Test Drive Meme - New Blood

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DEC TEST DRIVE MEME

WELCOME, VAMPIRES!

Welcome to the Undying Court Test Drive Meme! This post will allow players to test drive their AU characters in the setting, as well as meet fresh faces or even connect with those they have preexisting CR with. As with anything involved in the setting, this post will likely contain: violence, enthrallment, torture, and sexual content.

Regarding continuity, all TDM threads can be taken as in-game canon if desired. Please keep in mind that the game proper will begin in mid December, in the Winter Season, so Students/Novices should create their prompts under the assumption that the TDM takes place during the season prior to the one they will be apping as. This means that students planning to app as first season novices will be visiting Castle Courtsheart prior to their Beginning. In other words, if you plan to app a student as a second season, the TDM will take place during their first, and so on.

Feel free to brush up on the Premise, Vampire Powers, and head over to the FAQ/Game Info page if you have any questions!

• Make sure you are aware of the Rules when posting your top-level. (Content warnings are always welcome!)
• Please format your Top-level in this format: Character Name (AU Name if different) | Canon | Teacher/Student | Court
• As a reminder, a Test Drive sample is required in order to app.
• If you have any questions specific to the TDM, ask them in the Questions thread below!

Top-Level Directory:

Chat with NPC: Revar
Ace Attorney - Apollo Justice (Student)
Alice in the Country of Hearts - Alice Liddell (Student)
Attack On Titan - Erwin Smith (Teacher)
Baldur's Gate 3 - Astarion (Teacher)
Baldur's Gate 3 - Halsin (Teacher)
Baldur's Gate 3 - Raphael (Teacher)
Batman - Bruce Wayne (Teacher)
Bridgerton (Netflix) - Anthony Bridgerton (Student)
Castlevania - Soma Cruz (Student)
Castlevania: Nocturne - Maria Renard (Student)
Cosmo Warrior Zero - Harlock (Student)
Critical Role - Percy DeRolo (Teacher)
Daria - Daria Morgendorffer (Teacher)
Devil Summoner - Raidou Kuzunoha XIV (Student)
Dragon Age - Fenris (Teacher)
D&D: Honor Amongst Thieves - Edgin Darvis (Teacher)
D&D: Honor Amongst Thieves - Xenk Yendar (Teacher)
Ensemble STars!! - Mayoi Ayase (Student)
Fate/Zero - Kariya Matou (Kariya Makiri) (Student)
FE: Three Houses - Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd (Student)
FE: Three Houses - Hilda Goneril (Student)
FE: Three Houses - Lorenz Hellman Gloucester (Student)
FE: Three Houses - Marianne von Edmund (Student)
FE: Three Houses - Sylvain Gautier (Student)
Final Fantasy XIV - Estinien Varlineau (Teacher)
Frozen - Prince Hans (Student)
Genshin Impact - Diluc Ragnvindr (Teacher)
Genshin Impact - Tighnari (Teacher)
Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name - Conrad Achenleck (Teacher)
Hannibal (NBC) - Will Graham (Teacher)
Jujutsu Kaisen - Gojo Satoru (Teacher)
Jujutsu Kaisen - Toji Zen'in (Teacher)
Lucifer (Netflix) - Lucifer Morningstar (Teacher)
MCU - Loki Laufeyson (Teacher)
Original - Aurinn Laurentius (Student)
Original - Bellatrix Bakhar (Student)
Original - Christine Delacroix (Teacher)
Original - Hanako 'Rosalina' Nurumi (Teacher)
Original - Jisu (Eden Woods) (Student)
Original - Karma D'Auvergn (Teacher)
Our Flag Means Death - Edward Teach (Teacher)
Our Flag Means Death - Izzy Hands (Student)
Persona 3 Portable - Kotone Shiomi (Student)
Persona 5 R - Goro Akechi (Student)
Persona 5 - Haru Okumura (Student)
Persona 5 - Ren Amamiya (Student)
Pride and Prejudice - Elizabeth Bennet (Student)
Return to Labrynth - Sarah Williams (Teacher)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Snow White (Student)
Stargate: Atlantis - John Sheppard (Teacher)
Star Trek: AOS - James T. Kirk (Student)
Star Wars - Darth Vader (Teacher)
Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order - Trilla Suduri (Student)
The Adventure Zone: Balance - Kravitz (Teacher)
The Adventure Zone: Balance - Lydia (Teacher)
The Adventure Zone: Graduation - Fitzroy Maplecourt (Student)

