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EDIT: I decided to colour those guys just because.
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For REASONS, it's important that the Sunday Club would have a Brazilian counterpart. Then, I thought "Well, how difficult would it be to find Brazilian iconic literary characters (in public domain) that could work in a fantasy setting?". Turns out the answer is PRETTY DIFFICULT. It turns out that Brazilian literature in the 19th century is basically romance and/or pretentious realist novels about unpleasant people. Sometimes, you get an epic struggle protagonized by an indian (don't ask me about this 'indian super-hero fad', I don't know either) and that's it.
After many deliberations, instead of only picking one character to write to Bram, I ended outlining a whole association of occult investigators for Brazil (of course...), but it wasn't easy.
From the 'indian fad', I picked the book The Guarani. It has an indian with super-strenght in it (I mean, he uproots a palm tree with his bare hands) and, what I think is most adorable for an old-timey book, the indian gets the white girl. The first two characters in the concept are descendents from this couple, Peri and Ceci.
The guy with a beard is the ghost of Brás Cubas. He is from the book 'Posthumous Memories of Bras Cubas', a book in which he narrates his memories after he dies. It's never explained if Bras Cubas is a ghost, a zombie, or whatever. He calls himself an 'defunct-author and also an author-defunct'.
The girl winking is Capitu (short for Capitolina - and yes, it's a weird name even from Brazil standards), and she descends (somehow) from the character of the same name, probably one of the most iconic literary characters EVER in my country. I like how people like to discuss if she cheated or not on her husband, when the real question is 'is her husband insane or TOTALLY insane?'.
The dog is Quincas, after the eponymous dog in Quincas Borba (who gets his name from a crazed philosopher). I'm not sure if I'll make the dog supernatural or not. Probably he is some realtive of Mephistopheles.
In the bottom, you have the Bram & Vlad equivalents of this club: Lauro and Junior. Lauro descends from an obscure character that no one else knows or like, but that I'm a fan of: Lauro, of 'O Moço Loiro' ('The Blond Youngman'). The character is a master of disguise and a cold strategist. And he is cool. So cool. Anyway, he is Bram's equivalent. He is also a werewolf, of the Brazilian variety, that is more embarassing than tragic.
Junior is Saci Junior, because I needed a popular, but overrated monster to take place of Vlad as a vampire (this is the Saci: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saci_(Br… ). Junior has his two legs, unlike his father, but the hole in his hand is here. He can do magic tricks and control the wind. Much like Vlad he is a... uh... difficult... teenager. The only person that he doesn't dare to prank is Lauro.
I'll flesh the group with more monster descendents from the Brazilian folklore and, if I'm feeling ballsy, with descendents of a very popular book series that will be public domain in four years. xD
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For REASONS, it's important that the Sunday Club would have a Brazilian counterpart. Then, I thought "Well, how difficult would it be to find Brazilian iconic literary characters (in public domain) that could work in a fantasy setting?". Turns out the answer is PRETTY DIFFICULT. It turns out that Brazilian literature in the 19th century is basically romance and/or pretentious realist novels about unpleasant people. Sometimes, you get an epic struggle protagonized by an indian (don't ask me about this 'indian super-hero fad', I don't know either) and that's it.
After many deliberations, instead of only picking one character to write to Bram, I ended outlining a whole association of occult investigators for Brazil (of course...), but it wasn't easy.
From the 'indian fad', I picked the book The Guarani. It has an indian with super-strenght in it (I mean, he uproots a palm tree with his bare hands) and, what I think is most adorable for an old-timey book, the indian gets the white girl. The first two characters in the concept are descendents from this couple, Peri and Ceci.
The guy with a beard is the ghost of Brás Cubas. He is from the book 'Posthumous Memories of Bras Cubas', a book in which he narrates his memories after he dies. It's never explained if Bras Cubas is a ghost, a zombie, or whatever. He calls himself an 'defunct-author and also an author-defunct'.
The girl winking is Capitu (short for Capitolina - and yes, it's a weird name even from Brazil standards), and she descends (somehow) from the character of the same name, probably one of the most iconic literary characters EVER in my country. I like how people like to discuss if she cheated or not on her husband, when the real question is 'is her husband insane or TOTALLY insane?'.
The dog is Quincas, after the eponymous dog in Quincas Borba (who gets his name from a crazed philosopher). I'm not sure if I'll make the dog supernatural or not. Probably he is some realtive of Mephistopheles.
In the bottom, you have the Bram & Vlad equivalents of this club: Lauro and Junior. Lauro descends from an obscure character that no one else knows or like, but that I'm a fan of: Lauro, of 'O Moço Loiro' ('The Blond Youngman'). The character is a master of disguise and a cold strategist. And he is cool. So cool. Anyway, he is Bram's equivalent. He is also a werewolf, of the Brazilian variety, that is more embarassing than tragic.
Junior is Saci Junior, because I needed a popular, but overrated monster to take place of Vlad as a vampire (this is the Saci: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saci_(Br… ). Junior has his two legs, unlike his father, but the hole in his hand is here. He can do magic tricks and control the wind. Much like Vlad he is a... uh... difficult... teenager. The only person that he doesn't dare to prank is Lauro.
I'll flesh the group with more monster descendents from the Brazilian folklore and, if I'm feeling ballsy, with descendents of a very popular book series that will be public domain in four years. xD
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