#okulos the nosferatu

[the-one-man-tower-of-babel]

YE OLDE ADDRESS BOOK

Found my old address book recently from before I met Nigel last year, and while I cannot give out phone numbers or addresses, I thought I’d share some tidbits from my notes on each entry:

Cuthbert Beckett: Howl three times before leaving a voicemail so he knows for certain its me. @beckettmnemosyne1

Lucita de Aragon: Recite her favorite nursery rhyme backwards before leaving a voicemail so she knows for certain its me.

Aristotle de Laurent: Recite his favorite line from the Book of Nod before leaving a voicemail so he knows for certain its me.

Okulos: He’s been trying to put himself out there despite his Nosferatu status...perhaps buy him a nice new sport coat this Christmas?

Zoë: I don’t actually have any means to contact her. I just have a space saved in case I ever get a lead on her whereabouts...

Theo Bell: He likes prime aged whiskey. Offering a bottle of that and kine through which to consume it through never hurts when dealing with him.

Aisling Sturbridge: Remember to mention “for the good of the Camarilla” every three sentences in case she’s being monitored.

Talley the Hound: His sister was that fancy dog from All Dogs Go to Heaven!

The Montreal Sisters: Call Lucita. I can never even remember which of them is which.

Sascha Vykos: ONLY CONTACT IF ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY! And have something good to offer them or risk getting meat crimed... @dreamofconstantinople

I obviously have many new friends now! What would you all like your entry to say? Reply to this post to get to write your own :)

[badass-at-fandoming]

Day 6 and 7: Nosferatu ~ Cryptophilia and Toreador ~ Obsession

Nosferatu: The need to know permeates the vampire. They become consumed with a hunger for secrets, to know that which few or no one knows, almost as strong as that for blood. They also refuse to share secrets with others, except in strict trade for greater ones.

Toreador: Enraptured by beauty, the vampire becomes temporarily obsessed with a singular gorgeous thing, able to think of nothing else.

These prompts were tough ones for me, until I woke in the dead of night with the idea to combine them. Victoria Ash indulges her obsession with herself, and Okulos gains some super secrets in return! I also realized they're both redheads??? I know Victoria Ash changes her hair from time to time, but she has red hair in my heart.

If you want to join in Nos + Tor fun, check out Fuck Yeah LA by Night's kick off post here!

[kl-writes]

vampire the masquerade headcanon: vampires over the age of 50 start using ‘simp’ incorrectly as slang for ‘sympathize.’ its too funny for techy nosferatu and young vampires to correct them

Jan Pieterzoon: You know I simp for you sometimes, Beckett, I truly do. But I just can’t have you interfering with Camarilla business

Beckett: You bastard! Keep your simping to yourself. If you simped at all, you wouldn’t be allowing the MacGuffin to fall into the wrong hands!

Okulos: =) holding it together, just barely

[brightstorm98]

For the Character Ask Meme, you must know I will ask about Beckett :D

But of course! For there is no character who concerns my fandom efforts more than the fair Gangrel boi-o!

How I feel about Beckett:

Well, to be fair, I kinda ignored him at first. My first run of Bloodlines 1 I wasn’t so much interested in the lore and just wanted to discover all the character interactions with the Anarchs that I could. On repeated play throughs however, he started to grow on me. One day I eventually looked up his character online and well, I took the bisexual vampire Indiana Jones bait hook, line, and sinker 😅 He’s an absolute delightful character - not a Gary-Stu (he has realistic flaws and has made PLENTY of mistakes over the years), intelligent and open to new ideas (big brains are SEXY), has a rather attractive character design (other than that phase in the 90’s where he had Jerry Seinfeld hair he’s always had long dark hair and I mean come on, who can’t swoon over that?), he’s a middle-aged character which, especially in modern media, you do not see that often (age representation FTW!), and of course...did I mention bisexual? I think I may have but just wanted to be sure I got that in there.

People I ship with Beckett romantically:

If you’ve never read any of the novels/sourcebooks that feature dear Cuthbert, he’s very popular with like...literally everyone and anyone he meets. Camarilla, Sabbat, Anarch, doesn’t matter. They all are hot for him, and based on some of the stuff in Jyhad Diary, goodness does he know it 😆 That said, he seems rather choosy with who he totally opens up to friendship wise, so the same can only be assumed to be just as exclusive, if not moreso, for romance.

