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undyingmods ([personal profile] undyingmods) wrote in [community profile] undyingcourt2023-11-30 12:01 pm

Test Drive Meme - New Blood

DEC TEST DRIVE MEME
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 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.
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.
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?

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.

partybabysitter: (115)

[personal profile] partybabysitter 2023-12-17 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I would be disappointed.

[ He says these words plainly, but there's weight to them. You wouldn't want to disappoint him, do you? ]

I see in you a great potential, James. I see the fruits of your hard work, how you push yourself to your limits, despite wanting all to think you are a 'lay-about,' as you claim. Those skills are wasted on the Blue Court.

[ Xenk takes Kirk by the chin, even with their height difference, there's a real difference in presence between them. ]

Should you fail to impress me, then I will simply lose interest in you. I would be very cross to be so wrong about a man of your skills, however. I would so like to see you in Gold.
unshod: (longing)

[personal profile] unshod 2023-12-17 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I know.

[Because he knows he could have had Astarion in that moment, he could have interrupted the lecture and taken the man and everyone would have been surprised. Fenris was intense and their bloodclaim known, but the fact he was private about his affairs was well known, especially where Astarion was concerned.

He feels himself quiver with want when Astarion kisses his palm, yet it's not that name that comes out of his mouth like a prayer.
]

Aster... How would you have me? I would give you anything you desire, your every wish.. it's yours. [He steps into the vampire's space more, his expression intense and wanting, but there was a softness there too, something only Astarion received.

Maybe it was unhealthy, but when he says anything, he means it.
]
partybabysitter: (67)

[personal profile] partybabysitter 2023-12-17 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Xenk pauses to consider this. He's going to miss out on the rest of the symposium if he does this... but let's be honest, Red Court and Gold Court do have a reputation of working side-by-side. Or in many other directions, as the case may be. ]

Would you be amenable, or are you seeking to tease me?
playing_hearts: (listening)

[personal profile] playing_hearts 2023-12-18 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Alice wasn't even intending that as an insult. More of an observation from someone who really needs to invest in a mouth filter. She's skeptical about the idea of her fitting in though.]

We'll see...


[But she's aware that she'll have to find a way to fit in or else end up a thrall.]

I figured out some of the classes I'm taking already. The intro healing course definitely. And maybe if they have any history courses I'll take one of those. Do you teach any first season classes?
midlifecryseas: (uhhhh room?)

[personal profile] midlifecryseas 2023-12-18 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
The mosquito bit is hilarious and Edward decides aloud that he will convince one of his fourth seasons to turn into some kind of mosquito horror if it's the last thing he does. And as for the other thing... Well, it's not like limbs don't grow back. Eventually. For vampires, anyway. Leave it to the Silvers to figure it out.

Speaking of... Ed waits with Satoru outside the library, but instead of looking inside, he watches who's leaving. He pays particular attention to one Silver visiting scholar he recognizes from some seminar or another. His head turns to watch her go, following her path until she's out of sight. With a quick-or-you'll-miss-it shiver of body horror that'll leave him sore later, he suddenly is her. Well, physically, at least.

He leans past Satoru, squints and adjusts the thin glasses that keep falling annoyingly down his nose. Why don't Silver Court blokes ever have glasses that fit right on their faces? Fucking obnoxious. His eyes scan across the one with the books Satoru pointed out, the one with a frankly impressive amount of beard Ed feels a weird twinge of fear-envy about, and then... He points in their general direction and stage-whispers back in a voice that's deeper than his normally is, but decidedly more feminine. Also with an American harshly nasal accent, gross. "There, that's the one. Looks like they've already got something wedged up their ass." By which he means the librarian's face is currently pinched and flushed red as they grab a stack of books from a novice and shove them into another novice's arms before continuing on whatever tirade they're on.
conradachenleck: (It's like this)

[personal profile] conradachenleck 2023-12-18 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Conrad glances at him and utters an uncomfortable sort of sound.]

I mean, it could just be hubris, right? Vampires are supposed to be better than mortals. Or maybe most of the students are assumed to wind up as failures, but they're surprising us.

