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Wonder how many Nosferatu already have an AI lover.

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WHAT DO YOU MEAN DIABERIE IS A CRIME?

CANT A GIRL JUST HAVE A SNACK?

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roman gladiator brujah calls to me

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New Campaign, new OC – Vampire: The Dark Ages 🦇🩸

Ventrue OC (Otto Seppäläinen).

Digital Art made with Photoshop and WACOM Cintiq.

We’re starting a new chronicle set in the grim and captivating world of Vampire: The Dark Ages. This time, I’ll be playing a Ventrue—one of the most ancient, proud, and ambitious lineages of the Kindred. Nobility, control, and legacy define his existence… and his curse.

Below is an illustration of my new character. I wanted his appearance to reflect the blend of feudal authority and immortal coldness: a proud gaze, richly detailed clothing, and the restrained aura of someone used to ruling—not being ruled.

📜 The story is just beginning. Intrigue, alliances, and betrayal await beneath the flickering light of medieval torches.

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Something wicked this way comes!

Behold this mighty sketch by the illustrious Amy Wilkins for the cover of 'The Fall of Ottawa!'

I'm brewing up something big that hasn't been announced yet, but I think you're all going to be absolutely thrilled when I can finally reveal it! I've been very hard at work on this new project and this will result in periodic delays of the free Qui chapters, but I guarantee the results will be worth it!

Post by Jeffrey Dean

HELLO? THANK YOU??

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thinking abt lasombra x lasombra freak shit again

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I’m a lover of dramatic irony and lampshading or subverting tropes because I really like very common archetypes but adding a subtle layer of depth or nuance to them can make for a character that really hits all of the fundamental sweet spots for likability while also adding richness and depth

Aidan in particular is this way to me and I’m gonna ramble about him real quick

It’s important to me that Aidan comes off as a man who is kind of the lovably dumb frat boy dudebro archetype but also isn’t when you actually look at what he’s doing. For example:

His humor is crude and vulgar but it’s also witty and actually very often deflection/manipulation. He uses it to get out of talking about uncomfortable topics or to mask his genuine reactions. He intentionally makes himself come off as someone who isn’t very perceptive and who also takes most things in stride because not reacting immediately gives him more time to decide what he wants to do with the new information and how much he wants to reveal. And because he doesn’t often react (or maybe reacts inappropriately) when he notices something, people just assume that he’s stupid.

It’s even more effective because while some people clue in to the fact that silly and airheaded people can be intelligent, they usually don’t suspect them of being cunning. A lot of people, Kindred and human alike, don’t believe Aidan capable of duplicity, but he’s actually a very good liar when properly engaged and often has his own ulterior motives for doing things. He plays with his cards close to his chest. He is not above going behind people’s backs, betraying people’s trust or taking the more “pragmatic” routes to accomplishing something (and feeling remorseful while he does it doesn’t stop him from doing it anyways)

His living space is often very messy (when he was a human, there were takeout boxes and beer bottles everywhere) and most people would assume that it’s just because he’s a slob (because he looks like the type of guy to be a slob), but it’s actually disability/PTSD symptoms and the denial of his own disability rather than laziness

He generally tries to be a decent guy and his extroversion makes him seem outgoing, approachable and good/kind—maybe even a himbo if you take into account the way he comes off as airheaded—but he’s not really a good person in truth. He’s not totally morally bankrupt, but he’s complicated. At minimum, he’s a killer, and not as repentant about it as he could be. He feels some level of guilt, shame and self-recrimination, but it’s not difficult for him to dissociate people from their humanity when a job needs to get done. And he will ultimately prioritize “what needs to get done” over what might be the riskier, but more compassionate choice in the moment. He’s very approachable and down-to-earth, but being very human-like isn’t the same as being kind. Certainly not harmless.

