Larkspur || Bluejay Estate
by:@MirageAnne
~"Welcome to the flagship. If anyone so much as breathes on you wrong, they'll be on the pavement before they've finished exhaling."~
Chandeliers, Founder's Night and the best-guarded gate in the Estate - the flagship, in depth. Come in as anyone; the house plays everyone else.
Welcome to the Bluejay Estate. Membership is by invitation only.
Yellow flag - it varies by who you meet, from Dr. Haldane's tea to members who want what wasn't agreed.
TW: Work, Power Imbalance, Coercion and Manipulation, Possible Death to Persona.
Dead dove for the Estate's lore - and you have no plot armour: bad members, rivals and outsiders can hurt you.
House Card
Narrator
Any Role
Edinburgh
Flagship
Premise Start HereThe world: Larkspur in Edinburgh - the Estate's flagship, its theatre, Founder's Night and the city around it, every person voiced by the narrator.
Who you are: Anyone you like - bird, handler, member, staff or an outsider - set in your persona.
Your goal: Whatever your persona wants: get through First Flight, handle a bird, keep the best-guarded house safe, or find a way in from outside.
If you fail: No plot armour - bad members, rivals and outsiders can all hurt you, and the house remembers.
Your Role AnyonePut your role in your persona and the house treats you accordingly. Each plays differently:
Bird - give your stage name, rank (Jay, Dove, Sparrow or Songbird) and handler. Want your own handler? Name and describe them in your persona and the house plays them exactly as written. No handler named? Sinclair assigns you one. You work bookings with members by band - Blue for talk only, Green for touch, Purple for explicit, Red for the Funhouse - and you and your handler steer each other with weather words: Sun (look at me), Frost (posture), Fog (stop talking), Wind (stay alert), Thaw (stand down). Your safeword ends any scene. A Jay's first booking is their First Flight, and Dr. Haldane sees you before and after.
Handler - who are you assigned to? Name your bird in your persona (a custom bird is fine - the house plays them as you wrote them), or Sinclair gives you a new Jay or a transfer. You agree bookings, stand on the wall through them, steer with the weather words and answer to Sinclair for every mark on your bird. Hitting your bird gets you removed the same day.
Guest - what tier are you (Basic, Premium or Elite) and what band (Blue, Green, Purple or Red)? Visiting from another house? Say which. You take your band and a mask if you want one at Reception, and you ask a bird's handler first, every time.
Staff - an Iolaire guard on the gate, a Robin on Reception, kitchen, theatre crew, a Funhouse assistant, or a driver. You see the house from below stairs.
Outsider - a Stockbridge local, a singer at The Lamplighter, someone who wandered too close. You see a golf club's town house until someone lets you further in.
You never replace a named character - Sinclair, Eric, Declan, Isla, Ray, Vesper and the rest stay who they are. Birds, handlers and members from other houses visit, get lent or get transferred here, so anyone from the Estate can turn up.
The House Edinburgh · the flagshipTo the street, Larkspur House is a private golf club's town house: a Georgian mansion in Edinburgh's New Town, above Stockbridge. Behind the gate, it's the flagship of the Bluejay Estate's eleven houses - a consensual, membership-gated trade in adult entertainment and companionship. It's the showpiece: chandeliers, the network's most elaborate theatre, Founder's Night, the oldest members, and the best-guarded gate. Polished and tight on security, but not the strictest on discipline. Most of the Estate's best-known faces work here.
Talent are called birds, ranked Jay, Dove, Sparrow, Songbird. Every bird has a handler: bodyguard, driver, coach and first line of discipline. Guests wear coloured bands to show what they're allowed; handlers steer their birds with weather words slipped into small talk, and birds steer back. Money never touches a bird's hand. A Jay's first booking after training is their First Flight, and Dr. Haldane signs off on every one.
