#anne bowesley

[idlethr]

Anne Bowesley, the Queen of London

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Last one for the ask meme...what do you think of Mithras the Ventrue?

Your character choices for this were super fun! Thank you! :D

How I feel about this character

The man, the myth, the legend! He’s more myth than man in The Victorian Trilogy, and I really liked the concepts stuck to him: that he was once just a very good general; that it’s difficult to look straight at him/conceptualize him; that he’s super duper queer; that, even after multiple millennia, he is able to feel and feel deeply. He still grieves for his adopted son, for whatever prevents Kemintiri from finding peace, for friends long dead. There was a sense that he feels trapped by his responsibilities and people’s expectations of him, but he will perform them, and perform them well. The love his close friends have for him further suggested a likeability to the reader. Lady Anne Bowesley, Juliet Parr, and Roger de Camden are really cool. When the Giovanni demanded all Cappadocians be killed, Mithras stood up and said, “Not mine.”

Our Storyteller took Mithras’ story even further in our chronicle, San Andreas Nights. Our Ventrue patriarch, Enzo Bonpensiero, was inducted into the Cult of Mithras and helped plot the Camarilla attack on New York. On the surface, this attack was to reclaim New York City from the Sabbat. Enzo worked on a deeper intrigue: the re-establishment of the Eternal Senate, the waking of Evocati (basically Mithras’ old buddies who went into torpor to escape persecution), and the murder of Hardestadt, for his capitulation to the Giovanni.

I think Mithras very much embodies “heavy is the head that wears the crown.”

All the people I ship romantically with this character

I liked him and Kemintiri until she decided to be a doofus! There were much better ways to remind Mithras that he’s not a god! My goodness. ANYWAY, the only other Mithras ship I know is Mithras/Roger de Camden, and you know what: go be happy u big nerds. It’s really easy to imagine the pair of them, heads bent together over a map, speaking quietly to each other about such-and-such and this-and-that.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Mithras and Lady Anne Bowesley ftw! We see a lot more of Lady Anne than Mithras in the Victorian Trilogy, and that woman works tirelessly for peace, while all other Kindred around her insist on performing nonsense (gotta love how the Tremere response to being slapped on the wrist is to plot an even bigger nonsense). She stabs patriarchy in the eye, and Mithras showers her with applause and praise. When Mithras is not suffering from malady, the Trilogy suggests they have a very good working relationship built on centuries of friendship. Almost like dual Princes of London: when one in charge, the other receives a break.

My unpopular opinion about this character

Granted I haven’t read all there is to read about London and the characters, but, um, Mithras is a better ruler than Hardestadt. Mithras isn’t destroying historical documents, mind-wiping his childer, hoarding wealth, and condoning genocide. He doesn’t like the British Empire, but it’s too big a Masquerade breach to stop. Mithras is out there confirming history, protecting his childer, has had the same chair for 200 years, and seeks justice for Cappadocians. Why don’t y’all write some homoerotic poetry and maybe ya’ll will calm down.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

I think he and Lady Anne deserve an extended holiday of rest and relaxation. Get London outta their lungs. Will the city be a crater when they return? Maybe. But they are le tired and need a nap.

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Guess who finished A Morbid Initiation! It me. And let me tell you I was shocked, SHOCKED, by how good it was. Good feminist content in my White Wolf publication??? It’s more likely than I thought. Granted, I put the bar on the floor, but Boulle leapt over it so beautifully.

Mildly spoiler-ish snark summary below. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. If you want to read the novel, hit me up for a PDF!

Chapter 15 to End

At a Gather,

Regina, who has only met Kindred with Presence: What am I doing here? Will I ever measure up? All these people are so, so...flawless.

Bainbridge: hi

Regina: Oh, this one is ugly, thank GOD

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Victoria, fully falling into Toreador compulsion: Look at that inferno consuming the poor of Southwark. Isn’t it...beautiful? All that emotion and suffering? The colors?

Regina, deadpan: No, wtf is wrong with you

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Boulle absolutely fucking flexing on shitty White Wolf writers by making Regina like Sherlock Holmes and figuring out all Camarilla society on her own, which beautifully shows off her character, slowly builds the world for the reader, and displays how much of a dick Victoria is for not, just, yanno explaining hey that’s Lady Anne and if you’re rude she will murder you.

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At a different Gather,

Regina: [sees Pool, her betrothed’s best friend] :O

Pool: :O

Regina & Pool: [Spiderman Meme]

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Juliet Parr: Okay, so you’re Regina’s friend. I want you to spy on her for me and tell me of any potential Masquerade breaches.

Joanne: how did you get into my house

Juliet: Not important. I have a special dispensation. [hands Jo a knife]

Joanne: this just says “I do what I want” on the handle

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Boulle says Reminder That Humans Are Monsters Too and Colonialists Can Eat Shit. (Seward is cancelled)

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Regina is bisexual and it’s canon; I am SINGING

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What is a ghoul to a woman with a very sharp shoe

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What is a generations old plot to the love a daughter has for her mother

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Area Men Determined To Get In The Way

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Beckett: So...you wanted to talk to me about some drawings I made in my notebook about a goddess with a void for a head?

Hesha Ruhadze: Yes

Beckett: The Kemintiri drawings?

Hesha: Yes

Beckett: the drawings of Kemintiri

Hesha: Yes

Beckett: the void lady--

Hesha: where are the doodles, beckett

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Back in the same cursed place the book started in,

Hesha: So you’re telling me that the drawings were on that wall, but SOMEBODY decided to build a hospital on this definitely cursed dirt and SOMEBODY shot you before you could finish the drawings anyway.

Beckett: ...yes. I presume by “somebody” you mean the British occupying forces, who are also currently dissecting bodies downstairs

Hesha: The British can Choke(TM)

Beckett: No, no, I agree.

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Beckett: Ugh, I hate ghouls

Me, having written fanfic where he has a found family with multiple ghouls: I’ve ruined this whole man’s career

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Ghoul, fully prepared to fuck with Beckett for murdering his regnant: The only one who knows the full story of Kimintiri is the white lady

Beckett:

Ghoul:

Beckett:

Ghoul:

Beckett:

Ghoul:

Beckett, who will be making out with Emma in four to ten business months: does she have a name or