#thinbloods my beloved

[lgbtmi]

brb cooking up a thinblood so i can play them tomorrow

[crownedinmarigolds]

Fangfest 2024 - Day Eighteen - The Star

"Rejoice! For He has been reborn in Her. The Father reforged in new flesh and blood, broken free from the prison of Duat and the siren's call of the Aeons. Rejoice! For the Herald of the Good Times is among us! Praise be unto Father Set, praise be unto Kahanni. Our time beneath the soil is coming to an end, my Kindred, and the great serpent will swallow the sun as a gift to Her and She will guide us at last to our rightful seats as the Gods of humanity." The Star represents inspiration, hope, opportunity and renewed faith. While Harrakhty and Parvati met and walked with Set, in modern nights the faith began to wane the longer He remained absent. When Parvati went mad at the awakening of Zapathasura and nearly slew the temple in her fury, Harri was near a breaking point - knowing his earthly gifts were finite and he could lose his treasures and his beloved in an instant. He needed something more, something real to remind him of his faith. When a young Giovanni necromancer came to him, begging him to save her Thinblood friend in exchange for providing him a flesh and blood child, how could Harri not see this as a sign from divinity? Kahanni is his miracle child, his treasure. She has a huge weight on her shoulders, but for the entirety of the Followers of Set, surely it's worth it in the end?

[kentuckycaverats]

obsessed with the way @crownedinmarigolds draws the vampire lesbians <3 asshole thinblood x tremere primo gf who adores her despite the atrocities

(del is my pc for an edinburgh by night chronicle, and tara is a dearly beloved stc)

[fangable]

birthday gift for my beloved friend @kentuckycaverats - a sketch of their thinblood delphine! i love del with all of my heart and i hope she gets to stab someone soon ❤

[zyurp]

My players coterie in a game I'm running, beloveds.

We got @martianmage 's Liam Collins, Ventrue and chronic brother figure

@amorates 's Cecil Boughten, thinblood sadboy fledgling with a good nose for blood

And of course @just-here-for-the-drama 's Sandy Foster, Toreador scenequeen who is most and least responsible at the same time

[gorbalsvampire]

hello~ I have many questions!

🖊️, ❤️, 💘, and 😓 for Sorcha

🍎 and 🎂 for Alistair

and 🔺, 💛, 🤩, 🍛 for Penny~ (you can interpret the last one as whatever fit from her mortal life, or her feeding preferences as a vampire now)

what time is it? SORCHA TIME

🖊️ BALLPOINT PEN — does your oc have any tattoos? do they want any (more) tattoos?

There are phases of the moon tattooed across her pelvis - they're strictly for OnlyFans subscribers. There's now a much larger and stylised half moon, with a mask superimposed over it, in the middle of her chest - she was branded as the price for getting out of Venice earlier this year.

She wants more, and now she's learned alchemical tattooing is a thing; she's going to go full e-girl, build up sigils and shit across her collar so the brand doesn't stand out as much, maybe get a labyrinth sleeve, maybe one of Chez's lyrics on her somewhere...

❤️ RED HEART — what are three of your oc's positive traits?

So we know Sorcha is generous...

She's also surprisingly sensible. She's called her friend Cali out (rightly) for not having something in place to avoid frenzying and killing your ghoul - some sort of safety net! She's pretty big on those in general - your plan has to have a fallback, your haven has to have an escape route, you have to have an answer to the question how do I get out of this?

I'm gonna use the next one as part of this:

😓 DOWNCAST FACE WITH SWEAT — is your oc open-minded or stubborn? are they inquisitive or do they prefer to keep to their bubble of knowledge?

Sorcha's got her core values and she sticks to them: the least worst version of what I am, my drugs don't kill people and my rent doesn't break them and only the worst ghosts are for binding. In that respect she's quite stubborn, but for a Hecata she's very outgoing - she wants to engage with the sects and clans and find out what their whole deal is, and she's not superior about it. She is what she is, they can't do what she does, she can't do what they do, it's fine. Sorcha wants to turn over every rock in the savage garden of Kindred existence... but she'll always find herself underneath them. She does have her limits, and her lens is smoked through with Oblivion.

