#Vampyr video game

[wniemocy]

Well, I said once that I would try to take it from the ground yeah?

Smol step by step then heh. I really would love to make full design for my main trio. But for now the problematic boys of this fandom back to back. I don’t remember when was the last time I drawn one of this two honestly. I’m really elbows deep in my personal project so we will see.

btw this is probably the most Geoff protecting his neck with scarf you would ever fucking see lol

[silurisanguine]

So confirmation. Geoffrey is around two inches shorter than Jonathan. I managed to get them standing side by side in the cemetery then took a photo from the back. But Geoffrey is obviously broader in the shoulders and chest. (addendum - also note Jonathan is slouching a little, as shown by the sloped shoulders. So he could be even taller.) Hope that helps fic writers and artists!

[secondarythings]

[rurousha]

Jonathan comes back to London after being locked up with Elizabeth for a year. Both decided they needed some time apart to find their footing after everything.

Jonathan comes by Geoffrey one night. Jonathan is casual and annoying, and Geoffrey is angry that Jonathan is back in town. Also that he got a letter saying Jonathan would be gone for a while and would he please keep an eye on Swansea and check in on his mother from time to time? Anyway, Jonathan is up on a balcony, Geoffrey is shouting up at him, the two Guards with him are feeling very uncomfortable. They try shooting him a couple times, but Jonathan just shadow dashes out of the way. Geoffrey tells them to stop wasting their bullets. If Reid wanted them dead, they never would have seen him coming. Jonathan requests that he tell his remaining Guards to please leave him alone as he is tired of killing priests and what look like children.

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Geoffrey hunts down a remaining Vulkod. Jonathan is already in combat with it. Geoffrey shoots it, and it flings Jonathan bodily across the alley. Ignoring the shots, it charges Geoffrey, grabs him by the neck, and starts to feed on him. Jonathan leaps onto it and stabs it repeatedly in its neck. It grabs Jonathan’s arm, squeezes until the bone shatters, and throws him against a wall. Geoffrey draws his sword as the Vulkod advances on him again. Then Jonathan uses his Abyss ability and kills it. He slumps against a wall, too injured to move much.

Geoffrey approaches Jonathan.

“Don’t come near me! I am dangerously low on blood, and you’re bleeding.”

Geoffrey touches his bite mark and leaves without a word. He returns a few minutes later, holding a wriggling rat by its tail in his gloves hand. “Hope you ain’t too delicate.”

Jonathan takes the rat and drains it in a single swallow. He activates Autophagy and heals his broken ribs.

“Not your arm?”

“I can at least walk with a broken arm.”

“Can’t you feed on the big guy?”

“Not once he’s dead. At least, not normally.” Jonathan collects some of Vulkod’s blood to turn into a serum later. “Are you injured?”

“Just banged up a bit. A lot better off than the condition you left me in.”

Instead of feeling guilty, Jonathan just smiles at the memory.

The two walk off in the same direction, purely by coincidence, no I am not following you, Reid. Jonathan leads him to one of his hideouts. Geoffrey is surprised that it has not only a bed but some lab equipment, clean water, and ammo.

“Convenient that this was so close by.”

Jonathan agrees noncommittally.

“You have these boltholes all over town, don’t you?”

“Yes. Well, I used to during the skal epidemic. Several of them were discovered and repurposed by locals while I was gone.”

Jonathan makes a blood serum one handed, injects it, and heals his arm. Then he collapses into bed fully dressed.

“You just going to sleep with me here?”

“Geoffrey, it has been a long night, and it is nearly dawn. I suggest you either leave and please don’t burn the place down while I’m asleep, or lay down and get some rest yourself.”

“Lay down? With you?”

“Don’t be so delicate, Geoffrey. I was in the war - close quarters are nothing new to me.”

Geoffrey does not appreciate being called by his first name. But it’s practically a dare now, and Geoffrey is feeling rather exhausted.

“Budge over Reid.” Geoffrey shoves at Jonathan’s hip with his boot. Jonathan just rolls over and ignores him. Geoffrey pulls his coat tighter around himself and lays down.

Some hours later, he begins to wake to the feeling of someone nuzzling into his hair and mouthing gently at his neck. God, that feels good. It’s been ages since anyone treated him like this.

Wait.

Then he feels a tongue slide roughly against his fresh bite mark.

