undyingcourt | Test Drive Meme

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

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

[ That saccharine sweetness in the way Izzy talks about promises and remembering and the implied us, together of the thing would have Ed gentling and pressing his face to Izzy hand, if only Izzy were anyone else. Because he knows Izzy, better than anyone. He knows what Izzy wants, and it's not kindness. He slaps Izzy's finger away from his cheek.

His hand on Izzy's neck loosens next, but only enough for Izzy to breathe fully, not enough to escape the wall he's pinned to like an insect on display. Edward blinks slowly and his eyebrows raise as a practiced mask slides into place. ]

Let this be your first lesson then, novice. Vampires don't need to ask for what we want. We don't fucking beg to be made.

[ Because that's what Izzy's demands amount to, in Edward's eyes. What value does an empty threat have? Nothing, if you aren't willing to act. His hand on Izzy's neck loosens further, curls until his thumb is on Izzy's lower lip, pulling his chin down with it to open his mouth. Ed's eyes follow, practically closing as he leans in and whispers against Izzy's lips— ]

You want my blood so bad? Just fucking take it.

[ —And he bites Izzy's lower lip viciously, licks the blood from the tear he's made and follows it into a kiss. Let Izzy figure out the rest. Or not. Ed's taking what he wants, either way. ]

[he doesn't want to take it. He can, he knows. Find a weak one, weaken them further, drain them dry-- or even attack in surprise and glut yourself from what follows until you're round and disgusting as a tick. But to be given--

he grunts at the bite, the sting, and then opens his mouth under Ed's, wanting, needy, tasting the salt-copper tang of his own blood and hoping Ed can taste the remnants of his own on Izzy's tongue, the edges of his teeth.

--to be given something, for a promise to be made and filled, to be part of someone and something and for them to know after you crush them to the ground that they were the ones who got you where you were.

Only he doesn't want to crush Ed even though he should. No. No he wants something else. Something more. Something deeper. He wants to chase and chase but for Ed to always be more, stronger, darker, painful and remind Izzy that there is someone greater out there.

He hums his desire into Ed's mouth and nips at his tongue, but not enough to draw blood and that's on purpose too]

[ The thrilling flash of pain as Izzy bites him is there and gone in an instant, quicker than a spider's bite and with half the force. He's holding back, and Ed doesn't have to read his thoughts to know it. That's what Izzy does. Writhes but resists. Wants to, but doesn't. Wishes, but won't. Ed sighs between one bloody kiss and the next. ]

Have to do everything myself.

[ He grumbles, but gluts himself on Izzy at the same time by bringing both his hands to Izzy's cheeks and cradling his jaw, holding him gently as he likes while he bites his own lip. The blood dripping in rivulets, mostly inwards rather than down his chin, is clearly visible for Izzy to see, to tease and entice during the long moment it takes for Edward's sluggish veins to pump a good amount of his blood to pooling in his own mouth. Once there's a decent amount, though, Edward doesn't hesitate, but smoothly leans in to seal their mouths together again, and feeds it to Izzy from his tongue. ]

[as if Izzy doesn't do anything. As if Izzy's a fucking leech. He takes the blood even though a part of him doesn't want to and when it's done, when it's gone, he leans back, licking his lip, looking up at Ed and saying:]

We done here then?

[because if Edward can't appreciate him, he can well find someone who can.]

[ Edward can never really tell with Izzy, whether he's genuinely angry or if he's just being a dick for the attention it nets him. And honestly, right now, it doesn't even matter, because he's pissed Edward the fuck off himself. He gives Izzy his blood, new strength and abilities, the promise of immortality, and this is the thanks he gets? A fucking are we done?!

Edward's eyes flash cold night-sky blue as he snarls, drags Izzy in by clawing both hands into his vest, and then slams him that much harder against the door; it rattles on its hinges with the force. But ultimately, his action is all thunder, no lightning. He can't threaten to kill Izzy; they both know he won't. Can't withhold blood he already gave, and isn't in the mood for more abuse.

Just as suddenly as the storm arrives, it passes. Edward lets go of Izzy all at once, to either try to catch his footing or fall; he doesn't wait to see. Instead, he turns away and growls as he stalks across the room, towards the half-empty bottle of bloodwine he has stashed from last season. ]

Yes, I'm done with you for tonight. Get the fuck out.

Yeah... yeah maybe you are.

[and maybe he is too. He is about to tell him goodnight, but instead leaves, shutting the door quietly behind him]

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