#vtm aila

[blighted-elf]

Vampire: The Masquerade - Choice of Games Titles

[aztarion]

im so sleep deprived dont even listen bht its also very cute to me that lettow is so affectionate/touchy-feely for a vtm vampire, nvm being a prince on top of that… many instances where he wants so badly to reach for you & he’s such a hugger like what the hale… adorable

[awaylaughing]

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

2 years late with some VtM Night Road Courier HCs because I'm late to everything, always (spoilers for Night Road I guess but also it's been two years). This is very long and doesn't even begin to cover my myriad thoughts lol

Echo is a Ravnos and despite a very shady past with very immoral things (trafficking and luring migrants to their death, eek) she’s got very high humanity. Turns out how kind she is to others is directly tied to how kind she is to herself, and she was not very nice to herself for the ten years spanning from 1997 to 2007.

Is insanely loyal to her BMW3 and kept it in tip top shape the whole way through. Made Dove swear to keep it safe. Dove agreed but thought it was stupid to be so attached to such a cheap car.

Echo's Cajun from Louisiana. As she was raised by her adoptive mother who was rather older than usual, French is actually still her native language and since she was home schooled she was educated in it too, up until she was 13 and her mother died anyway.

Despite this, most people think she's from some southwester urban centre, but when she's distracted she slips into being the good little Cajun that she really is.

Related, more than once she had to stop herself from saying "cher" once she got more comfortable with Lettow. She's not *that* brazen. Has definitely used it on Riga though, more than once and long before Lettow indicated he too had some feelings and wasn’t just humouring her.

Also calls her lobo cher. His name is Rocket and he’s the bestest boy and genuinely got her through some very rough times.

Echo is a siren feeder because the lonely little Ravnos craves connection so very badly. To say her relationship with sex is complicated is an understatement and Julian telling her she could honeypot Lettow really upset her quite a lot.

Speaking of Lettow, Echo's Ravnos and so her decision to openly flirt with him from the word go seems borderline suicidal. Gangrel do not like Ravnos and she knows it; Camarilla do not like Ravnos and she also knows that, pretty much nothing could be worse than a Gangrel Elder and Prince then, you'd think. But her clan compulsion is tempting fate, basically, so Echo was less actually thirsting and more pushing to see how far she could go before he smacked her down.

Given she ended up getting on the plane with him, the answer is "unlikely to ever stop her actually". Getting on the plane is also somewhat a case of her compulsion at play, her and Lettow had not at that point had an actual conversation about their relationship in light of the Aila stuff and their expectations, but also it's because she did not side with the Camarilla in the end, she just chose Lettow. With no real friends in Tuscon and no ghouls or anything she wasn't leaving much behind after she perma-friend-dumped Julian. And on top of all that, she just wanted to be there for Lettow when he was doing something hard and lonely.

Plus she’s always wanted to travel outside the Americas.

She is a bit worried thought as Echo has one dot in strength and zero dots in anything combat related. I can only imagine her sitting on the sidelines while Lettow's doing Gehenna Stuff cheering him on (while sitting on a cooler of Invidica Caul's fancy blood because the beau needs the best in this trying time and Caul owes her). Which should actually work, if the fact her playing cheerleader helped in both the Reremouse and Donati fights is anything to go by.

5 notes - Posted November 7, 2022

#4

Welp guess I need to give VM another try

6 notes - Posted May 31, 2022

#3

The full art  || and the fic by @jamcake-muses and @awaylaughing for this year's @tolkienrsb

Pairing: Elwing/Earendil, implicit Tuor/Idril Characters: Elwing, Earendil, and a whole host more! Words: 12 594 Summary: Elwing and Earendil, from the not so incidental beginning all the way to an end, if not the end.

Rated teen, No Archive Warnings Apply but it's the first age of Middle-Earth so you know what that means

7 notes - Posted September 10, 2022

#2

Okay but Purvan Suul has muddy boots, a cool wolf, and morals...I love him

23 notes - Posted May 31, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I was able to commission @harumeau for my main Wayfarer, Saraia "Sai" Sero, from @idrellegames and I've been grinning widely since I got it!

