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fallen london oc sideblog ..... @n1ghtw1ng-scp

[destinys-engine]

hello!! this is a fallen london sideblog for my beloved flpc axel maxwell, aka the wayward agent :)

an introduction, of sorts, for them:

Axel is my HD / SMEN PC, yes they are doing both, yes they are having a very fun time of it. Disillusioned by the Surface world and out of a job, they ended up in the Neath on a whim. Faced with a new world, they instantly became invested in figuring out everything they shouldn't. Researching, looking into the mysteries of the Masters, the Bazaar, and anything else that catches their interest, eventually leading them into the role of a Midnighter- what better way to obtain information? (They aren't very involved in the Game, though, or even the job itself, to the disdain of many: it's less "politics" and more "information for its own sake".) Of course, after hearing of the game where you can gamble your soul away to win anything you want, they start pursuing the Marvellous, still unsure as to what they want in the end, but invested nonetheless.

Due to their reckless and generally inadvisable sense of curiosity, it was only a matter of time before they got introduced to Seeking the Name ... and they set their mind upon proceeding with it to its logical conclusion (whatever that may be). Just for, you know, more information, and totally not because they believe in any of that. It is certainly going well. So very well.

...they also seem to be encountering some sort of weird half-mechanical bat creature thing in Parabola quite often- but they aren't concerned about that just yet. :)

credit to the amazin g and cool individuals @teratomancer for the pfp and @treesareredinautumn for the two axels up there ^^

moodboards

pinterest board

spotify playlist

[autumnbrambleagain]

Don't tell Happles what happened to its yacht.

[lasersquid]

girl i got ten eels ten squids ten marine iguanas and twenty-one lamp cats i don't got troubled waters, troubled waters got me

[vonlipvig]

it's nearly june, so you know what that means: doing some really quick doodles for your ocs that have no proper refs so they can have an artfight page that's not just nonsense.

anyway, jerry the rubbery man time. remember, kids: don't make joke one-off characters because one second they're joke one-off characters, and the next they're marrying your main oc and having a kid with him. crazy.

[malwarechips]

"i think", i say, about my own ocs, who i made,

[herearedragons]

call it exponential growth / call it cancer, call it ghosts / I am neither, I am both

@t6fs

[shazzbaa]

I've been looking forward to getting a Big Eel to ride since last year's whitsun introduced transport-beasts, but I was truly unprepared for the majesty of THE INFINITE EEL SOURCE

[failbettergames]

funnily enough i just checked and i think fallen london mentions eels more than any other fish

[hotvampireadjacent]

Little menace

[slightly-sigilant]

in fl, there is an extremely cold place.

the only thing standing between you and the cold is a single stove.

to increase the heat output of the stove, you can weld lead plates covered in a burning eldritch language onto it.

if you stick enough eldritch words onto the stove, it gains sentience and runs away.

you can then hunt down and capture the stove, at which point you'll have to decide what to do with it.

one of the things you can do is fix it up so it's better-equipped to travel the world, and let it go.

doing this gives you a quality called "liberator of stoves".

this quality does absolutely nothing.

you can do this multiple times, and it will increase your "liberator of stoves" quality every time.

the quality will continue to do absolutely nothing.

so naturally, there are a number of players who have made it their personal mission to raise it as high as possible

[twig-the-escaped-cephalopod]

yall cant hide those in the tags T-T

[grimm-the-tiger]

Every time a Fallen London post breaks containment someone inevitably mistakes it for being about Florida instead, and every single time it's glorious.

[autumnbrambleagain]

You started me on bat HRT we are literally next-door neighbors in the same apartmentcrab don't try to pretend you thought you were just breaking into some rando's apartment

[twig-the-escaped-cephalopod]

enlightening "it". and by it. well. let's justr say. my egg

[destinys-engine]

How Axel's moving after they come back from nearly going NORTH and it's literally Whitsun:

[thevioletscout]

You know what fun new poll idea

What kind of soul does your Fallen London character have/had? (With Bazaar selling price for reference)

Ordinary (0.02)

Brilliant (0.50)

Queer (2.50)

Silent (12.50)

Discordant (62.50)

Coruscating (312.50)

Stained (oh no)

Some other type I missed because finding lore is like a needle in a haystack

Not Applicable

Voting ended onMay 21

Note: Not Applicable operates under the assumption you have a non-human character such as a clay man and don't have a human character you can use for the poll. It is not for characters who have already sold their soul as I'm curious how valuable it was.

