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'''Black Market Doctor''': don't have insurance? don't want the authorities to ask how you got those injuries? drug overdose? need to change your face - permanently? Raphael can help.
'''Black Market Doctor:''' Don't have insurance? Don't want the authorities to ask how you got those injuries? Drug overdose? Need to change your face - permanently? Raphael can help.


'''[http://muttermuseum.org/|The Mütter Museum]''': do you want to be Disturbingly Informed - yes, that's their real slogan - or just gawk at some weird old body parts? The museum is only a block or two from Rittenhouse Square, and well worth a visit. Raphael is a tour guide, and would like nothing better than to show you all the coolest and creepiest stuff.
'''"Disturbingly Informed":''' Raphael works as a tour guide at the [http://muttermuseum.org/|The Mütter Museum], only a block or two from Rittenhouse Square. He would like nothing better than to show you all the coolest and creepiest medical history and oddities.


'''The Romantic Ideal''': He's a Victorian dandy who's into the occult. It should surprise no one that he is also queer AF (though not yet part of the human queer community). And also an opium/laudanum addict, like you <s>do</s>did.
'''Charm City:''' Raphael is only recently arrived from Baltimore. If you were in Baltimore the last few years, or 1870-1895, let's talk ties.


'''New Lost in Town''': Please, Changelings, introduce yourselves! Or if you were in Baltimore the last few years, or ~1890, perhaps we could have past ties?
'''The Byronic Ideal:''' With the languid, too-slender beauty of a fallen angel in an opium den, and an alluring edge of danger, all wrapped up in a neat Victorian package, he lives and breathes this trope. Yes, of ''course'' he's queer and kinky, as well as decidedly extra.
 
'''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:''' Raphael is usually compassionate (aside from his delight in his very Autumn job of imparting disturbing medical history to museum-goers), prone to blushing and even swooning at innuendo, and delicately cautious with his hands . But call on him for surgery or threaten the people he cares about, and he becomes the human embodiment of a scalpel blade: steely, keenly precise, and vicious. Perhaps most alarmingly, he can switch to this mode almost between heartbeats. He's got an uncanny tendency to evoke or echo various characters out of the Victorian Gothic canon, whichever mode he's in.

Latest revision as of 16:15, 11 April 2020

Black Market Doctor: Don't have insurance? Don't want the authorities to ask how you got those injuries? Drug overdose? Need to change your face - permanently? Raphael can help.

"Disturbingly Informed": Raphael works as a tour guide at the Mütter Museum, only a block or two from Rittenhouse Square. He would like nothing better than to show you all the coolest and creepiest medical history and oddities.

Charm City: Raphael is only recently arrived from Baltimore. If you were in Baltimore the last few years, or 1870-1895, let's talk ties.

The Byronic Ideal: With the languid, too-slender beauty of a fallen angel in an opium den, and an alluring edge of danger, all wrapped up in a neat Victorian package, he lives and breathes this trope. Yes, of course he's queer and kinky, as well as decidedly extra.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Raphael is usually compassionate (aside from his delight in his very Autumn job of imparting disturbing medical history to museum-goers), prone to blushing and even swooning at innuendo, and delicately cautious with his hands . But call on him for surgery or threaten the people he cares about, and he becomes the human embodiment of a scalpel blade: steely, keenly precise, and vicious. Perhaps most alarmingly, he can switch to this mode almost between heartbeats. He's got an uncanny tendency to evoke or echo various characters out of the Victorian Gothic canon, whichever mode he's in.