By popular demand... the World of Darkness meme!

[spitefulvitae]

It's a Dark, Dark World.

Mostly old World of Darkness based, but if you like the New WoD, go for it!

The world is filled with cruelty, corruption, and despair. Lurking in the darkness... monsters. Of all kinds, origins, and forms. Creatures of evil and destruction, only marginally more familiar than the unknown terrors.

And now you're one of them.

This is a World of Darkness™ inspired meme! Your character transforms into one of the following monstrous creatures listed below, and suffers the plight one faces as a result.

Since we like to play it fast and loose here at We the Lost, feel free to brainstorm what your characters would be, speculate how you'd interact with each other, and maybe even thread out a thing or two, if that's to your fancy!

1. Vampire: Whether you were Embraced by another Vampire in violence or in seduction, your transformation is powerful and traumatizing. Your body craves the blood, and the blood gives you eerie supernatural powers. Powers to control the mind, to enslave men, and the immortality to set any plans into motion you so deem... how do you spend eternity in your fight against boredom?
2. Werewolf: You lived for some time with no knowledge of your lineage, of the blood in your veins. A great power awakens in you, and in a moment of unfathomable anger you white out. And when you wake, you awaken to a shower of gore, your hands shrinking from giant clawed paws to what you recognize as fingers. Now there is that ever-present primal rage, simmering below the surface and urging you towards great and righteous battle against evils and against monstrous spirits...
3. Mage: Humans have long since been known to be wise and enlightened... but when your Avatar appears in your mind and your soul, you see the face of true enlightenment. You have the powers to shape and mold reality to be as you perceive it. Do you see the world as a canvas to paint upon? Do you see it as a weaving, with threads of fate that you can remove and displace? What is your reality, and how do you influence it?
4. Changeling: The world is dark, bleak, and worst of all it is simply banal. But deep inside was something hidden, that awakens from the dream. And now, with the powers of the Fae, you have the ability to inspire and combat banality with inspiration and imagination. But is the fight against the darkness and cruelty of the world a losing battle?
5. Hunter: With all of these monsters roaming the world, what is a human to do? They're powerless to protect themselves... or so it seems. You find yourself granted the power to see these monsters, to try and hold them in place and to be resourceful enough to destroy them. If you can manage the voices in your head or the madness of seeing the supernatural, be careful to not forget that you are just as painfully mortal as you were before...
6. Demon: At your lowest moment, when you lost yourself and your soul died, your body welcomed into it a new force. Deep inside nestled a new consciousness, which absorbed everything you were. You are now that Being, and that being is You. And You recall, faintly, a great war. You remember being an angel, a very being of creation, a very concept of reality such as the Breath of Life or the Illumination of Fire. And You remember what Hell was... it was not fire and brimstone. That would have been nice. It was a void of nothingness, where You could not even sense Yourself, since the fall of reality. And you have every reason to be resentful.
7. Other: Know how the Hengeyokai work? Want to be one of the Changing Breeds? Or maybe represent for Mummy, Wraith, Geist, Promethean, or another World of Darkness title? Do whatever you like! Have a blast!

(Base meme credit to tribeofmoro)

Comments

[amourtician]

Jay is actually the specialest goddamn snowflake and is a Promethean. Specifically, he's a Galateid, a muse created from the corpse of a beautiful youth.

He's beautiful and amorous and desires companionship, but being a Promethean, he repulses people with Disquiet -- mortals start feeling that there's something fundamentally wrong with him and are driven away. He's lucky that his aura of Disquiet never enraged someone to the point of attempting to kill him, but he's pretty much doomed to loneliness.

He was created by a Frankenstein who desired companionship, love and a little beauty in his life and stalked and killed a 19-year-old young man to turn into one of his kind. (During the making, Jay's creator discovered that his target was a trans man, but decided to just roll with it.)

Jay's fairly bitter, lonely and death-obsessed and this is so very little different from canon that it's actually funny.

[defrostedpride]

Does Disquiet affect nonmortals at all? Because if not, Jay's lucky to have found Babbygod's Haven for Miscellaneous Bullshit.

[bloodyashes]

Continuing on the theme above, Asch /pretends/ to be affected by the disquiet (because pretending perfectly to be human is what Demons Do in nwod) which results in Continuous Crankiness

But when things get Serious he's completely unphased and I feel like Jay would be rightly confused by this and also annoyed because why are you pretending to feel the disquiet when you actually don't, asshole

[earthshatter]

Given prior answers and that Aeleus' various Disciplines connect him to the earth, he finds Jay a little strange, but not actually because of the Disquiet. He still looms most terribly too and now looks like he might actually be made of stone and also looks sort like a Traditional Gargoyle.

[psycheslantern]

So. Ammond probably doesn't get the full strength of the Disquiet - that seems like the kind of thing that a Geist would shield a person from to some extent - but she's still close enough to being A Mortal Human that she's not totally immune.

