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Entry tags:
permissions.
CANON
canon: Find Me (André Aciman, sequel to Call Me By Your Name)
summary: Here / Canon timeline
quick rundown: The 60+ year old Michel, Parisian lawyer, meets the 30+ year old Elio Perlman at a classical concert and the two start a brief, but passionate sexual relationship. With Elio's help, Michel is able to tie up the loose ends after his father's death, finding closure for a cadenza his father passed on to him on his deathbed and through it, retelling a story that in many ways match his own and Elio's.
canon point: After the chapter, Cadenza; can also take Michel from before meeting Elio or during their time together.
notes: Michel isn't mentioned by surname anywhere in Find Me, so I've gone ahead and picked one for him, so that he's known as Michel Laurent to the people who might know him or who want to go by assumed CR in RP land.
PLAYER
contact: PM to this journal.
active times/pace: CEST/CET player. Tries to be online at least during the evening my time, but it varies. More one tag a day player than anything, but if you hit me up at the right time, I can still boomerang a bit.
brackets/prose: Definitely brackets preference, but will match. I default to present tense, but can also match other tenses.
offensive subjects/triggers: Not any.
IN CHARACTER
physical affection: Go for it. Reactions may vary depending on CR.
physical violence: No.
relationships: I play Michel as gay, though he has an ex-wife and a son with whom he has no relation any longer. Generally I'll be playing him in gen scenarios or maybe with light-hearted flirting, but any actual shipping will have to be with Elio (or some other most likely younger man).
psychic info: Ask.
magical info: No magical powers.
medical info: Nothing relevant. He's in good health.
offensive subjects/triggers: Michel comes from books where the main romance (same-sex) is between a 32 year old man and his 60+ year old lover. If this kind of age gap doesn't sit well with you, please let me know and I'll avoid tagging you. Likewise, Michel has an estranged son whom he doesn't see or speak to anymore. If this kind of family relation is a trigger for you, let me know and I'll avoid mentioning it or avoid tagging you, depending on your preference.
OUT OF CHARACTER
backtagging: Yes, please!
threadhopping: No.
fourthwalling: Go ahead.
not interested in: Smut.
Entry tags:
psl | ofmd
[ Martinique, then. Ah, well, still French soil, they say, though upon arrival, Michel wasn't so certain that was a definition he'd immediately ascribe to. It didn't smell like Paris here, which might in most cases be for the better, and the guvernor's mansion was quite grand and luxurious, but he'd left his wife, now former, and his son, now uninterested in talking to him, back on real French soil and had shipped out to this job, only because it seemed gentler on all of them. Easier. And because his father would have been proud.
The reasons a man can find to move to a different part of the Earth and most likely end his life there, really. Were they good? Who knew. Would it pay off? Who could say. Life!
He's up late tonight, as he is most nights, because since his arrival a month and a half ago, his new home has been overrun by people, politicians and merchants and captains who want deals and treaties and contracts, to make their life easier. And because Michel can extend that favour to them, he does. Much of it is his job. The rest is his fancy. If nothing else, the menagerie of characters is somewhat interesting to witness.
He's reading over the final contract he's just finished for a M. Bernard, importer of alcohol and spirits, allowing him an advantage of several percentages in distribution pricing. Sell it cheaper, sell it more, yes? Signing it lazily, Michel finally stands up, pushing the parchment out of the way and walking over to the windows, looking out onto the dark streets below. The governor's mansion is smack in the middle of Fort-de-France, everybody should be allowed convenient access, after all. Isn't that why the governor is there in the first place?
That's why Michel is here, at least. So It seems. He stretches, hands clutching at his lower back while he grunts slightly. Below, he can hear the servants milling about, someone calling out quietly, a door opening.
Ah, another midnight guest! Isn't that what life's about?
Michel turns around slowly, awaiting the newcomer with a far-from-credulous smile. ]
Entry tags:
dialogue; daddies anonymous.
I'm Michel.
By ways of introduction, I guess I should say that my son has cut all contact with me. I haven't spoken to him in ten years, I believe.
Well, it's not a matter of belief, of course. I count the days, every day.
