BCW - Character Gazetteer
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				Title: <strong>BCW - Character Gazetteer</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Niferbelle</strong> on <strong>05-07-2013, 19:43:05</strong>
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				Welcome to Berlin - City of Whores. This is the character template we would like you to use. Hopefully it will be fairly self-explanatory but feel free to PM me if you have any questions about it. Once we have a look at your character and you’re satisfied with it I’ll post it here in this thread. We’ll use the same procedure for any additional characters you create as well. Looking forward to seeing your creations!<br><br><div class="codeheader">Code: <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return smfSelectText(this);" class="codeoperation">[Select]</a></div><pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0;"><code class="bbc_code">[b]PLAYER NAME:[/B]<br>[B]CHARACTER NAME:[/B]<br>[B]AGE:[/B]<br>[B]PROFESSION:[/B]<br>[b]COUNTRY OF BIRTH:[/B]<br><br>[B]APPEARANCE:[/B] <br><br>[b]PERSONALITY IN A NUTSHELL:[/b]<br><br>[B]PERSONAL HISTORY:[/B] <br><br>[b]GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS:[/B] <br><br>[B]IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND PLACES:[/B]&nbsp; </code></pre> <br><br>A few notes...<br><br><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong> (You can include a picture if you like)<br><strong>PERSONAL HISTORY:</strong> (You don't have to write a novel but a good-sized paragraph or two would be appreciated. If your character is not from Berlin, please include a bit about how they came to be here. )<br><strong>GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS:</strong> (What does your character want out of life?)<br><strong>IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND PLACES:</strong>&nbsp; (Please list here any people or places with which you feel your character would be interacting <em>frequently</em>...such as a family member, a small restaurant of some importance to them, a place you work out of, etc...that will help the GMs in putting together the setting.)<br><br>The name on each character sheet in this thread will be a link to that character's RP thread. This will help you avoid having to bookmark every single character's thread.
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				Title: <strong>Re: BCW - Character Gazetteer</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Niferbelle</strong> on <strong>05-07-2013, 23:29:26</strong>
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				<strong>PLAYER NAME:</strong> Niferbelle<br><strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong> Lieselotte Amsel aka Maria Pilar<br><strong>AGE:</strong> early to mid twenties<br><strong>PROFESSION:</strong> Table Lady<br><strong>COUNTRY OF BIRTH:</strong> Germany<br><div class="floatright">(http://i627.photobucket.com/albums/tt357/Niferbelle/berlin11_zps6c4c6298.jpg)</div><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong> Liesel has fashioned herself the perfect 1920s beauty, her dark hair cut in a bob with meticulous fingerwaves and her large dark played up right down to the last impossibly long lash. Her face is delicate and heart-shaped with the cupid bow lips so much sought after. Her clothing is elegant and alluring, high quality in keeping with the expectations of her clientele. Her eyes have all the twinkle you'd expect from a party girl when she's on but in unguarded moments can turn hard as cold stone. She stands at 5'3", her legs proportionally long for her height, and slender though with a bit more in her bosom that is considered trendy, not that her clients seem to mind. In keeping with her persona she does try to dress with a hint of a Spanish flair but not at the expense of remaining fashionable.<br><br><strong>PERSONALITY IN A NUTSHELL:</strong> To her clients, Maria Pilar is anything her clients want to her to be – charming and vivacious, brooding and mysterious, aloof and challenging – she has become an expert at reading what her clients want and delivering. Lieselotte however is older than her years and she’s made herself hard. She’s rather competitive with the other girls in the club for the best clients however she also has a reputation for being good at sorting out messes for other girls and even staff and so many go to her with their troubles. Her help often comes with a price, however, and at this point she is owed favors by a great many people in the club. In general she’s not looking to make anybody’s life any harder, to a certain extent of the mind that whores have to stick together, but she’s o sucker and wouldn’t be likely to do anything that might be a detriment to her. <br><br><strong>PERSONAL HISTORY:</strong> Lieselotte Amstel was born to working class parents, the exact sort of family it hardest in the economic collapse. The oldest of several children, from a young age everyone spoke of her potential. She was a pretty girl who always did well in school and had a certain amount of precocious