💘 HEART WITH ARROW — what and/or who do(es) your oc consider the most important to them?

Her father... was the centre of her world. She still adores him. She is much more prepared to call him out and challenge him. That's partly down to Chez, whose faith in her has turned her energy outwards and made her confident enough to come out as a thinblood and not hide behind Dad Blood. It's partly down to the thinbloods she knows - the sheer pride Hazel and Beetlejuice have in what they are has shamed her into rejecting her fake-Hecata failed-diablerist strategy and be openly Duskborn. That matters to her. She's part of a sisterhood now - a family outside her beloved clan and name - and she loves someone who's not part of any of that.

Uncle Ally facts

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

Glaswegian to his bones, mate. Alistair's a Gorbals boy, born in the thirties when it was really bad down there. He's moved up and down in the world since then, but barring a spell at St. Andrews University and a summer in Venice he's always lived in Glasgow. He knows those streets and the blood that's spilled on them better than he knows anything else; it's something deeper than love or hate, something that goes right down through his boots and into the stone and the earth and yeah, even the tarmac.

If he wasn't a Hecata he'd make a fantastic Tzimisce.

🎂 BIRTHDAY CAKE — when is your oc's birthday? how old are they? what are their sun, moon, & rising signs (if known)? what about their tarot card, ruling planet, & ruling number (if known)? do they fit the typical traits of these sun, moon, & rising signs?

Twenty-third of November, 1935. Alistair is eighty-nine years old, and died at sixty-four.

Sagittarius sun (and Jupiter in Sagittarius), Libra moon, Scorpio ascendant: and that ascendant is all most people get to see. Passionate, incisive, cunning, strategic, and perceptive; intense, tenacious, intimidating and powerful if not malicious or aggressive; that's kind of a word picture of Alistair. Underneath that is an indecisive people-pleaser who needs to be relevant and respected to feel good about himself, part of a family and community but distinct from them, independent and morally assertive - and Alistair tries to serve those needs in himself while passing it off as what his city needs.

penny penny penny penny [gets my face obtenebrated]

🔺 RED TRIANGLE POINTED UP — does your oc know how to use any weapons?

Penny usually has a tactical knife and a 9mm handgun about her person. She's not bad with either (two dots), but her main strength as a combatant is her stealth and shadow play - she's a vicious ambush predator. She's also a combative driver, very willing to throw the weight of her SUV around...

💛 YELLOW HEART — how many languages does your oc speak? what language(s) are they learning, if any?

Fluent Spanish, competent French, Italian and Latin, passable German (she reads it perfectly but her speech is a bit marble-mouthed), and fragments of Greek, mostly from things she's read and memorised - she can't hold a conversation in it. She keeps meaning to pick up more, but she struggles with different alphabets.

🤩 FACE WITH STARRY EYES — is your oc a planner, or are they more spontaneous in their actions?

Oh, Penny always has a plan. Every time. It's usually concocted after the fact to make her look clever in hindsight and when she's reporting to Yvette, but still, a plan is definitely present. She's very goal oriented, she knows what she wants to achieve, but the hows and whyfores of getting there tend to be quite... situational.

🍛 CURRY AND RICE — what does your oc's typical dinner look like? do they usually eat dinner?

Edwardian Penelope wasn't a big eater, but she liked hearty stick-to-the-sides food; small portion of everything in the Sunday roast, that kind of deal. She had a sweet tooth, and dimly remembers being weak for sticky toffee pudding (with custard, do not be shy with the custard, please and thank you).

All that survives of her preferences is the somewhat ritualised way she feeds, the fussiness of her environment: when she was Bagging I think she decanted it and let it breathe, even if that did make it clag up a little in the glass.

Now... oh, god, she sets a table, doesn't she? She's sitting there with her silver spoon and her soup bowl and her corpse blood with a garnish of basil mint for form's sake, and probably a dead girl's torso under a cloche. Thanks for making me think about that.

