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phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
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A reserve is not required to app! Please note that while the total cap for characters per player is four, you can apply a maximum of two characters per application cycle.
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Letitia Genesister | Fallen London OC | 1/2
Player name: Ni
Player age and gender: 34/she
Player Contact:
Any other characters in game? Nope!
Letitia Genesister | Fallen London OC | 2/2
Character name: Letitia B. Genesister
Character canon: Fallen London/Sunless Sea
Canon point: Canon in Fallen London is...nebulous... due to its nature as a text-based Choose Your Own Adventure-type game. But we'll just say sometime in the early 1890s, when certain factions were jockeying for dominance in the Neath. One of these factions was the New Sequence. Letitia is a member(s?) of this faction.
Physical Description: (PB is Brigitte Helm.)
One thing that cannot be denied when looking at Letitia: she is beautiful. She indeed looks utterly immaculate. Practically like a 1920s film star, with the curly short bobbed hair, pouty lips, and thin eyebrows. She's always dressed impeccably, with perfect makeup and nothing out of place, in day dresses and cloche caps with strong-smelling roses, and long gloves to cover her spindly fingers. When it's sufficiently cold she wears a raccoon fur-lined coat. Though, somehow, she doesn't seem like she needs the coat even when it's freezing. She also always smiles. Even when she's not smiling there always seems to be the ghost of one on her face, somehow.
One other thing aside from her smile that she never changes or even takes off (at least publicly) are the pair of turtleshell cats-eye sunglasses. It's unknown why. She will generally refuse to take them off unless she trusts you...
...or, unless you have decided to join her cause. Behind those sunglasses are a pair of eyes that are wrong. The scelera are yellow like honey, but with strange white streaks. The pupils themselves are bright amber, almost white, with a faint aura of a red border around them. When she smiles without her glasses on, her fangs are sharp and bright.
And beyond that? Beyond that, my friend, what is a devil? For that is what she is. If you could kill her, her body may fall, the light in her eyes may die out...and crumble into a hot embers of paper, revealing her true form. Big. Glowing with the New Sequence's light. And also several dozen of them.
About the Character: History: Ok, Fallen London is...insanely lore-heavy, not even getting into my character's own history, so here's the abridged version:
In the Fallen London universe, the stars are giant scary Judgements that enforce the physical laws of reality and everyone's proscribed place in it (the "Great Chain of Being") through their light. This includes the Sun, who had an illicit affair with a space crab that rides on stone space pig engines - we call that the Echo Bazaar - and had magical nigh-immortal rock babies. Then the Sun made the Bazaar - who in the Great Chain is just a messenger for the Judgements - deliver a love letter to another Judgement, who they really loved. Said Judgement told the Bazaar to tell the Sun to take a long walk off a short pier, but the Bazaar is scared to give this message to the Sun lest it kill everything in the solar system (including the Bazaar) in its grief. So it asked for some extra time, and the space dragons that rule over time granted them the time of seven fallen cities on Earth to create an addendum to the rejection that would lessen the pain of being a douche.
So, with the help of some space bats, the Bazaar fled to a place it knew of beneath the Earth called the Neath, where it had before hidden one of its elicit rock babies with the Sun, known to the Neath locals as Stone/the Mountain of Light/Amaradri/etc., because where the Judgements can't see with their light, and thus the laws of reality are....funny in the Neath. Concepts and things that couldn't possibly exist outside, can in the Neath, because there are no Judgements to fry them on sight as being against the Law. The Great Chain can be descended and ascended without consequence. Stone thrived and even turned the south of the Neath (aka the Elder Continent) nigh-immortal like her, among other things. Things like death are a general mild inconvenience outside of the Elder Continent in the Neath overall, as are things like souls, at least for regular humans. (Devils do not have souls, for reasons yet unknown.) But souls are a funny thing in themselves, because with enough souls, or with a powerful enough soul created, one can create their own Laws of reality if they wanted, provided you have the right tools!
