Addis Rook
Posts: 125
7/28/2016
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I find it to be a fun passtime, pondering just what kind of music would accompany characters in a variety of situations; What kind of music would fit them as a theme?
So, I thought I would make a thread on it!
Go on, post songs! How would you describe your character in musical terms? What would play in any situation you can imagine them being in?
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The Masked Felon
Posts: 60
7/28/2016
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The Highwayman Song
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Passionario
Posts: 777
8/9/2016
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Passionario and Millicent Clathermont
Passionario and the Captivating Princess/Restored Missionary/Sinning Jenny
Passionario and the rest of the world
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Passionario: Profile, Story, Ending
Passion: Profile, Appearance
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Lady Jen Black
Posts: 96
9/6/2017
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Lady Jen Black: She's Always a Woman
Deceptive, cruel, fiercely independent, but utterly loyal to those few who have earned it.
edited by Jen Black on 9/6/2017
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Lady Jen Black - Appearance - Backstory - MBTI - Song - Portrait - RP Directory
Accepting calling cards!
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Lady Karnstein
Posts: 278
11/12/2017
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Love will have it's Sacrifices by SOLES, of course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrOTSFx6p6w
Few others
The Shadow by Tanya Donelley (If it were a movie this would be playing when she first appeared)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAPBf6TltMU
Killola's By 2 am from Girltrash! All Night Long to represent a night of partying with her
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiBbhd5js3g
Temptation Waits by Garbage captures her intensity (I linked a video of Shirley coming off as super gay. You are welcome)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFw7JwlPRkE
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Lady Caroline Karnstein, The Moral Hedonist (Description)
Infamous writer, artist, and courtesan. Unrepentant Invert. Hesperidean.
Paramount Presence, Correspondent, Nocturnal. Poet Laureate of the Neath, Ambassador to Arbor
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Curious Foreigner
Posts: 210
9/13/2016
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I found a lovely piece of music for the Calendar Council called Snuff Out The Light.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=374xW4zZbZA
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Cochimetl went North, and beyond. No poems, only candlelight now. (Well, maybe one poem.)
The Gun-Toting Gallivanter, after an extended absence, is back in London again.
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Barse
Posts: 706
7/28/2016
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The most in-character song lyrics-wise of off the top of my head would be Iron Maiden's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, but I imagine in his off-time Barselaar would listen to something like this.
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 The Scorched Sailor, up for most social actions and RP. Not as scary as he looks.
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absimiliard
Posts: 759
7/28/2016
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I can't find anything that really reflects the Cats and Parabola aspects of my character, but the other side of their coin is easy.
Like all the Navy Absimiliard is a creature of tradition -- but more so than most. Fellow officers in the Navy describe them as "... much better suited to the days of Wooden Ships and Iron Men."
Thus: A Drop of Nelson's Blood
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"Because, Parabola!" -- the Curious Captain
Eating nightmares from friends -- and I'm easy to befriend.
Absimiliard: the Black Rose of Wolfstack Docks
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Lamia Lawless
Posts: 604
7/28/2016
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Smoke and Mirrors:
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The Harmonic Hellfarer
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Shadowcthuhlu
Posts: 1557
7/29/2016
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I personally pick "The World is Not Enough" by Garage for Dirae Erinyes - though I suspect that song is pretty much the theme of every POSI character.
Also "Hammers in my Head" by Miracle of Sound. Good for Dirae Erinyes general perspective on life and probably for other dangerous oriented characters as well.
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https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Dirae%20Erinyes. Closed to calling cards, but open for all other social action. I also love to roleplay.
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Professor Strix
Posts: 616
7/29/2016
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Let me see... The Professor's themes are Beethoven for when she is remembering her past, Mozart for when she is doing smart things and whatever played in Tom & Jerry cartoons (ie, classical music that we think is funny just because we associated them with cartoons) for the rest of the time.
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The Inescapable Professor, London's Most Academic Detective. Open to consultation from Mondays to Fridays, above the Silver Binding bookshop, Veilgarden. Half the payment in advance, half after closing the case. No refunds.