She just... pretends she is. She's intrigued by Jay - he does funky things to her various newfound death-related senses in ways that have nothing to do with the Disquiet. And also "fundamentally wrong" doesn't quite have entirely the same impact when you're only alive because you're partially possessed by the anthropomorphic personification of fatal vehicular collisions, yourself.

[defrostedpride]

...You know, inasmuch as Changelings have both a human and a fairy soul, I wonder if they can be affected by Disquiet after all? I suspect it may depend on the individual Glamour : Banality ratio at any given time. Unfortunately, Even's Banality is probably pretty high, because forties is a very respectable age for a Changeling (least favorite thing about Changeling: the Dreaming: its mechanic where the world slowly kills the magic in you as you get older blah blah dumbshit). Presumably he's been scrupulously balancing it, but he might be more affected by the Disquiet than he wants to admit (because a. it's irrational and dumb and b. he doesn't want to admit to being affected by Banality).

[defrostedpride]

I still don't remember much from my brief attempt to understand Mage, but I'm pretty sure Even is one. Because science.

Things I still remember:

Vampire - Tzimisce. How I can remember how to spell that but not anything much else about Vampire is a MYSTERY.

Changeling - Nocker. So very. The Nocker Frailty drives him to distraction. "IT'S NEVER PERFECT!!!" (Sorry, Kurai and Xion.)

[earthshatter]

If vampire!Even he's probably partially responsible for Aeleus' creation. Because woooooops ancient rituals and blood magic.

[defrostedpride]

...Since Changeling is the only thing I have down pat (also I can check in the book), I'm just gonna. Describe that. Even is a Nocker, a craftsman by nature. He can make...just about anything, including chimera, though it will always have some kind of flaw in it. Even in particular has taken the crafting of chimera far beyond what is generally considered possible, through the inanimate to the animate and even the sentient. (Hi, kids!)

Also Nockers are perpetually rude assholes. That's in their kith description. Just saying.

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[earthshatter]

Aeleus is a Gargoyle - a stone statue brought to life by magic and blood rituals, created to protect and serve his master. Needless to say, the bloodline - if it can be called that - looks almost nothing like any other vampires, and an awful lot more like the 'classic' image of gargoyles, right down to the carven wings.

[ajealouswind]

So there's the old school Changelings, who awaken and fight back Banality. Then there's the newer ones, that get taken and broken and put back together, and have to find their way home again.

Kain's the latter. Golbez was an agent of a True Fae that was said to reside on the moon. He took the injured, jealous, angry dragoon away to Arcadia, and his master reshaped his mind and body. He's a Draconic Fairest now, still a fine fighter, but gifted with supernatural grace and fleetness and charm. Most can't see through the Mask that makes him look like a normal man, but those that can will see silver-blue scales rather than skin, horns curling back atop his head, and talons rather than fingernails.

(I am a pretentious dingus, yes yes...)

[defrostedpride]

GOD, Kain, why are you always so Problems?

On the plus side, dragon. I mean, canon was basically that but without getting to be a dragon at the end, so.

[psycheslantern]

Ammond is a Sin Eater - a few months back, she got really stupid with some substances you're not supposed to operate machinery after using, tried to operate some machinery anyway, died in a motorcycle accident, and made a deal with a kind of death elemental/super ghost/we're really not sure called a Geist. Now she's alive again, but the Geist is riding around in the back of her head offering helpful commentary and giving her the ability to see ghosts and use some kinds of magic.

Ammond thinks this is super awesome, and she's really not any more careful about stuff this go around, at all - as a Forgotten Celebrant, she's got both the risk-seeking behavior of someone who sees the living world as a series of gambles, and the hedonism of someone who feels she's got to get as much living in as possible before bad luck strikes again. And hey, living with the specter of a teenage boy who bleeds gasoline from multiple open wounds and has hyperreflective blank eyes bonded to her soul isn't nearly as unpleasant as it might sound.

[ignes_fatui]

Well Ienzo wound up way further west than any of the rest of the Bagheera and cats aren't pack animals anyway so he's kind of SOL and just falls in with the rest of the local nonhuman population.

So Ammond I hope you like having the shittiest werecat of all time just kind of attach himself to you because he has no idea what he's doing and you're one of the first people to be nice to him.

[ignes_fatui]

Well all I know about World of Darkness I learned from VtM: Bloodlines so if he's a vampire he's a Malkavian with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde style duality where one personality is pretty much normal Ienzo but a bit more shrinking violet and the other is full on stern terrifying mad scientist.

I mean usually he's a werewolf in supernatural creature AUs but I don't know enough about WoD werewolves to say anything on that front.

