malthaussen
Posts: 1060
10/29/2015
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While my own is total invention, he does derive a certain inspiration from Sir Richard Francis Burton, swordsman, scholar, linguist, and explorer, who had a rather scandalous career back in Vicky's time. (best modern biographies are by Fawn Brodie and Byron Farwell; for lovers of speculative fiction, he appears as a main protagonist in Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series)
This is the gentleman who, among other accomplishments, made unexpurgated translations of The Thousand Nights and a Night and The Kama Sutra, almost discovered the Nile (a tragic story indeed), and completed the Hajj to both Medina and Mecca (in disguise, which may have had consequences both painful -- briefly -- and fatal, had he been discovered). The gentleman was, in short, a badass.
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"Of two choices, I always take the third."
Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/malthaussen
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Diptych
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Posts: 3493
10/29/2015
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Hubris is heavily influenced by Grimseby Roylott, the swaggering villain of the Sherlock Holmes story The Speckled Band, though still more cunning and brutal - he's verging being on a Moriarty and a Colonel Moran in one at this point. Juniper began as something of an homage to the film Hugo, though she went in quite a different direction in the end.
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Sir Frederick, the Libertarian Esotericist. Lord Hubris, the Bloody Baron.
Juniper Brown, the Ill-Fated Orphan. Esther Ellis-Hall, the Fashionable Fabian.
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Sestina Valdis
Posts: 210
10/29/2015
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Carlotta Valdis from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo! But I don't think Sestina-the-character resembles Carlotta-the-character very much, except in name. As Mal and Zareen Bakara have pointed out, the sestina is also a poetic form (that, ironically, I dislike writing in because I can never quite get things right), which is where I got the first name from...
To be honest, she's basically a female version of me who is a lot more... unrestrained. Call her a kind of ideal-I who is also emphatically a non-ideal-I. I don't want to use the word 'fantasy'... Rather I think she's a bit of a 'thought experiment' in how my life might turn out if I were born in an underground version of London and gave myself over to hedonism. Our writing styles are quite identical (which is hardly surprising, is it? I'm guessing that all our characters' 'works' are written by us, just as our characters are. The poems that Sestina wrote are certainly mine, for better or worse... But I am not British).
TL;DR: I am a bit of an egotist, I guess.
edited by Sestina Valdis on 10/29/2015
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Sestina Valdis, the Saccharine Satirist.
Appearance and Misc. Accoutrements
A Past Scattered Across Discarded Stockings
Fei Xue, the Artful Assassin.
Self
Edward de Riere, the Barebones Baron.
Avatar by Daniel Ilinca.
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Loon
Posts: 379
11/1/2015
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My main Krawald started out based on the French eponymous character Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Thief, but ended up going in a much more scholarly direction which might be influenced by my own inclinations.
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My main character Krawald can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Krawald and welcomes all social actions bar photographers.
My alt Loogan Cuthoat can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Loogan~Cuthoat and welcomes all social actions bar cats and photographers.
My alt Ally Mooney can be found at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Ally~Mooney and welcomes all social actions including patronage, though they are a bit confused by cats in boxes.
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Grenem
Posts: 2067
11/1/2015
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Originally patterned after a background mary-sue in my original fiction, which i abandoned/ put on the back burner. you know the type. dumbledore, panacea, contessa, squirrel girl... totally overpowered, but not often story relevant, only against the worst enemies out there. never the one who saves the world, but maybe the one that lines up the shot.
Specifically, in a setting with 3 or 10 types of magic ('elemental' being), she can use any magic from the most powerful and restricted one- and normally, the magic was balanced in power vs. flexibility.
edited by Grenem on 11/1/2015
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Married!:http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/takuza
I will accept all social actions that do not consume free evenings- and i will provide patronage to anyone who requests it, though it will be split between all requesters.
On psudeo-hiatus. Will be inactive and active and fluctuate without warning.
