#auspex talks

[auspexsims]

that’s all for now with my occult legacy queue!

nsb2 up next for a while as i try very hard to return to decades ❤️ nsb2 gen1 has some of my favorite vibes i’ve been able to achieve in ts4, rivaling the vibes of occult gen1 💃🏻

[crownedinmarigolds]

Hello everyone! With help from @auspex, we are putting together the first Tumblr of Darkness Secret Santa event! This event is where artists may come together, submit their World of Darkness OCs, and we can all draw and exchange gifts with one another! Just a little fun to remind one another that we're a great community!

How to Participate: There is indeed a limited amount of time to sign up to make sure everyone has a fair chance! Applications are open 11.04.2024 and will be kept open until Monday 11.11.2024. - You will be submitting your World of Darkness original characters and link their reference materials so that another artist may draw them! Please make sure you have a link that someone may have open access to. This can be a Google Drive folder, your art tag on a social media, etc.  If you make a Google Drive, make sure your Secret Santa does not have to request access and spoil the surprise. In short, just make sure it's easy for your future gifter to look through! Please don't make it a treasure hunt to find out info on your character just to make things easier. When the applications close, we will then put all participants' names into a randomizer to assign everyone their Secret Santa! Auspex and I will make sure to notify you all as soon as possible as well as provide the reference links so that you can have as much time needed to get the artwork finished. You may go as crazy or mild as you like, but just be aware that artists of ALL skill levels are invited to join! Do not be deterred if you feel like you can't draw - that is the devil talking! Every work of art you make is amazing and any gift with heart behind it is wonderful. - For this year, we asks that the gifts remain art-only. Any medium is fine (digital or traditional) but writing, playlists, mood boards, or anything else won't be accepted. Those things are great, and maybe in the future that could be another exchange, but for simplicity's sake - keep it to art, please. If you want to add mood boards or playlists or write ups as little bonuses to your art - that is entirely up to you! - Please remember these works of art are gifts. This exchange is a community event where everyone is free to participate and share in the spirit of giving during this holiday season. Do not feel bad if you feel like you are not drawing as "well" as somebody else, and please do not make others feel bad if you feel like they're not reaching your standards. This is meant to be fun and for everyone who wants to try! We plan to notify everyone within the next day or two after closing applications, and you will have until 12.20.2024 to draw and submit your works back to Auspex and I so that we may send them to their intended recipient! If you know the person you have and would like to share early, we understand, but please if you would keep it off of Tumblr until the event is concluded just so everyone can be surprised! Once the event is over, have at it and post away! - Please respect the time and effort everyone is putting in! If you feel like something has come up and you won't be able to finish or participate after applying - that is fine. Just let us know as early as possible so that we can either inform your gift recipient or take you off the list.

You will find the application here: https://forms.gle/9VTyd4FsyENwjR4B6

For any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to me (crownedinmarigolds) either on Tumblr or through my email - ladyofsilks@gmail.com. You may also reach out to auspex on Tumblr as well in case I'm unavailable! Thank you all for being a community I love and and I hope we have lots of fun trying this out!

Please reblog so all of the community may see and get to join in!

[aztarion]

OC Deep Dive - Soledad

What common/uncommon fear do they have?

(Ignoring the obvious fire and sunlight here)

That she won’t be useful; that she’s been ruined for nothing.

The blood bond.

Diablerie — not as in being diablerized, but the act itself; of being manipulated into/tempted again; of not being able to stop/her bulimia triggering if she’s for whatever reason feeding from another kindred, something she tries very hard not to do.

Aila — that presence when it stirs.

It’s more “fear for”, but Julian, or specifically whatever he’s thinking when his eyes get that focused black gleam. She knows it like some dreaded visual cue: tunnel vision. It used to be cute, watching him prattle while they lay out on the trailer roof on the New Mexico border two hours before sunrise, but they’re not fledglings anymore — there are very real consequences now.

Her voraciousness — in physical and emotional hunger.

Rats.

Do they have any pet peeves?

People that don’t use their turn signal.

When strangers ask about her scar or tattoos right off the bat.

Getting blood on or washing blood out of her clothes — because she customizes everything and really does try to save them.

Minimalism.

Stock cars.

People who talk too fast. When Julian especially starts talking too fast.

When ANYONE adjusts absolutely anything in her car. However she will do just that to yours.

What are three items you can find in their bedroom?

I guess when she’s on the move she will always have:

Topaz and mahogany heirloom rosary

Matte black finish gun kit (+ nighthawk custom)

Emergency blood bag

really quick vibes...

What do they notice first in a person?

Physically, and in rapid succession, their put-togetherness, what they’re wearing, then eyes, then mouth. Appearance might get a second once-over to take everything in, maybe sense the Beast. Body language and demeanor. Power they exude. In some situations with kindred and in more situations with mortals, she might try to gauge how attractive they perceive her to be. Where their eyes fall; how interested and receptive they are. In kind, how open, honest, or easy their behavior is — if there’s a forced sincerity about it. Sol doesn’t have auspex but she is decently intuitive and can be manipulative. She’ll also analyze how they interact with other people — those they know or mutual strangers.

What she notices first after building a rapport with a stranger is loyalty. That’s the moment it sinks in that this is or could potentially be someone reliable or meaningful to her.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how high is their pain tolerance?

Physically: 7. Much tougher than a mortal obviously, and she can definitely take a beating, but she doesn’t have fortitude and can be a bit of a glass cannon in a straight fight against heavy hitters. If her insides are mostly outsides at some point, she will be screaming crying throwing up (literally if her derangement triggers which then probably kicks off a hunger Frenzy).

Mentally: 9 LOL. Sol’s resolve and composure are insanely high and she has such a weak, dissolving and deeply negative sense of self already… it would be difficult for someone to target her in that way and have any luck getting through to really hurt her. Which is a whole other issue 🤦‍♀️

Emotionally (essentially if you are Julian, or her brother Tiago, or the presence of Aila; to a lesser extent Elena and Lettow): 4. Huge upset here is what’s most likely to pierce carapace, hit that soft underbelly. Sol definitely has got that desert fruit pulpy, nutty and horrifically messy centre underneath all the disconnect.

Do they go into fight or flight mode when under pressure? (Or freeze or fawn?)

It depends. Sol actually works well under pressure (again as long as it’s not her very specific brand of emotionally taxing trigger).

If she thinks she has a chance at getting through, or has no chance at all in a fight, she will fawn. It’s become insidiously intrinsic: whatever you need, whatever you want, I'll bend to any shape, don’t worry about me.

In an unavoidable outright hostile situation she’ll hold her ground and fight but be dirty about it. The nighthawk is pretty effective on mortals lol. With other kindred or when vastly outnumbered however… she’s not a tank but she’s slippery and her scorpion’s-touch-augmented-protean-claws hit like envenomated machetes. She can draw a whip from her vitae and create ugly little parasitic snakes made from spilled viscera. She will incapacitate, possibly fawn again if something can be worked out (Miss Second Chances To Her Detriment over here), and/then/or shoot to kill. Or die I suppose if she loses.

What animal represents them best?

Scorpions, snakes… specifically the species’ that are shyer, solitary and less aggressive, which in some cases those often have the strongest venom — very fitting for Sol. She can be a handle-carefully-and-don’t-push deal these nights.

