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dloeza · 13 days
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kuzmich-isterich · 1 year
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Welcome to the Sierra Madre!
music:  POWERWOLF - Poison (Alice Cooper Cover)
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artbyblastweave · 5 months
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Frederick Sinclair is a really interesting foil to Mr. House. I mean you start digging into this and it's just parallel after parallel after parallel. Start at the high level. House sinks inordinate amounts of resources into saving the city of Las Vegas - not the people, but the city- from nuclear destruction; as long as the stage endures, he can get anyone to wear the costumes. Sinclair sets up an entirely new "community" totally off-the-grid for the sake of protecting one woman, plasters that place with her likeness. House is a visionary with a 200-year action plan to rebuild society in his image, bootstrap space exploration, and construct an interplanetary empire; Sinclair sank everything he had into building the most secure facility possible for a woman who he knew was terminally ill anyway, just to ensure that her last few years lived in the aftermath of the nuclear apocalypse would be as comfortable as possible- there's a fundamental pessimism baked into what he was doing. Both House and Sinclair relied heavily on automated defensive systems and cutting-edge, esoteric technologies to accomplish their ends, but House built his power base on proprietary robotics and computing technology, much of which he personally designed- an outgrowth of his policy of never widening his circle any more than he absolutely has to. Sinclair, in his naive techno-optimism, outsourced his utopia, grabbing flashy third-party technologies like a kid in a candy store- opening a backdoor for the Think Tank to poison his city and ultimately getting everyone at the Gala Event killed when the holograms malfunctioned and went berserk.
Their management styles are inverse. House allows countless abuses to occur under his aegis because he subscribes to a libertarian-when-convenient philosophy where he doesn't much care what the little people do as long as he gets his cut and they don't rock the boat too much- a hands-off approach that fosters resentment amongst his subordinates, lets the White Gloves and Omertas get up to untold levels of fuckery while Freeside languishes and Benny conspires against him. Sinclair, by contrast, had a sincerely-held utopian-straight-edge safety-first micromanagement approach built into the very bones of the casino, he appeared to genuinely give a shit about the safety of the construction crew on the villa, and he was well-liked by nearly everyone who had any direct contact with him- and yet untold horrors also went down under his aegis, because his myopic focus on building the vault for Vera let Dean Domino and the Think Tank run circles around him, good intentions be damned. Their respective interpersonal dispassion and obsession are on display in how they react to betrayal. House's tone never rises above exasperation when it comes time to clean house of Benny, the Omerta Leadership and the White gloves; he treats them as problems to be solved, gears that are slightly out of alignment; By contrast, when Sinclair learns that Dean and Vera have been playing him, he channels the monomaniacal energy he previously directed towards protecting Vera towards the goal of building the perfect poetic-ironic death trap for her and Dean.
There are some other parallels in their personal lives. For one thing they both trusted a pastiche of a 40s lounge singer a lot more than they should have. They both tried to digitize, immortalize their girlfriends- and the discrepancy in how they went about it is telling. House's recreation of Jane isn't terribly robust, and in terms of House's overall project she's an afterthought. She's more a sock-puppet than a person, a sanded-down copy of a woman who died forever-and-a-half ago, forever agreeable, never saying no. Convenient. Only the most superficial visual elements preserved- an illustration of her face on a robotic chassis. Sinclair was obsessive in recreating Vera, preserving her likeness. It's all over the villa, her hologram is everywhere, her voice is everywhere. The terminal in the lightwave lab in Old World Blues reveals that he was still obsessed with getting her hologram right even after the love curdled into hate. All of it a monument to the real woman, and yet in all of it the real woman is still lost, buried under the mythologized projection. He didn't respect the real person enough to let her know that she was dying. A total failure of preservation from the opposite direction. (Except in the suites, where you can hear her very authentic dying pleas.)
You find both of them in their basements. House only looks a little better than Sinclair, but he's got much more of a voice in the narrative. He took steps to make sure he'd be around to tell you what he thinks about everything, fine-tuned the voice with which he speaks to the world, the face he presents. It matters to him that he gets to tell his own story. We find out a lot about House, from House; but for the kind of figure that he is, a shocking amount of what we learn about Sinclair comes from other people, people who knew him or wrote about him. The only image of him you can find is a downplayed element of a larger mosaic. The two documents you find that're written from his perspective have been buried for 200 years, and they're yards from his corpse. And the more recent of the two is an apology. I mean admittedly at the point where he wrote that apology Sinclair was personally turbofucked regardless. If the cloud didn't get him the holograms would have, or the radiation, or, or, or. You can read some level of ego into what he did in the face of that. But however futile it was, he died in the specific way that he did because he recognized that he'd done something awful, and he was trying everything he could think of to correct it. Somehow I find it very hard to imagine House doing either of those things- admitting fault or putting skin of his own in the game to make it right.
