Setting: 1830-1870 Central Europe (France, Germany, Austria, and Bohemia mostly ( Read more... )

My MC is a young man in his late teens, attending a college that's basically an expy of NYU/Columbia University in the mid-50s. (I'm kind of operating on vague Comics Time here, so apologies for the vagueness of that date!) He's attending on a scholarship, hailing from a (fictional) country in Eastern Europe ( Read more... )

Hello! I've been diligently researching on the culture and way of life of German gypsies today, but I couldn't seem to find something I need to work on a story ( Read more... )

First of all, thanks everyone for all the help I got in my last post here! This is way long so have a cut:

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I'm writing a fic in which my character knows some obscure martial arts. He's of Roma descent, and proud of it. Are there any weaponless combat systems which were developed by the Roma or other groups that would have been referred to as 'gypsy' not so long ago? I should point out that my character has grown up as a typical American, and has not had ( Read more... )