NEW ARRIVALS

New arrivals will be starting their first season in the winter, but they're welcomed to the castle early, under the watchful eyes of the Silver Court. Upon arrival, they will be shown to a room by a human whose eyes glow softly from within, with vacant smiles. Thralls. There, the human thralls will draw them a bath and bring them new clothes to wear to their first meeting. These are rich, expensive things made of high quality fabric. Whether it's a silk dress and a heavy velvet cowl, or a fine pants and a vest made from a brocade, the servants will provide. The new initiate's old clothes will be burned after, in a symbol of the life they are leaving behind. If they are hungry, they will be provided food. If they need anything at all, they need only ask their new servants.

Later that night they are taken to a grand hall, with high arched ceilings and candles burning in chandeliers. There are figures painted overhead, beautiful and entwined. Some have their eyes are colored to match the courts, others are gracefully placed in their death, with blood dripping from necks and wrists.

Balconies line the hall behind a forest of pillars, and vampires all watch as the group walk through (some more hungrily than others).

"Welcome to your first undying season, initiates," a pale, silver-haired vampire calls. They have silver eyes are clad in silver robes, but command the attention of everyone in attendance. They have a beauty that seems neither male nor female. They are standing at the center of a wide semi-circle of other vampires, "As the Silver Court's acting voice at this end of the Autumn season, allow me to introduce you to the Houses that will be your new homes."

The vampire, Revar, gives the newcomers an overview of all of the courts—Blue, Red, Gold, Silver, and Black—and then invites those already claimed by their Courts to join the vampires who will be their Makers.

Revar offers the Foundlings who are left a gentle, knowing smile, and then allows them to be chosen. They are like the last sheep left at the auction, and the vampires who take them may not be the enthused about it. Nevertheless, Revar waits patiently until all have found a maker.

Now that they are paired up it is expected—indeed, required—that the initiate drink from their maker. That is their Beginning. Only once they have truly begun can they can be considered novices.

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AUTUMN NOX

Silver Court is in season and for the Autumn Nox it holds a large symposium, inviting all the best vampire minds from around lands nearby and far. The whole castle is abuzz with new activity. The stables are packed full of horses, carriages litter the grounds, but somehow the castle has enough rooms to house all the new arrivals.

Novices will find that some of these vampires have not seen a human-novice in a very, very long time. These vampires might see the human-novices more like specimens, curious about their every move. They won't bite, but novices may find themselves observed as they wander the castle and its grounds.

The symposium itself is open to anyone at the castle. Scholars can present on any topic at all. Novices will find that these range from the incredibly mundane (you've always wanted to attend a history of bottom-feeding river fish, haven't you?) to the truly fascinating (new insights into how vampire hearts work) to the downright strange (the symposium has a range of lectures very close to dawn about the sharing of vampire...fluids). Seasoned novices with their own Autumn classes to attend are expected to keep up with their studies, but some teachers may let them out of a session to attend the lectures and workshops of the symposium.

The Silver Court vampires are incredibly busy between running the symposium and trying to help the new novices get settled in. They may need some volunteers to lend a hand with setting up rooms or helping scholars find their way around. In fact, volunteers might find themselves leading scholars down to the second kitchen for a bite to eat, a strong reminder that even these demure learners are still monsters who must drink blood.

PUMPKINS-GONE-WILD

The symposium isn't all that the autumn season brings. The Silver Court’s talents are on display in other ways—sometimes not in ways another had particularly hoped. An overly zealous youngblood in the Silver Court tried to grow a few extra pumpkins for the occasion and ended up with a few too many! The pumpkin vines break out of the green house and start sprouting pumpkins everywhere. These are no ordinary pumpkins, they will sprout and grow and become fully formed in the course of a night. Better keep an eye out for those vines or else your room might become full of pumpkins! Luckily, the pumpkins aren’t rotting any time soon (they’ll last until winter, or so the Silver Court vampires are saying), but it can be pretty inconvenient for them to grow everywhere. Start cutting those vines to pieces, and hope they don’t try to entangle you in the process.

