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 the characters getting married or engaged.

The setting and social rules are inspired by the mostly modern values, themes, and flexible stakes of the Bridgerton TV show. The characters and romantic pairings in this game are likewise inspired by a combination of characters from Jane Austen’s major works, the Bridgerton TV show, and queer Regency fiction.

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

Same-sex couples can marry. Trans people are legally and socially accepted in society. Half of the characters are not white.

The only true obstacles in our Regency setting are those created by wealth, class, and inheritance. Racism and homophobia are a thing of the past and are NOT welcome at this larp (with exceptions made exclusively for internalized and/or player-requested depictions). Even the rules of conduct that historically dominated the lives of unmarried ladies and gentlemen have been loosened and adapted for playability.

In the world of Dearest Debutante, you can live out your Regency romantic fantasies with all the yearning and courtship you have long envisioned and 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 marry first and 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!