…and I’ll describe to you my muse’s style, interests, and how they’d make a living during that decade.
*In all verses, Constantine continues to smoke. Only in modern day does Con actually use it sparingly, especially lately.
Constantine surrounds himself with the most famous and influential people belonging to the Lost Generation, including writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, who he had a brief fling with. Constantine considered him too cocky, though, even by his standards, and had fun in taming him behind the scenes.
He slips into the nightlife of NYC, visiting jazz clubs and breaking prohibition laws. What little alcohol that is legal is utterly disgusting, but so are the spirits that are made during this time. He only drinks gin that has specifically been smuggled from England, where he knows it won’t be tampered with.
During this time period, Freud is well-established, but Constantine, the younger and more in-touch face of the Roaring Twenties, argues against some of his theories. He amasses his own following and selective clients, even at a time when psychology is still finding its footing and much of it is misunderstood by the general public.
In the last year of WWI, in 1918, Constantine was old enough to be a doctor in the trenches. He saw many things he still thinks about during the 20s, but takes it as a way to continue his learning with a focus on mental health. He meets fellow veterans, especially ones that were in the war for much longer than himself.
Constantine’s physical style has his hair slicked back, clean-shaven face, and often can be seen wearing a pin-striped vest underneath a dark gray blazer. When he’s being casual, he’ll wear a simple white, long-sleeved shirt with the sleeves rolled up around his elbows and several buttons undone.
His sexuality is that of a tease, but treads carefully and skillfully with those of the same sex.
WWII is at its height. It shapes the world that Constantine lives in. He has no personal interest in joining a war that doesn’t seem as though it’ll end anytime soon, but he can’t escape its damaging effects that ripple throughout the world. Instead of being used as a doctor, though, he’s the spy that Rupin has had a hand in making him be. Because India is ruled by the British Empire during this period, and America has become one of the strongest members of the Allied forces, this unlikely team is a collaboration of several countries at work.
Darla Lovette, the best cryptographer of her day, is missed sorely during the time when the Engima machine rules and is practically unbreakable. Constantine uses this connection and mystique to infiltrate the German ranks by feeding their paranoia, making them believe that the machine has already been cracked based on intelligence he was able to gather and manipulate. They’re forced to experiment with another technique that Constantine boldly arranges based on one of his mother’s works that hadn’t quite been finished before her untimely death.
For style, Constantine’s European travels allow him to make use of the trench coats that are popular for the day. Double-breasted in a light gray color, it matches the smoke that drifts from his cigarette that’s often with him. The coat accentuates his height, topped with a dark hat to blend in with the crowd.
New York was a wild explosion of crime and drugs, neither of which suited Constantine’s tastes. Just like in canon, he held a strong interest for psychiatry and medicine in general, but in this time period, technology holds more of his passion. There’s a new revolution forming, and it expands far greater than that of cassette tapes.
Inspired by his mother’s profession, he finds himself gravitated towards programming. He moves from NYC to San Francisco and begins a successful career from the ground floor. In due time, he’s able to create his own tech company, focusing on portable devices instead of the clunky monsters that he envisions will become dinosaurs in another decade or so. His schooling in psychology is paving the way to see the trend that everyone’s patience is ticking down, making them constantly on the move and demanding instant gratification.
In spite of the work ethic, though, he still sees how Apple is building a brand, and that’s exactly what he needs to bank on to become successful. The brand being 90% him, just as it was with Steve Jobs for Apple, he’s a frequent member of the most popular night clubs. His personal life sees various men in what would be scandalous positions; however, Constantine rarely actually has sex with them and more or less just finds a way to dominate them instead.
Constantine’s fashion in this era is personally my favorite. His natural curls are no longer tamed back, letting a strand fall either on his forehead or rest along his temple. It’s a tousled look that once in awhile is combed back. One of his most iconic looks is a white blazer, barely parted with no shirt underneath, completed with white slacks. In a regular variation, however, his jeans are usually ripped and there’s some sort of graphic tee.
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