Sunburnt

Fallen London recently became my hyperfixation and special interest! Particularly the lore and world as a whole. I love thinking about narrative parallels, allusions, and themes... ohoho <3 My fav subjects are Judgements, the Bazaar, Zee gods (esp Stone!), Masters, and devils. Here's a masterpost of all my lore and theorizing!

I'm an infamous Forbidden Shipper. I usually call it Suncrab, originally as shorthand but it helps to have a specific name (easier to block too!). I love thinking about their dynamic and potential in so many ways, but I enjoy it most as a true star crossed romance... I believe in those freaks, I really do.

I write a suncrab fanfic called Creatures of Heaven, which I also do as a comic adaptation.

I have a few OCs! I like them!! I will actually do more art and writing about them eventually, but would love more excuses to talk about them.

The bazaar probably not only is the Neathly champ of horniness, it also definitely has a bunch of poetic-destructive romantic fantasies like.

"Imagine if sol danced with me and held me so close in orbit we spun and spun & my body caught flame... & with one final leap I soared, a being of light and fire and life and death, & then he threw me to the earth & shattered my bones and spirit and self........" And this is deeply sexual to it. "Imagine if sol cut me open into a billion fine strips & its fire touched the dark tunnels within my shell, if its gaze could caress everything unspoken and unseen, if I could be witnessed and known and consumed." Again, expressed as extremely sexual as well as romantic.

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How quick is your OC to shift blame? Do they own up to their mistakes, or are they prone to start pointing fingers at others?

Surielle is a dream snake (she calls herself this to seperate herself from Fingerkings, but probably and appears to be one). She's keen to present herself as "Good" and "Trustworthy", and "Not interested at all in hijacking bodies, only in finding an alternate, harmless way to enter reality"

Buuuuuut... Her acting very sweet and sensitive and kind is a little false. She doesn't think of herself as malicious! But if she convinces an artist to let her hop in so she can attend an art show pls pls just one night 🥺... She will actually stay there as long as possible and do whatever she wants (such as trying to track down her ex she's still in love with). When confronted about her lying and behaviour, she doesn't admit to any mistakes, and more plays up her tragic sad lonely situation. She just got carried away and it was sooo exciting and new and wonderful and she can't be blamed for living when she's never had that chance and You get all this all the time and it's so unfair really, and she's so sorry (she's not) 🥺🙏

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How does your OC remember their childhood? Is this an accurate reflection of what their childhood was actually like?

Devils aren't children, I think, probably, but Mikhail definitely wasn't.

She has a lot of scattered memories of the past. Mikhail is very, very old, and hasn't changed or shed her past much since the High Wilderness. She remembers the court. She remembers the revolution. She thinks she does remember beginning, but it wasn't a birthday or a childhood. It... Was. She was.

All of this is extra hazy because, well, Mikhail believes something of her past which may not be true...

Once there was a Looking Glass King, whose kingdom was that of mirrors and prisms, who was to reflect and refract and stay far from the other side of the glass. Only watch. But He feared the corruption that lay beyond the threshold, and allowed Himself only to see the surface, not the deep: Himself, His Reflection, Him a million times over.

So long did The Looking Glass King study Himself in the glass that He could not stand the sight of anything else, and shut Himself within the mirrored halls of His palace. His servants were made to look as He did, because their true selves repulsed Him so.

One day, he came to Himself and proposed He leave He leave His palace and tend to His kingdom. he would stay while He left, and since he was He and He was he, all would be well.

And so—

So—

Well. Mikhail believes she is the Looking Glass King, who switched selves with a devil so freely that it was the devil who was killed in the revolution, and the king who fled the sky. But she doesn't know, she only believes.

What is your OC's fatal flaw?

For Livid...

Is it that they don't know jack? It's hard to say. Because they have a deep protective need to not realize the truth of their situation, they are stuck in this eternal rut. Without knowing it.

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I misread them somehow last night and quickly got distracted trying to answer 5 for Mikhail so I'm going to add that on

How comfortable is your OC in their skin? Do they like who they are? What would they want to change about themself?

Mikhail is extremely comfortable in her skin. Oddly in devil terms, she might be a little too much: modern devil culture of the Republic seems to enjoy change and flexibility, the revolution of the world and self. Mikhail sees everything as changing constantly, but in a circle— and thus all of it is pointless.

She is stubbornly against self-reflection of any kind, and the most she does is simmer depressively about the long-long past. She's staunchly not a royalist, but her stuck fixation on the High Wilderness days and disinterest in revolution have made Mikhail unpopular with other devils. Well. More like a pariah, which she seems to relish in.

Getting quickly back to the question, Mikhail is comfortable in her body in that she has no attachment to it. She enjoys fashion, changing her hair, wearing wigs, but her physical form is absolutely a vessel rather than her, and she does not think she'd care if she suddenly woke up in a radically different one.

Does your OC hold grudges? How good are they at letting things go? Do they believe in second chances?

Short term, absolutely, but Mikhail is just as quick to drop them. She's not bothered by people disliking her or being rude. She might act on a petty grudge if she thinks of a way to take revenge, but won't go out of her way to seek it.

She lets things go and gives second chances freely. This can be frustrating— Enoch was once Mikhail's fiance, she took his soul, and after he went on a many years long mission of revenge and soul acquisition, Mikhail didn't seem to care. She apologised in a way that made it clear it didn't matter, but her not apologizing would have felt just as apathetic.

What is your OC's gender identity and sexual orientation? Is this also what they identify as in canon, or are they not (fully) aware?

Mikhail identifies as a devil. She uses she/her, but exclusively plays he/him characters on stage and is to be referred as such in reference to being an actor or in costume. I refer to Mikhail as a drag king, mainly because Mikhail exclusively writes tragic gorey plays about Kings and I think that's fun.

But this question did make me have to reckon with.... Why has Mikhail chosen she/her, when she finds human gender broadly idiotic? She doesn't identify as A Woman. She presents as a masc woman. I am thinking it's twofold, maybe...?

Mikhail sees how human women are reduced to lesser and weaker, and wants to present like one in order to cause discomfort. She loves causing people to squirm and feel uneasy! appearing and taking on ideas of 'woman' positions her as belonging to a boxed in class, and her ability to then subvert those expectations by being a confident, brash, not-human not-woman makes people uncomfortable.