Boorelom: city personifications

City incarnates

A city incarnate, or a city personification is a human who lives an almost normal human life, but is immortal and can harness magical powers.

Stories I translated so far feature personifications of London and Paris:

In the fog

When an old dear friend goes to the lasting rest, London can't help but answers the call.

Vulnerable

He was sick, he was waiting for someone, he was afraid of being weak; he fell asleep, clutching at other people's thoughts like a lifeline in the cold, sticky ocean of a nightmare. He waited, he learned to hear, he accepted the truth, he was jealous, but decided to let go — and now he was sick in a different way.

The dinner date

And then, bypassing all other elements of conversation, attributes of social tone and compliments, he invited her to a restaurant, and this was the sole thing he managed to vocalise. Then someone came looking for her, and she quickly named a place and time and flew away.

London

London Thameson. Cold-blooded and rational, but some would call him heartless. He somehow combines secrecy and brutal straightforwardness. At the beginning of the 20th century, he discovered a talent for telepathy and gave his all to develop this gift. Thanks to this, during the war he retrained from a pilot to a special agent. However, his talent took its toll: his eyesight deteriorated and he'd get sick more often, he turned grey and got wrinkles.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he has become a trader and investor, but his espionage habits won't leave him till current day.
The only one creature in the whole world who knows his smile is his bulldog Greenwich.

Paris

Patrice and Patricia Delaseine, also known as Patty or Patiche. Paris denies human limitations and can be either a man or a woman. They use a special compact mirror for the transformation.
They can appear superficial and too dreamy, but in fact is perceptive and empathic. Paris flirts a lot but that is second nature for them. Trying to please everyone and avoid conflicts usually goes sideways for them. They sell art and antiques, organise exhibitions abroad. In their free time, Paris makes croissants, performs ballet and travels.
Magic powers: light control. Paris has a very odd relationship with death, can briefly step beyond the veil and communicate with the dead. They can also put someone in a state on the verge of love and obsession, but they don't really know how to control it and thus rarely use it.

Katech

A collection of illustrations made by my long time friend and a very talented artist Katech. We drew inspiration from each other's work, and thanks to this I further developed my own universe of personifications.

London and Paris

Saint-Petersburg

Fairytale AU with Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and other OCs

Tsarskoye Selo and Peterhof

StPetersburg, Neva river, Rome and Paris

Paris

The month of June

Paris

Peterhof

Neva river

Saint-Petersburg

Moscow and Saint-Petersburg