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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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NEW ARRIVALS

[Daria always hated these. She left the comfort of her labs and the library to greet the wide eyed faces of those who actually wanted to have a life here.

Not that Daria didn’t. This place was her home and her tomb as far as she was concerned. But these people coming from the damned outside seeing the horrors out there to see the horrors in here was always a pill she was forced to prescribe herself each time a new round of flesh came. She’d claim she couldn’t really care less. But it was all added headaches when she just wanted to be with her research or her fellow scholars that she could stand to be around.

She wore decent robes, obviously meant for comfort more than anything else. Of course, as someone representing the court in some fashion, she had to sell everything as per their standards. Her own Maker didn’t force a damn expectation on her, but the others were a different story. They weren’t persnickedy about clothes, and they at least knew Daria would do the minimum. But it was the minimum they were owed, and they always got her research as a treat.]

Welcome.

[Aaand that was it? Yeah. Move along?]

AUTUMN NOX (warning: gore)

Alright everyone, today we’re going to test something. Not an actual test, mind you. Consider this a “test of your mettle”.

[Daria’s classes were always fair, and just in the knowledge given. It was up to her students to engage and think for themselves. Students actually interested in learning may actually get something out of her class that wasn’t miserable. Daria respected students that respected knowledge, why the Silver Court took interest in her results. Surely.

One particular class held had bare human bodies laid on sterile tables. There was one on her personal teacher’s side.

This biology lesson was about to get visceral. And Daria took this with the precision of any surgeon.

Cutting open the chest cavity with stone cold ease, she ripped the heart of the human with her gloved hands.]

Examine this carefully. There are two major arteries that go to the heart. Who can tell me what they’re called? Understanding the inside and outside of the human heart is vital. If you plan to live out there, you need to get used to the idea of your hands being dirty.

Do as I did. And then give me the answer.

LIBRARY

[Yeah, screw cleaning. Daria was nestled on a large chair with piles of books. Comfortable and reading, learning.

Not cleaning at all.]

WILDCARD

((Contact me at

Lizadow if there’s anything you’d like to shoot!))

Edited 2023-12-02 02:02 (UTC)

[Speaking of a new arrival, she smiled brightly as she nodded in greeting to Daria and then clasped her hands in front of her.]

Why hello there! Thank you so much for the warm welcome! It's so kind of you to greet us! Everyone has been so kind since I've gotten here!

[Daria blinked. Not that she hadn’t met a few happy students in her service to the court. But as Daria just went with the motions of doing the minimum of effort, she just found herself almost shriveling in the sight of such a positivity clash.]

Glad you’re having a blast. Careful with that positivity around some vampires though, some shrivel in even the figurative sun.

[She giggled at the mention of being careful.]

Oh my! That won't do at all! But I doubt they would be scared of little ol' me! I'm not scary at all!

[Another slow blink.]

Yet, you're here. With a bunch of vampires. Something a lot of people are scared of.

So I am! [She giggled.]

Oh, I suppose so, and I suppose, now that I'm also a vampire I could be considered something scary, but my stepmother was a vampire. So long as no one acts like her, I don't know that I have a reason to be scared.

[Ah, the thickened plot. Daria actually considered how to go about this for a moment. But only a moment.

This girl was, obviously, one of the nice ones that came from a crappy part of this crappy world.]

There's probably gonna be. There's gonna be egotists, masochists, hedonists...all kinds of icky "-ists".

You need to learn how to be smart, and work your way through. And, and I say in big letters, don't let anyone convince you do to anything you don't want to do.

[Daria literally just described all of Grimhilde.]

Thank you so much for being so considerate and kind to me. [She smiles. Daria has no idea just how little kindness Snow has been given in this life.]

I will try my very best, though I hope I'm smart enough. At the very least, I'm not afraid of a little hard work! I will do what I can to stand up for myself as well. [Snow... might have a much much harder time of that.]

[...The fuck.]

...Alrighty. You do that.

