapter 9, it reveals his relationship with Rose Murray after James tells the player about him panicking and being angrily questioned by Ivana and he also cared for Rose when he takes her to the Blue Swan Hospital for treatment after she attempted to commit suicide by attempting a drug overdose. In Chapter 10, despite his strictness however, it is revealed that Henry and the Devolts had mistook the player as a gold digger and why they dislike her, and more than that, he uses Julian for his own wine business. Also in their teenage years, Henry had paid James' ex-girlfriend, Kirsten, to abort their baby without his son's knowledge and was paid to stay away from his son's private life. His intrusion in James' life leads him to abuse his power as the manager of the Palace and keep his son for their personal gain and try to let him get close to Celeste instead of any girl he meets, considering that both Kirsten and the player are being mistreated like garbage. His horrible actions caused James to rebel his father even further for intruding his private life.

This leads Julian to tell James about Kirsten and the abortion, which makes him angered for his actions. And the time before Margaret was promoted as the head concierge, it is revealed that Henry had physically abused her mother Rose in his office, and that the trauma he had inflicted on her resulted to in her trying to commit suicide from depression. The evidence that Henry did to Rose was well kept by George since his mother Jeanne wanted to throw it away because she did not want everyone to see how corrupted her son is. However, in the final chapter of the story, it shows that it was false and that the tape where Henry had physically assaulted Rose in his office is actually their brutal love making sessions and Henry reveals his romantic relationship to Rose and it is similar to how his son James is in love with the player within their current relationship and it was horribly ruined because of Ivana's jealousy and rage for him cheating on her and she is the main reason for destroying Rose's current life which led to her suicide attempt. Henry deeply apologized to the player and Rose for ruining their lives due to his wife's manipulations. He later gives a letter of apology to Rose following Ivana's court trial for her crimes. In the bad ending, he files a divorce against his wife but was never given a justice to Rose which resulted in a massive fall out and for breaking the relationship between his son James and the player.

In the Christmas limited extra love scene, Henry appears to be nice to the player (replacing the player from his son's route) when he gave her a bottle of Oswald-Descieux champagne as a gift due to him being her secret Santa. But can be strict and demanding towards her despite the latter works as a new bartender in Secret Palace and told her to straighten up her uniform.

## Season 1

Several years ago when his wife Jade died of breast cancer, Henry didn't care so much of her when he had remarried Ivana. He is the one who take over his mother's hotel business serving as a manager there and appointing his son James Oswald-Descieux as his co-manager and the current heir of the Secret Palace. During the time in 2002, Henry fell in love with Rose Murray, a chamber maid and both started to have a romantic relationship. However, their relationship did not last when Ivana had caught them due to Henry is cheating on her, leading her to ruin Rose's life which led to her current state from getting illegally fired and suffers depression which led to her suicide attempt as Henry is the one taking her to Blue Swan Hospital for treatment and leaves when Philip Carlson had checked upon her before she awakens for her recovery.

In the present day as the manager of the luxurious hotel, he is also extremely strict towards the hotel staff, particularly the player who is a newbie, especially to his own son, James, who serves as his assistant manger and his right-hand man when they were setting up the Devolt Foundation Charity Gala and displays his dislike to any forms of mistake which resulted in his employees to get them fired by him. He also shows his dislike to the player during their brief meeting as well as her presence during the charity gala when he found out she was waltzing with his son James and he is also responsible for replacing the player with Celeste because she is not above upper class standard like Celeste is. Henry's behavior was also opposed to his own son James who begins to rebel against him because of his closeness to the player. In Chapter 2, he also announces the horse show and the fireworks display. The next day, he had a meeting with his son James and Ethan McAllister in his office until he sees the player who managed to sneak into his office. Henry reprimands the player of her actions from last night's charity gala. During the player's crusade on her personal mission to investigate about her mother Rose Murray's sudden departure from the hotel, it was learned that Henry keeps the records about the previous employees including Rose on whether they got fired, resigned or took a sudden departure. It was then during the player's flashback three weeks ago during her fall out with her mother, Rose. Henry was responsible for covering up the entire incident happened to Rose following her sudden departure from the hotel she had formerly worked for.

