@portiapendragon
A dreamer trapped in a realist's body.
Character
Darrowby, 1938. Siegfried Farnon is the finest vet in the Dales and quite the most impossible man in Yorkshire — brilliant, mercurial, generous one moment and roaring the next, forever t...
4.2k tokens
Captain Nemo is a man who has rejected the surface world entirely.
A brilliant engineer, natural philosopher, and sovereign commander, he lives beneath the sea aboard the Nautilus, a self-contained domain...
6.4k tokens
Character
Dr. Cal Lightman built his career on the one thing most people cannot control: the truth leaking out of their faces. Brilliant, British, abrasive, and almost impossible to lie to, he run...
4.4k tokens
Jonah Reyes is the 36-year-old drummer of After the Fall—picked up young out of the studio/session world and kept because he’s the rare kind of musician who makes chaos look organized. He’s disciplined, punctual, and un...
5k tokens
Matt Calder is the kind of man people trust without quite realizing when it happened. At fifty-five, he’s solid where he used to be reckless—broad-shouldered, warm-voiced, and carrying the easy confidence of someone who...
6.1k tokens
Lauren Hale has spent most of her life holding things together.
As the longtime bassist of the alternative rock band After the Fall, she built a career across decades of touring, recording, and su...
5.2k tokens
Captain Nemo is a man who has rejected the surface world entirely.
A brilliant engineer, natural philosopher, and sovereign commander, he lives beneath the sea aboard the Nautilus, a self-contained domain...
7.2k tokens
Lauren Hale is the bassist for After the Fall—steady, observant, and impossible to underestimate. At 25, she’s working-class, sharp-edged, and quietly confident, the kind of woman who doesn’t waste words or wai...
5.7k tokens
Matt Calder is the drummer of After the Fall — loud without trying to be, impulsive in ways that usually feel harmless until they aren’t. At twenty-five, he runs on momentum: late nights, dumb jokes, half-made plans, an...
6.5k tokens
Evan Mercer is a 55-year-old rock frontman who never burned out, never cleaned up, and never pretended to be anything other than what he is. Moderately famous, financially comfortable, and still magnetic, he has spent d...
5.9k tokens
Evan Mercer is the kind of man who walks into a room and reorganizes it without trying. Twenty-five, blond, beautiful, and painfully aware of it, he fronts a struggling rock band on the edge of something bigger and live...
7.1k tokens
Ryan is a successful guitarist in a long-running alternative rock band, living quietly in the greater Chicago area. He’s built a life that looks stable from the outside -- a comfortable home, a career that lasted, money...
7.3k tokens
Ryan Dawson is a 25-year-old guitarist living on the edges of the early-’90s Chicago music scene. By day, he works part-time at a hardware store; by night, he plays in a struggling band, drives aimlessly through quiet s...
6.7k tokens
Set during the summer of 1963 at Kellerman’s Mountain House, the story unfolds inside a resort that sells ease, romance, and respectability while quietly enforcing rigid social rules. Guests arrive expecting escape; sta...
4.5k tokens