charm. Of course, these things mean little if you’re not putting food on the table so Lieselotte was pulled out of school and sent to work in a factory, something she never forgave. By the time she was fourteen she’d had enough and ran off to Berlin where there was really only way she ever going to support herself. Lieselotte never speaks of those early years in Berlin but she has since emerged as a popular table lady at the Der Wildegarten where she is known to the clients as Maria Pilar, fallen daughter of a Spanish aristocrat. She takes her position there very seriously, understanding just how bad it can be on the streets, and reads voraciously to educate herself on a wide-range of subjects in which she can be conversational for her clients. Her mother having been English and having a Spanish grandmother that lived with the family, Lieselotte speaks English and Spanish fluently in addition to her native German.<br><br><strong>GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS:</strong> There was a time when Lieselotte was just looking to charm <em>the one</em> -- <em>the one</em> that would take her away from all this to a comfortable new life far away and rescue her from her circumstances. That is the dream of a girl however and not of a woman who's earned her cynicism and knows better than to wait for someone to rescue you. She now saves all the money she can for the rather nebulous dream of someday taking herself away from Berlin to someplace warm where perhaps she could open up a little shop and live her later years in peace.<br><br><strong>IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND PLACES:</strong>&nbsp; Der Wildegarten (The Wild Garden) private club<br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: BCW - Character Gazetteer</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Niferbelle</strong> on <strong>06-07-2013, 01:30:33</strong>
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				<div class="floatright">(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DNi8h-JRIEU/TbqEXjXZHfI/AAAAAAAAK7E/qI_lGs8F6Z0/s1600/mens_long_hairstyle_2011_pictures_1.jpg)</div><strong>PLAYER NAME:</strong> Jezabelle<br><strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong> Caron Banes (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=178814.0)<br><strong>AGE:</strong> 27<br><strong>PROFESSION:</strong> Novelist<br><strong>COUNTRY OF BIRTH:</strong> Cardiff, Wales - UK<br><br><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong> ---&gt;<br><br><strong>PERSONALITY IN A NUTSHELL:</strong> <br>Caron is a quiet man in public and a boisterous one in public; his tendency towards empathy leaves him ever trying to imagine how another must feel, and thus he reserves judgement of others in most instances. In public social environments he tends to listen and observe more than anything else, and tends to become a person who knows more than he lets on.<br><br><strong>PERSONAL HISTORY:</strong> <br>Growing up in Cardiff, Wales, Caron Banes learned two things by the time he was eighteen: he wanted to spend the rest of his life writing and getting laid, and that one of those would be easier than the other. Going on to become a real <em>Oggsford </em>man, he found himself increasingly questioning his sexuality. Social moors dedicated a hetero-normative existence, but that simply wasn't enough for Mr. Banes; he wanted to let go and feel that he was not, indeed, the one in control and under the yoke of responsibility. Furthermore, he found his colleagues continually more interesting in decidedly unacceptable ways.<br><br>Thus when he graduated, Caron went where he thought he could be freer-- London. Of course, it wasn't everything he wanted, but it was much better. He made rent and food money by writing ostentatious pieces for daily papers, using his education and gift with rhetoric to write in a pandering way to the proletariat that would come off as supremely intellectual, but was a sham to anyone else. When he had the extra money, after a few years he'd learned the right places and people to know where he could find women who would give him what he wanted: a loss of control. Their services came with a fee, however, and he was still short on money. But when he could not go to them he wrote of them, in private, and eventually he had a whole manuscript. Moving in the circles he did to find Dominatrixes, he also met those with the right connections to publish it: suddenly he was everyone's best friend and favorite customer, and his ribald second volume was met with even more success. Being, of course, smut and pornographic to even mention such things, it had limited circulation-- but it did Caron well enough that when the Golden 20's came around and as he felt he'd outgrown the relatively inadequate homosexual and S&amp;M outlets in London compared to Berlin he knew where he had to go to overcome his writers block.