Okay, my knowledge of Versailles is pretty much limited to a really old French film that I cannot even recall the titles of at the moment... but I'm planning to study up so I can do something interesting with this.

I really like the idea of Neil as the son of an aristocrat, but kind of... the child the family doesn't want anyone to know about, because he is awkward and has issues, and everyone would just as well have him hold his tongue and mostly stay out of everyone's way (and out of sight if possible) because otherwise he will surely embarrass everyone.

Anyway, like I said, gonna have to do some reading and stuff to kind of flesh this out but... that's the basic idea. I totally encourage nobles to shun him and stuff. And servants may find him being friendly in a socially inappropriate and unacceptable way, because they're probably the only ones who aren't intimidating or likely to tell him he needs to not be the way that he is.