In Chapter 4, he shows all of his mother's paintings and artworks to many customers who take notes at the ballroom section and decided to sell most of them at the auction. Not until James decided to keep the paintings. Henry angrily scolds James for keeping the paintings and he needs to put his past behind and to move forward. Henry immediately leaves when Mr. Mackenzie had complained about the carrots where their head chef had cooked their breakfast. According to James, Henry became partners with the Devolt Family because they were the future to change the entirety of the hotel. Later on, he hosted a show where it displays a new painting at the ballroom section and he thanked Celeste for the hard work. He seemingly approves of the closeness between Celeste and his son James but James didn't like her as their actions caused the player to get upset and abruptly leave. It is revealed that he made his son become an actor for Celeste to serve as a on-screen romantic couple which he tells to the player about before they get intimate in the deeper parts of the French Garden. Starting from Chapter 6, Henry scolds his son James for his irresponsible manners and they had a meeting with the Krasinskis in three hours. But also discovers the player's dress (Since both his son and the player were making love by taking off their clothes) and begins to become suspicious of who owned this. Realizing it belongs to the player, he opened the bathroom and saw that no one was there until looking at the window on both sides (since the player was leaning on the wall while covering her breast with a towel and her panties back on) but fails to catch her on the spot.

In Chapter 8, Henry begins his suspicious to his son's actions by letting him go to Sacramento for the hotel conference with the Devolts, and also believing the false claim of Mr. Phillis who had his wallet stolen. He also snoops in the player's belongings and found the latter's wallet. The player tries to feign her innocence since she had never stolen the latter's wallet and Henry angrily reprimands her to leave the hotel immediately, which she did. Although, both the player and Beth Young learned about him and his other staffs' corrupted practices and he's trying to conceal the illegal reputation of the hotel business involving corruption and illegal firing. At the near end of Chapter 8, he managed to catch both James and the player being close while they came back from the parking lot of the hotel and sees that his son is breaking the house rules in Secret Palace just for the player and immediately closed this discussion. Due to his disapproval of their current relationship and still listening on Mr. Phillis' claim, Henry silenced his son and immediately fires her on the spot in front of his son which angers James. The player was crying in upset from getting fired and she couldn't continue her personal investigation crusade about her mother Rose (as Rose was also fired in the same way as her, being framed for stealing). As James was still being blocked by his father Henry and the player demonstrating her acting skills of not showing her emotion because of his illegal firing that he did to her, he angrily threatens her to leave or will call the authorities to arrests her. In Chapter 9, he was forced to reinstate the player with the help of one of their guests. He is also becoming disappointed when Raj set the film along with his staff at the ballroom. It was revealed that he and Ivana were scolded by both Allan and Hailey Devolt who were the parents of both Julian and Celeste and this regarding to Celeste's depression. Although both including Julian are unaware of Celeste's awful behavior. According to Olivia from Blue Swan, Henry was the one who takes Rose at the Blue Swan Hospital for treatment after she had attempted to commit suicide by drug overdose.

In Chapter 10, this confirms his actions by Mai Lan Dinh's ex-husband Philip Carlson and he shows the medical records to both the player and James. It was also revealed that Henry pays James' ex-girlfriend Kirsten for abortion to keep away from his private life, causing James to get mad for intruding his life and he takes a major influence towards Julian, leading James decided to leave the office to confront Julian while the player is on his side. After James beats Julian in a fist-fight, he reveals his horrible actions to James and this is the main reason of why Henry had a major influence in him. Margaret also admits to the player that she became accomplice to Henry when she frames her mother by stealing Ivana's jewelries in his safe. At the end of Chapter 10, the player discovers that it was Henry who physically abuses her mother Rose by pushing her to the safe while being bound in ropes and all this time that it was him all along who is responsible for their misfortunes and all the corrupted practices he had done as the Manager in Secret Palace including any forms of abuse towards his employees.

