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Submitted: June 13, 2011
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Date Taken:Jun 13, 2011, 11:50:22 AM
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Photography / Still Life / Dolls and Figures

Guaranteed to blow your mind...

You win the internet if you get all the hidden connections in this, it's title and the history involved! GOOD LUCK!

Orly is a Lishe boy. He's many other things too, but that'd be telling!

***EDIT***

Ok, the list of hidden meanings and subliminal messaging since loads of people got stuck *snort*

The framing and overall design is taken from Mucha's infamous Moet et Chandon poster seen here: [link] Which is also how I came by the name, which is a Queen lyric from the song Killer Queen, in which Freddy uses the line:
She keeps Moet et Chandon in a pretty cabinet...
The song is actually also pretty much an apt description of Orly's time as a courtesan, so that one has three meanings in one!

The roses at the top are called Orlando, the real deal are pink, sadly, but when I wrote them into his story, they became a very pale cream, hence the one you see in his hair, on the left.

The circle frame around his head is the edge of a Wedgwood plate since Orly and his eldest boy have a HUGE collection of the black and grey basalt variety. See these shots for them with one of their black versions, and yes, that is a GENUINE Wedgwood teacup, they make them in scale for SD's:

The words around the circle are all the titles Orly has carried. Well, not all, but certainly the most important ones anyway. They include his birth name, the name of a Greek god who's myth was created because of him, a title afforded to him by the Court of the Vampiri, the name he adopted for himself and is most commonly known by and his many places as the Gray matriarch.

The teacup in his hand represents Lady Grey tea, also named for him and his favoured blend at that.

The swamp of grey cloth is pretty obviously a nod to the family name.

And FINALLY, the much over quoted sentence at the bottom, NOT attributable to Oppenheimer, he wasn't the first or last to use it, but actually from The Bhagavad Gītā, specifically, Kali, the goddess of death. Orly once very famously said it to the leader of a kingdom his troops had obliterated without mercy while he was a commander within Alexander the Great's armies, instantly inspiring many legends involving the strange, pale haired being that cannot die but visits death upon those who test it. Superstitious lot, back then!