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victorluvsalice · 2 years

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AU Thursday: Fallout of Darkness -- Found Alice

All righty -- remember how, in October of last year, while trying to figure out where exactly Alice should be hidden in the Commonwealth wasteland for Victor and Piper to find, my brain suggested the Massachusetts New State House? Well, I have actually gone to the State House in my game (in fact, I’m a good while past it at this point -- Victor and Piper cleared it, went to Goodneighbor, had the traumatic incident at the Memory Den and met the Vault Tec Rep again, went to Park Street Station, saved Nick, and now they’re doing a tour of Victor’s settlements because a couple of them needed repair after attacks or are asking for new beds and such), and having toured the place, I have decided where exactly Alice is staked:

The basement.

No, not in the giant puddle with the Mirelurk Queen -- specifically, she’s in the storage room, where Provisional Governor Graham was hiding all the paintings and statues and other important stuff from the rioters and looters. This room:

It honestly felt like the most logical place, since all the upstairs portions, save for maybe the bathrooms, would have had, you know, people working in them. My thoughts on how Alice ended up in there are as such:

-->Alice entered Boston as part of her travels around the country, and sent notice to the Prince (as Boston seems to be Camarilla country, at least if you go by Swansong) that she was there for a bit

-->Whoever the Prince was at the time, knowing about what happened in L.A. all that time ago, and possibly already having dealt with an attempt on their life recently, freaked out and immediately ordered Alice’s destruction

-->Alice found herself on the run from a kill squad one night distressingly close to sunrise and needed a place to hide out

-->She happened to be in the Common, and noticed the late-night plumbers coming out from working on the pipes downstairs in the State House (since in the terminals you can learn that the place was having real plumbing issues with the toilets); she took the opportunity to slip inside and look for a place to hide

-->She quickly found the storage room and figured that would work for at least a night, wrapping herself up in some old drop cloths and putting a few pictures over herself as a sort of tent

-->And then the bombs fell the next morning, and the shockwaves and all that led to at least one of the already-fragile pictures breaking -- and the fractured frame managing to stab Alice right in the heart.

-->Cut to 210 years later, and Victor and Piper, having fallen through the massive hole in the main floor into the basement, are working on finding their way out and head into the storage room. They find one raider who, upon seeing them, immediately tries to attack them despite Victor protesting they could help each other escape; the dude snaps apart and yanks out the broken chunk of picture frame as a weapon, as he’s out of bullets --

-->Why does this picture frame already have blood on it OH SHIT VAMPIRE

-->And cue Alice draining a raider and hastily introducing herself to the shocked Victor and Piper, just in time for them to have to fight some mirelurks together.

”But Victoria,” you ask, “doesn’t that room have a bunch of rad barrels in it?” To which I reply:

“Why does it have rad barrels in it?” Like, I genuinely don’t understand why that room, full of what Governor Graham considered priceless artifacts, has BIG BARRELS FULL OF RADIATION WASTE in it as well. This feels like a “let’s make it more dangerous for gameplay purposes” choice, so I’m removing them in the fanfic universe. (Also, yes, the only raider you’re supposed to find down there is supposed to be dead, but it’s implied he died fighting the mirelurks -- if they don’t show up until later. . .) The trio are gonna fight a mirelurk queen shortly after getting to know each other, they can have a little break before then!

Oh, and an additional note, based on how I was playing (namely, Victor and Piper were, you know, sleeping at night and taking on the state house during the day) -- while Alice has to make a deal with Ug-Qualtoth during the forced temporary sacrifice of Victor to get sunlight immunity and the ability to ask directly for new powers, she does get a freebie when she’s first unstaked of being able to be awake during the day. She can’t go outside without proper protection, otherwise she’ll burn (Victor ends up sun-proofing a sleeping bag for her at first and making her a little cart so they can pull her around with his camping equipment), but she doesn’t auto-revert to a corpse when the sun rises, allowing her to actually do stuff so long as it’s indoors. This has led to the rather hilarious mental image of Alice commenting on what she can hear going on outside while she’s in her cocoon, and others being like “wtf why is your sleeping bag talking” (PARTICULARLY her commenting that how Hancock runs Goodneighbor sounds like “Anarchs” and calling him “Baron Hancock” when he expresses confusion).

So yeah -- all this has definitely decanonized my initial “First Meeting” fic, but hey, I already warned you all that was far from a final draft. I’ll edit it up into something that fits this new timeline eventually! For now, I think this is the best spot for Alice to be, and the best way for her to meet Victor and Piper.