[A beat.]

Don't let it get to you. I've been here long enough to see how it goes. It's just advice, nothing more.

Oh, but it's very kind of you to even offer me advice! You could have gone on your way and I would have never known. So thank you for your kindness.

Oh, how long have you been here?

[ It's bookclub day! Astarion knocks on Daria's office door with a bottle of the good stuff (Red Court Bloodwine) in one hand, and their latest read My Time With The Night Terors (a very kinky, very explicit story about a youngblood who goes to live with a colony of Blue Court vampires who only ever wear their night terror forms) in the other. ]

Daria~!

[ the tilde is for the sing-song way he says her name. Did he start drinking before he got here? Maybe! ]

I hope you're ready to discuss night terrors. Because I know I am.

[Finally. After doing all this prep work for the students and working to keep her position, it was about damn time she was able to just do something stupid.

Needless to say, Daria has no interest in making friends when she first came here. In fact, her cold demeanor made it impossible to make friends her entire life on this planet. Except one.

Except that one.

…

Serving the court then for ten years, she had a secret appreciation for things awful and stupid. Though she wasn’t sure where that came from. Such humor wasn’t a privilege she had at home. At home though, but here…it took some too eager thralls, and even more eager trash writing that seemed to turn her brain on. With that, some unexpected eyes and laughs that she never experienced before.

Soon enough, she found it to be a habit. And even sooner after that, she found the company of people in her position. Seeing Astarion at the door made a smile creep up.]

Wow, right as I was maybe getting bored. Your timing is outrageous as usual.

[She says this as she went into her drawer and got out two silver glasses. Someone was usually prepared.]

No spoilers. I want to really experience what garbage you found.

What can I say? It's a gift.

[I'm a gift, his tone seems to imply. Which is also true. He sets the bottle of wine down next to her glasses so she can pour. See they work so well together, between the two of them they've got it all set. ]

Of course, it's much more fun that way.

Aw, for once you sell yourself short. Take that egotism all the way.

[Fine, he did the harder of the jobs. She poured the glasses generously and put everything else to the wayside.

About time, this is when…for once…she actually felt like a normal person. No one judged her for her tastes. No one judged her outloud.

She could be someone else, someone who felt like was the true her.

Weird. How that was.]

How do you want to do this today? I think, judging by your state, you’re in a dramatic reading mood.

I won't pretend I don't love the sound of my own voice.

[ I mean, he is who he is, you know!! ]

( Is Kiritsugu here to clean? Of course not. In fact, he might even be here to ~~make those in the Silver Court's lives more difficult~~ work on the Black Court's lesson plans. Demonstrated by plucking a book from Daria's stack, and watching the pile crumble at their feet. )

I hope you don't mind.

( Whether or not she minds isn't about to stop him, though. )

Edited 2023-12-02 11:02 (UTC)

[Daria sat here with her book in hand really getting into it. She was very good at getting absorbed in what she was reading and not giving a royal crap about anything or anyone else. Almost petty and aggressive like.

She turned the page of the one she was reading when someone removed one from the stack. She wondered if he meant to do that to agitate him. Didn’t work. Not only did it not work, but she felt compelled to be amused.]

Three out of ten. Should’ve gone for the one in the bottom.

[Truthfully, is ANYONE here to clean? Wendy can't fathom it. Not when there's so much... nothing to be doing.]

Hey.

[Leaning over, uncaringly peering over Daria's shoulder.]

What'cha reading?

[No one. Especially not Daria. Screw them. She took a sip of the wine she had in a fine goblet next to her as she turned the page. She didn't look at Wendy, but she regarded her with a gentle indifference. This was her quiet time, and people were obviously going to talk to her when she was out of her office. Or in. But more likely here. Her office didn't have a cozy chair.]

A book.

[Fine...a better answer.]

It's about poisons.

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Test Drive Meme - New Blood

Daria Morgendorffer | Daria | Teacher | Silver

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