"THIS SATURDAY, in MAHOGANY HALL, delight your eyes with the DARING FEATS of the DAPPER ESCAPIST. Gape at his CHARM and WIT and his CLEVER TRICKS OF ILLUSIONISM. No mirrors used."
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Social actions welcomed. Will take menaces if not currently grinding that one stat. Send them and cross your fingers.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Professor%20Strix
My alt loiters suspiciously if you want to:
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Derek%20Davis
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Kukapetal
Posts: 1449
7/28/2016
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Flesh-Stick's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoyAg75PsTA
edited by Kukapetal on 7/28/2016
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Diptych
Administrator
Posts: 3493
7/28/2016
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Hubris and the Quiet Deviless's dance.
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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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Eglantine-Fox
Posts: 872
7/28/2016
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For Siobhan: Siuil a Run. It's got the pretty, sentimental feel, and lyric significance, especially the chorus.
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Eglantine Fox, the charming and androgynous Correspondent, teetering between hobbies of seduction and self-destruction.
Siobhan O'Malley, Irish patriot (or 'bl__dy Fenian' if you're impolite).
Isidore Day, an up-and-coming London gentleman. All allegations of wrongdoing are categorically denied.
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CALLNXW
Posts: 116
7/28/2016
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for Call: clipping. - Body & Blood
Video might be a tad NSFW, but I think it fits.
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https://www.fallenlondon.com/Profile/Call%20Now
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Bitty
Posts: 234
9/7/2017
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For Heathen: Prisoner's Song-Dropkick Murphys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFSitUgwmNo
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Edward Driskill
Posts: 11
9/13/2016
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For Driskill it would have to be Bourbon Street by Jeff Tuohy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0MLLUk2bW8
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Six Handed Merchant
Posts: 141
1/5/2018
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The Six Handed Merchant's theme song would definitely be One Voice, by The Wailin' Jennys:
For anyone who knows Six's background (spoilers), this song has just the right mix of sweetness (and fridge-horror creepiness) to fit them well: 
This is the sound of one voice
One people, one voice
A song for every one of us
This is the sound of one voice
This is the sound of one voice
I can easily picture Six singing this in a solo at the Singing Mandrakee while harmonizing all the parts at once.
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The Six Handed Merchant: If it's the truth you seek, The Six Handed Merchant is the gentlemen-, er, lady-, er, detective you need! Just pay no heed to that Eradication Officer tailing Six: that poor fellow is simply out of his mind!
Six's Mantlepiece (I am available for roleplaying and SAs. My schedule is pretty full, so please PM me first to work out the details.)
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Copperhead Jake
Posts: 5
2/6/2018
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Copperhead Jake- Dogs of War by Blues Saraceno
Perfect song for a flawed man trying to make sense of a mad world. Also, the western vibe made it a no brainer for a man coming straight out of the prime cowboy days.
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Copperhead Jake
American tough-guy detective, closeted intellectual.
"Yes I'm hunting that d****d Vake now ask your questions or leave me alone".
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Copperhead%20Jake
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Victoria Astra Ludlow
Posts: 26
7/28/2016
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Miss Ludlow loves to do silly things. Whenever she is nanty narking, investigating crimes and bothering the Duchess, "Murder, she wrote" plays in my head. But there is also a time of prayer and reflection, which "Miserere" fits quite nicely.
edited by Victoria Astra Ludlow on 7/28/2016
edited by Victoria Astra Ludlow on 7/28/2016
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Victoria Astra Ludlow, The Rebellious Flâneuse, a Glasslady and Insurgent
for compulsory nanty narking.
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ChangelingChilde
Posts: 231
4/12/2018
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This and this for my character, I think. This and this for Sacksmas. And a bonus for the Bazaar.
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DO you recall how the Hunger began?
I'm sorry, my darling, I don't think I can!
OUT past the High Wilderness and beyond
I fear I've gone Seeking, for of Him I'm fond.
--The Elfin Cannibal
Seven scars, seven chains, a soul too stained for Hell, and seven sainted candles burning at the well.
Gone to Grieve on the 17th day of the 7th month, 1897. Will be Vake-hunting next.
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Μαρσ
Posts: 49
4/12/2018
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I guess this piece might be apt for my charater.