Geoffrey shoves Jonathan back and leaps out of bed. “What the hell, Reid?!”

Jonathan, startled awake, sits up blearily. “I apologize. That was… unseemly.”

“Unseemly?! That was - shit, you opened it back up.” Blood wells in the wound.

Geoffrey storms out, but he doesn’t burn the place down with Jonathan inside.

He burns it down the next day.

“Real mature, McCullum!”

“Go fuck yourself, Reid!”

The two junior Guards are still confused.

[kaelma]

Updated my Vampyr fanfic for the first time in months. Happy Halloween, have some drama!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42333438/chapters/153342175

[thenapalmvault]

A lot of video essays on Mouthwashing are coming out and I have yet to see one video essay that acknowledges that some of us might behave EXACTLY like Jimmy and Curly under the circumstances and how Mouthwashing can really be a cautionary tale about how not to be like them.

I shall be counting the days for that, because I am not doing that video for you guys.

[kiivg]

."Didn't need your help, Leech.".

[wniemocy]

Welp in the end I'm still trying because I like it here. If my works now feel fucked sorry, it's glaze. But we live in times that try to take away joy anyway.

Sad boys for sad times my friends.

Vampyr bullshit once moreee

[silurisanguine]

1- Edgar repeatedly during conversations with Jonathan goes giddy eyed over the idea of researching vampire blood as a medical advancement. He even states it in one of his introductory notes to Jonathan. So it's already for-shadowed long before we find out that he is experimenting and willing to do so. I'm afraid no matter how much you may wish it, that IS Edgar and it is from the start.

2- Ashbury is receiving transfusions to help sate her thirst, and if she has given blood it is in the hope Edgar can help 'their condition' aka their thirst. Not the Blood of Hate as she also has no idea she is a healthy carrier. She thought she'd been cured by the Tears of Angels William gave her. It's only Jonathan telling her at the end that she suddenly realises she isnt and that's why she flees. As for Geoffrey. Well it seems in game he does turn no matter what. You see his in game model changes to the same vampiric appearance even if you spare him. His eyes are bluer, skin paler and veiny. There had been plans to do a DLC where McCullum would have been the protag and i think he was always meant to be a Nimrod. So in the spare option, he either doesn't realise he's turned or is hiding it. The relic could be kept in a vault and decanted into the flask/ vial etc. For all we know its powder they mix with water...it is after all ancient vampire blood. We dont know if that stays liquid or coagulates like human blood. So seeing it in different vessels makes sense. It's like the big urn Ascalon have. Lord Regrave doesnt give Jonathan the urn, just a sample of the blood.

Vampyr: The Elixir Theory

I suspect we would have received a more complete explanation of this in the game, if the hyped-up Ascalon vs. Priwen vs. Brotherhood conflict had actually culminated in anything more than empty threats and bursts of turf war violence

but one element I continually see critiqued by fandom (and rightfully so!) is the exact mechanical function of vampire blood. the mechanics of Progeny-making are convoluted enough on their own, so I'll leave them for another post—but I'd like to focus on two specific examples I suspect to be related (major plot spoilers follow):

namely, Geoffrey drinking King Arthur's blood, and Edgar administering Lady Ashbury's blood to Harriet.

why doesn't geoffrey turn into a vampire regardless of your choice, if he drank king arthur's blood without realizing arthur was a vampire? (and myrddin confirms arthur was a vampire in the epilogue) why does it work like a super serum? maybe he diluted it...?

but even just a drop or two of jonathan's blood was enough to turn mary, and he and arthur are both first generation ekons. so there has to be something else done to the blood, apart from reducing its amount.

and there are... several issues with the edgar example, to just name a few...

edgar was personally hired by ash and is admired for his competency by his employees (not least of all waverley ackroyd, whose respect seems like a thing particularly hard-won), he takes diligent notes and studies new research closely, so surely he wouldn't be so reckless as to use vampire blood for no reason? and i know, i know stephane beauverger's hormonal, temper tantrum-throwing version of Jonathan that shows up in every Y-choice scene tries to convince us edgar is a loathsome little bastard, but please bear with me and entertain for a moment the idea that, like so much else in this bullshit story, edgar's Y-choice scene is trash and should not be accepted at face value.

