Diogenes "Ginny" Pasteur: girl just wants to be in the room where it happens. over the years in the neath she has become obsessed with matters of stakes, of power, of liberty, of trade, of control, leading her to be deeply ensconced with the Masters (and a future one) and married to August of the calendar council. imagine a master who is also on the council! they spend most of their time at the chessboard or in cabinet noir. Anti-paris as a sixth city, bc french ciphers would become less unique and she likes her ciphers as they are. surprisingly, 0 shadowy — forethought as a substitute for subtlety.

Beryl Makepiece, the Gunnery Governess turned government agent who lost a rooftop fight badly against a cunning, resourceful cat (the Jaguarundi Comtesse). as a result, is in permanent bandages and hates Cats and Spies with a passion, and became a friend of rats. Tomb colonist in a peacoat and impeccable menswear, fighting any and every fight whether it makes sense for her to or not.

I needed a new Silas reference sheet and I wanted to throw in a few outfits from their wardrobe. They totally have more outfits per occasion than what's shown here

(Design notes below the cut! They're long because I love rambling :D)

Tomb Colony Ballet: The first ballet they composed, a very scandalous one where the costumes were scantily clad and some of the dancers were tomb colonists. Critics called it grotesque, but the composer stood steadfast in their stance that all bodies, including those decaying, had a place in dance. The plot was perishingly romantic.

Famous Sexy Tiger Ballet: ran for several months to the point where London was sick of Tiger Ballets. Presented the Court of the Wakeful Eye in a very pleasant light, if not an extremely salacious one.

A Ballet About the Zee: An experimental ballet about a captain, telling the story of a typical zee voyage. Famously invoked a technique where the costume artist literally doused the entire cast in real zee water to make them look soaking wet (which also made most costumes translucent). It included a Fathomking pas de deux, a zee bat waltz, and a giant tentacle monster puppet. It was highly indecent and very well received.

Sexier Tiger Ballet: A special performance that took place during the Coilheart Games and was invite only. The details of the performance are veiled in mystery but sources willing to speak on it claim they had convinced actual tigers visiting for the games to perform in the ballet and there was markedly less clothing than the composer's normal ballets...And also less subtext.

A Coilheart Ballet: In the wake of the Coilheart games, a ballet telling a story of cats and snakes in a decidedly less flattering form than previous tiger ballets. A tragedy and a love story. Utilised a huge snake-tiger puppet. Caused the Composer some political grief but they've recovered with more normal sexy tiger ballets hence.

The Devil Ballet: The Typical composer's first foray into burning devil dance. Controversial in how dangerous it was for the dancers and also for its unpopular political depictions of Hell, portraying it in such a light that many theorised it to be devil propaganda. More subdued than most of the Composer's work and more story focused, detailing the tale of a young woman falling in love with a devil and being introduced to devil culture through varieties of hellish dance, ultimately giving up her soul and being abandoned by him. All the dancers wore masks and the crowd left weeping blood.

The Sacrament of False Summer: The only ballet with a definitive name cause I was making a funny ballet joke to myself. A ballet written during the period where Hell was missing which utilised the flux London was in as part of the choreography. The set pieces were often shifting and morphing, costumes flickered between colourless and uncomfortably saturated, dancers disappeared off stage mid-step. Fully clothed and not at all titillating. Seemingly depicted a Fourth City ritual ending in ceremonial sacrifice. Ended in a riot from the crowd. Could not have been written by someone doing mentally well.