It’s more out of symbolism but I really like the idea of the hummingbird for her too, in an “in another life/if things had went differently” kind of way (also the Sierra Vista connection — where she grew up). She was once naturally extroverted, poised, playful, dreamy, brave. Never stubborn or too headstrong, but at least less inclined to do what others wanted of her if she disagreed. Those traits have warped a lot, and she’s since got too-sharp teeth and corpse-skin that really is starting to feel a lot like carapace.

She knows she’s a monster, and she has complex views on that, but at the end of it all cannot detach from her conscience. Guilt eats her alive. I think Sol wants nothing else but to keep from what feels like the inevitable complete unhinging of her jaw.

How would a stranger likely describe them?

Striking, quiet but restless beauty. You guys will have to forgive my art lol. She has soft hispanic/asian features, thick dark wavy hair, deep olive tan skin, long legs. A slow and alluring (but not provocative) way of speaking and moving.

Obnoxious tattoos, dark undereyes, and on closer inspection her gnarly jagged scar can often have a stranger furrowing their brow.

She maintains a poker face, is intentionally unexpressive, but there’s an unconscious sensuality about her.

Sad eyes, like they themselves are trying to tell you something that even she’s not aware of.

Very cautious and conscientious — an intuitive stranger might clock that the fawn fear response has become her natural state of existing.

Do they have any hobbies?

At home base, tuning her ride and probably Julian’s fleet if one is left around. She hates stock. I hc Elena will not let her near the Datsun though, that they share that don’t fucking touch anything in my car rage 😭

She has a pet project of fixing up an old BMW R80 G/S — the motorcycle model her dad drove back in the day. (give me the strength to finish the art i have of this pleaaasee)

She likes to make things out of scrap metal too — welding shit together into little tools, or just because she wanted to see or keep her hands busy. Loves customizing, recycling, retrofitting, renovating and restoring.

Honing her butchered version of blood sorcery. Sol dropped out of school and is not academically inclined, but she is tenacious and open-minded and very much a quick, kinetic learner with a good eye for detail. Julian fills her in on whatever important prep knowledge and research she needs from tomes for bigger rituals, but he is usually the one conducting those — Sol has no grand plans. Otherwise she experiments a lot with minor powers within both the blood sorcery and protean disciplines, and her own weird magic-melee amalgamation of them. Because I have to dual-spec or I'll die!!!!!

finally had time to finish this….thank you so much for the tag @diableriedoll ^^

i’ll tag @devilbrakers @gauntlings @silkenred @kibellah @vesperblood

@ustalav @auspex @eurodyning

@ruvviks @girlnextvore @baelavelaryon @dykeferatu and any oc perverts reading this because my mind goes blank everytime

[toreadorcaretaker]

OC Deep Dive: Clement Gray

what common/uncommon fear do they have?

Fear of blood! Yes, very ironic. Feeding from live prey is quite hard for him, because it reminds him that what he's drinking is blood. So he usually uses bags. He can power through it though - being a doctor taught him how to stay calm despite the fear when seeing other people's blood. It's also a bit easier if he's feeding from someone he loves.

On the other hand...seeing his own blood? Nah, my dude WILL faint, can't power through that.

do they have any pet peeves?

It's fairly difficult to annoy him, but he dislikes people who can't be serious. He's someone who likes to talk about deeper issues, so someone who tries to turn everything into a joke will get on his nerves.

what are 3 items you can find in their bedroom?

Jewelry strewn everywhere while trying to pick an outfit, a skull collection, and band posters.

what do they notice first in a person?

The way they're feeling. Clement assesses someone's mood at a glance, especially if he has his third eye out and/or is using auspex. But even without his powers, he will notice any signs of joy or distress in a person's facial expression. He will usually look someone right in the eye with an unsettling intensity.

on a scale of 1 to 10, how high is their pain tolerance?

Emotional pain: 10/10 - he will acknowledge and express it and that makes emotional difficulties a lot easier for him to handle. Physical pain: like a measly 5/10. He wants to push through anything to protect those around him, but my bro will unfortunately just break/pass out because his body was not built for this. And he'll be guilty about it afterwards :(

do they go into fight or flight mode when under pressure? (or freeze and fawn)

Fawn. He will do anything to placate the people around him and try to peacemake.

what animal represents them best?

A horse! Will carry you on his own back to safety.

how would a stranger likely describe them?

"Weirdly comforting goth cowboy. I felt like he could see into my soul but at least he wasn't judgy about it."

do they have any hobbies?

Dancing, horse rescue, and poetry ^_^

Thank you so much for the tag, @kavalyera ! I'm gonna tag you right back, and also: @porcelainseashore @diableriedoll @paingoes and @sir-fenris for any oc you'd like, if you want to!

Credits: Top Image | Top Chain Divider from @cyberangel-graphics | Other Chains

[girlnextvore]

OC Deep Dive: Andrea "Drea" Marvella

Hecata (Lamia) - !2th Generation -

tagged by @findingtarshish (thank you)

+ what common/uncommon fear do they have?

Hmm Its kind of hard to answer for Drea but I think even though she can't anymore she has a EXTREME fear of getting sick again. Between how her mother passed and also how she herself passed I think if anyone close to her or himself gets even a cold it would do a lot of damage to him mentally. Another one is maybe being selfish, I think Drea has alot of guilt around seeming selfish even though they rarely do anything for themselves.

+ Do they have any pet peeves?

He fucking hates people who care about money to much, Like its probably connected to a general dislike of mobsters but she can not stand people who are to materialistic. Also people who lie for no good reason, It comes with being a vampire but Drea is bad at deception and kind of hopes to always be.

+What are 3 items you can find in their bedroom?

A assortment of knives and maybe a sword, A box full of labeled animal bones (for necromancy) and WAY to many packs of expensive clove cigarettes (its the only luxury he lets himself enjoy)

+What do they notice first in a person?

Eyes. She believes you learn ALOT about a person based on their eyes and also Drea is the type to always look you directly in the eyes while talking to you.

+On a scale of 1 to 10, how high is their pain tolerance?

Like....15. Probably getting to the point where its worrying. This is a woman who let a coterie mate stab her to help them feel better. Not to mention the Bahari stuff. HE DID TAKE HIS OWN EYE OUT

+Do they go into fight or flight mode when under pressure? (or freeze and fawn)

It really depends. As a bodyguard if its a physical or action based pressure its usually stand and fight. However Drea is known to kind of run when it comes to emotional stuff he doesn't really understand to well.

+What animal represents them best?

SNAKES. Specifically really docile but extremely poisonous snakes. A silent and relaxed animal that will bite and kill when you step in the wrong spot. (also probably a guard dog but thats to cliche

+How would a stranger likely describe them?

Quiet but very scary. Probably assumes she is in a gang or the mafia.

+do they have any hobbies?

COOKING. Drea actually likes cooking a lot but since he doesn't eat anymore its more rare. She would cook all of the meals for her and Donna when they where going through the pseudo kiss. Also replaying ff7 over and over again on a old playstation

I'll tag @deathandthesoul @pretend-pretend-vampire and @auspex

also anyone else that wants to do it!

[cutestgirlyhere]

VTM League of Villains AU / Headcanons.

This is basically just a bunch of like, ideas of if the League of Villains were a League of Vampires instead. What clans I think they would be, story differences, stuff like that.

Really long post ahead.

Tenko / Shigaraki - Thinblood: While I imagine All For One as a lower generation Tzimisce, Shigaraki was not directly turned by All for One. Instead being turned by the Doctor that works for him. This way, Shigaraki would have to "earn" proper vampirism, by diablerizing his way up.

