#ALSO CASSIDY. augh. AUGH

[seth-whumps]

characters losing their humanity. characters who are mind controlled or manipulated to being the villain when they could have been the hero. characters who look into the eyes of the enemy and see themselves. characters who question their morals and whether they are doing the right thing. characters who forget what right is. characters who do their job. who do it well. who forget to question the orders. characters who become puppets born of good intentions.

[weepingalaxy]

thinking abt fnaf again and decided to draw some of the kiddos (im so sorry abby garrett mci dci and random unnamed dead kids from security breach maybe next time)

[astrolotte]

hiyooo

tsils chapter 5 :D finally

[auspex]

🍎💙😊👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 for Mark?

YAYYYYYYY YIPPEEE thank u

🍎 RED APPLE — where was your oc born? do they still live in/around their place of birth or do they live somewhere else? how do they feel about their birthplace?

He was born in a small town outsideof Detroit! He now lives in Detroit proper so like an hour ish drive from the outskirts or an hour and a half/two hours from other parts of the city. im tempted to make it Cement City but i haven't decided the canon location yet. want to consult with ST in case he was planning anything relating to it.

he has no desire to move back, but i wouldn't say it is wholly negative. there's good and bad memories there. Overall he dislikes the place and would describe it as "kind of a backwater, not interesting whatsoever, and very... conservative." lol.

💙 BLUE HEART — does your oc have any cool/special powers and/or abilities? how are they with magic, if it exists in their world?

YEAA HE IS MY SPECIAL BOYYY ok. He has blood sorcery, which is normal for Tremere, sure. He's good at it! 3 dots right now which is fairly experienced and exceptionally high for someone who has only been dead for 8 months <3 also he has premonition due to some weird sigil Julius put on his back despite not having the normal auspex dots required for it. Also he knows how to scry on people, and how to force a group premonition, both of which are homebrew technically. also he knows blood strike which is from older editions and its mega op. he got to learn it cause he did Good on Julius Quests <3 and got a good grade in serving Julius which is both Normal to Want and Possible to Achieve of course. <3 augh. what a guy.

😊 SMILING FACE WITH SMILING EYES — what are your oc's career/general life desires? what do they want to get the most out of life?

Ohhh wow yea this changed after his embrace for sure. Right now... he desires to please Julius first and foremost unfortunately. but he does have wants outside of that. He wants to get in a position where he feels safe; he wants to interview elders on history; he wants to spend days upon days researching history... i also think that now that he's undead his beast does want him to have some level of authority and so sure he wants some level of authority over other vampires as well. not a lot but enough to feel more secure. he feels somewhat entitled to it due to being Julius's childe and due to being well. generally good at things and advancing quickly in the Camarilla/Tremere. nepo baby

But yeah Mark dream: hermit house, comes down occsionally to Exert Authority; safe enough to interview elders; stable enough to spend days reading.

Oh and also important: he does NOT want to become out of touch like he has seen many other kindred become. it disgusts him. he feels Superior for not being out of touch. he SMIRKS when kindred don't know how to use phones. he appreciates cassidy trying to keep up with things despite being old so instead of feeling superior it endears him hehehehe gayass.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 FAMILY WITH MOTHER, FATHER, SON AND DAUGHTER — how many people are in your oc's immediate family? how many people are in your oc's extended family? do they have aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, etc? who in their family are they closest with? are they close with their birth family, or do they have a found family?

FUCK i haven't thought about extended family. might confer with ST to answer. He has no siblings though, just mom and dad. he is not close with any of them. I imagine a lot of the extended family dropped him when they found out he was gay :( but yes regardless of if he has extended family, they are not close. Mark has no found family at the moment <3 lonely boy. for a minute there it looked like it could happen with Sampson and his friends/family but then he got embraced and lost that <3 he so Lonely now <3

[viarayy01-blog]

SORRY I AM SPAMMING YOUR INBOX but I from what I remember I think I started following you because I though your art was cool but mainly because I was bouncing off the wall to find someone who likes puppet circus baby and Cassidy because I know there’s quite a few people who like Cassidy but people don’t really ever talk about puppet and circus baby outside of solving the lore. But YOU talk about them and that made me really happy. :)

also sorry for typing a paragraph LMAOOO but I went INSANE when you followed me that made me so happy and especially since you like my Charlie fic oughhhhh

YAYYY OH MY GOD IM GLAD THERE ARE OTHER PPL WHO LIKE THOSE CHARACTERS SM NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THEMMM

i think i followed u after seeing your charlie fic AND THAT REALLY NICE MESSAGE YOU SENT ME BECAUSE AUGH…

[trenchcoatsbi]

hey y'all.

found out i might kin the Golden Freddy Kid (not Cassidy, but i was effectively in the same kind of role: Angy Ghost Child™️), and uh long story short (note that this is directed towards the guy from my timeline):

Fuck You, William Afton, Because Genuinely, What Was Your Problem?

