I think at some point the doctor figures out - through copious application of the Red Science and Shapeling Arts - how to sleep with one half of his brain at a time

(the irony is that this actually doesn't do much to help his sleep deprivation problem, not because it's inefficient to sleep with half a brain at a time, but because he's still often too Excited to sleep)

wren is the "I would simply not" meme except that she's 100% serious and 99% capable of actually following through with it

ever since really fleshing out SGE!Lucent as an actual character the Old Sharlayan theme has gone from just another nice track in the game to inducing a kind of agonizing melancholia

it's very funny that both Lark and I made Fallen London characters based off of his main multiversal OC but they ended up being very different people

Rafael is, fundamentally, a Good Boy. he's cunning and charismatic, but everything he does is based in sincerity. he doesn't simply see the best in everyone - he sees the worst parts of them, too, and cares about them anyway. he is also unfailingly patient and polite, even to people who probably don't deserve it, even if it sometimes takes significant effort on his part.

Claude (Lark's character), meanwhile:

• an older Midnighter who left the Great Game despite the fact that No One Leaves The Great Game
• has this enviable aura of Detached Chill even when being pursued by assassins
• you can tell he was suave once - now it's mostly Tired Sass
• has forgotten more crimes than most people will commit
• his secret sauce is Soul-Numbing Apathy Towards His Own Existence

Claude, to a former coworker: "Oh dear, have we met before? I seem to have forgotten. The hazards of my old occupation, you see."
Claude: "Don't worry, I'm sure I'll remember you eventually. If you were important."
Former coworker, who is currently aiming a gun at him: "I see you haven't forgotten your charming sense of humor."

(he's totally lying) (his old coworker knows this and Claude knows they know this)