[Really, he wonders why the whole Foundling thing isn't used to recruit more thralls. Surprising people with the chance to be a vampire would bring in more students who are just plain ill-suited to making it to vampiredom.]
flagofbone: (Wait and see)

[personal profile] flagofbone 2023-12-18 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
The stars and moon always seem to inspired great poets and third-rate casanovas.

[He opted to lean against the tree instead, his eyes flicking skywards]
prizedstallion: (You're not serious)

[personal profile] prizedstallion 2023-12-18 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Shit, that's like a pang to his gut the idea of disappointing Xenk, he's not sure why but it really hits hard and he really doesn't like the feeling at all. No, in fact he really hates it. Especially when they are said with such weight. Only Edgin should be able to make him feel like this..

But then he's talking about his potential, he's saying he sees Jim for what he's doing, how hard he's trying and it hits home that this guy is really keeping an eye on Jim. Like for real.

The fact he thinks he's wasted on Blue, wants to see him in Gold... Wow. It knocks the wind out of him enough that he has to blink, even if he can't actually move, being taken by the chin like that.
]

Yeah? And if I did, change courts that is, who would become my maker? You say you would see me in Gold, but would you be the one to put me there?
juiceofthevine: (edgin14)

[personal profile] juiceofthevine 2023-12-18 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ He probably shouldn't intrude on Kirk's thoughts, but they're so loud now. It's a lot, to hear how he's like a father to him. He'd fumbled his own chance at fatherhood, before. He's afraid he'll just hurt Kirk in the same way. But he couldn't possibly deny him, either, when he can tell he's close to tears.

Edgin grabs him and pulls him into a hug, pulling him tight against his chest. He can hear that's what he wants, after all. There's time for flirting later. ]


I know you will.

[ One hand goes to cradle the back of his head, his words quiet for just the two of them. ]

You're doing great, son.
conradachenleck: (e-heart)

[personal profile] conradachenleck 2023-12-18 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
Oh-oh, good. Yes, later then... But, soon. See you soon...

[He turns a bit pinker in the cheeks with that kiss. He hadn't expected that. A goofy sort of smile spreads over his face and he waves her off before going on his way to do whatever it was he'd been meaning to do.

He'll walk around with that lipstick on his face for most of the night and even after it's pointed out to him that it's there he's not in any hurry to wipe it away.
]
partybabysitter: (95)

[personal profile] partybabysitter 2023-12-18 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
You ask as if you do not know, James.

[ Xenk's gold eyes almost glow as he smiles. Even this close, he's not at all troubled by Kirk's questions. ]

Of course, I would choose you.
prizedstallion: (Nothing like a Best Friend)

[personal profile] prizedstallion 2023-12-18 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Kirk hesitates for a second before he latches on to Edgin, hugging him tightly, burying his face against the vampire's shoulder. He doesn't cry, but it's a near thing, he can't remember the last time he was really hugged. Like just a hug with nothing else going on about it.

It feels nice.

And foreign. He's not sure how to start it or how to end it, but he will just lean on Edgin to do that. It's not like he minds the fact his maker likely read his thoughts, he doesn't really shield them around him anyway.

But when he gets called son of all things, he feels his eyes get teary in a way he can't stop, even if he's holding them back from actually crying. Shit, he really does care for this man.
]

Thanks... thank you.
prizedstallion: (All Spoken Smirk)

[personal profile] prizedstallion 2023-12-18 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Xenk was smiling. He's smiling. Hold up, stop everything, Xenk was smiling, at him, and saying he would choose Jim.

Woah.
]

Had to make sure, you know, since if I were to leave my maker - who's the best - I'd want the best Gold has to offer.

[He raises an eyebrow and grins back.]

But that's a big if, because I'm not sold on Gold.
trettende: (y por fin te encontré a ti)

[personal profile] trettende 2023-12-18 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ah... Hans can tell he's making her uncomfortable. But like, okay, he wasn't trying for that, so now he has to fix this. ]

Hey, it's alright. I mean, it is kind of sad that they grew all these plants, and they grew too much, so now we have to cut 'em down, you know? But on the bright side... we'll probably have a lot of pumpkin to eat in the next few weeks?
juiceofthevine: (inkonic d&d hat edgin (79))

[personal profile] juiceofthevine 2023-12-18 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
It's okay.

