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Ockham, The Offset Parabolan (any/all)
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There's something odd about Ockham. Ockham seems cordial enough when you meet at a society soirée, or in the crowded lobby after a theatrical performance, even if Ockham seems to say very little. It's not until you get out into the crisp night air that you feel suddenly awake and refreshed, and the haziness of your encounter truly sets in. What were you talking about anyway? Did she say something important? Was it she? Or maybe it was he... you seemed to have known at the time. The longer you think on the encounter, the more nonsensical it seems. What did Ockham even look like? Your memory of him... them(?)... doesn't seem right, like trying to remember a dream... Perhaps it's best not to think about it too hard.
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Eleanor Roberts, The Twilit Entrepreneur (she/her)
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She'd spent decades moulding herself into the model Imperial subject, the perfect, respectable English officer, the Commodore's golden boy—his favourite son—rejecting every element of herself that did not fit that ideal. Now that he's dead and she's out the Dawn Machine's hold, she's decided to live her life on her terms. Whilst no one could accuse her of being charismatic, her earnestness goes a long way. Not a woman lightly crossed when interacting in the professional sphere.
Robert "Robin" Jones, The Unassuming Confidante (he/him)
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A diploma from Summerset hangs on his wall, dated from the 80s. A handful of letters of recommendation attest to decades of work history in London, though it’s difficult to parse exactly doing what. Some sort of solicitor? Is this what he does now…? The calling card, listing an address in the Upper River, certainly seems to say so. And he certainly seems friendly enough, a social butterfly, always taking an interest in what you want to talk about. Odd, that he doesn't seem to say much about himself.
Charlotte Pryce, The Relentless Pathfinder (she/her)
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She'd heard rumours that life in London was different than on the surface. That the rules society are different. That one can live as they wish. After her husband's death, she took her kids to the Neath, with hopes for a future of simply more. More for all of them. And in London, she's determined to have it all, regardless of the cost.
Leslie Wells, The Cornish Koloman (they/he)
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A surface time traveller from the year of... 1912. Their attempt to repair their father's broken machine and travel to the dates of his journals backfired, landing him in 1902 and in the Game's crosshairs. After the Coilheart Games, they were convinced to return to the Neath, changing allegiance and slowly continuing work on their time machine. He'll get it right this time, and solve the mystery that sent them down this path in the first place.
Tamara, The Light-Born Preservationist, (she/her)
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A displaced Varchaasi, trying to make a life for herself in London. Formerly shared a townhouse with Ockham, now living with her business partner, Margaret. Her interest in painting and photography has landed her with London's less respectable crowd, involved in production of some of London's more scandalous images.
Margaret Hawes, The Enterprising Gossipmonger (she/her)
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Formerly a Lady's Maid at the Shuttered Palace, a Rube Goldberg string of errors led to her accidental murderer of her boss, The Traitor Empress. Upon escaping New Newgate, she'd taken advantage of her new anti-monarchist contacts to try to pass herself off as a lady herself. Currently, she's working a grift honeytrapping rich society types and sending scandalising photos of them to the newspapers in exchange for a cut of the money they contribute to the Venderbight economy, alongside her photographer partner, Tamara.
Horace (any/all?)
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An exceptionally round and fluffy cat. Quite possibly a paid agent of the Game and staunch Liberationist. Quite possibly multiple identical cats answering to the same name who are never seen in the same place.
□□□□□, The Rubbery Barber Surgeon (he/him)
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Trained in the style of the old masters, this butch squid will give you the best haircut and/or shapeling arts procedure you've ever seen. Happily engaged to The Tentacular Surgeoness.
Graham, The Geriatric Geodian (he/him)
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Absolutely just the worst. Graham's been around for longer than the crystals of Grand Geode. He's not even dawnpilled, just respects a fellow hater.
Inez, The Serendipitous Prodigy (she/he)
An engineer in the New Sequence with a talent for uncovering people's deepest secrets, she never seems to realise that any of this classified or protected information is not common.
