Anyone familiar with the Scarlet Pimpernel? It’s a novel/play that takes place during the French Revolution about the fictitious English Gentleman Sir Percy Blakeney and his French wife Marguerite. Percy lives as all these aliases – the Scarlet Pimpernel being a hero who saves French noble families that are sentenced to die in France. At home, under his legal name, he plays the part of an idiot to keep suspicion off him being the Scarlet Pimpernel. Unfortunately, Marguerite ends up thinking he wasn’t as heroic and kind as she had thought when they met -causing a lot of friction in their relationship. It’s when they are finally honest about who they are, fighting side by side, that they realize their love for each other again.
There’s a lot more going on in the overall plot (Percy even has a sidekick that kind of reminds me of August) but just the story of Percy/Marguerite reminds me of a possible Emma/Neal(Bae) plot.
The tattoo looks like the Blakeney family crest, a Scarlet Pimpernel (type of flower) that the hero used to sign letter-taunts to his advisories.
If anyone’s interested, was obsessed with an adaption of the novel into a mini series starring Richard E. Grant and highly recommend it!