#now you all know the unnecessarily byzantine lore behind this tag!

[nebylitsa]

would love to hear about your oc's :'(

sorry for taking SO long to answer this but THANK YOU for asking about my ocs!!! <3

i have way too many to keep track of tbh but right now the group im focusing on the most is les albatros, a collective of writers, artists, actors, & other creative types who are all regulars at le café albatros. i still cant really decide when & where their stories are set—it kind of all simultaneously takes place in the 1960s and the 1890s, either in paris or in the fictional city of kaiserstadt (which is itself the capital of a fictional country somewhere in central europe).

just like the setting is a mess, who actually makes up this group of ocs isnt super well defined either. i keep getting new ideas for characters, merging some together & making new ones, & changing their traits & backstories, so its kind of hard to make a neat list of them. but here are the main/most well-developed ones:

camille jacobson - the eccentric owner of the café (which, by the way, is named after a poem by charles baudelaire about how hard it is to be a poet)

franz wolf - a composer; mad, bad, & dangerous to know

friedrich weiss - an actor who’s haunted by his nazi past (in the 1960s version of the story)

leo freud - a writer who would immediately be cancelled on twitter if they lived in the modern day; friedrich’s wife; heavily based on me lmao

frieda weiss - friedrich’s twin sister with whom he has an incestuous relationship (its consensual! they love each other! but he IS married...); aspiring tradwife

pierre rudolf - a filmmaker & the manager of the théâtre bogatyr, which he rules with an iron fist; has the artistic style of wes anderson & the ethics of werner herzog

dr. brandenburg - pierre's long-suffering psychiatrist

isidro de azarola - a depressed artist with a lot of catholic guilt

louise oscar - a critic; isidro’s manic pixie dream girl who writes mean reviews of his art

pretty much all of them are bi for maximum romantic drama purposes, and many are trans/nb.

so thats them! that is, as much as its possible to coherently describe this as yet very disorganized mess. i want to write a series of short stories about all of them eventually, mostly standalone but not entirely; so far the only ones ive written anything about are friedrich, frieda, & leo.