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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!

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
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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.

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

1. Arrival (still open to having a player as his maker)

[He wasn't the most cooperative on the onset during his clean up, and seem to bristle at the grisly display. As Revar speaks, he pointedly glares at the court, looking uncomfortable in the dark blue silk and brocade outfit he's been given.

The man breathes in, reminding himself that there's more than his pride at stake here as he marches off to the Blue Court and his maker. As they waited for the remnants to be auctioned off, he glances around, looking for anyone who seem just as uneasy or seem to know what they're doing]

2. How many ways can you cook pumpkin?
[Harlock stares dumbstruck at the sight that greeted him the moment he woke up. A small pumpkin swung above his bed like a gourd-y pendulum, the vine creaking - instincts took over and he rolls on the bed, hitting the floor right when the vine gave up the ghost, sending the oversized squash crashing onto the bed, splattering him and his sheets with it's guts.]

What. The. Fuck?

[Once the shock wore off, he pushes himself up, noticing more vines creeping around as he stalks out of his room]

Does anyone know why my room has been turned into a pumpkin patch?

3. Ssssh, quiet in the library.

[Somehow he slipped away largely unnoticed. He knew he can't go back to being normal, but damned if he was just going to give up. Harlock examined the halls, trying to memorize the layouts, what places seem less busy, places that seem to be closer to the outside world.

Then he stumbles into the library, his eyes widening at seeing far more books in one place than he ever thought it was possible. The former outlaw shook his head, chiding himself for getting distracted, but... perhaps he could find something of use, he moves around, trying to stay out of the way of novices clearly trying to clean up, but still finds himself stopping to gawk, or examining a book whose title catches his attention before tearing himself away to continue to case the library.]

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They're books, we have a lot of them in here. If you have time to browse, you have time to tidy.

[ Reyson doesn't actually have any real authority here, beyond his inherent attitude and Gold Court approved bossiness. Nobody even asked him to be reshelving things in here, for the record. He is just pissy about it being out of order and it is something that it is in his power to fix, so he is doing something about it.

He hands a hefty encyclopedia to the interloper. Take it. Take it, and be drawn into the web of doing menial tasks these scholarly assholes won't bend themselves to bother with. ]

Not everyone gets the pleasure of having so many books at easy access.

[He answers rather matter of factly as he looks at the hefty book, then at the man - seeming to try to decide if it's worth getting dragged into it, or if it would be more entertaining to leave him high and dry, especially with that Gold bossiness. Then he takes the book]

You're fortunate that I do actually want to know the layout of the library.

Everyone here does now, you might as well become accustomed to it.

[ He sounds more tightly wound and impatient than he sounds like he is being a snooty noble. Sure, he does kind of sound like that a little inherently, but as kind of. Background noise. To everything. ]

That one goes on the wall with the painting of the man who has chosen to make everyone in here look at his horrible beard for all eternity. On the upper shelves.

[ Reyson is perhaps shoving this off on Harlock because he doesn't want to climb a ladder one handed while managing a book of this size, and also because he does not want to look at the painting, which he finds is a bad use of having eyeballs. ]

[He gives the book a brief leaf through before closing it, giving a slow skeptical brow at the description of a horrible beard - he seen quite a few questionable hair cuts, as he flicks his eyes before starting towards the laughter...

when he saw exactly what the blond meant, laughter bubbling out]

What the hell - did he let two weasels in fight in it or what?

It does look like that! That great split in the middle, and the curls going in opposite directions -

[ Reyson smiles sincerely, glad to have his incredibly correct opinions so wholly supported. Making fun of that painting has been getting him through this experience. ]

It is a common practice to tone down or erase flaws, in commissioned portraits. At first I thought this man was dedicated to the truth at all costs, but it is possible that this is the more flattering version...

[He starts climbing up the ladder, carefully tucking the book under his arm]

Hate to see what the unvarnished person looks like - and I've seen some atrocious beards before, but this one wins.

[ Reyson admires this display of strength and grace and also the ability to not fall off the ladder while being distracted by the beard. ]

It's the arrogance and vanity of displaying it to future generations, I think. And of making someone paint it for hours on end... Do you suppose the painter started with the beard, to get the worst over with?

[Harlock leans over, carefully sliding the book - catching it when it starts to tilt back before pushing it back onto the self. He makes a note of a few nearby books that catches his particular attention to back to once he's alone.]

Or put it off to the last.

That poor artist. Detailing the fall of light on the backdrop and the weave of the shirt until that last, dreadful blank must be filled and draw all notice away from the rest of their hard work. No matter the technical skill involved, it can only be called the horrible beard painting.

[ He starts collecting another round of books. ]

At least it works well as a landmark.

[It makes it awfully tempting to see if there's a hidden passage behind such a hideous painting. He hops over the last few rungs, and sits on top of the bookcase, peering down]

I believe it's what they call a "conversation piece". Who knows - in a century people would wondering what the hell we were thinking wearing the things we do.

[ It's a life sized painting, there's room for all sorts of sinister secrets. There's a little bit of discoloration around the edge, as if it has been moved before and wasn't put back into place the same way. ]

Just a century? In a century, they'll still be able to ask me in person.

[His expression falters for a moment - a reminder that he's different now, before he fixes it up into a cocky smirk that didn't quite reach his eyes]

Something like "Did you blindfold yourself before you picked your outfit?"

[He gives a hum at the sight - either there is a passage, or other people had the same thought and were left disappointed. Harlock eventually moves back down, and approaches the portrait, his hands moving along the frame]

[ Reyson clocks the twitch and politely ignores it. Only a fool would have no doubts at all about turning into a vampire - or worse, failing at turning into a vampire. The good outcome is death. He waves a hand dismissively - Harlock can't see him, but it's good to practice your dismissive gestures around here. ]

People here wear too many dark colors, or house colors. I might start wearing pastels; to be contrary. That will give the future generations something to talk about.

...What's this?

[ He might be referring to what Harlock is up to, or, if he has reached the conclusion that this thing can lift off some sort of peg arrangement, the genuine mysterious secret passage that is underneath it. ]

[The dismissive gesture earned a roll of his eyes, and he decided not to elaborate as he feeling the blond is much more comfortable about the situation than he is]

They had to go and burn my nicest clothes.

[Which is nowhere near the quality or nice-feel of what he's given, but still he was rather fond of it - it had a roguish panache that silks and brocades lacked in his opinion.]

I noticed there's some discoloration on the wall, as if this painting's been moved.

People burn a lot of nice things.

[ Oh, that sounded bitter. He has to stop being sensitive about. Certain things. This is exactly the kind of bullshit that means he has to focus on different, pettier bullshit. Like the library. ]

Well, there must be some reason for that. We'd better move it ourselves and find out.

[ He's coming over, this is more attention-grabbing than working out where these books about weird bugs go... and who knows, maybe weird bug books go in a secret shelf behind the beard painting. He doesn't know how these people file their books. ]

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Test Drive Meme - New Blood

Harlock (Young) | Leiji-verse/Cosmo Warrior Zero | Student | Likely Blue,

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