The Rona days were a bit rough, as you can see from Sai's expression and the visible mending, but the process to get here on my end was very smooth and lovely at least. I think she's probably worried about finding the Chalice, and she's out in the rain to hide her worries from Aeran. And to escape the smell in Oleander's.

68 notes - Posted July 28, 2022

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[ryttu3k]

So I’m currently making some list for vtm characters and what Pokémon I think would fit them best. Aside from the obvious like Julian, Lettow, Arundel and Eden, do you have any other suggestions for characters from the text games?

Ooh, let's see. From Night Road, I'd add Dove and Aila. From Parliament, definitely Robert, possibly also Qui, Lucca, and Jordan. From Sins of the Sires, I'd say Peisistratos, Markos, Sophia, and Gor are the most prominent. For Out for Blood, not sure if you're just sticking with vampire charcters or not (in which case Amanda and Monroe are the most obvious choices), but if you're also including mortals, then Salem and Adam for sure, and possibly the grandfather.

[badass-at-fandoming]

hi, where did you get the eager obedience of lettow for aila bc i didn't run into it on my playthrough, i know abt the love but does the obdience thing come up if you pick certain options?

Hi @ventrimaculata I assume you're talking about this post where I complain about White Wolf 😅

So @ryttu3k has the actual screenshot, but during the first Aila dream, if you order Lettow around, he happily and eagerly follows orders. I think it boosts your Charisma? It's only one or two lines, but those lines contain domme-submissive subtext.

When the Courier chooses to boink Lettow, he "cries out" when the Courier bites him, which might be a masochist/pain kink if you squint:

Lettow touches the Courier's wrist before the Courier leaves for the final battle. The narration suggests he wants to check the time on the Courier's watch, but I think it's fair to interpret the touch as romantic as well. The wrist is where the Courier marked him, and Lettow touching the same spot on the Courier's wrist is a fond, wistful echo of that gesture. The wrist is where the Courier bond him to them, and they granted that pleasure through pain.

You might find out more if you play Clan Hecata, since their bane is their bites just feel like bites. No aphrodisiac for necromancers! 😂

Thanks for the ask! Felt some glee going through the Night Road screenshots again. I haven't played the game in ages, since the update erased my Lasombra run (RIP Lucita, too dark for this bright world). On Twitter, Marquis consistently says he doesn't like writing romance, but I'm consistently impressed with how good he is at it. And to fit it into such an action-heavy game! Good writing is good.

[lots-of-little-pink-clouds]

GUYS I’M SCREAMING

(Banu Haqim lineage spoilers under the break:)

A Banu Haqim PC is related to Aila!

[nightingaletrash]

Julian and Amicia's relationship is so damn weird because Amicia just... does not care for him at all. At best, she pretty much used him as a sort of guide for how to be a Camarilla Kindred rather than a Sabbat Cainite, how she would (generally) be expected to behave, and to learn what non-Sabbat vampires believed about being undead. She didn't care for him back then and those feelings never changed. She was still indifferent to him, his plans, his very existence, and only put up with him because she had something to gain from helping him from time to time.

Julian knew how she felt about him back when they first met, but he also knows how she thinks, what makes her tick. He knows that she's a survivor, interested in persisting above all else, and he figures that that makes her easy to predict and manipulate. He thinks he knows what moves she'll make before she makes them, and that if he can keep dangling the carrot in her face, he'll get what he needs from her.

But he never anticipated her using the SI as a weapon. He knew there was a possibility of her taking his formula for herself and leaving with it, but he really believed he could win her over with the promise that she would be shaping the world as she saw fit. He believed that he could finally break that apathy she held for him and get her on side, only for her to betray and destroy him without a second thought.

[vampiremourning]

‘rosy-fingered bitch’ Why Is He Like That

[robotslenderman]

Lettow: I have good news and bad news. The good news is that we will be landing immediately. The bad news is, we're crash landing.