The text for each unique soul;

Brilliant

This was the soul of someone exceptional. A priest? A poet? A murderer of distinction?

Queer

A remarkable, almost unclassifiable specimen with very particular qualities. A connoisseur-devil might pay a premium for this.

Silent Soul

Most souls bob and peer. This one simply watches. Serene? Empty? Old, certainly.

Discordant Soul

The bottle is cold enough to numb the fingers.

Coruscating Soul

Whose soul was this? A queen? A genius? A prophet? It's like looking into the face of the sun.

And you'd know if your soul is stained. Trust me.

[flandersmorris]

KNIGHT OF FEASTS

Waiters bring dish after dish after dish, meat and fish and fungus and things which should not be consumed: boot-polish and beetles are the least of it. By the time you are done, the chef is exhausted, your whole body aches, and the ceiling is smeared with food. You pay the bill with glim; ensure the waiters' silence with rostygold; and you'll need to purchase new clothing.

[destinys-engine]

From the red asks! If I may request:

🌹 (rose) - What does your oc find attractive in other people? Are these traits found in their friends and/or romantic partners? Are they found in themselves?

💄 (lipstick) - What does your oc think of their face? Do they have a positive or negative opinion? Do they wear makeup? Do they have a skincare routine? What traits do they like most about their face?

🐞 (ladybug) - What does a perfect day look like for your oc? What do they do? Who do they see?

(- @brine-patchfelt !!)

🌹 (rose) - What does your oc find attractive in other people? Are these traits found in their friends and/or romantic partners? Are they found in themselves?

So first of all. It doesn't have anything to do with outward appearance much at all. Mainly they're attracted to interesting people. I'm talking about like. People who clearly have something 'going on' and don't appear to be shallow and polite and normal. Their mind needs something about the person in question to rotate around and think about or it'll just. Slide right off. Also they have something of a competency kink but. in the normal non-sexual sense. they just love to see that in a person, but also it can't be the Reasonable type of competent. Like if some hypothetical person is reckless and does something stupid and manages to get away with it, that's what they're into.

Of the very short list of friends they have, yes (of course), and as for themselves.... well. hm. Let's just say that if parabolan reflections were Normal and not Fucked Up, they'd get along quite well with theirs.

💄 (lipstick) - What does your oc think of their face? Do they have a positive or negative opinion? Do they wear makeup? Do they have a skincare routine? What traits do they like most about their face?

They... don't, not that much. If they do, it's mostly to clean blood or whatever else off of it so they look "relatively presentable". Their opinion is... neutral with a sliiight positive lean, I think? Although they don't like how their prosthetic blue eye makes them more recognizable. Yeah, they could disguise it somehow, but they like it as part of who they are too much to do that. No makeup unless it's specifically required for some sort of scheme or plot, and even then they dislike it and are only doing it because they feel it's "required". Absolutely no skincare routine (do you think they're healthy enough to want to do that...)

🐞 (ladybug) - What does a perfect day look like for your oc? What do they do? Who do they see?

I don't think they've ever had one of those.... regardless. Their perfect day probably involves generally riding around on their rubbery lizard puppy (they love the thing. starveling cat is OUT shapeling sauropod is IN.) probably some informal dockside brawling just for kicks (but at the end of the day so they don't have to limp around scraped the whole day). They don't interact with ANYONE even mildly relevant so they don't have to keep the act up or anything ... and probably just going around and getting into minor shenanigans,,,, don't forget a nice big fancy meal at the end, they're still fascinated by the feeling of Normal Hunger as opposed to the. not normal version

[buniblogger]

When a npc is talking shit so you gotta bring out the scraps of incendiary gossip

[slightly-sigilant]

it's whitsunny side up, folks!