#ll.ask

[lustandlordsrp]

Could I please ask for suggestions on faceclaims for the Companion? Thank you in advance!

Hello! Some people we think could make for different and interesting takes of the Companion are Adeline Rudolph, Rose Williams, Saoirse Ronan, Freida Pinto, Ni Ni, Ellie Bamber, Charlotte Riley. We look forward to whoever you decide to bring to us!

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most wanted fc for males?

We would love love love to see Idris Elba, Henry Golding, Sope Dirisu, Sean Teale, Theo James, Simon Woods, Regé-Jean Page, Jonathan Bailey, Harry Shum Jr, Luke Pasqualino, Douglas Booth, Zac Efron, and Dev Patel. That being said, bring whoever your heart desires nonny! We just can’t wait to love your muse. 

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mwf?

Hello, so these are just some of many faces that we would love to see among our Haut Society: Kylie Bunbury, Kiernan Shipka, Anya Taylor-Joy, Freida Pinto, Gemma Chan, Adelaide Kane, Hailee Steinfeld, Ruby Barker, Crystal Clarke, Adeline Rudolph, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Saoirse Ronan. Thanks for asking! And ofc, if any of our members have any great FCs to add, we’d love to hear!

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Would Lily James be okay? I know she has period gifs because of Cinderella.

We don’t require face claims to have period gifs (though they certainly are a nice bonus to have). Lily James would be very welcome—remember, she also has resources from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and War and Peace, which are both set in Regency-ish periods.

[lustandlordsrp]

hi! this rp looks wonderful! i'm interested in the peeress but had a question about titles. i'm reading about peerages for women and wondering how her title would have been created - it looks like either her title could have been set to be inherited by "heirs general," or created for her mother upon the death of her father (but then i'm not sure if the title would be hers or moms?) do you have any preferences/suggestions? would this be more common for a certain rank of nobility? thanks so much!

Hi! Thank you so much for your kind words! We hope you join us!

There are a few ways a title could legally fall to be held by a woman as opposed to needing to be held by a man. The title being created to be inherited by ‘heirs general’ is one of them, as you said. This is pretty much the standard for really, really old English Baronies and Scottish peerages, where sons were still considered before daughters for inheritance of a title, but the daughters could inherit the title before it would go to more distant relatives.

Another way is by special writ, or essentially the crown saying ‘Due to special circumstances, this title will pass to this female’, essentially a ‘one time exception’ for something that might otherwise leave the immediate family and cause problems. This could take a royal decree and an act of Parliament to actually change things. (The biggest, most famous case of this is the Duke of Marlborough, which I won’t go into here.)

If her father had been someone Very Important but who died before he could be properly recognized, it’s possible that her mother was made a Peeress in honor of him instead, but the title would stay the mother’s until she died, and would only pass to the daughter is specifically allowed in the creation of the title—plausible if it was a circumstance where he obviously only had a daughter when the title was created. (If the daughter had a brother, even a younger one, the title would go to them first.)

Again, it’s most common among really old English baronies and Scottish titles. I would suggest for our case the Peeress not being above a Countess, whether Scottish or English. The title being inheritable by ‘heir general’ is the sort of simplest option with the fewest headaches involved, but you could also always just hand wave and say “Titles are complicated, buried back in history is this weird quirk that collided with specific family circumstances so that this woman is now a Peeress.” I will say it would be unusual for her becoming a peeress in her own right to be unexpected for her, as families would usually well keep track of where the titles were going.

Apologies if this is a bit scattered, there’s a lot to this subject! If you have more questions, reach out. I’m happy to talk about this history stuff at length.

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FC suggestions for the ingenue please :)

Hello nonnie! I’m personally the worst at fc’s, but given who is being used for the Ingenue’s siblings (Henry Cavill and Daniel Sharman), I could see Imogen Poots or Kaya Scodelario. The players of the ingenue’s siblings may have more recomendations for you in the replies!

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Is there a limit to how many roles we can apply for?

Hi nonny! Welcome, welcome. Thanks for the question. You can apply for as many of the skeleton roles as you are interested in. But at least for now, we are allowing muns to have only one character. This is so more awesome muns can become involved in the game! 

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so you're not allowing openly lgbtq+ characters at this time?

Hi Nonnie! No, actually it's quite the opposite! Our apologies if we weren't clear in our previous post. We have several LGBTQ+ characters currently in play, and would welcome a muse who was openly lgbtq+ if that is the muse you hope to bring. However, because of our historical period, we only ask that our players be aware of the period attitudes and restrictions towards LGBTQ+ culture and community. This was a period of time where holding hands in public and generally any displays of affection among people of any gender (while unmarried) were not socially acceptable.  Even married people being affectionate in public was a bit frowned upon in polite society, so they were relegated to secretive missives, longing glances, and covert assignations. These sorts of tensions are what we hope add to our muses' journeys of character development. 

While there were historical figures in this era that were open of their lgbtq+ identity and orientation who appeared to live happily, they still faced many various obstacles when out in society. We are happy to provide resources and information on these historical figures in LGBTQ+ history belonging to the time period. Not only that, if you want to reach out to us, we can work with you on how you'd want to fit your muse in this world.