Aila:

[papirlife]

Holy crap, I was listening to old Evanescence songs and ‘Before the Dawn’ is giving me MAJOR Lettow/Alia or Lettow/guilty courier vibes. Mainly Alia because LOOK

Meet me after dark again and I'll hold you

I am nothing more than to see you there

And maybe tonight, we'll fly so far away

We'll be lost before the dawn

If only night can hold you where I can see you, my love

Then let me never ever wake again

And maybe tonight, we'll fly so far away

We'll be lost before the dawn

Somehow I know that we can't wake again from this dream

It's not real, but it's ours

Maybe tonight, we'll fly so far away

We'll be lost before the dawn

Maybe tonight, we'll fly so far away

We'll be lost before the dawn

TELL ME IT DOESNT SOUND LIKE AILA IN HER FINAL DAYS

But like the instrumental is so ethereal and haunting too, it’s just so *chef’s kiss* gorgeous and fitting and angsty I love it.

[missn11]

@robotslenderman I have the most awful (or greatest idea) what would happen if you named your courier Aila? I have an idea of a Toreador or Caitiff have been taken over by Aila but she hide the truth from herself until slowly remembering when they(she) meets Lettow again...

[astfut]

... Aila should be the only character who can be romanced by the courier in the vtm night road

[aztarion]

hi night road anon again! so my courier is a hecata and i just finished the biosphere zero job where i promptly got everyone killed (which i thought was the default but then i saw the achievement you can get for saving them 💀), also i'm going for camarilla this playthrough mostly cause lettow is a snack

oh and i got the honda!

YAY YOURE BACK <3 oh i was choosing between hecata & setite for this run but went setite for the snake protean :D gotta try hecata next, im really loving the flavour text for the different clans (so far ive played gangrel & banu haqim & both had some really unique additions between playthrus, im excited to try them all!!!)

my first blind time w biosphere as a gangrel i managed to keep EVERYONE alive except the first guy Tex — idk how 😭 and i thought that was default until my second time as a banu haqim when everyone dropped like flies & i only had janet & antonio left, i was so tense.. made the second time scarier which was cool. love how much replay value there is

lettow & a sexy little Honda s2000.. you & i are twin souls fr. i keep choosing the s2k as my starter everytime too, ugh its my dream car . also the image of a gangrel courier zooming down a desert highway in a little convertible with a giant wolf riding shotgun is 🙂‍↔️♥️🐺

you gotta tell me how the reremouse mission goes if u havent already finished it!! its my absolute fav & has SO many variations <3

[awaylaughing]

2 years late with some VtM Night Road Courier HCs because I'm late to everything, always (spoilers for Night Road I guess but also it's been two years). This is very long and doesn't even begin to cover my myriad thoughts lol

Echo is a Ravnos and despite a very shady past with very immoral things (trafficking and luring migrants to their death, eek) she’s got very high humanity. Turns out how kind she is to others is directly tied to how kind she is to herself, and she was not very nice to herself for the ten years spanning from 1997 to 2007.

Is insanely loyal to her BMW3 and kept it in tip top shape the whole way through. Made Dove swear to keep it safe. Dove agreed but thought it was stupid to be so attached to such a cheap car.

Echo's Cajun from Louisiana. As she was raised by her adoptive mother who was rather older than usual, French is actually still her native language and since she was home schooled she was educated in it too, up until she was 13 and her mother died anyway.

Despite this, most people think she's from some southwester urban centre, but when she's distracted she slips into being the good little Cajun that she really is.

Related, more than once she had to stop herself from saying "cher" once she got more comfortable with Lettow. She's not *that* brazen. Has definitely used it on Riga though, more than once and long before Lettow indicated he too had some feelings and wasn’t just humouring her.

Also calls her lobo cher. His name is Rocket and he’s the bestest boy and genuinely got her through some very rough times.

Echo is a siren feeder because the lonely little Ravnos craves connection so very badly. To say her relationship with sex is complicated is an understatement and Julian telling her she could honeypot Lettow really upset her quite a lot.

