#thunder threnodies

[the-silvered-pirate]

Hello there! Welcome aboard!

I'm Franz (they/them) and this is my Fallen London blog, dedicated mostly to my main OC! Personal blog is @franz-dargor, I'll follow from there! Name changed from thunder-threnodies (it's still the tag for my content)

DMs are welcome, just be patient I forget/get overwhelmed easily.

Character(s) under the cut!

Francis James "Dargor" Morgan, the Silvered Pirate.

Age: 61;

Pronouns: They/Them;

Ambition: Nemesis (Fallen London completed); Seven Against Nidha (Sunless Sea, completed);

Profession(s): Silverer/Pirate Captain;

Morgan (never used their first name for very good reasons) came to the Neath in 1867, aged 25 after escaping an attempted murder and a mutiny. It was a trap set for them, since their Father (Edward James Morgan) refused to join the Sequence, so they killed the Father and set someone on Morgan (Jr.) trails too, just in case the Son proved to be opposed to the Sequence as strongly as the Father.

But almost half the crew, very young and very passionate, were on Morgan's side and around Cape Horn where the trap sprang, they fought valiantly and managed to scramble back to London.

Or so the crew thought.

Instead they found nothing but the sinkhole where London USED TO be. Desperate and furious they plunged the Dreaming Shores (their ship) into the sinkhole ending up in Fallen London.

There Morgan started a quest to find what happened to their Father and ended up crossing paths with the Seven Against Nidha (Ambition completed from Sunless Sea, canon) and Mr. Cups.

Once face to face with Cups, they refused to Bring Eleonor (their beloved) back and instead gave Cups to the Dreams of the Dead so that no one will be sent to a meaningless quest for revenge anymore.

Nowadays you can find them on board of their ship, the Requiem or in their office at the P, C&G Inc. where they offer different types of unconventional murder or reshaping of the Self and trying to circumvent the "Gift" Stone gave them of a heart of light that keeps them alive, making Morgan truly immortal.

[the-silvered-pirate]

Why not, hit me

oc asks: not-so-nice edition

alone: How does your OC deal with loneliness? Have they ever been completely alone before? How do they act when there's no one around to see them?

betrayal: Has your OC ever been betrayed by someone they thought they could trust? Has your OC ever betrayed someone who trusted them?

bound: Has your OC ever been imprisoned or captured? What happened? How did they get out? Did the experience leave any scars?

break: What would cause your OC to break down completely? What do they look like when that happens? Has anyone ever seen them at their lowest?

desire: What's one thing your OC wants more than anything in the world? Are they open with that desire? Why or why not? What would they do to fulfill it?

failure: What's your OC's greatest failure? Have they been able to move past it? Does anyone else know about it?

fear: What is your OC's greatest fear? What do they do when confronted with it? Are they open with their fear, or do they hide it away?

future: What's the worst possible future for your OC? Are they taking steps to avoid that outcome? Are they even aware it's a possibility?

ghost: Who or what haunts your OC? What happened? How do they live with their ghosts?

guilt: What is your OC guilty about? How do they handle their guilt? Do they try to avoid guilt, or do they accept it?

hate: What does your OC hate? Why? How do they act towards the object of their hatred?

heartbreak: Have they ever had a relationship that ended badly? Experienced some other kind of heartbreak? What happened?

hide: What does your OC hide? Why do they hide it?

hunt: Who or what is your OC hunted by? A person, a feeling, a past mistake? Is your OC able to let their guard down, or are they constantly alert?

mask: Does your OC wear a mask, literally or figuratively? What goes on beneath it? Is there anyone in their life who gets to see who they are under the mask?

midnight: What keeps your OC up at night? Do they have nightmares? Fears? Anxieties? What do they do in the small hours of the morning when they should be sleeping?

mistake: What's the worst mistake your OC ever made? What led to them making it? Have they been able to fix it? How have they moved on?

monster: Is your OC monstrous in any way? Is there something that makes them monstrous? Are they aware of their own monstrosity? Do they accept it or reject it?

nightmare: What does your OC have nightmares about? How do they deal with their nightmares? Do they tell people, or keep it to themself?

pain: What's the worst pain your OC has ever felt? Do they have a high pain tolerance?