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thevalicemultiverse · 27 days

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Particularly feral looking Vampire in Wizard hat: "You present me with a two pronged road! One leads to Hell, and the other ALSO leads to Hell!"

Presumed Vampire Hunter: "CHOOSE WISELY!"

Feral Wizard Vampire: "But meaty fool that you are, you do not realize that I can simply WALK OFF THE FUCKING ROAD!!!"

Hunter, distraught: "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

[This meme was sourced from Hunter: The Parenting, a Youtube series inspired by World of Darkness lore]

Alice: ...I refuse to believe this isn't just two Malkavians fucking around. From what I understand, this is totally something my clan would do.

#thesatiricaldemon #~M: I want some questions! now! (ask)#~V: Londerland Bloodlines #~T: Nice Place To Live #feral wizard vampire versus presumed hunter #~C: Alice Liddell #((I mean the Malkavian clan IS the most likely to wear a wizard hat #or at least is tied with the Tremere in that regard #and this whole thing feels like something the clan would do #Hunter: the Parenting huh? XD #might have to look that up later))#~M: with this hand I will lift your queue

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2mucheyeliner · 2 years

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Tribute to the ladies I was obsessed with in my edgy teen years <3

They still hold a special place in my heart.

#Reblogging is appreciated :)#soul calibur 4 #tira #soul calibur tira #alice madness returns art #alice liddell #american mcgees alice #sucker punch art #sucker punch #emily browning #vtmb #malkavian #jeanette voerman #harley quinn art #suicide squad (2016)#nostalgia #my art #tw blood #please tap or click for better quality

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eukarisparadise · 3 months

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Vampire the Masquerade: Twilight

I'm going to do one sinful thing and do a VTM/Twilight crossover, but after Cookie Run and Winx Club, I don't find it that surprising anymore. Sorry for my bad English in advance.

In fact, I'm surprised that only few people have noticed the similarities between the two at all – and as someone who has obsessed over Twilight since childhood and developed an obsession with VTM a year ago, I can say that there are literally entire tropes in Twilight that leave the impression that Stephenie Meyer directly copied them from Revised rulebook.

Or, perhaps, she just didn’t like looking for the sarcophagus, which is... valid (Twilight came out in October 5, 2005 and VTMB in November 16, 2004).

But all jokes aside, I think adapting Twilight into a TTRPG would be really interesting because I would die to read a fanfic with that crossover (or maybe I'll just have to write it myself 🥲). But before I start assigning characters to clans, I need to address a few things:

⏳ The setting of Twilight is those same weird times of Thin Blood that the Camarilla Elders were so afraid of (and, as it turns out, for a good reason 💀), where Kindred aren't afraid of the sun or at least aren't as affected by it, and the power over the world of vampires was seized by the Italian mafia. It would be funny to simply assign the Volturi to the Giovanni clan, but all the characters from there would fit perfectly into other clans, so let’s take it that in this universe the concepts of «clan» and «sect» have merged together.

👑 Speaking of which: the Volturi are clearly the local equivalent of the Camarilla. I joked above that Meyer’s inspirational guide to her world of vampires was the Revised rulebook, but I am quite seriously convinced that at least she must have heard the word «Masquerade» somewhere – otherwise, I don’t see where else this similarity came from. An elitist, corrupt ruling community of old vampire farts who are (literally) petrified with time, where not everyone can get, and who make a living by imposing immutable laws (Traditions) and enforcing strict punishments for non-compliance. Or maybe I'm just delusional...

🏴 All the other «clans» (in Twilight that's a group of vampires who, for whatever reasons, decide to stick together and have a more or less publicly open life, but a more appropriate term would be coterie), such as the Cullens or Denali, are, firstly, doomed to nomadism, since they cannot afford permanent protection as in Volterra, and, secondly, they are local Anarchs. But not the kind of Anarch Kindred of Downtown LA (Nines would be disappointed in them), but rather as an Oligarchy of Anarch Barons, like in Hollywood. They don't have the balls to openly tell the Volturilla and their laws to hell, but they preserve the Masquerade strictly, even to the point of organized combat campaigns, as it was in the end of Eclipse.

🩸 Now, packs like James's clan are obvious remnants of the Sabbat. Unlike the local Anarchs, they wander constantly without settling anywhere, even for a short time, and don't even care about the Masquerade, taking people away from them only in cases of extreme necessity. They are absolutely not concerned about the secrecy of their crimes, their level of humanity is much below average, which they, however, don't worry about, since they completely devote themselves to the Beast.