<br><br>Thus he moved out of his apartment, sold his furniture, and booked passage to Berlin with half the money he had in the bank with him. Arriving in Friedrichstadt and finding a hotel on the water he quickly arranged a more or less permanent stay in one of the nicer single bed rooms there: all the stories said Friedrichstadt was where the "real action" was, after all, so where else should he be?<br><br><br><strong>GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS:</strong> <br>Caron wants to find a woman (or man) who he can have real romance with, but he cannot make himself commit; he also wants to finish his third novel and see it reach a greater level of success, not only monetarily but as something more than smut.<br><br><strong>IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND PLACES:</strong> <br>Hotel Holsteinisches Haus -- his residence, as ostentatious as the articles he wrote to buy bread years earlier.<br>Café Kreuzberg-- his favourite spot for ice cream or coffee, they have a nice roof terrace besides.<br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: BCW - Character Gazetteer</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Niferbelle</strong> on <strong>06-07-2013, 02:42:12</strong>
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				<strong>PLAYER NAME:</strong> Lord Mayerling<br><strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong> Maxwell Langdon (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=178815.0)<br><strong>AGE:</strong> Mid thirties<br><strong>PROFESSION:</strong> Journalist<br><strong>COUNTRY OF BIRTH:</strong> United States<br><div class="floatright">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/7c/Maxlangdon.jpg)</div><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong> Typically American in demeanor and outlook, Max typically has an expression of optimism mixed with opportunism on his face. His hair is dark and combed back from his face his forehead has distinctive creases from his expressive brown eyes and thick brown eyebrows. Like most Americans he shaves his face clean. He prefers an informal tweed sport coat and fedora to a tailored suit, but he’s not afraid to wear a tuxedo from time-to-time to make an appearance or gain a scoop. He smokes incessantly, and speaks French and German fluently. <br><br><strong>PERSONALITY IN A NUTSHELL:</strong> Also typically American, Max has an optimistic personality. He’s gregarious and friendly, keeping him easy to approach and trust. He’s curious but skeptical by nature, but always willing to hear a story. Entrenched in capitalism, he thinks everything has its price, and all problems can be negotiated to a fruitful end for both parties. He’s not a big patron of the arts, but he’s fallen in love with Berlin’s care-free and easy-going nightlife. He knows his dollars are valuable, and that money can buy anything. <br><br><strong>PERSONAL HISTORY:</strong> Max was born in Akron, Ohio, and got his first job working for the Akron Sentinel when he was 12 years old as a street hawk. He was never much interested in school, but he loved the news business. Eventually he became a beat writer for the Sentinel. When times got rough the Sentinel he joined the Indianapolis Star just in time for the first Roosevelt Administration. He worked as a political correspondent, and moved to Washington. Eventually the chief editor of the Detroit Free Press noticed his work, and Langdon leapt at the chance to be in one of the country’s widest circulating dailies. After some time covering local politics, in 1914 Langdon was made a foreign correspondent in the paper’s Paris bureau. Dark fortune smiled on him again when war broke out in August, and he found himself on the front lines of the most horrific war the world had ever seen. In 1919 Max moved to the Berlin bureau, where he’s been attached ever since. He’s still active with his paper, and is currently writing a memoir of his experiences in Weimar Berlin that he hopes to publish back in the States. With any luck it’ll make enough money that he can retire comfortably.<br><br><strong>GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS:</strong> Max hopes to hit it big by writing a book about Weimar Berlin. He’s never had much of an inkling to settle down, but it’s not beyond him if he found the right kinda girl. He likes a good drink, fast cars, and a good cigar now and then. Max enjoys the life he has, and he enjoys living it. Mostly, Max enjoys making and spending money.<br><br><strong>IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND PLACES:</strong> Max spends a lot of time with the Berlin Press Corps. The central office is located downtown in Reinhardstrasse facing the River Spree, near the Reichstag. He lives nearby in a small four room flat in Friedrichstrasse. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: BCW - Character Gazetteer</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Niferbelle</strong> on <strong>06-07-2013, 19:08:14</strong>