Shigaraki was left to his own devices, being made to build up a pack of other vampires, some from the Sabbat and some independents. Eventually he wound up creating the League of Vampires, building up strength both politically and physically.

I imagine he used a lot of thin blood alchemy early on, to try and empower himself and his allies. I picture him also trying to use Profane Hieroes Gamos, a potion that turns you into your ideal body, on Magne, as well as offering it to Shiuchi. He was completely blood bonded to All For One for years, both before and after being turned. Complete loyalty to his master up until Himiko managed to get the group to take part in Vaulderie, a Sabbat ritual that can actually erase pre-existing blood bonds.

At this point, Shigaraki, now going by Tenko, worked with his closest friends to try and kill All For One and rid the city of his influence. Possibly becoming the new Archbishop of the Sabbat afterwards.

Dabi - Caitiff: Endeavor would belong to Clan Ventrue, and be their Primogen for the city's Camarilla.

Dabi is a childe that, for one reason or another, didn't inherit his sire's clan. Endeavor would have been furious about it, and probably wanting to hide the failure of his blood from the rest of the Camarilla.

Alternatively, I could see him actually being a Ventrue, and simply pretending to be Caitiff to avoid any associations with his sire.

While Dabi has access to the Ventrue clan ability of Dominate, I see him refusing to use it. It would be too close to what his dad did of just forcing people into being what you want them to be. And I picture him not really wanting to go that route. Instead leaning into more physical abilities like Fortitude, Potence, and the like.

Dabi would have joined the Sabbat, and the League of Vampires, for a shot at taking down the Camarilla that let his father control so many people, as well as personally wanting to be the one to kill him and the childe that replaced him.

Himiko - Malkavian: Ages ago, me and one of my partners made a character who's whole deal was basically just stalking people they liked and trying to steal their identity. Their way of dressing, the way they talk, all of that, and then I made a malkavian based on that. I realized that would kinda be perfect for Himiko.

Finding someone she likes, stalking them, her madness feeding their thoughts and behaviors into her as she tries to be more and more like them.

I imagine her leaning into Auspex and Obfuscate as her disciplines. Auspex to read people's emotions and know how her loved ones are always feeling, and Obfuscate for not only her sneaky nature, but also the level 5 ability Impostor's Guise.

I kind of imagine Ochako as a Vampire Hunter in this universe, and becoming one of Himiko's main obsessions, only for Himiko to eventually turn Ochako into a vampire to save her from bleeding out. Now two malkavians, both absolutely obsessed with each other and utterly inseparable.

Additionally, she found out about the Sabbat ritual of Vaulderie, where everyone in a pack donates their blood to a cup, and shares drinks of it so everyone in the pack is loyal to each other. She 100% thought it was cute, roped the rest of the group into doing it, and unintentionally found out it disrupts pre-existing blood bonds.

Jin - Malkavian: Probably the most obvious Clan for him. I imagine that since he can't really clone himself in this universe, instead his delusions of multiple selves comes from constantly seeing his past and future versions of Jin at all times. This makes it hard to tell where or when he is, and leads to him responding to conversations out of order whenever his mask is off. Or reacting to threats that haven't happened yet.

I imagine his future sight being part of what gets him invited to join the League. Or it would have gotten him invited, if he didn't already see it happening and just strolled into the League's haven thinking he was already a full time member. Giran was actually in the middle of trying to track him down and wouldn't bump into him for another night.

Jin winds up meeting with Keigo Takami(Hawks), secretly the Gangrel Primogen of the Camarilla. Keigo sees him as an easy in to the League and the Sabbat, planning on trying to take them down from the inside. Since Dabi is from the Camarilla originally, and sired by another Primogen no less, I don't imagine Dabi trusting him at all. Especially not enough to get Jin alone at any point.

They keep Keigo in just close enough that if he tries to pull anything, they can stake him about it. Unfortunately, Jin is much too attached to him at this point, and when the League attacks the Ivory Tower of the Camarilla prince, Jin saves Keigo from final death. Dabi trusts him enough, and with the Camarilla weakened, doesn't see him as enough of a threat to deal with compared to tracking down Endeavor.

The League gets used to him reacting to events out of order. Dabi keeps inviting him to movie nights with the League, where he keeps bawling his eyes out or cheering to emotional movie scenes way too early or way too late.

Magne - Brujah: Originally Camarilla, then Anarch, and finally Sabbat after finding a place among the League of Vampires. I imagine her finding out she was a woman while among the Camarilla, hating the strict roles and expectations, and moving onto the Anarch to be more free and able to be herself.

The unchanging nature of a vampire's body was probably horrible to deal with. She might have heard of the Tzimisce's ability to warp and change flesh, and saw it as a chance to possibly transition. Striking out to meet the Sabbat and find out if the rumors were true, she met Shiuchi, someone else with a body they weren't exactly happy with.

They then were introduced to the League by a ghoul named Giran, and quickly made friends among the other outcasts.

Eventually, Shigaraki would have figured out a thin-blood elixir to try and help Magne, and allowed her the transition her unlife had denied her up until this point.

She still takes the role of big sister in the League, and I imagine her and Himiko doing each other's hair or practicing makeup on Jin.

Compress - Ravnos: Magician act turned vampire in a tragic accident, I imagine he'd honestly take to vampirism pretty well, not to mention the illusion powers of Fata Morgana as a discipline.

I could see him having both the normal and variant clan banes of the Ravnos clan. Needing to never sleep in the same area twice, and people having power over him if they know his original name.

He's probably been a vampire the longest of the League, traveling from town to town, changing his identity everywhere he goes, and finally winding up joining the League after a particularly unhappy encounter with the Camarilla.

I imagine him sticking with the League for a while to have a place of relative safety, and to try and help screw over the Camarilla. He's initially planning on leaving the city the moment things look dicey, only to stick around after bonding with everyone.

The League probably lets him take turns at everyone's havens to avoid his bane of not sleeping the same place twice. Everyone winds up calling dibs on which day of the week he day sleeps at their haven.

Shiuchi - Nosferatu: Shiuchi pre-vampirism wasn't too different from his pre-league self. Staying in his room gaming all the time, avoiding people, a hollow shell of a person. After being embraced, he was one of many Camarilla Nosferatu.

Being a nosferatu, he's at best tolerated by most of the vampires he's met, being well aware of how his appearance makes everyone react. People only ever looked past it if a nosferatu can be useful, and "looking past" is more shorthand for "Avoiding looking at you at all but at least not insulting you for it".

He winds up leaving the Camarilla and meeting Magne, both looking for a way of changing their bodies. Her for comfort reasons, him hoping to be seen as a person for once.

After being introduced to the League, I imagine Shiuchi being a bit weirded out by Shigaraki and the others barely seeming to notice anything weird about his looks. Granted, Shigaraki had seen worse growing up alongside a Tzimisce, but those were monsters and Shiuchi was a person. A friend, as well.

Eventually, Shigaraki devised a thin-blood potion to try and help Magne, by changing one's body to its ideal form. It would have been offered to Shiuchi, but at this point Shigaraki's unwavering support and friendship meant Shiuchi no longer viewed himself as just another freak from the sewers. He found a group of people who didn't flinch when they saw him, and treated him as they did everyone else in the League. I don't imagine him taking the elixir, and Shigaraki wouldn't have tried to push any more than the initial offer.

He 100% breaks into Gamestop in the middle of the night to steal games for himself and Tenko.

