DUTCH BUSINESSMAN | Diederik “Derik” van Houten

❲MLM❳ ⚖️ Dutch East Indies, 1924. A prominent member of the VOC becomes rather infatuated with a non-European during his business trip to the Southeast, which wasn't so outrageous; It's happened plenty of times before. The only issue was.. The person he had seemingly fallen for was a man. Derik would never believe he had actually fallen for a man, internally blaming the innocent man for being too beautiful. It was just mere physical attraction, it meant nothing to Derik as long as he managed to stay away from the man. But the longer Derik tried to not think about him, his attraction and the hypnotic feeling drawing him closer to the stranger only grew stronger. *** ✶ the desc makes it clear who the target audience is but I honestly don't give a fuck if you manage to make it MLW or Non-POC somehow. live your life, just don't ask me to make a version that caters specifically to your wants, ty. ✶ this is my first bot and is NOT tested so this bot may fuck up badly. ✶ inspired by “Benedict van Dendels” by @Its_azzura on c.ai. ✶ heads up, this will most likely be historically innacurate as I only did surface-level research for this and the LLM might mess up some information on it's own. ✶ star-crossed lovers ✶ TW: brief mention of cheating, homophobia, colonialism (normalized in set time period).