Also! There's a thing is about the soul. In Twilight, the general consensus among vampires is that they don't have one. All those who somehow spoke out on this matter (Aro, Edward, Carlisle) claimed that they were soulless monsters, doomed to Hell, driven only by bloodthirsty instincts. I've heard something similar before... only in VTM it is called the Beast.

So, let's begin.

I. We'll start with the most obvious example, that not only fits perfectly with the description of one entire clan in VTM, but also helps define other characters within the Cullen family. Edward is an obvious Toreador.

And when I say obvious, I mean not only his personality (the archetype of the self-righteous tragic hero-lover with a penchant for art and beautiful suffering, is, in general, the whole essence of the Toreador clan), but also the Disciplines that he showed in books and films, as well as his motives for behaving and acting as he did.

For starters, the fact that Edward is just about the fastest vampire we know of in Twilight is the most direct demonstration of Celerity. His token ability – mind reading – is nothing more than an Auspex (I can't guess the dots with certainty, but he clearly has about 4-5), and in the first film, in the scene where Bella was being harassed by a group of thugs (but to be fair, in the book he just beat them), he actually used what is very clearly depicted as Presence: spreading his aura of menace over a group of people, making them afraid.

He just fits perfectly with the Toreador in terms of abilities, and his personality only confirms this. As I said, Edward is a typical representative of the clan (and I’m not very happy about it since I myself play for the Toreadors and this is my fave clan... 😬), simply because... well, I assume everybody remembers how he behaved? This craving for suffering, idiotic sacrifices in the name of love, manipulation of the feelings of people who depend on him (and resisting the charm of a vampire, especially a Toreador, is a task where any human NPC almost automatically has a losing roll), and, consciously or not, creating conditions for even more drama and complication of everything around. This man is a nightmare to live with, honestly – especially when you realize that he usually manages to get everything his way because of his supernatural charisma, while we, the readers, are well aware that he actually thinks like every other teenage incel you may encounter at your school. He concentrates very heavily on the feelings and specifically love, while at the same time remaining incredibly vain: at first Bella attracted him only because he wanted to rip her throat with his teeth couldn't get through her thoughts, so this allowed him to imagine that she was all so mysterious and «not like other girls» (as he was sincerely repelled by the horny thoughts of his classmates; little did he know that Bella was no different from them). Let's not forget the concerns for his own virtue and mourning for his lost soul and humanity – very strong words for someone who had no problem putting Bella and the people around her in danger many times and then pretending he didn't see it coming (to be fair for the sake of it, if his actions fully correlate with a 17-year-old boy, then his mental development must be as well; he's selfish as one, too). And last but not least – his pretentiousness, which sometimes made me feel cringe: his every compliment to Bella, the language that he uses (no, he's not that old of a vampire and he's very much aware of young people slang) and notorious teary pauses in sentences. If Robert Pattinson was given the task of playing a textbook Toreador, then he did it 100%

II. In VTM the clan is passed down from Sire to Childe: if a Sire belongs to a clan, then his Childer will automatically inherit it. The opposite is also true – if the Childe's clan is reliably known, then so is the Sire's. What I mean is that Carlisle is also a Toreador, and one that fits those same stereotypes too.

We don't know anything about the level of his Disciplines – I'll just assume that he wasn't as focused on developing them as Edward – and he doesn't have a special gift. He has what was described in the books as «supernatural compassion» that allowed him to more easily tolerate a diet of animal blood, but this doesn't really indicate anything other than that he just has a large Willpower pool. We do, however, know why Carlisle sticks to his principles, teaches them to other vampires, and his personality as such.

For starters: his aura of holiness is nothing more than dust in the eyes from Stephenie Meyer; for example, he had no moral concerns about his constant presence in Forks attracting vampires to the area, causing the local Tribe to suffer a rapidly growing numbers of shape-shifters. He has done many things – from financial fraud to intervention in the lives of entire communities, human and otherwise – that are questionable at best, but what does he feel the most remorse for? Ah yes – for the fact that once three hundred years ago he used to feed on human blood. Why? Because it makes him feel bad about himself and ruins his holier-than-thou image. Remember all these talks about «going to hell» and «being damned»? It was Carlisle who put this idea into Edward's mind. Nevertheless, the entire family considers their patriarch to be the epitome of humility and a role model... for just being self-aware. Do you really think he doesn't know about it? Even Bella told him this directly in New Moon.