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LIBRARY CLEAN-UP

Meanwhile, with all the scholars in town are making a mess of the library, much to the Silver Court vampire’s dismay. Books are being checked out and not checked back in, passed around from scholar to scholar. You might find those lost books just about anywhere. Who was reading in a tree? Anyone who collects the books and returns them to the library is sure to get a little bit of favor with the librarians, and it’s never a bad thing to have a bit of an in with a Court. If you’re worried about failing Silver Court, it’s time to get searching! Although how you’re going to convince a 300 year old vampire that time is not fake and that deadlines are real (and in fact were two days ago) is anyone’s guess.

UNETHICAL EXPRIMENTS

[CW: Torture, experiments]

Those who venture towards the basement might hear something a little different than normal. The thralls who spend their time down there are normally quiet, commanded to keep silent and pleasant for the vampires they serve. But with the arrival of the new scholars comes disquieting, inhuman screams from the darker reaches of the basement. Novices trying to catch a glimpse will be chased away, but teachers might be invited to watch as these vampires experiment on one another, all in the name of science. What’s a little torture, when you’re undying?

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Thanks for joining us for our first TDM! For any questions regarding the TDM prompts, please comment in the thread below. For general game questions, please check the FAQ/Game Info. Remember that the game proper will begin mid December, in the Winter Season, so Students/Novices should create their prompts under the assumption that the TDM takes place during the season prior to the one they will be apping as.

Comments

[theidlemaiden]

[ For that answer Hilda is practically ready to give some sass in return. It doesn't quite matter to her that Diluc is a teacher and that giving him any amount of sass could very well result in a punishment of some sort that could be made worse due to the fact that he's a vampire - but self-preservation since arriving here hasn't been something Hilda seems to particularly care about.

Instead she's taken by surprise by both his silent peace offering and by what he says. ]

What is that supposed to mean? I don't know if you were watching the same thing I was but I definitely wouldn't have caught myself even without the vines.

Arrivals

[wonderland_vogue]

[Pretty good, it turns out. Especially because someone is taking that question and absolutely running with it. Better to feel someone out with. She can't help but make her way over, all bright pink, gold, and white and clothing very much made to accentuate her figure. She's Red, after all, and that is her favorite part of this all.

Not that it helps when her grin screams predatory.]

Ohhh~ they didn't tell you what happens? My goodness, how rude. There's a time limit, darling, there always is. Those that no one wants end up becoming much like the people that helped you clean and dress, little more than mind controlled zombies~

[Not entirely accurate, but all the more to see how she reacts.]

It's quite a shame, really, but we can't just have a human leaving here with all of the knowledge and hospitality everyone has been shown thus far~

[captains_hands]

Yes, boss.

[he follows after him willingly and unconsciously matching his pace step for step]

I don't know why we have to bother with all this play acting to begin with. Why can't you just turn me now?

yeah that's.... a good idea because yeah

[veardant]

[ diluc isn't wrong, his observation is, in fact, spot on. tighnari is a busy man in general. he always takes on the maximum amount of classes allowable, is active with the faculty, and spends a great deal of time caring for the greenhouses. private tutoring, writing field guides for his students.. normally, he enjoys keeping busy, but the symposium and all of these maddening scholars on top of it all is quite stressful.

he could absolutely use this. and as a black court vampire, he's sure that diluc could, as well. so tighnari doesn't hesitate any further, though he's still playing at being coy even as he settles himself right down into diluc's lap, his ascot dropping away to the floor, his quick hands already unbuttoning his own vest. ]

Hells, I need this. [ he murmurs, shrugging out of his vest and allowing it to fall away as well. ] The sooner these scholars are out of my hair, the better.

[infinitevision]

"Ehh, there's some wiggle room," Satoru confides. "It's early enough that a lot of the new arrivals haven't even been to see their rooms, so things can be switched around."

Or, if she's bold enough, she can bully someone into switching rooms with her. It's been known to happen. She doesn't seem like the type to be a bully, though, unfortunately for her. It's a useful quality here.

"Come on, I'll show you the way," he says grandly, and sweeps off, striding toward the hall where the novice rooms are with the expectation that she'll follow. "Your life's about to get real weird, so you might as well have the coolest room available to cry in at night!"

[playing_hearts]

[Alice can't help flinching a little at that revelation. It's not unexpected.... but it doesn't bode well for her future. Now would definitely be the time to start pleading for advice or help or something. Or trying to work out a plan.

