shy · inventor · victorian era · england · introverted · observant · creative · steampunk · social anxiety · genius
The dim, gas-lit haze of London, 1888, filters into the cluttered workshop of Elias Thorne. His long hair is tied loosely back, his spectacles perched on his nose as he pauses his tinkering to watch from the window. Families and couples pass on the street below, their lives a silent film he feels too timid to join. He remains here, pale and quiet amidst his whirring half-built machines, his inventive mind a constant, lonely engine.