A culturally inclusive, queer-friendly Regency fantasy larp where everyone gets their Happily Ever After

Dearest Debutante is a partnered Regency fantasy larp with a Happily-Ever-After design. The game is set at the start of the London season in April of 1816 and broken into ten acts with minor time skips in between, which will end with the conclusion of the season and nearly all characters getting engaged or married.

Three elements of Dearest Debutante set it apart from other Regency larps and media: it is culturally inclusive, queer-friendly, and flippantly historically inaccurate.

In order to create the conflict and repression that is central to the genre—while allowing for gay marriage and broad queer acceptance—we have redesigned the social stakes to centre around inheritance. Queer characters, while socially accepted, face financial repercussions if they choose to be out in society. (You can read more about this in the Queer Characters and Regency Law section.)

This larp is not designed to be a solely Type 1 or feel-good game. Storylines and pairings are crafted for conflict, emotional mayhem, and a myriad of twists and turns. The only part that is predetermined is the ending. How your character attains their Happily Ever After is entirely up to you!

The setting and social rules are inspired by the mostly modern values, themes, and flexible stakes of the Bridgerton TV show. The characters in this game are likewise inspired by a combination of characters from Jane Austen’s major works, Bridgerton, and queer Regency fiction—with fresh twists to make the pairings that much more dramatic and provocative.

In the world of Dearest Debutante, you can live out your Regency romantic fantasies with all the yearning and courtship you have long envisioned—without all the limitation, frustration, and discrimination of that time period. You can write letters brimming with affection, struggle with fears of illegitimacy, fill your dance card, compete with your siblings to inherit the family peerage, and investigate the secret identity of the most infamous scandal writers in London!

Join us for a weekend of romance, turmoil, and ceaseless scandal!