All For One - Tzimisce: Archbishop of the Sabbat. Embraced almost 200 years ago, he's been building up followers and amassing an army. I imagine he might have considered the Camarilla at one point, but saw the Sabbat as far easier to manipulate and control.

A frequent user of Dominate and Vicissitude. I imagine he liked to collect people rather than quirks in this universe. Turning them into ghouls or reshaping them into tools. A few humans here, a vampire or two there, maybe a changeling or other magical being every now and again.

He raised Tenko into Shigaraki in this universe much the same as he did in canon. Blood bonding, dominate, and general manipulation to try and make a proper childe out of him. I imagine he chose to have Shigaraki turned into a thin-blood instead of embracing him, to force him to diablerize his way to proper vampirism.

This way he'd lower his humanity and be even easier to control, while also being raised to be a powerful vampire almost equal to All For One himself. Additionally, having such low humanity means that if Shigaraki ever tried to diablerize All For One(at least according to Vtm v5 rules), there'd be a very high chance All For One would just take over the body instead.

This plan kind of fell to pieces when his blood bond on Shigaraki was removed, and the League started plotting to overthrow him entirely.

I'm not entirely sure what All Might would be in this universe. A Vampire Hunter? A Mage? A Werewolf? A Camarilla Prince wouldn't feel right. I imagine Deku would be much the same as whatever All Might is, but am not too sure what would fit both of them if they were a factor in this story.

[valeriefauxnom]

Accidental Minor Plot Holes/Misnomers!

Dragalia in general was surprisingly astute to its tangled mass of lore, but they were not perfect. Every so often, there were little tidbits that on closer thought/lore diving, make no sense with later information!

Take, for instance, the launch wyrmprint "King's Countenance", which intersects both well and poorly with later details on him and his kids:

Its description relays, starting in its 3rd stage:

Now, the king sits and ponders his future. He knows that if he continues on his current path, he will have to pay with his life. And yet, there is no hesitation whatsoever on his visage. For the king had eight promising children who had learned much from watching him fight to support the kingdom. Any of them was more than worthy to take the reins of the country's future.

On the bright side, this works well with the details that Aurelius, when heading to the Binding Ruins, knew he was playing with fire and chose to anyways in the hopes of helping Nedrick, whom he had newly discovered was alive and not-still-quite-so-well:

...But on the flipside, well...

I'm a royal fam major when it comes to Dragalia lore, and even I, uh, would not be so bold as to claim that Aurelius has 'eight capable children' to take the throne. Leonidas, Phares, Chelle, even Valyx, sure. Beren, whom has been locked in the dungeons since being an infant???? Emile??????????? Zethia, who has forsworn the throne herself to be the Auspex? Whoops.

And it's not as if Aurelius has blindingly rose-colored goggles on, either. He's Concerned enough about Emile to not only appoint Magnus in the hopes of teaching him some better morals, but also granted him the authority to outright kill Emile if he gets entirely out of hand in several worlds.

So, yeah, there's one incongruency. Speaking of kings, though, let's wind back the clock to the OG King of Alberia!

This one's pretty small and easy to explain. To put it briefly, his replica in The Blood That Binds shapeshifts into a dragon he should not have been able to: Brunhilda.

Why? Because she never pacted with Alberius in the first place!

Speaking of which, there's several more hmms in Mym's life. Her dragon story starts out with this narration:

One tiny little problem- Greatwyrms never, ever, are hatchlings. Later lore stated that all Greatwyrms are sterile and do not follow most other natural life cycles even for dragons. They also have a nice little auto reincarnation feature as primordial forces, though they do not keep memory between incarnations.

This is likely just a case of writers unintentionally bumping into each other with much later lore for Mids' and Mym's words here, as this info drops in ch.24 vs the base game with Brunhilda's story, but still technically a contradiction!

It also creates a new odd timeline. Greatwyrm ages are ambiguous, but we do have several rough ideas/implications:

-Jupiter is the youngest (Mym address him as a brat and otherwise younger than her)

-Brunhilda is the second-youngest (she's generally treated by the others dragons as a younger one too)

-Zodiark likely eldest

-Mids is under 1k years old, since he did not experience events with Ilia and does not remember them

However, Brunhilda's story again puts things in a major bind. Her story has her lying in fields for 'centuries' and then holing herself in a volcano for 'ages more' so much so that the land itself shifted until Alberius came. Alberius, of course, was 300 years ago. This leaves surprisingly little time to put her as definitively younger than Midgardsormr, who is canonically under 1k.

On the flip side, it partially explains her exact moody nature- she's hardly talked to anyone in her centuries and has largely been asleep for them, making her much less experienced in contrast to other dragons who have not made indications of sleeping for centuries. In essence- she's acting younger than her apparent age would suggest, because she's spent a majority of those years asleep!

Another little error comes with Luca and Sarisse, specifically which is the elder. The vast majority of the time, Luca is addressed as the elder. But in Luca's lines...

...Despite Luca's description correctly ID'ing him as the elder in that same base version!

Last but not least, another minor error funnily occurs in Cassandra's story, where Elisanne, despite speaking correctly in the first story, incorrectly labels the castle of Sol Alberia as 'The Halidom':

We never actually got a name for the castle, if it has one. It just is the castle in Sol Alberia, the royal capital. However, it definitely isn't the Halidom, as this scene takes place in the royal castle for Aurelius' marriage, which, again, is made all the funnier by Elisanne recognizing that this was not the Halidom earlier:

Now, I don't know the original text, but these last two might well just be a translation error. That being said, how it was written and published makes them contradicting!

So...yeah! That's been my Dragalia Lore Contradictions post, brought to you by too much memory devoted to this game!

[gorbalsvampire]

TALK ABOUT HORNT VAMPIRES, PLEASE!!!

This is about the Compulsion thing, isn't it?

OK. Compulsions are born out of the Hunger - they are a consequence of Messy Criticals - but they are also evidence that the Beast isn't about the Blood and only the Blood and nothing but the Blood. The basic Compulsions "form the core of the vampiric personality" and they are Hunger, Harm, Paranoia... and Domination.

Vampires want control. It's how they stay safe, it's how they stay fed, it's one of their core drives. Of course they're going to lean on one of the cores of the human personality to establish that control, and they're going to Discipline their prey - what a choice of terms for the vampiric power set! - to maintain it.

We can talk about the raw power of the Lasombra - they're stronger than you, they can break your mind to their whim, and if you will insist on struggling, the deprivation of sight and movement and the critical but not lethal pain offered by various iterations of Obetneblivion.

We can talk about the horror that is Auspex and a mental Discipline. Tremere, Malkavians, Tzimisce and especially Toreador can read your desires off the back of your head and compel you to fulfil them and, in the latter case, you won't even necessarily know you're being played. Everything will feel... natural. For all that I love the overt hypno-kink potential of the Tremere in particular (it's wired into their relationships with each other, either part bound to enable Dominate or reliant on it because they can't bind), it's the Toreador who I find most horrifying and alluring here. My Ravnos and Setite characters wish they were that good.

We can even talk about meat crimes, if you want, but the rest of Vampire fandom on Tumblr has kinda got that part down already.

Let's go deeper, though, and get into the Compulsions of specific clans.

Judgment. Look, I don't want to spell this out for you, it seems too obvious. Transgress, and a Banu Haqim can't help themselves. They are responsible for you, you awful brat, and you keep on baiting them like this. It's a dangerous dance, working your lover's levers like this, but if you're into punishment you're going to get bitten.