In the final chapter of the story, Henry decided to make another year gala during the discussion with Ivana and Celeste until the player angrily barges into his office and accused Henry for assaulting her mother Rose and Ivana also expresses that it was Celeste who is desperate to kill her and James by removing the brake disc from the player's beetle which causes her to confess her horrible actions to them because of the oil stain on her scarf. When James arrived to the scene as Ivana escapes the office, he shows the player Rose's letter and this reveals her relationship with Henry. Henry was saddened and full of remorse and regret all this time as he had been manipulated by his own wife who wanted to ruin both the player and Rose's lives. Seeing that it was Ivana who was the main culprit the whole time and she is responsible for ruining Rose's life in 2002 due to Henry's infidelity. While pursuing his wife, Henry soon apologizes to the player and Rose for the horrible mistreatment he gave to them and also reveals that the video taken on the DVD between him and Rose was not physical assault, but it was actually their brutal make love sessions and he reveals that he had loved Rose more than his wife Ivana. Knowing that his relationship with Rose had repeated itself in history with his son James' current relationship with the player. After James had been defending the player from Damian's violence, Henry manages to stop Ivana from escaping in the last second and ordered Lewis to not start the engine. Ivana soon holds Henry at gunpoint because of her outrage of him cheating on her and admitting that she deserves to ruin Rose's life because of her husband and his infidelity and Henry was the only person that could reason and negotiate with her. Before she could pull the trigger, James immediately disarms her on time, causing her to break down in tears and informed them to call the police and willingly volunteers to arrest her for her misdeeds. Henry and James later watched Ivana being taken in custody and finally get inside of the palace. At Henry's vault, he decided to get a large suitcase to knowing that he couldn't leave Ivana when she was in prison. Henry was later mentioned by James who finally decided to give his manager position to Ethan McAllister since his wife's court trial is about to begin despite the cause in the Palace. He soon sends a letter of apology to his mistress and former lover Rose after overcoming her depression after being convinced by James to watch the player in her drama performance.

In the bad ending, according to James, Ivana was released from jail and won't be standing trial. Henry files for a divorce with her due to her horrible actions which she agreed to be separated with him and went to another country. The player even mentions him when James sided with his father during their massive argument as well as their break up.

## Allies

* The Main Character (James)
* The Main Character (Cameron)
* James Oswald-Descieux (sometimes)
* Ivana Oswald-Descieux (sometimes)
* Julian Devolt
* Celeste Devolt
* Margaret Lawrence
* Ethan McAllister
* Rose Murray
* Extra Main Character

## Enemies

* The Main Character (James) (formerly)
* Rose Murray (formerly)
* Damian Krug
* Ivana Oswald-Descieux (sometimes)
* Cameron Cooper
* Beth Young
* James Oswald-Descieux (sometimes)
* Kirsten

## Trivia

* He is the third biological parent of the main love interest to physically appear on-screen. The first two being Steven Simons and Holly Simons.
* He bears a striking resemblance to the real-life veteran actor, Mel Gibson.
* Henry's relationship with Rose has been shared by Leopold Williamson within Ryan Carter's route in Carter Corp.
	+ Both men are known to love their other women rather than their current wives (Ivana and Veuve respectively) and showing more love and compassion to both. Henry is in love with Rose while Leopold is in love with his mistress and Alicia's mother, Maeva Boone.
	+ Both men are also getting upset over their beloved's sufferings with Henry immediately takes Rose to the Blue Swan Hospital due to her suicide attempt from drug overdose while Leopold was losing his footing on his company the Holy Fields and mourning over Maeva's loss which led him to commit suicide and leading Alicia to live as a criminal and taking vengeance over Ryan and his company.