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[bornstrong]

Hi, everyone! It's Louisa here (for Iphigenia and a few others~), and I am trying very hard to get back into RP. Boo, work.

So! I have a kind of getting-to-know-you game we can play. Maybe it will be...fun? Hopefully? /cringes at self

I'm curious about everyone's pups' and their respective canons, and I'm hoping others are as well! So, in this post, feel free to link to video clips/blogs/general flailing about the worlds from which your characters come from. Go wild! Wax poetic! Just be excited about media!

Also, if anyone wants to use this post as a sort of ~enabling~ thing, go right ahead. We probably all need more characters to play, right?

Comments

[mayfairmonster]

OH MAN A CANON RAMBLING POST YEAH let's do this

What is The Confessions of Dorian Gray, you ask? Why, it's a series of radioplays! A series of radioplays about a man telling stories of his adventures, mistakes, and messed up supernatural encounters to his own captive soul-inhabited portrait in his attic. But you don't have to take my word for it, because the man is more than happy to explain, himself.

So, my muse's canon. I think one of the cooler things about The Confessions of Dorian Gray is how the radioplay's universe encompasses so many different canons, fictional universes, and time periods. If you, like me, prefer that your box of chocolates never yield the same flavor twice, there's a lot to sink your teeth into. On top of all the hedonistic bad life decision making and bow chika wow you might expect from stories about Dorian Gray, there are a lot of unique settings and situations that the writers play with.

So, get this: You've got stories set in more places and times than can be counted on two sets of fingers and toes, spanning from 1862 London to the late 2600s in god-only-knows-where, Space. Dorian ties into the Doctor Who universe, Sherlock Holmes' stories, Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and countless other sources of classical Gothic horror, real life cultural figures, and mythology. If you like your stories creepy, darkly funny, queer as a Liberace concert in San Francisco, and (oftentimes) tragic, it's a wonderfully entertaining and fast-paced series.

In lieu of links to videos and trailers, I'll share a few neat teaser-ey sound clips (incredibly gratefully) nabbed from another player's collection:

1. "The guests who simply vanish... It's those creatures that take them, isn't it?" (Small cw for violent action/strangling.)
2. You can't pull anything on Sherlock Holmes.
3. Literal Oscar Wilde cameo.
4. Fun and happy times. (Minor cw for descriptions of violence)
5. Plenty of sharp female characters who can give as good as they get.
6. Can a person change their nature? What does it mean to be either good or evil? Do such things exist?

As the clips (hopefully) attest, a lot of the fun of Dorian is in the sharply-written scripts and lively characters the writers come up with to throw into crazy immortal adventures. A lot of the stories are also genuinely unnerving, if you appreciate a little horror in your earphonebudthings from time to time.

On the enabling end, if I could tempt anyone to play a manipulative vampire with a preoccupation with death and decay and a tragically (adorably) dorky love affair with cellphones, Back to the Future, and ruining unsuspecting humans in shoot-em-up video games, I ...wouldn't be mad? /hides

[hellburger]

I'm always looking for new audio stuff to listen to at work! Gonna add this to my list!

[mayfairmonster]

Yayyy. \o/ Eager to hear what you think of it.

[brother_alone]

I had no idea they did radio plays based on this! I always assumed it was based off of the book I totally read after nerding out with my dad over the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen came out forever ago!

[mayfairmonster]

Funnily enough, the production company also did a radioplay dramatization of The Picture of Dorian Gray that's quite good, too.

But yeah, cool stuff, right? The things people are turning into radioplays these days! I like that it's basically a revival of the live radioplays of old.

[rekindledtitan]

Reading this makes me realize how well-prepared Dorian must be for the Nexus. I knew he was immortal, but I had no idea how much his canon encompassed!

[mayfairmonster]

Right? His canon really gets around. It's what makes the Nexus kind of ideal for a character like him: never the same thing twice, unlimited potential for curious happenings and crazy shenanigans...

When he found the Nexus, he packed up his portrait for a spell and didn't look back.