Isery for mayor! Bring honey to London.
I’d like a Deliciously Bizarre Election: Topsy King vs Tentacled Entrepreneur vs Mrs Plenty
Feducci, of course. Who doesn’t love Feducci!
Talkative Rattus Faber.
I suppose a cast of three lady/non-binary mayoral candidates would be too much to hope for?
Regardless, here are the candidates in this thread I would personally feel super enthusiastic about!
First, the characters who I think are the fucking coolest, and would probably automatically vote for unless they ran against each other:
- ISERY, The Cat’s Chiefest Claw (a non-binary character of color who is super badass and brings a fascinating outside perspective) (Isery is the only one here I would automatically choose over the others, for personal reasons~)
- The Pirate Poet (another rare trans character, would be so much fun to read – also, implications of a Clay Woman holding public office)
- Lettice, the Mercy (would be so much fun to read – also, implications of a Tomb-Colonist holding public office)
- The Northbound Parliamentarian (simply very entertaining, and has to be qualified if she managed to join Parliament – not just because she’s a woman, but she’s a frickin Seeker! Imagine how good she must be to pull that off…)
- The Presbyterate Adventuress (I haven’t played Sunless Sea enough to meet her, but google tells me she’s pretty super)
- The Barbed Wit (kind of hard to say no to a kickass activist like her)
- The Pre-emptive Guinea Pig (:D)
Second, the characters who I think would otherwise be entertaining candidates, but similar to the Bishop last election, they don’t automatically have my loyalty
- The Last Constable (a great potential continuation to that story, which currently is an early-game decision that is massive content lockout unless you side with the abusive evil dude)
- The Ambitious Barrister (pretty cool, and it makes sense, could have a fun personal interaction with players, differing for POSI and non-POSI)
- Miriam Plenty (an interesting badass, and it does actually make sense for her to run)
- The Bishop of St Fiacre’s (an intriguing character with an intriguing POV, plus brings the weird factor)
- The Dauntless Temperance Campaigner (she also makes sense and seems interesting)
- Mr. Inch (intriguing character who could get up to some entertaining shenanigans)
- F. F. Gebrandt (lots of possibilities for character expansion, and it makes sense)
- The Implacable Detective (same)
- The Soft-Hearted Widow (again, same)
- Colonel Molly (less familiar with her, but sounds cool)
- The Enigmatic Sister (sounds weird enough to be intriguing, and I’d pick her over the Curate)
- Silas (super entertaining, though this really doesn’t make a lot of sense unless you go the Rubbery route I mention below~)
- A Deviless/Devil (this actually makes more sense in light of the Bishop’s campaign, it could be publicly played off as the triggering factor for the Devils to seek more representation in London politics)
Third, the characters who would be really entertaining, but would IMO obviously sweep the board and therefore probably should not be candidates unless the entire election is crafted knowing that they will win.
- The Tentacled Entrepreneur (let’s be real here, this is the only Rubbery in the setting who could actually realistically run for Mayor, and could have some surprising parties backing it up to give it a real fighting chance. the language issue isn’t really a problem, because someone could translate for it… someone representing its backing parties, who may be willing to take advantage of its poor understanding and blind spots to further their own motives. heck, you could even get weird shit like the Entrepreneur being convinced to campaign for locking up offending Rubberies instead of stoning them – such major reforms!!!)
- The Tiger Keeper (would be so much fun to read, and might also gain some support from well-connected parties)
These COULD reasonably be mayoral candidates, if they ran against either each other, or more likely, ran against characters who are likely to be seen as villainous choices and are known from up-front to be 99% likely to lose. Because then you don’t get peoples’ favored legit candidates losing without even a fighting chance. And if the over the top villain/s somehow won out, that would probably be just as entertaining.
The problem with the Northbound Parliamentarian is that, if memory serves, she’s a fan-designed character, modelled by one of the backers of the Silver Tree Kickstarter.
edited by Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook on 8/9/2016
[quote=Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook]The problem with the Northbound Parliamentarian is that, if memory serves, she’s a fan-designed character, modelled by one of the backers of the Silver Tree Kickstarter.
edited by Sir Frederick Tanah-Chook on 8/9/2016[/quote]
She is still a part of the game now, just because she was designed by a player doesn’t mean she isn’t a part of the game now, still, it would be silly if she tried to be a mayor but it would be alot of fun.
The Starveling Cat! The Starveling Cat!
It wants to be mayor
But who’d vote for that?
The Starveling Cat! The Starveling Cat!
Promises trade with the North
And to help us grow fat
The Starveling Kitty! The Starveling Kitty!
Let’s elect her as Mayor
Of our fair fallen city!
Are my eyes failing me, or have no one indeed suggested the Wry Functionary? Wouldn’t he be the most pleasant, most fitting candidate for the office, with loads of relevant experience and knowledge?
I should enjoy ever so much a Rubbery Man as a Mayoral Candidate next year. However, as our Rubbery brethren are most unjustifiably despised by the population at large, an interesting twist might be to make campaigning for them harder by requiring twice or thrice as many CP, vis-à-vis other candidates, to advance a Rubbery campaign profession.
