the color of forgetting

main characters in the Book of Red Murder continuity:

Morgan Fletcher (they/them)

late 20s

former academic, now Licentiate/Black Ribbon Duelist, eventual founder of the Great Hellbound Railway

came to London to avenge their murdered brother

lost their soul to a devil, still pretty bitter about it

Friends: the Bishop of Southwark/the Church, the Revolutionaries (its complicated)

Enemies: the Masters, Hell, themself

Eliot Saint-Croix (he/him)

mid 30s

technically a doctor, functionally a socialite

alcoholic, depressed, gay (was in a serious relationship with Morgan's brother)

came to London once his rich parents cut him off and he had nowhere left to go

WILL join a cult

Friends: Morgan, Hepsi, Mr Eaten

Enemies: Morgan, Hepsi, Mr Eaten

Hepsibah Brewster (she/her)

early 40s

charismatic pickpocket, Light Fingers PC

best friends with Morgan's late brother

came to London after losing her son (he's still alive, but his rich estranged dad demanded custody and Hepsi didn't have the resources to refuse)

called "The Nice Lady" by the urchins, who will not clarify if this nickname is supposed to be ironic. shes nice to THEM

Friends: Morgan, Eliot, the Urchins

Enemies: Mr Fires, miscellaneous strings of debtors and marks

Jacob Russo (he/him)

early 20s

the Subdued/Reformed Protester from Five Minutes to Midday

former zailor, self-educated revolutionary

one time i wrote this fic about him getting radicalized by meeting January

Friends: the Calendar Council, the Bishop of Southwark, Morgan

Enemies: Hell, the Masters

The following characters are more minor, or their stories overlap less with the main BoRM narrative:

Lindy Russo (she/her)

MotR PC, Jacob's mom

American seamstress, had moved to London to observe the latest European fashions when the city fell

in a poly relationship with Ivy and Phoebe, although technically she's married to Theophilius (long story, they don't live together, but he IS the father of her child, so...)

post MotR, opened her own clothes shop and has been very successful

Friends: Reggie, Phoebe, Ivy, Theophilius, Bohemians

Enemies: Hell

Izzy Brewster (she/her)

Hepsi's child

comes to London several years after the end of BoRM, realizes she's a woman after learning what trans people are

very demure, very mindful (shy and anxious, autistic but that diagnosis doesnt exist yet in 1899)

Friends: her family (especially Eliot and her mom), Percy

Enemies: Society, unfamiliar environments

Percy Bullard (he/him)

half tiger on his father's side. he will not answer any questions about how that happened, beyond that he is not adopted

abrasive, rude, and widely disliked by his human peers (autistic)

also a little disliked by other cats because he's putting on airs, but he IS a cat and sometimes will buy them a fish or let them sleep in front of his fire, so its complicated.

his dad is a diplomat in Port Carnelian and his mom was a successful zee captain (until she went North and no one has seen her since). Percy lives by himself, a few houses down from the Fletcher-Brewster household

keeps a beautiful rose garden. his flowers are the most important thing in the world to him

Friends: the Horticultural Society, the cats, Izzy

Enemies: Society, his family

Francis (he/him)

a devil who romance-scammed Morgan out of their soul. Does not live in fear of what will happen when Morgan gets their hands on him. Should.

Henry Fletcher (he/him)

dead

Canon ships:

Morgan/Hepsi

Morgan/Jacob

Henry/Eliot

Izzy/Percy

Lindy/Theophilius

Lindy/Ivy/Phoebe

Morgan/Francis (bad)

Eliot/Eaten (bad)

Non-canon ships I still like:

Morgan/Eliot

Morgan/Morgan's Discordance Double that became the tracklayers city