septante, nonante follows charlie heitmeyer, a trauma‑survivor pianist, and thomas montgomery, the overprepared executive who has loved him since they were teenagers, as they navigate a marriage fast‑tracked by an immigration crisis in montreal.
charlie heitmeyer (born maxence caillat)
- protagonist; grad student in music/psychology/anthropology
- an anxious, brilliant pianist who plays like he’s trying to save his own life and slowly learns he’s allowed to rest.
thomas m. montgomery (tom)
- deuteragonist; ex logistics vp of his father’s company
- hyper‑competent, physically imposing soft dom whose love language is logistics, money, and unshakeable loyalty.
hazel heitmeyer
- charlie’s sister; lawyer; general in heels
- wants to defend her family against legal, social, and corporate threats.
nancy & david heitmeyer
- charlie’s adoptive parents
- the kind of parents who deploy lemon tarts and heirloom rings as weapons of affection.
michael & kathy montgomery
- tom’s parents; antagonists
- wealthy, cold, and more concerned with optics than their son’s happiness.
julian vanegas
- hazel’s partner; architect of sustainable libraries
- calm, analytical observer who can tell you both the tensile strength of a bread basket and why a concert hall sounds good.
the goons (matt, andré, and lukas)
- tom’s university friends
- ex‑frat boys who easily pivot to bisexual best man hype squad.
henri valois & zola
- conductor; photographer & art director
- eccentric art people who recognize charlie’s genius and refuse to let him hide.
françois richard
- journalist
- the reporter whose threatened exposé forces charlie to reclaim his own narrative.
** everyone in this story is fictional. if you think you recognize someone you know irl, no you don’t.