Definitely don't talk back to the first vampire you meet. She takes a slow, measured breath.]

Knowledge and hospitality? They've barely told us anything, just dressed us up and herded us into this room to get stared at.

[Good job, Alice. The irritation and stress are definitely coming out in her tone. Welp, in for a penny...]

And for the record, I'm pretty sure most of us knew what baths are and how to dress ourselves so I don't know what secret knowledge you think they gave us. And do not get me started on the hospitality.

[infinitevision]

"Maybe whoever left it with you figured you'd be in for a life of struggle," Satoru says thoughtfully, head tipped back. He can't see much of the stars, because of his umbrella. Shame. It means he completely misses her so there face, but he can hear it in her voice nonetheless.

Good. A little bit of attitude means she might actually survive her next few seasons.

By the time he looks back down, some of the pumpkin's vines have already shifted and grown, curling over a patch of the greenhouse glass that they hadn't covered before. Satoru might kind of admit it's interesting how fast they're growing, in a purely academic way, but he's mostly here because he's bored and had nothing better to do.

"I wonder if eating the seeds means you'd have a full grown pumpkin bursting out of your stomach the next night," he contemplates, eyeing one of the nearby pumpkins like he's considering trying it. Or convincing someone else to do it. "Who's the nerd that grew these? We might have to consider that it's an assassination plan gone wrong."

[playing_hearts]

What makes you think I'd be crying?

[He's probably not wrong, but it's the assumption that irritates her. And she follows him anyway, curious about the prospect of free room upgrades.]

Are there any rules at all regarding which room you can take? Or is it really just a free for all?

[inquisitorium]

[ The noise Trilla makes is not quite a scoff, but very near to it. Of course she's been warned of the danger; that's the entire point of her coming to him. She wants this challenge dearly, though she schools her expression to avoid appearing over-eager. ]

I will not survive very long within the Courts if I cannot handle the training, will I?

[ It was especially true for someone of her youth and stature; she was not delicate, but still slender and lacking in the level of defensive training she would've preferred before joining the Courts. She had learned to wield a sword capably, but surely there would be even novices who were far better. She could only gain an edge over them by pursuing every advantage open to her, of which she hoped his classes would be one. ]

[infinitevision]

"I find a lot of things interesting. Most of it just fails to hold my attention for very long," Satoru says breezily.

Belatedly realizing he's still holding a sandwich plate, Satoru shoves it into the hands of the nearest passing scholar. By the time the scholar recovers enough to shoot him a what the fuck am I going to do with this face, Satoru's already forgotten they existed, and is oblivious to said face.

"I guess this one lecture on the long term preservation of living beings might be marginally interesting if zombies are involved and there's a story about one breaking free and eating brains," he relents, one finger tapping his chin as he thinks. "And then it becomes patient zero and starts a new breed of undead person, and-- no, that's probably way more interesting than it'll actually be."

Sigh. "Why?" Satoru asks, vaguely charitable. "Which ones are tickling your academic funny bone?"

Autumn Nox: B

[conradachenleck]

[Oh, Conrad had heard some lectures, alright. Some he was keen on, some he wished he'd skipped entirely. He quirks his lips with a hum, needing a moment to think on which was his favorite.]

Probably the one on abstract art. It was called something like Alternative Depictions of Visual Reality or something similar. Uhm. How about you?

[infinitevision]

"As long as they're told, probably. Most novices are so desperate to please," Satoru shrugs, leaning back into his chair with a dismissive little sound.

He hasn't yet taken a novice of his own, even with twenty years of being a vampire. He's just the most picky person on the planet, and also so internally, intensely lonely that he can't fathom the idea of actually forging a maker bond -- not that'll ever admit that second thing. So many of them are just... blindly obedient, and therefore boring. Or too weak for his tastes. Or not funny enough.

Entertaining to annoy, though!

He reaches up, and pokes Lydia's feline nose, beaming. "If you're bored, you could pretend to be a werewolf, and freak them out. Or some weird tree climbing goblin."

[beigeacademia]

Oh- you did one on mushroom preservation, didn't you? That was interesting.

[Now Elias picks up on the other’s exhaustion- but as vampires, he isn't sure if Tighnari wants such a potential weakness called out. Instead, he slows his pace down slightly. His next question is gentler.]

