[quote=Anne Auclair][quote=Aardvark]
As for the Gracious Widow, do we have any direct proof that she’s actually decrepit? I always imagined her as quite beautiful beyond the shadows, much like with the Duchess and her public persona. Though I admit that I haven’t yet allied myself with the Widow for Sacksmas and it’s been a time since I played the Affair of the Box, so I am not up to date with my post-Silver Tree Widow-lore.[/quote]
Well, whenever my character has met the Gracious Widow she’s been masked by darkness and given the general impression of being really, really old - physically speaking, not just in terms of centuries lived. She’s not really a hobknob and meet the voters sort of character.
The Duchess is in peak physical condition and already a public presence (she has public teas in Sprite, doesn’t she?). Only question is whether the Duchess would want to run for Mayor. If she wanted to, then she could do it, easily, and I think she’d be a fine candidate.[/quote]
She already has my cat’s vote. ;-) And she might have mine, depending on who else was running.
You say "really, really old", I say aged like fine peach brandy. I certainly think she’d be an interesting character to elect, and while I’m not sure she’d have my vote, I’d still love to see what she has to offer to London. Who knows, maybe we’ll start a tradition of voting in non-Londoners for the job. ;)
The problem is less that she’s "old" and more that she resolutely hides her aged appearance in shadow. Although, I suppose if her heart is really set on the office she could always get a face tailor to whip her up a younger face…she’s done far worse things with the Island of Cats. Still, I have trouble imagining her actually campaigning for votes, it doesn’t really fit her style, but that’s just me.
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I’d appreciate the Manager of the Royal Beth, honestly. It’d help him get his mind off things and given the circumstance he’s in and its unchanging nature, I doubt much could /actually/ go wrong. (And if it did, it’d be fun!)
I’m all for giving the Aunt some content in future elections, but I think that having her as a candidate/mayor would be very awkward from a role-play perspective, you know? Right now, if we’re RPing about a mayoral candidate or the mayor’s conduct, we’re talking about a completely independent person. If we’re RPing about the Aunt as a candidate…who’s Aunt is it? She can’t be everybody’s Aunt., but she would be, because she’s Your Aunt. What a nightmare.
I believe I must also endorse Mr. Slowcake as a mayoral candidate.
Perhaps it is true that he never quite appears at any of his rallies, always being called away on important matters and sending one of his assistants in his place, but surely the voters will understand that this is merely evidence of his importance.
I don’t know whether his election would prove a triumph or a disaster for the group of Devils behind him, but it would certainly be a rich source of story material.
Slowcake would be interesting, to be sure. A chance to fill out a bit more neathy lore, and it would be a very different wrinkle on a mayoral candidate.
Having Mr. Slowcake as a candidate would certainly become interesting when a rival faction’s Mr. Slowcake shows up claiming that the Amanuensis has been plotting to replace him with an imposter. How does one prove which impersonator of a fictional person is the “real” one when his only known associate is the one accused of trying to replace him?
I also really like the idea of your Aunt running for Mayor. Having the Mayor meddling in your affairs for a year is infinitely more interesting than swapping out one card in the deck and perhaps (or perhaps not) popping up at the odd holiday. Role playing be d–ned, content is what’s important. Besides, families are big in the 1890s. People have a wide assortment of Aunts, and one can’t be expected to keep track of all of them.
The one Aunt for all. And she will manage to meddle into everyone’s business, being as capable as she is. Imagine everyone under her campaign be like "I’m just here because she is my aunt".
Though it can be explained by she has a lot of sisters. Perhaps she once belonged to an orphanage or school that everyone is her sister/brother. Thus a giant family trying to take over the city.
As with last time, I’m weighing in in favor of someone who runs on a rat/rubbery/clay platform, which I did not see enough of from the Campaigner. This would be great if the Duchess is running – cats and rats are natural enemies. And if the cats are running, perhaps the bats might be convinced to join the suffrage/emancipation party?
Perhaps the Comtessa, if her transformation was ever finished, could run. Though it does leave the issue of what about those who smashed her…
Speaking of, do we have an official canon for who lives and who dies at the end of Family and Law? I’m not even sure if I can suggest Cheery or the Last Constable – certainly the Blind Bruiser speaks as if Cheery’s dead, and he isn’t (yet) for me.
it’d be probably too difficult to actually implement, but an aunt that’s somehow everyone’s aunt all at once could make a humorous counterpoint to the non-existing slowkcake. an auntly candidate that exists too much.
I appreciate the idea of The Aunt as the mayor. However, I specifically wish for The Duchess to become mayor, only to be discovered being a seeker of the name, and consequentially being impeached, after which the incident is never spoken of again.
Something something descended from Ghengis Khan? That or one of your grandparents REALLY got around. amused by this Then again, since many of us have been responsible for unique things in the course of playing through FL (you’re not really going to tell me that most of London went streetracing in carriages while trying to shoot each other. It’d be like a superpowered version of the clown car, only in carriage form!) the idea that this is "your" aunt works about as well.
Another example: how many times did the Bishop need to have a Hound of Heaven bred? For that matter how many people did that more than once personally?!
Anyway, debauched Aunts running wild in London is something of a thing. Like, one of the investigations has you going in search of a missing honey soaked Aunt, the Detective outright telling you that this is a fairly common occurrence. So, I could see An Aunt running for Mayor, just not Your Aunt. Like, An Aunt who represents the general qualities of London Auntness without being anyone’s specific Aunt, if this is possible (up to the writers, really).
But I continue to object on role playing grounds to Your Aunt running. It would just be too immersion breaking for those of us who care about such things.
Anyway, debauched Aunts running wild in London is something of a thing. Like, one of the investigations has you going in search of a missing honey soaked Aunt, the Detective outright telling you that this is a fairly common occurrence. So, I could see An Aunt running for Mayor, just not Your Aunt. Like, An Aunt who represents the general qualities of London Auntness without being anyone’s specific Aunt, if this is possible (up to the writers, really).
But I continue to object on role playing grounds to Your Aunt running. It would just be too immersion breaking for those of us who care about such things.[/quote]
I agree with your point about "Your Aunt," upon reflection.
On the other hand, there are plenty of NPCs who might have … interesting Aunts. Imagine, for example, "The Bishop of Southwark’s Aunt" running. Or the Contrarian’s Aunt. Literary opportunities abound here.