Speaking of Lettow, Echo's Ravnos and so her decision to openly flirt with him from the word go seems borderline suicidal. Gangrel do not like Ravnos and she knows it; Camarilla do not like Ravnos and she also knows that, pretty much nothing could be worse than a Gangrel Elder and Prince then, you'd think. But her clan compulsion is tempting fate, basically, so Echo was less actually thirsting and more pushing to see how far she could go before he smacked her down.

Given she ended up getting on the plane with him, the answer is "unlikely to ever stop her actually". Getting on the plane is also somewhat a case of her compulsion at play, her and Lettow had not at that point had an actual conversation about their relationship in light of the Aila stuff and their expectations, but also it's because she did not side with the Camarilla in the end, she just chose Lettow. With no real friends in Tuscon and no ghouls or anything she wasn't leaving much behind after she perma-friend-dumped Julian. And on top of all that, she just wanted to be there for Lettow when he was doing something hard and lonely.

Plus she’s always wanted to travel outside the Americas.

She is a bit worried thought as Echo has one dot in strength and zero dots in anything combat related. I can only imagine her sitting on the sidelines while Lettow's doing Gehenna Stuff cheering him on (while sitting on a cooler of Invidica Caul's fancy blood because the beau needs the best in this trying time and Caul owes her). Which should actually work, if the fact her playing cheerleader helped in both the Reremouse and Donati fights is anything to go by.

[ryttu3k]

Clanswap AU, Night Road edition! For previous clanswap fun, see also: the signatures (Tremere!Myca, Lasombra!Fatima, Gangrel!Lucita, Toreador!Anatole, and Nosferatu!Beckett), write-ups for Tremere!Nines and Banu Haqim!LaCroix, and the fic featuring the latter two.

Details beneath the cut for Ravnos!Lettow, Ventrue!Dove, Tremere!Julian, and Cappadocian!Aila!

Lettow Kaminsky | 9th generation Ravnos | unknown sire

One of Lettow's key themes is that he seems to be restless. Let's turn that up a notch! Lettow was Embraced by an unknown Ravnos and immediately went "cool that works", roaming around Europe in an extended childehood. Over time, he met Jasper and Dove, and later Aila; now, he wasn't just a wanderer, but a wanderer with a new family. He still has Riga, of course. Can't eventually be the Eagle Prince without an eagle!

Made it through the Week of Nightmares okay, largely due to Dove staking him when he first went into frenzy. She and Aila watched over him for that time, busied themselves with working out what was happening (there weren't many other Ravnos in the vicinity, but word spread decently quickly that it was something related to the clan), and when everything seemed to calm down, he was able to recover - and come to terms with his new bane.

Being based singularly in Tucson ended up being a good thing. After acquiring Madrigal Real Estate, he was able to establish a network of seven havens, going between them from night to night, with the Viper more or less in the middle. Aila's depression even took a back seat for a while, helping Lettow cope with becoming part of a near-extinct clan, something she was all too familiar with herself. Still, her depression did end up leading her into torpor, and then into being diablerised; Tucson's Ventrue Prince did end up receiving a tree trunk to the chest, and Lettow did end up Prince, largely to find out who had dared to hurt Aila...

The Dove of Moudros | 10th generation Ventrue | Embraced by Sophia Komnenou

So Dove is Greek and Embraced right around the Greek Revolution. Why not get in some Sins of the Sires? That was right around the time that Sophia helped overthrow the former Prince; likely knowing that Peisistratos was a raging misogynist, I could easily see her choosing to Embrace an intelligent, passionate young woman to help back her up when she inevitably tossed him out. Dove fits that bill well, and she helps Sophia in all things technological, taught Ventrue diplomacy and politics, and generally serves as Sophia's assistant.

Well, up until she decides that she's not meant to be a politician and ditches, eventually meeting Lettow, and Jasper, and eventually Aila.

Her story from there is more or less the same as per canon, with a love for radio technology, fast vehicles, and the like, albeit being able to be a little more open about it with her lack of the Nosferatu bane. Her Ventrue bane, too, fits in well, with a feeding restriction on adrenaline junkies and the like. Hanging out at the motor clubs isn't just a hobby, it's dinner!