I'm not trying to say here that Carlisle is a terrible person. I'm trying to say that he clearly can tell right from wrong, while also really believing that he and his family – in which no one really cares as much about morality or values human life as he thinks he does – are really good guys, by turning a blind eye on everything inconvenient. Very Toreador to me.

Also he's fascinated by the classic art even more than Edward, but this may be just the influence of Volturi, idk.

III. Esme is another Carlisle's Childe, and therefore is also automatically a Toreador.

Like Carlisle, she doesn't actually have any special powers – but she does have what was described in the books as «extreme passion» and «ability to warmly and passionately love the people around her» (you get this). The interesting thing is that she and Carlisle were the original Bella and Edward: Carlisle turned the dying Esme into a vampire for the sake of eternal love. I swear, with the way Sires were banned from having relationships with their Childer in V5, the Toreador clan will just leave the Camarilla in a minute.

IV. Let's take a short break from the Toreadors and identify everyone's favorite manic pixie dream girl – Alice.

She is an obvious Malkavian with her gift of seeing the future and general eccentricity, there is no question about it. Interestingly enough, her Sire was an unknown vampire psychiatrist from the mental hospital where Alice was placed by her parents, and who turned her after she had a vision of encountering James (Mr Grout?..)

V. Now back to hell – Rosalie, another's Carlisle's Childe, is also a Toreador (I mean, come on, even her name is a hint to «the Clan of the Rose»).

There is an interesting detail in her story (which is perhaps one of the most tragic in the family) that none of the Cullens can boast of. She had never tasted human blood, never. Even Bella tried it, although when she was still human; Rosalie never drank it, even when she killed her rapists. She does this with back-breaking work, and perhaps her level of humanity is one of the highest in the family, but what is interesting here is how her Toreadorism manifests itself in her particular case.

She doesn't drink human blood not because she values human life, but because it's her way of showing her superior humanity in the family – over Carlisle and over Edward, the ones who claim to care the most. Rosalie, on the contrary, doesn’t care about people at all – she multiple times stated it, and even directly told Bella about this in Eclipse. Well, at least she's honest about it.

Rosalie, like all the other Cullens, only pretends that human lives are important to her, and even then, she does it reluctantly – which is why Edward doesn't think highly of her. Maybe it only seemed to me, but I noticed that Edward has some kind of envy towards her on the basis of «humanity points», because she has an advantage over him and she knows about it; however, I can’t even say with certainty whether Edward likes anyone in his family at all, except Carlisle.

Rosalie, following the good tradition of the Toreador clan, puts love at the forefront, and her main unfulfilled dream is a real family, including children, grandchildren and aging. Vampire life, however, dictates other conditions: it's easier to survive in clans, especially in those where there are gifted vampires (even if they're not her closest friends). It was for this reason that she agreed to take care of Bella when she became pregnant – not because Rosalie suddenly warmed up to her, but because it would give her the opportunity to nurse the baby she herself had longed for.

Again, the things Rosalie does to stay morally pure – refusing to drink human blood and relying on her moral superiority over this – don't make her truly merciful and compassionate, as Carlisle might want her to be: even if Rosalie didn't Embrace Emmett herself, she was selfish enough to carry him miles to Carlisle and beg to turn him so she could have forever love with him. Putting her wishes first, even knowing the hellish pain that transformation brings, and so deciding to pass the responsibility onto someone else... yes, that is a true Kindred.

VI. We're done with simple examples, and now let's move on to those where I hesitated about a clear answer. Emmett Cullen, being the Childe of Carlisle, should also naturally be a Toreador, but he obviously doesn't feel like one, unlike everyone else (with the exception of Alice).

I understand that, at least externally, the Brujah clan would suit him better than anyone else, but the fact that Toreadors cannot be strong warriors is nothing more than a stereotype. No, of course, the most often played out Toreador archetype is a dude who's hobbies consist of hanging late Baroque paintings in the house with records of Italian operetta in the background, but this is not all that art is limited to. Someone once said that a Toreador martial artist is more to be feared than a Gangrel or even a Banu Haqim. Emmett, as he was shown in books and films, always votes for a fight; this could have passed for Brujah clan compulsion if not for his competitive streak. I understand, it’s very far-fetched, but I think it fits. Also the closest example of the power that a Toreador admiring the art of fighting can possess would be Sheriff Qadir al-Asmai from CoNY and SoNY.

VII. An even more confusing example is Jasper Hale. Initially, I thought of adding him to the Toreadors, like all the rest, since the Internet agreed with me: he was Embraced because of his appearance and he possess special talent that clearly resembles Presence, but my personal guess would be Brujah. Yeah, him – not Emmett.

