Test Drive Meme - New Blood

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DEC TEST DRIVE MEME

WELCOME, VAMPIRES!

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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

Comments

[subigito]

I would have easily let you. It's a good thing you didn't ask.

[ He smiles as Fenris touches him. There was a time where touch was hard for him, but not any longer. And certainly, it had never been difficult with Fenris. He leans into the touch, closing his eyes for a moment as he imagines it. Then he opens his eyes again and turns his head so he can kiss Fenris's palm. ]

Besides, it'll be sweeter to have you all to myself now.

[unshod]

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.]

[subigito]

[ Fenris was the only person Astarion would ever let call him by his old name. A life that was dead to everyone else but him.

Fenris hands him so much power in return. ]

And here I thought this was about what you wanted, Leto. How you wanted to drink from me. Have me at your mercy.

[ But he's just teasing, and as he says these things he pulls him along towards the bed and then gently guides him so Fenris is sitting on the edge.

Astarion falls to his knees in front of him and looks up at him with his eyes full of desire. ]

You won't protest if I want to drink from you first, will you? I want to taste your blood on my lips. I want to feel you in my veins.

[unshod]

[There's a quiver through his body at being called Leto, as if the name on Astarion's lips has so much power over him. Like Astarion, only the other vampire would ever have permission to call him by his original name. Xenk uses it to taunt him, Fenris wants to stab him through every time that name leaves anyone's mouth other than Astarion's.

It takes no effort to get Fenris sitting on the edge, looking up at Astarion with such devotion and want before the man falls to his knees. Meeting those red eyes with his black, want making his body and teeth ache for the other vampire. He was eager to sink his teeth into him, drinking from him, but he was a hunter, he has so much patience, so even if he wants to pull him close and treat him like porcelain as he drinks from him, he waits. He rather give than take.]

I would never protest letting you have your fill of me. [His hand comes to cup Astarion's face gently, thumb running over his cheek.]

All I have to give is yours to have, my heart.

[subigito]

Good.

[ Astarion leans into his hand, but only for a moment. Then he gets to work, gently removing Fenris's shoes and socks. He does it slowly, caring for Fenris's body. He kisses the skin that is offered to him once he's removed them. ]

Have I told you before how beautiful you are?

[ This he asks as he peppers a line of kisses along his ankle, fingers sliding under the hem of his pants. ]

[unshod]

Yes, though I never tire of hearing your thoughts.

[Be they about him or something else, he always wants to hear what is on the other vampire's mind. No matter how many times they do this or how many times Astarion chooses to call him beautiful, it always feels like the first, always makes his skin tingle and his heart ache to beat again.

He feels precious under Astarion's careful care. Something no one else does, afterall before he was disposable and now he is black court, either feared or expected to be rough. Not like something broken and held together by sheer force of will.

Astarion knows.]

Though, it is you who is beautiful, the control you still held while tied up so exquisitely.. it was stunning.

[subigito]

I like it. It's freeing. I know that seems backwards, but...

[ Astarion shrugs. He nips Fenris's skin again, but he really needs to get him out of these pants before he goes any further. So he reaches up to undo the fastenings. ]

it's ultimately my decision. How long to be tied up. How they can tie me. If I want to be touched. If I want to be admired.

[ He starts to drag Fenris's pants down as he explains, kissing his way down fenris's thigh between points. ]

[unshod]

You were in complete control.

[He doesn't waste time letting Astarion undress him completely, already moving to unlace his shirt and pull it off. The chance to indulge with his heart when he was already so worked up.. the feel of those lips, wanting them to bite him, drink from him. He shivered with want.]

Everyone wanted you but couldn't have you, because you were the king of the castle right then. No one would dare oppose you.

[Fenris would have decapitated them if they had.]

[subigito]

[ Astarion is glad for Fenris's help. They get him undressed in no time, leaving Astarion free to explore his body without hinderance. ]

Exactly. Many people don't recognize the power in that. But you've always been better than most.

[ He kisses along his thigh again, gentle, soft touches, before sinking his teeth in without warning. Not just biting, but drinking from the vein he finds. Indulging in the taste of him. ]

[unshod]

[He was already breathing in at the soft kiss, but the breath becomes sharp with desire at the feel of those teeth sinking into his flesh. His hips twitch upwards as if chasing the feeling but he does his best to still them, to not dislodge Astarion from where he feeds on him.

His arousal stirs and strengthens, his desire for the vampire wasn't something he bothered to mask away or hide.

When it came to Astarion, he was an open book.]

You flatter me, but it is you who is the best of us.