When they arrive in Tucson, she sticks by Lettow; when the former Prince (still Ventrue) starts being awful and Lettow (as Ravnos) is one of the ones targeted, they start working on taking him down. After, despite Lettow technically being Prince, it's Dove who serves as main advisor and generally runs the show; it's particularly useful when it comes to the former Prince's childer. If they want to Ventrue at her, well, she can just Ventrue louder!

Julian Sim | 11th generation Tremere | Embraced by Jasper Knowles

Julian's backstory is more or less the same up to his Embrace. His canon Banu Haqim sire, however, happened to mention the young man he hoped to Embrace to his friend Jasper; Jasper promptly pointed out that maybe this guy was a little too chaotic to help spread the influence of the Banu Haqim in southeast Asia, canon sire went "...fair point", and left Julian to be Embraced by Jasper instead. Which, honestly, suited Julian just fine!

He's still pretty similar, honestly. Still has a lot of blood sorcery, just this time it's explicitly Tremere Thaumaturgy. Slightly, um, less sense of justice, and one big point of divergence for a Night Road plot is that he doesn't arrange to kill Jasper, his sire. He does end up leaving his side and striking out on his own, though, and still fully intends to do the whole 2100 thing.

The collapse of the Pyramid, here, was a big influence - if hiding and staying secret still saw the Tremere brought to their knees, then what was the point of even having the Masquerade? Why not be themselves, openly, so the SI can't actually attack without causing a major diplomatic incident? Better to be out in the open and with a public that supports them, than skulking around in the shadows and *still* being killed.

Aila | 6th generation Cappadocian | Embraced by Alexia Theusa

Last up, Aila! She's Cappadocian here, having travelled to Constantinople from Anatolia as a young woman and crossing paths with Alexia Theusa, one of the eldest of the clan in the city and close to the Trinity (in this AU, they were, at the time, still around and kicking). Alexia was already 1,300 years old at this point, and the young, passionate, and independent Aila sparked her interest, Embracing her and hoping her youthful passion could help revive the ageing Clan of Death.

Aila... wasn't a natural fit for clan Cappadocian. She was a fan of acting rather than sitting and thinking, and while she certainly pitied Alexia and her fixation on finding her former lover, she couldn't bring herself to become a part of the city. Eventually, after just a few decades, she left, returning to Anatolia under the pretense of meeting more of her clan members.

It was not them she met, however, but rather the Banu Haqim; impressed by their dedication to doing something and being in the company of other Muslims after the largely Christian Constantinople, she requested training from them. Training a woman as one of the Warriors, and one from another clan, no less, they initially refused; when Aila left, trained on her own, and later bested one of their own in combat, they grudgingly agreed to work with her, although she was still forbidden from their stronghold of Alamut. For the next few centuries, Aila lived and trained nearby with the Banu Haqim, becoming a capable combatant; with her face and body masked, few were able to see the corpselike appearance that betrayed her as a part of the Cappadocian clan.

This eventually saved her life when the Giovanni began their rampage against the clan. The Banu Haqim had already seen and fought against the Tremere campaign against the Salubri; now, they defended the remaining Cappadocians as well, Aila defending her clanmates from behind her mask. The end result was, alas, the collapse of the Cappadocians as a clan, with Aila left as one of the few survivors. With nowhere else to go, despairing at the loss, she spent her time training to become stronger and stronger so she would never face the fate of her clanmates, and increasing periods of torpor.

One of those periods of wakefulness happened to coincide with the Great War, and there, she found herself a novelty - a Ravnos fighter pilot, of all things! Lettow was a delightful distraction, and for another handful of decades, she found herself with more energy than she had had in a while, travelling with Lettow and his coterie members, Dove and Jasper. But her long existence always did weigh heavily upon her, and she never fully trusted Jasper or his childe Julian, and a few years into the new millennium, she began to feel the call of torpor again, promising Lettow that it wouldn't be forever, and they would see each other again before he knew it.

He never saw her again.

[badass-at-fandoming]

Night Road update kicked me back 3 chapters but it’s okay because my jaw hit the floor at this art.