For romance, out of the many candidates out in the night and based on Beckett’s canonically established sexual preferences:

Anatole for the guys, because come on, they have gay couple goals written all over them! Whether or not they have a sexual relationship is up in the air, but no one who has ever read anything between these two can deny that there is capital L LOVE between them. Anatole’s thrown parties for Beckett, misses him when they’re a part, and of course in the Gehenna timeline visits Beckett in his dreams to try and help him despite having met Final Death. Since he’s alive and well as of V20 and onwards, I hope one day we get a bit more of an in-depth look into their relationship because even if it isn’t “canon”, the seeds of romance have been sown for these two! (Honorable mentions go to Vlad Dracula ((yes you read that right and yes they canonically fucked and Beckett is a bride of Dracula and no I’m not making this up read Jyhad Diary)) and Hesha Ruhadze).

The female half of the spectrum was tricky. I think he will always be in love with Emma Blake, his love interest from the Victorian novel Trilogy, and since White Wolf likes to resurrect characters we saw die these days in lore, perhaps she’ll come back! I certainly hope so, that lady deserves a break. Beckett does best with a calm and dedicated feminine partner who balances out his impulsive and sometimes wishy-washy loyalties, and Emma is the perfect candidate for that. She inspires humanity and tenderness in him and he in turn gives her strength and courage. They’re just too cute together and I want them to have a happy ending some how, some way 😭 (Honorable mentions go to Lucita de Aragon and Carna the Tremere).

I also have to mention Sascha Vykos because oh boy, is there chemistry between these two in Jyhad Diary. They’ve reached a truce at the moment in the canon and Beckett finds them “handsome and beautiful”, so there is ample opportunity for a enemies-to-allies-to-lovers arc here. They both actually have quite a bit in common interest-wise regarding seeking out knowledge and looking for answers about what it means to be a vampire. Maybe the answer they’re looking for is with each other...

My non-romantic OTP with Beckett:

This has to go to Lucita de Aragon. They are just too good together as partners. While they may have or have had a sexual relationship, I don’t see them as true love interests because I think especially at this point Lucita is kinda done with men, at least from a romantic standpoint. They’re undoubtedly best friends and are able to tease one another, help each other out, and of course turn plenty of heads when they walk into the room together. Lasombra-Gangrel besties who can fuck you up, basically 😂 (Honorable mention goes to Okulos the Nosferatu. He might have gotten it if not for his behavior in the Gehenna timeline, and I know it’s pretty much ignored in the canon atm but it’s hard to just forget about. Sorry Okulos. Try not to be such a prick in the future).

My unpopular opinion about Beckett:

Hmm...this is a hard one. The only thing I could really think of is that he maybe needs to learn how to ask for help more often? He tries to be a one man show (possibly to keep people from stealing his discoveries like his adopted sire did, possibly to keep the few close people he has safe) and that gets him into trouble a lot. He’s gotten lucky and gotten out of a lot of jams on his own or by sheer luck that someone found him.

One thing that I wish would happen/had happened to Beckett in canon:

I wish we could have seen him interact with characters in Bloodlines that he later hangs out with in Jyhad Diary like Damsel and Smiling Jack. Would have been really cool to see and hear with Michael Gough voicing him!

[boomlovejack-blog]

AGE: 394 as of 2005, when he faced his Final Death. (*A.K.A., The thing I will address elsewhere.)

“It is heavily implied in the novel Gehenna: The Final Night that Smiling Jack meets his Final Death. He is killed by a Nosferatu named Okulos who was disguised as a vampire named Samuel; Jack let himself be killed to ensure that the thin-blood movement he helped start and raise would continue to fulfill Gehenna.”

Regarding Jack’s death:

Unfortunately (or fortunately, I guess), I cannot redact Jack’s death. As much as I’d like to simply ignore it, its too important to his character to simply brush off. The thing that goes without saying is actually stated in the Perfect State pledge:

We declare ourselves to be free and independent, owing allegiance to no creature and no organization.

We declare our ability to rule ourselves, with no prince, no primogen and no other ruler other than that we choose for ourselves.

We declare our kinship with oppressed Kindred everywhere and offer a home to all Kindred of all generations and clans who will agree to dwell in harmony with us.

We further accept our responsibility to our oppressed brothers and sisters everywhere and pledge to assist them at all times and in all places in their own struggle for the freedom that we declare to be the birthright of all Kindred, from now until the end of time.

We recognize our responsibility to maintain the Masquerade, and we pledge to protect and defend it.