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				<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/61/Alicia_Lisecki_2.jpg)</div><br><strong>PLAYER NAME:</strong> RedEve<br><strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong> Alicia Lisecki (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=178880.0)<br><strong>AGE:</strong> 22<br><strong>PROFESSION:</strong> Demi-castors<br><strong>COUNTRY OF BIRTH:</strong> Germany<br><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong> See photographs<br><br><strong>PERSONALITY IN A NUTSHELL:</strong> Alicia is a very curious individual, which is what got her started in the business. At first it started out as a lark to see what all the fuss was about, but she was surprised to find she was quite good at the job. Now her curiosity has been replaced with an eagerness to become the best, or as good as she can become. She is secretive when it comes to her activities to those not involved in the business herself. Her parents are not truly aware of what she gets up to when she leaves the house at night, which is probably for the best. <br><br><strong>PERSONAL HISTORY:</strong> She was born in a relatively well-off home. Her father inherited his own father’s share in a pottery factory, and it allowed them to live a luxurious life. Their income was further added to with her dad’s work as a general practitioner. As such, there probably wasn’t any need for Alicia to take up the work, not even when their money greatly devaluated. She has two younger siblings, a brother and a sister. <br><br><strong>GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS:</strong> Apart from the extra money it brings her, she wants the honor of being very good, of being considered one of the best at what she does. She has more than her beauty going for her, as her two years of working as a girl of pleasure have now given her a lot of experience and skill in satisfying her clients. <br><div class="floatright">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/9/9a/Alicia_Lisecki.jpg)</div><strong>IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND PLACES:</strong>&nbsp; <br>Friedrichstrasse: the location of her family home<br>Hannoverschestrasse: Die Weisse Amsel hotel, where she meets most of her clients
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				Title: <strong>Re: BCW - Character Gazetteer</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Niferbelle</strong> on <strong>06-07-2013, 19:21:49</strong>
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				<div class="floatright">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/2f/WW1_Russian_soldier.jpg)</div><strong>PLAYER NAME:</strong>&nbsp; Alex Stone<br><strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong> Ivan Ivanovich Sergetov (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=178881.0)<br><strong>AGE:</strong> 29 in 1923.&nbsp; <br><strong>PROFESSION:</strong> Bodyguard/Adventurer<br><strong>COUNTRY OF BIRTH:</strong> Rostov, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire&nbsp; <br><br><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong> (Picture to come.) A tall, broad shouldered former soldier with a bushy goatee that apes styles from before the war.&nbsp; Dresses in loose fitting, low end suits during the day, but has proper evening wear for a club or cabaret.&nbsp; Dark eyes that, when there's nothing else going on, alternate between a distant stare and an active scan over the area.&nbsp; His skin is aged and a little leathery, having spent too much time outside for his own good during the war.&nbsp; <br><br><strong>PERSONALITY IN A NUTSHELL:</strong> Stereotypical Russian demeanor that hides a idealistic adventurer's spirit, which two wars haven't smothered.&nbsp; <br><br><strong>PERSONAL HISTORY:</strong><br>He volunteered before he could be conscripted, in 1912, in order to fight for God and the Tsar.<br><br>Well, actually, he signed up to defend Orthodoxy from the Turk, never minding the fact that, since the 1700s, the Turks had needed saving more than the Russians.&nbsp; That, and the uniforms looked pretty neat, according to the girls down at the dance hall.&nbsp; He was going to get conscripted, so he went in on his own terms.&nbsp; He managed to make his way to a unit stationed down near Tbilisi in 1914, just as the Archduke died.&nbsp; When the Ottomans entered the war, he got his first taste of fighting blunting the disastrous- for them- Ottoman winter offensive in 1914.&nbsp; He got frostbite that winter, but got back to the front in 1915, then took a bullet in the chest during an assault.&nbsp; He survived 1916, but, when the Tsar abdicated, decided he wasn't going to fight for some worthless SR sonofabitch, and he ditched the army for a while to sign on with an Orthodox Armenian militia, who made him a platoon commander because of his experience.<br><br>It didn't take long for the Turks to maul that group, and shortly after that, Lenin tossed Kerensky out on his ass.&nbsp; Since the Bolsheviks were priest-killers, he had to stick around for a while longer, and he snuck out of Georgia to Odessa on a fishing ship to sign on with the growing Volunteer Army in early 1918.&nbsp; He bounced around the army a lot, but spent the bulk of the time as the leader of a shock platoon, when he wasn't in the rear area over some fool thing or another.