2) ash claims she submits to blood tests so edgar can "help her with her condition"; what condition, then, if not the blood of hate? are we on that "curing vampirism" nonsense from the epilogue? in either case, surely it's vital that edgar knows what he's working with if he's to make any meaningful forward progress on her cure? there's no world in which it makes sense for ash to give edgar access to her evil, fucked up, apocalypse-starting, jacob blackwood-Siring blood without informing him exactly what he's working with. for safety reasons at the very LEAST—if not because he is specifically trying to cure the thing which makes her blood so dangerous

if ash was somehow ignorant of edgar's experiments, she's seriously dating herself lmao. what did she think he was gonna do? toss it in a centrifuge and take notes? "oh i simply don't understand your convoluted mortal medicine" girl ok. the ONE thing this man wants most in the whole world is to be a vampire, and you give him your blood without any caveats about why turning himself (or anyone) would be a bad idea?

so, ok. ok. for the sake of actually addressing the similarity between these two applications of vampire blood, let's set aside points 2 and 3—for now. given an ash who asks edgar to treat her blood of hate, but who for some reason elects not to tell him any of the really vital details about why her blood is dangerous to handle...

why would edgar use ash's blood in harriet's treatment?

keep that question in mind, and let's go back to geoffrey for a second.

he calls king arthur's blood "the guard's most precious/sacred relic"; he gives it to jonathan in a small vial, yet when he drinks it in battle i believe it's in a flask? regardless, you don't throw back your Most Sacred And Precious Relic like it's shots at the local dive bar, and if he had he certainly wouldn't have any left to give Jonathan.

seems to me priwen has two things:

arthur's blood

some kind of super-strength-endowing, accelerated-healing elixir recipe which calls for "the blood of a king"

now. every relic and document priwen has which predates the brotherhood/priwen schism circa 1700s necessarily came from the brotherhood. and priwen left because they didn't like how the brotherhood let all these powerful vampires go on living, only calling the ban of the dragon (read: putting out a hit) on a vampire in really high-profile flagrant serial murder cases.

and why would the brotherhood give vampires a pass?

to spare you any more of my convoluted thought processes, I'll come right out and say it:

I think the brotherhood studied, tolerated, and built bridges with vampires, because they knew vampire blood could be distilled into an elixir that would increase human longevity.

the longterm goal here is to create an atmosphere of mutual respect and a base of knowledge to refine their concoction, so that at some indeterminate time in the far-flung future (maybe world peace? lol), humans and vampires can enjoy a fully symbiotic relationship which benefits both species.

but put yourself in the shoes of the top brass: you can't go around telling people that vampire blood can give you eternal life! there are already people in your organization who dislike vampires. what would they do with that information? vampires could become a slave race, or be hunted to extinction—people could be Turned just to be harvested in fucked up elixir farms!

so, okay. you just tell the primate and a trusted circle of high-ranking brotherhood members, then. problem solved?

well, now you've got this sort of internal divide—between the privileged and informed higher ranks, and the lower-ranking brotherhood members who are relatively new, who don't trust the vampires they're just now learning about—but who know just enough to participate in the ban of the dragon. and it's starting to piss that second group off, just how calm and smug all the higher-ups act about horrific acts of vampire violence, when asked why in God's name they've got to put up with that shit

maybe the recipe for the elixir trickles down to those lower ranks (in case they need to fight a particularly nasty Dragon), but it's modified. we don't want the haters knowing just any vampire blood will do, so just say that you need The Blood of A King, and wouldn't you know it, we just happen to have the blood of a king right here!

and he definitely wasn't a vampire!

thus: during the schism, priwen takes the blood of king arthur and the modified (unbeknownst to them) recipe. and after the first great hunt, the brotherhood is more sure than ever that the world isn't ready for the secret of vampire blood elixirs

but they still have it.

enter edgar.

he's currently in the brotherhood, which doesn't seem like a nomadic militia like Priwen, but an organization very firmly headquartered in London, with a library of secret knowledge.

and Usher insinuates he's something more than human. immortal, perhaps?

if we take all this as truth, then Edgar doesn't do a random act of uninformed medical experimentation with very dangerous vampire blood, contrary to everything we know about his character up until that point. he is working from a recipe that is a known, verified good. in fact, it's quite likely he used it on himself first.