Rebellion. Feral Impulses. I'm loading two Anarch pillar clans together because what unites the Brujah and the Gangrel, for our purposes, is their brattiness, the urgency and spite of their desire. The Gangrel one even goes so far as to mention that clothes are constricting: there's an exhibitionist thing waiting to get out here.

Morbidity. Don't even start me on the snuff movies. That's easy street. The Hecata can kill and resurrect something more abstract - like the desires of the jaded and the weary. When nothing excites you any more, when you feel like pleasure has lost its edge, here's a sadistic fucker with a bite that'll give you some perspective on yourself. A dangerous game, especially for mortals, but - OK, now we can talk about the snuff movies.

Transgression. What's a Minister without a boundary to kick down and slither over? You say vampires don't fuck and half the Setites have their kit off just to spite you. This is to say nothing of religious adulation, the stereotype of the serpent queen adored by pliant, presenting bodies. I actually find this one a bit tired - I'd like to see a Minister who's more of the World and the Devil than the Flesh.

Delusion - the Malkavian sensory overload, writhing in the embrace of imaginary lovers and less able to resist further... stimulus. You don't need to touch a Malkavian to set them off. But you know what I really think of, when I think about Malkavians? Power. She's beauty. She's grace. There's pain writ on her face. She carries such a terrible burden but with you, beloved, little one, with you she can let go. Unmask, and bask in the sensations she spent all night repressing. Why was Malakai so close to brother Saulot and brother Set? They both wanted to help her release. Set just wanted her to do it in public.

Cryptophilia - what does your Nosferatu lover want? What do you want? They're not going to be happy until they've turned over the deepest stone in your soul, put you in your space and found the tick you didn't even know you tocked. You lucky monsterfucker. You're going to be here a while.

Tempting Fate. Oh, Ravnos. You always want what you can't have. You just have to kiss the diva while you're taking off her necklace. You just have to make sure the Seneschal's secretary really wants to come and find you a second time. And a third. And... look, Ravnos have trouble with the word no and they can make you have trouble with it too.

Affective Empathy. Was there ever a clan so cursed as the Salubri? Ever a Kindred so driven to share, to ease, to comfort? The Salubri sex worker. The Salubri surrogate. The Salubri who cares for you so much. Won't you find solace with them? Please? Please? There's a desperate selfishness to their kindness that feels deliciously complex.

Obsession. Covetousness. The Toreador admire your beauty for itself. The Tzimisce admire it because it's theirs. They want to transform you, enshrine you, possess you absolutely. Hope you like being spoiled. Hope you like feeling beholden to the object of your Desire in a way the others will never understand. Only you appreciate it truly. Spoil it. Cradle it. Never let it go.

Perfectionism. Ruthlessness. I wasn't expecting the Tremere and the Lasombra to have so much in common, but both of them want to do the thing right. Again. Again. Again. Until it's perfect. Critically, it's them doing the thing - for all that they like giving commands, their Compulsion finds them wanting to fulfil them, to exceed them even, and Lasombra aren't the aloof hands-off kind of domme. Leave that to the Ventrue. They're going to work you over.

Arrogance. Basic as ever, the Ventrue love being the boss, but there's a catch. The order has to be given without supernatural aid. So this Compulsion forces the Ventrue to cultivate loyalty, respect, obligation, love and lust like a human, just so they can feel more like a good vampire. This is how you crack open the dignitas and get under their skin. This has a lot more potential than you'd think. If the Ventrue doesn't understand the limitations, at first, the poor bastard could be grinding his fangs night after night wondering why the cold instruction of Compel or the deliberate cruelty of Entrance isn't doing it for him. What does the Beast want that its powers do not provide?

God, I'm thinking about the erotic potential of Clan Ventrue now. Eff Emm Ell.

And Duskborn? You're mostly human anyway. Most of you are walking around with a thrill in your very veins! It hits like vitae, just about, but with no consequences. You gorgeous little snack packs. You have something the old thiccos want, and can't admit to taking. Isn't that delicious? Isn't that almost power? Isn't that how you get your Mawla sugar daddy? Isn't it fun to look these "real Kindred" over and realise that their Hunger is your Dominance? Who really has the power in this room: is it really the person giving all the orders?

[charmedcleric]

Get to know your tav!

I was tagged by the lovely @auspex-author Thank you so much for the tag!

Her name is Athena and she is my war domain cleric of eilistraee. Her character sheet is here and this post is very long so I’ll put most of it under the cut! Once I start talking about my tavs I literally can’t stop, also I talk about her relationship with rolan a little bit so that’s why he’s tagged <3

What is your tav’s….

favorite weapon?

- Athena’s favourite weapon is a longsword you find in act 1 called the Phalar Aluve

style of combat?

- She is usually in the frontline swinging her singing sword while casting spirit guardians. She also loves ambushing, as it’s a great way to get advantage over others

most prized possession?

- Athena has two lockets that she wears 24/7. One locket was a gift to her from her mother. The other locket belonged to her sister. Athena’s mother had a tradition to get each of her children a matching locket with a photo of the family in it to remind them that no matter what happens they are with them all the time. As Athena’s parents and sister had passed away she had both the lockets on her at all times to feel close to her family

deepest desire?

- To have a family of her own. She was orphaned at the age of 14 and became her little sisters full time carer. 4 years later her sister got very ill, so Athena became a cleric to help look after and heal her.

Her healing magic helped her sister stay alive for 5 years until her sister Rose succumbed to her illness and passed away. Athena felt empty as she now had no family left and she felt as if she had failed as a cleric. She would love nothing more than to have a family to call her own, yet it’s one of the things she fears most as she doesn’t want to let anyone else down

guilty pleasure?

- Athena’s guilty pleasure is gossiping, she knows she shouldn’t but she loves listening in on others business. Her, astarion and shadowheart basically have a gossiping club at this point where they tell each other all the juicy stuff

best-kept secret?

- That she is a sword dancer of eilistraee. A sword dancer is a specialized priestess (cleric) of Eilistraee. Athena had been a follower of eilistraee since she was little but once her sister died leaving her to be the last in her family, she felt as if the only thing she had left was her religion. She decided that she wanted to become a sword dancer. As she already lived on the surface becoming a sword dancer was slightly easier as to become one you must spend at least a month on the surface dancing each moonlit night for eilistraee and you had to witness dawn at least once.

She also went and offered her services at the Promenade of the Dark Maiden, she wasn’t there for long before she was taken by the nautiloid.

greatest strength?

- Her dedication, when she puts her mind to something or she wants something she will get it

fatal flaw?

- She blames herself a bit to much and she shuts down while doing it. This is seen when rolan yelled at her in the shadow lands and even after saving the tieflings from moonrise she still wasn’t herself and became very quiet for some time although she didn’t let that stop her from her task of infiltrating moonrise towers

favorite smell?

- She loves the smell of freshly baked bread, it reminds her of home when her mother would bake bread for the family in the mornings

*bit of post game lore of Athena x rolan hehe* when Rolan found this out he always made sure that there was bread being freshly baked in the kitchen each morning, nothing made him happier than seeing the smile on Athena’s face each and every morning. Of course when Athena would ask him if he was doing it for her and if he would ask them to also make some of her other fav bakery goods, he would of course deny what she said and tell her to not be greedy lmao

favorite spell or cantrip?

- She loves AOE spells such as glyph of warding and flame strike

pet peeve?

- She hates lying, she can usually see through people when it comes to lying and she makes sure that they know she isn’t happy especially if it’s someone she considers a friend or someone she has more intimate feelings for

bad habit?