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

skin: How comfortable is your OC in their skin? Do they grapple with anything that lives inside them—a beast, a curse, a failure, a monster? How do they face the smallest, weakest, most horrible version of themself? Are they able to acknowledge it at all?

torture: Has your OC ever been tortured? Would your OC ever torture someone else?

wound: How does your OC handle being wounded? Are their wounds mostly physical? Mental? Emotional? What's the worst wound your OC has ever experienced?

[the-silvered-pirate]

Mmmmh.... This Twitchy looks good but it feels... It feels like Twitchy needs some company, don't you think?

MUCH BETTER!

[violant-apologia]

the FL MtG cards are here!

this is like my fourth batch, but i haven't posted any of the previous ones, so let me show off some of the cards from all the batches!

briar and his three mr stoneses! these are the face commanders of the deck. there are alternate commanders that you'll see later, but this is the pair that i like using the most often.

more masters! (and bazaar-aligned entities). all the masters in the deck are vampires, and they also all have the seal of the bazaar as a watermark. just a neat bit of visual clarity, i think!

ocs! incuding mine. not all of them will be able to make it into the deck proper (for deck size and colour identity reasons) but i'm still so happy to have them all.

basic lands: seven of each. these gave me so much hassle back when i made them, but i think they turned out well!!! apart from the edge mountains which are like 70% black.

more lands! a triplet of creatureland which i feel work very well. the rest of them are neat too. whenever i say i have an underground sea proxy in the deck, people give me a Look, but how could i not! it's a perfect fit.

dfcs! the frames of these all had to be done by hand, which always took a while. i still think they turned out incredibly well, all things considered.

more creatures!! some legendary, some not. i made the decision pretty early that if i represent a named character with a nonlegendary card, i'd just cut the "the" from the name (see sallow spirifer and voracious diplomat). i think it works!

and noncreatures!! there's a vague treasure theme in the deck (as can be seen in the fall of london, revel in riches and spirifage (as well as a lot of the creatures)) but honestly most of the cards are flavour picks. still, artificial evolution has gotten me out of some jams. fun card!

aaaand tokens! which is everything. i reckon when i play this deck properly, i'll report back any fun scrapes that anyone's characters get into. like getting turned into a bug, or killing the god of death.

again, thank everyone who contributed OCs or art to this project. i'm very happy to have so many flumblr characters appear in the deck. all of the cards have art credits on them, but some probably aren't visible in the photos. so for proper credits (and as a ping list) i've included a list below the cut:

@alexis-royce: The Ex-Disgraced Academic; Mr Pages; Mr Stones (x2); New Blood. @anomalouscorvid: Darcy, the Appalling Artist; Furnace Ancona; Mr Transport; May, the Merry Gentleman; The Seventh Coil. @capn-twitchery: Captain Twitchery Lazaret. @ciriparipa: Mr Sacks. @dualclock: Oswald, the Decadent Parvenu. elena-illustration: M. Melchor. @esteemed-excellency: Haunted One; Hiram Hargrave. @feivelynart: Black Ribbon Duellist; The Carnelian Exile; The Grand Geode; London Ascends to the Stars; Thopter Token; Voracious Diplomat. u/Galvatyr: Poor Edward. @hells-dear-heart: Isidore Carter. @letters-of-fire: Boots the Cat; Giorgione, Crooked-Cross. @madame-butterfly-knife: Inessa Fonseca, Lyon. @milleart: Snuffer. @mledoesart: Mr Eaten. @oneirotecture: Warden, Scarred Silverer. @pinchbees: Merry Darthfellow. Sarah Warrington: Orsino Elderwood. @shazzbaa: Griz, the Efficient Commissioner; Mr Fires; Stargaze; Tragic Slip; Virginia, Lord Mayor of London. @sorrow2art: Cardiac Echoes, Spymaster. StagyTryout: The Avid Horizon @sunlessveils: Parabolan Kitten. @tears-n-tarot: Charlie and Artemis Burnet-Lin. @the-insouciant-scientist: Briar Hathaway, the Apologist; Mr Stones; Noman. @the-masterless-press: Betty Horvat, Pugilist. @the-noted-collector: Endemannus Korabl'nikov. @thedeafprophet: Harper Faraday. @thegreatyin: The Bandaged Scoundrel. @thunder-threnodies: Captain Francis Morgan Dargor. @torturingpeople: Edison, the Sybaritic Laureate; The Tender Pathologist. @velvetlinedbox: Doe, Waterlogged Detective. @viric-dreams: The Boil of Calamities; Drown in Dreams; Horiatio Digby; The Six Finger'd Scrimshander. @waterlogged-detective: Brett Heroux, Dandy Detective; Marian, Prickly Bluejacket; Namkuzu, Avaricious Meddler. @yuuuyang: Sigil-Ridden Navigator; Storm, God of the Roof; The Woods in Winter. @zeebreezin: August Shaw, the Black Rook.