Grinding Favors without cards: http://community.failbettergames.com/topic22266-storylet-favors-grinding.aspx
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The Speeth
Posts: 26
11/3/2015
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Despite the Mary-Sue-suggestive name, Speethling is actually a pretty successful--or so I think--"chymical ménage à trois" of:
1) Breq from the Imperial Radch trilogy (by Ann Leckie)
2) Varys from ASoIaF
3) Fassin from The Algebraist (by Iain M. Banks)
Anyone familiar with all three sources will recognize that the characters all share certain fragments of personality and ideology, but what's fun about Speethling, given FL's capacity for dynamic (read--wildly inconsistent) characterization, is that I can decide on a case-by-case basis which piece of the triptych, and which variations of which traits, would win out in any given scenario.
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Speethling
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Sackville
Posts: 295
11/3/2015
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Yes.
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11/3/2015
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- the truthseeker is my own unique invention taking different personas in games (and alternate realities) he/she/it shows up in. He often portrays "what happens when you seek the truth, and why knowing too much has its own burden." Regrettably, I found out about FL after the Eaten storyline was closed, as this fate seemed inevitable for that concept. But Midnighter is as close as he can currently get to realizing how useless these "games of life" are in FL and doing anything to forget about it. (Or as he would say, if the former Midnighter's St. Joshua Shrine of Irrigo didn't make him forget this. What happened to the former Midnighter whose shrine the truthseeker now uses? That too is best lost to Irrigo....) [There is another reason I also support St. Joshua, but that is a IRL secret reason.]
- Snow Belie is somewhat a cross between Caligula meets Snow White...and all the mixed up trouble that it sounds like. Due to the Grimm connection, she obviously, unquestionably, had to become an Author. (And now all the weird stuff she has seen, she will become a Correspondent one day...if she ever can stop having fun with her Nights on the Town and Wine Cellars.)
- Nobby Longshanks is just my concept on what an independent-streaked Urchin (specifically the Knotted Sock Gang) would be like after he (or any sex or non-sex biologically speaking being's identity in the gangs; this one just happened to be created male,) was too old to still be an urchin. After all, those that are afflicted with Out you go, longshanks have to do something else notable besides just Connected: Criminals
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The Black-Shirted Radical
Posts: 188
11/5/2015
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Take a look at his name, and the fact he's a politician and you'll probably come up with it on your own.
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Poet of once distinguished acclaim.Apprentice alcoholic. Somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun. Radical politician, playwright, duelist, archaeologist,Correspondence professor,criminal mastermind, Commander of the Auxiliary Constabulary, Leader of the League of National Populists, former Governor of Port Carnelion . Rude, crude and scandalous to know.
Plot his lynching at http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/The~Black-Shirted~Radical
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Lady Eris
Posts: 162
11/5/2015
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Yes, sort-of-but-not-really. I set out to create a character who was as unlike me as possible, so apart from being female, fond of reading and cats, and almost painfully English, we are nothing alike.
Eris is measured, calm, unemotional - often to the point of coldness - and extremely ladylike. She is obsessed with clothes and matters of dress. She is tall, and has dark hair and eyes. She cannot cook to save herself. She comes from a large, deeply dysfunctional family and had a miserable childhood. Her embroidery is exceptionally neat.
None of these apply to me *in the slightest*. I find her great fun to write.
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Lady Eris Psmith, Society darling, devoted wife. Dangerous when crossed. Accepts most social invitations. Distributor of Parabolan Kittens. Welcomes new acquaintances, especially those who write 'in character'.
William Templeton, Viscount Manningham, newcomer, gentleman, all-round good egg - accepting absolutely all invitations.
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Kolanowski
Posts: 148
11/5/2015
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Not patterned after anyone in particular, but I did come up with my character's concept after playing a quest in TES5: Skyrim, called The Taste of Death. Basically, it ended with a lot of higher-ups turning out to be demon-worshipping cannibals. Add a little homicidal insanity, and there you have Mr Kolanowski.
As for the name, it's natively Polish. "Kazimierz" is a popular name in the country, roughly means "one who punishes". And "Kolanowski" I borrowed from Edmund Kolanowski, a Polish necrophiliac serial killer from the 1980s.
When you wanna design a psycho character, you go big or go home :P
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Kazimierz Kolanowski, gentleman, scholar, humble servant of the Maw. Chaotic Evil. Open to all social actions & accepting almost all requests. Might sell you to Satan for a single corn chip.
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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
11/5/2015
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"s Polish necrophiliac serial killer" prompts all sorts of speculative visions, yes.
