#muses. [ vlad. ]

[littlebadger]

// My phandom holiday truce gift for @stiffyck who wanted Vlad protecting Danny!

I had the lion-drawing itch I had to scratch so I hope you enjoy them in lion form!~ Merry (belated) Christmas and Happy New Year !! 🎉

[vlarelythere]

A concerned Mer-plasmius checking on a swimming danny

Alternative title: damn vlad why ur tail so long

[kalicofox]

Okayso. I've been thinking a lot about Dark Dan, and Vlad, and the relationship between the two, and one thing that gets to me is that really, everyone seems to neglect the *Vlad* portion of Dark Dan. Like, yes. He's Danny's ghost half. But he's also Vlad's. And I feel like no one ever really explores Dan fully. Like, yeah, we get it, he's dark Danny. But he's also light Vlad. Not in the sense that he's a good guy or anything, but in the sense that… Plasmius' Obsession is Family, or at least that's how I've always seen it. When the Fentons died, he lost his family. Sure, Danny was there, but Danny was a sad, depressed fourteen year old. Sad, depressed fourteen year olds aren't pillars that you should be leaning on for support when your two best friends, people who've been closer to you than your own parents, die.

Plasmius' Obsession is Family.

Phantom's is Protection.

People, me included, talk about Dan's Obsession like it's just Danny's, but broken, but that's not entirely it. Plasmius' Obsession is there, too, and it ends up neglected a lot.

[grasshopperdoingdogpaddle]

Neither Chase nor Omi thought of destiny as something that could be fought traditionally... until they met each other and decided that destiny is something they’d fight to shape with their own hands. Both each other’s and their own.

They’re stubborn and prideful, have so much faith in their abilities and believe all their own hype, but somehow they’re still very fatalistic.

You poor, naïve fool. You’ll never become a dragon.

Chase accepted it when Hannibal told him his destiny was on the Heylin side, unless he intended to languish in obscurity on the Xiaolin side. He’s not especially enthusiastic about it, at first, but after thinking it over, he makes the decision to throw away everything he believes in to go down that path.

If the choices set out for him are obscurity or evil, he’ll make his choice.

There’s only one path for you now.

When Omi saw through the Crystal that his destiny was to destroy the world, Omi was so unquestioningly certain that he couldn’t stop himself from going down that path that the only viable option he saw was “taking the long walk”.

They were both ready and willing to throw away their dreams. Fate had something else in store for them. They could only rise to meet it or run from it. There were no third options they could carve for themselves.

“Sometimes our destiny is determined by events that are out of our control.”

Omi was paralyzed with fear even when his friends did bring him back. 

In a bout of learned helplessness, he refused to break his ice prison. He’d rather die than let his destiny be kickstarted. And he wasn’t convinced to not be suicidal or fatalist by the end of the episode, he just realized the vision that had convinced him happened to be faked. He still held the belief that if there’s a chance he may be evil, he should sooner die.

And Chase throws away everything to meet his Destiny and join Hannibal. 

He commits atrocities until he acquires a taste for a them, pushes himself through the difficult transition until he wholeheartedly enjoys being evil. Now, he actively wants to watch the world he used to protect, burn.

But after Omi meets Chase, Omi learns the complexity and the spunk to push back against that internal doomerism. 

When Wuya and Jack and Vlad were telling Omi his destiny was joining the Heylin side, Omi took “the long walk.” 

When Chase repeatedly tells Omi that his destiny joining the Heylin side, and even succeeds in tricking him over to it, which directly causes the end of the world, Omi still banters back, “No, you’ll be joining me on the Xiaolin side together.”

And Chase starts the whole plan under the idea of this binary, either Omi joins him or Chase needs to kill him before Omi is strong enough to destroy Chase. The former keeps not happening, but it gets to the point where Chase just refuses to consider the latter.

Chase and Omi make each other remember their pride.

Because they are prideful, and who is anyone else to give them these limited, lackluster options?

“Either I’m wrong or destiny itself is wrong. And I’m not wrong. Even if I am, I’ll bend time and space itself until I’ve force the world to acknowledge that I’m right. I’m the greatest warrior this world has ever known, and I kowtow to nothing I don’t respect. Not even fate.”

[flcyed]

I, without a doubt, DO think that the fact that a majority of the mages in the Runeterra verse have weird-looking eyes does irk Averna. I think the fact that she looks into the mirror and sees the thing she hates most in the world reflected back in her own sclera infuriates her to no end. That when she wakes up, for a moment she sits there without her glasses and wonders what purpose there is to putting them back on.

