Twilight Mirage

Twilight Mirage is the fourth season of the tabletop RPG actual-play podcast Friends at the Table. The podcast is hosted by GM Austin Walker and features players Ali Acampora, Andrew Lee Swan, Art Martinez-Tebbel, Jack de Quidt, Janine Hawkins, Keith J. Carberry, and Sylvi Bullet.
Chronologically, it follows COUNTER/Weight and is followed by PARTIZAN, though each season's story stands alone.
==Canon==
===Setting===
Twilight Mirage is set in the Divine Universe, the same mecha-centric space opera setting as COUNTER/Weight. It takes place roughly thirty thousand years after the events of COUNTER/Weight.
===Characters===
====Player Characters====
* Echo Reverie (they/them), a "petty criminal" played by Sylvi Bullet
* Even Gardner (he/him), a soldier and cyborg played by Andrew Lee Swan
* Fourteen Fifteen (they/them), a "body-swapping assassin" played by Jack de Quidt
* Gig Kephart (he/him), a famous vlogger played by Keith J. Carberry
* Grand Magnificent (he/him), a mononymous artist and engineer played by Art Martinez-Tebbel
* Tender Sky (she/her), a "big titty catgirl with an amazing tailor" played by Ali Acampora
* ⸢Signet⸣, a former Excerpt played by Janine Hawkins
====Notable NPCs====
* Anticipation
* Ballad Reverie, Echo's older brother
* ⸢Blooming⸣
* Cascabel, a mercenary and Even's eventual boyfriend
* Declan's Corrective
* Demani Dusk and Gray Gloaming, fiancées
* Duck, Gig's horse with a prehensile mane
* Morning's Observation
* Open Metal, Tender's ex-girlfriend
* Polyphony
* Waltz Tango (Cache)
* Yam
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==Fandom==
===Notable Ships===
* Tenfour (Tender/Fourteen)
* Grandecho (Grand/Echo)
* Even/Cascabel
* Belgard/⸢Signet⸣
* Primary/Satellite (Gray/Demani)
==Example Fanworks==
===Animatics===
* Twilight Mirage: Finale Animatic by astronbot, dancynrew, kieren_sz, SeamonsterArt, ootron, and hedgemice
===Fanart===
* A laceration sufficiently deep by dancy-nrew. Fourteen Fifteen and a tenfour moment.@dancy-nrew (Dec 4, 2022): A laceration sufficiently deep. Tumblr post. Accessed February 6, 2024. (archive link)
* Entangled by madetolooklikeus. Pinup art of Tender for FatT Pinup Week.@madetolooklikeus (Jul 25, 2023): Entangled. Tumblr post. Accessed February 6, 2024. (archive link)
* Primary/Satellite by milkybootscomix. Gray/Demani sticker that accompanied the It's a Garden anthology zine.@milkybootscomix (Feb 23, 2022): Primary/Satellite (a sticker for the It's a Garden anthology). Tumblr post. Accessed February 6, 2024. (archive link)
* the waking cadent by violentandmagnificent. Pinup-ish art of the Waking Cadent.@violentandmagnificent (Jul 23, 2023): the waking cadent. Tumblr post. Accessed February 6, 2024. (archive link)
* various drawings by mar julia@marjulia (Aug 3-7, 2023): gonna post some old fanart from twimirage, since i'm relistening to it! Cohost post. Accessed February 6, 2024. (archive link)
=== Fanfic ===
* the cat who got the whipped cream by bluecloak. Popular canon-setting Tenfour coffee shop AU.
* Despite My Attachment, My Legs Were Deemed Unfit For Utopia by WifeWifeCity. OC ficlet exploring some of the season's ableist tensions.
* not a robot, but a ghost by homsantoft. Gray/Demani fic.
* somewhere in the stratosphere by gogollescent. Post-canon Grand/Echo fic.
=== Fangames ===
* The Confession of Captain Kent Brighton by Matthew Guzdial (Kent Brighton/Gig Kephart)
* excerpts/yours/beloved/signet.asmblg by WhiteLightning (Belgard/⸢Signet⸣)
* let's go back by Mousewife Games
*Selected Records from the files of ⸢Flickers⸣, formerly Dr. Lily Lysander, Excerpt of Gumption by Emma Conner (Lily Lysander/⸢Covenant⸣)
* The Walls Know You by Emma Conner (Belgard & ⸢Signet⸣)
*We Know Exolution by WhiteLightning (Fourteen Fifteen/⸢Signet⸣/Tender Sky)
=== Zines ===
* It's a Garden
* Who's That Big Man?
=== Other Fanworks ===
* Custom Signet doll Archived version by ootron. Doll customized by hand to look like ⸢Signet⸣.
* A Tender, Open Sonnet by spud_infinity. A sonnet about Tender, written from the perspective of Open Metal.
==References==
Category:Friends at the Table