The Degenerates
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- Let me know if you plan to drop the character, temporarily or otherwise! If they go inactive and I don't hear from you, I reserve the right to put them back up for adoption.
- For the most part bolded facts are fixed, but (depending on the character) I might be flexible on some of the details, provided you discuss your ideas with me first!
After moving on from a similar situation in Hogsmeade, Ester has settled into life in London with a friendship group of free-thinking, free-loving, pleasure-seeking artists of all kinds. There is much laying about, drug-taking and debauchery here: none of these characters care much for convention. The below will probably all be somewhere between their twenties and their forties in age and of middling rep or below, but names, faces, sexuality and ethnicity etc are pretty open. If you have an existing character who you think might slot in nicely to the group, get in touch as well - the more the merrier!
B.?? | MC/WCAB | PB: OPEN
“Raphael” all but considers himself a Renaissance painter reincarnated, an artistic genius who’ll go down in history. He chose to immerse himself in his passion over making a steady living as an art tutor, and most enjoys painting, although he has yet to have any major critical successes in the field. To make ends meet in the meantime, he sells himself out as a ‘photographer’ and offers above-board portrait sittings, as well as producing pornographic photos and illustrations to sell to the Writer’s friends. He is unmarried, though he and Ester have some sort of on/off friends-with-benefits arrangement. Charming, though not a romantic in the slightest, he will however go to any lengths to pursue a new muse when he finds himself ‘inspired’ by a perfect new face, even if it means ambushing them in the street. Face is open, but pictured is Oscar Isaac. Reserved for Soph!
B.?? | MCAB | PB: OPEN
Owner of a small bookshop in a seedy street, “Maurice” purports to sell second-hand rarities and the like, though what he is prouder of is the backroom of the bookshop with the largest collection of erotic, inflammatory, or otherwise censored texts one can find in magical London. He’s even written a few banned bestsellers under a nom de plume himself. He otherwise keeps under the radar by operating a delivery service by owl-post, and knows how to be discreet with customers and on the street. Privately, he is a great friend of every dissolute, and as fun as the best of them - though is also a loan shark with a ruthless streak and a dark side, and the consequences of owing him money might be worse than debtor’s prison. Again wide open, but pictured is Sebastian Stan.
B.?? | WCAB | PB: OPEN
Any gender. With a possible background in healing or potioneering, the “chemist” now makes a living in scamming people with quack medicine and in dealing drugs. They are a bit of a flake, but Ester and co. count on them nevertheless to always supply the best opium; and if anyone needs a back-alley abortion they know to go to the chemist, too. Their intellect is wasted somewhat on the rest of the group, and they like to annoy the others by trash-talking the arts - but they are nonetheless a loyal part of the group, and annoyingly in love with one of the others. Reserved for Lauren!
B.?? | WCAB | PB: OPEN
Unlike Ester, who grew up comfortably, “Georgiana” had a tough childhood, and emerged from it under no illusions about the world, but with an uncanny knack of always landing on her feet. A prostitute by profession, though she dips her toe into the modelling world as well, she and Ester enjoy butting heads about their differences and occasionally squabble over men, but for all their bickering they are best friends, and Ester trusts her more than anyone else. Pictured is Billie Piper. Reserved for Hawke!
B.?? | UCAB | PB: OPEN
The one with the connections - and a seemingly bottomless purse - “Hadrian” toes the line of respectability in the UC social world with a scent of scandal, just enough to shock, to seem ‘radical’ and ‘exciting’. He might have some kind of emotional damage, character weakness or a physical injury in his past that initially led him astray, but presently he is largely more interested in morally corrupting others, and generally stirring the societal pot. On the private level, he doesn’t particularly care who he mixes with, as long as they appreciate his witty repartée. (He enjoys giving the Writer sly suggestions for the next society darling to crudely parody in his erotic fiction.) His job status and marital status are totally open, but on the down-low he hosts some risqué parties to introduce his likeminded upper-class associates to these friends of the demi-monde. Pictured is Henry Cavill.
B.?? | WCAB | PB: OPEN
Any gender. Slightly younger than the rest, the “outcast” did not leave the life they knew by choice, but rather those who knew them turned their backs on them. Getting kicked out can have been for any reason you imagine that was no real fault of their own - were they a squib in a pureblood family? Questioning their gender? Discovering their sexuality? Illegitimate? A victim of abuse? etc - and they are finding it hard to come to terms with because if they had had a choice, they never would have left. Now, though, they are trying to learn to be more comfortable with themselves - no one would call the group good role models, but they are more accepting than most of society! The “outcast” is lodging in the area and has found casual work/some artistic talent of their own with one or more of the group. Reserved for Kit!
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