- When she is nervous or stewing over something she plays with her hair and pulls out strands of her hair. The only companion that called her out on it was karlach, but as this was a habit Athena wasn’t actually aware she was doing she dismissed karlach’s worry

She was then called out by rolan which made her kinda pull back, shocked he would notice something like that (she thought he hated her) she was now well aware she was doing it and actively tries to avoid doing it. She also went and apologized to karlach for dismissing her worry

hidden talent?

- She is really good at lock picking , she likes to joke that she could give astarion a run for his money which he doesn’t agree with of course. She never lets him forget about when he was struggling to open a chest and after like 100 goes Athena had a go and immediately lock-picked it lmao (based on when astarion failed lock-picking like 20 times and then when i got Athena to have a go she got a NAT 20 lol)

leisure activity?

- Painting/drawing and singing. Before she became a cleric she would paint and sell her artwork on the city streets of waterdeep that’s how she made money to keep her and her sister alive. Now whenever she gets a free chance she will sit down and draw/paint landscapes until the sun goes down. And while she is painting she will be singing or humming along to one of her favourite songs

favorite drink?

- She loves a plain cup of coffee, she has a lot on her mind and she feels coffee helps her to relax, although some people might beg to differ

comfort food?

- Her comfort food is her mums homemade soup, whenever she has the time and ingredients she will make it as it reminds her of home and brings her immense comfort

favorite person(s)?

- Athena has multiple favourite people and all for different reasons. Her most favourite person though would have to be rolan. Even though they had a rocky relationship when they first met, Athena was nothing but nice to rolan, she admired the love he had for his family (a value she thinks is very important). They ended up getting together after the fall of the absolute.

After the fall of the brain, Athena went to rolan to catch up and to tell him that she was going back to waterdeep and well Rolan kinda lost it and confessed his feelings for her right then and there.

-Jaheira is another one of her favourite people. Athena views jaheria as a mother figure and was on the verge of tears when Jaheira first started calling her cub. Anyone around could see that Jaheira was very important to Athena and that she was the mother figure Athena wished she still had in her life

*more Athena x Rolan lore cause I’m obsessed with them lol* when Rolan was thinking of asking Athena to marry him, he went and asked Jaheira for her blessing as he knew the importance of their relationship

favored display of affection (platonic and/or romantic)?

- platonic: she loves hugs, especially giving them,

-romantic: hugs, hand holding and kisses on the cheek

fondest childhood memory?

- Playing at the local park with her family just before her parents passed away, it was one of the last times as a family and the last time she truly felt carefree and happy

free-response! Is there anything else about your Tav you'd like to share?

- She LOVES reading, once she opens a book it’s all over, you’ve lost her lol you won’t hear from her until she’s finished said book (that’s mainly cause she actually struggles to read and takes forever to finish) it’s one thing that she missed most while traveling to baldur’s gate as she had no time to just sit down and read for hours

Tagging: @esolean @lanabenikosdoormat @commander-krios @orangekittyenergy and anyone else who’d like to do it! I love reading about people’s tavs

[ryttu3k]

"Cool, WoD now lets you generate character sheets! Let's see what they have for Tzimisce!"

"I don't know what I fucking expected."

Anyway here is a prior post on why V5 Tzimisce annoy the living shit out of me, some thoughts on the Tzimisce as a clan of contrasts, some ranting about the importance of Auspex (in my last reply), and, if you're as annoyed as I am on how the Tzimisce have been handled, my V5 homebrew that re-replaces Dominate with Auspex and talks about the importance of being the Clan of Shapers, V5.

*Standard disclaimer that if you like V5 Tzimisce, that's absolutely fine, you do you, but I'm distinctly disgruntled about how they took everything I loved about the clan and just. Ditched it.

[anarchswild]

Let's see if I can actually summarize what happened in the Clanswap Oneshot.

The night begins with Tammy King (Malkavian) and Reid Thomel (Tremere). Tammy's sire believes that he is a Ventrue, and gets enough results that the clan treats him as such, if not as a bit of a joke. Tammy is seen less favorably as she is a Malkavian with face-blindness trying to live up to being a Ventrue and is failing enough she thinks she's a Caitiff. Reid was embraced and taught Lure of Flames to cause problems, but he managed to lay low enough that when his city flipped from Anarch to Camarilla, they shipped him off to New York's Chantry. He only really was taught basic kindred knowledge and how to master his Thaumaturgy so that he didn't become a problem, so he figured out Auspex and Dominate on his own and isn't very good at them.

Tammy's sire sends her with instructions to meet up with a ghoul to gain information that could change the course of the war with the Sabbat. Reid's mentor instructs him to keep Tammy safe on this mission. The two meet up at the New York Public Library, where they have the worst first impression known to man. Reid botches on the aura read and thinks Tammy is out to get him, Tammy can't quite tell that Reid is who he says he is, and neither trust each other. Winter Chills, a Ventrue who is personally trying to make Tammy's unlife hell, makes her first appearance and does manage to confirm Reid's identity.

The duo's first stop is Hell's Kitchen, where the ghoul lives. This is Brujah territory however, so they run into Jackie and Malachi (1) on the way. Jackie makes them collect money in order to get through the territory without issue, and they instead find Sigrun standing over the dead body of the guy they're looking for. Reid's aura reading clues him in that she wasn't the murderer, and Tammy's Animalism lets her figure out where the culprit was hiding. They retrieve the money, pass it on to Jackie, and continue.

At the ghoul's apartment, it is revealed that she has gone missing. The two pick the lock to her door, find the apartment in chaos, and decide to check her mail downstairs to see if there's anything that could point them in the right direction. What they find in all the envelopes is a business card inviting her to the Lakehouse, the club run by the Toreador Primogen where people have been entering and never returning from.

The two make the choice to cut through Central Park to the north side of Manhattan, convincing the Gangrel Scumfuck and Milly (2) to let them through and then sneaking their way past a werewolf that snuck into the city. Apparently there's a Cairn somewhere in the park.

At the Lakehouse, they discover that there's a spell of sorts that makes it where if you are not in possession of an invitation, you cannot approach the building. The pair have multiple of the cards from the ghoul's mail and use those to sneak into the establishment. The Lakehouse, run by Dawn Sierra, a normal kindred just like you and me, consists of a restaurant for humans, a kitchen where ghouls work, a large bar room full of kindred, and a myriad maze of art galleries made by kindred. Tammy runs into a acquaintance of hers, Mary (Tzimisce), who is a member of the Sabbat. Reid makes his way to the bar room full of kindred, accidentally tipping off to one of the artists on the way (3) that he wasn't technically invited. In the room he sees kindred of all sects milling about, talking about art, and eating refreshments that were not at all vaguely implied to be human meat and blood. He resists the desire to partake in the refreshments, and manages to keep Tammy from doing the same when they meet up. It was like the Land of the Lotus Eaters. As they separate again to find info on where their ghoul may be, a Gargoyle (Lucifer) appears to get rid of Reid. No one else in the room seems to notice. He lost him in the maze of galleries, Tammy found Mary again to ask more questions about the strange place, and Reid connected with the leader of the city's Anarchs, Godfrey (Nagaraja), who also had figured out that something was strange and snuck into the Lakehouse without an invitation. He had been there long enough, however, to begin to lose himself in the enchantment of the place.

