Cortex Steampunk Game 1 OOC Discussion

[Chiyako]

Missy sounds fun!

I haven't fully fleshed out the mad scientist, who is probably the one I'll end up going with. But I will once it comes time for nailing down the characters in depth.

[MagnificentBastard]

12 minutes ago, WickedCadrach said:

Ok, last one to the character idea party, lol. I have a more detailed story for her, but I think keeping back a few things to come out in roleplay is fun. 

 

"Yes-sir! Genu-INE snake-oil! Secret medicine passed down by a hundred generations of savage witch-doctors and wisemen. Professor Whitty has spent years studying the science behind this medical marvel, this cure-all panacea that he learned from a Lokonchee shaman in his forbidden medicine cave where no other white man has gone before! 50 cents a bottle! A case for five dollars, and you'll never need another medicine for the rest of your very, very long life!" -Missy Fisher, age 12

Millicent 'Missy' Fisher

When Clarence Whitty—also known as 'Professor Whitty, the Scorpion Scholar and Cobra King of Houston'—found ten-year-old Missy on the side of the road, there had been a moment of mutual understanding like two coyotes scenting each other across an open field. And so even nine years after he'd wordlessly helped her aboard his rattling caravan and given her a taste of brandy to help with the pain in her blistered feet, neither had asked the other where they'd come from or where they'd originally been headed before their paths crossed. 

Over the years of traveling with the conman, Missy had found she could use her flair for the dramatic to put on convincing seances and spook shows in dark, candlelit back rooms. And while Missy didn't know real specters and magic from a bullfrog's fart, she knew she could play to what the average rancher and city clerk thought they knew about the great beyond. So as Clarence Whitty's name accumulated more and more mud, slowly Missy Fisher became the main attraction of their little one-wagon show. 

By eighteen, her relationship with Professor Whitty had become decidedly less paternal. The man had been her teacher, employer, and caregiver for eight years, and now he was her lover too. But Missy was also coming into her own, and what she learned from Clarence, she took to the other men in the towns they visited. At first, her fellow con-artist didn't seem to mind sharing a younger woman's affection, but soon he became bitter, jealous, and possessive. When he came to the caravan drunk one night, ranting about how they ought to stop all this rambling around and get married, Missy had had enough. She packed her belongings and took her spook show independent.

(appending a possible portrait for Missy Fisher)
 

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Why I do I feel young Millicent its going to be attracted to dominant, inappropriately older men as a result of her complicated upbringing?

I love it.

[WickedCadrach]

I just realized we already have a Millicent in the group

Millicent "Millie" Gearhart

and I'm bringing in Millicent "Missy" Fisher. 

@StarlitSiren, how do you feel about identity confusion shenanigans between Millie and Missy? I jumped on because I initially wanted to see if I should change my character name, but now I'm imagining the fun of having two very different Millicents in an era of letters and telegrams, with very little to verify identify. 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by WickedCadrach