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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!

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Please format your Top-level in this format: Character Name (AU Name if different) | Canon | Teacher/Student | Court
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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.

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.

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[Precisely the reason why she's not being as obnoxious as she might be otherwise, in fact she's shifting just enough to tuck against his side and let him cling as he pleases. She knows that this isn't something he handles well and given the noises certainly don't bother her, she may as well do her best to distract him instead.

There's not many she would do this for but he's lucky enough to be on that short list.

A brow raises at his words, knowing full well that that is an absolute load of horseshit and that's not really how aversion therapy is supposed to work.] That sounds like they're trying to explain away tormenting you like this. If they needed you on standby they could have had you further away from the noise and still be just as effective. But we both know they're shit at understanding or caring about others.

[If that day ever came she'd probably end up snapping on someone, so hopefully that doesn't happen for their sakes.

The question, though, she immediately scoffs and waves a hand.]

They don't like my methods down there, darling, and I don't much care for their's. Something about taking pleasure in it not conducive to science or something. As if they're truly doing any real science down there and it's not just a bunch of closeted sadists and masochists.

[Any other time, he might duck down and nuzzle into her hair. Tease her a little about finding him more interesting than all the fun things going on. He can't. He can't because what is going on down there isn't anything like fun to him. It's horrifying in a way that would churn his stomach had he still been human. So instead, he simply pulls a little tighter, as if she's some sort of shield between him and the goings on below.]

I'm sure they care... [It's small. He's always like this though, trying to give the benefit of the doubt even in the face of certainty. He wants to think that his Court only has his best interests at heart. Just like he wants to think that it's respect for his dedication to healing that has him being asked to do this season after season, and not some sadistic attempt to cauterize his bleeding heart.]

That's...That's not right. There's nothing more pleasurable than learning. [Actually, there are a few things more pleasurable than that. They both know that.] In finding new methods and new approaches. Passion is what drives discovery. In that, I think you could outmatch any of those scholars. But...I'm glad you aren't down there. [He doesn't know what he would do if he had to put her back together. He doesn't think it would be pretty, how angry he might become at their reckless disregard for his long time...annoyance.]

If I get called, maybe you can help me a little? I know you'd control the situation better than I can.

[If she has to be a shield for once, at least it's against something she knows she can deal with if it came down to it. Something that she's more then comfortable with and can easily drown out if she wanted to. She's always been sadistic deep down and it's really no secret, which is perhaps why she's a little annoyed about their opinions down there.

Of course he would believe only the best of his own Court, even if she's certain that that's not at all what's going on here. Some certainly have that medical mindset, she can admit, but the ones down there are only in it for their own information and own interests. They don't care who they have to hurt in order to make sure their experiments are considered a success. In fact, she's almost certain that they use unwilling humans in those tests if they don't require specifically a vampire. And something about that riles her up more than it really ought to.]

Said like a real Silver. [She muses quietly, wiggling out from his side to instead plop herself into his lap and bury her face against him with a tiny bit of a huff. It's easier for him to cling like this, anyway, and if it keeps him grounded then all the better.] Too bad for them that my passions lie elsewhere than torturing people for science and tend to not need to involve having a healer on stand-by. [... Admittedly, she would torture someone for funsies but that's usually a consensual situation and she probably knows more about anatomy in that regard than most Reds probably have any business in doing so.]

Of course I can go with you if needed, darling, I'm not about to let them use you like this. And we both know that they will not push their luck with me~ [She certainly has no problems verbally ripping them apart if need be, hell, she'd probably enjoy doing it.]

How long do they have you out here today?

[His frown deepens but he won't force her to stay out where he has her. If he did, he's certain he'd be using the vast majority of his medical supplies on himself. But he finds she's not going very far. He immediately shifts his hands to bracket her back to support her on her new perch.

Any other time he might hiss that they're in public. That people will see and rumors will spread. Halsin doesn't generally care about his reputation, it's already sullied. He does care about hers. He just doesn't have it in him today to scold her.

Instead there's a low sigh and a softening of the tightness at his eyes. She's more a comfort than he wants to admit. It's quite the weapon against him and she is ruthless with it.]

Thank you, Lydia. I hope it doesn't come to that. I don't have an ointment strong enough for the flaying you'd give. I'm not quite prepared for a full evisceration.

[His eyes flick back towards the doors down.] For as long as they need me. Their words. [Definitely an experiment then, on the nurse. Some mental trial to test his focus and professional pride against his less than monstrous compassion.] The Elder will come up and tell me when I can go. The only other way is if an emergency happens and I'm needed elsewhere.

[Bah, as if she doesn't already have a reputation with playing with people from other Courts in more than one way by this point. Nor does she really care about the majority of her reputation when she's having fun. Especially when she knows she can take gossip and spin it her way or entirely refute it with relative ease, she does teach classes about how to do that nonsense for a reason.

She's also quite pleased to be right where she is, humming for a moment and just lightly clinging onto him in turn, making sure to not accidentally dig her nails into him through his clothing today. A thing of habit, really.]

Awww, but the only thing that would be hurt is their ego, probably. [Maybe more than that, she can't really make any promises if it came down to that. But it would certainly start verbally.]

... You do realize you're part of their experiments, right? If you weren't in this case, they wouldn't just shrug and say for as long as they need you. They would have a schedule in place and have someone else come take over at some point. [She shifts a little to actually look at him properly before poking a finger in his chest.] They are not your friends, darling.

[He knows very well how she can make information dance to her will. It's a bit terrifying. Terrifying but also deeply impressive. He can still worry about it though. He is, after all, too soft hearted.

He wouldn't mind the nails, if only because the sharp sting would be an almost pleasant distraction to what is going on down below. It's good though that she is being kind to him in a way he knows he needs. She has given him something to focus on other than the clear experiment that is happening here at the top of the stairs.

He signs and for a moment, sags as much as possible to press his face into that gap between ear and shoulder. It's a dangerous place for a vampire to be. There's a lot of temptation, but he's never bitten. He never will, not unless she tells him he can. He does it so he can breathe her in, take calm where he can find it. He mumbles into her shoulder.] I...I know.

[He then shifts again so he can meet her eyes and he feels that poke against his chest. It's almost more dangerous than a stake, for how much damage it can do without even pushing past skin. He slides a hand from behind her to catch hold of the finger and hold it lightly.] I know. I know they aren't, Lydia. They're worse. They're family. I don't think I really have a choice. And if I did... as much as I hate this, I wouldn't want family to be without emergency medical care.

Besides, you're here and I'm sure that's going to really mess with whatever experiment they're running on me. A lovely wrench in their plans and all that.

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