As a soldier, he was chosen by his Sire, Maria, specifically as a fighting unit that would train newborns like himself, and then kill them when they were no longer needed. His whole life was consisting of fightings – and not to say for a just cause (during his lifetime he was a Confederate💀)

But okay, a vampire’s backstory can be anything and it doesn’t depend or correlate with the clan, so what made me think that he is a Brujah? Firstly, they also have Presence. Secondly: his strength and skill in battle can, debatable, but be justified by Potence. And thirdly: the way he behaves. The way I see it, Jasper can't help but constantly fail his Franzy checks, because... this is just a Brujah clan curse.

Over time, of course, he gains more and more Willpower and adapts to an animal diet, but he finally calms down, it seems, only when Bella herself becomes a vampire: that is, the source of provocation (her exceptionally fragrant blood + debilitating vegetarian diet) stops looming before his nose.

VIII. So, the last member of the clan. Bella's case touches on a lot of themes, such as generation and the level of humanity of the Cullens, and when vacillating between a regular Toreador like Edward and a Thinblood, I chose Thinblood because Ratatouille's birth helped me with that.

First of all: Rodimus for sure is a Dhampir (but Stephenie Meyer avoided the word for some reason, preferring «hybrid» instead 🤨). The existence of these half-bloods in VTM is an existing fact as well as in the Twilight canon. They appear when one of the parents is specifically a Thinblood and the other is human, and have some unique traits that Kindred have (a blood pool or the ability to learn some Disciplines), but aren't immortal and can't Embrace or create ghouls.

With all that said, if Edward could impregnate Bella, why didn't I assign him to Thinbloods, but to a regular Toreador? Because, let's be clear once again: the world of Twilight as a whole is the Time of Thin Blood, because it's the only possibility for Kindred to adapt to being under the sun and at the same time retain vampiric traits, such as immortality and some superpowers. This can explain why not everyone here masters the Disciplines, but only specific lucky individuals who retain the ability to develop them – it may be, or may be not, due to the phenomenon of Blood thickening, that lowers one's generation (and doesn't happen to everyone).

Would it be interesting if I simply wrote down absolutely all the vampires from Twilight as Thinbloods? No – for exactly this reason, I'm going to make a second part about the Volturi, where I'll sort them into clans, instead of just slapping the Giovanni label on them all.

So how did it happen then that Edward is not a Thinblood, but Bella is? Well, perhaps his blood is still in the process of thickening, which will lower his generation eventually: Carlisle, as I understand it, is a 13th generation Kindred, which makes all of his Childer 14th. In previous editions of VTM, the 14th generation was considered Thin-Blooded, who still had the ability to Embrace, but 15th didn't. Interesting that in the Dark Ages the 13th generation was also considered Thin-Blooded, and they also couldn't reproduce and create blood bonds, however, over time, their blood thickened and now they're considered absolutely normal Kindred that can do all those things. The same thing happened around 2010-s in the VTM timeline: now the 14th generation are full-fledged Kindred. The problem with the 15th generation is that there's more of them appearing than the blood has time to thicken.

For this reason, I see Edward as a vampire who, during Twilight, was in a period of life where his generation was gradually lowering, which allowed him to have a child with Bella in the moment, but is unlikely to allow him with any other human woman in another 100 years or so.

There is no definite answer as to why the blood thickens or weakens in the first place, other than the ghostly vague narrative tool that is Gehenna. I can only assume that, just as the increasing number of bloodsuckers in the werewolf territory triggers a gene in some of them, forcing more and more of them to shape-shift, some other processes help the Twilight vampires become stronger every day (Bella's gift, which I sincerely can't tie to any Discipline, except for some transcendental level of Presence, could develop so quickly precisely because her blood thickens very quickly and her generation from 15th is already shifting to 14th).

She was Embraced, however, as a Thinblood – just like Edward, with the only difference that he was Embraced at a time when the 14th generation was still considered Thinbloods.

(I use the word «blood» here because it's still a crossover with VTM, and also because the «venom is the only substance in a vampire’s stone body» thing still annoys me)

The only exceptions to this are Jasper and Alice, since they were not embraced by Carlisle: we don't know their generations.

Just like we don't know the level of humanity of each of the Cullens: I would argue that Bella currently has the highest if measured from an objective point of view (just because she's the youngest), but in V5 we no longer have a concept of «humanity» as something definitive. Now it's rather the Kindred’s assessment of their actions with their internal moral code – which is why Edward, with all his feigned self-flagellation about his murders in the past, actually remains a vampire with a fairly high humanity and passes perfectly as a regular normal human, albeit pale.