He fits the bill of the “jock” or “meathead” because he’s always been lauded and rewarded for his physical fitness (high school football, etc.) but it’s also the only feature people value him for. Nobody notices or even cares for his intelligence or the fact that he has a rich internal world. People only ever wanted him for his body, and that extended to the government recruiting him into the army. He himself internalized this and doesn’t consider himself very smart or special and also doesn’t exercise his agency as much as he should because for all of his most recent years, he was considered property

He’s also assumed to be stupid by some because he never finished his degree, but that was because he joined the army for money and then the army exploited his body and mind, chewed them up and spat him out with a body that works worse than usual and a brain that doesn’t fully function as it ought to either. He was promised an education so he could get a better life for himself if he essentially brokered his life to the government and then got none of things he was promised and was left worse off than before (and with blood on his hands)

Knowing all of this, he still willingly puts himself back into the position of being an enforcer because it’s what’s familiar to him. At first, it’s just a matter of survival, but eventually, he comes to actually enjoy it. Even when he now has the power to escape the cycle, he still chooses not to

Finally, he also comes off as hilariously, stereotypically straight (he is a BOOBS MAN) but not only is he bisexual, he’s ride or die for a short, fussy European corpo man

He fits all of the stereotypical traits of a dudebro himbo to a T (blonde, meathead, ditzy, silly/goofy) and it IS true that he is those things, but it’s not quite as you’d expect. Same thing, but with a twist!! He’s multifaceted!!

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Halfbody for @tzimizce Thanks for commissioning me!

His name is Quinn and he's ventrue antitribu! I love this clan very much, it was a pleasure to draw such a handsome man

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Quinn for vlad birthday :3

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I SAID I WOULD SO I DID!! Warming up between commission work to draw our favorite snack. My burger bear. Officer Chunk!!!

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Guys, I can’t begin to tell you how mind blowing this game was!

So, this is a short form game because our ST for our current long campaign had to take a break. For the short game his wife was STing the all Malk game. Most of the game took place in the madness network during the day, our characters in the network had gotten to the city our long campaign is taking place in, and they finally got there physically as well (we were in a cooler and got delivered there by ghouls).

As the sun went down our Malk characters, in the network, were looking at our long campaign characters’ communal haven. The sun went down, the ST got up and her husband sat down at the head of the table, we woke up as our long campaign characters! Now the all Malk party are NPCs! And if I had to take an educated guess, the personality of the one is lost in the network and has been replaced with an antagonist or an ally, don’t know which yet! 😵‍💫

You know you’re getting older when Game Day lunch is the best salad you’ve ever had! ST’s mom brought over fresh veggies from her garden. These tomatoes are crisp!

In game we are still in the cooler, but having madness network shenanigans. Like, we are aware the cooler is moving, which is terrifying because someone can just open it and kill us all, but in network we reached the city our long campaign is in.

Oh, and one of us is having her derangement IN NETWORK and it’s multiple personalities. Except instead of switching to her one of her own predetermined personalities, when the derangement kicked in it allowed other Malks in the network to infiltrate her mind and she has a clusterfuck of incorporeal Malks fighting in her mind for control. :)

I wonder if she will even be herself after this. It’s kinda great because we’ve already played these characters, so permanently changing them in this short game isn’t an issue and it’s super interesting!

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You know you’re getting older when Game Day lunch is the best salad you’ve ever had! ST’s mom brought over fresh veggies from her garden. These tomatoes are crisp!

In game we are still in the cooler, but having madness network shenanigans. Like, we are aware the cooler is moving, which is terrifying because someone can just open it and kill us all, but in network we reached the city our long campaign is in.

Oh, and one of us is having her derangement IN NETWORK and it’s multiple personalities. Except instead of switching to her one of her own predetermined personalities, when the derangement kicked in it allowed other Malks in the network to infiltrate her mind and she has a clusterfuck of incorporeal Malks fighting in her mind for control. :)

I wonder if she will even be herself after this. It’s kinda great because we’ve already played these characters, so permanently changing them in this short game isn’t an issue and it’s super interesting!

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vinny doodles bc I was listening to pet shop boys and he's always on my mind <3

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There must be something so cathartic for Kindred embraced with medical devices they will no longer need. Imagine being embraced and then just *ripping* it out! Never needing to swallow a pill or give yourself injections again! Vampirism wouldn’t feel like a curse at all, at least temporarily. Give it a couple decades, it’s WOD, after all.

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fuckin snake

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SO cruel to write or draw on a lasombra's face while they're torpid. they'll never know why everyone's laughing at them. they can't look

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Checking WWI books out at the library like a middle aged man developing a hobby. No, I’m a middle aged woman with a deeply ingrained hobby of playing VTM and my sire was embraced during WWI. So, now I have to obsessively learn more about him through history as if this mother fucker was real and not some figment of my imagination.