[amourtician]

Given that Ienzo is fairly unnatural/supernatural, I think Jay befriends him in this AU because Ienzo isn't affected by his Disquiet.

Sorry, Ienzo, there's no getting rid of rude velcro pseudodad.

[godsword]

Let's be real is there the slightest chance in hell that Murai is not a Hunter? The definition up there is pretty much literally a description of her in canon.

[amourtician]

Jay doublehates her in this AU. 8V

fuck you I totally go here

[bloodyashes]

So there are two options for grumpy here

Either nWoD changeling, with its whole "you've been kidnapped and replaced" shtick, and all the misery that entails (Luke is his fetch, obviously, and he's probably some sort of sound spirit because obvious and also I Played At Changed)

Or nWoD Demon which is the one I've actually developed - new demon involves mechanical angels who are tools of the god machine, who for whatever reason decided to go "fuck this" about being a tool that got their memories wiped and put away until the next time they were needed

And so they're paranoid fuckers hiding out from the non fallen angels by maintaining humans lives as much as they can while still pursuing their demon things (which can include anything from "repenting and going back to the godmachine" to "blow that fucker up")

And as you might have guessed, asch falls on the "blow that fucker up" side. He was originally inserted into a "cover" of being the son of a rich woman who couldn't actually havr children (memory manipulation bullshit) and he kind of fell in love with the life. When the order to destroy it came, he refused and Fell, and wound up going on the run.

Which ended in a replacement angel being sent to the same cover, but that's another story. C': for the time being, Asch drifts along the edges of supernatural society, trading information and the occasional assassination to keep himself above water. Since even other magics can't detect a demon lying, anyone who knows him probably thinks he's a human, or a mage at most.

Also I once wrote a starter on a meme for this verse if you want to look at it (I'm the nwod demon lady it's me)

[psycheslantern]

Ok so how do demons age because if I'm reading the Geist book right and correctly interpreting your previous comments I think Ammond should be able to tell that there's something weird about him if she meets him more than once or twice. Sin-Eaters can tell someone's age to the day and hour just by looking at them, and for "non-living human impostors" it's "the apparent age of the body," so if Asch doesn't age like a normal human, she'll be able to spot that.

[preuxchevalier]

We're going to say Bertie is a werewolf in this AU because, apparently, lycanthrophy is his bane when I write him in supernatural situations. It was his mum who was the werewolf, though she didn't actually know about it until shortly before she died. She and Pop Wooster managed to get into an argument while on a road trip and she kept getting angrier and angrier until... welp. They ran off the road, off a cliff, and into the sea. Their bodies washed up on the shore. So, Bertie and his sister Sylvia and the majority of his family lived with no knowledge of the fact that werewolf was in the blood.

Sylvia had her first transformation when she was 15 and at school. It ended with several other girls eviscerated and Sylvia shipped away to India for hiding and treatment. Bertie's aunts watched him like a hawk after that. Aunt Dahlia was a hunter, after all. She had an inkling of what might happen with him. Bertie didn't have his first shift until he was in his mid-20s. So, he's a newly minted werewolf, actually. He managed to go storming off from a friend while out in the country before transforming, which saved him the heartache of murdering anyone. He did wake up with a deer carcass next to him, though, and flipped out. He went to his PA (we're calling this modern setting, right?), Jeeves, to figure out what happened.

Jeeves is helping him hide his condition as much as possible, but Bertie's been becoming more wild as his werewolf genetics exert themselves. They both try to argue that he's just eccentric, and he goes out to the country regularly to go 'hunting' to try to tame his inner beast and prevent any incidents.

[ignes_fatui]

I figure after his first change Ienzo probably gets bounced around various Garou mentors for a while because there aren't many Bastets out and about and of those all have more important things to do than look after some stray. It's not like the wolves know what to do with him either though so eventually the local pack just dumps him on Bertie. Here, you're both inept. Make friends.

I mean he's got an obnoxious werecrow and a werecrocodile looking out for him but apparently werewolf relationships with both of the above are a bit strained.

/sneaks in here

[brokenallthelaws]

Xigbar is a were! Most specifically, he's a Corax, or were-raven. Whether he was hatched or born is a fact that he doesn't much talk about, but he is absolutely the best person to go to if you want information - especially if it happens to be information about someone else.

However, he is no less irritating than his canon self. Part of this is because he always knows everything (and tends to the trickster besides) but also because the Corax are one of the very few shifters to not be affected by silver, and so he has something of a habit of wearing silver.

He is also excessively fond of shiny things and may or may not have stolen anything that catches his eye regardless of who it might have belonged to.

[ignes_fatui]

After the local Garou pack sorts out Not Getting Ienzo Arrested by the human police and making sure to uphold the veil, they probably just dump him on their friendly neighborhood Corax informant. You're not a wolf, he's not a wolf, maybe you can figure out how to make sure he doesn't die or frenzy or anything.

