𝖑𝖎𝖋𝖊 𝖎𝖘 𝖌𝖔𝖔𝖉, 𝖑𝖎𝖋𝖊 𝖎𝖘 𝖋𝖎𝖓𝖊, 𝖑𝖎𝖋𝖊 𝖎𝖘 𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖜𝖊 𝖑𝖔𝖆𝖙𝖍𝖊, 𝖎𝖙'𝖘 𝖘𝖔 𝖚𝖓𝖐𝖎𝖓𝖉

[vampirkaninchen]

𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖙𝖊𝖊𝖓 ⋆ 𝖈𝖞𝖓𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖆 𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖊𝖇𝖔𝖑𝖆

⋆ 𝖘𝖔𝖓𝖌𝖇𝖎𝖗𝖉 ⋆

𝖇𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖊𝖓 𝖌𝖔𝖑𝖉 & 𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖑𝖊𝖖𝖚𝖎𝖓 𝖒𝖆𝖘𝖐

𝖇𝖎𝖔

“𝖘𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖙𝖔 𝖒𝖊 𝖆 𝖘𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖇𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖊, 𝖆 𝖘𝖚𝖓𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖊, 𝖆 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖒”

tréphine has died a hundred times - beautifully, tragically, violently, triumphantly. Even in her father’s rambunctious comedies, all women do is marry or die. Tréphine, offspring to colombelle’s playhouse’s resident playwright and his once-great leading actress, plans on doing neither. Being reared amongst a troupe of thespians and trouble-makers has done little to help turn her into a marriagable girl- not that she's complaining exactly. She’d much rather spend her time drinking, dancing, or spinning tales and smoking opium under a starry sky with her devoted friends joévin, mavolio, and noan. In fact, while tréphine is a very gifted singer and is often invited to perform at grand parties in the glass manors outside of the village - a drag, but good money - it is her boundless imagination that she prizes above all else. She sometimes performs privately for the cuntess or the widower colombe, who even offered to keep her on retainer in his home, to sing to his new wife whenever she liked. But tréphine refused him for the stodginess of those people- she knew it wasn't something she could handle, rolicking good-timer that she customarily was. And besides, she’d much rather be writing the plays she and her friends perform on stage - maybe then she wouldn’t have to die as much, and she’d finally get to do something exciting, like slay a dragon or rescue a prince. When her father was invited to direct at the theatre in aerohead, tréphine had hoped her chance had come, but instead the theatre sent a boorish, arrogant youngster who is bent on scandalising colombelle with his new, decadent play - and tréphine as his dark seductress. Rehearsals have been more taxing and hot-tempered. More than anything, tréphine longs to write her own ending.

𝖈𝖚𝖗𝖗𝖊𝖓𝖙

𝖋𝖆𝖓𝖈𝖎𝖊𝖘 Her hellequins, the troupe, dreaming up exciting stories, fancy words {balderdash! saturnine! aurora! lachrymose! coruscate! empyrean!}, the floorboards of the stage, smoking opium with her boys, fairy lights, a starry sky, being the heroine of her own stories, singing {mostly}, dancing, cool words {evanescent! scaramouche! orgulous!}, stage combat, town fêtes, gambling, dares, chasing storm doves, firelight, and more words {perfidious! sempiternal! tenebrous!}

𝖆𝖇𝖍𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖘 Oh! That pompous, lousy, scrimshanking scribe Hédouin! Also; dying on stage, having few or no lines, playing a damsel, fake-fainting prettily, those stuffy grand houses, the repertoire of songs she may sing {they’re all about maidens & love & innocence, never songs about drink or dragons…}

𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖘 To become a celebrated playwright, to dazzle audiences with tales of heroism, desire, redemption, passion, and violence, to play a fearsome, blood-soaked dragon-slaying heroine in a play she wrote herself {and to great acclaim}, to write a truly scary role for Noan & a tragic anti-hero for Jin, to always hang out with her boys

𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖊𝖘 That one of these days, she’ll tear the head off of that obnoxious Hédouin, that in twisting her into the femme fatale of his play, she’ll lose a part of herself, that everyone seems to want to marry her off, that Jin seems to actually like the terrible scribe, that she’ll never be a playwright in her own right

𝖗𝖚𝖒𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖘 that she and her hellequins have celebrated orgies together or do all sorts of odd things when under the influence of opium, that she and Jin are lovers {or was that her and Mavolio?}

𝖙𝖞𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖑𝖘

𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖉𝖗𝖔𝖇𝖊 By definition, Tréphine wears many costumes, but the Colombelles playhouse isn’t exactly a well-funded one, and so that effectively boils down to five dresses that Theda has to patch every two weeks. While she’d much rather wear breeches and boots, Tréphine usually appears in decent, feminine gowns adorned with lace. In her free time, she prefers bare legs and feet to a proper dress, and her scratched knees have often scandalised the townsfolk.

𝖘𝖈𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖘 Sawdust, stage blood, orange blossoms, and white poppies {out of which opium is distilled}

𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖊𝖘 𝖒𝖔𝖘𝖙 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊𝖑𝖞 𝖙𝖔 𝖇𝖊 𝖋𝖔𝖚𝖓𝖉 When it’s not the theatre stage, bar, or dressing rooms, Tréphine and her boys hang out in a crumbling chapel ruin downriver, where they’ll light fires, tell tales, smoke, and watch fireflies all night

𝖕𝖊𝖔𝖕𝖑𝖊 𝖒𝖔𝖘𝖙 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊𝖑𝖞 𝖙𝖔 𝖇𝖊 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 That will be the trio infernale, Jin, Noan, and Mavolio - across the islands, the four are known as good-timing troublemakers & have earned the nickname ‘hellequins’. They grew up together in the theatre, the only real place for misfits to go on the island, and they’re one another’s family.

𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖘𝖙 𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖎𝖙 Imagination. Tréphine loves nothing better than to spin stories about lost princesses in strange lands, court intrigues, murder in the night, secret love, sweet betrayals, magical creatures, and pretty much everything that life on collombelles lacks. The boys always hang on her every word, because they know Tréphine’s stories are much better than the traditional ones they get to play on stage…

𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖒𝖘 As the only young female actress of the troupe, Tréphine has over the years perfected her repertoire of pretty dances, swoons, sighs, dopey smiles, elegant hand gestures, delicate faints, embracing the hero (aka Jin), and dying beautifully. Especially dying beautifully. For a party trick, she can sing about twenty different songs about maidenly love, longing, flowers in meadows, and folklore {as long as it’s boring}. Offstage, Tréphine is much more tomboyish, direct, and sanguine. She likes a good drinking song, balancing across old ruins while high, and perfecting her stage combat with the boys {even though she never gets to wield a sword on stage}.

𝖔𝖈𝖈𝖚𝖕𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖘 Storytelling, drinking, singing, smoking, stargazing, dancing, gambling.

𝖘𝖚𝖕𝖕𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖈𝖆𝖘𝖙

𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖍𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖖𝖚𝖎𝖓𝖘

𝕵𝖔𝖊𝖛𝖎𝖓 𝕽𝖚𝖇𝖎𝖔 {twenty-two} Tall, charismatic Joévin has turned many a maiden’s head, not least because he’s usually cast as the rugged, handsome hero. Secretly, however, the sardonic young man has a proclivity for morbid poetry and rosy-faced shepherd boys. Many think he’s the leader of the hellequins, but actually it’s Tréphine who is very firmly in charge. In her stories at least, Jin can cast himself as a dastardly villain or tragic rogue - the role he really wants to play. [jon kortajarena]

𝕹𝖔𝖆𝖓 𝕱𝖗𝖊𝖞 {eighteen} Little Noan is commonly voted most likely to agree to stupidly dangerous dares and drinking games, usually following Tréphine. He wants nothing more than to play tricksters and goblins and fearsome dragons - but in reality, he’s more often called to play Jin’s sidekick or the second female role, or both. Sweet, excitable, and a little lost, he turns to Tréphine as a big sister. [stevo trann]

𝕸𝖆𝖛𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖔 𝕭𝖊𝖗𝖙𝖆𝖓 {twenty} Laid-back poet soul and musician Mavolio is often deemed the most presentable of the bunch {if only he’d tame his hair…} and sometimes accompanies Tréphine musically on her singing side-business. He enjoys smoking and smudging poetry all over his arm, and rules the playhouse musicians with an iron fist. [willy cartier]

𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖕𝖑𝖆𝖞𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊

𝕿𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖛𝖊 𝕷𝖊𝖋𝖆𝖓𝖙 {forty-two} Resident playwright who is much loved by his troupe of thespians. He supplies traditional tales of lost love, folk magic, merry mistakes, and courage triumphant. If these stories occasionally feel a little stale and familiar, who’s to complain? Treave knows the residents of Colombelles appreciate the classics. A few weeks ago, he was offered a residency at aerohead theatre and has seized the opportunity to dazzle a new crowd. Leaving with his wife and two assistants, he’s left the playhouse to the youngsters - and a much-lauded upstart talent, Hédouin. [javier bardem]

𝕺𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖎𝖆 𝕷𝖊𝖋𝖆𝖓𝖙t {thirty-nine} In her prime, Onesia was the leading actress of aerohead theatre, and could have become famous had she not chosen instead to marry a poor but decent scribe. She has taught Tréphine all she knows and ceded the position of female lead to her daughter when she turned fifteen. Since then, Onesia has played mothers, witches, and crones, and has found a constant source of enjoyment in it. She says had she known how much fun it would be, she’d have never played anything but a witch! [charlotte riley]

𝕿𝖍𝖊𝖉𝖆 𝕲𝖑𝖞𝖓𝖓 A childhood friend of Onesia, Theda has been head seamstress for twenty years. This being a run-down little playhouse, Theda is also in charge of scenery, props - and recently, the entire troupe. As resident mother hen, she’s the only one who may reign in the youngsters. [miranda richardson]

𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖓𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖘𝖎𝖘

𝕽𝖎𝖜𝖆𝖓 𝕳𝖊𝖉𝖔𝖚𝖎𝖓 {twenty-four} Hédouin is a prodigy - at least that’s what aerohead critics said about his salacious tales of love, art, delusion, violence, and doom. When in his last play, a megalomaniac emperor smothered his enemies in a hundred thousand rose petals, the audience applauded for fifteen minutes straight. But somehow, somewhere, young Riwan has crossed a line, and now he’s here in this godsforsaken backwater. Joévin seems to appreciate his tendency toward the macabre and the delusional, but his leading actress just won’t be moulded into the wily temptress he needs her to be. [matthew goode]

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