#arzel vtm

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Arzel in the 2020's would be well over two hundred years old, working as archon for the malkavian justicar Juliet Parr, Columbo-ing his way around and winning at gender

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I see somebody was unable to go to bed on time.

OC ask meme: 6,7,13,14,15

6. Which oc only believes in things the science of their day can explain?

Not so many of them, since magic is very much real for both the VTM crew and Alluran's friends, but I'd say for the latter, Galiell is the most "science only, no supernatural allowed"

7. Which oc is the most superstitious? What are they superstitious about, and what is their method of staying safe?

Arzel for the VTM crew, but Galrahn for Alluran and co.

Galrahn has this special flavor of "if the gods were real we should kill them, but the spirit that grants wishes or curses you depending on how polite you are w him and who lives inside of my grandma's well is very, very real." type of superstition. He has a few trinkets and he knows a few 'good words' to ward off negative energies. He's VERY serious about it all and doesn't take well being made fun of for it

13. Which oc only hands out treats?

Anton. He doesn't see why not. He only hands out full seize candy from good brands also

14. Which oc hands out neutral items like dental floss?

As I said in another ask, Luciana :)

15. Which oc would win Best Costume? Which oc would win in the Honorable Mention category?

Alluran and co are eliminated from any competition bc they'd have tailors to make their costumes for them, they're all rich kids

VTM crew : I think @voryndagoth's Visut would have the best costume ideas :)

Anton would be awarded a price for most obscure costume bc it's obvious he really worked on it a lot

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Razvan time

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when the 3000 years old Prince of London has been missing for 2 weeks and you're Ventrue and you hear a voice in your head calling you bloodkin, asking you to free them, so you figure they're a Ventrue too but you don't connect the dots bc you already forgot Mithras exists

aka happy 3 years anniversary to the first Mithras incident, I'm still an elite gamer

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ARZEL SKIMPY OUTFIT PLEASE BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK

standing in solidarity with Vampirella

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more modern nights Archon Arzel

his favorite sport is to dodge murder attempts, it's enrichment

he's not 100% blindly loyal to the Camarilla, but it's the only system he's seen that works on the long run, and he's a big fan of vampire society not collapsing horribly

he was pretty hopeful then very disappointed by how the Anarch movement turned out

as a general rule he sees his job as reminding people that the Traditions are just common sense and not there just to annoy people

on a more personal level, being an Archon is the only status he can ever hold, he needs to move from town to town every decade or so, can't settle down, managing a territory for longer than that would bore him to death

he's also very much into holding power over people in power, that's his toxic Ventrue trait

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I made tokens 

EDIT : I figured that the names and pronouns were needed more than the coteries’ palmares. Old version under the cut

I play Arzel, Lorenzo and Anton

@mademoisellegush plays Benoît and Luce

@voryndagoth plays Razvan and Visut

@unlucky-words plays Adonis and Pyre

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Blush of Life : on and off

I like the idea of eyes color changing after too many uses of a Discipline

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New question: what kind of shoes do Arzel, Anton, & Enzo wear? >:3

Lorenzo usually wears fancy shoes w his suits (which I didn't feel like drawing) but lately he's been forced p often to get back to the kind of work outfits that he used to wear when he was a ghoul (goth boots, cargo pants and turtlenecks)

Anton only has one pair of shoes. he could buy new ones but he doesn't feel like it

Arzel is always dressed from head to toes in the latest 1888 fashion

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Congratulations to Anise for being the coolest vampire!

the podium is taken by 3 members of team Deathwish !

thank you to everyone who voted c:

and a bonus, because Anise and Benoit were so, SO close to a tie :

(the sign reads : I have committed voter fraud because I thought I would get 0 vites, then I won the coolest vampire contest)

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How would ur lads fare in each other's campaigns

Arzel

LA campaign ; I think he wouldn't do as well since it's right after the events of Bloodlines, so Ventrues in LA are completely gone/dead and he wouldn't be able to rely on any networks. If he's an older vampire he'll be fine, if he's a fledgeling he's probably fucked, but he'll end up getting closer to the Brujahs and the Anarchs, siding w them to make sure the Camarilla doesn't come back

Vegas campaign ; if he's an older vampire he's going to have a BLAST. Getting into mysteries and into the local politics, trying to figure out how things work. As a young vampire I think he would do alright as well, he'd have fun there, but I don't think his Sire would appreciate the town at all, and the Prince even less

Anton

LA campaign ; he'd be surprisingly ok! If there's no official structure and nobody to enforce rules he's good at keeping under the radar and making friends, so he'd be fine, and he'd end up with a comfortable network of acquaintances by the time a new Prince shows up

London campaign ; absolutely miserable. Everyone is stuck up, everyone is playing politics and everyone can kill him. There's a good network of Malkavians in London, but that wouldn't help him since he's a doormat, he'd probably get eaten esp without a decent Sire to help him out

Enzo

Vegas campaign ; I don't think there are too many Giovannis in Vegas, so he'd be ok. Lorenzo does a lot better with the support of his family but as long as there are as little of them present you know. He'd love to play with the local politics despite his claims that he hates politics, it would be enrichment for him. Not sure if the Prince would like him.

London campaign ; afaik there are absolutely no Giovannis in London, so he'd both be happy about the lack of supervision, and really pissed about his role as the only member of the clan, having to play smart and increase his own influence not for himself but for the family. All in all I think he'd do pretty well. Would've solved the Jack the Ripper problem in 5 minutes.

