[quote=Ixc]Alright, it’s official. Never look to Ambitions for your love life. (Except for Mr. Pages. I guess I’m drawn to bookish guys)[/quote]What does it say about me that my first two picks for romantic partners among the Heart’s Desire cast are Hundred-Hearts and the formerly-imprisoned prince of Hell?
[quote=Sir Joseph Marlen]In case anyone isn’t aware, the Orphanage is basically Mr Fire’s personal political prison where inmates are tortured and experimented on to serve his gains.[/quote]Is it a political prison? I thought they selected orphans mostly at random, or based on the criteria of the experiments.
[quote=Sir Joseph Marlen]and the implications of dubious consent in relation to a main character in the questline carrying a hybrid-experiment child.[/quote]Yeah, Clarabelle’s predicament is a bucket o’ squick factor. This upcoming act of Light Fingers is probably going to hit on that angle even harder, what with the plans to find a moon-miser broodmother and perform a crab abortion. Crabortion?
[quote=Gul al-Ahlaam]Worth noting that Fires’ "gains" in the Orphanage are heavily implied to be the salvation of London and all her citizens.[/quote]Are you basing this on Fires’s attitude towards London as shown in the Affair of the Box? Light Fingers itself doesn’t shed light on the orphanage’s larger purpose beyond the implication that it’s a mad science laboratory for love stories.
The phrase "Mr Fires’s gains" creates the amusing mental image of Mr Fires working out in a fully-equipped dirigible-borne gymnasium. edited by Anchovies on 9/19/2017
The Orphanage includes unionists. “The Special Constables take her away, and not to New Newgate. You overhear one asking whether the unionist is an orphan”
Fires’ experiments seem to be geared toward inducing more and more abstract forms of love. First toward other people, then other species, then inanimate objects, abstract concepts, locations. There’s some stuff about "loving London" IIRC, and in the Affair of the Box it’s indicated that he loves this place, wants the Bazaar to stay. At some point and again this is IIRC, he talks about wanting to the Bazaar to love London, to see it as he does. Not much of a stretch to say he wants to Moon-Milk the Bazaar, I don’t think.
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Now that I’m writing this theory down it seems less "heavily implied" and more "entirely possible to infer." Hmm. Either way, food for thought, even if I’m no longer nearly as sure of it as I was before.
[quote=Fluffy Monotreme][quote=dov]
I can’t easily think of nastier or less likeable characters in Fallen London.[/quote]
The Captivating Princess.[/quote]
Don’t you dare compare that most radiant of royal gems to such a lowly pathetic thing as Poor Edward. The Princess is an exquisite and virtuous role model of everything a proper Londoner should strive for, just ask anyone (who doesn’t want to be thrown in prison, or worse).
… Yes, I have a thing for evil girls as much as Kukapetal has for the guys. And the Captivating Princess easily tops that list.
But that aside. If this is the penultimate chapter of Light Fingers I am very excited to find out what is going to happen :D
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[quote=Akernis][quote=Fluffy Monotreme][quote=dov]
I can’t easily think of nastier or less likeable characters in Fallen London.[/quote]
The Captivating Princess.[/quote]
Don’t you dare compare that most radiant of royal gems to such a lowly pathetic thing as Poor Edward. The Princess is an exquisite and virtuous role model of everything a proper Londoner should strive for, just ask anyone (who doesn’t want to be thrown in prison, or worse).
… Yes, I have a thing for evil girls as much as Kukapetal has for the guys. And the Captivating Princess easily tops that list.
But that aside. If this is the penultimate chapter of Light Fingers I am very excited to find out what is going to happen :D
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Yes, about the only category in which the Princess is truly comparable with Edward is in evilness.
Alright, as fun as it is to have our heads buried in the gutter instead of dealing with Monsieur Ed, t’isn’t the topic.
I’ve made this topic over here so that we can harbor our Neathy desires while keeping up with Light Fingers here… for the week or so the topic’s relevant for, anyways.
"The airship pens in Wolfstack Docks are your best bet, I’d wager"[/quote]
Much thanks, you saved me a pointless Zee voyage! Not that I mind zailing, but that would have lost me about a day of getting started on this.
On a side note, I really hope the airship is an item that I get to keep. Acquiring a dirigible is a dream for my character (that, and marrying a devil).
It’s not a baby miser but not a baby human either. It’s a hybrid. You have to remember, a moon miser looks like a giant shiny armored crab made out of legs. I don’t know what the human DNA would do to it but I don’t think it’ll be very cute. edited by Carns on 9/21/2017
It’s not a baby miser but not a baby human either. It’s a hybrid. You have to remember, a moon miser looks like a giant shiny armored crab made out of legs. I don’t know what the human DNA would do to it but I don’t think it’ll be very cute. edited by Carns on 9/21/2017[/quote]
You fool, all babies are cute. Even the ugly ones.
That may be because human babies come out undercooked, in a manner of speaking, compared to most other mammal babies. Newborn human babies aren’t very cute, but older babies are, once they outgrow the potato stage.