Dead Cruiser

Bloodlines - Fantasy Political/Romantic Drama

After five terrible years of war, peace has finally returned to the Northern Territories. After their surprise invasion five years ago, and the grueling war that followed, the Scarlet Empire has agreed to a tenuous peace with the human kingdoms of the North. Their conditions for the armistice were simple: to be ceded the modest parcel of land which they claimed as conquest, and for an exchange of royal hostages. One human of royal blood was to be exchanged for one of immortal blood, so that none would dare to threaten the peace for which many mortals as well as vampires gave up their lives. However, the North is still ravaged by war, and trust does not come easy to humans nor vampires. Schemes within schemes unfurl, and the future of both races hangs in the balance.

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This is a 1x1 concept I've been trying to get off the ground for a long time, with a few different iterations. Basically, Your Character is the royal hostage being offered up to the vampire kingdom called the Scarlet Empire, following their surprise invasion and pursuant war of conquest five years ago. They were beaten back almost entirely when an armistice was reached, and now you have been offered up as a sacrificial pawn to ensure that the peace is kept.

Your character is most likely a low-ranking princess of the royal family of (INSERT KINGDOM HERE), a youngest daughter or niece of the reigning king. Mine is the heir to the Scarlet Empire, a far more valuable hostage as the Scarlet Empire was effectively the loser of the war. However, the idea of being a hostage does not sit well with him, and he has some plans of his own.

The RP would start with the arrival of the vampiric delegation to your character's royal palace, where the hostage "exchange" is meant to take place.

Inquire within if you enjoy:

• Vampires
• Gothic fantasy
• Worldbuilding
• Court politics
• Noble intrigue
• Fancy clothes
• Byronic antiheroes
• White-haired anime pretty boys
• High writing standards
• Complex characters

I'm not huge on smut but I take what I can get. Send me a PM if this piques your interest. I'm very picky!! Looking forward to someone that can contribute to the world and keep up with me in terms of writing quality and complexity. Looking forward to hearing from you!

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@yoshua171 I apologize if I implied you were wasting my time; I didn't want to waste yours. I think if you like this concept you could make a character bespoke for the RP that suits it, but if that's not your desire then I wish you well.

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@Randomness While it wasn't mentioned on your CS, I would be fine if N'vui were white-souled. Normally plants, animals, and other non-sapients wouldn't have enough of a soul to be considered an Inheritor, but you would obviously be the exception.

They remind me moreso of the Mokolé from Werewolf the Apocalypse. They're the were-lizards/crocodilians/dinosaurs/dragons that possess a genetic memory that stretches back to the age of Dragon-Kings (ie the Mezozoic).

Anyway the idea is fine I just want to make sure it lines up with everything else alright.

@King Cosmos I do like this character... and I think it works in overall concept. I just have a couple of things I'd like to work out better. How is she gaining spirit power? Is this something anyone can do if taught, or is she being imbued by spirits somehow? What is her motivation for mastering basically every spirit power? Is there a distinct focus that her powers trend around? Again I'm not crazy about this "easy immortality" among percievers.

The beginnings are there this just needs some more work.

@yoshua171 Just to start I want to say that I'm not into having two characters in one sheet. There is another character that's a three-in-one, and you can refer to my notes on that for how I would prefer that sort of thing.

The length of the CS is another issue. @Lewascan2 is definitely right, because the simple fact is that I'm a very busy person, and prefer to avoid wasting people's time with ideas that I won't like. Having a cut-down CS also makes it clear to me what's important to how the player wants to write the character, and makes it clear what is fluff.

I can also say right now that you're going to need to massively trim down their world's concept. Having their own "multiverse," worlds, gods, cosmology, reincarnation, all of that is 1. unnecessary because we're already playing in a pretty grand cosmology with its own rules for that sort of thing and 2. won't really be the focus of this RP.

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Been reviewing character sheets. I need to come up with a position for all of the "immortal" perceivers that we seem to be inundated with. It really defeats the purpose of having a black-soul inheritor if they're immortal anyway. Or perhaps they only believe that they are.

Code Vein

Maybe I'll install this game and make a character when I get home, I know I got it on a steam sale at one point or another.

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@Dark Cloud Pad like padding like filler, I need more Players.

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@Lewascan2 The Void is where illusions where "bodies" are stripped away, that's all I'll say about that.

Basically she will still be connected to Speed but will no longer be the arbiter of what Speed is or how it relates to her.

I feel like I'm this close 🤏 to getting put on a watchlist thanks to this conversation.

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Listen the less I have to pad the opening group of this battle royale delightful isekai the happier I'll be. That's all I'm saying.

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@Lewascan2 I keep thinking that I've replied to you when I haven't. I blame mind goblins.

Uhh basically what you can expect is that in the genesis of her new self-universe, she has made her personal conception of speed tied to that universe. Therefore when she and the universe are apart, so is she and the concept of speed. Not to mention that the laws of physics and causality in the Void are... up to interpretation.

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Bumping this, as we are still accepting applicants.