[paint-lady]

It's always fun realizing what little wishes I've put into my ocs. For example, I am the cold friend- to the point my fingers and toes turn white and blue. And here is my beloved blorbo, hazel, who is always warm even tho she is dead. You go you funky little thinblood

[the-road-from-calvary]

@thatmonroe​

For my most beloved Mia,

I know we speak through more immediate mediums - that I will doubtless call you later tonight, to hear your voice, even if I had nothing to say, solely because I miss you. But there is a charm to the writing of letters. The practice of thinking of you while you are not here, of holding you close in mind as I write it. It is reassuring, and I like to imagine you will appreciate the gesture. I like to imagine you reading it, thinking of me. Knowing that I am with you, even when I am unaware of it.

We have an update on the purpose of Hubie's kidnapping - beyond the grand show of it. Apparently, in the distraction, another pack managed to acquire the little black book which holds some locations of significance in Midtown - including Hazel's lab.

I have been making new friends, you will be pleased to hear. I had a lovely meeting with the German fellow who shares Harlow's body.

...It may have been the better play to kill them both, but my new friend was willing to play intracranial spy, in exchange for an agreement to help him revenge himself upon the one who consumed him. Given her proximity to the Bishop, it seemed worth (perhaps) the chance that something worthwhile will turn up - something that justifies staying my hand when it would be more satisfying to deprive the Bishop of his plaything.

At least it had immediate value. I was able to deliver the location of said little black book. Hazel plans a daylight heist to reacquire it anf thereby resecure her own location. And, I suspect, reaffirm the utility of her thinbloods.

I hope things are proceeding as well for you. I hope you are being as doted upon as you deserve, and your nights are passing swiftly and pleasantly. I hope Cupid and Psyche are behaving themselves, and are keeping you safe and well-attended. I hope you know that I am thinking of you. Je t'aime.

Yours, Antonia

ps I saw a post making fun of Freud for having an oral fixation. I could almost hear your laugh.

[hazelenergy]

3, 4, 9

3. How did you choose their name?

When I was making my first vtm character I was told to come to the table with a vague concept of who this person was. I drafted up the idea of a goth woman, stuck in a dead end retail job, and barely tipping her toe in more witchcraft. I wanted to have a "witchy" sounding name, and found myself on the beloved Fantasy Name Generator. After cycling through a few names, Hazel popped up. And it stuck.

The last name has more story significance. I didn't have a last name thought for her at all and jokingly said Blank. My storyteller, in character, ran with it, and her sire praised her for being more anonymous. It would be to her advantage to disconnect from her living name since it had risen in a morgue once already.

Once she got burned by the Second Inquisition, she took the last name Blanke fully. She wasn't 100% sure that they had gotten her name, but she knew they had her touchstone's information as well as Solomon's, her coterie mate. She wasn't going to take that risk. Plus, she thought it was funny when they called her a blank body that the name fit.

4. In developing their backstory, what elements of the world they live in played the most influential parts?

A lot of Hazel's life prior to her embrace is best described as rough. The girl battles addiction, several deaths, she's stuck in a dead end job living paycheck to paycheck- there's not much hope. So she is aware of some of the horrors already around being a human in the United States. Being a thinblood in several ways was a serious upgrade.

9. Are they based off of you, in some way?

Hazel was wish fulfillment that I didn't figure out til much later. I recognize several aspects of myself in her, but she has developed in such a way that makes her distinctly...not me. It's an interesting balance. I've been playing her long enough that the lines get blurry, but also, there is still plenty that separates us- aside from the fact that I tend to use the same diction for every character I play.

[crownedinmarigolds]

Fangfest 2024 - Day Five - The Emperor

Prince Carver, former Sabbat Bishop who caused a nice little civil war by claiming praxis and turning Atlanta into Camarilla territory. Hidden in the halls of an evangelical church, he struggles between the pull of getting the acknowledgement of the Ivory Tower, keeping his ravenous former pack-mates now primogens and other leadership in line, and now the Thinblood resistance that's getting bolder and bolder. The Emperor is the card that represents fatherhood, divine masculinity, leadership and guidance. Carver is both Prince and Lasombra, and his control will be absolute. We're probably going to get more just sketches from here on out as I'm out of town now, but here's my beloved Atlanta Prince! I love this man he's so done with everyone...