We establish this Status Perfectus and recognize its duty to all Kindred."

So while I can’t just sweep it under the rug and it is something I acknowledge, I have also come up with alternate universes as a way to work around Jack’s death.

tl;dr: Jack’s death is canon on this blog.

[in-search-of-enoch]

*The two Kindred peel through a couple of old standards together on their way to the entrance to the sewers. Entering the Nosferatu’s warrens are never pleasant, but at least they never have to be submerged past the waist in sewer water.

Gary Golden is satisfied with Beckett’s work and ever gives Leo a dead rat for his assistance. After Okulos, Beckett’s friend, is granted access to the warrens computer system by Mitnik, the two take their leave.

Beckett has Cesare take them back to Anatole’s Congregation for a shower and some clean clothes. Beckett is using one of the spare apartment’s as his haven at the moment and there’s no shortage of fine blood and luxuries to be had. By the time both are sewer water free and fed, it’s roughly 3:30am.*

Well, we have two and a half hours until sunrise. Would you like Cesare to take you home? Or would you care to stick around with this old dog awhile longer?

*The Gangrel looks shockingly relaxed now. He’s wearing a faded Bowie t-shirt Leo is pretty sure he’s seen Anatole in before and loose black sweat pants. His hair is still dank and is slicked back slightly from the moisture. His beastial hands are exposed and he’s tapping away at a mobile game idly. Even Kindred celebrities have their mundane moments...*

"I have decided to be a headache tonight and that's your problem for the time being!"

Greetings Leo.

Lucky me...

Aren’t you tired from your excursion with Daliah and Rosamund?

[princelettow-archive]

"It is heavily implied in the novel Gehenna: The Final Night that Smiling Jack meets his Final Death. He is killed by a Nosferatu named Okulos who was disguised as a vampire named Samuel; Jack let himself be killed to ensure that the thin-blood movement he helped start and raise would continue to fulfill Gehenna."

OK THAT’S COOL. Mayhaps we’ll hear about it in the sequel? Since it’s been hinted that you’ll play as a thin blood and they mentioned something about a massive embrace in the stream (I think? I wasn’t able to watch it) and if we look at how the taxi driver was hinted to be Caine at the end of the game then....mayhaps Gehenna itself will be an important part of the game 👀

[badass-at-fandoming]

MISSED CONNECTION: Nosferatu seeking his sire. No, I will not tell you his name or describe him. That's private. He knows who he is and what he's done -- Angus, probably

[badass-at-fandoming]

My friend and I were discussing VtM scenes that would make good ACME cartoons and...remember that time that Lucita blow-torched Beckett's balls.

Image ID under the cut

[[Image ID two screenshots from Beckett's Jyhad Diary's "The Way of Three Eyes" chapter. A simple audio transcript without edits or notes,

Anatole: You continue, Lu. This tale is starting to bore me, and I'm tired of adding artistic embellishment.

Lucita: Our hero screamed, fell backwards into the pool, swam as if his life depended on it--which it probably did--and removed his trousers before climbing up the diving board. I was making my way up the other side of the building when I heard his shrieks, and raced to his location. I found him in flagrante delicto with a flotation device.

Okulos: What of the corpulent corpse?

Lucita: Still cackling when I arrived, and attempting to pull itself to its stump-feet.

Okulos: This really happened?

Anatole: Every damn thing. If hell gets worse the further down one does, this place was an inversion. The closer I was to the rooftop, the worse the sounds, sights, and smells.

Lucita: When stumpy caught sight of me, it wrenched a grille from one of the water overflow drains, and threw itself inside. I blow-torched any offspring latched upon Beckett's legs. Most of them followed mother down the drain.

Anatole: The leg hair still hasn't grown back.

Okulos: I assume neither of you followed this thing into the sewer?

Lucita: He said that if you were there, he would have asked you to enter the drains, but no.

Okulos: A true friend.

Lucita: The remainder of our search turned up nothing living. Nothing sapient, anyway. Plenty of corpses--mortals, we believe--stuffed with hives of parasites. Obscene. All of it.

Anatole: Whether it was evidence of Baali activity in Johannesburg, or just a Nosferatu with entomomania, it was all kinds of wrong. There was only one course of action available to us.

Okulos: You burned down the building.

Rebekah: Actually, I did that.

Beckett: [far from the recorder] Are you lot talking about me?

[Recording ends]]]