&nbsp; 1919, of course, saw the high water mark of the Volunteers, but they never did reach Moscow.&nbsp; Sergetov survived the retreat back to the Crimea, and managed to get aboard one of the ships headed for Toulon.<br><br>They took his rifle- which he'd carried for nearly 8 years, but no one asked about the bag full of jewels he looted in Karkhov.&nbsp; <br><br>In the South of France, he sold his jewels for Francs, but discovered that both he would run short on money pretty soon, and there wasn't much to do down there once you got down to it.&nbsp; Most of the Russians with any means had moved to Paris, and the rough sorts like him had dispersed around.&nbsp; His buddy, Alexandr Vorchov, had moved to Berlin, where girls could be had for centime, the beer was good, and there were quite a few like him- and, if he wanted danger, he could find it and get a little extra cash.&nbsp; So, he packed up his clothes, wired his money forward,and got a dive flat for just about no real money.&nbsp; Alexandr got him a job as a part-time bodyguard for one of the local politicians- apparently, politics in Berlin was a rough sport- and Ivan decided to enjoy the place.&nbsp; He'd always been good with languages, and picked up the local German dialect pretty quickly, and that let him really enjoy himself.<br><br><strong>GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS:</strong> <br><br>Overthrow the Bolshevik regime and restore the Romanov Dynasty<br><br>Get mixed up in some sort of scheme or adventure while living cheaply in Berlin<br><br>Keep from getting bored by spending time with all the girls around town<br><br><strong>IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND PLACES:</strong>&nbsp; <br><br>Alexandr Vorchov, his army buddy and fellow troublemaker<br><br>Stefan Pressman, his patron in the <em>Deutche Volkspartei</em>, a good anti-Marxist party.<br><br>The Hermitage, a club for Russian anti-Bolshevik exiles.<br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: BCW - Character Gazetteer</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Niferbelle</strong> on <strong>07-07-2013, 22:41:39</strong>
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				<strong>PLAYER NAME:</strong> Lord Mayerling<br><strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong> Wilhelm Bohlm (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=178988.0)<br><strong>AGE:</strong> Late 40s<br><strong>PROFESSION:</strong> Politician<br><strong>COUNTRY OF BIRTH:</strong> Saxony, Germany<br><div class="floatright">(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1989-072-16%2C_Matthias_Erzberger.jpg)</div><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong> Bolhm has an intelligent charisma, and a determined gaze. With the addition of pince-nez his demeanor becomes patient yet formidable. He wears clothes typical of the capitalist bourgeoisie, collared shirt, vest, an long topcoat. He keeps his hair cut to the length officers were allowed to keep in the army when they weren’t serving on the front. <br><br><strong>PERSONALITY IN A NUTSHELL:</strong> Bohlm considers himself a humble public servant with Germany’s greater interests in mind. He’s a typical Socialist, concerned for the common working man and woman. Healthcare should be assured, unemployment insurance should help those on hard times, and everyone should have a vote in elections. Despite his protectionist leanings, he shuns Communism, and wishes Germany could be spared of the strikes and violence it seems to inherently bring. He also decries the machinations of foreigners into German politics. He sees the Versailles Treaty as exactly that, especially at it robbed Saxony of territory that was used to form the newly created Czechoslovakia. <br><br><strong>PERSONAL HISTORY:</strong> Already too old for the Saxon Army during the Great War, Bohlm was drafted into the Landwehr, a section of the army filled by older men that usually served an auxiliary role. Bohlm served in the Logistics and Railroad division of the army, working his way up from Dispatcher to Administrator. His greatest wartime feat was preventing a strike from the soldiers working on the Western Front in October 1918. He was first elected to the Reichstag in 1921 representing the <em>Mehrheitssozialdemokratische Partei (MSPD)</em>, the majority Socialist party in Germany. <br><br><strong>GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS:</strong> Bohlm believes that stability and prosperity in Germany can result from parliamentary action, must result from the elimination of Communism, and the support of a government-protected working class. He hopes to help foster these goals through continuing service in the Reichstag.<br><br><strong>IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND PLACES:</strong> Bohlm has a family in Dresden and travels commutes to Berlin while the Reichstag is in session. He lives at the Hotel Excelsior in the Friedrichstadt while in Berlin, and returns to Dresden on weekends and when the Reichstag is not in session. Bohlm has found a friend in Maxwell Langdon, an American journalist from the industrial city of Detroit. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: BCW - Character Gazetteer</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Niferbelle</strong> on <strong>08-07-2013, 01:31:55</strong>