The plan had become for Reid to sneak into the kitchen and pretend to be a ghoul, the mistake had already been made once that night, while Tammy found herself unable to follow. So she checked out the bathroom as suggested by Godfrey, discovering there were no mirrors there whatsoever. Reid entered the restaurant to discover kine standing completely still, was brought into the kitchen to find human meat being prepared, and in the very back of the room were mirrors filled with the likenesses of ghouls surrounding a pillar with a single, beating heart. Reid recognized, through the teachings from Father Michael, that the heart belonged to a demon. All he had to do was destroy it. Sensing this, the mirror demon appeared and tried to bargain. A better life for Reid, where everything would be just as he'd love for it to be. Perhaps back to San Diego, or to Atlanta, or why not Portland? Reid, a simple man, did not fall for the temptations and instead set the heart ablaze in an inferno. Tammy and Reid were able to escape the burning building and rescue their ghoul target, though they had to convince a hungry Nagaraja not to try and eat her.

The ghoul revealed that she had been working deep cover in the Sabbat, getting close to the leader, Saria (Ravnos). She had written down where exactly and when a party would be occurring that very night, which the Camarilla would be able to ambush. All they needed to do was find where she had hidden it. In the Liberty Island museum underneath the Constitution display. As the ghoul left to recover from her trance at the Lakehouse, she was taken out by a sniper. Winter Chills. Winter had heard the gist of the information and was planning to take all the credit for Tammy's mission. It became a race for Tammy and Reid to ride on Tammy's ghoul (Trevor)'s fishing boat out to the island to beat Winter. Unfortunately for them she beat them, but they were the only ones who knew exactly where it was. She was so far ahead of them however that she was found searching the vicinity of the letter next to a passed out guard (4). As they confronted her and Reid made a mad dash for the letter, an orb of darkness fell on the room as the Sabbat attacked. Reid lucked into finding the letter's hiding spot in the darkness. They were up against Emmanuel Roche (Lasombra), Huginn and Munnin (still Gangrel), and Lazarus Frost (Tzimisce). Reid caused Roche to frenzy from using Theft of Vitae, but Tammy was able to calm the frenzy. Roche had no idea why they were even there, and a group of Nosferatu stole the letter from Reid in that chaos. They all separated as the police arrived to investigate the break-in.

Reid and Tammy's goal became to track down and follow the Nosferatu who had stolen the letter. The rats' boat fled into the sewer, so the fledglings had to enter through the subway. Two stops along the line, they exited into one of the secret warren entrances, having to fight off a group of Nosferatu who were instructed not to let anyone else down that night. Reid intimidated them all with his flame and they snuck down to where the Primogen awaited. They arrived just as Liam Cross (Nosferatu) was being handed the letter, with only Reid noticing the small figure (5) whispering into his ear. Pulling the Tremere Regent card and calling out the mysterious figure behind him, Reid and Tammy were able to convince Liam to hand over the letter. But it was too easy, and Tammy especially couldn't shake that something strange was happening. The two followed where the figure had left, discovering a trap door leading deeper into the warrens.

At the end of the tunnel was a lone room full of security screens, showing everywhere in the city and following the forces of the Camarilla, Sabbat, and Anarchs as they prepared for war that night. At the chair was the small figure Reid had seen. They, Malachi, revealed that he was one of the original 4th gen Niktuku who had been given a shroud from Caine himself that suppressed their clan flaw. They had been plotting for weeks, playing all sides in the city, aiming for everyone to kill each other in that single fight. Realizing that everyone was walking into a trap and that only they knew it, Reid told Tammy to run and warn her sire while he would remain behind and buy time. While she ran, Reid blasted the Niktuku with flames. As she had almost escaped and he had almost burned the creature to a crisp, the Niktuku used Temporis to turn back time to the beginning of the combat. Despite the second chance it had given itself, Reid was still able to hold it off for Tammy to escape, though by a much thinner margin. As the Niktuku reached to destroy the emergency elevator Tammy escaped through with one of the Nosferatu, Reid was able to completely immolate it, though left on death's door himself. Tammy was able to get the warning to their sires, who left the Sabbat and Anarchs to fight amongst themselves and reduce their ranks.

The Camarilla had won the night, Zacharias and Father Michael had taken all the credit, Reid and Tammy were told they could never speak of what they did that night, but they were rescued from the rubble and officially treated as neonates from that point forward.

[auspexsims]

break time!

taking a break from posting decades for a while to prep 1920's/1930's copperdale - building lots, creating citizens/a new cast, and a new era of life for my burnt out little seamstress.

ive been experimenting with how i present this story and the characters' relationships and personalities, how i can be clearer, and what is most fun and authentic for me to create - thank you all for the recent uptick in love, reblogs, reactions, and comments <3 i am always open to feedback.

in the meantime, i'll post the rest of gen 1 of my much more casual and colorful occult legacy which covers gen 2's child and teen years <3 it will be nice for me to have it around again. it will be tagged in case you're not up for it.

[voloslobotomyservice]

thank you @necroticyuzu for the tag! 💫 and thank you everyone who participated in my poll! I love talking about my little Tavs and I can’t stop making them so I’m always down to be tagged in these sorta things!

no pressure tags: @beesht @grandmother-goblin @auspex-author (yk I’m always down for Shior lore)

Name: Saoirse Nic’Phaid

Gender: female

Pronouns: she/her

Sexuality: mostly straight (but she’s working on defining it)

OTHER

Family: A complicated conversation. Older human father who’s unable to work, younger wood elf mother who abandons the family often, and an older brother Arthur who was tragically murdered five years before the events of BG3 took place.

Birthplace: Lower City of Baldur’s Gate.

Job: Criminal, I suppose? She doesn’t really have a traditional job. Instead, she’s spent most of her life stealing and then selling items to make a living. It even brought in more money than Arthur was making when he was alive and working.

Phobia: Thalassaphobia. She never learned how to swim.

Guilty Pleasure: Hooking up with problematic men. They oh-so-bad but oh-so-good in bed. Her own ex-boyfriend was a member of the Zhentarim, after all.

MORALS

Alignment: Neutral Evil - rather selfish in her actions, yet will help others who are similar her.

Sins: Theft. Lots of it. Jealousy, coveting what others may have knowing she could never have it. Will usually say whatever pops in her head without thinking it through first, which gets her in trouble. Can be very self-centered in different situations (ex. she refused to take poison from Nettie at the Grove after she didn’t help the party cure their tadpole)

Virtues: Loyal to those she loves, almost to a fault. When able to, very much a “steal from the rich to give to the poor” type. Believes honesty is the best policy (unless your life is at risk, then lying to save yourself is acceptable). Family is also very important to her, especially her father, and she tried to make sure he had well over a years worth of gold before going on the run.

THIS OR THAT

Introvert/Extrovert/Ambivert - Likes to be social but also enjoys time to herself. Tries to keep a healthy balance of both.

Organized/Disorganized - in some aspects of her life, at least. When it comes to her money, she’s very organized.

Close Minded/Open Minded - No defining reason. She just is.

Calm/Anxious/Restless - Being on the run for a crime she may (or may not) have committed, she is constantly looking over her shoulder to make sure she and her companions are safe (but mostly her).

Disagreeable/Agreeable - That is, if you see eye to eye with her.

Cautious/Reckless/In Between - After the loss of her brother, she was very reckless in her crimes and overall behavior, but she has calmed down a bit. She will still do risky things for the fun of it, though.

Patient/Impatient/In Between - Do not test her.

Outspoken/Reserved - Almost too outspoken for her own good.