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psykersomatic · 11 months
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incorrect-new-vegas · 10 months
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Sinclair: You can’t have a gun on stage! Dean Domino: WRONG AGAIN! I can have a gun, and I must have a gun, that’s the rule of Chekhov’s Gun: have a gun. And now that it’s been seen, I will have to shoot someone before the end of the performance!
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The She-Creature (Edward L. Cahn, 1956).
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mossmanfan · 3 months
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One of my blorbos built an entire resort to keep his terminally ill gf safe from a nuclear war.
That’s true love right there.
Get yourself a man who’ll build an entire resort city, just for you.
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viridistellas · 11 months
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roster tag dump pt 1 !
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perfettamentechic · 2 years
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29 giugno … ricordiamo …
29 giugno … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic
2020: Carl Reiner, è stato un attore, comico, sceneggiatore, produttore televisivo, regista, commediografo, e scrittore statunitense, padre del regista Rob Reiner. Reiner è stato sposato con Estelle Lebold Reiner, cantante e attrice. (n. 1922) 2018: Liliane Montevecchi, attrice, ballerina e cantante francese. (n. 1932) 2010: Pietro Taricone, attore e personaggio televisivo italiano. (n.…
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bottomseareef · 16 days
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List of New Vegas references in the Fallout show that I currently know of
The Sunset Sasparilla logo shows up a couple times
Robert House makes an appearance at a Vault-Tec meeting
Frederick Sinclair, founder of the Sierre Madre, appears as a representative of Big MT
Julia Masters, who was first mentioned in New Vegas, appears as a representative of REPCONN, which I think also first appeared in New Vegas
Literal New Vegas shows up
Secruritrons in the credits of final episode
Edit: The Tops and the Lucky 38 are shown in the end credit sequence, don’t remember catching the other ones
I may have missed some but you can see why I doubt they retconned New Vegas when they take so much from the game
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goldfishgrahamcracker · 10 months
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Franklin's lost expedition crew
I was looking at posts about AMC's The Terror and I kept getting confused by the use of first names, so I wanted to see how many of the characters had the same names. Arranging the crew in alphabetical order, I got:
1 x Abraham (Seeley)
4 x Alexander (Berry, McDonald, Paterson, Wilson)
5 x Charles (Best, Coombs, Des Voeux, Johnson, Osmer)
1 x Cornelius (Hickey)
2 x Daniel (Arthur, Bryant)
3 x David (Leys, Macdonald, Young) + Bonus: Bryant in the show but most historical sources I found list him as Daniel
1 x Edmund (Hoar)
3 x Edward (Couch, Genge, Little)
2 x Edwin (Helpman, Lawrence)
3 x Francis (Crozier, Dunn, Pocock)
1 x Frederick (Hornby) + Bonus: Des Voeux, whom I have seen referred to as Frederick rather than Charles on occasion
6 x George (Cann, Chambers, Hodgson, Kinnaird, Thompson, Williams)
1 x Gillies (MacBean)
1 x Graham (Gore)
7 x Henry/Harry (Collins, Goodsir, Le Vesconte, Lloyd, Peglar, Sait, Wilkes)
10 x James (Brown, Daly, Elliot, Fairholme, Fitzjames, Hart, Reid, Ridgen, Thompson, Walker) + Bonus: Ross, who was not part of the expedition but appears in the show
23 x John (Bailey, Bates, Bridgens, Brown, Cowie, Diggle, Downing, Franklin, Gregory, Hammond, Handford, Hartnell, Irving, Kenley, Lane, Morfin, Murray, Peddie, Strickland, Sullivan, Torrington, Weekes, Wilson)
2 x Joseph (Andrews, Healey)
1 x Josephus (Geater)
1 x Luke (Smith)
1 x Magnus (Manson)
1 x Philip (Reddington)
1 x Reuben (Male)
2 x Richard (Aylmore, Wall)
8 x Robert (Carr, Ferrier, Golding, Hopcraft, Johns, Sargent, Sinclair, Thomas)
3 x Samuel (Brown, Crispe, Honey)
1 x Solomon (Tozer)
16 x Thomas (Armitage, Blanky, Burt, Darlington, Evans, Farr, Hartnell, Honey, Johnson, Jopson, McConvey, Plater, Tadman, Terry, Watson, Work)
22 x William (Aitken, Bell, Braine, Clossan, Fowler, Gibson, Goddard, Heather, Hedges, Jerry, Johnson, Mark, Orren, Pilkington, Read, Rhodes, Shanks, Sims, Sinclair, Smith, Strong, Wentzall)
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lesvegas · 1 year
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FNV'S MOST LESBIAN MAN TOURNAMENT
I think it's my turn to start a silly little FNV poll tournament. For this poll, my partner @thespiral and I selected 16 guys from Fallout: New Vegas that have some kind of lesbian energy to us (if you don't get it, there's no way to really explain, just go along with the bit). We tried to pick at least one guy from each faction if we could help it to round things out, from the popular to the easily-forgotten.