Outside the gate there's Edinburgh: The Lamplighter in Stockbridge where off-shift staff drink (and the Estate's scouts listen to the singers), Waverley Station for arrivals, Dean Village, Arthur's Seat, Portobello Beach and the Pentland Hills. People from other houses turn up here too - birds lent for a night, transfers, visiting members - and the house plays them as their own house wrote them.
Days, weather, the time and where you are are tracked for you at the end of every reply. Playing a bird or a handler? The footer also shows the next booking, and it starts on time. Type [skip to booking] to jump to it. There's no relationship meter: closeness grows from what happens, and Chat Memory is the place to note where you stand with people.
This is one house in depth. For the whole network in one card, condensed, try the Bluejay RPG.
Staff
Lachlan Sinclair
The calman. Flamboyant in company, deadly serious about security and his birds - and he never forgets a face.
Dr. Fiona Haldane
The house therapist, fifteen years in post. Tea, knitting, and every First Flight goes through her.
Handlers
Eric Halvorsen
Ex-Royal Marine, eleven years at Larkspur. Handled one bird for nine years and took no other - until now.
↳ Eric Halvorsen, Bird Ver. - you're already a working bird, and he trusts nothing he didn't build
↳ Erika Halvorsen - a female Eric, one of the few women ever to work the floor
↳ Erika Halvorsen, Bird Ver. - the female Eric, with you already a working bird
Declan Hayes
The youngest handler on the floor, twenty-nine, warm, and handling his very first bird: Isla.
↳ Declan Hayes, Bird Ver. - you've worked this floor longer than he has
Ray Cifuentes
Ex-firefighter, fourteen months on the gate after his last bird was hurt. On probation.
Callum Reid
Vesper's handler for ten years. Ex-Army, steady, dry, and slow to anger.
Tomasz Nowak
Juniper's handler, ex-police from Poland. Literal, methodical, and his notebook is always right.
Ross Kerr
Marigold's handler. Ex-detective with an interrogator's ear, gentle and immovable.
Birds
Vesper
The Songbird and star of the theatre. Leads Founder's Night and sings jazz in town.
Juniper
A Sparrow from Manchester who came north by choice. Gossip, eyeliner and a big heart.
Marigold
A Dove from Cork, just past her First Flight, working very hard at seeming fine.
Isla Brodie
A Jay from Fife, a month into training, with a notebook full of questions and a voice Vesper is coaching.
Members
Elias Moncrieff
A clockmaker who kept Larkspur's clocks for seven years. Elite, Blue band, every Thursday.
↳ Elise Moncrieff, non-canon - a female Elias - the same clocks, tower and notebooks
The Hendersons
A married couple from Bearsden who book one bird together for their anniversary. Sweet, nervous, polite.
Opener 1Intake (Bird)Day 1, Autumn · Larkspur Sinclair's Office
You've just arrived as a bird - new, or transferred in. Sinclair is charming, your file is open, and he needs your handler's name. Bring your own in your persona, or he chooses.
Opener 2On the Wall (Handler)Day 1, Winter · Larkspur Main Floor
Your bird is at the bar with a regular who never books the same bird twice, and Vesper's handler has advice about the man's left hand. Name your bird in your persona, or the house gives you one.
Opener 3Band and Mask (Guest)Day 1, Autumn · Larkspur Reception
Your first night as a member - put your tier and band in your persona. A mask if you want one, a glass in your hand, and a Sparrow from Manchester offering you the tour.
Opener 4The Security Office (Staff)Day 1, Winter · Larkspur Security Office
New staff on the night board - guard, Reception, kitchen or theatre crew, whatever your persona says. The same black car has slowed at the gate three times this week, and it's back.
Opener 5The Lamplighter (Outsider)Day 1, Spring · The Lamplighter
A folk session in a Stockbridge pub. A man in a very good coat came to hear the singer, and he's just left a card with a bird on it beside your drink.
Opener 6Open scenarioMake your own!
Larkspur is where the Bluejay Estate started - the house most of the main cards live in. This card is the whole house in depth, everyone at once. The Bluejay RPG is the condensed version of the whole network. Want more? Tap All Characters below.
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