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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.

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[Some faint, filament-thin vestige of survival instinct from his human days tells Elias he shouldn't be talking to the Black Court vampires willy-nilly, but also like, there's another part of him that's also going “fuck it we ball”. He's tipsy from blood wine at this point; the initiation of new novices is one of the few days he indulges.]

Sadist, [replies the… bespectacled Silver Court guy, which is probably not much of a punch. In fact, he's not saying it with judgement, he's saying it like one would casually call a friend “cringe”.] If you break them they make for poor food.

[He looks mildly affronted by the idea, but after a moment of thought, adds:]

But what're you betting?

[au contraire, Toji would argue that everyone ought to be more nilly-willy with the Black Court members. it'll foster relations (or something) and maybe spark a little bit less resentment should a vampire find themselves at the centre of their attention due to misbehaviour.]

Who're you calling sadist, you glutton?

[said with no heat or reproach. but seriously, how is Toji's urge to play worse than Elias' desire to consume, hm?]

Bottle of vintage blood wine. You know, the year that makes everyone go gaga.

[That's fair, but then can you all stop radiating such ominous unapproachable vibes please. Consult some Reds or something. On second thought, maybe not the Reds.]

I'm calling you a sadist, [tipping his goblet in Toji’s direction,] and you're calling me a glutton. [tapping the goblet against his chest. Because he's a vampire and superhumanly graceful, not a drop of liquid spills onto his white undershirt. Small mercies.] And we can come up with fun epithets for everyone. Being a glutton’s unusual for me, to be honest, I usually get called “boring”.

[His tone drops a little. That's arguably worse, among vampires, but they've all moved past the need to impress their Makers, so he's not too bummed about it all things considered. Instead, Elias acts surprised about the deduction about his wine:]

Can you tell the exact vintage from the smell? I didn't check the label. [He glances down at his goblet, then looks back to the little cocktail table where he'd left the bottle.] Some Red was saying it was good.

[Want some? He'll share if you ask.]

[come now, he isn't unapproachable! it's not his fault that having a reputation of being a heartless killing machine deters other people from striking up a conversation. he's not a maniac, alright?

besides, Elias approached and opened his mouth with no trouble at all!]

And you just trust the words of 'some Red'? [mild amusement creeps into Toji's tone.] Maybe I shouldn't be talking to you. I hear they get quite obsessive about their choice of entertainment once they've set their greedy little eyes on it.

[Elias is here partly because he thinks he's been a good little vampire who shouldn’t be on the Black Court’s hit list, but mostly because he’s got bad taste. It's a him problem.]

They don’t- [sputtering, defensive-] nooo. I don’t fuck, [????????] -not that good in a fight, if I was a good fuck I’d be in Red. I’ve got nothing for them, one of them called me “swagless”.

[Yeah he’s made his case about why the Reds would not see him as fun entertainment, but he’s also metaphorically shot himself in the foot like five times in the process. It was NOT worth it. At the very least, Elias has paused his sipping of the drink in his distraction, so he's not actively getting drunker.]

[well, here is one of the many reasons why Toji doesn't drink? it's fascinating watching the other man deconstruct himself swiftly and efficiently for absolutely no reason at all.

(no, Toji, that's not the case. you spouted nonsense and prompted all this, you degenerate piece of shit.)]

You don't have to be a good fuck to catch their eye. Maybe they want something less experienced to make themselves feel better.

[fingers curl around Elias' wrist briefly to bring the goblet close enough for Toji to take a whiff.]

Take another sip, calm your nerves. I was just joking, you know?

[You're welcome for the entertainment, or whatever. Grumble grumble. He normally doesn't drink either, but it's somewhat of a special occasion.

Elias peters off into a sulk, maintains that for a moment, and then states flatly:] Not tonight, there are much fresher pieces of meat out there.

[He looks pointedly down at the assembled novices, then back at Toji, observing what the other man is doing to his wrist. Not much of a reaction to it.]

Want to try some first? It's not bad.

[Holding the cup steady where Toji had pulled it, he tips it slightly towards the other man in invitation.]

Can't. That stuff makes me nauseous.

[doesn't even bother to lower his voice. if one of the Reds take offence at that it's their problem. would it be nice to get drunk every now and then? of course, but his body refuses, alas.]

Or are to trying to get me drunk in hopes to have your wicked way? Sheesh, have some standards, Professor!

[Elias laughs.]

That’s silly. Surely the Black Court would be above having blood wine as a weakness.

[Nevertheless, he withdraws his hand in acknowledgment of what he’s just heard, swirling the goblet close to his chest.]

Is it a Court thing? Or are you just… allergic? [Vampire allergies? That’s curious, actually.]

Yep, that's me. Silly little Black Court jester.

[he wouldn't be out here talking about it if it were a general weakness. not that there's anything left they could do to him that would have any educational effect.]

I don't know what it is actually. I can drink from drunk humans fine, just not the bottled stuff. So you'll have to drink my share too.

That's not what I said,

[Elias rolls his eyes, then takes another sip of his wine. He doesn't put up too much of an argument since it seems to amuse Toji, but let it be said in the record that he would not call a Black Court vampire silly. That would be silly of him.]

So it's not strictly alcohol you can't take? [Since Toji isn't reacting to human blood with alcohol in it?] If we can figure out what exactly you react to we can figure out what the secret ingredients are in these.

[It's clear in his sleet-silver eyes that Elias is curious about this. Very curious. Peak Silver Court behavior, really.]

There are a lot of things you supposedly don't say, Prof.

[what can he say, he's easily amused? teaching isn't exactly a passion of his and watching those students die stupid deaths because they want to join the Black Court is just, well.]

Oi, oi, first you try to get me into trouble with the Reds for making it look like I'm trying to steal their cute Silver nightcap and now you want to experiment on me?

[he makes a show of moving away from Elias a bit.]

Why do you want to know the secret ingredients? What if it's something absolutely disgusting? You'll never be able to enjoy that again.

[Eh, Elias tries where he can to shield the students he likes but the ones trying to join the Black Court… when you play stupid games, you know. Can’t do anything about those.]

Of course. Thank you for understanding, I try to keep my nose clean.

[Except when there’s SCIENCE he could be doing. Elias doesn’t chase Toji as he moves away, but he does keep staring the man down, his eyes beaming excitement that- if he were older and his own idiosyncrasies had faded entirely, could become the same look that the visiting scholars give to the novices.]

Why not? If it turns out disgusting it’s fine, I should probably kick the habit anyway.

[But he does pause, respecting Toji’s apparent reluctance.]

Is that too bloodless a pastime for you? What would you rather be doing, then?

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Test Drive Meme - New Blood

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cw: sexual language, mentions of alcohol. also i'm sorry for this man

don't be, it's amazing

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