-- Mal
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"Of two choices, I always take the third."
Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/malthaussen
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Catherine Raymond
Posts: 2518
11/6/2015
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Nope. My main character makes, as best as I can manage, the choice I personally would make if I were spirited to the Neath and awoke in New Newgate Prison. My alt is more of an experiment. She is more opportunistic than I or my main character, more venal, and more willing to act immorally or unethically for personal gain.
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Cathy Raymond
http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/cathyr19355
Catherine Raymond aka Mrs. Rykar Malkus http://fallenlondon.com/Profile/Catherine%20Raymond (Gone NORTH)
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Estelle Knoht
Posts: 1751
11/10/2015
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My character is, of course, patterned after me!
I am not very perceptive, and that reflects my playing experience - most lore just flew over my head. I didn't even know the identity of Mr Chimes until several years in. I still can't read between the lines, and my character is also getting duped at every turn.
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Estelle Knoht, a juvenile, unreliable and respectable lady.
I currently do not accept any catbox, cider, suppers, calling cards or proteges.
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Agatha Kizmesis
Posts: 32
11/10/2015
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Estelle Knoht wrote:
My character is, of course, patterned after me!
I am not very perceptive, and that reflects my playing experience - most lore just flew over my head. I didn't even know the identity of Mr Chimes until several years in. I still can't read between the lines, and my character is also getting duped at every turn.
I'm relieved to know I'm not the only person who struggles with the lore! I wish dearly to be able to piece things together so easily.
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Agatha~Kizmesis
Agatha Kizmesis: A Machiavellian zee captain, neddy woman, and actually a rather nice person.
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Agatha Kizmesis
Posts: 32
11/10/2015
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My character Agatha was created to be as different from me as possible, but in a rather surprising twist she ended up resembling (physically and otherwise) the early 1880s activist Dorothea Dix, who reformed the prison system. And I had made Agatha before I'd ever heard of Dorothea!
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Agatha~Kizmesis
Agatha Kizmesis: A Machiavellian zee captain, neddy woman, and actually a rather nice person.
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Amyntas
Posts: 72
11/10/2015
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Earlier characters of mine, stupid as that sounds. I used to write of one particular self-indulgent intellect who I had the vocabulary to render but nowhere near enough self-awareness to make interesting. I eventually reduced him to a sort of bitter parody of himself, and then begat him a soft-hearted romantic who withered under his roof and tutelage. I try to make him unlike me, and I'd like to think I succeed, but we have our similarities. Inspirationally speaking, he draws from very uncomfortable and unpleasant parts of my real life.
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Amyntas. Zubmariner and aspiring romantic.
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Sir Goomy
Posts: 111
11/11/2015
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My beautiful monster is actually roughly based on an old (very old)family "hero".
A scholar and a rogue, who did many bad things for worthy and noble causes.
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Social actions, invites, roleplaying and general merrymaking is more than welcomed!
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Sir~Goo
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John Savage
Posts: 198
11/17/2015
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Honestly... I am using a name that I have been working with in several incarnations (the name is actually stolen from A Brave New World).... but since I am so new to FL, having come over from Sunless Sea, I am feeling out the lndscape, as it were. As such, I used only a vague background to start, and am allowing my character to waft through the town, associating with all sorts... just to see what seems to stick....
for example.... I planned to focus on Shadowy first... but quickly found my Dangerous climbing to lofty heights.... then I caught a GREAT Watchful run.... so Shadowy is now my 3rd highest stat....
My plan at this point is to continue to let the story take me.... and see where I end up....
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If at first you don't succeed, shoot it again.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/John~Savage
Scandal and suspicion! Suspicion and scandal! I miss the old days when only blood mattered.
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Charlotte_de_Witte
Posts: 360
11/18/2015
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At creation it was the amazing Alexandra David-Néel - but as I've got further into the setting, and especial after finding the forums, I'm definitely channeling Aimée Crocker. Come at me in K+C and you'll get Elizabeth Bathory ;-p
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"Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar."
Social actions welcome. Only, send me dupes if you need help with the Affluent Photographer please, I like the bats! [And boxed kitties, and extreme gardening]- Thank-you!
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Charlotte%20de%20Witte
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