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Alan Ross / The Last Binding

[the_roman]

Player Name: Adiva
Contact: AdivaCalandia

Character Name: Alan Ross
Canon: The Last Binding trilogy by Freya Marske
Starting Canonpoint: Probably in between books 2 and 3?
Quick canon rundown: Alan comes from a version of 1909 Britain where magic exists. Magicians are sufficiently integrated into the world to have a bureaucracy that liases with the British government, but the fact of magic's existence is secret from the general population. Some magicians don't like this and form a conspiracy to consolidate power and take over Britain, and fighting this conspiracy is the thrust of the trilogy's narrative.

Also there's a lot of gay sex. Alan Ross is a journalist, socialist, occasional jewel thief, closeted gay man, and secret writer of kinky gay smut under the pen name A Roman. He did not ever intend to get mixed up in a conspiracy against a conspiracy of magicians but here he mcfucking is.

Skills / Powers:
•WALKING ANTI-MAGIC WARD: Alan is a "perturbator," although he doesn't know that say first. Basically, his world's magic doesn't work correctly on him -- sometimes not at all, sometimes strangely.
•LOCKPICKING: like I said, occasional jewel thief.
•FORGERY: Alan is an incredibly gifted forger. Give him a couple hours with a sample of handwriting and he can reproduce it with great accuracy, plus he's canonically forged things like letters of reference. (He thinks at one point about forging a train ticket, so he must have some experience with official documents as well.)
•CODE SWITCHING: Alan is bilingual in Italian and English, and in English can code switch fluently between a lower class Clerkenwell accent and a more educated one. He's a decent mimic, although nothing crazy; he just has a pretty good ear. I will also count the fact that he's able to write convincing Tory op-eds under his editor's byline while being a raging socialist himself under this one.
•PORN: he's a successful pornographer with a particular line in kinky dubcon fantasies titled things like "Exploits of A Cabin Boy" and "In the Dark Duke's Dungeon."

Flaws:
•PRICKLY: Alan can be a sarcastic, defensive little bitch if he gets his hackles up, and it doesn't take too much for him to get his hackles up.
•FAMILY ABOVE ALL: one of those double-edged flaws. His loyalty to his family is a great characteristic, but it also means he'll compromise just about every one of his morals in order to protect and help them. He self-describes as a "sin-eater," someone who takes on sin so that others, specifically his mother, siblings, and their children, won't have to. This leads him to make some Bad Choices, sabotage relationships, that kind of thing.
•KIND OF A BERNIE BRO: that guy who's ready to start talking about burning down the class system at a moment's notice. Insufferable. Jesus Christ. At least he stops short of advocating for an entire revolution, but he does have strongly held opinions about social safety nets and you are going to hear about them. Also, it's not that he's not aware of race and sex as axes of oppression, he just has such a class-first lens on politics that he can need reminders to consider those things as well. It's 1909, he doesn't know what intersectionality is.

Themes & Desires:
•CLASS AND POWER: Alan is constantly, constantly, angry about class inequity. His family has experienced homelessness in the past. His legitimate writing work (advertising, journalism) frequently puts him in contact with the wealthy and the titled, and he has seen them abuse that power. He knows exactly how close he and the people he cares about are to the knife's edge of real poverty at all times, and he is both terrified of this and furious about it.
•PASSING, SECRETS, AND GUILT: being gay is very illegal in Edwardian Britain! Writing and selling pornography is very illegal in Edwardian Britain! Being Italian is not illegal but does open one up to xenophobia/racism in Edwardian Britain! And here's Alanzo Cesare Rossi, passing as a straight white guy who definitely doesn't do crimes. Did I mention he was raised Catholic? He may no longer believe in God, but let me tell you, you never stop feeling Catholic guilt.
•SEXUALITY: Alan is 🌈gay🌈 and a big ol' sub who has spent a lot of time thinking about his sexuality. His writing frequently deals with taboo subjects like sadomasochism, dubious consent, and power. Although his thinking is going to be inevitably colored by the fact that it's 1909 -- e.g., his understanding of non-binary-ness wouldn't be very good, although he has a conception of binary transness; he doesn't know modern BDSM terms like "safe word" --

Canonpoints To AU: There's one Big Thing that happens in between books 2 and 3 that affects a lot of what Alan is doing in book 3 (which includes having ill-advised, extremely hot D/s sex with his eventual love interest). SPOILERS, so I hesitate to go into detail, but I think it would be an extremely interesting moment to write out on screen, particularly if it involved other people who might intervene. There's also a big final confrontation at the end of book 3 that would be fun! It's violent! Hooray!

Anything Else?: gotta love a man who canonically gets put in a maid outfit for plot reasons

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