This is probably how he winds up meeting the rest of shitty science family here.

[chalicejoker]

So I wiki'd all over the place for this and hahahaha Promethians not understanding emotions and wanting to be human, this is Hajime's canon life. He's a Tammuz, a golem, probably a dead soldier someone hauled away from some battlefield and set up to destroy things. At some point, he rejected that path, likely because he saw something like, say, a man dying to protect his family and became confused about this thing the humans call love. Maybe not smashing things is the answer. He's all unsettling with his Disquiet and the fact that he looks like he's made out of cracked clay and also has a glowing sigil and the word "Protect" slapped on his forehead.

Alternatively, for a very early canon point spin on things, he's a vampire, a very old, very nasty Gangrel, so proceed with caution because the boy's crazy. (Do not taunt Happy Fun Vampire.)

[spitefulvitae]

If we're talking Promethean Hajime, Natalie would have just been fascinated with him because what in the heck is THIS? He is a creature worth documenting! And learning more about! And, and maybe trying to explain emotions to, because she used to have normal ones, once....

Old Elder Gangrel Hajime... well. Maybe he wandered into town not showing off his Elder-ness and wearing a much more benign face after diablerizing that one vampire that now seems to be stuck in his head and making him feel stuff again. So she went and said hello and has remained generally ignorant as to just what the heck is up with him.

[spitefulvitae]

Natalie is a vampire!

Well, okay, okay, for the sake of being interesting, let's stick her in the Old World of Darkness. Natalie is no longer a Nosferatu, but a Tremere with an unsettling appearance, whose embrace was a little ritualistic and left nasty scars. Father would have been an influential but not-well-liked fellow in the Harbourvale chantry who found himself offed in much the same sort of political fashion, traumatizing Natalie in much the same way. (Tremere are big on mandatory blood bonds. Jacob was just sure to get the bond a little more bondy than strictly officially necessary.) Sadly, the chantry has Natalie a little more firmly under their thumb and keep a much closer eye on her, so she can't get up to nearly as much bad behavior, but she sure as hell tries.

She and father were also secret adherents to the heretical Cult of Lilith, shhh, don't tell anyone.

[brokenallthelaws]

So, Aeleus is a Gargoyle in this AU, and while his original master has... vanished/gotten torpored/something and passed off ownership of him some...how, the bloodline is still more or less under Tremere control.

(Xigbar, by contrast, is just a were, so probably has less direct interaction with her.)

[oldhippie]

Like Asch, Nemo is a demon! He used to be a Messenger for the God-Machine among the hippies--with a long-term Cover and everything--and he did that for a respectable number of years before fucking up and falling and finding himself fully human. Forgetting that meant he could knock people up, half-demon child(ren) resulted. Ooops.

Like Asch, everyone probably thinks he's a human or a Mage at most. Especially since he's way better at actually aging.

He's been helping out the Veiled when he can and has a tendency to bring his son, Karkat, with him when he goes to meet with their representatives because the first time Karkat had to tag along to one of these meetings he ended up making friends with Murai. (They were both tiny. It was really cute.)

He's kind of conflicted as to whether or not to push for reintegration with the God-Machine or just to try to bring the whole thing down.

[bloodyashes]

A better mentor-flavored notdad

[dandelioneater]

What even is WOD we just don't up and know.

However, being unaware of some strange mystic business or higher powers up in the viens, that's a check.

Great power coming up and together with Rage? That's a check.

Waking up to a shower of gore? That is a rather unfortunate hefty check.

A righteous battle?

It seems there's a certain way of life for Gamzees and they all sort of tread in the same vaguely off-the-path direction. It's time to clap for the motherfucking Wolf man, motherfucker, because that's what Gamzee is.

He might try for a while, to pretend isn't a thing. (A long while. Like, as long as he can.) But eventually someone or other is going to come around to his neck of the woods-- maybe literally-- and he'll have no choice but to face up that he's being doing both a whole lot of nothing and a whole lot of not good. There is a 50% chance he was just too high to remember what he was doing, or at least, trying to get that way.

WAY LATE TO THE PARTY, BUT

[itsbraveanditburns]

So, did you know there's a fan gameline about mad scientists? Yep, sure is. It's called Genius: the Transgression and Karkat here is a recovering Beholden. What's a Beholden, you ask? They're basically the Genius equivalent of Ghouls. You see, Karkat's just-out-of-college high school science teacher, Mr DuMedd, ended up having a Breakthrough and after witnessing Mr DuMedd's first Wonder, Karkat was kind of Beheld. Luckily (maybe?) sons of Demons are pretty resilient, so once Nemo pulled Karkat out of the high school and sent him to stay with Murai and the Veiled Creche things got better for him, but yeah. That was a thing for a while. He still misses it sometimes.