Are you a Tremendous Swell, your pockets never to let, able to buy an Abby? Are you perhaps a Corinthian, a Nonesuch, or a Nonperiel, drinking Blue Ruin at the Daffy Club, putting on the gloves at Jackson's Saloon, ridding Sudden Death on the roads, and a bruising rider to hound, but with a neat, light hand? Or are you instead a Tulip? People call you a Twiddlepoop and a Counter Coxcomb, but you know better. You know you are the veritable Pink of the Ton.
Perhaps you trod a darker path. Perhaps you are are a Greek, or a Captain Sharp, or on the dub lay, always looking for a cove as would bleed very freely. Perhaps you're a Free Trader, one of the Gentlemen, and the Beadle can't touch you. Perhaps you've worked your way up to the supposed romantce and adventure of the High Toby, and have found it means long, wet nights, bad food, friends who might just cry rope on you for a few yellow boys, and small and uncertain rewards. Whatever the case, you've got a fastener after you, and perhaps the Runners have your description. You know that one of these days, you'll end up on the Nubbing Cheat.
The way a person talks tells a lot about them, and the Steam Age and just before had some of the most interesting and prolific slang (or cant, as they would say,) in English history. I think this would make a very interesting panel for Clockwork Alchemy. How would YOUR character talk? It's my first con, so I probably shouldn't be making suggestions, but I do think it would be a lot of fun.
Sounds fun. If someone does run a panel, it might be interesting to include two or more people having the same conversation, but as different characters.