[kentuckycaverats]

Is it possible that you could share anything about Del? Anything at all, really. She both looks and sounds like an interesting character

absolutely it's possible, i love her with all my heart and want to talk about her literally all the time. del my beloved...

our chronicle is set in modern day edinburgh, scotland. del is japanese-american and has been in edinburgh about 7ish years at the start of the chronicle. she lives in the basement of a nighttime book shop owned by an old caitiff anarch and helps him run the place. she also co-owns a bar slash tea lounge with the rest of the coterie; a ravnos courier, lasombra nun, and brujah hacker.

her sire was her girlfriend first, then regnant--a camarilla toreador named sabina callister. she ghouled del against her will when del was 16 and grew more possessive and controlling over the span of about three years, eventually culminating in forcing del to watch as sabina drained del's mortal sister in front of her. del tried to take her own life in a desperate grab at freedom and that's when sabina embraced her. del diablerized her in return and had to flee the states to (1) protect her mortal parents and (2) not get blood hunted. it had always been her sister's dream to visit edinburgh so that's where del goes; she doesn't know she's a thinblood until she meets the old caitiff who helps her figure it out. he's the only one who knows the truth of what happened in the states and he helps her figure out who to make contact with in elysium, how to present herself to the prince, etc. he's the only person she wholly trusts.

the prince is herself a toreador and a little too fond of digging around in people's heads, so coming clean about del's sire isn't an option. she got out of the states before being branded as a thinblood so she has that going for her, and her temperment is very much the stereotypical brujah vibe, so she passes herself off as cam brujah. she's entirely motivated by grief and vengeance and is determined to undermine the camarilla however she can; so while her ideology is more aligned with the anarchs she masquerades as cam brujah for the insider access.

her murdered sister seems to be attached to her as a wraith, tethered to del in an unfinished attempt to protect her. del can't hear or see her, but both a hecata rep and del's hot tremere friend (who's definitely just a friend and totally not a romantic interest) confirmed that it's her. we've also recently learned that sabina was not in fact cam but a sabbat infiltrator, and through a sabbat ritual intended to preserve diablerized operatives she's still anchored to del too. sabina's handler is in town causing problems and was able to draw her consciousness forward, blocking del out in the process.

the coterie doesnt know any of this yet, but she's backed into a corner right now in terms of needing their help and not being able to get around telling them why. she's telling them next session and it's gonna be messyyyy.

overall she presents as very detached, aloof, and emotionally unavailable. she cares about the caitiff, the coterie, her tremere friend, and her mortal adoptive parents: end of list. her moral code is really just "as long as it doesn't affect me and mine i don't give a shit." she's very open about her distaste for cam politics and loathes every moment she has to spend in elysium; she's gotten this far by playing herself off as a low-ranking brujah with no real political ambition. she's blunt, abrasive, manipulative, and just generally kind of a little shit. she's also barely 5'4" and looks to be about 19-20 in age, so the contrast between How Threatening I Look vs Degree of Violence I Am Capable Of Unleashing is, uh. stark.

[nightingaletrash]

new Thinblood oc!! who is technically an old oc because she was my first courier before Amicia replaced her lmao yes they swapped places, we’ve come full circle

Ashley Morgan came from a poor, working class family and was taken into social care at the age of nine after her father was arrested on a murder charge and her mother was deemed unfit as a parent. Subsequently, Ashley spent the rest of her childhood being shuffled between orphanages, foster families, and group homes, and ran away from them all more than once.

Somewhere along the way she took an interest in mechanics and earned money for herself by fixing up cars for neighbours and the like. Libraries and scrapyards became her safe havens, and her interest in learning began to expand beyond just mechanics. Soon she developed a passion for philosophy, using it as a coping mechanism for figuring out why her life had turned out the way it did.