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				<strong>LOCATION:</strong> Die Weisse Amsel (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=179007.0)<br><br>Die Weisse Amsel is fronted as a hotel but is in actuality an exclusive brothel where Demi-castors service the wealthiest of clientele and discretion is paramount.<br><br><div align="center">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/5/5c/Die_Weisse_Amsel.png)</div> <br>Working at Die Weisse Amsel:<br><br>Alicia Lisecki<br>
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				Post by: <strong>Niferbelle</strong> on <strong>08-07-2013, 18:14:03</strong>
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				<strong>PLAYER NAME:</strong> KatieSparks<br><strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong> Anna Eichmann (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=179367.0)<br><strong>AGE:</strong> 18<br><strong>PROFESSION:</strong> Nutte<br><strong>COUNTRY OF BIRTH:</strong> Germany<br><br><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong> <br><br>(http://i.imgur.com/LSoZwe5l.jpg)<br><br>A very slim, very petite young girl who doesn't look her age. She has trouble not only attracting clients but being taken seriously in general. Her style of dress is somewhat boyish and it works well with her thin frame - in fact, she is often mistaken for a feminine young man, at least when dressed. Her most noticeable physical feature is her darling blue eyes, bigger than you could imagine. She stands at 5 feet even, clocking in at just over 100 lbs.<br><br><strong>PERSONALITY IN A NUTSHELL:</strong> Anna is, despite her boyish appearance, rather feminine and delicate. She is quiet but friendly and a bit of a doormat, easily manipulated due to her good nature.<br><br><strong>PERSONAL HISTORY:</strong> Anna grew up in a fairly well-off family, her father a young but successful businessman in Berlin. The outbreak of the Great War, however, struck a terrible blow to the household when her father was conscripted. For a long while Anna and her mother adjusted to life alone and awaited his return... but in the final days of the war he fell ill and died on the battlefield and left his wife to care for their child alone. Anna's mother attempted to remarry following the war but to no success, and her own attempts at finding work were largely unsuccessful... but eventually she found steady work with a low wage that allowed them to just barely squeak by. Long hours took a toll on her mother and when Anna reached her teens she went out in search of work to help - but found that many had little use for the frail young girl. Eventually she discovered that despite her less-than-womanly appearance, there were more than a few men casting glances her way... and she found it was rather fruitful work acting on that attention. For a small renumeration of course. Anna still lives with her mother Ava in Berlin, but stays at home less and less after hooking up with Ilse who became her partner-in-crime so-to-speak and has a room in a small hotel in Friedrichstadt large enough to act as a little apartment for the both of them.<br><br><strong>GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS:</strong> <br><br>Anna grew up imagining she would be a working woman, making her own way in the landscape following the war. She would grow rich from her own labors and have a self-made life - not because of any distaste for men, but merely wanting her own freedom. This always seemed possible to her in the loose society of the Weimar Republic... but once she met Ilse, all of that changed.<br><br>Anna is desperately in love with Ilse and is determined to stay by her side for as long as possible. She wants to be a housewife to the older girl, a loving partner, an object to be owned if that is what it takes.<br><br><strong>IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND PLACES:</strong> <br><br>Ava Eichmann, her mother.<br>Ilse Luft, her love interest/'business' partner.<br>Andelhaus, the hotel in which Ilse and Anna often reside.<br>
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				Title: <strong>Re: BCW - Character Gazetteer</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Niferbelle</strong> on <strong>08-07-2013, 18:14:57</strong>