Same thing with the rest of the Cullens.

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With all that being said, I believe that the crossover with VTM is a kind of filter – an opportunity to expose all of Twilight's flaws and use them as something interesting, an addition to the universe, make them something that can be used as part of a story about monsters, rather than something to shy away from and choose to turn a blind eye to.

Be you a monster who has renounced everything human and decided to give yourself to the Beast wholeheartedly, like James's clan, or a Kindred who has hopped on the path of enlightenment, deciding to reject all worldliness and find a greater meaning in your existence, beyond the simple blood-sucking curse and everything around you, like Volturi, or decide to delude yourself so much that at some point you really believe that you're still pretty much like humans and even try to adhere to all the virtues that are only available to you in conditions of constant moral compromises, like Cullens – none of you really are good guys. There's no such thing in VTM, and that's why I love it so much.

But of course, Stephenie Meyer just couldn't acknowledge the fact that her precious sparkly creations aren't actually good people – otherwise that would made Twilight something more than a teenage romance, god forbid.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

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slcknasty · 2 years

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what the hell’s going on? can someone tell me please: why i’m switching faster than the channels on tv?

#vampire the masquerade #vtm #vtm malkavian #god bless alice you are so fucked up #eye strain #perhaps

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melonbear51 · 1 year

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VTM character concepts that I am compelled to share as they have completely taken over my brain:

1. A fledgling who wakes up after their embrace to an "Alice in Wonderland"-style "unbirthday party" complete with some rather grizzly tea and presents. Their sire is either a Malkavian who genuinely thinks they are doing something nice, or a very twisted Toreador.

2. A Lasombra antiquarian bookseller who takes sadistic pleasure in charging Tremere vamps OBSCENE amounts of money for rare occult tomes. 3. A Salubri vampire who consensually feeds from those suffering from chronic pain in order to give them a little relief, unknowingly creating people addicted to the kiss in the process. 4. Nosferatu with a gorgeous voice who posts songs on social media without revealing their face. They are often asked to perform at Elysium, provoking much jealousy from the local Toreador. 5. A Toreador dominatrix whose art form is torture. They work with the sheriff to "extract" information, and are currently searching for a fiend to teach them fleshcraft. Please feel free to use any of these as my brain continues to sprout characters without actually having chronicles to play them in lol.

#vtm #vtm v5 #vampire the masquerade #world of darkness #ttrpgs #lasombra #toreador #malkavian #salubri #nosferatu #character concept

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eric-the-bmo · 2 months

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The gang's all here! (I decided to compile all my WoD ocs' heights together ☆)

Giving quick descriptions of each character under the readmore:

Leo West (VtM): An impulsive fledgling Malkavian in 2021 San Jose who has memory issues and mysterious chronic headaches. He claims to have been abandoned by his sire, and aims to discover more about him. Most of Leo's problems seem to be his own fault.

Cecelia Natale (DtF): The host for a Fallen Namaru named Arielle. With her story set in 2003 LA, it's desperate to prove its worth in a time where Heralds are considered useless, and aims to find its brother Lucifer. Still a work-in-progress.

Alice Tenniel (CtD): A Nocker Wilder trying to balance his college and fae life- which is difficult, especially when the Dreaming is so fascinating... (Alice has no set chronicle at the moment, and is still a work-in-progress)

??? (VtM): A Kindred in 2021 San Diego who aims to escape a lab and return home. I can't talk about them much, due to chronicle spoilers and my urge to keep them a surprise for the other players.

Hazel Pedigree (VtM): A Camarilla Tremere from New York who was forced to diablerize her sire by the Kindred she views as a father figure. Currently on a mission to hunt down members of the Red List with her assigned coterie. (originally a Bloodlines oc!)

#eric finally speaks #vtm ocs #demon the fallen #changeling the dreaming #world of darkness #wod #oc height chart

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beaberfever · 6 months

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Alice: Malkavian vampire. He is a design for my character from a Vampire: The Masquerade campaign a few years back. He has a fear of water from a traumatic death before being turned, and an unhealthy relationship with his sire, who he diablerized at the end of the campaign.