Ashley eventually escaped the foster system when she began to attend university in Seattle, studying Philosophy and making money as a mechanic. Even after graduating, she remained in Seattle. Her life was there, built off of her hard work, and carefully maintained like a beloved engine. She never expected the violent upheaval awaiting her.

[victorluvsalice]

AU Thursday: Londerland Bloodlines -- Another Sequel Idea

So a couple of weeks ago I did a post about potential ways to add in the upcoming Bloodlines sequel to my Londerland Bloodlines AU, consisting of: 1. direct sequel to the original idea; 2. separate universe "reboot"; 2.5 separate universe "reboot" where Victor is the vampire; 3. picking the sequel over for bits I like but discarding the plot because it's crap. With information about Bloodlines 2 continuing to trickle toward us, I've come up another possibility, a sort of 1.75:

It's still a direct sequel, but Victor is the player character vampire.

How does that work? Well, you take the premise of the "direct sequel" idea -- where the gang moves to Seattle from Hill Valley to stay ahead of people starting to notice that they haven't aged in 15 or so years, and then have Victor -- on his own for whatever reason -- get caught up in the fateful Mass Embrace and turned into a Thinblood. He gets picked up by the tutorial character, Dale Talley, after narrowly escaping death, and Dale helps Victor reunite with Alice and the others.

Alice, as you might imagine, is PISSED BEYOND BELIEF someone turned her beloved ghoul. She's always refused to Embrace Victor or Victoria because she can't bear to take them from a still-mostly-human life -- "steal the sun from them," as she's put it. And to have someone FORCE this on Victor, like it was forced on her. . .

I don't think Victor's sire is surviving this version of reality once the gang tracks them down.

Of course, again, this is all dependent on what happens when the sequel comes out and what I make of the plot. But it's an interesting idea, isn't it? Definitely going to have to keep it around as a possibility.

[paint-lady]

Thinbloods my beloved

[unhindercd]

In the late 1880s Ruby's kid Lucy time travelled from the 2040s cos she stole Nico's junk and when she got stuck she tried to find me cos who else she gonna know round London? Fish don't help adults tho so I only caved cos someone knowing my full name was weird so okay have a pound and go off but u gotta keep donating now cos u making money. I guess she mustve told her beloved bout the whole Fish thing and vampires and the sort cos when her brother picked her up and saved her he came nosing round my shrines. I never answer, not my business innit? It's the 1890s anway, I gotta childer I'm all guilty bout shoving in a box, and kids to do Fish things for in exchange for a spot of blood. But I dunno when but he got himself turned then fled the country down to Len's set of islands. Not my business. Not really a masquerade breach on my part innit? Not something I'm gonna be seein my head off for? I ain't come out all oo woo look at me I'm a vampire I was Fish doing Fish things and ain't have no part in it. But Len bein all anti yearnin cos he kills everyone he falls for doesn't want this thinblood hoverin around someone that apparently ends up in his herd in the future. Shocker he ain't send anyone down Invercargill way to eat the poor sod.

Fish and his consequences.

[crownedinmarigolds]

The Stakebait Coterie! Khloe and her boys are out there saving the Atlanta Waterbloods or get Final Death'd trying! (I'll type it all beneath the cut because I know.. my handwriting)

The main characters of the Poisoned Peach - ATL by Night chronicle my beloved is running for me! Khloe is my character, and the boys are my unbeatably dope team.

Name: Khloe Mariah Osbourne

Born: 05/04/1993, Embraced: 2022 by a Ventrue, came out Thinblood, Physical Age: 29

Height: 5'5", Hair: Dark Brown, Eyes: Hazel, Gender: Miss (She/Her), Nationality: American

Likes: Coffee, True Crime, Tabletop RPGs, Being a Minx, Staying Busy

Dislikes: Disappointing Others, Being Unprepared, Not knowing what's up, Her body, Tiktok-Style Ads

A little history: Khloe grew up the only child of very normal people who nastily divorced when she graduated high school. An avid reader and over-thinker, Khloe has immersed herself in many fantasy worlds and strategy games to the point where she seems to think of everything. A people pleaser who has a lot of good acquaintances yet no friends, the lack of companionship was hard-felt when COVID rolled around and kept everyone inside. Had a few partners, though none lasted. One night after visiting her mother, she found herself on a backroad all alone, save for the oncoming headlights that may be straying in her lane. (Where the Poisoned Peach begins!)