and @failbettergames: Arcane Signet; Artificial Evolution; Beseech the Queen; Betty Horvat, Pugilist (bg); Black Market; Blood Token; The Cave of the Nadir; Censor; The Chapel of Lights; Clothes-Colony; Clue Token; Copy Token; Darkness; The Dawn Machine; Dreamscape Artist; The Echo Bazaar; The Fall of London; Flood of Tears; Food Token; Hecuba, Doomed Obliterator; Hideaway; Hillchanger Tower; The Horticultural Show; The House of Chimes; The Implacable Detective; Inessa Fonseca, Lyon (bg); The Irrepressible Heiress; Island (x7); Jack-of-Smiles; Khan's Heart; Laughable Reconstruction; Miniature Hellworm; Mountain (x7); The Mountain of Light; Mr Chimes; Perigee of Silver; The Prismatic Dowager; Probably a Coincidence; Revel in Riches; Rise and Shine; Road // Ruin; Sallow Spirifer; Salt, God of the East; The Scuttering Company; Shapeshifter Token; Spider-Council; Spirifage; Stone, God of the South; Swamp (x7); Treasure Token (x2); Underground Sea; Venderbight.

[the-silvered-pirate]

HAPPY IDES OF MARCH!

KNIFEGATE BE UPON YE!

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all of tumblr tomorrow, march 15th:

[the-silvered-pirate]

You now have

the Attentions of the Zee Gods;

- Storm's Attention:

- Stone's Attention:

- Salt's Attention:

Fallen London Morgan finally has caught up with Sunless Sea Morgan!!! 😭

Not really they still needs getting Dawnburnt and then Fallen London Morgan will be the perfect continuation of Sunless Sea Morgan 😏

[waterlogged-detective]

Part one of me stealing ocs for expression practice!! Everyone’s tags under cut in order💕

@thunder-threnodies , @peliginspeaks , @capn-twitchery , @zeebreezin , @the-dye-stained-socialite

[psychopurr]

✦ RAIDEN SHOGUN ID PACK 🌌

pt: raiden shogun id pack. end pt.

requested by anon.

NAMES: alcyone, alouette, amaris, anora, aveline, eden, elira, euphrosyne, evadne, leocadia, lior, lucienne, lunaria, lunette, ondine, ravelle, rené, reverie, selene, sepulchra, seraph, seraphine, serenade, solace, stellan, storm, thalienne, threnody, vainglory, vanagloria, vesper, vesperine, vestige, virelai, zorya

PRONOUNS: arc/arcane, arc/arcs, blade/blades, cel/celestial, dre/dream, dream/dreams, dusk/dusks, echo/echoes, et/eternal, glo/glory, lav/lavender, pu/puppet, puppet/puppets, pur/purple, purple/purples, storm/storms, voi/voids, void/voids, wisp/wisps,⚡/⚡s, 🌸/🌸s, 🗻/🗻s

TITLES: the silent sovereign, the thunder-wrought one, the keeper of stillness, the doll god, the eternal bloom, one who seeks true eternity, one who casts lightning without mercy, one who rose from the silence, prn who stands beyond time, prn who dreams in stillness, prn who cannot erode

[the-silvered-pirate]

The Red Honey, brewed from the dream of the last happy day I shared with Eleonor before SOMEONE got her killed. A little goodbye present for my best rival/friend That Giorgione, to soothe his longing for bygone days and a lost love, when I'll go East and shatter my Mirror in seven pieces and finally be free.