[ As, in its okay he doesn't have to thank him. But also, it's okay, if he wants to cry. This is all a lot for him, too, but he can process those emotions later. Right now, he just wants to be there for Kirk. ]
subigito: (10)

[personal profile] subigito 2023-12-18 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Please. I take these matters very seriously. I owe it to my Court, after all.

[ He's a professional! ]
partybabysitter: (20)

[personal profile] partybabysitter 2023-12-18 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ Xenk's smile crooks at the side, shifting to a smirk. Okay, Edgin is the best? That guy? Yes, he's hot, but he's like. A baby. In vampire years. But Xenk will take that challenge, as well. ]

You would have the best, in Gold Court. The strongest support, and the brightest future.

[ I mean, it's true that Xenk doesn't know what motivates Kirk. Whether it's power, or some desire to prove himself to be the best, while appear as though he isn't trying, Xenk can't say. But the fact is that Gold is in charge. They keep the balance.

But Xenk isn't in the Politics Court for nothing. He can play ball.
]

It is not my intent to slight your maker, but I see a leader in you. The Blue Court would foster only the talent you mask, not the greatness I know you are meant for.
Edited (destiny is too... canon xenk) 2023-12-18 04:39 (UTC)
prizedstallion: by merriestchase (Touched)

[personal profile] prizedstallion 2023-12-18 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Yeah it is.

[He takes a couple deep breaths and keeps his trying at bay. Sure he's teary eyed but he's not going to cry. He promised himself he wouldn't let himself be vulnerable like that. Even if he can be with Edgin, he knows he's safe, they are also out in the middle of a courtyard, so better safe than sorry. Right?]
juiceofthevine: (inkonic d&d hat edgin (62))

[personal profile] juiceofthevine 2023-12-18 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Edgin hangs on for a moment longer and then slowly pulls away. They are in a courtyard, and he doesn't want to embarrass him more than he needs to. ]

Come with me to turn this in. You should get the credit for finding it.
prizedstallion: (Okay but let me explain)

[personal profile] prizedstallion 2023-12-18 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Pulling away he nods, yep he can do that, just got to blink away these tears, nothing to see here.]

Sounds like a solid plan, might as well get the brownie points, right?

[He grins and slaps Edgin on the back, friendly.]
juiceofthevine: (inkonic d&d hat edgin (39))

[personal profile] juiceofthevine 2023-12-18 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Not that you really need much in the way of favor with any of the courts.

[ He starts to walk them back towards the Castle all the same. ]
partybabysitter: (59)

[personal profile] partybabysitter 2023-12-18 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
It would be practical to try out what I've learned.

[ Yes, practical. That's what it is. ]
subigito: (12)

[personal profile] subigito 2023-12-18 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
I'm holding you to that, then.

[ if his hand happens to brush up against Xenk's leg that's probably nothing!! ]
partybabysitter: (66)

[personal profile] partybabysitter 2023-12-18 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ It is definitely not nothing but Xenk lets it happen anyway. In fact he looks directly at Astarion as he does. ]

I would rather be the one to hold you, I think.

[ He's so weird. ]
subigito: (12)

[personal profile] subigito 2023-12-18 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ that earns a laugh from astarion. ]

Of course.

[ Unfortunately, the lecture starts and they have to quiet down. The lecture is on vampiric circulation and pleasure, and how ropes can be used in tandem with vampiric biology to get desired effects, like inducing lightheadedness or putting a vampire's body in a similar state as being choked.

Astarion doesn't really keep his hands to himself while the lecturer talks, since Xenk allowed the initial touch. Give him an inch, and he'll take a mile. He won't ever get to close to Xenk's crotch, but it's little touches to his thigh, his arm, "accidentally" leaning against him so he can get a better view.

Just trying to tease him, really. ]