historical flavor.

[madscenes]

the HISTORICAL CHARACTERS meme
WHETHER YOUR CHARACTER IS CANON OR AN OC, WHETHER THEY HERALD FROM MEIJI JAPAN OR VICTORIAN ENGLAND (OR ANYWHERE IN BETWEEN), THIS IS THE MEME FOR YOU.

BECAUSE THIS MEME PROVIDES A SPACE TO LET HISTORICAL CHARACTERS MEET ACROSS AGES. HERE YOU CAN CHOOSE TO LET CHARACTERS INTERACT IN A GENERIC (BUT HISTORICALLY ADAPTED) JAMJAR OR YOU CAN AU YOUR CHARACTER INTO ANOTHER HISTORICAL CHARACTER'S DAY AND TIME. OR HAVE OTHERS DO THE SAME INTO YOURS.

AND HERE, HISTORY SPANS ALL ERAS FROM PREHISTORIC TO THE 1970s, SO A WIDE RANGE OF CHARACTERS IS ALLOWED. TO LUMP THINGS TOGETHER A BIT, FANTASY CHARACTERS AND STEAMPUNK CHARACTERS ARE ALLOWED TOO, IF THE AESTHETIC'S SUITABLE.

GO CRAZY AND HAVE FUN!


How to play -

1. Comment with your character's name, fandom and preference in the subject line.
2. It might be a good idea to state whether you're open to jamjarring or au'ing (or both) and what particular eras you're interested in.
3. Others comment to you with a prompt from this ancient prompt table or write a starter themselves, whatever gets those creative juices flowing.
4. Note that both historical and contemporary characters can tag top levels, as long as contemporary players are willing to au their characters into a historical setting.
5. Thread out those days of yore!







PROMPT TABLE

01	Wall	02	Pain	03	Wine	04	Sand
05	Royalty	06	History	07	Electricity	08	Illness
09	Horizon	10	Culture	11	Stranger	12	Tree
13	Cotton	14	Smoke	15	Faith	16	Gold
17	Assumption	18	Coffee	19	Talent	20	Run
21	Thirty	22	Jazz	23	Walk	24	Purple
25	Heat	26	Wolf	27	Spirit	28	Era
29	Model	30	Toy	31	Surrender	32	Deep
33	Pages	34	Fortune	35	Rain	36	Weapon
37	Judge	38	High	39	Bound	40	Space
41	Regret	42	Trail	43	Tight	44	Tantalize
45	Blanket	46	Safe	47	Minute	48	Race
49	Reunion	50	Moon

Comments

billy the kid 🤠 fate\ 🤠 ota

[rascalking]

[[ don't make me explain how heroic spirits work but yes he is THAT Billy The Kid, famed outlaw and rogue cowboy. more info in their journal, open to assumed CR/AUs/etc! ]]

miyamoto musashi 🌸 fate/ 🌸 ota

[ryototsukai]

[[ again, because fate is weird, she's technically not the same musashi as we know from our own history, but for all intents and purposes, she may as well be. she's also kind of used to jumping between eras of history and alternate realities. more info in their journal, open to assumed CR/AUs/etc! ]]

scathach 🥃 fate/ 🥃 ota

[scatmaam]

[[ probably more fiction than fact, scathach is the "queen of shadows" that trained the heroes of the ulster cycle. more info in their journal, open to assumed CR/AUs/etc! ]]

gareth 🐺 fate 🐺 ota

[beaumains]

[[ another "more fiction than fact" one since arthurian legend is mostly just that, but in her case genuinely the only thing different from the gareth of lore is the gender. more info in their journal, open to assumed CR/AUs/etc! ]]

Ganymede | Olimpos

[miniaturegarden]

(ooc | Information, permissions, and warnings can be found here. tldr; info and permissions here.

OTA for gen/shipping, 16+ for shipping.

The exact story is a bit different than our myth, but he's still a prince of Troy who got kidnapped by a god. )

Evangeline Nix, Doctor of Crypto-Biology || Antiquarian Horror OC

[ladyevangelinenix]

{{late 19th c.--the modern day, but with a pref for playing her between the 1890s and WWI. As you might guess by the range, she's a vampire, being progressively more vampire-like as time goes. Her occupation is investigating and maintaining a library pertaining to the paranormal and occult, so she's good company for like-minded folks and other immortals through the years.}}

Gu Sui | The Best Actor is a Fox Spirit

[foxofninetails]

(ooc | Information, permissions, and warnings can be found here. tldr; info and permissions here. Important to note: Sui is a nine-tailed fox spirit.

OTA for gen or one-sided shipping, M/M 21+ for mutual shipping.