(post-Turning, edgar gushes his enthusiasm about being "the next Henry Head"—a neurologist famous for severing his own neural connections to research neural pathway regrowth. edgar is 100% down for self-experimentation)

but it didn't work—either because the blood of hate has a more virulent effect on women, or because plague mommy interfered in the process personally (though it's really unclear how much the game conflates the blood of hate with Plague Mommy Possession, and how much blood of hate is just... regular bloodthirst. i told you this story makes no sense)

anyway, all the rigorous medical methods in the world won't do much to stop divine intervention, so that's why it didn't work.

the mason swanborough side quest also drops a lore document regarding the process of using skal tissue to cure blindness. so... yknow. it seems like the only reason this has to be inferred at all is the rushed production leading so much of the story fractured. but all the pieces are there.

[silurisanguine]

Tracing and copying another's fan art and claiming as your own is a major DO NOT FUCKING DO.

I take no pleasure in doing this, but it is important. First and foremost - Tracing images to learn how to draw properly or to get a rough outline of an object or to do quick studies for fun is a known and understood technique in art. Some of the biggest fine artists did it - Picasso, Degas, Andy Warhol, even Leonardo Davinci did it.

When doing an outline trace from say a screenshot, it's always a good idea to say it's a study of one as I've done in the past and then those studies have been from virtual photography shots I've taken and edited myself. But

Tracing someone else's fan art and then claiming it as your own - that's a big mistake. Being that the art is from a fandom I'm part of and I follow the original artist I need to call this out as I recognised the original art straight away. TLDR - The user @kindakaikura produced a Vampyr art trade that was a direct trace over and copy of katrina_g46 artwork on Insta - that Katrina did back in 2021. The first drawing was drawn up and posted on a Discord where it was pointed out it was an exact copy of someone else's art to which Kai claimed there were 'similarities'.... That drawing was posted on various socials including here but soon deleted, though I have screenshots. Since then she's uploaded a 'changed' version on Twitter , here on Tumblr - and even Insta where Katrina is based! (Update - the post has come down here, but is still up on the other links).

But it's pretty obvious what's been done to this changed version. (flipped, badly change an arm position..squashed the face). First let's see the original artwork by Katrina g46 done in 2021-

Now let's compare the original with Kai's traced copies (her first version- quickly deleted and the altered ie flipped version that's now posted)-

Comparisons -

It's pretty obvious it's a trace and copy of someone else's fan art.

Be inspired by other people's fan art by all means, but straight out tracing and then badly trying to alter it and claim as your own is just not on. I cannot respond directly to Kai or the one who commissioned them as strangely 🤔 🙄 they have blocked me here so I must make my own post calling out this behavior in the hopes they will learn from it and develop their own artistic style. I have also let Katrina know on Instagram.

[secondarythings]

Some vampyr screenshots.

I call this batch "atmospheric and powers".

The first few are at Stonebridge.

Then I tried to catch his powers on screen. The shadow dash is not that impressive, but I giggled when posting the autophagy one. Jonathan, what reactions are you having there?

[rurousha]

Jonathan: I found your necklace. With all the bodies.

Seymour: Oh thanks. Wondered where I’d dropped that.

Jonathan: So you’re a serial killer.

Seymour: Yeah, I’m a serial killer.

Jonathan: Wellll… talk to you later.

[silurisanguine]

I do wonder if Jacob was kept aside for the considered Geoffrey McCullum DLC that never happened. Because I could just imagine a Nimrod up against a real Dragon.

I think I found Jacob Blackwood looking through Vampyr concept art. The tall man on the left. He looks identical to the man in the portrait displayed on Ashbury’s castle wall. He’s handsome.

UM, HELLO???? HELLO?????? I HAVEN'T SEEN THIS BEFORE

God fuck Jacob is such a wasted character imo. I'm working on too many unfinished fanfics in other fandoms but every time I come back to Vampyr, I think 'hey, that subplot with Carina, Jacob, and Elisabeth never got wrapped up' and I want SO badly to do something with it. like legit any time I brainstorm possible Vampyr fic ideas, they all include wrapping up that one subplot because Jacob is just too interesting of a character to not.

[yesiplaygamez]

me at any non- romanceable NPCS that I like: If they didn't want me to romance them. Why make them hot?

[neuroticflesh]

V A M P Y R (2018)

[nuihopes]

That moment when you finish a piece of media and can finally look at fanart and fanfictions without the fear of being spoilered