GuesssWho wrote:
And a bonus for the Bazaar.
I second this. I would have never thought of it; it sounds too futuristic for 19th century London,
but oddly enough, the lyrics fit perfect.
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Μαρσ,
A Londoner, Zubmariner, Chef, a Doctor, and an Invisible Eminence. All social actions are welcomed.
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Six Handed Merchant
Posts: 141
1/8/2018
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Dione of Argos wrote:
This is beautiful, even without knowing your background story this is amazing and makes me curious to get to know more.
You are absolutely welcome to do so! With any new character, I recommend looking them up in the Directory of Role Players and Their Characters (you can find my own listing there too!) and continuing to learn more about them through roleplaying.
And with the Six Handed Merchant, I am sure you will that your curiosity will be well rewarded. Of course, that may depend on your definition of 'reward', but regardless I am sure it will be interesting. 
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The Six Handed Merchant: If it's the truth you seek, The Six Handed Merchant is the gentlemen-, er, lady-, er, detective you need! Just pay no heed to that Eradication Officer tailing Six: that poor fellow is simply out of his mind!
Six's Mantlepiece (I am available for roleplaying and SAs. My schedule is pretty full, so please PM me first to work out the details.)
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The Absurd Rogue
Posts: 1049
9/13/2016
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For Elias Lowe : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaVA6sgOpws
For Mr. Ezekiel : https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lullaby+for+a+dead+man
For El Topo : Washing machine sounds while a man plays poorly on a nose flute in the background for ten minutes
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"There is never another story. There is only one, and I try to tell it with every page. I fail, and I try again. There are no new stories; I have this one."
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ForScience
Posts: 69
9/13/2016
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Florence's backstory is Things We Lost In The Fire. Nowadays Science/Visions and Cosmic Love (by the singer she was named after, no less!) suit her well.
I haven't even gotten around to giving the Pathetic Seeker a proper name yet but Seven is definitely her theme song. You can probably tell how seriously I take her character from that.
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/ForScience - The Intrepid Scholar. A dauntless scientist.
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Sir Joseph Marlen
Posts: 575
12/19/2017
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For Joseph Marlen: torn between Cry for Judas by The Mountain Goats and The Night by Aurelio Voltaire
For Alexus Harven: God's Gonna Cut You Down by Johnny Cash
For Rose Reinhelm: Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
For Cappuccino: The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss II
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Sir Joseph Marlen - The Romantic Sophist
Alexus Harven - The Defiant Fatalist
Rose Reinhelm - The Respectful Revolutionary
Cappuccino - The Perfidious Spycraft
Available for any and all social actions.
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Vortigaunt
Posts: 51
12/20/2017
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While I have full playlists for both 'iterations' of my character, I feel Le Perv by Carpenter Brut, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzuPI7tk9B8), Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap by ACDC, and Lose Your Soul by Dead Man's Bones (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnEkboR86h0) work best for when Vortigaunt was known as The Melancholic Mercenary.
For when he became known as The Reformed Licentiate, Go Higher by Pop Evil (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXvkTuMyZpM), Blood of Angels by Brown Bird (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmneIEkQUeY), and Undefeated by Skillet (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMr93ZZMFmY) . Blood of Angels also really works as a good Revolutionary/Liberation song in general.
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Vortigaunt
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Esperanza
Posts: 20
9/15/2016
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Basically, Esperanza evokes sensuous songs like Métele
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Esperanza Delamar, a breathtaking and insightful lady.
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Sir Goomy
Posts: 111
10/10/2016
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It's also my theme in real life.
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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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Addis Rook
Posts: 125
11/25/2016
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The forum is very slow as of late.
Since I never posted any themes, I think I should go ahead and post one, if for no other reason to bring the thread full-circle. If anyone feels like posting more music or joining in with enriching music for Fallen Londoners to listen to, go right on ahead!
Addis Rook's first true love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHar9ni7z2I
His love drowned in the process of rescuing him and themselves from a certain isle of the Zee, shortly after their arrival from the surface. They are a drownie now. They can no longer be together. Addis writes them love letters, set adrift in bottles. They read every single one.
