The Bookbound [Interest Check]

[Foxy DeVille]

Chetham… a seaside college town in  New England. Home to two institutions founded in the 17th century. The first is Saint Catherine’s College, a prestigious liberal arts university that is the town's lifeblood. The other is the Olde Towne Library, one of the oldest of its kind in the country. What many do not know is that the architect Manfred Winchester was also obsessed with the occult and designed the structure to be a focus for the energy from ley lines. Over the centuries as countless books passed through its doors the Library began calling to a very special group of people. Souls with great resemblance to the characters in literature. Mundane and fantastic. Heroes and villains. They are the Bookbound and this is their story.

Hello! The Bookbound is a freeform sandbox about the lives of people who strongly resemble literary characters in name, personality, appearance, and even power. They all live in the charming New England town of Chetham where they can meet, scheme, fall in love, do battle, or whatever else benefits their nature. The characters can be originally from anywhere but they have been drawn to Chetham. What they get there… well, guess we’ll just have to find out.

Questions or comments? Just holla down below...

[PervCelebre]

I would love to be a noir detective in this scenario. He would have to get used to some of the more...quaint?...parts of the town and era.

[Marie Reynolds]

Hmm Possibly interested, Does this only  include classic literature  or  more modern literature and  other literary media such as  online. Also can the  literary  sources  of electronic  nature  that become  bound to the  city  be  on   devices  but  not necessarily opened in the confines of theses areas  be  brought to life?

[Foxy DeVille]

Hmm Possibly interested, Does this only  include classic literature  or  more modern literature and  other literary media such as  online. Also can the  literary  sources  of electronic  nature  that become  bound to the  city  be  on   devices  but  not necessarily opened in the confines of theses areas  be  brought to life?

Classic and modern literature that' been actually published in physical book form, preferably something of some renown that people are either familiar with or can familiarize themselves with fairly easily. Online stuff doesn't really fit the backstory of a four hundred year old library being the source of these unique but oddly familiar people living in town.

[Levi]

This sounds good as well!!!

[Marie Reynolds]

So  what would you think of Shiniez Sunstone, They do have physical books hell even barnes and nobles sells them but would  this old institution have an Adult section. Cause I saw this and I have not decided on it but it just screamed Sunstone to me.

[Levi]

Alexia from This series would fit in so well in this setting

[Foxy DeVille]

So  what would you think of Shiniez Sunstone, They do have physical books hell even barnes and nobles sells them but would  this old institution have an Adult section. Cause I saw this and I have not decided on it but it just screamed Sunstone to me.

Mmmm... I dunno. Erotic webcomics aren't really the type of source I had in mind. What I was thinking more is having adaptations and interpretations of characters we're used to seeing in one setting existing together in another. Like my idea is to be a version of Juliette from the Marquis de Sade novel of the same name and adapting the idea of hotels as brothels along with her libertine attitude to modern America. There's a sense of being otherworldy with the Bookbound. Sunstone sounds like an interesting setting of its own but I'm not sure how someone from there fits into this. 

[Marie Reynolds]

No problem I just wanted it ruled out, I have a few other ideas I just need to settle on which one.

[Foxy DeVille]

No problem I just wanted it ruled out, I have a few other ideas I just need to settle on which one.

Cool cool cool.

I would love to be a noir detective in this scenario. He would have to get used to some of the more...quaint?...parts of the town and era.

A noir detective would be cool. Now to clarify the Bookbound aren't plucked straight from whatever book they're from, they're contemporary people with very strong resemblances to those characters. Your detective could still have style, slang, opinions, and attitude from whatever era the source material is but he'd still be aware of current history, technology, and what not.

Alexia from This series would fit in so well in this setting

Definitely a lot of potential there.

[Marie Reynolds]

Hmm I think  I might pitch Irene Adler!

[PervCelebre]

A noir detective would be cool. Now to clarify the Bookbound aren't plucked straight from whatever book they're from, they're contemporary people with very strong resemblances to those characters. Your detective could still have style, slang, opinions, and attitude from whatever era the source material is but he'd still be aware of current history, technology, and what not.

Totally. There's modern noir.