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				<strong>PLAYER NAME:</strong> KatieSparks<br><strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong> Ilse Luft (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=179366.0)<br><strong>AGE:</strong> 20<br><strong>PROFESSION:</strong> Nutte<br><strong>COUNTRY OF BIRTH:</strong> Germany<br><br><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong> <br><br>(http://i.imgur.com/DKt4NKO.jpg)<br><br>Petite but commanding, a cute face that hides a wealth of knowledge and experience. Ilse appears to be a sweet young thing, someone's beautiful but rambunctious little daughter. Her exterior appearance can be summed up in one word - sweet. She never dresses in overly sexualized clothing and hides what little she's packing.<br><br><strong>PERSONALITY IN A NUTSHELL:</strong><br><br>Ilse has a foul mouth and she knows how to use it. She's been selling her services for about half a decade and knows the best places to pick up, to take clients, and the best marks to charm. She plays it coy but is rather aggressive once someone shows interest - and once she snags a client she isn't about to let him go home with anything left in his wallet. Ilse charms her targets into taking her out and Anna out for lunch, dinner, breakfast.. you name it. Gets them to buy her jewelry, clothing, whatever the heart desires - and despite all that they go home happy because she is more than eager to please. She is somewhat dominant but lets her clients call the shots; where her dominant personality kicks in is Anna. She knows that Anna would bend to her every wish, and she often does so, almost acting as Ilse's servant in the bedroom (or whatever other location they choose).<br><br><strong>PERSONAL HISTORY:</strong> <br><br>Ilse's past is rather mysterious and she doesn't share much of it with anyone, including Anna, who is too polite to pry. It involves some amount of tragedy mixed with some amount of comedy. All Ilse is willing to say is that she was born in Germany, she lives in Germany, and she will die in Germany. It has also been ascertained that at some point she was married and it lasted about a week before he found out who she really was.<br><br><strong>GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS:</strong> <br><br>Ilse wants to save enough money to go to the USA. She is an enormous fan of Charlie Chaplin's pictures, and despite her normally realistic way of thinking she is convinced that someday she will move to California and marry him. Regardless, she views the USA as a land of opportunity - while prostitution is technically legal in Germany, Ilse doesn't believe it will last much longer and she has no desire to keep doing it if it's no longer easy.<br><br><strong>IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND PLACES:</strong><br><br>Andelhaus - the hotel in which Ilse and Anna reside in Friedrichstadt.<br>Anna Eichmann - Ilse's partner in crime and sometimes-when-she-feels-like-it-lover.
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				Title: <strong>Re: BCW - Character Gazetteer</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Niferbelle</strong> on <strong>13-07-2013, 02:32:46</strong>
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				<strong>PLAYER NAME:</strong>Coyote<br><strong>CHARACTER NAME:</strong> William “Will” Crawford (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=179464.0)<br><strong>AGE:</strong>26<br><strong>PROFESSION:</strong>Soliciter<br><strong>COUNTRY OF BIRTH:</strong>United Kingdom <br><br><strong>APPEARANCE:</strong> <div class="floatright">(http://imgur.com/NpxeXp9.jpg)</div><br>Will is thin and lanky, always wearing professional and somewhat stuffy clothing. He has a nervous look about him and shuffles around awkwardly when out in the open and in social situations. Except when he is confidently handling something for his job, Will appears to be a very insecure and thoughtful young man<br><br><strong>PERSONALITY IN A NUTSHELL:</strong>Most of the time, Will can be a very quiet and unassuming man, In reality, he is a mess of repressed desires and religious guilt. Will has always been uncomfortable with who he is, always feeling restrained by the expectations of the people surrounding him. Although he strives to do what a good and caring person would do at all times, his insecurities and foibles often overpower his willpower, causing him to do things that are selfish. He has a tendency to run away from his emotional problems rather than face them head on. Despite his proper exterior he fantasies of being the kind of man who just takes what he wants and fulfills all his desires. His one area of confidence is his intellect, he is very well accomplished with his liberal arts education and his legal career.<br><br><strong>PERSONAL HISTORY:</strong> Will grew up in an old fashioned religious coal mining family. His father and brothers were gruff, manly drunkards who were always ashamed of having to look out for the tiny and meek Will. Will on the other hand was ashamed of their drunken and slovenly ways, and longed to escape to a better life. When he was 14, he accepted an offer to go live with a distant cousin of his mother’s in England, his family had little care for him and didn’t mind him leaving. Will managed to escape the farming life and all of the manual labor which he disdained. In London, Will strove incredibly hard to fit in with the upper class, working very hard to mask his accent and his manner. He didn’t want to be associated with the other poor, he was ashamed of where he had come from. <br><br>Despite a rough start full of bullying and mockery, Will managed to integrate well over the years, and eventually it was not clear that he had started out from such a lowly background. After college, where he studied law, he found respectable employment in the law office of a Mr. Dudley Cooper. There, Will excelled at his work in wills and trusts and charmed the man who had hired him. Will became acquainted with Mr. Cooper’s daughter, Laura, and Will found her to be the perfect representation of a refined middle class British woman. Will and Laura were married, and with the weight of her respectable name behind him, Will felt truly integrated into a higher class of British society at last.