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The Master
Posts: 804
11/25/2016
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Since I am playing a character who is supposed to be very dreaded I feel like this fits pretty well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z5rMNH_yTI
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http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Lolwolfking
A very ruthless and daring doctor of the neath.
No more gift exchanges, im getting too many and I can barely hold these.
He has knowledge of a certain enigma, ask, you will get a clue.
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Shadowcthuhlu
Posts: 1557
11/25/2016
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My first instinct for Dirae Erinyes is The World is Not Enough by Garbage. Not an original choice, but still my choice.
Apologies for the second posting in this thread. I totally forgot I was already here until I was checking back on other's responses. (I think I mixed this up with Neath Radio)
edited by Shadowcthuhlu on 11/25/2016
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https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Dirae%20Erinyes. Closed to calling cards, but open for all other social action. I also love to roleplay.
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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
11/26/2016
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"The Lumberjack Song" by Monty Python. Malthaussen relentlessly refuses to take himself seriously.
-- 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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Manfred Sterne
Posts: 4
11/26/2016
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'Stars' from Les Mis is pretty much perfect for Sterne, minus the parts about pursuing a specific criminal (Valjean). They're more of a generally lawful person.
...In addition, I may or may not have made a playlist about their feelings towards Mr Pages, it may or may not be soul-crushingly sappy, and it may or may not be located here.
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Manfred Sterne, the Precisionist Procurator. Open to social actions.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Manfred~Sterne
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Vavakx Nonexus
Posts: 892
11/26/2016
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All of this is extremely Amets.
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Amets Estibariz, the Moulting Eidolon: Cradled by a sun all their own.
Blabbing, the Hobo Everyone Knows: The One Who Pulls The Strings. A Clarity In The Darkness.
Charlotte and the Caretaker: A family?
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The Masked Felon
Posts: 60
2/12/2017
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I think this song fits my whimsical Licentiate quite well: https://youtu.be/CX45pYvxDiA
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DonaghyLogan
Posts: 205
2/12/2017
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The most fitting song I can think of is Copland's Clarinet Concerto. It captures the professor's inner sadness in the first half (Tragedy: The Death of a Brother and Melancholy 10 will do that to a person) and the lighter aspects of her character in the second half. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKkv6YpMqZE
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OctaviaCrowe
Posts: 137
2/12/2017
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The Hellfaring Mystic would probably be represented best by the Hellfarer OST I started compiling on my tumblog, seamoresunless. Black Sun's Hymn to Lucifer, the title theme from The Ninth Gate (indeed, the whole soundtrack!), and Coils unreleased Hellraiser soundtrack. Possible the theme from Clive Barlers Undying, also.
Dark, baroque, and eerie.
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Ms. Octavia Crowe, the Hellfaring Mystic, former keeper of the Books of Brass. The Seeking... the Name... it has devoured... everything.
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Jonathan Dunn
Posts: 14
7/4/2017
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A song as confident and flashy about wicked ways as the renowned Advocate Jonathan Dunn: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0paVuESN3F0
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Charming. Criminal. Hedonist. Well Respected Member of Society. Sympathy and Taste. Not a Man to Cross.
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Jonathan Dunn
Posts: 14
7/7/2017
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Jonathan Dunn: You're Gonna Go Far, Kid
Jonathan Dunn has gone far through dirty deeds and general wickedness and now stands near the top of several groups.
http://community.failbettergames.com/topic22540-character-tropes.aspx?Page=1#post197022
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Charming. Criminal. Hedonist. Well Respected Member of Society. Sympathy and Taste. Not a Man to Cross.
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Arlecchinata
Posts: 30
7/28/2016
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Drunk on Skin by Clare Fader fits Sybil quite nicely, I think. And I'll throw in Rosin Coven's Bittersweet as well, just because the dark cabaret atmosphere works so well for her.
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Glass Doll
Posts: 52
7/28/2016
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I don't have any specific themes for either, yet, but this up Valencia's theme while trying to destroy the Great Game in London. It's also where her quote on her profile page comes from.
O Valencia! by the Decemberists
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Glass Doll An odd little duck with a preoccupation for dolls and dreams.
