bakerstreet | it's 2012, baby!

[She's living in London, from a modest beginning, she works as a seamstress and is a budding clothing and jewelry designer. She's got a talent with metal work as well. She works sometimes a waitress in a restaurant that caters to the rich and powerful of London.]

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[Field agent of SHIELD, currently undercover and infiltrating HYDRA (or THEM or any of the million of offshoots of HYRDA). Has massive "faith" in Captain America. Though, I'm open to anything!]

[ Arthur is the son and heir of a UK media mogul who owns a company the equivalent of Press Holdings, known for its strict right-wing stance. He went to Eton for twelve years and then Oxford, Trinity College. He was Social Secretary for the Oxford University Conservative Association. After simultaneously finishing his Masters of Business Administration and doing a year's internship, Arthur began to chair various subsidiaries of his father's companies. Despite appearances of having a stick up his ass has had a few clubbing scandals and one involving horse racing. Has won Cleo UK's eligible bachelor award once in 2009 and "enjoys" a B-list celebrity profile and his picture in the tabloids of rival media companies on a bi-monthly basis, though it increases if he's rubbing shoulders with Prince Harry. By 2010 he is executive vice president, currently valued at £500m. ]

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[Gentleman, master of Pemberley Estates, twenty-eight year old CEO of Pemberley Industries, and graduate of Cambridge. His company, Pemberley Industries, has been in his family for over two hundred years, and specializes in banking, trading, and shipping, with a dabble in the diamond business. His net worth hovers over one billion and a half pounds (or almost two billion dollars). Depending on the point of his canon, he is the husband to Elizabeth Bennet, otherwise, he is an insufferable twat, who alienates many potential suitors and friends due to his arrogance, pride, and coldness. In the zombie universe, he is a feared, but well-respected slayer of the "Unmentionables".]

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[ modernmanpain-verse. details here. ]

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[ Society daughter of a well-to-do London family, busy shaming them all by spending more time studying then finding potential romantic partners. ]

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[ In 1976, Tyrion Lannister killed his mother.

He didn’t mean to do it, of course. But the paramedics could not save her, and it was the unfortunate manslaughter of his birth that lead to his father, Tywin, and older sister, Cersei, resenting him for the rest of his life. Of course, this family coolness was not the only hardship Tyrion would face, given he was born with achondroplasia, a genetic disorder causing dwarfism, meaning Tyrion has never grown any taller than his current 4’5”.

Despite this disadvantage, Tyrion also had the privilege of his father’s money and power. While that didn’t stop the name-calling, in school and beyond, it did merit him a way to fight or work around prejudice. A smart man, Tyrion maintained fantastic grades in a fruitless effort to please his father, which gained him about as much respect in high school as dwarfism did. At first he found refuge from bullying in the escapism of books and films (having a soft spot for Monty Python, Douglas Adams, and Oscar Wilde) but as he grew out of his shyness discovered that his scathing wit and natural charisma could win him popularity.

At Oxford, he studied a Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), and went on to do his PhD in the same at York, where he wrote an 80K Philosophy thesis titled ‘The role of emotion in moral agency: some meta-ethical issues in the moral psychology of emotion’. It was about as full of shit as you might expect.

Nearing the age of thirty Tyrion realised that despite pursuing a politics/economic background, he was going to inherit his father’s business approximately never, his dwarfism was still the subject of ridicule in the papers and therefore he had little chance in politics himself, he’d missed the changing of the guard while still at college, and he’d essentially wasted the last eight years of his life. This brought about a significant period of boozing, whoring, and general mid-life-crisising until being offered a minor tv role that required a “little person”. This was his surprise big break and he was cast as a regular in a historical drama. A year later the series was a flop, but he landed a few theatre roles and before long the BBC was offering him a leading role in a gritty black political comedy titled ‘Finch’, now in its third season. In 2011, he won an Outstanding Lead Actor Emmy. The show is best known for its stunning, subtle parody of Prime Minister Robert Baratheon.

It is only recently that Tyrion has found himself involved with politics again, as his growing wealth and fame find him rubbing elbows with the same gala-and-function crowd he’d longed to be a part of as a younger man, though there are now fresh new faces that he feels it may be his duty to educate. The papers refer to him as “The Imp” and he is still known for his scathing wit - between his Twitter and his fondness for nightclubs, his publicists have an impossible time of it. ]

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[Cerni's that quiet, shy highschool kid that everyone picks on because, while he has the size to be intimidating, never backs it up. He's also the handsome star of the swim team you want. His mom's that girl who went ran away and came home a few weeks later insane. His dad was a stripper until shortly before he died. Or, at least, that's what everyone says. And it can't possibly be wrong if everyone says it, right?

Of course, there's the part that no one knows. There's the part where his mother had been abducted by a serial killer and has a severe case of PTSD. There's also the part where his dad had been the victim of a trafficking ring. And Cerni's the one who keeps food on the table and the house from burning down on his mother's bad days.]