By ways of introduction, I guess I should say that my son has cut all contact with me. I haven't spoken to him in ten years, I believe.
Well, it's not a matter of belief, of course. I count the days, every day.
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how's my driving | opt-out.
This is the place to take any and all comments as to how I play Michel. I'm open to constuctive feedback and crit - and anonymous is enabled, should that make it easier. IP logging is off. All comments are screened.
Furthermore, this is also the entry to refer to if you want to opt-out of interaction with Michel as a character! His character comes with warnings for large age gap (30 years approx.) and for family dysfunction (an estranged son and parent issues of his own). If this should be a problem, please comment here with all character journals you want me to avoid. No questions asked.
canon timeline.
Michel Léon (Laurent)
1939 Michel born
1964 Michel marries Avril / Son, Denis Adrien Laurent, born
1970 Michel inherits father's law firm
1972 Father, Adrien, dies
1983 Divorced from Avril / Estranged from Denis
1986 Meets the architect, Julien
1990 Julien moves to Montreal
1992 Mother, Nana, dies
2000 Michel meets Elio
2001 Michel is 62 years old -
- Default canon point
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* Contrary to select dates given in Find Me that to me seem to be inconsistent with the base material of book 1, these dates have been calculated from the assumption that the summer described in Call Me By Your Name took place in 1986, making Elio 32 years old in 2000 when he meets Michel.
** Aside from Elio, Michel, Léon and Adrien, none of the characters in the Cadenza chapter are mentioned by name, so I have taken the liberty of naming them myself.
*** When playing opposite characters from other canons, I'm defaulting to having Michel born in whatever year would make him 62 y/o during those interactions. Rest of the timeline will be adjusted to fit with that.
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prompt table.
| 01 | Technology | 02 | War | 03 | Law | 04 | Fame |
| 05 | Country | 06 | Whisper | 07 | Distraction | 08 | Key |
| 09 | Pause | 10 | Game | 11 | Food | 12 | Son |
| 13 | Whiskey | 14 | Jazz | 15 | Old | 16 | Broken |
| 17 | Stand | 18 | Young | 19 | Pretty | 20 | Closer |
| 21 | Forty | 22 | Dream | 23 | Revolution | 24 | Tragedy |
| 25 | Second | 26 | Woman | 27 | Acquaintance | 28 | Dog |
| 29 | Rhythm | 30 | Climax | 31 | Shave | 32 | Energy |
| 33 | Morning | 34 | Crisis | 35 | Glove | 36 | Tribute |
| 37 | Demand | 38 | Piano | 39 | Ceremony | 40 | Justice |
| 41 | Never | 42 | Again | 43 | Moon | 44 | Dust |
| 45 | Chance | 46 | Loss | 47 | Shake | 48 | Silver |
| 49 | Surpass | 50 | Writer's Choice |
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playlist.
everybody has sought something
one day, and everybody hasn't found it
I. TOUT LE MONDE by CARLA BRUNI
everybody has some humming childhood / at the bottom of a forgotten pocket
II. SOUS LE CIEL DE PARIS by ZAZ
under the parisian sky a song is revealed / it is born today within the heart of a boy
III. I LOVE PARIS by AVALON JAZZ BAND
why oh why do i love paris so / because my love is here
IV. LA BÔHEME by CHARLES AZNAVOUR
we would finally sit in front a coffee with milk / exhausted but delighted
V. LA VIE EN ROSE by EDITH PIAF
the pains and bothers are banished / happy, happy to die of love
VI. JANE & JOHN by POMME
who can tell about love when it is huge / if it is the caress or the act of fate, me i know nothing
VII. LA DALLE by LEJ
a hot blow, ostinato, rhythm on the lips / i want it medium rare to well done
VIII. BACK TO HENRI by CARTE BLANCHE
back to henri, he'll be sitting in the window / sipping tea and reading hugo
IX. PETIT À PETIT by ARCADIAN
little one, you'll see if you believe in yourself little by little / little one, you'll see, you'll love yourself
X. LES BOURGEOIS by JACQUES BREL
and me who remains the proudest / i am still talking about myself
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