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Username: Sensible Cricket
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Narrative: This is Elizabeθ Buckley, Theta for short. She is the daughter of the High Ergaleomancer to the Queen. What is that long word that starts with e? An ergaleomancer is a sort of magician, the clockwork-maker that makes little machines that actually come -alive-. Clockworks are those silly little metal things that make the steam punk genre fun and funny at times. She lives in the pseudo-Victorian England of the steam punk genre; the corset, shirt (which is actually two shirts layered), belts, background, and colour scheme in general all tie in with that idea I think. (Actually the everything does, but I mean those don't have quite as much of a tale behind them.)
She's wearing armour to protect her from the reason she now has to use a cane--when clockworks go wrong, they can explode. One of the first clockworks she ever built was sitting near her leg when it went tick tick tick tick boom and exploded and took out her knee. It's why she wears those unusual pants that not many people do--they puff out near the knees, hiding the machine that replaced her knee so that she can continue to walk and stand. Since then, she's been a lot more careful about testing her clockworks before letting them run loose.
The glasses are very important to her as an ergaleomancer, since the magnifier is necessary when she does really detailed work. Her pocket watch is actually a very important clockwork, her father made it for her to act as a chaperone. His name Cogitabulus T. Buckley, and while he may look like an ordinary pocket watch most of the time, if Theta is in trouble he will speak up quickly to diffuse the situation. Or to reprimand Theta, if it's her own fault.
The most important thing about her outfit, and surprising in its simplicity really, is actually the fact that she wears a tophat and cravat. Even in a pseudo-Victorian England, wearing trousers is usually reserved for the men. Adding a man's hat and cravat to that is to essentially fly in the face of established gender roles, and something that she can only do because she -is- an Ergaleomancer.