Henri Reynard, The Alienated Alienist (he/him)
An Upper River alienist and licentiate, with an undeserved reputation as a gothic horror character. He cannot understand how he keeps getting on the wrong foot with so many people.
David Campbell, The Soft-hearted Vicar (he/him)
The former head of a minor Anglican church in London, contented leading his small flock. Now a drownie lurking near Mutton Island.
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The thing about Isaac is that he is God's specialist princess; both in that the closest analog to the christian god FL has loves him (Stone) and that I her creator and arbiter of her fate adore him dearly
I'd originally planned to make a bit of writing about it but never got to, nor do I think I ever posted about it because I hadn't yet made it officially canon. But in the immediate aftermath of Jones' tiger attack, it was Ellie who had found him bleeding out on the street and ushered him into a nearby safe house. The initial wound care led her to come into contact with the torn open violant tattoo, progressively restoring her memories of him that he'd wiped in the aftermath of their breakup. It was a slow process, one that hadn't fully restored her memories until long after he'd gone. But they're back for the most part, and she's not impressed with him or his behaviour, past or present.
I'm like half asleep while writing this so, bear with me on the quality of my articulacy here, but I'm still thinking about the new Stone dreams. I'm just so pleased with them
In case anyone hasn't heard, a new dream was discovered... about a week ago? Two weeks? Relatively recently. It requires 3 levels of stone hearted, under 5 nightmares, and the impaled upon the peak quality. It's called A Dream of Sisyphean Effort, and as the name implies it's a massive action sink. But it also gives us the first narration from Stone's point of view ever
And it's so good!!
She is tired. She is in pain. She is slow, and so much happens in the spaces between her breaths. But she has goals. She has agency. She is ever struggling against her limitations, ever growing, ever reaching towards the sky. There is hope in her yet! She will make her dreams reality, she will crack open the shell of her body and emerge, winged and beautiful, because she will will it to be so. She loves, she gives what she was never given, and she takes in return. There is all the arrogance of a star in her, but also a very relatable desire... to be loved, by the parent who shunned her. To prove herself. To escape
Pondering Ellie's relationships at this point in her life. She never really had the opportunity to be close to anyone on a social level, but her life's relationship had a lot of consistency--dealing with the same people over the course of years or decades. That consistency hasn't much changed, just the nature of her relationships.
In contrast, Jones tries to maintain relationships, he'd like to in theory, but he always seems to hold onto some sort of escape plan. He'd spent so many years alone, feeling unable to rely on anyone but himself, and when he's doing poorly those instincts to fade out of the picture emerge again. He exists in a cycle of creating ties, then slipping free from them.
On the surface, Ockham seems to have transient relationships, constantly falling in and out of people's lives without great attachment. This doesn't reflect Ockham's perspective, who sees relationships as something that never ends but simply waxes and wanes. Even people who are gone by most metrics count as simply a lull, rather than an end. A person doesn't have to physically be present to still be there to Ockham.
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🖤 What’s the darkest “we’ll never tell anyone” thing they’ve done together?
WELL. It's not really something they did together, given it was a choice Francis made on his own without being asked to and with minimal prompting, but,
They have returned to London together, but Francis has ensured that the Unlucky Devil will always have a piece of home
Once again thinking about how Malachai does it to themself
They actively seek out most of the horrible things they experience. They are the architect of their own misery, and they know this, and they do it intentionally. Because they've convinced themself that suffering is valuable. That it's the truth of the world, the only way to make art that says something, that means something, and everything in life for them is about their art.
They can't form a single genuine connection. There is nothing in their life that brings them joy. They are absolutely miserable and actively careening towards destruction.
it's wild how many of grace's problems would have been solved (or at least lessened) by just having one single brother instead of 7 sisters. preferably one a little more socially adept than him. he wouldn't have had as much pressure to get married & carry the entire family reputation alone, so he wouldn't feel forced to go on the expedition to avoid it, so All Of That wouldn't have happened. he could have just faded into the background as The Other Grace Son. which probably would have suited him just fine
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It’s such a small thing, but I feel like the Neath has hard water, and it’s something that Jones just silently hates. The Londoners don’t think anything of it.