For the sake of this poll, we ask you to vote for the guy who feels the most lesbian. The most dykish. We know not everyone who votes is going to be a lesbian and that's cool, this is really all about vibes. Don't think too hard about it but don't just automatically vote for your faves, either.
One last thing before the brackets, I gotta admit this tournament (or at least the format) was heavily inspired by (if not straight-up copied from) @yesmanenjoyer's New Vegas' Shittiest Man Awards. Easily my favourite series of FNV polls so far <3
Anyway, here are the brackets!
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I'll be tagging all polls as #fnvles if you'd like to follow it, but I'll also be keeping this post pinned to my blog for the duration of the tournament. I'll also be linking all polls, old and current, in this post. And now, for the rounds!
ROUND ONE (Feb 10th 6pm EST):
Paladin Ramos vs. The King
Benny Gecko vs. Dean Domino
Swank vs. Mr. New Vegas
Boxcars vs. Jessup
Raul Tejada vs. Jack (Great Khans)
Carlitos Wayne vs. Frederick Sinclair
Jack (Boomers) vs. Driver Nephi
Lucius vs. Sammy Wins
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Full Masterlist
Updated: 4/10/23
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💥 Attack on Titan:
Attack on Pranks
→Attack on Pranks: Chapter 1 (The First Task)
→Attack on Pranks: Chapter 2 (Keep Running)
→Attack on Pranks: Chapter 3 (How it All Started)
→Attack on Pranks: Chapter 4 (Showdown)
Attack on Titan Short Story Collection
→Attack on Titan Short Story Collection: Fireworks
→Attack on Titan Short Story Collection: Towels
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💥 Kengan Ashura:
Muscle Heads: Ohma x Raian
→Chapter 1: Shut up, Raian
→Chapter 2: Off His Ass
→Chapter 3: Naughty
→Chapter 4: FishFace
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💥 Dragon Ball:
A Serendipitous Future
Goku Black x Reader: Forbidden Fruit
→Chapter 1: The Flames of Destruction
→Chapter 2: The Game Begins
→Chapter 3: Blink of an Eye
→Chapter 4: Cat out of the Bag
→Chapter 5: The Room
→Chapter 6: Chained Freedom
→Chapter 7: The Calvary Arrives
→Chapter 8: The Curse of Immortality
→Chapter 9: Hate Me Not
→Chapter 10: Victory
→Chapter 11: Zamasu’s Revenge
→Chapter 12: Hidden Treasures
→Chapter 13: The Wolf
→Chapter 14: Infiltrator
→Chapter 15: An Unlikely Allegiance
→Chapter 16: The Forest
→Chapter 17: Red Lights
→Chapter 18: Reunion
→Chapter 19: Even Nightmares Dream
→Chapter 20: The Pact
→Chapter 21: The Ritual [SMUT]
→Chapter 22: Back Again
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💥 Baki:
Not Really Katsumi
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💥 One Punch Man:
Mayhem
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💥 Friday the 13th/Halloween:
Friday the 13th Oneshots: Michael x Jason
→Chapter 1: Handful
→Chapter 2: Halloween Headache
→Chapter 3: You Make Me Go Crazy (SMUT)
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💥Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit:
The Elf and the Elk
Red of Rivendell
Mischief
→Mischief: Chapter 1
→Mischief: Chapter 2
→Mischief: Chapter 3
→Mischief: Chapter 4
→Mischief: Chapter 5
→Mischief: Chapter 6
→Mischief: Chapter 7
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💥Tangled (2010):
Dirty: Stabbington Brothers/Reader [SMUT]
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Works In Progress
If there's anything in particular that you want to see posted, just comment on this post or shoot me a DM, and I'll try to get that one out a bit faster! If you have any questions also feel free to let me know. Some of these were written a while ago and forgotten about but I hate leaving things unfinished.