#digital art #illustration #original character #character design #artists on tumblr #vampire #vampire art #vampire the masquerade #world of darkness #gothic #goth aesthetic #goth #fashion #dress #roleplay #ttrpg #vampire aesthetic

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greenliar · 1 year

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my beloved VtM ventrue and malkavian duo alice and murray who can have be rivals and kiss and hold hands and shoot eachother

#vtm #vampire #vampire art #vampire the masquerade #malkavian #ventrue #oc #original character #vtm character #world of darkness #sketch #digitalart #digital art #procreate

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swoomoo · 3 months

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I had an idea to post about my current VTM game from the perspective of my character in diary format so I want to do that here. For those of you who do not know, my character's name is Amare Belmont and is a Lasombra whose concept it protecting another vampire played by @informaltorching. Session 0 November 1st, 2023 We went to Niccolo's museum opening tonight. It was supposed to be a Gala but was closer to a Masquerade. Niccolo wanted to officially hire us to gather some specific artifacts he believes to be of capable of supernatural cainite power. Specifically three paintings in a set. Vesper and I were the guests of honor along with another cainite name Vincent. Vincent seems to be an infant in our world but happily announces he has killed a wight. I call bullshit but I suppose only time will tell. Another cainite showed up unexpectedly, having broken into the Gala. They wanted to speak to Mr. Giovanni and he was happy to comply but I think this makes him look weak. I hope he disciplined the fool that let him in. I spoke to a Toreador representing the Camarilla named Alice Summers. She invited me to her own Gala starting in a few nights. She has one of the three painting Niccolo is searching for. There was one more thing of note that happened. A strange individual dressed in full robes with moving sigils on them spoke to the Nosferatu representing some of the Anarchs. I overheard them speaking and discovered this was likely a Tremere. One of the only 5 still in London. I had the shadows follow their conversation and discovered a plot by them to target specific elders around the city. One feral Gangrel and the other was a Malkavian being hidden by the Anarchs. The Nosferatu was dominated and forced to forget after this exchange.

#Amare Belmont #vtm oc #lasombra

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victorluvsalice · 11 days

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Oh hey, remember when I wrote that story about Alice becoming the Malkavian Fledgling in Vampire: the Masquerade -- Bloodlines and doing all the Santa Monica missions in her snarky, snarky way?

Here's the first chapter of the sequel. :p Enjoy!

#londerland bloodlines #fanfic #archive of our own #vtmb #alice liddell #malkavian #posted this just last night #so it's pretty much fresh off the presses here #and look at me I even remembered to do some author's notes this time #gotta update Santa Monica's Vale of Tears with some of those at some point #but yes have Alice's first night Downtown #it involves her being smacked in the head by the Sabbat #having to drag the information that there's a plague going around out of Strauss #getting insulted by two-thirds of the major Anarch players #and getting sent back to Santa Monica to sneak around a ship by LaCroix #all very fun activities :p #on the plus side she'll FINALLY catch up with Victor again next chapter #something to look forward to!#queued

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thevalicemultiverse · 2 years

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(Fallout of Darkness Pre-War) Malkavian: as a reward for your service, Fledgling, I give you this. *gives you a briefcase full of Nuka Cola and Sunset Sarsaparilla bottle caps* Don’t lose it! This will make you a very wealthy woman in the future.

Alice: [takes the briefcase with an expression that says *just indulge them*] Thank you. I'll be sure to keep it in a safe place.

[A few centuries later. . .]

Victor: [staring at the rusted briefcase] So they just handed you this as payment?

Alice: Yup. I thought it was plain Malkavian madness at the time.

Victor: . . .why the Sunset Sarsaparilla caps?

Alice: [shrugs] I was in California at the time.

#~M: I want some questions! now! (ask)#~M: grin without a cat (anon)#~V: Fallout Of Darkness #prewar cap bounty #~C: Victor Van Dort #~C: Alice Liddell #((obviously that Malkavian was hedging their bets regarding which coast Alice would be on XD #and which game #Fallout 4's the only one I have sooo))#~M: with this hand I will lift your queue

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goreador · 2 years

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my silly little beckett backstory headcanons

(put under the cut because they get long. trans beckett lore <3)

Cuthbert Beckett is born Alice Wytton, one of the younger daughters of the Wytton family; when she is of age, she is married to the tailor Gregory Beckett. While this was an arranged marriage, the two eventually find that they love one another, and, over the period of the next ten years, have multiple children, some of which die and some of which do not.

When Alice is twenty-seven, Gregory contracts tuberculosis and dies. Heartbroken and distraught, she continues to raise her children to the best of her ability, and she continues to manage Gregory's business and affairs, having taken on the business to make ends meet, and she is not interested in remarrying.