A very old spirit from China ranging from ancient times to more modern. )

satine lafaye | original

[satinette]

[ ooc; info here, permissions here. tldr; mid-19th century painter, suffragette and lesbian. lives in a lavender marriage. can play her from any time period between 1800 and the 1920s, earlier upon discussion. no smut. f/f for shipping, but ota gen. ]

[sunflowersappho]

{{I've got a very silly late 19th c. painter who might want to make friends?}}

Vanessa Ives | Penny Dreadful | M/F

[mytransgression]

[ Vanessa is a fairly proper victorian woman, except for those moments when she slips in her control. Witch, spiritualist, clairvoyant, and in open contact with demons she has some strange connections. Could be interesting in the right conditions. Meet in the street, accidental run-ins, delivery people for rare ingredients, or someone out to stop her? Open to canon if they exist here anymore, cross canon, AU all of it! ]

Ted Lasso | Ted Lasso | ota

[theodorelasso]

[ I have 1800s AU and a viking AU, and I'm very happy to make more! ]

Cricket Pate / Lawless

[alittlehinky]

[[100% authentic Appalachian moonshiner, taken from the tail-end of the Prohibition era. I am particularly interested in bootlegging shenanigans or in putting him in a slightly different area of the mountains for coal-mining.

Supernatural flavors and magical realism very welcome!]]

Nico Acosta | OC | OTA

[anoranza]

[ooc: Got this guy for all your vague period needs. Prefer shippy type prompts, please!]

Evie Montgomery | OC | OTA

[la_bonne_chose]

[ooc: Got this girl for all your vague period needs. Prefer shippy type prompts, please!]

demelza poldark (poldark)

[illuggan]

[ she's from late 18th century Cornwall England, but i'm very up for writing her in different settings and times ]

lucrezia borgia - the borgias

[desirable]

( daughter of the pope, two time duchess, full time scandal, and suspected poisoner. renaissance girl but open to switching up the time period! )

penitence hurd | the vizard mask | ota.

[prinks]

[Restoration England, professional actress in the King's Company. Based on real life Margaret Hugues.]

Marcus Flavius Aquila | The Eagle | M/M

[disgracedlegacy]

(Former Centurion. Imperial Rome. Patrician. AD 140.)

Katherine Howard | Six | OTA

[allyouwannado]

[Former Tudor Queen. Wife #5 of Henry VIII. Beheaded.]

Helena Wells | Warehouse 13 | OTA

[timelessinventor]

[Victorian author of HG Wells' novels, inventor of many of the things in her books and massively ahead of her time. Also flirty.]

[satinette]

[ I’m canon blind but you had me at Victorian and “also flirty”. Would you be interested in doing something with this one here, inspired by the prompt “trail”? If you’d prefer, I can write the starter. ]

Ganymede | Greek mythology

[eagleswept]

[Can go anywhere from [mythical] Bronze Age Greece/Anatolia to more modern times. Would love something set during Antiquity.]

Elizabeth Bennet | Pride and Prejudice | OTA

[a_sharp_wit]

[Hails from the early Regency Era but I'm happy to AU her into any period from there to a more modern AU.]

[callmeby]

[ if interested, do you want to au elizabeth into later 19th century or would you rather i au arsène into regency times? both would work for me. i was thinking some kind of scenario inspired by “assumption”? i can write the starter if you’d like! ]

sibylla | kingdom of heaven

[repentingmysins]

[loosely based around an historical figure, don't mind modernizing her or saying she's visiting another far away land from the same time. she's like from...the crusades time period.]

Re: sibylla | kingdom of heaven

[the_cupbearer]

I love this movie and would love to play around with some crusade-y goodness. Does Sibylla want a (real gay) non-Christian friend will also probably hate her husband?

Ganymede | mythology

[the_cupbearer]

[ HOKAY, so. Open to anything, any time period from waaaaaaaaaaaaayy on back (like, pre-antiquity? the Iron Age? way on back) to pre-1950. Open to any gen or M/M shipping, he can be any social class imaginable.

Would loooooove older time periods, he has a lot of history, and I want to flesh it out! ]

closed to allthesins

[the_cupbearer]

It's early by Ganymede's standards of time-measurement, but the evening seems to be moving as slowly as molasses; for the fifteenth time he wipes down the bar, spinning a tumbler glass idly around his fingertip. What few people are actually out on this chilly, dreary night are clustered at tables in handfuls, nursing the drinks they already have.

Maddening behavior for a bored barkeep.

He may as well pour himself a drink, then.

Sherlock Holmes || Sherlock BBC || m/m or gen

[desecrated]

[[ooc: In his imagination, he'd do fairly well in the Victorian era, but he'd definitely feel "out of time" if you get the drift.]]

William Murdoch | Murdoch Mysteries

[artfuldetective]

[If you need a mystery solved with science and long-winded explanations that aren't relevant to the investigation, Murdoch's your man. Mun has not seen the most recent season yet.]