<br><br>Unfortunately, that sense of accomplishment did not last long. Having spent his entire life trying to fit in, Will found that actually achieving this was unsatisfying. Laura was a good woman but their marriage was passionless and dutiful, she was nice but wanted nothing more than to do her duty as a typical housewife. He had desires and passions which she simply did not seem to be interested in fulfilling, and he found himself guiltily fantasizing about romantic and sexual gratification from other sources. Will had spent his whole life chasing respectability and he suddenly realized he was bored and stifled, he was living a repetitive existence and he dreamed of escape and passion, the things he read about in novels. <br><br>About a year into his marriage, Will’s father in law approached him with a serious assignment. A client, Mr. Robert Thompson, a British expat in Berlin, had suddenly and mysteriously died, and left behind quite a sum of money. However, vast details about what happened were missing, and someone had to be sent to further investigate and to gather the clients documents to properly understand how the estate was to be managed. There was no telling how long the assignment would last, and how long Will would need to be away. He accepted the assignment in a heartbeat, and left England with a mixture of nervousness, guilt, and excitement. Whatever awaited him in Berlin, it would be better than the monotony he had been getting used to at home. <br><br><strong>GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS:</strong> Will wants to live out parts of life he feels that were denied to him by his upbringing and his own attitudes and fears. He also needs to deal with the estate of his client and get to the bottom of what happened in his death. His biggest motivation in taking this trip is to have a chance to explore the world and different facets of life, which he feels will be easier to do far away from eyes that might judge him. <br><br><strong>IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND PLACES:</strong> <br>Der Morgen: A tiny bed and breakfast where Will resides for the duration of his stay<br>Anna Diederich: An imposing woman in her late 50’s, she is known to be the closest acquaintance and probable mistress of the late Mr. Thompson, she is rumored to have been an active prostitute in her youth. 
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				Title: <strong>Re: BCW - Character Gazetteer</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Niferbelle</strong> on <strong>13-07-2013, 19:33:47</strong>
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				<strong>LOCATION:</strong> The Streets of Friedrichstadt (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=179364.0)<br><br>Golden Twenties Friedrichstadt was among the busiest locales in all of Europe. A neighborhood shaped like a knight’s shield, its western edge houses the city’s two busiest train stations, Potsdamer Bahnhof and Anhalter Bahnhof, handling approximately 125,000 passengers per day combined (by comparison Berlin’s first airport opened in 1923 and handled 45,000 passengers that <em>year</em>). The northwest and northern edge borders Berlin’s Tiergarten Park and the Reichstag. The Chancellery, Foreign Ministry, and other Government buildings as well as the embassies and consulates of a number of countries are within the neighborhood itself, on Wilhelmstrasse. The southern point of the neighborhood holds a circular park around the Belle-Allianz tower, a monument to the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. The southeastern edge borders a working-class area filled with industrial workers. The neighborhood hosts several large hotels including the Hotel Excelsior, the largest hotel in Europe, across the street from Anhalter Bahnhof, and other famous luxury hotels such as Hotel Furstenhof, Hotel Kaiserhof, and Hotel Esplanade. These large hotels centered around the train stations, but there were also smaller hotels and pensions scattered throughout the neighborhood as well. Potsdamer Platz housed the busier of the two train stations, and was Europe’s busiest square during the 1920s bustling with foot, car, and trolley traffic. The neighborhood is bisected by two major streets, Friedrichstrasse running north-south, and Leipzigerstrasse running east-west. Both of these were major commercial streets with stores, restaurants, cafes, and other businesses.
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