I would love to see the Last Constable return, with allies, intent on making a change. Of course if she does, one would think the Cheery Man might have something to say. He can’t get around very well without people causing trouble (and possibly seeing certain things he’d rather they not know), so maybe he backs someone else?
Feducci I would like to know more about, but he doesn’t seem the sort that would venture into politics in such a manner, at least not to me.
I was glad to see the Contrarian last time, although I suspected he was having a lark at first – and even when I realized he was not, the involvement of certain other people in his campaign made me wary. Not to mention that someone who is known for always taking the other position isn’t best suited for making change. I love the character, though.
I’d love to see a non-human. My personal fondness for Tomb-Colonists, Rubbery Men, Clay Men, and Rattus Faber does play into this. Unfortunately, there is discrimination against most of them. If a Rubbery Man tried to run, I suspect there’d be a riot, I’m not sure people would take an L.B. seriously, and the Tomb-Colonists tend to be a minority in London for a reason. However, someone with the backing of one or more of these groups – particularly the rubberies, I think – would be lovely. Perhaps someone looking to encourage equality? It is a few decades after the American Civil War, and I think various other European countries had already done away with slavery. Perhaps some revolutionary with a goal different from those of most. Might even win him or herself the support of the previous Mayor. I could see Jenny, champion of the downtrodden, approving this. Possibly the Contrarian as well. He strikes me as the right sort. The Bishop…not so much. He goes on about abominations a bit much, I think.
edited by shylarah on 8/15/2016
Thinking about it, the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner would actually be the natural candidate to argue for the rights of Clay Men. Consider for a moment that (finished) Clay Men are generally disciplined, hardworking, honest and, most importantly, temperate (explicitly so, Sunless Sea describes them as such). In the eyes of a determined Temperance Campaigner, London’s Clay Men would probably make better citizens than most of its humans. A city where the Clay Men had suffrage would, in theory, be a more moral and temperate city (which would match the behavior of RL reformers, who pushed for women’s suffrage to increase the number of reformist voters). And since the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner has already demonstrated a strong (and rather weird) sense of compassion for random zee monsters, she’d probably feel a degree of empathy towards the Clay Men, who are far more likable than the average Lovecraftian horror.
L.B.'s might like her too if she takes issue with rat skin coats, a position that would go well with her animal welfare beliefs.
edited by Anne Auclair on 8/15/2016
Maybe she could design the Topsy King’s campaign outfit? He couldn’t very well campaign in rags, you know, and the MM being his official fashion designer would fit the whole "mad artist" theme of his character and campaign.
edited by Anne Auclair on 8/15/2016
Maybe she could design the Topsy King’s campaign outfit? He couldn’t very well campaign in rags, you know, and the MM being his official fashion designer would fit the whole "mad artist" theme of his character and campaign.
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When I picture the Topsy king in nice clothes my brain redirects me to Sheogorath.
[quote=Anne Auclair]
Thinking about it, the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner would actually be the natural candidate to argue for the rights of Clay Men.
edited by Anne Auclair on 8/15/2016[/quote]
I’m not particularly familiar with her, but if it’d work for rubberies, Clay Men and maybe rats, I’d be thrilled to tears. You have excellent points regarding temperance and sufferage.
edited by shylarah on 8/15/2016
Maybe she could design the Topsy King’s campaign outfit? He couldn’t very well campaign in rags, you know, and the MM being his official fashion designer would fit the whole "mad artist" theme of his character and campaign.
edited by Anne Auclair on 8/15/2016[/quote]
When I picture the Topsy king in nice clothes my brain redirects me to Sheogorath.[/quote]
There’s no reason the Topsy King can’t be fashionable. The Topsy King is a stage character in a gigantic work of performance art, a joint production by sanity deprived Tristam Bagley and the fiery words that whisper things in his head. Stage characters can be adjusted to fit new roles or take on new parts.
edited by Anne Auclair on 8/16/2016
The Topsy King would be quite the character in an electoral race, and would have my vote in a heartbeat.
[quote=Anne Auclair]Thinking about it, the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner would actually be the natural candidate to argue for the rights of Clay Men. Consider for a moment that (finished) Clay Men are generally disciplined, hardworking, honest and, most importantly, temperate (explicitly so, Sunless Sea describes them as such). In the eyes of a determined Temperance Campaigner, London’s Clay Men would probably make better citizens than most of its humans. A city where the Clay Men had suffrage would, in theory, be a more moral and temperate city (which would match the behavior of RL reformers, who pushed for women’s suffrage to increase the number of reformist voters). And since the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner has already demonstrated a strong (and rather weird) sense of compassion for random zee monsters, she’d probably feel a degree of empathy towards the Clay Men, who are far more likable than the average Lovecraftian horror.
L.B.'s might like her too if she takes issue with rat skin coats, a position that would go well with her animal welfare beliefs.[/quote]
I absolutely adore this idea. It’s so ideal for Fallen London and its playerbase, and so in-line with real-world activists of the time, that I daresay I’ll be disappointed if it doesn’t come to pass!