Oh look, Cat Detective has yet another Cloak and Dagger Spy…
Abelard. He does use it to do his job, he also uses it to take invisible smoke breaks… and other such unsanctioned uses…
Also pictured:
-Lockpicks. You never know when you’re going to need them…
-Sobranie blacks. My general headcanon for BLU Spy’s preferred brand, carrying over into an OC. (and reminding me that I forgot to put Sobranie pastels on my femspy visual character bible… she’s going to wind up getting another page, I guess…)
-That. Thermos. Is so retro fabulous. My search for a good picture reference/collage bit kept turning up these very modern looking things, I finally found one that looked like he could own it. Plus, blue.
-Animals! Oddly enough, it is the dingo and not the snake that represents Abelard himself…
-Coffee, soup, and a digestive tract. He enjoys cooking, and is entirely too passionate about coffee for someone with his digestive issues… a lot of acid in coffee. He likes to cook, he likes having his food appreciated, and then half the time he can’t eat.
Also pictured: Empty space where there should be a Dusty Springfield album, because I am an idiot, and when I was putting this together, I forgot that I had previously saved the picture of the record sleeve specifically for this, and only realized it as I started making this post. Anyway, he’s a music lover. No set genre, as with the largely-confined-to-opera Marcelon, he will listen to a wide range of things. Also, he’s got a sad little playlist…
1) 19th Nervous Breakdown- Rolling Stones
2) You Don’t Know Me- Michael Buble (should have probably gone with a period appropriate version, either original or earlier cover, but I like this one, so…)
3) You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me- Dusty Springfield (the album that should have been on here, as it happens…)
4) I’m Your Man- Michael Buble (again, there are period apropos versions, but this one is really, really sexy… Also I have a bunch of Buble because my grandmother and sister shared a crush on him)
5) I Don’t Want to Get Over You- Magnetic Fields (the only one on the short list to be entirely period inappropriate, though the long playlist has more… it’s just over two hours of torchy misery)
I love that the snake is red, too. :D Very fitting.
Also, that soup looks DELICIOUS. Damn I wish I had more than cup-a-soup chicken noodle in my house. XD
And the dingo actually….well, hm. No fun revealing all the symbolism like this here, huh? :) In due time.