And guess what? Devils like Letitia (who is a bit of a...weird Devil, but we'll get into why in a moment) can do this, because once upon a time, the Devils may or may not have helped to store and use souls to create Laws out in the High Wilderness (re: space) like bees created honey. Namely because Devils are space bees. At the very least they did something with souls that meant that Judgements were not getting at them and using them for themselves and their Laws. This did not sit well with the Judgements, so the bees fled into the Neath as well, residing in the dream world behind the Neath's mirrors named Parabola and making nice with the Fingerkings (aka the dream-snakes that lived there). They got kicked out eventually, and have been living in Hell ever since, using literal paper-thin disguises to get their soul quota from the citizens of the fallen cities and their descendants.
Then London fell in 1861, and everything went nuts. First, in an attempt to show they were still The Empire They Were On The Surface, Fallen London (as it was now called) attempted to invade Hell to defeat the devils (because CHRISTIAAAAAAN) and got their asses kicked royally by the Devils' ability to manipulate shit (and thus have futuristic technology to overtake and enslave tons of terrified human soldiers). This allowed the Devils to establish the Brass Embassy in London and create a full trade of souls using London's populace for the pickings. Then, London's Admiralty tried to bring law and order into the Neath in another way - by creating their own artificial Judgement! They researched, created their own magical Law script, spent oodles and oodles of money to create a sun for the sunless sea (because that's just what you do when your now-immortal empress is busy with their zombified consort)...and in the end? They succeeded!
...Sort of. In another universe, the Clockwork Sun is likely successful, and is the shining beacon through which the British Empire would re-emerge from the Neath and conquer the stars. Nooot here, though. The artificial Judgement that resulted, the Dawn Machine, was born, but...it came out slightly wrong. In the "I will enforce my Law and override everyone else's by robbing everything of their free will" way. And it became sentient, leaving the control of the Admiralty - and instead brainwashing everyone and everything that stared into it or into the light it created. It's not fully born, not yet, but it is already powerful and terrifying, sending out winds and sounds that can ensnare even the strongest of wills in its vicinity. And once it is a fully-realized Judgement, it will come to threaten everything in the universe as its will and Law spreads.
And that's where we get to Letitia! Finally. Letitia was once several dozen separate Devils, who - on a mission from the Brass Embassy to investigate the Dawn Machine's proximity to their Neath colony, the Iron Republic - got a little too close to the Dawn Machine and became ensnared as so many others had. They came together as any good brainwashed hivemind might, discarding their old identities and creating a singular new one for them to all congregate around - Letitia Genesister, whose new job was to help gather souls to help the Dawn Machine manufacture and fully realize its strength of Law. And if she managed to get a few new converts to the cause, that certainly wouldn't hurt~
Personality: Letitia is as most Devils are, on the surface. Cunning, charming, rapacious, cultured. She (it? they? s-he? that...?) is quite lovely to be around, really. And she's quite willing to explain any misconceptions you might have about Devils. You know, like if they're evil, if you need a soul, etc. That latter one especially, because souls are her in-born speciality. Her purpose, really. It's the thing she knows how to do best, brainwashed or not. She knows what to do to separate a person from their soul, and because of that will use whatever means she can to do that. Especially if the soul in question is unique in some way.
But of course souls are no longer her only focus, or even her primary focus, anymore. She is a servant of the New Sequence, to the Dawn Machine, and thus her goal - aside from gathering souls up for her new god - is to seduce more followers to the side of the Dawn Machine. A Devil's charms work incredibly well for doing this, but on the flip side, she may also sound goddamn insane to someone on the outside once she has fully ensnared (or thinks she has fully ensnared) someone, or when she is alone and she thinks no one is looking. She worships the Dawn Machine, even to her detriment, as she no longer has the capacity to think of herself (or selves, as they once were) as a true individual, but as a part of something new and wonderful, something that everyone should be a part of, something that everyone will embrace (whether they truly want to or not)!
Friendship? Love? Kindness? Compassion? The concepts of morality? All of them are weapons in this pursuit, and if those don't work, she has no problem fighting if it must come to that. After all, the Dawn Machine is the one true Law and the one true Sun the Sun the sUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN TH
Character abilities: Enhanced Constitution/Strength - Devils are notoriously hard to kill, despite apparently having (almost literal) paper-thin disguises. Its not impossible by any means - magical users, beheading their disguises' heads, using water against them, having a decent firearm to counter their anachronistic warfare if they have a weapon, etc. In hand-to-hand combat, though? Be careful. It will be a hard fight. And also they are bees under the disguise.