[shadowsteed15]

So I was doing a bit of thinking today and I think one of the reasons I love Renfield so much is that it perfectly illustrates one point about any modern media that I think it's really important - that is the fact that it doesn't really matter how good or bad a piece of media, especially adaptive media is as long as it introduces the audience to the wider story at the core of it.

And I think this is something that Renfield has done really well, it's a slightly comedic movie touching upon morality and destructive relationships that so many people experience and not everybody liked everything about it, but for the people that did, there is so much stuff to discover at the core of the mythology around it, because the whole team, especially Nicolas Cage took great care to incorporate all the absolute best we've seen from Dracula's history.

So I imagine a lot of people who previously haven't been exposed to the Dracula fandom are suddenly in love with it because Cage was so phenomenal in the role. And whether through listening to the interviews or the movie itself they suddenly discover his little inspirations, cause the movie had everything - the fantastic rendition of 1931 intro, the little Nosferatu bit at the beginning, Cage's fantastic impressions of Christopher Lee, it's all in there.

And on top of that, of course, is that scene in the gym, where Dracula goes: "I'm the prince of Wallachia." And it's a very subtle thing, but I imagine some people catching on to that and going: "Wait, isn't he from Transylvania?" And most of them will probably let it go, but some people might actually research it, and they look up Wallachia, the name Vlad Tepes naturally comes up and suddenly, their little mind gets blown and they go: "Wait, Dracula was actually real??" And boom, suddenly, they're aware of the fact that the world's most famous vampire was based on one of the coolest people in medieval history. 😊

So yeah, I think Renfield deserves to be one of the best Dracula movies of all times, because it just brought the myth back into the spotlight in such a loving, dedicated way.

[resolutepath]

DOSSIER: VLAD.

Vlad, the daytime guard of Northland Bank, a member of the Fatui, skilled in both deception and combat. Born in Snezhnaya to a father of the same descent and a mother from Fontaine, he is the eldest child of four and took on responsibility young (16) for looking after his family, when his father passed in a fishing accident. He needed to help his mother support the three younger siblings financially and so stepped up to help in any way he could, odd jobs here and there and some petty theft before discovering his talents for certain crimes.

BEFORE. (the liyue archon quest.)

It was not within the ranks of the Fatui that Vlad’s skill begins, but before. In the lands of Snezhnaya and Fontaine a teen turned young man wandered, attractive but forgettable, pleasant but nondescript, the type of man for the moment but not one to linger. He was a conman, a silver tongue who weaved pleasant words where he could, charming people out of their mora for lucrative deals that did not exist, challenging them to bets they could not hope to win, doing what he could to beguile then walk away with that he sought to support his family. It started first with a crew then he branched out on a solo gig, never spending too long in one town and coming to know how to change his appearance just enough to never be too recognisable. He had no regrets until the day he attempted to swindle someone who was more than a match for him, a Harbinger, and who offered him a choice in return for his ensnarement. Death or The Fatui. Pay for his crimes or wield his skills for a different purpose. Well there was no choice, at least within the ranks of such a formidable organisation there was hopes for security for the family he cared for, at least with a steady paycheck. So a life was departed, and a new one begun.

DURING. (the liyue archon quest.)

Vlad (32), since joining the Fatui, had shown himself to be adept with not only his words but his blade, claymore showing prowess on the battlefield and though no vision graced him, he was skilled enough to make a good, reliable soldier. He had undertaken a range of missions both within Snezhnaya and overseas, short and offering opportunity to return to his family in between. He had been skilled enough to volunteer for the Liyue mission, his application accepted and he was sent with the advance party to take on the role of a guard at Northland Bank while getting a feel for the ground and locals. He spent a long time acclimatising and seeking information, passing it on with the arrival of the Eleventh Harbinger. Throughout the mission he worked diligently, slowly becoming homesick as the weeks passed, the mission becoming his longest from home to date. Letters helped and so did the work, but when Osial was defeated and no call home issued, something began to waver within him.

AFTER. (the liyue archon quest.)