[that-giorgione]

Posting OC cameos vs what they actually look like in art or picrew! (all cameos can be found here on the wiki)

tagged by @viric-dreams and @esteemed-excellency

Giorgione

(art by the wonderful @letters-of-fire)

that's it. One oc, that's all you get-

Tagging @thunder-threnodies!

[warabola]

@thunder-threnodies Felt like this definitely deserved its own post. I absolutely agree, and there is some precedent for it in how the Oneirotects help the Great Game spies develop and fortify their "mind palace", presumably referring to the method for memorization through visualization.

Though with the existence of Midnighters and the Great Game canonically using Irrigo and other methods to also alter memories that might otherwise keep their agents from completing their work, I think the two could imply that Silverers could influence more active alterations to the minds of sleepers.

After all, we see the public consensus being swayed in Parabola, when war is being waged. (I don't have the screenshot, but specifically: Provide A Distaction in the Fallen London theater, where the dreams of London's populace are tied to strength in Parabola).

And it especially seems possible when you consider the overlap between different professions, namely the more abstract capabilities of Schismatic Crooked Crosses in particular:

There is quite obviously a manipulable self, and it is definitely tied to Parabola. The Crooked Cross seems to also have some knowledge of this, if not the same scope that Silverers understand Parabola, with even the Beatificator working in the Waswood for their tasks. Meanwhile the Fractionist Licentiate seems to work on the more physical side to manipulate the same.

I love the implications of the self in Fallen London.

[t6fs]

4 and 18 for the Scrimshander, my best belved of all times?

Captain Francis Morgan Dargor ( @thunder-threnodies)

4. The scrimshander can in fact ride a horse, and pretty well, although it tends to make horses very nervous, which can add some unforseen layers of challenge. Its less skilled at riding a bike, but it can do it; it limbs are just a bit too long to make it comfortable. It can drive a coach, but again, it tends to scare the horses, so it really shouldn't, unless you don't mind getting where you're going at a frantic gallop.

18. This one got answered here!

[the-silvered-pirate]

sincewe were discussing it, this is EXACTLY what I meant while writing the Silvered Future for the Captain- @esteemed-excellency

The divine right of kings but it's a curse

[anomalouscorvid]

4 and 18 for the Silly Ask Game? 👀

Dealer's choice 👍

Captain Morgan Dargor (@thunder-threnodies)

(ask game)

i'll answer these for carrie !

4 (Can your OC ride a bike? A horse? Drive a coach?) - well, first, the most pressing fact: carrie couldn't drive a carriage... for reasons you'll see below. in terms of smaller vehicles, she's Very Uncertain about any kind of velocipede right now. but she does ride a motorcycle in the neon future! also i think she'd be okay with cars. maybe.

her animal-riding skills are fairly basic but passable. obviously she can steer the winged-and-taloned steed, but a lot of that comes from being nearly at one with it. also most of what she physically does mid-air comes down to just clinging to it for dear life... shes still working things out

18 (What is your OC's biggest irrational fear? Do they know its irrational?) - horses. other ungulates, too. incredibly threatening creatures, it's such a rational fear, she doesnt understand how anyone could feel safe around those hooves

[the-silvered-pirate]

BREAKING NEWS!

THE TRUTH BEHIND MORGAN FRANCIS DARGOR FINALLY REVEALED!

[waterlogged-detective]

Fancy lil' Captain Dargor for @thunder-threnodies