Maestra Valencia: An erstwhile primadonna from the Surface who wants to regain her former glory.
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Valiant
Posts: 127
7/29/2016
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For Valiant in his past festive bohemian days - which are much more rare now - it's Geneva's version of "Pleasant street"
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Sir Valiant Carrington, a heartless hedonist and honorary governor of Port Carnelian. You can ask him for a sip of Cider (here's how by an_ocelot) if you catch him in London.
Farshin Jarrah, merry trickster and incorrigible optimist.
Serine, gone down the well but not forgotten.
Avatar artwork by lovely Farseer Drijya
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Professor Strix
Posts: 616
8/1/2016
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Pinned two songs, one for Professor Strix and another for Derek. Both are Brazilian songs, so I'll provide the translation in the spoiler:
Prof.: "Flowers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nB53snE5Go
Derek: "Abandoned Major": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCIevU6KLQg
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Flowers
I've stared until I got tired
of looking at my eyes in the mirror
I've cried because I destroyed
the blooms in the flowerbed
The wrists and the fists are cut
As my whole body
There are flowers climbing the roof
And under my pillow
There are flowers all around me
There are flowers in everything I see
The pain will cure those griefs
Blood tastes like tears
The flowers smell like death
Pain will cure those cuts
Flowers!
Flowers!
Plastic flowers don't die.
Abandoned Major
I am lost
with no parents
Right in your front door
I am asking
Your hand
And a bit of your arm
Crumbs from your yesterday bread
Leftovers
Interest me
Small portions of illusions
Sincere lies interest me
They interest me
I am asking
For your hand
Take me anywhere
Give a bit
Of protection
To the abandoned major
Your body with or without love
Leftovers interest me
Love me like a brother
Sincere lies interest me
They interest me
Crumbs from your yesterday bread
Leftovers
Interest me
Small portions of illusions
Sincere lies interest me
They interest me
I am asking
For your hand
Take me anywhere
Give a bit
Of protection
To the abandoned major
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The Inescapable Professor, London's Most Academic Detective. Open to consultation from Mondays to Fridays, above the Silver Binding bookshop, Veilgarden. Half the payment in advance, half after closing the case. No refunds.
"THIS SATURDAY, in MAHOGANY HALL, delight your eyes with the DARING FEATS of the DAPPER ESCAPIST. Gape at his CHARM and WIT and his CLEVER TRICKS OF ILLUSIONISM. No mirrors used."
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Social actions welcomed. Will take menaces if not currently grinding that one stat. Send them and cross your fingers.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Professor%20Strix
My alt loiters suspiciously if you want to:
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/Derek%20Davis
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Lord Hattie
Posts: 15
8/4/2016
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I may have given this far too much thought over time.
Lord William's score is in two parts, both by the amazing band The Protomen. Whilst choosing a band that's primary work is a rock opera loosely based on the Megaman games might seem odd, their music is fitting and incredibly emotive, and just fantastic in general.
On the discovery of the murder of his daughter, and the subsequent heartbreak and depression
On his time in the Neath, and his pursuit of his quarry, the murderer of his daughter.
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Lord William "Hattie" Masters - In-game Profile The Melancholy Lord, open for pretty much all social activities and roleplay
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The Absurd Rogue
Posts: 1049
8/4/2016
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Okay, this is way better for Eli, the motifs and everything are great.
My taste in music has become evident. Scandal is increasing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO4MRGM1z7o
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"There is never another story. There is only one, and I try to tell it with every page. I fail, and I try again. There are no new stories; I have this one."
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RemainProfane#2532
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Eglantine-Fox
Posts: 872
8/9/2016
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For Eglantine, seductive mode: Bedroom Hymns, Florence + The Machine.
For who they are underneath the acts, Evgeny Emelyanov's Rin. Graceful, kind of melancholy in places sound, feels like it's reaching for something.
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Eglantine Fox, the charming and androgynous Correspondent, teetering between hobbies of seduction and self-destruction.
Siobhan O'Malley, Irish patriot (or 'bl__dy Fenian' if you're impolite).
Isidore Day, an up-and-coming London gentleman. All allegations of wrongdoing are categorically denied.
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