Like I Get It, Your Daughter's Dead. Really, I'm Sorry You Lost Her.

That Doesn't Excuse Fucking Child Murder!!

Also, The Fuck Did Charlie Ever Do To You?? (< i viewed Charlie like an older sister)

Also, Thanks For Killing All Your Son's Friends, Bestie. I'm Sure This Is Helping With His Already Not Great Mental Health From Witnessing His Sister's Death!! /s

Also, WHY DID YOU TAKE MY FREDBEAR PLUSHIE?? Like, Don't Get Me Wrong, I Love Sharing My Fredbear Plush With Cole (CC).

But It Feels Like You're Adding Insult To Injury When You Murder Me, Steal My Plushie, Clean The Blood Off, And Then Hand It To Your Son Like Nothing Happened!! Like What The Fuck Man!!

anyway, uh long rant towards William over, hey Cole and Charlie hope you two are doing well!! ^_^ all of my friends too, obviously but yeah i'm in Missing Cole And Charlie Hours

- 💙🐏 (i think i went by Emi back then)

oof dang that all is wow yeah. (augh sorry i am still functioning on just woke up brain) i second hoping your friends are well geez yall deserve something nice.

[sithwitch13]

AEW Collision 5/18/24

Morgana-kitty is snuggling with me on the couch. This bodes well.

Oh never mind, she was just scared by Elton John

Ooh, starting strong. Also here come the Neck Nerds to be rude on commentary

Good match but I may need to rewatch it because I was distracted by dinner

Augh one of the few times I wish I was still in Texas. I COULD SEE ALL THE WRESTLING. (The weather and politics do not quite balance that out.)

I will never stop being angry that I'm actually enjoying the stupid Learning Tree thing. It's pitch perfect corny and disingenuous and I hate myself

I would not be upset if Taya and Johnny saw me across the bar and liked my vibe. Just saying.

Aww, sweet boys Shibata and Rocky

BRYAN KEITH TIME

.. did Schiavone just call him the "brownie hunter?"

Oh no the feelings are conducted by moisture

Oops the bang bang gang has dry pac

Dang I love an Evil Pietà

Nick Wayne you are a child and that's final

CASSIDY VS KASSIDY TIME

Trent please leave Orange alone

Wow Trent is getting Callis heat

I would love if Anna won this

Luther, what are you doing?

TONI

Aww Jack Cartwheel yay

Yessss the House Call as disrespect, gimme that good shit

Delightful to see Archer and the Righteous

Sweet boy Daniel Garcia is back in Bryan Danielson's life

[hearts401]

FUCKING THIIISSS AND THATS WHY I HATE FNAF 3S PLACE IN THE STORY LIKE

It’s a great conclusion to the missing kids story and leaves room for Charlie and Cassidy to continue (with golden Freddy and puppet not being there) for fnaf 6 and ucn

But also they’ve connected it to michael in a way that is frustrating. Freeing the kids AND getting rid of his dad??? NOOOOOO AUGH

I just wish his “heroism” was dedicated to his family because THAT WAS HIS MOTIVATOR

And the missing kids have something entirely different. They want revenge and refuse to rest. The fnaf 3 fire was someone holding their hands and telling them “it’s over now, you can rest” AND I DONT GET WHY IT HAS TO BE MICHAEL… if we could have someone dedicated to solving this mystery and helping these kids, someone who’s MOTIVE is to help these kids, it’d make more sense

But instead by using this as an attempt to kill William they’ve tied it to Michael

Yk what fuck it what if I say Michael shouldn’t be the fnaf 3 protag either what then. What if I say him coming to find William should’ve been fnaf 6 WHAT TJEN

I don’t Even think that he doesn’t feel sympathy for the kids. I just think that he has tunnel vision and wants to fix his family. He wants to put them back together. It’s just completely different from the mci… augh

Yeah Michaels my favorite. Yes im trying to make him less relevant because I think he overtakes the narrative so much it makes him boring. What about it?

