#thinblood discourse

[sal2mander]

Technically most of us would not survive a day in general. That's why we're nocturnal.

yoij people woukd not suevive a dayin the sabbat

[hazelenergy]

10 and 19? If you're feeling it?

10. What's been your favourite interaction throughout your VtM experiences? Can be in game, playing video games.. anything.

Honestly, its giggling like a kid with my mutuals talking about our characters like we are playing dolls. I mean that in its entirety. Who's allied/enemies and/or sleeping with who, what new scandal dominates the dash, what horrid event is someone's character living through... I used to scroll my dash and read it like the morning newspaper. If I'm off, I still do. I keep in regular contact with a few of yall, and some have become irl friends and we've branched out into games and mediums. And we still come back to "what are our idiot night sluts up to this time??" and laugh. Special shout out to a few very stellar dash moments: Dash bingo, The Ignite the Shadows comic (when Hazel blew up Elysium), an entire discussion about what your protean form looks like (lots of birds), and of course, our regular discourse on the ethics of ghouls.

At the table, I love watching that first dread moment hit new players. I have been the storyteller a few times, and I've had that click occur with a few different players. When they realize that the game isn't going to go their way- and they still had to know what happened next. Its like climbing under the blankets to hide from a scary movie, and then still peeking out to see what happens next. I love that moment. I actually did have a friend dive under their blankets and screech into their pillow. That was one of my storytelling highlights, knowing I had successfully told a story where that was a genuine reaction- and they wanted to know more.

19. Which character is least spoken about? Speak about them now!

My sabbat thinbloods. What a bunch of losers. I have some of the pack on Tumblr, but I rarely have them interact with many people due to spoons and time. They're more of an insular story, but I enjoy having people ask them questions and interact with other OC's to broaden their horizons and expand on their characters as I write their story. The elevator pitch is this is the origin story of the Path of the Sun and how its ideology and message spread to the thinbloods across the world. First character is @fullmetal-amalgam or Quicksilver. Ey're my face of the pack, even though they detest being so. Their job is to make deals, to find other "kindling" and bring them into the fold. They are not good at it. Yet. Their alchemy is something to be feared and they have the knowledge to incorporate their artistic message through it- and forcing it upon the imbiber. BJ and Tommy have both experienced this: and its not a pleasant one. Quicksilver's internal struggle is the fact that they are a living antithesis to the dogma ey believe. Ichor @bloodtoichor, the pack priest, teaches that the thinblooded are blessed and free of the curses of their ancestors- free of the influence of the antedilluvians. Even those still cursed can free themselves from these chains- they just need to have faith (blind faith). If you still have your curse or are clinging to chains, you just didn't follow the word true enough. Punishment may be in order, twinged with pity. It is similar to how some prosperity gospel teaches that you must put your faith in god and if something bad happens, clearly you just didn't love god or have enough faith. Poor quicksilver has their sire's Toreador clan curse and its hooked in deep. Anything they do and anything they achieve will never be enough, because no matter what they do the sleeping ones still have a hold on em. Quicksilver is a high conviction/willpower character despite their struggle and I see them overcoming the pitfalls of their blood and becoming something truly fearsome.

Their other half, though Quicksilver would rather suffer final death than admit it, is Nightmare, played by a friend of mine. As a duo, Nightmare and Quicksilver are constant rivals, trying to one up each other, and always fighting. The relationship between them is best described as "I attack you because its the only way I'll get to have your hands on me." Nightmare's disciplines match his namesake: lots of Dominate and Mind manipulation. Aside from Nightmare is Honeytrap, @honeytrap-official and is the secondary source of shenanigans in the pack. It may seem that her character is primarily comic relief, but in truth, she is the closest to actually achieving the heightened states Ichor preaches about. Her powers reflect this. Honeytrap is a thinblood hivemind. There are possibly hundreds of Honeytraps out there. She is a virus, she is the something that survives after 99.9% is killed. She infects the minds of the embraced and overtakes their unkindled grey matter. Her name sake is literal. To vampires, she smells unfathomably delicious, and uses her sweet blood to lure unsuspecting kindred and cainites to their doom. Honeytrap's disciplines mimic the OG Dementation tree and Tzimisce fleshcrafting- two things thinbloods definitely don't have! Lastly is Ichor. If the other three can be built using V5, Ichor gets built on Old World of Darkness rules. The concept is that Ichor is 100% operating on an entirely different set of rules, even to your typical shovelheads. He walks with authority and knows he can win any conflict that comes his way- so long as he wields an old, bronze sword. This sword is like the one ring, its hopping from wielder to wielder to get back to its original owner, a demon asleep within Tiamat's mind (totally normal and actually canon). So long as he never loses the sword- he will always win. Always. Additionally, Ichor seems to possess knowledge and ability to use nearly any discipline he wants- even ones that are extremely difficult to find teachers for. He is the one teaching the pack how to resonance hunt, and often showcases the powers he's gained from finding a fleeting resonance. He is very patient towards Quicksilver- something the other pack members pick up on and cautiously decide to not ridicule (except Nightmare). Ichor is a rather blank slate other than that. I have several floating concepts for what he is, not who he is. In truth, when you are making a sabbat that might not matter. But, I feel like it does him a disservice. Ichor, from a writing perspective, lacks an end goal. He has plenty of small achievements, but no big grand scheme or battle to win.

Well, I hoped you enjoyed me babbling about the bad guys for a moment. These idiots aint gonna survive. The messengers might be dead, but the message is alive. Follow the Sun.

[beadear]

@ = How the character appears online

(≧∇≦) = What makes the character happy

｡ﾟ(TヮT)ﾟ｡ = What makes the character laugh

@ = How the character appears online

Beatrice has always been the kind of person that enjoys observing drama rather than being part of it, so her socials are pretty low key typicial white girl instagram but make it goth. This is also to keep her safe from hunters, her social media footprint is nothing you'd look twice at.

However her main source of income is her online sex work, so she puts far more effort into uploading to and promoting her Onlyfans. Her style is playful, relaxed, and will often stream videogames nude or in lingerie as part of her channel.

(≧∇≦) = What makes the character happy

She is happiest when she feels safe to be herself. She has always been a strange and solitary creature, but that doesn't mean she doesn't feel loneliness. After she had to flee thinblood persecution she felt completely isolated, and it was only when she met other thinbloods that were open and proud that she found herself genuinely smiling again. Spending time with BJ brings her joy because there is no need for pretense, she is free to be her weird little self.

｡ﾟ(TヮT)ﾟ｡ = What makes the character laugh

Chaos, carnage, and dash discourse. Beatrice doesn't really do drama, or moral arguments, or politics, but she loves when it breaks out on dash. Sometimes she'll stir the pot by throwing out some batshit takes to see the reaction. She finds genuine joy in watching the thickbloods ripping into one another.

[prodigal-son-reborn]

(( [watches the ghoul discourse]

haha god am I glad this is thinblood Florian and not Caitiff Florian as he is in the chronicle because he'd be having an entire crisis about doing that to his boyfriend lmao. (no one has told him the ghoul side effects yet lmao) ))

[hazelenergy]

[tiny voice] hey uh...thinblood here. What high clan low clan discourse...