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I would like to request 81% for the battery ask game but specifically for Arzel because it's_equality.jpg :3

81%. If your character could choose to have themselves born at a specific time period, which would they pick and why?

Oh this one is fun

I think he does well no matter the time period, he's doing fine in the 1888's, he'll have fun in the 1930's, will make the best of the 1980's, will have a blast w the 2005's, would be doing just fine in 2023 despite everything

I think however he would be curious about the middle ages, or even antiquity, when Ventrue vampires were really warlords

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hands practice with my VTM boys

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HI. QUASTIONS. 💙

1) Which vampire of yours has your favorite "how they got turned into a vampire" backstory?

2) Who is the mother of Arzel's daughter?

3) What inspired each of your vampire characters? What gave you the idea for them?

Thank youuu <3

1) embraces

They all have interesting embraces, it was planned for a long time for Arzel and Lorenzo, so they got out of it kind of shaken but not completely shattered

Arzel served his Sire as a ghoul for 60 years, McAndrew had the idea pretty quickly that he would make a good Childe and slowly prepared him accordingly through the years. They grew to have a decent father/son relationship though still kind of distant bc Victorian era

Enzo's Sire is his aunt Gina, which is a little frown upon within the Giovanni family/clan but nobody really cares too much to say anything. She absolutely HATES Livia (her sister, Lorenzo and Matteo's mother) and she was delighted to find out that Livia hated one of her sons. She made sure Lorenzo would get the attention of the family, giving him the right nudges until she was allowed to embrace him. Lorenzo exceeded all of her expectations so she's very pleased. Livia is absolutely enraged, and now has to stay a ghoul for a long long time before it's her branch of the family's turn to have someone turned into a vampire

Anton was a blood doll, his Sire got a little carried away and felt bad about killing him just for long enough that she decided to embrace him. Then she got kind of bored of him and ditched him

2) Ruth's mother

As I said Arzel was a ghoul for a looong time, and he was persuaded like every other ghouls that ghouls can't have kids. So yeah, he wasn't the most careful. He didn't have his completely carefree slutty attitude yet, he still had stable-ish relationships. Esther was a Nosferatu ghoul he befriended, they had a lot in common. She hid her pregnancy, hid her daughter even from Arzel who was away at that time, so Ruth was already into her twenties when Arzel met her. Esther was killed a few months before Arzel came back to London, he never got to see her again

I wouldn't say that they were in love, but they had a great relationship, he was sad to hear about her death, he had hoped she was just hiding from him bc he's not a ghoul anymore

3) Vampires inspiration

All my OCs spring fully formed from my brain

Though I have to admit I grabbed some cool concepts and mostly I REALLY wanted to go "fuck the lore"

Anton is a Malkavian who can't use the two main powers his clan is known for + I thought the concept of the church of caine was cool

Arzel is a Ventrue, the Blue Blood clan, but he grew up on a farm and was a sailor for a while then a thug + the concept of Ventrue warlords bringing him closer to the Brujah clan at first glance

The Giovanni family is reactionary (lol) so I was like, I'm going to make a trans gay ace Giovanni and nobody can stop me. Then I was like hey, what if the Giovannis actually acted like a fucked up family with country side levels of european family drama and it went downhill from there, the clan is a (very) dark comedy telenovela now

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🧠👀🧸?

going to answer for the boys

🧠 : What is your OC’s most mentally attractive attribute?

Anton is pretty clever and quick to think. TOO quick to think and spiral down sometimes, but when he's solving a problem, recalling knowledge or putting puzzle pieces together he can be impressive

👀 : Does your OC believe they are attractive? Do they use that to their advantage?

Lorenzo knows he's conventionally attractive but in his mind it's the kind of blandly handsome looks that you'll forget soon after meeting him, which is useful to blend in

The concept of "physical attraction" is something he tends to forget about so if you hit on him he'll just stare like you're a) not making sense b) a moron

He absolutely refuses to be charming so the good look is wasted on him tbh

🧸 : Into public displays of affection or are they more reserved?

Arzel was very demonstrative when he was human, but he has a status now and showing affection can show that a person is a weak spot of yours in kindred society

He's holding back his displays of affection so hard, it's so hard, he's in pain, help him he's the equivalent of a golden retriver you don't allow to greet people

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Campaign : London by Night (1888)

Name : Arzel Jowen

Sire : Rory McAndrew

Clan : Ventrue

Hunter type : Siren

Coterie : Razvan (Tzimisce) - Adonis (Ventrue) - formerly : Chandra (Toreador)

Family : Ruth Green (ghoul to Valerius)

Ambition : To get a comfortable place in the London politics field

Tag on my blog : “team distinguished”

The campaign so far

- Once upon a time, 4 young vampires were called by Lady Anne to go investigate on the Jack the Ripper thing. 2 years later we still don’t know shit

- Killed a bunch of zombies babies

- Frenzy splattered some british inquisition dude’s guts on the walls in front of his friend/family (woops)

- Fought a wright or smth

- Went to an orgy

- Prince died on the orgy night (unrelated to the orgy)(?)

- Abducted a fairy by accident

- Fought a guy dressed as an egyptian mummy at the British Museum

- Got abducted by some water Gangrels

- Some of us lost their house (Razvan), others adopted a wolf and a dog found in the streets (Adonis)