[auspex]

OKOK I know you said youre doing prep and shouldnt be doing markposting so feel free to ignore this till later but i saw the ask about marks humanity and i wanted to ask Does mark do anything special to hold onto his humanity? like endowments/donations or protection of humans or the like? or is he just trying to slow his decline

no its good i gave up i shall prep tomorrow AUGH hehehehe

and uh thats a good idea! LMAOOO but for now he's only like 8 months dead so he still teaches his class as an adjunct which def helps him stay in touch because his students love him :) being a vampire helps ur charisma according to my ST so his classes are going very well. so thats the main thing.

His friend Kenny, who is a touchstone, recently moved to Detroit and he initially put off meeting up but he relented and did so. Im worried that put him in danger as does Mark but he wanted to see him bad : ( and the St said if he hadn't he would have lost touch with his humanity lmao so he did that too

Long term he should do somethin like that but i feel like donations would feel too impersonal to help and I think Mark would agree - he should Ponder what he's gonna do to stay in touch once he's been dead too long to teach classes.. maybe ask cassidy about it.. hm hm much 2 consider. I could totally see him protecting specific humans later on.

He also hopes to stay close w sampson which can help him cling to his humanity but they aint on great terms rn... sampson is his ex/accidental ghoul who hates kindred but was Okay with mark but idk the blood bond is fading and its complicated and. Ok too much history here to summarize sorry salkdjflkfds.

i know mark already wants to start chronicling the history he plans to unlive during! he wishes other kindred cared more about human history and so he's resolved to keep track of stuff :D I think long term he'd wanna write essentially "A Full Kine History" book haha nerd.

[auspex]

mark session recap :D

Insert usual disclaimer here: I don't always give a lot of context because otherwise these would take 4ever. . . feel free 2 ask questions tho! kyle for example has a LOT of shit behind him and he won't make sense if u dont know the story lol .

okay so this session... Mark got a email from cassidy and a text from Sampson, both saying they had to talk to him. augh. he texted sampson how long their talk would take and he said it would be short so he decided to meet with sampson first. After feeding his cat ofc <3

when he got to Sampson's place he gave Mark a very old book and a vial of a black viscous liquid. last individual session, sampson told mark that he knew someone who could help with the blood bond but he would need a vial of mark's blood. Mark reluctantly agreed but told Sampson to make him forget he did it (via cloud memory).

So he reminded Mark of that and, that vial was the result. He wouldn't tell Mark much - said it was better that way - and Mark took the stuff home after briefly looking at it - the book was written in some form of latin. Mark also mentioned to sampson that he might be able to teach him sense the unseen, next time he re-ups his ghouldom. not much happened with that but it was nice to see sampson OOC. he said he needed to 'get the fuck out of this city'. Mark will be so sad when he leaves. Anyway, they agreed there wasn't really a way to keep Mark 'in the dark' about this any longer and they would just have to risk it.

So with that done, he went down to the chantry to talk to Cassidy. Since previously Cassidy's haven got wrecked, he asked to meet in Lilian's. her haven is MUCH smaller than Cassidy's was so its full of books; hard to move around. Cassidy thanks mark for coming on short notice. He explains that due to the recent scrutiny on himself his circle head (basically his supervisor) Dr. White wants his next report in the next few nights.

These reports are apparently very detailed and so Cassidy asked Mark to come over so he could tell him what he would like to be omitted. Which is very nice of him. BUT here is when it gets sketchy.

Cassidy started off by making it sound like it was just related to their investigation of the Salubri. But via questioning and pondering Cassidy actually clarified it was about EVERYTHING he had been doing. Mark asked when his last report was and Cassidy said it was BEFORE HE HAD MET MARK. So essentially anything cassidy said or found out or did with mark could be reported.

And like I said, Cassidy didn't seem to imply that at first. I had to question it. He was honest about it upon questioning, but still. Anyways, Mark listed a few things that were obvious, such as implications he was involved with anarchs. He also asked Cassidy to omit anything about his ghoul (Mark didn't tell cassidy directly, but Sampson was brought up when Cassidy was around.) However, Mark realized that this report may make its way up to julius's ears, and he's paranoid, so he also asked Cassidy to omit instances where Kyle and him and had interacted. Cassidy doesn't know who Kyle is; mark just described the interactions (such as Cassidy being unable to cloud the memory of the ticket booth teller; that was kyle.) He did this in two separate instances so hopefully cassidy didn't pick up on the kyle instances being related. But yeah. This unfortunately means Cassidy might be suspicious about it. But better that than Julius questioning these things...

Also, another suspicious thing that happened is Cassidy reported it was hard to get into his haven, save to sleep.. and 'to slip in to answer his emails'. This sounds normal but Mark and him had had a brief back and forth over email where Cassidy replied near instantly each time!!! Mark does NOT know how he managed that because his haven and Lilian's are not close.