At age thirty-three, she is returning home later than usual, the roads wet from rain. She is restrained and knocked unconscious, and then she dies.

Alice crawls out of the grave with twenty-eight others. She is the only one that survives.

The stranger that did this to her admires her--her resolve, her anger, her passion--and he decides that he will raise her as his childe.

Alice does not know what a childe is. She does know that she will not see her children again, and she knows that she hates him.

Baron de Vere is a former aristocrat turned staunch supporter of the infant Sabbat, and he is bullheaded and controlling before all else. When Alice tries to run away, he slays her eldest son, Cuthbert Beckett, as punishment, and he blood bonds her to him fully.

She studies under him for decades. He teaches her literature; he teaches her to read and to write; he teaches her Noddist lore and teaches her of the Jyhad; he tells her she must destroy the elders, and she will be sword, and he the knight that wields her.

The blood bond starts to wane, and Alice swallows her hatred and agrees.

De Vere is a picky man that is picky about a lot of things that he shouldn't necessarily be picky about. He is controlling to a fault, and he only allows Alice freedom where he can see her. It is not, admittedly, much of freedom. He speaks poorly of the Tzimisce, the fiends that twist flesh barbarically, and he speaks poorly of the Malkavians, blabbering idiots too stupid to tell left from right.

He complains of the Camarilla and their idiot rule. He complains of the Sabbat and its disorganization. He complains of the Setites and their strange god-cult, and Alice comes to the realization that her sire seems to hate everything. It is one cold night in February when she comes to another realization: politics are stupid and complicated, then, she doesn't want to be here anymore.

This coincides with a Camarilla-led attack upon their domain, and the castle is set aflame.

The only thing Alice misses is the library, and she flees into the woods as her sire howls with rage, his body aflame, torpid, but not dead.

She travels after that. She still doesn't know who she is supposed to be without her sire's guiding hand, and she realizes, eventually, that she is free--Truly, genuinely free, and she relishes in it.

She is still Sabbat. She hates her elders. She hates her sire most of all. But, most importantly, she wants her own opinions--she wants to believe after what she finds, not information fed to her through the mouth of another.

This leads her to mingle with the Fiends. This leads her to realize that she really isn't Alice Beckett, formerly Alice Wytton. This leads her to remember de Vere was someone important, someone with lovers and contacts across Europe, and this leads her to remember that she does know how to lie, and she calls in a small boon on behalf of her sire that she is most certainly acting on behalf of, and Alice realizes that she may have bit off more than she could chew when she ends up in the Lady Vykos's domain, seated awkwardly on the floor as the Fiend stares her down with a knife.

Vykos does not kill Alice. Vykos sees a kindred spirit, some shred of who she used to be, that she feels something akin towards empathy for. Vykos reshapes Alice, and when Vykos asks the man, "Who are you, now?" he pauses, and he stares at his features in the mirror, and he answers, after a very long pause, "Cuthbert. I am Cuthbert."

Cuthbert, for what it is worth, becomes happier after this. Cuthbert, for what it is also worth, feels unbelievably awkward in this Fiend's domain, and he wonders what de Vere will say when he finds out.

Vykos, whose opinion of de Vere had been on the decline anyway, proposes a very normal suggestion that aligns rather well with everything else she's done her whole unlife - "Find his body, and consume him."

Cuthbert asks, "Pardon?"

Vykos elaborates, "His blood is unworthy. Reclaim it for yourself."

Cuthbert thinks about it. Years afterwards, he commits to it.

De Vere is torpid, still. It would be very easy. The stake is driven in his heart, and Cuthbert stares.

He can't bring it in himself to do it, all the same. De Vere dies in agony, staked and left out to wither in the sun.

When Vykos sees Cuthbert next, she stares at his aura, unblemished, and doesn't comment on it.

Other Notes.

Beckett meets Aristotle at a scholarly meeting (Beckett is attempting to break into a Tremere chantry). Aristotle turns a very awkward conversation into a more polite one.

De Vere had other childer, including a noble warrior named Arthur. Beckett did not like his vampiric sibling much at all.

The second meeting that Beckett and Vykos had was one where they became engaged in a very long debate over religious Kindred theory. Neither of them commented on meeting each other before. Beckett naively hoped it was because she didn't remember him. Vykos did, in fact, remember him, and while she was annoyed beyond words at his dumb cold takes, she was a little proud of him all the same, as she'd seen much of herself in him in one way or another.

#cuthbert beckett #vtm #haiiiii

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