Leader/Follower/Flexible - Because she’s very headstrong, she easily fell into the leader position of the party.

Empathetic/Unemphathetic - To those that are like her: who’ve struggled, who understand how hard life can be. Won’t listen to the sob story of some upper class elitist.

Optimistic/Pessimistic/Realist

Traditional/Modern/In Between

Hardworking/Lazy - But hardworking in the way that she’s taking from others… yeah I don’t like to think about the logistics of it too much.

RELATIONSHIPS

OTP: Don’t hate me. But. Saoirse is absolutely crushing on Aradin, despite how much of an ass he is. She thinks she can fix him. Maybe she can.

Other Ships: Hooks up with Rugan after rescuing him from the gnolls, which leads to an interesting throuple dynamic when they’re all in Baldur’s Gate.

BroTP: Surprisingly, she and Lae’zel get along swimmingly. Maybe it’s because they have similar personalities. She and Astarion also gossip about the drama between their camp companions, as well as tease each other over their romantic pursuits. Also apparently she and Shadowheart get along very well!

NoTP: Gale annoys her, but she also sees him as a powerful ally and a good companion. Thoroughly rejects any of his advances.

[sharkblizzardblogs]

I'm an aspiring writer in my 20s who also happens to RP on discord in my spare time.

🏳️‍🌈❤️💜💙🏳️‍🌈

My current WIP is called Nowhere to Nowhere. It is original fiction. I tag snippets and games with #bffwrites and I'm always down to clown so if you're interested or just want to talk, send me a message!

I post full chapters here: NTN Toyhouse

Here is the World Page and other info. The "Library" tab has certain sections that will be updated as I continue writing so be sure to check back in every once in a while. 😁

Link to my writing inspiration page:

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[eric-the-bmo]

Now I’m curious to hear about your VtM character! Impulse Embraces are always really fun (and I’m noticing very Malk-like)

[barrels into the room] MAN OH MAN I HOPE YOU'RE READY TO HEAR ABOUT LEO WEST, THE NUMBER ONE MALKAVIAN OF MY HEART

[tiny pixel leo was made by @ slimejunior btw]

(It's so cool you wanna hear about him- this is my first time in a vtm chronicle, and while i'm not the best at roleplaying, i've been having a blast with the story. I'm sorry btw, this turned into a very long post- I jumped at the chance to ramble about almost everything I can about him- however, since my fellow players follow me here, I'm keeping quiet about certain parts of his character and past.)

Anyway! Leo West is an amnesiac(?) conspiracy theorist and Anarch Malkavian, and is for an on-going chronicle taking place in San Jose- us players have decided to name it Blood and Silicon (there's actually a blog dedicated to it that's run by one of the players).

Leo's a quiet and inquisitive man who's earnest and stubborn, and refuses to talk to the coterie about his issues (but really, none of the other members do that either). He knows very little about vampire society, as his sire refused to tell him anything before sending him away, and has been repeatedly described as a blank slate and full of potential- mostly due to his "newness" to Kindred unlife. He's probably being manipulated by at least 2 people at this point.

He's got Auspex and Obfuscate, and is (unintentionally) built as a stealth character. He also has the Sandman predator type- it's how his sire hunts, and he would prefer victims who wouldn't struggle, anyway.

With his occasional visions, it seems he's got connections to the Cobweb- additionally, since no one's explained to him what the Beast is (and his takes on the guise of his sire's voice), Leo is currently convinced his Beast is actually his sire just talking to him.

While I described him as an amnesiac earlier, he hasn't completely forgotten everything.

However, my main form of communication is infodumping (/hj), so allow me to ramble below, even though I can't fit everything about him in here:

Leo was a hopeless romantic born on May 26, 1994, raised in Chicago and brought up as a Christian. He stopped believing in that faith sometime in high school; something Definitely happened during that time in his life, since it was also when he broke his nose and started smoking (but hey, if I don't know what happened, then he doesn't either /lh). He did eventually quit cigarettes in college, where he graduated and was a librarian for a while; he helped run the DnD sessions the library would hold every month :-)

In 2019, he met a man named Jeremiah: his future sire. J is a man I could make an entire post about- but tbh this isn't about him, so I'll give only the bare amount of information needed.

Jeremiah is a bartender who moved to Chicago from San Jose, and at some point in the first year of knowing Leo, he ended up blood-bonding him for reasons unknown. Leo, who was completely unaware that he was now Jeremiah's ghoul, experienced the symptoms of the bond and assumed he was in love- which surely was a whole thing for him, because at this point in Leo's life he had just come to the conclusion he would never fall in love, since he's never had the best luck in that part of his life. The two of them entered a relationship (or at least it seemed that way to Leo), and of course given the dynamic/power imbalance here- as well as Jeremiah in general- it wasn't a very good one.

(Amy, Leo's sister, kinda picked up some bad vibes from her brother's partner, and very much dislikes him.)

During their almost-three years together while Leo served as his ghoul, Jeremiah used Dominate a lot on him, erasing his memories of anything that could be seen as Masquerade-breaching- meaning that Leo has no idea what he did for him.

Mr. West noticed his gaps in memory, of course, and with the help(?) of one of his more common library patrons, Chris, he fell down into a bit of a conspiracy rabbit hole to try and figure out what was happening to him. Sometime around this point he picked up his smoking habit again.

[As a result of J's actions, Leo no longer trusts his memory and carries around a notebook; It's also one of the reasons he avoids eye contact a lot, since that's necessary for Dominate.]

Eventually he must've figured things out, or perhaps his curiosity got the better of him- but somehow, on September 16, 2021, Leo stumbled upon something that resulted in his untimely death at 27 years old.

Jeremiah Embraced him that night, although it's unknown whether he did it because he still needed Leo's servitude, or if he genuinely cared about his ghoul (and I am unsure which one is worse).

The rest of the events of his Embrace are a bit tricky to talk about- I can't go into much detail without giving much away- but with all the stress and trauma of what happened, his clan bane manifested as Dissociation; in tandem/addition to this, Leo's brain blocked off parts of itself, resulting in even more memory loss.

In fact, after Sept 16, there's about an entire month and a half of missing time for Leo, and he doesn't remember any of it (this was originally due to a misunderstanding of the game's timeline, but is now a part of the Lore).

Anyway, even though I can't go into specifics of what happened to Leo during this moment of his unlife, I can offer you this sort-of-meme about it:

[At some point during this time J informed him of blood bonds, which was kind of a jerk move, considering his childe was having a bad mental moment already.]

It's been stated by Leo that Jeremiah sent him away to San Jose, and the fledgling currently has his coat- which implies J gave it to him as a gift, or at least let him take it with. His relationship with his sire right now is... complicated.

Anyway, Leo spent about a week in San Jose before meeting [aka getting kidnapped by] a Kindred named Harrison, who introduced him to the rest of the coterie. Currently, they're all a bit secretive, and Leo occasionally leads them into trouble (like lowkey breaching the Masquerade, and almost getting caught by a gang).

Throughout Blood and Silicon, Leo's been learning about Kindred unlife, and has additionally requested an informant to look into Jeremiah. (He's got a bit of a fixation on his sire- in his eyes, his investigation to figure out what's going has not ended, and it seems Jeremiah has many secrets..)

In the most recent session, the coterie has been gifted territory as a reward for doing a quest for Harrison. Meanwhile, something's going on with Leo, because vampires can't get headaches, can they?

I'm very excited to see where this leads...

[thank you for asking, this was fun to ramble about him <3]

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