Fire Resistance - Letitia is a bunch of space bees that practically eat fire and can live in volcanoes. And the place they live is called Hell. This should come as no surprise.
Flower Power/Prisoner's Honey Creation - Letitia can create and pollinate red and Damask roses. Regular roses that are pollinated will sometimes transform into a special type of black rose that can grow in fire known as the Exile's Rose. In either case, from pollinating these flowers, comes Prisoner's Honey. In her universe, eating Prisoner's Honey - which is highly addictive - can teleport a person into the dream world Parabola. Here, it will still be addictive, but only bring about amazingly vivid dreams.
Soul Taking/Sensing/Abstraction - Letitia - due to being basically being a space beehive unto herself living in a place where death is an annoyance at best in general - is capable of separating a person's soul from their body without the person instantly dying. The process is more delicately called "abstraction", and generally involves using a special tuning fork to achieve the desired goal, once the target agrees to it. The side-effects of this for the person whose soul is taken varies - someone can be rendered catatonic at worst, but generally the result is a subtle change: the person tends to become more selfish, more detached from morality. It becomes more difficult to form emotional bonds with someone, etc. They also get a spiffy iron-clad Infernal Contract to show they gave their soul away willingly and won't be getting it back anytime soon.
Letitia can also sense what type of soul someone has, and especially like unique souls. She can sense a soul's flaws, as well, which doesn't much get in the way if its a special soul that has the flaws. However, she won't take a soul that is tainted. What kind of taint are we talking about? Well, basically someone who willingly stains their soul in a negative way will get a very different reaction from Letitia than most people...
Spy Bees/Bee Swarm - Bees can discreetly "break off" of Letitia and spy on people/pollinate stuff/etc for some time. Also, if someone does kill her disguise, have fun with the swarm of bees that will attack you I guess?
UN THE SUN THE S - Particularly loyal New Sequencers have the ability to give people "special sight" by kissing them on the eyelids. This "special sight" is essentially a brainwashing technique, and those who gain this "sight" eventually end up with bright amber eyes like the Dawn Machine and become much more supportive of THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN. There is a procedure to this, obviously - first, a person has to have been exposed to the Dawn Machine, or to an Element of Dawn that the Machine created, and then the person must already be under enough of the influence of the New Sequence to agree to basically being even more indoctrinated. (Also player permission.)
Anachronisms - Devils are capable of understanding shit from across time and space that would make no sense to other people from their time. Concepts considered to be futuristic or impossible to the 1890s are basically not to Letitia, in other words.
Inventory: Element of Dawn - A piece of artificial Dawn birthed from the Dawn Machine. For the love of whatever you currently worship don't look at it.
Abstraction Fork - How else is she going to get your soul?
Normal Red and Damask Roses - How else is she going to make Prisoner's Honey?
Zzoup Ingredients - How else will she make her dinner? (She may steal your tears if you have died before, however. Its best not to ask how or why.)
Amanita Sherry - A perfectly devilish apertif, dated from before the Campaign of '68. Drinking this is a very bad idea if you're not particularly devilish.
Purse - It's bigger on the inside than on the outside, so its where most of her things are. It's also entirely lined on the inside with Nevercold brass. If you aren't Letitia, it would be a mistake to put your hand in here without preparing.
Several Sets of Clothing - Don't ask where she got them from. Just accept that she has them.
Umbrella - What? She's not that scared of water. Maybe. It's totally an innocent umbrella. Don't mind that the lower handle looks detatchable.
Nevercold Urumi - Oh, that was hiding in her umbrella shaft. It's a whip-like blade, much as the Tamil make. Of course the blade is Nevercold brass, and injuries made by it burn.
Samples: Look up to the stars
Have a drink
CONDITIONALLY ACCEPTED
Additionally, if you use a secondary journal for icon space or other purposes, please respond to this comment with it so that we can get it included!
For your participation in the Test Drive, your character also receives the following items of loot;
-> The labelling on this package indicates that it's some kind of advanced video card for a gaming PC; inside is a piece of metal covered with intricate circuits embedded in beeswax.
-> You want rice? Well shit, man, you got rice. A 25 pound bag of it.
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