This 'luck' made Mark realize that there was also a chance that Cassidy had seen his lucky coin. Now, I don't think most anyone has context for this because this happened way early in the game, before I talked about it on tumblr. the short of it is that Mark made friends with Gaius's ghoul/adopted son Lucius. Who was a sorcerer and later awakening to be a mage but i digress. Anyway, he had a small bag of coins and gave Mark one. It has a strong magical aura and seems lucky. Kyle also has an obsession with acquiring it. One other time when Mark asked Julius about magic, true magic, Julius brought out a very similar coin (but mark couldnt tell if it was the same type of magic or not.) anyway, he's never mentioned the coin to Julius, and so REALLY didn't want it making its way onto Cassidy's report on the off chance he did notice it.

Which he did. Mark asked if Cassidy knew that he had a certain magic item. Cassidy said that perhaps he knew. Mark was like 'but you will make me confirm, yes?" and cassidy was like "yes. :) "

So he took it out and Cassidy was like Ah yes. that. Ok I will omit that. :) But I would love to discuss that with you later. :) He said it very pleasantly. But twas sus.

Anyway, it was a weird convo overall because like.. It's nice of Cassidy to ask Mark this, but Cassidy never disclosed that he;d have this type of report in this great of detail before (thought some sort of reporting is assumed ofc); and now Cassidy has a List Of Things Mark Wants Kept Secret. CRIES . .. .

Mark also failed every insight check so Cassidy seemed genuine the whole time.

after all that, cassidy explained that he was gonna go through all of his notes so that he can give a proper report to dr white and therefore he'd be busy for the next few nights. apparently they are verbally presented. he set his notebooks out in a circle as he combed through them. cassidy will email mark when he is free again :(

Sad. Mark also asked if he was good to read those books regarding resisting blood bonds here. Cassidy said to ask Lilian but otherwise, yeah, he could. He quickly finds Lilian in her lab and she is doing some weird mad scientist shit, but doesn't mind him reading at all in her haven. She gestured to a cot and said she mostly sleeps here anyway.

So he returns to Lilian's place where Cassidy still is - he is briefly surprised to see him back but Mark spends like 3 hours reading there with him. He read one of the Forbidden Books that Cassidy smuggled out and it seemed to have beenwritten by an early Sabbatmember to their child about how to break the blood bond via the vaulderie. my ST flavored it a lot better but thats the gist of it.

Cassidy and Mark didn't talk much; cassidy was doing his own note-compiling and only apparently glanced over a few times to see what he was reading. When Mark left Cassidy said it was pleasant though :)

On the way out Mark decided to visit G again (the gargoyle he has been teaching how to read.) It was SO FUCKING ADORABLE y'all. G always acted like a very young child but he is getting smarter :) he remembered ALL of his vowels!! He finished learning the whole alphabet and started to learn how to spell! He used Trial and Error and wow. I'm so proud of him. He was SO thankfully. he drew a heart for mark. by like. scraping it into the concrete lol. but yes was so pure. crying.png forever over G.

His sister gave Mark a dirty look as he was leaving but did go over to G and ask what he had learned that day after he left.

overall Mark found it to be a pretty great night :) and i thought it was over.. but .. . . . . not over yet.

He went home. he talked to his cat about how things were going. he realized he liked Cassidy, probably, and said as such out loud to his cat: "I think I like him. Probably not a good thing, hm?" anyway. he went over some other things too but I will explain this relevance later.

He then read the book Sampson got for him, while petting the cat. :) It was basically describing in detail how to weaken a blood bond.. and the more Mark read, he realized that the vial he has was the start of this ritual. Hmm. He didn't finish it yet, but had to go to bed.

And he tried to.

But when he went to lay his head down ... right in his ear... Kyle's voice. "HI Mark, how are you?"

After of course being incredibly startled and privacy invaded he was pissed. He said something like 'better before you got here' and Kyle was like. "Seems like you had a good Night :)" Mark just said it was productive but it seems Kyle overheard what Mark said to his cat... a few things were mentioned but Kyle said he could 'smooth things over with loverboy' if Mark would give the coin to him. Kyle also commented on how he loves "young love" LOL and was of course cagey and denied spying on Mark and Cassidy but like. cmon besties.

Anyway poor Mark gets no privacy and now Kyle is invested in the Mark/Cassidy romance as well. THAT'S THE SESSION! Mostly a reading one but we love Kyle developments.