Name: Kyle Johnson

Born: 2/3/1994, Embraced: 2020, Sire unknown, but came out Thinblood, Physical Age: 26

Height: 5’10", Hair: N/A, Eyes: Sexy-Boy Brown, Gender: More man than your man (He/Him), Nationality: American

Likes: Feeling needed and helping others, Parties, Drinking cocktails with stupid names, Reasonable reactions.

Dislikes: Being late, people that CAN help and just don't, the MINIONS, Improperly labelled content warnings.

History: His mom was a nurse, her mom was a nurse, and so on. His sisters didn’t want to carry on the tradition, so he decided to go into the medical field himself as an EMT. The stress of the job brought on early balding, but he thrived both on the clock and in the club. One night, he drank a few too many and he woke up in a dumpster the next night, completely clueless. The sunlight began to hurt, nothing sat right in his stomach. Everything was the same yet all so different, better and worse. He spiraled, confused and depressed, until the Dusk Angel found him and helped him come to terms with his new existence. Now Kyle proudly helps the Thinblood Revolution as a kind face to help ease the new blood in, just as he had been.

Name: Randolph "Ralph" Gaylord King III

Born: 10/09/1996, Embraced: 2021 by a Nosferatu, came out Thinblood, Physical Age: 25

Height: 6'5" (Even pre-Embrace, him just big), Hair: Brown (Has to shave the remnants every evening, used to be long and thick and in a man-bun), Eyes: Yellow-Orange (Brown pre-Embrace), Gender: BOI (He/Him), Nationality: American

Likes: Guns, Bad Jokes, Strategy Games, Annoying Christian, Being a right menace

Dislikes: Himself :(, Whiny people, Beer, Signs with sayings meant to be taken serious.

Some Background: Born in St. Louis Missouri, Ralph had a pretty standard lower middle class upbringing. He followed his father and older brother and joined the army when he turned 18 right out of high school. Years of prep and hard work paid off as he went through candidate courses, eventually making it into Special Forces. His career was short-lived however after losing his right foot on his first deployment. Depression and dead-end jobs seemed to be his future until as a joke he started posting thirst-traps on social media, but it got real when his follower count spiked and sponsors started making offers. He was thrown into the life of an Insta-Thot - specifically Fitness Inspo - ultimately landing him in a party in Atlanta, Georgia, where his soon to be sire, Bill - a jealous and spiteful Nosferatu - lurked. Ralph was alone as he stumbled to his hotel room, and Bill could contain his hate no longer. To him, Ralph deserved to be as ugly on the outside as Bill thought he had to be on the inside. Little did Bill know, he messed with the wrong guy.

(Not written due to lack of room, we clearly don't play favorites here...) Eventually found in the sewers by the Dusk Angel, Ralph now serves in the Thinblood revolution, using every skill he's acquired in order to get revenge against the Fullbloods.

Name: Christian Ottavio

Born: 01/16/1989, Embraced: 2017, Gangrel sire but came out Thinblood, Physical Age: A rough 28

Height: 6'1", Hair: Dark Brown, Eyes: Brown, Gender: The MAN (He/Him), Nationality: American

Likes: Beer, Relaxing nights spent inside, Napping, His truck

Dislikes: His family, Wearing tight jeans, Bro-Country music, Fullbloods

A bit of background: Born and bred in Georgia into a rich family with ideals he couldn't wrap his head around. Went into the workforce at a young age in an effort to escape them and be on his own. He's had to sleep in his truck many a night, but eventually got everything together enough to get a roof over his head. That was until some uppity lick decided to draft him into the army of the damned during the Atlanta Sabbat civil war. He was one of many forced to fight during the schism, and one of the few to come out "alive." Before his sire could take him behind the proverbial tool shed, Christian was saved by the Dusk Angel, and now is a proud Thinblood freedom fighter.