omg I saw your post about writing fics inspired by characters on the cigarette cards!!!! and ahhhhhh I’m obsessed! love Elsie rose and can’t wait for more pas de deux, but do you have a character you’re excited to explore after that???
Ahhh thanks so much for this, anon! I'm sorry it's taken me a few days to get caught up on replies but I so appreciate your interest!
I'm especially interested in the other folks in the Artists, Writers & Poets collection. Arthur's encounters with other artists in the game are some of my favorites. I think he feels drawn to them and is amused by their eccentricities and maybe feels a kind of kinship that he isn't fully aware of. Like how in another life they might have been contemporaries, but in this one they are people inconvenienced with nails and have found in Arthur, a hammer.
Like I'm convinced Maud and Richard absolutely have a Thing going on. A best-friends-to-lovers-and-they're-also-a-little-competitive-about-their-craft kind of thing. And I also imagine that they would both be facing distinct challenges navigating whatever the publishing world looked like in 1899, as a woman and a Black man. I would want to do a lot of careful research and enlist beta readers to make sure I do the idea justice.
@fleurdelucienne pointed out that Laurence here is NOT holding the instrument correctly at all, which leads me to the hysterical conclusion that he's a total fraud and has probably found himself mired in some shenanigans because of it and is willing to pay Arthur a handsome sum to help him get out. I could see this piece being a more light-hearted one-off instead of a multi-chapter, but who knows!
And honestly? Preston's just kinda hot.