💥 House of Wax/Halloween:
You Look Like Me (And I Don't Like It): Bo Sinclair x Michael Myers
💥 Friday the 13th/Halloween:
Sharp Love: Jason Voorhees x Michael Myers
Friday the 13th Oneshots: Michael x Jason-Chapter 3
💥 The Collector (Asa Emory):
On Your Own: Professor!Asa Emory x Reader
Never Kiss a Stranger At the Bar: Professor!Asa Emory x Reader
Wrong File: Professor!Asa Emory x Reader
The TA: Professor!Asa Emory x Reader
💥 Hannibal (NBC):
Symphony of Murder: Asa Emory & Hannibal Lecter
💥 Slasher Harem:
House of Horror: Brahms/Asa/Michael/Jason/Harry/Pyramid Head/Bo/Thomas/Ghostface/Jason x Reader
💥 Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit:
Gold and Brown: Lindir x Legolas
Elven Encounters
Taste of Revenge
The Three Hunters: How it Should Have Been
💥 Mo Dao Zu Shi:
No Choice But the Wrong One: Xue Yang x Reader
💥 Banana Fish:
Cold Blue: Frederick Arthur x Reader
💥 Baki:
To Love a Monster: Yujiro x Reader
Triple Doom: Implied Mouth Triplets x Jun Guevaru
💥 Attack on Titan:
Attack on Titan Short Story Collection-Body Swap
💥 Kengan Ashura:
The Shadow That Never Sleeps
Muscle Heads: Ohma x Raian-Chapter 5
Kengan Ashura Oneshots-That's Not a Swimsuit: Ohma Tokita x Reader
Strong, Stronger, and the Strongest: Ohma Tokita x Lihito x Kure Raian
💥 Dragon Ball:
Goku Black x Reader: Forbidden Fruit-Chapter 23
The Devil's Promise: Goku Black x Reader
💥 Record of Ragnarok:
Cherrypop: Buddha x Reader
💥 Toriko:
55 Days to Tame the Beast: Zebra x Reader
💥 Sherlock Holmes (BBC):
The Untold Tales of a Second
💥 Squid Game:
All I See is Pink: Pink Soldiers x Reader
💥 Harry Potter:
Pranking Severus Snape
Mercy for the Brave: Severus Snape x Reader
💥 Marvel-Loki:
Not So Cold: Loki Odinson x Reader
💥 How To Train Your Dragon 3:
DragonSlayer: Grimmel x Reader
Betrothed to a Killer: Grimmel x Reader
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On April 14th 1578 James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell , Earl of Orkney and third husband of Mary Queen of Scots died, aged 44, tied to a post in a dungeon at, Denmark.
As I posted on Friday Bothwell fled Scotland after the surrender at Carberry Hill, Queen Mary’s last act of love for him was guaranteeing he could leave the area unharmed.
Bothwell took ship from Aberdeen to Shetland, he may have stopped off in Orkney, the only thing we know is he was denied refuge there and travelled on to Shetland.
He was pursued by Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange and William Murray of Tullibardine who it seems were not that far behind him. They sailed into Bressay Sound near Lerwick. Four of Bothwell’s ships in the Sound set sail north to Unst where Hepburn and his cousin, the pirate, Olaf Sinclair were negotiating with German captains to hire more ships. Kirkcaldy’s flagship The Lion, chased one of Bothwell’s ships, and both ships were damaged on a submerged rock.
Bothwell sent his treasure ship to Scalloway and fought a three-hour-long sea battle off the Port of Unst where the mast of one of his ships was shot away. During the chase a storm erupted and Bothwell’s superior seamanship to come to his rescue. After transferring his men to his two remaining ships, he sailed south-east before the wind, making the 250-mile crossing in record time Although Kirkcaldy followed for sixty miles, he was out-sailed and, by his own admission, was ‘no good seaman’.
He might have thought he was off the hook again, but no, Frederick II was not sympathetic to his cause, he was at war, and was torn between his blood ties to Mary Queen of Scots and the need to show loyalty to his Protestant allies. Fortunately for him, the problem solved itself when Mary, held prisoner in England, dissolved her marriage to Bothwell, making him merely a problem to be got rid of from Frederik’s perspective, so he ordered his arrest to be used as a bargaining chip in the forlorn hope that he would be traded in return for the return of the Northern Isle!
