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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!

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Frozen - Prince Hans (Student)
Genshin Impact - Diluc Ragnvindr (Teacher)
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Hannibal (NBC) - Will Graham (Teacher)
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Jujutsu Kaisen - Toji Zen'in (Teacher)
Lucifer (Netflix) - Lucifer Morningstar (Teacher)
MCU - Loki Laufeyson (Teacher)
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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)
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Stargate: Atlantis - John Sheppard (Teacher)
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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

Ren has been having a rough time lately, and the worst happening where he not only got chosen, which his parents forced him to try it out, but publicly disowning him as the vampires took him away.

The ceremony where he had to pick his maker and drink from them had Ren both a little disgusted and scared deep down, but the french blue court vampire who ended up being his maker, Raoul Lupin, reassured him and showing him kindness for the first time since the incident with that high ranking noble he got in trouble with.

After that, Ren has been mostly quiet and keeping him to himself. Thinking back on his past actions and realizing he needed to change, but at the same time, he's still angry at his parents' betrayal.

He can be seen around, with small specks of blue in his eyes, and being quiet and a bit of a loner. Approach him anyway?

Wildcard?

[Would you rather than do something else than the prompt above? Just post here.]

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"You too?" Said a man with a rather distinctive scar across his face, making some faces due to his tongue touching the newly pointed tips of his canines. He didn't clarify what he meant, probably because he didn't think he had to.

Ren noticed the scarred man, and while before he would have acted disgusted and be rude, he didn't have it in him to be mean. And thankfully he did pick up what the stranger likely meant. What with a finger subconsciously moving to touch one of his own cheeks near one of the two pointed canines. Being at least aware enough not to press hard so he doesn't accidentally injure the inside of his mouth.

"Yeah. This whole thing sucks so far."

Sure the thralls providing things are nice, but like any servants, he doesn't pay much mind to them. The only silver lining is gaining powers.

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"And frankly creepy, those servants might as well be dolls." There's a slight, unsettled tone in his voice despite himself as he watches one pass by with a tray of glasses - he doesn't venture to guess what's in them. "I supposed some may find something good in all of this,"

"I do admit they are pretty quiet, even for servants. In my experience, they at least say some something."

Ren feels one of the thralls stare at him for a moment before walking away. He tries not to shudder.

"If one isn't used to being served, then I guess so. And gaining powers doesn't sound so bad, but the whole needing to turn into a vampire for it is doesn't seem worth it." Granted his opinion might change on that, but not in terms of his opinion on the vampire counsil or any of the teachers.

He leans against the wall, not caring if he gets his clothes wrinkled, arms folding across his chest. "It's not right," he mutters to himself as he felt the gaze on them, bristling.

"I imagine if there were some other way, they would make damn sure no one knows about it."

"Of course not. It would be a threat to them otherwise."

The only silver lining to this is that he'll have a chance to make something for himself, and away from his former parents.

"Of course." He exhales, glancing over - he wasn't at all experienced, but it did seem like there were a lot of people like them, humans about to or had just been made into youngbloods, before looking at their Makers, giving a brief scowl to his own.

[There's a foundling. A quiet one. That might be ideal. Quiet means shy, perhaps, but with a lot of potential. Especially if he's getting snapped up by the Blue Court. Hmmn...

Once he gets a chance. Akechi slides over to pester him.] How are you finding the castle so far? It's quite overwhelming at first, but you'll get used to it.

[Ren isn't sure why, but something about him makes him feel...sad? But he's never met him before. How could that be?

He does his best to ignore that, keep a poker face on, and a strong front. Much how he was taught by his now former parents.]

It does feel a little cold, and I don't just mean the weather changing. But it could be a lot worse.

[Something pulls at the back of his mind. He ignores it.

He instead watches his poker face with a smile of his own.]

You'll adapt to it. Or perhaps you'll freeze to death, aha. Let's hope the first, hm?

[And he's trying to ignore the nagging in his own mind.]

I doubt they would allow that to happen before fully turning me. I'll manage.

[Ah right, he should introduce himself, since that would be proper manners.]

I'm Ren, and you are?

I suppose.

[He smiles. Hard to say if that's a yes or no.]

Goro. You're Blue, right? [He leans in a little bit, making a show of squinting to see the flecks in his eyes. Really, he just wants to see how Ren reacts to someone in his personal space.]

[Ren merely raises an eyebrow at that, and doesn't even flinch. If it seemed like he was being attacked, then he would have stepped aside.]

That's right. I'm guessing the black in yours means you're from black court, I assume?

[He vaguelly recalled the colors named during that whole speech.]

Oh, good, you catch on quickly. You just might survive.

[Maybe he's just trying to scare him. Something about this foundling makes him want to dig his claws in and twist. How funny.]

Do you remember what we do?

[Too bad for Akechi, Ren doesn't scare easily. Hell, there's a part of him that wants to challenge him but he isn't sure why.]

Something about to do with shadows and hunting. And how there's not a lot known about them.

[Again, he wasn't fully listening at the time, but he got the gist of it.]

[Well, that's good. A Blue with brains! Sometimes he worries they've rotted their brain from partying. But it's dangerous to assume so.]

Not bad. Don't worry, I'm not going to make you recite every Court... someone else will surely grill you on that.

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It's in one of those quiet moments that Haru approaches him. Of the new arrivals, Ren was certainly the most interesting - though if you asked her exactly why, she'd be hard pressed to answer.

(What is weird is that for some reason, she can't shake the feeling that he should have a cat.)

"It's a bit of an adjustment, isn't it?"

Truth be told, he's been desiring to own a cat since he was a young boy, but his parents never allowed it. Maybe if he's able to, he'll get himself a pet cat.

When he sees the older girl, he has a similiar strange feeling about her. Like he feels like he knows her from somewhere but he doesn't know what. Also for some reason, a part of him wants to ask her about vegatables.

"It is. Feels rather cold here, and I don't just mean the weather."

He isn't sure if this place should be considered a prison or if it's just his uneasiness with it all.

"By the way, have we met before?"

"I've found it fairly welcoming, so far." But then, Haru's had a bit to brace herself for her arrival.

Certainly more warning than her father got.

"I... don't think so? You seem like a memorable sort of person." And yet, he should have a cat. Why would she think that? Eh, it's probably not important. "My name is Haru."

"Ah I suppose if you had some choice in the matter, it would be more welcoming."

He'd love a cat if he could own one. He couldn't help a slight smile at being called memorable. He resists the urge to mention the incident with her "And I'm Ren. Nice to meet you."

He would have added his last name, but it didn't seem right. And not just because Haru didn't tell him hers.

No need to drag her father into things, especially when he no longer has any hold over her.

"You as well. Have they mentioned anything about next season's classes to you yet?"

Or his own parents since he's technically an orphan now.

"Only that I need to take a few from different courts, and eventually pick one in the future."

He was only half listening.

That just means they'll have to build families of their own now, right?

Haru nods. "The first-season classes mostly cover the basics of the basics anyway, but I do recommend the history class, especially if you're new to it. I grew up hearing a lot of what it covers, so if you need help I'd be happy to do it."

Chosen family, found family. Either way, better than shitty parents.

"I'll consider it. I haven't really decided on classes just yet." Though he assumes he'll have to do blue classes since his maker is blue court.

At least he's confidant that they can't kill him until he's fully turned anyway.

Ren Amamiya | Persona 5 | Student (first season)

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