Vlad lingers in Liyue but he is a struggling man. The homesickness is rife, his letters home not enough to sate him and with no end in sight he turns to thrill seeking to cope. Gambling becomes a regular habit, mora and favours traded too loosely, and though he sometimes wins, he often loses. He starts taking odd jobs, at first nondescript (akin to daily commissions) but soon considers work with the Treasure Hoarders, Yelan’s group, the shadier merchants of Liyue, all simply for the right price. He’s a man who is slipping, creating debts that he then has to work to pay off, taking long walks at night to quell the rising insomnia and clinging to every mission offered at Dragonspine for a chance to feel the ice and chill and feel at home for a little while. He’s falling, he’s losing and he can’t seem to keep himself on track. But with no sign of returning home in the future he’s lost.

NOTES:

Vlad is a very skilled liar that only really starts showing tells when he has got himself to a point of overwhelmed with the web he has spun. It is hard to catch him out on the fly.

He’s not very easily social when he’s not aiming to get something from someone. He’s quite isolated, keeps to himself. He’s the type who has a few close friends really.

He’s a frequent gambler at Yanshang Teahouse. Yelan’s people are aware of his visits. 

Takes frequent missions to Dragonspine just to feel the ice and chill when he can at the bank. After one of these missions he returns to his former self for a time before the homesickness consumes him again. 

Vlad is prone to bouts of insomnia and when he’s not seeking the thrill of gambling, he’ll wander the docks, watch the sea or take walks around Liyue Harbour until the exhaustion hits. He can often be found standing on the walkways staring out at nothing, present but far away.

Combatwise Vlad’s a solid hitter but there’s nothing special going on about him. He’s not got a vision, he’s not got a delusion, he’s just a guy swinging a claymore around.

I’m deliberately being vague on which Harbinger Vlad tried to swindle to eventually end up within the Fatui. Simply because I don’t want to lock any muse into that being definitely part of the dynamic but also if I do explore that in a thread I will edit to reflect a specific portrayal of a Harbinger / specific portrayals of Harbingers.

[mmxstrangers]

I have graduated and am back home for the moment. I do want to get back into roleplaying but I’ve been neck-deep in the Danny Phantom fandom for a minute and am going insane (in a good way). That, and I’ve been doing some preparation for Art Fight next month!

Also I redesigned Theta for function as a fandomless OC, and SOMEONE MADE FANART OF HIM WHILE I WAS STILL DESIGNING HIM.

You know who you are. (respectfully, and with fear. you are too powerful.)

I’d post him but I’m afraid it’s a wee bit spicy and I’m being careful of visual content I post publicly, DM me if you wanna see. :3

In any case! I’m working on reviving my muses, but ummm don’t be surprised if I end up working on one of my sideblogs instead, I got a lot of ideas knocking around in my head right now.

I missed y’all. quq Hope everyone’s doing alright.

[a-cloud-for-dreams]

Imao I just reached the chapter in Bloodbound II where you could sleep with Dracula and I'm CRYING 😭😭

[darabeatha]

/  The pain of wanting to focus on one (1) or maybe two muses but at the same time not knowing who + knowing that your mind is constantly jumping between 7893454564 thoughts :CLENCHES HANDS ON FISTS:

[hopefulstarfire]

Why is it the thing that I actually feel accomplished about lately is that. I'm almost done with one neighborhood on my sims 4 save I'm making for myself. I've got one more family to finish for Willow Creek and then I can move onto the other worlds.

[monterraverde]

@hesperio replied to your post “//I should really keep a quote book for our D&D...”:

aggressively dads you

"BUT DAAAAAAAD"​

[heredis-sanguinis]

A sense of dread and unease washes over the hemomancer. As if he was being watched by a most monstrous creature. One more ancient and ferocious than he has ever been.

No matter how much times would pass, this specific dread feeling was one he could never forget. But for sure, they had all been vanquished and no longer roamed these lands.

Surely it must be his imagination. Or perhaps he has been working on his research and experiments again. Yes, fatigue and lack of sleep. That must be it. Right?

[blood--king]

◢【Vlad Bloodborne: Voıce clαım】

Tagged by @hanakohanabe thanks for the tag!

Voice actor: Junichi Suwabe.

Character: Ryomen Tsukuna (from Jujutsu Kaisen).

[the-storm-chaser]

🎨

Muse colours

True Black - 000000

'They are a part of the Black Rose, what else can I say. That's all I know about them... do they even exist to begin with?

[bells-of-black-sunday]

Probably going to be playing games with friends tmmrrw for a bit, but I am going to attempt to do some asks.

But honestly more of y'all should let Tar insult your muse with archaic words that are the roots for modern day curse words/insults.