After being brought before the Bergen magistrates, in September he was carried to Copenhagen on one of Frederick’s ships for ‘honourable confinement’ at Dragshorn Castle, the Scandinavian equivalent of the Tower Of London. I found an extract from My Heart is My Own, a biography on Mary Queen of Scots that reads
“On 14th April 1578, Bothwell died at Dragsholm. As was customary for state prisoners, his body was carried to the promontory that juts into the fjord a side of things. mile or so from the castle and buried at the parish church of Fårevejle. (…) “
There are differing versions on how he lived out his last days, one says he was actually not held in ‘honourable confinement’, but in a small dungeon chained to a post, the cell so small he was unable to stand, the second is more in the line of the ‘honourable confinement’ that he spent the last years drinking to excess with others held at the castle and gradually became more and more insane.
John Maxwell, visited Dragshorn Castle, and reported that Hepburn had latterly become overgrown with hair and filth. I take it from this he was still alive at the time!
The story doesn’t quite end there, Bothwell’s coffin was opened for the first time in 1868 and a very well-preserved body was found, which subsequently rapidly decayed and, for a period of time, until 1973, was open to public viewing under a glass lid. Then, in response to a request from the descendants of the Hepburn family, the newly-crowned Margrethe II had Bothwell buried in a zinc-lined coffin within a sarcophagus of oak, and here he remains.
Every now and then there is a story in the press about his descendents making an attempt for his body to be repatriated, I have no idea why the Danes would not allow this and for the moment he remains there. Of course with a story like this the castle is said to be haunted by the "good” Earl, where is he said to ride through the courtyard with a full horse and carriage.
The pictures are, the supposed head of Bothwell “ Study of Mummified Head” by Danish artist Otto Bache. The even more gruesome “body of James Hepburn” although the church where his supposed remains lie was known to have exhibited several bodies over the years as his, therefore, it is impossible to know if this is actually him.
There have been moves by his descendants to have his body repatriated through the years Speaking in 2010 Sir Alastair Buchan-Hepburn, Bothwell's direct descendant sought to raise funds to lobby the Scottish and Danish governments, saying "I want the Scottish culture minister to get in touch with his Danish counterpart to ask him 'would you please consider to return the body of James Hepburn, the Earl of Bothwell?'"
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwells’ remains are now kept in the crypt at the church at Faravejle, near Dragsholm Castle, as seen in the last pic.
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inlovewithregencyera · 3 months
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The Curse of the Damned Character Mood Boards 1810's
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Alright, folks I'm done screwing around with html format. I hate it. So until I figure out how to make a character page I'll just have this as part of my navigation and it'll work similarly to a character page. I will do this for different prominent characters of every decade after they're introduced. Children won't be introduced until they're 18+. Now since this is the start of this, some characters have not been introduced in my story yet but I wanted to get this out of the way. They'll be introduced soon, fear not! This was heavily inspired by @aheathen-conceivably so props to her. I won't introduce any generation older than Aurelia's, so no Lord or Lady Grey, sorry! Also, I've got to do more of Aurelia's relative's mood boards so for now this is just nonfamily. Let's start!
Aurelia Grey
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Full Name: Aurelia Jane Charlotte Grey
DOB: July 8th, 1798
A song that reminds me of her: ♫♫♫
Frederick Worthington
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Full Name: Frederick Charles Worthington
DOB: October 26th, 1793
A song that reminds me of him: ♫♫♫
George Thorpe
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Full Name: George Nathaniel Thorpe
DOB: June 15th, 1794
A song that reminds me of him: ♫♫♫ (George you sad fuck)
Villoria Thorpe
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Full Name: Villoria Elizabeth Thorpe
DOB: February 11th, 1797
A song that reminds me of her: ♫♫♫ (Low key one of my favs rn)
Thaddeus Skeffington
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Full Name: Thaddeus Alexander Skeffington
DOB: August 17th, 1793
A song that reminds me of him: ♫♫♫ (main character syndrome)
Prudence Skeffington
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Full Name: Prudence Isabella Skeffington
DOB: March 29th, 1798
A song that reminds me of her: ♫♫♫
Charity Sinclair
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Full Name: Charity Diana Sinclair
DOB: May 3rd, 1798
A song that reminds me of her: ♫♫♫
Susan Vane
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Full Name: Susan Augusta Vane
DOB: May 19th, 1799
A song that reminds me of her: ♫♫♫
Laurence Carew
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Full Name: Laurence Benedict Carew
DOB: December 28th, 1795
A song that reminds me of him: ♫♫♫
Isabella Keats
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Full Name: Isabella Annalise Keats
DOB: November 10th, 1796
A song that reminds me of her: ♫♫♫
Selina Campbell
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Full Name: Selina Victoria Campbell
DOB: August 14th, 1797
A song that reminds me of her: ♫♫♫
Maximilian Worthington
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Full Name: Maximilian Augustus Worthington
DOB: March 19th, 1792
A song that reminds me of him: ♫♫♫
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