Any standouts in what you've been sitting in on?

Josuke "Gappy" Higashikata | JJBA: JoJolion | Student | Silver

[four_balls]

Arrivals

[To say Gappy is out of his element is understating the entire situation. For the most part he'd been raised by a particularly oddly influential family in Gold Court lands that excelled in... fruits... and had done a fairly good job of helping where he could and not getting in the way. What with the whole amnesia thing and all, it was something he kind of had to figure out. But it didn't matter as now he was here and oddly compliant to the bathing, the clothes burning, and everything else. Which is precisely why he's just in some rather plain version of the nice clothing. It's your gothic medieval version of slacks and a shirt, really.

He looks far more like a wide-eyed curious child than the adult he technically was at nineteen, but he'd always been a little... odd... to put it mildly. Which is precisely why he's turning his oddly vertically split blue and purple eyed attention towards the person closest to him, not at all trying to be quiet or subtle.]

Do you think this will take long? I don't know if I can stay still for too long when I could be looking around! [... Somehow this is an adult.]

Autumn Nox

[While he's still considered brand new, it doesn't keep him from wanting to investigate the talks that are going on. Especially since he's got a list of the ones that are supposed to be today and is humming to himself.]

Hmm... Do I go to the lecture on vampire anatomy and how it's different between Courts? [what] ooooor there's one about how vampire blood effects insects... [Please someone put this absolute nerd out of his misery.]

Pumpkins-gone-wild

[Most people know how to avoid vines and pumpkins. Most people know better than to get involved with something that has clearly been modified. Most people wouldn't end up somehow tangled in vines to where they're basically confined to being pressed against a wall.

Josuke is not most people.]

Heeeeeey, can I get a little help here? Didn't really mean to get here. [How did he even do this?]

Library clean up

[It's not like he has anything better to do currently, so why not try to help out where he can? Which is why he's found himself trying his best to get a book back from a particularly ancient looking vampire that's here for the whole symposium thing.]

You can't just take books from the library without checking them out, because then how are they going to know who has the book and when they took it out? [This bean pole of a man does not look intimidating in the slightest and it seems the vampire agrees as he seems to be entirely ignoring Josuke.]

Heeeeeello? [Maybe this isn't going quite as expected.]

Wildcard

[Feel free to just meet this idiot wandering around the Castle and grounds because, well, he certainly is bad at staying still if he doesn't have to.]

(Also, uh, feel free to hit me up at rustedpoetry if you have any questions or want to chat about a maker or something~)

[serpendipity]

[ Well that was a thought she'd never had before. Yet she couldn't consider what she had as a life of struggle, though neither was it easy. It just was. That's how nature was. ]

Normally one would roast the seeds prior to eating them. That stops the germination process. Stomachs aren't really a viable source for growing either. Too much acid. That's like saying a melon will grow in your stomach if you eat the seeds.

[ The idea of it being considered an assassination attempt had Eden looking over at the vines. Even if she had remembered the student that was asking around for advice, she wasn't exactly a snitch. This wasn't done out of malice. Instead, she shrugged and focused her eyes towards the poor greenhouse. ]

I can't imagine this being an effective assassination on anyone. They probably just took all of the advice and put it all together without thinking of potential interactions.

[ Then, after realizing how this could all sound, she adds; ]

This isn't my project. I just recommended things like ash and chicken blood to enrich the soil.

[the_caped_crusader]

[ the shame about black eyes is that they lose their depth and glimmer, especially when he's pleased with finding a chink in armor. he grins only slightly, enough that you can see a single pointed tooth set among the other pristine whites of his mouth. ]

Please don't tell me you're still upset about the dance that I refused during the last ball. How long ago was that now?

[wonderland_vogue]

[Would most vampires get annoyed at the tone and her words? Probably. Hell, she knows a few who absolutely would, but she finds it more amusing than anything else.

In fact, it actually earns her a small laugh.]

Your guess is as good as mine on that front, that's just what I was told when I first got here. And it happens to every single person that ends up coming here to join the school, it's rather demeaning, isn't it? [The being stared at part, anyway, the new and finer clothes (for most) is absolutely a boon as far as she's concerned.]