((OOC: Het for any shipping. Other than that, feel free to come up with whatever scenario you want.))

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[ Sophie is working in a small flower shop while trying to keep a lid on her newly discovered magic. However her shop has gathered a reputation for the best flowers in town since she started working there. Coincidence? ]

[Sorry, Ms. Tarabotti. The quiet of the library seems to be disrupted today as a vampire appears to have undergone disanimation in the stacks. No one is quite sure why, which would explain why one of BUR's top investigators is examining the scene.]

[She looks longingly at her textbook for a moment. She had intended to spend the afternoon studying it from front to back, but that would just have to wait now.

Determination in each step, Alexia marched towards Lyall.]

I don't suppose you're looking for ideas about the next examination.

[Once a professional ballerina in Paris, currently working in New York City as an entertainer - mostly, a prostitute. She works for the criminal that she and her mother helped escape, known only as The Phantom, or, at this time, Mr. Y. That man works as a producer on Broadway, and Meg has been promised a lead role in a new show in return as thanks for her "help."]

I wish my afternoon was likely to be so academic.

[He looks up, utterly unsurprised to see her here.]

Please stay outside the cordon, Ms. Tarabotti.

Robb Stark is the first-born (well, in-wedlock first-born) of Eddard Stark, a wealthy businessman and politician who is (or was) renowned in the upper-crust of society for being incredibly honest and forthright in his business and political dealings. Eddard was one of those very few 'good' politicians who absolutely refused to compromise his principles and never took a bribe or favor. The man genuinely cared for his constituents, which is probably why he always managed to win re-election.

Robb grew up in wealth and privilege, spending most of his childhood either on the family estate or at private boarding schools. His large family (two younger brothers and two younger sisters, plus a half-brother and a ward by the name of Theon) meant that he was a rather social boy and despite the fact that Jon was the product of a youthful indiscretion by Eddard, he and Robb were very close (despite Catelyn Stark's evident dislike of the boy). In short, Robb was very much close to his family and despite all the time he spent away at private schools, always enjoyed coming back home to see them.

He's an intelligent young man and very popular in school, known for not only getting excellent grades, but also excelling on the sporting field. He plays soccer and rugby, dabbles in wrestling and participates in the school's fencing club. He is, in short, what everyone would want to be when they're in high school. Despite being rather friendly to most, he still manages to be withdrawn, which simply earned him a reputation as 'aloof' with the girls. Most of his attention, however, has been focused on learning what he's expected to do when he takes over the family business empire from his father. Which, unfortunately, might be sooner than he thinks.

Although he's only sixteen and preparing for university in a year or two, he's also trying to help his mother hold the family together after his father was murdered in a seemingly random act of violence - a mugging gone wrong say the police. His mother believes differently, but Robb is having enough trouble dealing with the fall-out and media attention, as well as his schooling. He's become much more serious, although that mask still slips up when he's with friends or family. Fortunately, his father's close friends at the company are there to help him and when Robb finally comes of age, he'll be ready to step into the position.

Or so he hopes.

Even in AUs, it's tragic to be a Stark.

[ A somewhat spoiled girl from a wealthy English family. Her parents passed away in a car accident when she was ten. She had been raised by her uncle ever since. Currently she is a senior in high school, applying to quite a few colleges. ]

[ we're doing something modern-y. and manpain-y. ]

[ So...

How do you feel about babysitting? ]

OOC: You have no idea how happy that icon and your AU make me.

ooc: mmp is my favorite au, and this is seriously the only icon i ever use

[In London, Benjamin Barker has recently returned to his previous occupation as a barber after being "indisposed" for roughly fifteen years (read: released on good behavior from prison - which he was sent to on a false charge). In the later hours, he goes by Sweeney Todd, and he searches for the man who caused his wife's death after he was sent away. And he doesn't care who he has to murder to do it.

Really, this might be much less messy if he'd just figure out how to use Facebook.]

OOC: I think it sums up Joffrey pretty well.

ooc; it'd honestly make a pretty good icon for his canon journal too. it will be his sassy icon!

[Isobel's still got her cards and her fortune-telling skills, and she's probably been in your town - if you knew where to look. Small little shops, nothing but a table outside on the sidewalk, she's had them all. Currently, she works from her house, in a beach town on the East Cost.]

it's 2012, baby!

gwen ❧ merlin bbc

peggy carter {mcu}

arthur pendragon | merlin

fitzwilliam darcy | pride & prejudice/& zombies

theon greyjoy | a song of ice and fire

Alexia Tarabotti | Parasol Protectorate

tyrion lannister | a song of ice & fire

asha greyjoy ♔ a song of ice and fire

Cerni Odair - Hunger Games

joffrey baratheon ♔ a song of ice and fire

Sophie Hatter | Howl's Moving Castle (book)

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meg giry ; love never dies (the phantom of the opera)

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Robb Stark | A Song of Ice and Fire

Mary Lennox | The Secret Garden

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sweeney todd | wow i have no idea what this is.

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isobel martin | the night circus