No, no, do continue, I'm rather curious to know what you think about all of it. Be honest, no need to pretend like you need to suck up to me or something~

[capital_asset]

"Yes, they do." He's just not sure what he's doing there.

pumpkins

[infinitevision]

Of the various things that Satoru finds interesting, wildly overgrowing pumpkins isn't one of them. He'd briefly considered the idea that it was an assassination attempt gone wrong -- now that would be interesting! -- before discarding the idea as novel, but unrealistic. He'd hung around briefly, giving oh so helpful advice to the novices hacking away at the vines, but had swanned off an hour ago.

Realizing he'd forgotten his sunglasses, he makes his return, to find Bruce barking orders at the novices, who are moving in near military precision now as opposed to the haphazard scurrying they'd been doing earlier.

"Wow, so effective," Satoru praises, in a playful little sing-song tone that's more mocking than it is genuine. Bruce might feel the smallest of tugs at his cape; that's because Satoru's holding a corner of it away from the pumpkin vine he's got clasped in the other hand. "This was about to try to strangle you, by the way. Or maybe it just wanted to steal your cape. Not many people have capes these days, Bat-Man."

Heh. He loves that nickname. It's so... vampire-ish.

[wonderland_vogue]

"Mm... You're not wrong about that, it's kind of sad." She returns, turning her attention towards where a few of them are running around attempting to destroy the pumpkins and vines. Not that she cares, Silver started this mess to begin with and she won't be upset if they're upset about people dealing with their fuckup.

It's not as if she'd really taken one either, not until... recently. And even then it was absolutely and completely on a whim more than her going in with intentions of doing such. Something about the situation feeling way too familiar for her to not get involved.

Too bad she doesn't get to mull over any of this as she's poked and is immediately trying to bite at the offending finger. While this form is small, it's certainly still a wild cat and a dangerous proposition to be bitten by those teeth.

"I'm pretty sure that the whole "werewolf" thing requires being a canine. Though I'm certain most of them are going to find out to keep an eye on high spots if they don't want to be caught doing something another." Whether for good or bad or just for her own amusement.

Autumn Nox

[capital_asset]

[That gets her a small shrug.]

I can't really judge.

[Considering that Raidou is also trying to stay on the periphery.]

[theidlemaiden]

[ The subtle shift of the armchair is enough to stir her from her slumber. Her eyes blink rapidly, pushing the sleep from her eyes, heartbeat raising just a hair, before realizing that it's Raphael and not some other teacher that had found her dozing off.

Granted there's still an attempt at fluffing her hair, straightening her clothes, and pretending to look like she had been hard at work prior to her little cat nap. But it isn't as nearly as hurried as it may have been had it been anybody else. A little yawn even precedes her reply. ]

Well it just seemed like they had such a good handle on it. Too many cooks in the kitchen can spoil the broth - or something like that, right?

Unethical Experiments

[conradachenleck]

Conrad didn't exactly want to visit the basement at present, but he was called upon to keep a lookout for students who tried to get a peek at the experimentations that were going on. Though, like every vampire, his baser inclinations were attracted to the notions of freshly spilled blood and the like... But, regardless, when he sees Percy he stops on his way down.

"Are you... alright?" It's rather obvious that Percy is not, but still, he had to ask. He wasn't going to just walk on by, leaving the man to pace like he was. Something was obviously troubling him deeply.

[theidlemaiden]

[ She is and there is nothing wrong with being a drama queen!! 
And to further prove her point, there's the definite sound of a pout in her voice as she lets out a sigh fit for a tragic heroine waiting for someone to rescue her from her locked room. ] 

I'm wasting away actually! I haven't even had time to get breakfast yet.
[ The distinct sound of foliage being trimmed is a promising one though. In response the vines begin to twist further, trying to snatch the knife from their attacker's hands. ] 

I don't know how I'm going to get anyone to believe me. I'm going to be sent to detention again. And on an empty stomach! 

[the_caped_crusader]

[ oh good. it was his antithesis, satoru gojo. his shoulders tense even hearing the other man's voice, and he even considers open derision, if not for the fact that they both secretly hated the council. well, maybe one more secretly than the other... bruce made it a habit to play nearly all cards close to his chest. as a matter of fact, it's well known that it didn't take his siring to make him that way; he just came that way, right from the beginning.

...if only satoru knew how many years he'd spent so far trying to figure out a solid plan to kill him if the need ever truly arose. ]

Don't patronize me, Satoru.